My Tourney Report

Hi Guys,
In order to prep Stan and Alvin, I have decided to write about my tourney experience for the National Qualifyer. It was an event of 7 rounds of swiss.

The meta game has greatly been affected by the recent GPs Top 8, consisting mostly of Faeries, Elves and U/W Lark.

Round1: Sanity Grinding 2-1
MVP is surely Putrid Leech! This card can break control deck nerves by forcing a huge pressure on their options. Just attack 'withwhatever' that is on your board. SB out some creature removals and bring in more threats!

Round 2: Faeries 2-1
MVP is our old man: Gaddock Teeg. I won the game with him in play and my opponent stuck with cryptic commands in his hands. One thing to take note, Scion of Oona spoils alot of combat tricks and single target removals. Try to play around that.

Round 3: U/W Lark 2-1
MVP: Smelly Hand. Although he took the first match, I won the next two games with him stuck on 1 land and 4 lands respectively. First turn BoP, second turn Doran, third turn Leige and your opponent is on 1 land sounds pretty exciting to me.

Round 4: Faeries again.... 1-2
Karma.... Made fatal mistake of not playing around Mistblind Clinque and Scion. GG

Round 5: Faeries again....... WTH..... Notice 5 rounds I played against decks with Cryptic commands... 2-0
MVP: Treetop Villages. Basically, I top decked path to exile for his last blocker and punch through his last blockers with 2 treetops and 1 putrid leech. He made mistake of Thoughtseizing me despite on 3 life left.

Round 6: Jund Good Stuff. 1-2
I lost to him not because of skill, but rather, because he was just plain lucky. He has better top deck skills. BUT I am gonna stomp him in Nationals... For Real!

Round 7: Green/White Tokens 2-0
The unfortunate opponent that got paired up with me. He needs an ID where as I need a win. For two games in a row, I mulligan till 6, keeping a 1land and 1 bird hand. Leige equip with Sledge. Enough said.

My conclusion
Doran is once again a 50-50 match up agn the meta game now. Armed with 2 best removals in the current format aka Maelstorm Pulse and Path to Exile and access to uber sb options like Celestial Purge, Forge Tender etc.

Metagame is seriously filled with loads of annoying flying pest. Thank God for the 3 Cloudthreshers in my sb, I could eke out a win through unexpected fae players.

My advice is to play something fast and furious. Jund is what I feel is best for such cases. Do not attempt to play faeries unless you have immerse amount of playtesting. (ie: Lucas...)

Good Luck for next Saturday. Need help for playtesting pls chio... =P

Decklist

4 Birds of Paradise (Mana is damn screwed in this deck, thus this pwns Noble)
4 Treefolk Harbringer (With Doran, this is a 3/3 for 1 mana. And he tutors for your Doran or Murmuring Bosk)
4 Putrid Leech (Smack controls ass)
4 Qasali Pridemage (No bitterblossom, razormane masticore, equipment for joo!)
3 Gaddock Teeg (No Planeswalker, commands and ambition)
4 Dauntless Escort (No Wrath, terror, deathmark etc...)
4 Doran, the Siege Tower (Big Daddy Cool!)
3 Wilt Leaf Leige (Anthem on legs... What more you want?)

4 Maelstorm Pulse (Die multiple copies! Die!)
4 Path to Exile (Cheapo Swords to Plowshares)
1 Behemoth Sledge (Fat, trampling, life gaining beasts...)

4 Llanowar Wastes
4 Treetop Village
3 Murmuring Bosk
3 Wooded Bastion
2 Brushlands
3 Forest
1 Plains
1 Swamp

SB:
4 Zealous Persecution (Sb-ing this agn faeries more than tokens. Wtf)
4 Kitchen Finks (CB... no Red/Black)
3 Terror
3 Cloudtresher (Uber!)
1 Behemoth Sledge

OPS Order

HI all,

Big thank you to our PR Manager for booking and handling the Paintball game for us this weekend. The OPs order for this Saturday is as follows:

9.30am: Meeting up/Breakfast for Tampines People
(Stan Im sorry but you could join us later =P)

11am: Paintball (No mercy pls. 7500 bullets straight in the a** of you know who)

1pm: End of Paintball/Lunch

3pm: Jurong Swimming Complex (Since its sooo near, let's go wash up and play slide!)

5pm: Dinner/Good Day!

I am not doing any playtesting since Alvin and Stan is not playing Nats Qualifyer, and I am pretty much ok with the deck I am playing.
Do feel free to post your feedback on the program. And for everybody sake,
BRING EXTRA CLOTHINGS

Looking forward to go to war with you all! Have a happy holiday!

Paintball!!! :)

Hi all me dearies! :) The long awaited Paintball adventure is finally here! The final countdown is as of now, 6days! Every second bring us nearer to the showdown.

