This being my first visit to a regional tournament, I figured I would make a post and tell you guys a little about my day. I had been working on the deck for 3 months, and made final changes to it Thursday night, the final decklist ended up as follows…

1 Vitu-ghazi
4 Overgrown Tomb
4 Godless Shrines
2 Miren
2 Swamp
4 Plains
6 Forest

2 Farseek
2 Persecute
1 Debtor’s Knell
3 Faith’s Fetters
4 Mortify
3 Putrefy
4 Wrath of God
4 Phyrexian Arena

3 Sakura tribe elder
4 Loxodon Heiarch
1 Ink Eyes
3 Kokusho
2 Yosei

SB
4 Cranial
3 Hide // Seek
3 Crime // Punishment
3 CoP Red
2 Graveshell Scarab

I had heard about alot of ...um...lets call them not so nice people out there, but i didn’t have the pleasure of running into one before round 8...more on that later. Overall I found a nice variety of tried and true decks, some modified with dissention, some not, and alot of new builds. Knowing that going into a long tournament with a control deck could possibly hurt my chances in the long run, I felt that this is the deck I would enjoy the most. As for my matchups

Round 1 vs Schoppe (wtf!?) UGW counter control? correct me if im wrong please,

Game 1, he got mana screwed both games, confiscating my kokusho in game one after being knocked down to 4 by sakura and sapproling tokens. I managed to get a yosei into play that i sacrificed to miren to swing for the win.

Side in 2 graveshell scarab 3 Cranial Extractions, side out 4 wrath and one Ink eyes.

Game 2 he found no green mana, eventually tapping out for tidings to try to fetch. I topdecked like a king(as i did all night, ask anyone who saw the top 8 match) a persecute for blue to clear his hand of 3 voidslimes and a rewind, game ended soon after.
(1-0)

Round 2 Vs Leyling of Singularity

This was neither a good deck, nor good player. Game one a turn three persecute ripped 1 leyline of singularity, telling time, and 2 repeals from his grip, and a heiarch beat him into playing a hunted horror with no leyline backup, putrefy at EoT, swing for 10 for the win.

No Sideboarding

Game 2 he started with a layline but no creatures that stayed in play, forced to repeal a sakura tribe elder at 7 life, I Crimed his hunted horror into play then mortified the leyline...gg
(2-0)

Round 3 Vs. Gruul
This was the judge who I see all the time running pre-releases playing the grull deck that won pt honolulu. It took me until round 6 to have a 4th land in game one, not much to say about it.

Side in 3 CoP Red, 3 Crime // Punishment, Side out 2 persecute and 4 wrath

Game 2 I played a turn three heiarch, followed by a turn 4 faith’s fetters on a frenzied goblin, he never was able to knock me back down.

Game 3 Identical to Game 2, only I got to punish x=2 for a ledgewalker, dryad, scab clan mauler, and a jitte, and swing with kokusho. for the win.
(3-0) lunchbreak, PS jack in the box is super slow, almost didnt make it back on time…

Round 4 vs Mirror

This is where it got ugly. Instead of running dragons, he ran kodama the north tree and angel of dispair, no ink eyes, no farseek, 4 crime and punishment’s. Maindeck tech against mirror, This match comes down to whomever draws the most off arena before it gets mortified.

Game 1, I persecute turn 3, leave him with only an elder, he topdecks an arena and plays it, and topdecks another and plays it the very next turn. I had no mortify in hand, lost to the overwhelming card advantage.

Sideboard 3 Crime // Punishment 3 cranial, -4 wrath of god, -2 yosei

Game 2, we exchanged areans to mortifys, heiarchs to heiarchs, and even a kodama to a kokusho, but in the end his double vitu ghazi won it for him. Castigate in his board was the deciing factor.
(3-1)

Round 5 vs. Wee draug...whatever

From table 7 to 28, and back to random jank.dec

Game 2 he couldn’t keep a wee one or a gelectrode out long enough, and the glacial ray’s + lava spikes were few and far between. My lifegain just overwhelmed him

Sideboard -3 Wrath, + 3 CoP red

Game 2, This game caught me offguard, hitting me for 13 out of nowhere with gelectrode, lavaspike splicing glacial ray, and twincast. guess it was his god hand…

Game 3, CoP red on turn 2, followed by a turn 4 heiarch for the win.
(4-1)

Round 6 vs Angel Weirding

Game 1, He screwed himself game one, using the last card in his hand to fetters my vitu-ghazi. I resolve a debtor’s knell next turn with 2 firemanes in his graveyard. He draws a weirding...and plays it, me being at 27 life already, gg.

