Mike owns you
So I got up today at 7:00, why you ask? A ptq was happening in waterloo, thus i must attend. It was a constructed tournument (meaning you bring a deck with you). At the beginning of this week i basically changed the deck i was going to play into a deck that recently won a big tournument.
So at 7:50 i head down to the lounge and Joseph, Owen and Dan are there, after waiting a bit for Nick and Aaron, we set off to the legion.
we arrive and need to register our decks such that we can enter. This was annoying because the cards have such absurdly long names and my deck was running multiple single cards (names like: Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers). After thats done we begin playing.
Round one: i end up playing a very similar deck to mine, we each win a game and go to time. Boo starting out the day with a draw.
Round two: another person with a similar deck, I win game one, we go to time in game two.
Round three: this time i play against an agro deck, and I smash him in two quick games (a nice change to the really long games)
Round four: Again! same deck as mine, but i manage to beat him in 3 games, we went to time, but i beat him in extra turns (this was some of the best magic i have ever played, ask anyone who was watching, cause apparently it was really really good to watch)
Round five: i totally get the feature match! ...against a deck that is one card shy of being mine, and he beats me in two long and well played games.
Round six: i play a kid...playing my deck! (for those keeping track...thats 5 mirror matches). I beat him in 2 and he gets pissed off at his draws.
At this point, i am 4-1-1. after checking the standings, i am in 8th! gogo getting into top 8
quartfinals: i play a cocky annoying kid who brought a play mat with him with top 8 pins on it, i beat him in 3 quick games, and he complains that i was playing slowly (yes the matches are long..but this time we have 90 minutes to play them intead of 50) oh, and he wasn't playing my deck!
semis: play a really awesome guy playing the same deck as the kid (apparently that deck is good somehow..i dunno), although he kinda gets bad draws both games and i beat him.
I'm in the finals! first top 8 in anything and i'm in the finals, how awesome is that, at this point i've already won at least a box of cards (worth $115). Now i have a choice to make, do i play for the spor in the pro tour in LA? or let him take the invite and we split the prizes, I decide i would rather have the money instead of going to LA with no one. So i end up getting the box and 200 cdn. Pretty hot if you ask me.
After that we went out for dinner to celebrate after i ran into alex and alex at gemini.
After which we went back to comfy and drafted, apparently my awesomeness went away for this :(
Overall, one fuckin kick ass day, and i'm $200 richer! (actually a little more since i sold draft sets for the draft)
So at 7:50 i head down to the lounge and Joseph, Owen and Dan are there, after waiting a bit for Nick and Aaron, we set off to the legion.
we arrive and need to register our decks such that we can enter. This was annoying because the cards have such absurdly long names and my deck was running multiple single cards (names like: Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers). After thats done we begin playing.
Round one: i end up playing a very similar deck to mine, we each win a game and go to time. Boo starting out the day with a draw.
Round two: another person with a similar deck, I win game one, we go to time in game two.
Round three: this time i play against an agro deck, and I smash him in two quick games (a nice change to the really long games)
Round four: Again! same deck as mine, but i manage to beat him in 3 games, we went to time, but i beat him in extra turns (this was some of the best magic i have ever played, ask anyone who was watching, cause apparently it was really really good to watch)
Round five: i totally get the feature match! ...against a deck that is one card shy of being mine, and he beats me in two long and well played games.
Round six: i play a kid...playing my deck! (for those keeping track...thats 5 mirror matches). I beat him in 2 and he gets pissed off at his draws.
At this point, i am 4-1-1. after checking the standings, i am in 8th! gogo getting into top 8
quartfinals: i play a cocky annoying kid who brought a play mat with him with top 8 pins on it, i beat him in 3 quick games, and he complains that i was playing slowly (yes the matches are long..but this time we have 90 minutes to play them intead of 50) oh, and he wasn't playing my deck!
semis: play a really awesome guy playing the same deck as the kid (apparently that deck is good somehow..i dunno), although he kinda gets bad draws both games and i beat him.
I'm in the finals! first top 8 in anything and i'm in the finals, how awesome is that, at this point i've already won at least a box of cards (worth $115). Now i have a choice to make, do i play for the spor in the pro tour in LA? or let him take the invite and we split the prizes, I decide i would rather have the money instead of going to LA with no one. So i end up getting the box and 200 cdn. Pretty hot if you ask me.
After that we went out for dinner to celebrate after i ran into alex and alex at gemini.
After which we went back to comfy and drafted, apparently my awesomeness went away for this :(
Overall, one fuckin kick ass day, and i'm $200 richer! (actually a little more since i sold draft sets for the draft)