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Round 1: Flavio Zelenka (Belcher) v. Luis “Loose” Scott-Vargas (Ritual Gifts) Game 1: After a few tied rolls, Flavio wins one, and starts the game off with Mana Crypt, Lion's Eye Diamons, Mana Vault, Chromatic Sphere, Goblin Charbelcher, sac the diamond, tap the belcher, deal... only 6 damage. With a disheartened expression on his face, he passes the turn to Luis, who plays a land and a Lotus Petal to Merchant Scroll up Chain of Vapor, but he lacks the extra mana to cast it. On Flavio's second turn, he rips a Demonic Tutor, which gets him a Black Lotus. He sacs the lotus, taps the Belcher again and deals exactly 14 damage. Flavio 1, Luis 0
Game 2: Luis leads with a sac land and a Duress. He takes out a Brainstorm over a mox and a Memory Jar and a Land Grant. Flavio fires back with another Duress, removing Merchant Scroll. Luis has a second scroll, though, and draws an extra 3 cards. Soon enoug, Flavio draws and plays a Charbelcher.
Luis sees that it's time for him to make his move, and Mystical Tutors up Gifts Ungiven, which, with the help of a Dark Ritual, gets Yawgmoth's Will, Mox Jet, Black Lotus, and Demonic Tutor. After some deliberation and consulting the Oracle wording of Recoup, Luis gets the mana. He sacs the Lotus and Recoups his Yawgmoth's Will. Black Lotus, Dark Ritual, Demonic Tutor, Duress, land, and Tendrils of Agony end the game. Flavio 1, Luis 1
Game 3: Flavio starts it up with Mox, Land Grant. After seeing his hand full of gas, Luis counters the grant with Force of Will, stranding Flavio with nothing. Luis gets to play solitaire for three turns, drawing some extra cards, casting Duress, and playing lands. On Luis' turn 4, he plays Gifts for Black Lotus, Dark Ritual, Yawgmoth's Will, Demonic Tutor, and gets the black cards. Mox, Lotus Petal, Dark Ritual, Demonic Tutor, Dark Ritual, Yawgmoth's Will, Lotus Petal, Black Lotus, Dark Ritual, Dark Ritual, Dark Ritual, Duress, Demonic Tutor, Tendrils of Agony. Flavio 1, Luis 2
Round 2: Eduardo Cervantes (Something with Trinket Mages) v. David “Web” Ochoa (Ritual Gifts) Game 1: David wins the roll and Duresses out Force of Will over Tinker and Mana Drain. A second Duress gets the Drain the first one missed, but David is stuck on 1 land and runs out of gas. Eduardo's turn 3 artifact land, Trinket Mage gets him Black Lotus, which sits in his hand. Web finds another land, and passes. Eduardo Tinkers away his artifact land for Aether Spellbomb, and sacs his Black Lotus for another Trinket Mage getting Mana Crypt.
David plays two Dark Rituals and a Yawgmoth's Bargain. He draws 13 cards, and then gets out a mox, a mana crypt, Tinker the crypt for Black Lotus, Lotus Petal, Demonic Tutor, Dark Ritual, land, Brainstorm, Tendrils of Agony. Eduardo 0, David 1
Game 2: Eduardo starts with a land, and Web goes land, Lotus Petal, Duress. Eduardo responds by Repealing the petal, which gets sacrificed in response, and Duress whiffs on lands and creatures. David uses his mana to play Ancestral Recall, and on Eduardo's turn he plays Meddling Mage naming Tendrils of Agony. Web starts playing around the Ninja of the Deep Hours in Eduardo's hand, keeping red mana open for the Red Blast he's saving. Ed, however, just swings for 2 on his next turn, and David draws some extra cards and plays Pithing Needle to shut down any future Auriok Salvagers shenanigans.
