![]() Sitting for the final against the shop owner, him with a U B discard/counterspell deck with the entire Power 9. I did not have to mulligan the 6 rounds leading up to the final. I felt like my deck was proving itself without the adjustments that they thought were necessary to make it good. Every one of them had opinions on why their deck lost, and what I should do to make my deck better. No one had anticipated facing such a weird deck whose only value was the 12 dual lands that I had bought for $5 each, two of them from the shop owner along with a Storm Seeker the morning of the tournament to finish the deck, and 4 $2 Birds of Paradise. The first guy I played had a deck that was the envy of the entire shop meta, a goblin burn deck with Goblin Kings, Goblin Balloon Brigades, Lightning Bolts, Chain Lightnings, and the new Goblin Grenade card from Fallen Empires. These guys were totally pissed, because they were all early 20s college guys, and all had showed up with Moxen and other Power 9, with decks that they thought were streamlined and tuned to bring the fire. ![]() It was single elimination and I ended up smoking the field, making it to the final against the shop owner without any real competition. Typically, all I needed was a single land to get my beast rolling, but every once in a great while, I was totally mana screwed, drew no land at all, and lost due to it. If you don't have any lands, or you only have lands, reshuffle, and draw your opening hand again." Only playing 12 lands in a 60 card deck, I figured that this could only help me. He said, "On your first turn, draw your cards. I had never heard of the mulligan rule either, and the mid 30s shop owner told me about it at the start of the tournament. I had never played with these folks at the shop before. I felt that the deck was a masterpiece, especially because it had no Power, and I had smoked every play group in my high school and my buddies at the local university who I had faced with it up to this point. I was too poor for any of the still relatively available Power 9 at that time. I went with my secret weapon, a 60 card R G W deck with 4 Manabarbs, Black Vices, Howling Mines, Llanowar Elves, Birds of Paradise, Kird Apes, Scryb Sprites, Lightning Bolts, Giant Growths, Swords to Plowshares, Disenchants, and only 12 lands, the appropriate ABUR dual lands with no basics. I went for my first tournament ever, a little shop tourney with a $5 entry fee and only the winner got any prizes (5 packs of Fallen Empires!). It was a very casual playgroup as far as 60-card magic went. Also Earthbond is banned, so just lol the ban list on that person next time they see them. ![]() To be honest, I don't even remember what commanders they were or even if I ever gave them another attempt. Between how ticked off I was and the splitting headache I got from being ticked off, I ended up leaving 2 hours earlier than I normally did. ![]() For the rest of the night, 5 attempted games of EDH, I was the number 1 target and got knocked out first every game before my decks could do anything. Everyone sat down for a 60-card 8 person ffa and my combo deck turn 2 won ( Fastbond/ Crucible of Worlds/Zuran orb combo into Forbidden Orchard and Massacre wurm for the win). I made a 60-card combo deck I wanted to test and 3 new edh decks to play. Quote from darkeshrine »There was one fnm a few years back that I brought almost all new decks. ![]()
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