Side 3 Crime // Punishment 1 Cranial, -4 Wrath

Game 2 He properly sided in UW Guildmage and goblin flectomancer, late game he has 2 flectomancers, and a story circle green, I have a heiarh that gets tapped each pre-combat phase, Time is called, match is mine since he cant win, but I still go for the kill. I fetter the guildmage and one flectomancer. Next turn I Cranial. he redirects to me, i name farseek and thin junk out of my deck. I mortify the enchantment, play a kokusho, swing for 4, he gets an angel into play. My last turn I topdeck a yosei, sac it to miren, tap the angel, attack for 10, then putrefy kokusho for the win.
(5-1)

Round 7 Vs UW Draw Go

Game 2 I drew enough early threats that he eventually emptied his hand, even with the aid of Jushi Apprentice for a few rounds. He played a windreaver with one blue untapped, I targeted with fetters, then mortified in response to the bounce, another big threat never hit the table.

Side -4 wrath, -2 yosei, +4 Cranial, +2 Grave-shell Scarab

Game 2, after each of our hands had been played out, he topdecked 2 jushi’s and a windreaver, and proceded to play beat, and me with no

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Round 8 Vs Eminent Domain
This is by far one of my worst matchups.

Game 1, Short and sweet, turn 3 persecute blye, aggro’d him before he could draw a wildfire, he only stole one land before he was dead

PLAY ERROR! Since i had not seen wildfire, nor tested against domain, I didn not recognize it and Did not put in cranials

Sideboard -3 wrath, +3 Crime // Punishment -3 mortify, +3 CoP red.

Game 2, he swarmed some signets turn 2 and 3, then confistcated 4 lands in a row before wildfiring, next turn dropping meloku for the win.

Game 3, I mana accelerate into a turn 3 cranial (goodbye crime//punishment and the last wrath), which is leaked. He taps out on his turn 4 to annex godless shrine. I play a swamp and play a second cranial, naming wildfire, which were his only 2 nonland cards in hand. two turns later I drop a kokusho, attack twice, then play the second for the win.
(6-1-1)

Round 9 vs Angel Weirding (behing a much worse player).

Game 1, he drew no counters nor big creature kill to stop my onslaught of one heiarch, one kokusho, and one yosei.

Side -3 wrath, + 3 Crime // Punishment

Game 2, This match was even. His starging hand had 3 mana (2 of which were steam vents) and 3 hinders. I should have lost this match rather than having it draw. He properly sided in solifuge, and UW guildmage. After a long counter war of spell snaring my mana accel, hindering my creatures, and fettering my vitu-ghazi he had a guildmage on the board and a firemane, i had a kokusho, a yosei, 2 heiarchs, sakura, and a token. I cranial extract the rest of his angels from the game, and take a peek at his hand...2 lightning heliz and 3 solifuges. Me at 15 life with an arena in play when time is called. He had enough mana to tap out all my creatures and play his entire hand for the win...but didn’t. Don’t get me wrong, I did everything in my power to make him think i had something in my hand (3 lands at the time) but my arena draw’s got ridiculous in yet another match. Topdecking the fetters for his guildmage and mortify the angel on turn 2 of OT It was brought to my attention that I culd have won the match on turn 4 of overtime, but I opted to play it safe, and attack with yosei, 2 heiarchs, and an elder, ninja’ing ink yes into play to return a heiarch to my hand, hitting him down to very low life, and playing 2 heiarchs to get me from 8 life to 16 life. I then sac the yosei to tap out his lands, and he skips the turn 5 OT untap.

(7-1-1) At the end of swiss, Entering top 8 in position 7.

top 8. vs the only person to whom I lost in the swiss...the mirror match again

He was a nice guy, and a good player, I was really happy to have the chance to play him twice. We decided pre-match that the winner goes to Nationals, the loser gets 1 1/2 boxes (IE, winner gives up 1/2 a box) I thought it was really nice of him to offer it, I accepted, hoping to go home with half a box…

Thanks to everyone who supported me during the top 8 match, I’m not even going to try and go over what happened in this game, suffice it to say that we had quite a crowd, and they were very very entertained. If there was ever a topdecking champ, I was him the second and thrid rounds, drawing many immideate answers to everything my opponent threw at me, but in the end his vitu-ghazi’s won him the third round.