Eduardo attacks, switches in a ninja, and draws a card. Web sacs his land, gets Trickbound, and waits for his own turn to play his Brainstorm. Eduardo replays the Meddling Mage, starting a counter war. Red Blast is countered by Mana Drain is countered by Force of Will is countered by Force of Will, and the mage resolves. Web Mystical Tutors up Yawgmoth's Will.
On Web's turn, he plays Dark Ritual, Yawgmoth's Will, Dark Ritual, Lotus Petal, Ancestral Recall, land, Red Blast the mage, Tendrils for 16. With Eduardo at 1, he passes back.
Eduardo attacks Web down to 20, and Web goes into high-speed mode when it is called that only 5 minutes remain in the round. Eduardo Mana Drains a Dark Ritual, but can't spend the mana on his turn and loses the game. Eduardo 0, David 2
Round 3: Morgan Brewer (Ritual Gifts) v. Ryan Cribbs (“The Solution”)
Game 1: Morgan starts with an island, and Ryan Duresses him. Morgan has a Brainstorm in response, and winds up discarding Merchant Scroll. He has a Duress of his own, and takes out Ryan's Force of Will. On Ryan's turn he gets out a Dimir Cutpurse, and Morgan plays Merchant Scroll for Ancestral Recall. Another Duress takes out Ryan's Stifle, and the Cutpurse gets a hit in. Morgan short-circuits an Empty the Warrens for 4 men, and Ryan uses some neat tricks involving Brainstorm to Darkblast 3 of them. A second Cutpurse joins his team.
Morgan, going into panic mode, Brainstorms into super gas and plays Gifts Ungiven before the Cutpurses land. Dark Ritual, Demonic Tutor, Recoup, and Black Lotus all wind up hitting the graveyard. A Dark Confidant comes into play for Ryan, and Morgan Vampiric Tutors for Mox Ruby. When the Dark Confidant reveals Time Walk, Morgan packs up his cards. Morgan 0, Ryan 1
Game 2: Morgan, on the play again, has land, Lotus, Merchant Scroll, Ancestral Recall. Ryan goes land, Mox, Time Walk, land, Dimir Cutpurse. Morgan has a Time Walk too, and uses his extra turn to play Brainstorm, Dark Ritual, Dark Ritual, Yawgmoth's Will, Ritual, Ritual, Black Lotus, Ancestral Recall, Demonic Tutor, Tendrils of Agony. Morgan 1, Ryan 1
Game 3: Ryan has a turn 1 Time Walk again, but no second land... Morgan doesn't have a whole lot of gas on his turn either, so we're off to a relatively sedate start. A sacland gets stifled, buying Ryan the time to find a second mox, but he's stuck without black mana. Morgan looks like he's getting ready to make a play, and trots out Gifts Ungiven on Ryan's end step netting Merchant Scroll and Brainstorm, and dumping Mox Sapphire and Demonic Tutor. Merchant Scroll for Ancestral Recall is followed by Brainstorm, sac land, Ancestral Recall.
Ryan Finally finds his black mana, but doesn't play anything, and it's Morgan's turn again. Yawgmoth's Will, land, Lotus Petal, Mox Sapphire, Ancestral Recall, Empty the Warrens for 10 goblins. Morgan has Mox Jet, Brainstorm, Erayo Soratami Ascendant. When Morgan counters the Erayo with Force of Will, it is Ryan's turn to resign. Morgan 2, Ryan 1
Round 4: Eric Campusano (Suicide Black/Blue) v. David Ochoa (Ritual Gifts) Game 1: David leads off with Island, mox, Merchant Scroll for Ancestral Recall, pass. Eric has Wasteland, Mox Jet, Black Lotus, Time Walk, Dark Confidant. On his second turn, he attacks, sacs a sac land, and plays Hymn to Tourach taking out a mox and the Ancestral. Web has a Duress, which whiffs on a Black Knight and a land, and Eric keeps drawing extra cards and attacking. The Knight joins the Confidant, and a Null Rod shuts down the moxes in play.
