The day I went 2 - 4

Due to the overwhelming response of fellow cows asking me to post my matchup with the absurbly modified christmas deck that i played during the Singapore open, here I am posting my match ups.

Round 1: Vs Jund
Game 1: Owned him fast and furious with LDs. Killed him with Cruel Ultimatum
Game 2: Stuck on 2 lands with 3 harrows in hand. WTH
Game 3: Stuck on 2 lands with 2 expedetion in play and 1 harrow in hand

Round 2: Vs Bant
My opponent is a newbie to tourney. He was extremely slow despite playing an aggro deck. I was irritated esp when he took my deck and shuffled it out of the table.
Game 1: Ownage. Violent Ultimatum 3 times in a row
Game 2: Lavalanche was in my hand, however, I could not get my 7th land...
Game 3: 2 lands with 2 cobras in play and 2 harrow in my hand... My opponent killed me on the 7th turn. WTH

Round 3: Vs Eldrazi
Game 1: 2 lands with 1 cobra and 1 expedetion and 2 harrows in my hand
Game 2: 4 lands, 1 cobra and 1 expedetion with 3 hellions in my hand. My 5th land never came. Nissa casts her ultimate. GG

Round 4: Vs G/W
I played agn another newbie who took up my deck and clean my last card for me because my last card got a bee hoon. Incidentally, my last card was violent ultimatum. Wanted to call judge, but, then when you are seated at a 0-3 table, you just feel like playing for fun. =P
Game 1: 2 lands, 1 expedetion, 1 cobra, 3 harrows staring down at 4 types of elves (llanowar x3, naya sureblade x2, bant sureblade) and my opponent casting overrun didnt help.
Game 2: This is the game I kicked myself. I tried going off on the third turn but I miscalculated. Made mistake and lose. LOL

Chao Lin arrives at the tourney area and somehow he laughed too much at me. So I went on a rampaging baloth mood....

Round 5: Vs Mono Black Vampires
My opponent recieved a game loss for tardiness. He said that he was in the loo.
Game 2: Rampaging Baloth mood = 4th turn ultimatum, 5th turn cruel into cruel.Ownage

Round 6: Vs Bant
Side story: Our dear friend, Alex stood at my table and we had this conversation
Me: Why arent you playing?
Alex: Dun have my name
Me: Why dun have your name, you dropped the tourney?
Chao Lin: Why did you drop the tourney?
Alex: I never drop. Maybe someone drop for me
Me: How can someone drop for you? You got check properly or not?
Alex: Dunno.
Me: Did you tick your score sheet last round?
Alex: never tick
Me:Then shouldnt be what. Did you see your name on the pairing sheet?
Alex: dun have
Me: Sure or not? Did you see your name under the pairing sheet le?
Alex: Dun have. Just got a bye
Me: Your name beside the bye right?
Alex: Oh! You mean my name? My name is there, but, got a bye.
At this moment of time, Chao lin did his favorite move of covering his face, my opponent jaw dropped and the players on the table beside me stopped and looked at him.
I think he just owned the 5 of us.
Game 1: My opponent stalled on 2 lands, a plains and a sungrove petal. Acidic Slime aka 'Sperm Bag' loves them.
Game 2: I was too lazy to SB. He went noble, noble and noble and Thornling.WTH
Game 3: He stalled on 4 lands. There was alot of commotion as 'Sperm Bag' and Goblin Ruinblaster aka 'Balls to you' did their snacking on his lands.