I would like to have played against 2 not so jank decks (ie wee dragonauts and leyline of singularity) but I feel I got to test against a good variety of strong decks. Hide and seek never hit the deck, I’m thinking about bringing in some ghost quarters to handle that vitu-mirror match problem, as well as adding one more vitu-ghazi to my deck in place of a forest. I hope everyone else who went had as much fun as I did, I’ll see you all friday night.

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congrats on T8 Nathan.

I went 6-3, which is pretty decent for me.
I played Searing Meditation/Angel Weirding

Round 1 Mirror match.

I knew I had to win the first game and ride the second to a 1-0 match so I did.
1-0

Round 2 Husk

I mull to five first game and keep a hand of 3 land, compulsive, Meloku. I win that game.
Game 2 he comes out fast and I don’t have enough creature control to hold him back.
Game 3 I get an early searing meditation out. he has Promise of Bunrei out and he plays Kami of Ancient law.
I had another meditation in hand so I helix the Kami EOT to force him to kill my first one. he sacs Kami to kill his own Promise!
I play another mediation and on his turn he plays Pithing Needle. it resolves and he names searing meditation so I win.
2-0

Round 3 Greater Good

this guy was good, first game was close until he putrefied my Skullmead Cauldron.
Game 2 he beat down pretty fast with dragons, I drew 4 searing meditations but no lifegain.
2-1

Round 4 ???

After the lunch break everyone is kind of rushing to get back in time. I sit down about 2 minutes before the start of the round.
My opponent isn’t at start time so he gets a game loss. 10 minutes later the match is mine.
3-1

Round 5 Re-Animator

he third turn compulsives pitching simic sky swallower and tidespout tyrant 4th turn vogir mortis on sky swallower.
I turn 4 wrath. 5th turn zombify on sky swallower. I get angels in the yard and meditation out and try to race, but he gets the tyrant out and bounces my stuff and makes me discard a lot.
Game 2 I get angels in the yard and meditation out. he piths meditation and I drop an early weirding.
he has fatties and land and I have wrath, odds//ends, helix, Angel. he concedes.
Game three he gets turn 3 compulsive pitching angel of despair and kokusho. I was on the draw so I drop my third land with a bunch of 4-drops in hand and pass the turn. he vigor mortises angel out killing my fountain and that’s pretty much game.
3-2

Round 6 Zoo

Pretty good matchup for me. I fetters his jitte and kill his dudes. searing meditation for the win.
Game 2 he gets mana skrewed and I fetters his jitte again. he’s at 3 so during my upkeep I shoot him for 4 with meditation and he helixes in response, so I Odds his helix
4-2

Round 7 5-color zoo

I saw birds, shaman, hierarch and RWG lands, I control his creatures and drop a weirding with meditation out and 2 angels in the yard, he’s holding 2 trygon predators! and another(non-blue) land. he realizes he’ll never draw another threat or blue source so he concedes.
Game 2 is similar except he playes an early kami of ancient law, which I kill and then he mortifies my meditation! I proceed to beatdown with 2 angels.
5-2

Round 8 Zoo with lots of burn

Game one he gets lots of early beats and I drop meditation with 2 angels but he has two consecutive Flames of the Blood Hand to give him the game.
Games 2 and 3 he gets very mana flooded and I win.
6-2

Round 9 BW control (Trent)

Trent is very fun to play, I kind of had to hope for him to get himself a couple of game loses in this match to have any chance. the best he could do was a warning for not discarding EOT. fun games though.
6-3

I finished 28th out of 265. went home with 9 packs.

Kevin

“Wasn’t our plan just to get to 900 life and f***’em?”

Coldsnap Sealed: who cares
Coldsnap Draft: who cares

Here’s the deck I played:

5 Plains
4 Mountain
2 Island
2 Battlefield Forge
1 Adarkar Wastes
1 Mikokoro
4 Sacred Foundry
3 Hallowed Fountain
2 Steam Vents

1 Azorious Signet
2 Boros Signet
4 Lightning Helix
4 Compulsive Research
4 Searing Meditation
4 Faith’s Fetters
3 Gifts Ungiven
1 Zur’s Weirding
2 Skullmead Cauldron
4 Wrath of God
3 Odds // Ends
1 Shard Phoenix
4 Firemane Angel
1 Meloku the Clouded Mirror

SB:
3 Ivory Mask
3 Sacred Ground
4 Spell Snare
2 Terashi’s Grasp
3 Pithing Needle

Kevin

“Wasn’t our plan just to get to 900 life and f***’em?”