Web keeps playing lands, and Eric gets a second Null Rod to take himself down to 15. An attack brings Web to 12 and Eric plays the second Null Rod as well as a second Black Knight. Web, constraining himself to basic lands, thinks hard about this turn, eventually settling on Merchant Scroll for Mystical Tutor. Eric goes to 13, attacks Web to 6, plays a third Black Knight, and passes. Web Mystical Tutors up Dark Ritual, and Eric predicts a Yawgmoth's Will in his hand. David plays Dark Ritual, Yawgmoth's Will, Mox Pearl, land, Dark Ritual, Mystical Tutor for Tendrils of Agony, Ancestral Recall, concede. He was 1 mana short of casting the Tendrils. Eric 1, David 0
Game 2: David keeps his first 7, but Eric mulligans once. David leads with Mox Jet, Island, Time Walk. On his extra turn, he plays Brainstorm, sac land. Eric has a land, a mox, and a Dark Confidant, and another mox. David sacs his sac land and plays Dark Ritual and Gifts Ungiven. Black Lotus and Dark Ritual go to his graveyard and Demonic Tutor and Mox Sapphire go to his hand. Web plays Dark Ritual, Mox Sapphire, Lotus Petal, Yawgmoth's Will, Dark Ritual, Dark Ritual, Dark Ritual, .Black Lotus, Lotus Petal, Brainstorm, land, Brainstorm, Merchant Scroll for Chain of Vapor, Demonic Tutor, Tendrils of Agony/ Eric 1, David 1
Game 3: Eric leads with sac land, Mox Sapphire, Time Walk, Duress. Looking at a hand of a couple lands and a bunch of fast mana, he takes out a Dark Ritual, and follows it up with land and Null Rod. Web plays a sac land, and Eric gets out a Dark Confidant. Web sacs his sac land and plays Fire to kill the creature and deal 1 to Eric. A Wasteland from Eric takes out Web's Underground Sea, and then a Hymn to Tourach makes him discard a land and Sol Ring. Neither player has much, so Web sits without doing anything and Eric gets out a second Null Rod and then sits without doing anything.
Eventually Web gets a Brainstorm, and Eric responds by casting Extirpate on Polluted Delta (taking 2 out of Web's library). Both players say “go” for 5 turns until Eric plays Phyrexian Negator. Web says “go” one more time, and Eric plays Duress to take out his Chain of Vapor. As it turns out, Web has been unable to play anything because his hand is full of black cards, and Eric's early Wasteland took out his only black mana. Phyrexian Negator goes the distance. Eric 2, David 1
Round 5: Victor Andersen (some combo deck with Grim Tutor and Dark Confidant) v. Michael Klemic (some combo deck with Gifts Ungiven)[/b] This round, we draw our feature match from the very bottom table, joining two usually fair players fallen on hard times whose only match points come from byes – think of it as the feature match of shame.
Game 1: Both players lead with Flooded Strand. Victor plays two moxes and a second land on his second turn, followed by Dark Confidant and Time Walk. Michael responds with Ancestral Recall, and Victor gets in for 2 on my computer, crashing it.
When I finish dealing with the crash, the game state looked like this:
Anyways, Michael Klemic played a fairly big Empty the Warrens (14 goblins) and a Time Walk to win the game. Victor 0, Michael 1
Game 2: Victor leads with a land, and Michael leads with an Ancestral Recall, mox, Mana Vault. Victor has a second land, two moxes, Dark Ritual, Black Lotus, Tendrils of Agony for 10, Yawgmoth's Will, Black Lotus, Tendrils of Agony for 16. Victor 1, Michael 1
Game 3: Victor leads with Duress, taking Pyroblast. Michael has a Tolarian Academy, and Victor draws 3 extra cards. Michael gets 2 artifacts online and plays Gifts Ungiven for Ancestral Recall, Gifts, Necropotence, and Yawgmoth's Bargain. He gets Necro and Gifts, and plays the 'potence off of a Lotus. He draws a couple cards, and it's Victor's turn. He gets out a Dark Confidant and passes back.