Please note:
All players by law must turn 14yrs old on the day of the game.

Those below 18yrs old require parental consent on the TAG Waiver forms.

Players between the age of 14 - 18 must produce a photo ID with date of birth as proof of age on the day of the event.

For more information please go to: www.paintball.com.sg


Let the massacre begins... muHahahahAA....

Playtesting T2 for Nats Q

Hi all,
please take note that there will be playtesting for T2 this sunday, 31st May.
I encourage Stan and Alvin to be present as you two are the ones that need the practice

Autopilot/Cascade Swans

Quite a famous, broken deck going around now, netting top 3 in Chicago and qualifying in quite a few regionals and more.

2 Ad Nauseam

4 Bituminous Blast
4 Bloodbraid Elf
4 Swans of Bryn Argoll

4 Seismic Assault

4 Reflecting Pool
4 Graven Cairns
4 Cascade Bluffs
4 Rugged Prairie
4 Ghitu Encampment
4 Treetop Village
4 Spinerock Knoll
4 Vivid Crag
4 Vivid Marsh
1 Mutavault
4 Fire-Lit Thicket
1 Mountain

sideboard:
4 Qasali Pridemage
3 Vexing Shusher
2 Volcanic Fallout
1 Maelstrom Pulse
2 Aura of Silence
2 Ajani Vengeant
1 Ad Nauseam

For those of you who haven’t figured it out yet, this deck is chock full of lands (many of them functional). So it doesn’t draw much other than lands; there are four major spell slots, which stick together two-plus-two like LEGOs:

* Bituminous Blast and Bloodbraid Elf
* Swans of Bryn Argoll and Seismic Assault

The Cascade twins are there to flip the functional cards. Bloodbraid Elf can literally only flip over Seismic Assault; Bituminous Blast can flip any of the other three cards (the cream dream of course being Bituminous Blast into Bloodbraid Elf into Seismic Assault).

With such a dense percentage of lands, the Swans + Assault combination is generally lethal. That is, every land pointing at a Swans of Bryn Argoll is 70% likely to flip another land; a minimum of one land per cycle will at least “keep you going” more or less “forever” until such point that you have 10 lands to throw at the opponent’s noggin.

Ad Nauseum has generally less risk in this deck than most because there are lots of lands. You can pick up lots of lands to kill the opponent with a Seismic Assault, or pick up essentially any of the other cards to set up or complete the combo.

Sauce: http://fivewithflores.com/

Imperial Order

By order of the Great Holy Cow,

Paintball session will be on 13th June 2009, Saturday

Venue: Bottleneck Tree Park

Time: TBC by Alvin Neo

Price: $50

Finalize attendance:
1- Daniel, the Great Holy Cow
2- Zhao Zhi, the General of Tee Boons
3- Kenneth, the General of the Guays
4- Alvin, the No Sense of Direction officer cum PR officer
5- Daniel Neo, the sushi Tee Boon
6- Stan, the sashimi Tee Boon
Next 4 are kiddos
7- Lawrence, the baby whelp
8- Leslie, the pheonix chick
9- Jia Hao, the blue puppy
10- Wesley, the golem

Failure to attend will result in disciplinary actions, especially the first 6 members. =P
Actions includes
- help other team member to pay for entry fee
- guild kick
- guild r***
- guild tao pok

On the other hand, some benefits for people fighting for nationals spots =P

1. If you qualify for nationals, Holy Cow, pay $25 for your entry fee
2. If you qualify for nationals and attain a result of Top2 in the qualifyers, Holy Cow pay $50 for you.
3. If you are playing Nationals itself, you are awarded a special sleeves for non-council members only.

IF YOU GOT FRIENDS WHO WANTS TO SIGN UP FOR THIS GRAND EVENT OF THE YEAR, PLEASE ASK FOR PERMISSION FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS.

*sheesh, do we sound like a cult guild?* LOL

The Guild, Council Members, Members are not responsible for any injuries sustain during/after the events. In the event of an injury, the blame should be placed upon the victim, himself/herself and accept the fact the he/she is stupid and dumb for sustaining the injury and spoiling the fun for everyone. So in short, just play safe! =)

23th May - Saturday

Hello fellow cows!

So as you all know, I'm the scheduled IC for 23th May, Saturday so.....

The plan for that Saturday is tentatively:

Morning - I think you all not so garang LOL. Garang enough join me for cycling at ECP :P

Afternoon - swimming; gaying in the pool is optional and totally not under the jurisdiction of the organiser. The organiser will not be held responsible for any injuries sustained due to underwater activities in the pool.

Evening - LAN at LAN shop; location will be decided by people familiar with the immediate area. Same applies for dinner/supper :P

Do post your comments and thoughts and suggestions! Thanks!