Coldsnap Sealed: who cares
Coldsnap Draft: who cares

So out of the 54 packs I left with yesterday, i ended up with the following decent to great cards

Grand Arbiter (foil)
Debtor’s Knell (foil)
blood crypt (last rare i needed from dissention to have a single set)
dark confidant
cytoplast manipulator
burning-tree shaman
pride of the clouds
angel of despair x2 [glad i traded for my playset last week x-( ]
radkos augermage
ghost council
glare of subdual
infernal tutor
cytoplast rootkin
hide // seek
life from the loam

and ive come to the conclusion that hit // run, simic guildmage, and rise // fall, transguld courier, and radkos guildmage are the most common uncommons in dissention

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First of all, I’m sooooo happy that I finally found a deck that I LIKE TO PLAY. Save for one match, this was my best MTG experience EVER. For this year’s extravaganza, I chose the LEAST meta-dependant deck(IMO) in the whole format… And i’m happy to say Mike Flores came up with the idea of the deck for *Team Constructed*, told people not to play it at Regionals, I was able to prove him wrong…

Kevin’s GWub Ghazi-Chord(with lots of savage tech!):

Lands(22):
4 Temple Garden
4 Brushland
3 Selesnya Sanctuary
3 Vitu-Ghazi, the City Tree
3 Forest
1 Miren, the Moaning Well
1 Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
1 Eiganjo Castle
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Breeding Pool

Creatures(25):
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Selesnya Guildmage
4 Wood Elves
4 Loxodon Hierarch
3 Yosei, the Morning Star
2 Kodama of the North Tree
1 Loaming Shaman
1 Indrik Stomphowler
1 Keiga, the Tide Star
1 Meloku, the Clouded Mirror

Spells(13):
4 Chord of Calling(MVP )
3 Glare of Subdual
3 Umezawa’s Jitte
2 Seed Spark
1 Debtor’s Knell

SB:
3 Wrath of God
3 Cranial Extraction
3 Faith’s Fetters
1 Thundermare(TEH S@VAGE T3CH!!!)
1 Hokori, Dust Drinker
1 Silklash Spider
1 Seed Spark
1 Angel of Despair
1 Goblin Flectomancer

I’m not gonna give a report, because my writing tends to be boring(well, I will tell the story about the little City Tree that couldn’t), but here is what I encountered:

Went 7-2, losing to Snakes and UR Magnivore(Finished in 14th Place)

Wins:
Round 1 vs. RW Aggro(MD Blood Moon = OUCH)
Round 2 vs. UB Control
Round 3 vs. BW Aggro/Control(w/ big Dragons)
Round 4 vs. UR Owl
Round 6 vs. RGWu Zoo
Round 8 vs. Ghost-Husk(BW Aggro)
Round 9 vs. UB Reanimator(Maindeck Loaming Shaman FTW!!!)

Losses:
Round 5 vs. Sssssssnakes(had to play at table 1 against Mr. PF and his amazing counterspell topdecks )
Round 7 vs. UR Magnivore(I pretty much gave my opponent a free ticket into Top 8)

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Now, Imagine what it must feel like to draw the WORST POSSIBLE opening hand that your deck can offer(IE no lands, all lands, all colored cards and no colored sources, etc.)... Just imagine for a moment… This such hand for me was 3 Vitu-Ghazi + Miren + 3 Birds of Paradise

And then imagine drawing that same opening hand with only 6 cards(2 Vitu-Ghazi + Miren + 2 Birds of Paradise + Yosei)...

And again, imagine that hand with only FIVE cards(2 Vitu-Ghazi + Birds of Paradise + 2 Yosei)...