Michael plays Duress to set up what may be his fundamental turn, and sees a hand full of nothing. He plays another Gifts Ungiven for Dark Ritual, Tendrils, Mox Sapphire, Mox Pearl, and gets the black cards. Victor remarks that he must have Yawgmoth's Will in hand, and sure enough he does. Victor 1, Michael 2
Round 6: Jeff Huang (Fish) v. Albert Ye (Ritual Gifts) Game 1: Jeff wins the die roll, and leads with a land. Albert has a land of his own, and Jeff plays a second land. Albert seems to be missing a second land, which brightens Jeff's day just a little, and then Jeff plays a Meddling Mage. It resolves, and puts the kibosh on any future Yawgmoth's Wills. Albert gets a second mana source in Mox Ruby, and Jeff remains overjoyed at his lack of lands. A Kataki joins the mage of meddlesomeness and then Albert's main-phase Brainstorm gets countered by Daze. Jeff's attack takes Albert down to 13, and then a Jotun Grunt shows up.
Albert manages a Vampiric Tutor off of Lotus Petal, and then plays Ancestral Recall, which runs into another Daze. He pushes it through via Force of Will, however, and draws 3. He does find a second land this turn, though he has nothing to play yet.
Jeff's attack takes Albert to 2, and he goes to 1 off of his sac land. When he sees his draw, Albert packs it up for game 2. Jeff 1, Albert 0
Game 2: Albert leads with basic Swamp, go. Jeff has land, go, and Albert Vampiric Tutors. Jeff plays Wasteland and Kataki, and passes, and Jeff plays an end-of-turn Ancestral Recall. A sol ring and a Cabal Ritual and another Cabal Ritual get out a Yawgmoth's Bargain, which runs into Daze.
Jeff starts attacking, and gets out an Isamaru. Albert brainstorms and plays another mox. On Jeff's turn, he attacks Albert down to 9 and plays Meddling Mage, naming Massacre. Albert has another Brainstorm, but can't find anything good, and gives up. Jeff 2, Albert 0
Top 8: Austin Martinez v. Luis Scott-Vargas
Sam Miller v. David Ochoa
Jeff Huang v. Morgan Brewer
Eric Campusano v. Mark Arucan
Top 8 Feature Match: Austin martinez (Oath with some interesting tweaks) v. Luis Scott-Vargas (Ritual Gifts)
Game 1: Austin leads with a land, and Luis has a land plus a Brainstorm. Austin has a second land, and Luis goes for upkeep Mystical Tutor for Duress followed by Mox Jet and Duress, which gets Repealed. He plays a second land and recasts Duress. It resolves, and he takes a Time Walk out of Austin's hand (the other choices were Gaea's Blessing and Echoing Truth). The two of them play land go for three turns after that, with Austin attacking once with his newfound Mishra's Factory. When Luis tries to cast Gifts Ungiven, Austin counters with Force of Will removing the aforementioned Echoing Truth.
Luis, however, is not out of steam, and plays Ancestral Recall on himself, drawing 3 cards. Austin Gaea's Blesses Time Walk and Repeal back into his library. After a few more land plays, Austin finds a Duress, and takes out Luis' Time Walk. The players are back to lands again, but Austin is still attacking with his factory, and Luis drops to 10. Luis cucles a Rebuild to try to dig a little deeper, but is stuck on nothing but mana still. He attempts a Tinker, but gets it countered by Austin's Force of Will. Austin gets out an Isochron Scepter with Brainstorm on it, and drops Luis to 8 life. Luis Recoups his Tinker, and Tinkers out a mox for Sol Ring. Then he flashes back Recoup on Time Walk and Time Walks. Tapping out and with a Dark Ritual, he hardcasts Darksteel Colossus.
