ProTour Day Two
So, despite my whining post from yesterday, I have managed to make day two with consecutive wins. This is pretty nice, considering I played the first 4/5 rounds in "dumb bastard" mode which resulted in my 2-3 record. Once I woke up and played the deck well everything started going much better.
Interesting point... during the final match of the day which I had to win for day two, I was dead on the board. This means, my opponent can just swing and kill me (unless my "secret creature" turns out to be a really unlikely card... but it actually doesn't matter). My opponent doesn't take advantage of the board state and doesn't kill me. I wreck his board position over the next two turns thanks to drawing the card I needed off the top of the deck and I win the game and, later, the match. If I had lost that game, I would be out.
So. Lucky.
He was actually taking so long to make a decision on what to do I nearly just conceded the game to hurry on to the second game and try to salvage the match. When he failed to kill me and I knew I had only one way out... well... wow. When I drew one of my outs? Fan-fucking-tastic. Winning the match? Oh hell yes.
Anyway... making money actually seems like a possibility now. Remember to check back in the morning to see if someone needs to tell the university that "my plane got cancelled" or that I am "stuck in Japan". That only happens if I make top eight (I think I need to win pretty much every single match... maybe allowed one loss later in the day), so I expect I will see people Sunday night... but who knows? I seem to be playing well today... I just played a very good game against my first round opponent (which resulted in a very close first game that I won and a completely one-sided second game) so... yeah.
Cool.
I rock.
ETA: Still rocking. I am now 9 wins and 3 losses having not lost since. Plus I was just interviewed for the magicthegathering.com podcast. Wheeeee... I'm famous.
Interesting point... during the final match of the day which I had to win for day two, I was dead on the board. This means, my opponent can just swing and kill me (unless my "secret creature" turns out to be a really unlikely card... but it actually doesn't matter). My opponent doesn't take advantage of the board state and doesn't kill me. I wreck his board position over the next two turns thanks to drawing the card I needed off the top of the deck and I win the game and, later, the match. If I had lost that game, I would be out.
So. Lucky.
He was actually taking so long to make a decision on what to do I nearly just conceded the game to hurry on to the second game and try to salvage the match. When he failed to kill me and I knew I had only one way out... well... wow. When I drew one of my outs? Fan-fucking-tastic. Winning the match? Oh hell yes.
Anyway... making money actually seems like a possibility now. Remember to check back in the morning to see if someone needs to tell the university that "my plane got cancelled" or that I am "stuck in Japan". That only happens if I make top eight (I think I need to win pretty much every single match... maybe allowed one loss later in the day), so I expect I will see people Sunday night... but who knows? I seem to be playing well today... I just played a very good game against my first round opponent (which resulted in a very close first game that I won and a completely one-sided second game) so... yeah.
Cool.
I rock.
ETA: Still rocking. I am now 9 wins and 3 losses having not lost since. Plus I was just interviewed for the magicthegathering.com podcast. Wheeeee... I'm famous.