Sigh...... keep imagining..... 4 cards in your hand now(2 Vitu-Ghazi + Birds of Paradise + Kodama of the North Tree), and you have the same 2 colorless-producing lands you’ve thrown back twice…

Keep going until you’ve mulliganed down to 3 cards(Vitu-Ghazi + 2 Wood Elves)... That’s about how I felt in my 7th round while playing against a dedicated land destruction deck… It is not a good feeling. And it really aggravates me that I blew my Top 8 chances by losing a match I WIN EVERY TIME… not good… at all…

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My best play all day was against my Round 3 Opponent. I had a Hierarch, Guildmage, and a Wood Elves in play, and my opponent had 1 Ravenous Rats and a Yosei in play. With his life total at 11 and my life total at 4(I have 5 cards > 2 chord, 2 lands, and a thundermare, my opponent has 2 in hand), my opponent attacks with Yosei, and I respond by Chording for another Hierarch. I go up to 8, then down to 3, and then my opponent plays 2 Shrieking Grotesque to get 2 lands out of my hand. I untap and knock on my deck for any kind of answer. I draw a temple garden. So, I play the garden untapped, declare 2 Hierarchs, Guildmage, and my Elf as attackers, and before blockers, I Chord out a yosei(with exactly 9 mana) to tap down all of his guys and deal 11 to his face. WHEW......

All in all, I had a great time, and many thanks to Matt Hoffman and Blake Miller for loaning me cards and for Matt Fichtel for giving me sleeves to use the first 7 rounds(looking back, I assume that’s what happened in round 7. Sweaty sleeves = unhappy magic player). I cracked a Burning-Tree, Char, Voidslime, and Lyzolda with my 1/2 box, so at least this time I got my money’s worth. I wish there were tournies like this more often(PTQs don’t count )...

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Current Decks:
UG Aggro
Mono-Green Turbo-Allosaurus!
Mono-Red BURN

RGD Draft: 25-7-2
RGD Sealed: ***Censored***

My experience was fine - my deck was fine, I still <3 Bob, etc.  I just need to lay off of Magic for a while, and see if I can somehow improve my decision-making skills to where I can stop getting draws.  We’ll see what happens.  I downloaded some poker software this weekend...we’ll see how that pans out.  Maybe it’ll be easier on me with only 52 cards to worry about…

Congrats to Nathan for top 8 - what a huge achievement!  Congrats to everyone on their winning records as well!  Hope everyone had a good time!

blake - 22 May 2006 06:46 AM

My experience was fine - my deck was fine, I still <3 Bob, etc.  I just need to lay off of Magic for a while, and see if I can somehow improve my decision-making skills to where I can stop getting draws.  We’ll see what happens.  I downloaded some poker software this weekend...we’ll see how that pans out.  Maybe it’ll be easier on me with only 52 cards to worry about…

Congrats to Nathan for top 8 - what a huge achievement!  Congrats to everyone on their winning records as well!  Hope everyone had a good time!

hey blake what did you use?  did bob kill you?

Tweaked Ghost Dad - no, Bob never killed me - he’s just amazing.  My deck name was “I <3 Bob.”

blake - 22 May 2006 06:46 AM

My experience was fine - my deck was fine, I still <3 Bob, etc.  I just need to lay off of Magic for a while, and see if I can somehow improve my decision-making skills to where I can stop getting draws.  We’ll see what happens.  I downloaded some poker software this weekend...we’ll see how that pans out.  Maybe it’ll be easier on me with only 52 cards to worry about…

Now that is about the saddest thing I have ever heard!  It seems to me that the reason you receive so many draws is because you’re a very solid player who takes his time making the best possible play in a given situation.  Your play is slow, but very well thought-out.  If you were not quite as careful those draws would almost certainly be losses.  I think you should probably congratulate yourself on each draw because it could easily have been worse. At least you didn’t have as many losses as I did in my 5-3 fiasco last year (which I have somewhat appropriately nicknamed “Christian’s DCI-Point Giveaway Bonanza"). 

Full points to all who braved the crowds and the hours in order to play the game we all love.

Christian - 22 May 2006 11:59 AM

because you’re a very solid player who takes too freakin’ long making the best possible play in a given situation. 

Fixed. 

J/k, and I certainly appreciate the sentiment, Christian.  It just bothers me that from Regionals last year, I went from a 4/1/3 record to 5/1/3.  Not a whole lot of improvement.  I know Regionals is different because of the new set coming out, matchups can be bad, etc., I was just personally disappointed. 

