{"id":355,"date":"2010-07-03T02:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T07:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/2010\/07\/03\/fnm-report-722010\/"},"modified":"2010-07-03T02:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T07:08:00","slug":"fnm-report-722010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/2010\/07\/fnm-report-722010\/","title":{"rendered":"FNM Report, 7\/2\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I was on the road Sunday through Thursday and didn\u2019t really have time to test or brew, so I went back to my old buddy, Mythic Conscription. Montag\u2019s<\/a> didn\u2019t have quite the turnout of the week before, possibly because of either the holiday weekend or the outrageous torrential downpours we\u2019ve been getting off the edges of hurricane Alex. 4 rounds of Swiss, cut to top 8. Here\u2019s the list I played:<\/p>\n

Creatures<\/em>
\n4 Birds of Paradise<\/a>
\n4 Noble Hierarch<\/a>
\n4 Lotus Cobra<\/a>
\n2 Dauntless Escort<\/a>
\n4 Knight of the Reliquary<\/a>
\n3 Baneslayer Angel<\/a>
\n4 Sovereigns of Lost Alara<\/a><\/p>\n

Planeswalkers<\/em>        
\n2 Elspeth, Knight-Errant<\/a>
\n3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor<\/a>
\n2 Gideon Jura<\/a><\/p>\n

Other spells<\/em>
\n1 Finest Hour<\/a>
\n2 Eldrazi Conscription<\/a>
\n        
\nLand<\/em>
\n3 Celestial Colonnade<\/a>
\n4 Forest
\n1 Glacial Fortress<\/a>
\n2 Island
\n1 Marsh Flats<\/a>
\n4 Misty Rainforest<\/a>
\n2 Plains
\n2 Sejiri Steppe<\/a>
\n2 Stirring Wildwood<\/a>
\n2 Sunpetal Grove<\/a>
\n2 Verdant Catacombs<\/a>
\n        
\nSideboard<\/em>
\n3 Negate<\/a>
\n2 Bant Charm<\/a>
\n3 Kor Firewalker<\/a>
\n3 Emerge Unscathed<\/a>
\n2 Linvala, Keeper of Silence<\/a>
\n2 Qasali Pridemage<\/a><\/p>\n

Round 1: Marcus, playing Esper Artifacts<\/strong>
\nMarcus was a new face at Montag\u2019s which is always good to see. I have to be honest, I felt bad about how this one went. Both games I used ramp and Jace to get out an early Sovereign and beat him down with it; in the second game it was turn 3 off a pair of Lotus Cobras. It was pretty bad.
\n1-0 matches, 2-0 games<\/em><\/p>\n

Round 2: Daniel, playing Jund<\/strong>
\nI\u2019ve played Daniel at least once before. Actually, we ID\u2019d in the fifth round about a month ago. I knew he was playing Jund, which is generally a pretty good matchup for Mythic. Game 1 I got out a couple Knights of the Reliquary. He tried to Pulse one but I had it without summoning sickness and was able to sac a Plains for a Steppe. Next turn I got down a Baneslayer, and that was it. Game 2 I kept a hand I should not have kept: six lands and a Dauntless Escort. I got beat down, of course Game 3 was pretty funny. I had a Bird and a two Cobras early, and Bant Charmed a Thrinax to swing for 4. He generated another Thrinax and the only card in hand was a Conscription. I drew a sixth land, dropped it, and hard-cast the Conscription on one of the Cobras (he was tapped out). The best part about hard-casting a Conscription is you get the annihilator trigger. He sac\u2019d the Thrinax and a land. He dropped another land and Terminated the Conscripted Cobra, and I was able to kill him with a activated Colonnade.
\n2-0 matches, 4-1 games<\/em><\/p>\n

Round 3: Trevor, playing Jund<\/strong>
\nTrevor is a Montag\u2019s regular, or semi-regular at least. Game 1 he got an early Geopede and I had a pair of Hierarchs and a Cobra. I managed a Knight and then a Gideon and that got me the rest of the way. I don\u2019t really remember the details of Game 2 all that well, but it was a Kor Firewalker and a Knight that carried it.
\n3-0 matches, 6-1 games<\/em><\/p>\n

Round 4: Tony, playing Next Level Bant<\/strong>
\nI was rounded down, but guaranteed to make it to the top 8, and Tony decided his tiebreakers were good enough for us to ID. Joe and John were also 3-0 and they also drew, and so Joe and John taught Tony and me how to play Dominion. Good times.
\n3-0-1 matches, 6-1 games<\/em><\/p>\n

Quarterfinals: Nolan, playing 4-color Warp World<\/a><\/strong>
\nI knew it was a wild homebrew with Avenger of Zendikar<\/a> in it, but not much else. Game 1 was pretty silly. I managed a Cobra on turn 2 off a Hierarch, then a fetch into a Baneslayer on turn 3, then a fetch into a Sovereign on turn 4. I didn\u2019t really see anything from him other than a Birds and a Trace of Abundance<\/a>. Just in case, I sided in the Pridemages for the Escorts. Game 2 was a bit more drawn out. I got a Knight and a Jace out, and then managed one whack with a Baneslayer before it died to a combination of a Path (to draw out a Steppe) and Siege-Gang tokens. I was fatesealing with Jace and got down Elspeth and a second Knight, and they carried the day.
\n4-0-1 matches, 8-1 games<\/em><\/p>\n

Semifinals: John, playing RDW<\/strong>
\nThese games went really poorly. Game 1 I opened with no source of green and multiple green cards, then mulled to 6: four land, a Conscription, and a Sovereign. I went to 5, and it was four land and a Conscription. Ugh. I didn\u2019t think I could win with 4 so I kept. He of course got a turn 1 Guide and I kept drawing nothing but mana dorks, which he burned each time I cast one. I finally got a Knight, but he burned me down to 3. I dropped a Sovereign and swung with the Knight, putting him at 5 and dead next turn, but he finally managed his third land and killed me with a Hell\u2019s Thunder. Game 2 I took an OK hand: a forest and a plains, two mana creatures, a Firewalker, an Escort, and something expensive (Gideon?). Unfortunately, I didn\u2019t draw a third land and he burned off both the mana dorks, so I never got a second source of white. I eventually got the Dauntless out, but that was it… burned to death.<\/p>\n

So, I finished 4-1-1 in matches, 8-3 in games; not too bad, really. For finishing in the top 4 I got like $15 in store credit, so not bad at all.<\/p>\n

I stayed to watch the final, which was John\u2019s RDW against Tony\u2019s Next Level Bant. Tony pulled it out in three games; John got a little mana-flooded in the third game. This was the first time I\u2019d seen Next Level Bant at Montag\u2019s other than the time I played it<\/p>\n

So, one more week of Standard before we switch to drafting M11, and then M11 will be in play, so one more week of the current environment. I\u2019m not sure what I\u2019ll play. The Junk deck that should, in theory, be good hasn\u2019t tested very well in the limited time I\u2019ve given it, so I\u2019m not sure what route to take. I saw almost no UW or Super Friends this week, so maybe something along that line. We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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