Top 8 !
So I top 8'd Grand Prix Indy over the weekend. Here's the link to their coverage: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/gpind08/welcome
They dont' have decklist or profile for me up yet, but we'll see if they fix that.
I drove down with Dan Howard, his brother Nathan, Jasper, and Danner. It was fun group of people to go anywhere with, I'd totally roadtrip again.
I had 3 bye's from the grand prix trial from Madison so when I got my deck I was hoping to just have an average pool. We joked on the way down that we all wanted Oona in our pool. Well I got Oona, but the rest of my pool was kind of all over. My early drops were not that exciting, and I tried a U/W, then a W/G, and finally settled on a G/R deck, that "splashed" Oona off of 3 Elsewhere flasks with 1 swamp to hope to activate it, we also had howl of the night pack for fun. Tower above was my MVP for the day as it ate a twilight sheperd and other persisters all day long. I only lost one match, to Ben Seck, and it was because of not playing Burn Trail on the right guys.
Day 2 - (Steven Neil has my day 2 draft decks, when I get them back I'll edit and throw the decklists in). I sat to Gau's left in the draft and opened Midnight Banshee, went black hard, then got shipped a couple flame javilins from the other way, and pack three a 3rd pick Furystoker Giant. 3x Ripper, 3x Macabre, and a blowfly infestation. Went 2-1 loosing to Gaudenis, while drawing no 2 drops either game... :(
Draft number 2, I draft a white/red deck with 2x spectral procession, and rage reflection, which was total gas. I beat Paulo Victor da Rosa (made one mistake in game 2 which i lost, I blocked incorrectly with a whither guy in play). Then played Chris Lachman which was a feature match so that's on the website. Drew in to the top 8.
Top 8 draft went very average. My opening pack had 6 U/B cards...so we shipped those and took the only other reasonable card scuzzback maurader, then drafted g/w/r cards, and ended up with about 30-32 playables but the mana was shaky. Had 2x shield of the oversould, and a runes of the dues. Plan was to get it on a guy and smash, also had another rage reflection. You can read the coverage of the match on the the website if you like.
So $1500 and que'd for Berlin. I want to go to Berlin, I just have ot figure out if I can afford it. Kate would like to go as well. I think how I do at Nat's will cement it, but right now I'm leaning 70/30 towards going.
Got home about 1:15 and came into work today...save the day off so Berlin is a better possibility.
They dont' have decklist or profile for me up yet, but we'll see if they fix that.
I drove down with Dan Howard, his brother Nathan, Jasper, and Danner. It was fun group of people to go anywhere with, I'd totally roadtrip again.
I had 3 bye's from the grand prix trial from Madison so when I got my deck I was hoping to just have an average pool. We joked on the way down that we all wanted Oona in our pool. Well I got Oona, but the rest of my pool was kind of all over. My early drops were not that exciting, and I tried a U/W, then a W/G, and finally settled on a G/R deck, that "splashed" Oona off of 3 Elsewhere flasks with 1 swamp to hope to activate it, we also had howl of the night pack for fun. Tower above was my MVP for the day as it ate a twilight sheperd and other persisters all day long. I only lost one match, to Ben Seck, and it was because of not playing Burn Trail on the right guys.
Day 2 - (Steven Neil has my day 2 draft decks, when I get them back I'll edit and throw the decklists in). I sat to Gau's left in the draft and opened Midnight Banshee, went black hard, then got shipped a couple flame javilins from the other way, and pack three a 3rd pick Furystoker Giant. 3x Ripper, 3x Macabre, and a blowfly infestation. Went 2-1 loosing to Gaudenis, while drawing no 2 drops either game... :(
Draft number 2, I draft a white/red deck with 2x spectral procession, and rage reflection, which was total gas. I beat Paulo Victor da Rosa (made one mistake in game 2 which i lost, I blocked incorrectly with a whither guy in play). Then played Chris Lachman which was a feature match so that's on the website. Drew in to the top 8.
Top 8 draft went very average. My opening pack had 6 U/B cards...so we shipped those and took the only other reasonable card scuzzback maurader, then drafted g/w/r cards, and ended up with about 30-32 playables but the mana was shaky. Had 2x shield of the oversould, and a runes of the dues. Plan was to get it on a guy and smash, also had another rage reflection. You can read the coverage of the match on the the website if you like.
So $1500 and que'd for Berlin. I want to go to Berlin, I just have ot figure out if I can afford it. Kate would like to go as well. I think how I do at Nat's will cement it, but right now I'm leaning 70/30 towards going.
Got home about 1:15 and came into work today...save the day off so Berlin is a better possibility.