My one loss came kind of early (2nd round I think) and I lost it primarily because I completely forgot about a common creature in the format, Silhana Ledgewalker.  I don’t have a way to deal with her maindeck or sideboard.  Now I will say there was a little luck involved, because I didn’t get beatdown by a 1/1 over 20 turns for the loss.  I got beatdown by a 1/1 with Moldervine Cloak on it first game, then a Moldervine Cloak and Jitte on it second game (which I WON), and then 2(!) Moldervine Cloaks on it turns 3 and 4 in the third game.  If I would have thought about that creature, I might have made different decisions in deckbuilding/sideboarding, and then had different matchups the rest of the day, which might have given me a different record.  I was pretty much kicking myself the rest of the day for forgetting about the little green beatstick...lol.  Oh well - c’est la vie, I guess.  Perhaps I’ll keep improving little by little and take it all the way to the top next year. 

silhana ledgewalker and cloak sounds like the mono-green deck i was building up at madness around guildpact release.  i cant believe that monogreen is still around.  but i can see how that can dishearten you.  i think it is way too difficult to plan sideboard/deckbuilding around every possibility your opponent will play, but it would be best to focus around the key cards.  in this case, i see that cloak and jitte hurt you.  my suggestion on a board card would have been suppression field.

field stops both jitte, cloak, transmute, and a bunch of other stuff; however, if you are playing ghost dad, it also hinders the ghost council itself.

John_Su - 22 May 2006 12:49 PM

silhana ledgewalker and cloak sounds like the mono-green deck i was building up at madness around guildpact release.  i cant believe that monogreen is still around.  but i can see how that can dishearten you.  i think it is way too difficult to plan sideboard/deckbuilding around every possibility your opponent will play, but it would be best to focus around the key cards.  in this case, i see that cloak and jitte hurt you.  my suggestion on a board card would have been suppression field.

field stops both jitte, cloak, transmute, and a bunch of other stuff; however, if you are playing ghost dad, it also hinders the ghost council itself.

No, it was G/R Gruul with Ledgewalkers.  G/R Gruul is usually a bye for me, but I did not count on seeing the Ledgewalker.  Suppression Field does absolutely NOTHING to Moldervine Cloak.  Dredge is a replacement effect, not a triggered ability.  Jitte doesn’t hurt me usually, because I run 4.  It either wins me the game, or destroys theirs if they already have one in play.  I board 2 Manriki’s just for that though.  It doesn’t matter who has the first Jitte on the table, it just matters who has the LAST one.  Also, I run 4 maindeck Kami of Ancient Laws that could have taken care of Cloak (at least for a turn), and 3 Mortify in the SB.  My last round opponent played Suppression Field turn 2, I play Bob, he Helixes Bob, I play Descendant, he scoops because he didn’t side in his Faith’s Fetters.

On another note - I don’t think there is a sicker creature that you can see coming at you than the Descendant of Kiyomaro.  From now on, whenever I play one, I will sing the soundtrack that he deserves when coming into play.  Because you know he doesn’t just come into play - he STRUTS into play.  *Cue music*

His flavortext should just read, "And you can tell by the way I use my walk, I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk."

“Staying Alive”

blake - 22 May 2006 01:16 PM

No, it was G/R Gruul with Ledgewalkers.  G/R Gruul is usually a bye for me, but I did not count on seeing the Ledgewalker.  Suppression Field does absolutely NOTHING to Moldervine Cloak.  Dredge is a replacement effect, not a triggered ability.

Well, you were looking for an activated ability, not a triggered… but, either way, cloak is very tough to deal with on an untargetable creature. That’s one of the MAIN reasons I decided to include 3 WOGs in the sideboard, for certain creatures I couldn’t deal with without them… And blake, you didn’t have any pontiffs in your SB, or did you just not draw them? That seems like a reasonable answer, then again, you have to catch your opponent with his pants down for it to work…

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Current Decks:
UG Aggro
Mono-Green Turbo-Allosaurus!
Mono-Red BURN

RGD Draft: 25-7-2
RGD Sealed: ***Censored***

Yeah, sorry, I meant activated....duh.  :/ Brain and fingers don’t connect sometime.  And no, I didn’t run Pontiff’s in the sideboard, because I don’t have a reliable sac outlet.  If I did, that would have been great, you’re absolutely right.  But with him playing her on turn 2 when he’s going first, I don’t have a chance even with Pontiff… :/ I just didn’t have an answer for him (her?) at ALL...lol.  My bad. 

hey since you were playing ghost dad why not run ‘ghost’-ly prison also in side :-D.  i am assuming you have wog in the deck also.  also did you see a lot of the kodoma of the north tree running?