I don't usually blog about tournament results. I definitely don't blog about non-Vanguard related things. Today I'm going to do something a little different. Today I just had a great day all around with the three card games I do play and I even got talked into a little Yu-Gi-Oh! cubing with a bunch of old cards, which got me excited about playing without all the new cheese.
To start off, we'll talk about Buddyfight. A guy who had pulled an SP Asmodai said he wasn't interested in the game anymore. That made me sad, but then he offered to give me all of his card if I bought him 5 packs of Weiss. I got 10 bucks off the packs for hitting 100 bucks spent in the store again, so I got an SP Asmodai and some other cards for 10 bucks. Bitchin'!
The actual Vanguard tournament for the day was great. Since I have all of the set 12 cards I need, I got a pack of Buddyfight for joining. Pulled a King the Dominator. Not so great. Turns out that the pack of set 12 I could have gotten had a Promethium in it, which would have made excellent trade fodder. :( Still, the tournament begins. We only had 8 people today, but them's good numbers.
Round 1 - Amon "Reverse" vs. Amon "Reverse"
First game I win by getting 2 Doreens out early and power slapping him. I hit no critical triggers the whole game, but we both healed twice. I win with a 28k Amon "R" bonus crit attack that he couldn't guard.
Second game I have no grade 3, but 3 Doreens. I miss grade 3 for one turn, but push him straight to 5 without hitting a crit. Drive check an Amon. He attacks my frontrow Doreen. I go, ride Amon, move a Dimension Creeper to soul to retire one of his units, move Greedy Hand to soul to get another Dimension Creeper from my deck, soul blast both creepers to soul charge 4 more times, making both of my Doreens 27k boosts. I win that turn.
Results - 2-0
Round 2 - Amon "Reverse" vs. Dauntless/DOtE
First game I win without hitting any critical triggers the whole game until he has to no guard at 5 damage and I double crit him with regular Amon.
Second game I lose because I got gradelocked for two turns. Could have won if I hit triggers, but I'm me.
Third game he heals 4 times and I only hit one offensive critical trigger. Win with a 2 crit Amon "Reverse" swing that he can't guard after his heals had all been removed from his deck. Only took 3 damage that game. Amon and Gwynn make for good control, and he couldn't break through my crossridden defense without boosters.
Results - 2-1
Round 3 - Amon "Reverse" vs. Catapult/Dragger
First game he gets gradelocked and I win.
Second game I get gradelocked (and double check grade 3's later on in the game when 5k shield would have saved me or hitting a trigger would have won it since he one-to-passed my 2 crit Amon "Reverse").
Third game he runs out of null guards as I swing in with a 31k Amon "Reverse" with 2 crit. He's at five damage and has to no guard. Crit. Crit. Facemelt Extravaganza!
Results - 2-1
Total results: 6-2
Before we got around to playing Vanguard, though, I was playing Magic. I run a Blue White enchantment deck styled off of the deck in Magic 2013. The first game I won, but the second game was the cleanest victory I've ever had.
Turn 1 - Play a land.
Turn 2 - Play Kor Spiritdancer, which is a 0/2. He is unable to kill it.
Turn 3 - Play two Etheral Armors, Kor gets +4/4 for each enchantment on her (1/1 for each enchantment, 2/2 from her own ability), so she's an 8/10. Kor's second effect triggers, and I draw once for each enchantment I played, so two draws. Swing for 8, they take it.
Their turn 4 - They play a creature to block Kor next turn.
Turn 4 - I play an enchantment that gives Kor flying, I draw a card. Their card was neither flying nor did it have reach. Kor gained +4/+4, making her 12/14. I attack for 12 and win.
Legitney Houston.
After Vanguard we had a 5 man EDH game that lasted 108 minutes. Yep. I killed all 3 of the other competitors except for one person who got the finishing blow on the guy after I did all of the work. But I wound up losing because every single person that I killed gave me a final, "Fuck you!"
Player 1 milled half of my deck.
Player 2 dealt enough combat damage to me that I had to block with a creature for another attack which would have won me the game.
Player 3 scooped before my attack killed them so I couldn't untap with my Derevi.
I ended up drawing the last card of my deck when Player 4 had 4 life and a 2/2 flyer. I had a 3/3 unblockable and Derevi out. The card I drew was "Target creature gains (Tap), return target creature to their owner's hand. I literally could not win that turn, and my opponent would auto-win from me running out of cards. If I had my other card untapped the previous turn, I could have won. If I didn't get half my deck milled, I'd still have cards. If I had that one card I had to block with and sack, I would have had enough damage to kill him. So I cycled my land to draw a card and took my loss into my own hands.
Mind you, the player that won made no moves the last 7 turns other than calling his commander. For 18 mana. Yeah. He literally only won without doing anything because everyone else gave me a final fuck you on my way out. I'm not complaining, though. That game was really fun.
Finally, after EDH, a friend of mine (Player 3) got out a bunch of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards and wanted to play cube. Since there was no extra deck, and most of the new shenanigans that cards can do nowadays were gone, it was really nostalgic. I got to draft some of my favorite old cards like Fissure, Slate Warrior, Guardian Sphinx, and Copycat. It felt pretty good. I wound up winning 5 out of 6 games, since he drafted a good 4 double sacrifice creatures while I got some pretty damn good pick-ups. I also love that I won a game because of Twister. But my favorite game was the game I lost.
He played Ancient Gear Golem when I had nothing but battlephase-only trap cards. So I literally couldn't do anything to stop it. But better than that was that we both said, at the exact same time the card hit the field, "My love for you is like an Ancient Gear Golem." Fuck yeah, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Abridged!