At this time I have to drop the tourney as I need to attend a dinner. This is the deck that I played

2 rampant growth
4 Kalhni Heart Expedetion
4 Lotus Cobra
2 Trace of Abundance
4 Harrow
4 Goblin Ruinblaster
3 Acidic Slime
3 Mold Shambler
4 Violent Ultimatum
4 Cruel Ultimatum
3 Voices from the void

1 Misty Rainforest
3 Scalding Tarn
4 Verdant Catacombs
2 Savage lands
2 Crumbling Necropolis
2 Island
4 Forest
3 Swamps
3 Mountains

SB:
4 Jund Charm
4 Lavalanche
3 Caldera Hellion
2 Flashfreeze
2 Swerve

Post Tourney Thoughts

After playing this deck, here are some general thoughts
- always read each card carefully. When I was playtesting, certain cards were being misplay

Ob Nix doesnt allow you to gain life =(
Heart Expedetion allows you ONLY to find TWO lands and put them into play TAPPED =(

Here are some reflective thoughts on the modified deck

1. Chapman and I both modified the deck because we were to power hungry for the cruel ultimatums to be played in the main deck. We really like the power of casting a cruel and drawing into a cruel as majority of our lands are already out. The life gain was also crucial.

However, in doing so, we upsetted the mana based. I was quite depressed when I was holding the cruel ultimatum in my hand and I have forests in play. My opponent was not going to give me one more turn.
Vice versa, I was holding Violent Ultimatum in my hand and I had Islands in play. Really not cool when you know the next turn will be lethal and you have answers but you cant cast it.

Morale of this point: Consistency or Power?

2. If you read this tourney report, most of the games I lost were due the number of lands I had. I really considered the hand of 2 lands, with either cobras or expedetion and multiple harrows to be good. But alas, the third land never came.

Morale of this point: better lucky than good

3. Lavalanche is awesome! Much better than the traditional earthquakes. It kills literally everything your opponent has. Planeswalkers, creatures esp Emeria Angels and her feathery friends deserve a fiery fall from grace and of course your usual weenies.

Morale of this point: Some cards dun deserve to be at the SB

4. Trace of abundance and Tri land is really good. It helps you to smooth out the mana esp for your 2 different ultimatums. However, too much tri lands reduces your basic land counts which means no legal targets for your expedetion, harrows, rampant growth. too much trance of abundance means minimum landfalling effects.

Morale of this point: Balancing act

5. After playing this deck, you just feel that other decks you are playing is VERY SLOW. I gold fished my old school G/W and I just feel that it doesnt have the raw power of this deck. A lot of modification must be made to this magical christmas deck. and hopefully I will use it in GPT KL!

May the Cows smile upon you in each tourney.

Mad Cow Inc. Christmas Party

Hi all,

On the 24th Dec 2009, there will be a Potluck steamboat at Kenneth's house.
The lunch will start at 2pm sharp. Every member to bring foodstuff for the steamboat. There will be side events for every one!

Here is the list of events

2pm - 3.30pm: Steamboat Potluck Lunch

4pm - 8pm:
1. Zendrikar Draft
3 packs of Zendrikar boosters
Price depends on the price of booster box
Keep 1 rare and winner has the first pick.

2. Standard T2 casual tournament
Swiss rounds
Winner will recieve Zendrikar/M10 boosters!
Entry Fee: Free of charge
Maximum of 10 proxies are allowed for this event
Description of this event:
Each player is going to play with EVERY OTHER player in the room. Take note of your own score. Player with the highest total number of wins will be the champ!
For example

Kenneth vs Alvin with a score of 2 - 1
Kenneth now has 2 wins
Alvin now has 1 win
Both of them will now look for other players to play with

The 2 events will be running concurrently, meaning you get to play the draft and T2 event at the same time!

Due to the lack of response, Alvin and I have decided to just collect $$ from all of you and we will go shopping for food. I also decided that it is not very convenience for people staying in the west to travel with fresh food on the train to come to the east.
Currently, I am thinking of collecting $10 from everyone who is attending the steamboat. Draft will be still at $4 per pack of Zendrikar.

Please reply asap. Looking forward to see you guys!
Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
(Take note: As soon as I recieved your sms on the food you will be bringing I will update this blog. You may also put it down under the comments)
May the Holy Cow smile upon you!

Event that u should play

Hi all,

let the link speak for itself.
http://www.sgcardgames.com/viewtopic.php?t=41763

Regards