Austin Mystical Tutors for Psionic Blast. Luis starts attacking with Colossus, and drops Austin to 5. When Austin casts Psionic Blast, Luis counters it with a 5-mana Force of Will. A second attack with Colossus ends the game in Luis' favor. Austin 0, Luis 1
Game 2: Austin starts with Black Lotus, Isochron Scepter. Luis tries a Force of Will, and Austin responds with Ancestral Recall, and has a land. Luis plays land go, and Austin plays land go. Both players have some Brainstorms and some more lands, but Luis red blasts Austin's. Luis Demonic Tutors, plays another Brainstorm, and Austin Mana Leaks. Luis uses a Dark Ritual to pay, and then Brainstorms again. After two turns of land-go, Austin plays another Isochron Scepter, to which Luis responds with Gifts Ungiven. Austin counters with Mana Leak, and Isochron Scepter resolves with nothing on it.
A Duress from Luis sees that Austin's hand is two Angel Legends, and Austin concedes to Necropotence. Austin 0, Luis 2
Top 4 Feature Match: David Ochoa (Ritual Gifts) v. Eric Campusano (Emo Fish) - The Grudge Match! Game 1: Eric starts it up with Swamp, Mox, Dark Confidant. David has Swamp, Duress on Ancestral Recall. Eric draws an extra Hymn to Tourach, attacks, and play Phyrexian Negator. David uses his new second land to... pass back. Eric reveals a Black Lotus with his Confidant for no damage, which he plays and sacrifices into Hymn to Tourach and Sinkhole on Web's Swamp after attacking him down to 11. Web's sac land takes him down to 10, yet allows him to respond by cycling Rebuild. The Hymn takes Volcanic Island and Tinker.
David's turn passes uneventfully, and Eric untaps, takes 2 damage for another Sinkhole, attacks, plays another Hymn, and David responds with ritual into Gifts Ungiven. The Gifts sends Black Lotus and Lotus Petal to the 'yard and Tendrils of Agony and Dark Ritual to the hand. David then discards Duress and Tendrils to the Hymn, but his remaining Dark Ritual does not let him turn the game around. David 0, Eric 1
Game 2: Eric decides that it's just not fair when he starts with a full hand and goes for only 6 cards this game. David, however, believes in starting with as many cards as possible, and leads with Ancestral Recall. Eric's turn 1 Black Lotus turns into Phyrexian Negator, and he also has a land, which doesn't turn into anything. David keeps going with Demonic Tutor, Black Lotus, Flametongue Kavu destoying Eric's board. Eric has a land, and David goes on the offensive. After a Brainstorm and an attack, he passes back. Eric uses a sac land and gets out a Dark Confidant. David Vampiric Tutors, untaps, draws, Brainstorms, and plays Mox Pearl, Mox Jet, Dark Ritual, Yawgmoth's Wil. Eric responds with Extirpate on Brainstorm, taking 1 out of Web's hand. Web continues his turn with Dark Ritual, land, Demonic Tutor, Ancestral Recall, Tendrils of Agony. David 1, Eric 1
Game 3: Eric keeps 7 cards, but David goes down to 5. Eric leads with land, mox, Null Rod, and David plays Volcanic Island. Eric plays another land and another Null Rod on his second turn, and David plays another land. Eric's Wasteland goes after Underground Sea, and a Strip Mine goes after the island. David responds with Brainstorm, and on his turn, plays a third land. Eric just has a land of his own, and David plays draw-go. Eric plays a third land, and David finds a second. He goes Dark Ritual, Dark Ritual, Dark Ritual, cycle Rebuild, Empty the Warrens for 8 goblins.
Eric is stuck on land go again. Web attacks, Eric plays another land, and the game is pretty much over. David 2, Eric 1
With Luis and David in the finals, the tournament ends anticlimactically.
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We deck checked him in like round 2 and were trying to figure out why he was playing Psionic Blast. Then we saw the actual card and understood why.
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