For the first time since its construction several months ago and several edits later, Angry Picard founds its way to its first Standard Constructed tournament. Out of 91 players I ranked 30th after the final 7th round of swiss style. My overall ratio was 4-3 and I was slightly disappointed at first, but looking back every loss was to a Tier 1 deck.
My first round went very fast with a 2-0 outcome against a Labritory Maniac sell mill style deck. Quick 1 drops and well timed O-rings were all I needed for that round.
Round 2 was a bit more challenging against a W/B deck loaded with Mirran Crusaders and Champion of the Parish being my biggest challenges to overcome. I ended up losing the round in a 1-2 series, but I made a pretty noobish mistake and didn't see that he had a spirit generating land untapped and he used it to block something I assumed would get through.
Round 3 I was defeated again by another human based G/W deck and got stomped by Mayor's and Champions in a very quick 0-2 series which was very disappointing but understandable since I had to mulligan to 5 both games and only held 1 land at 5 cards. This was the only match that lack of land to play slowed my speed to a very poor rate.
Round 4 went much better against a U/W control deck that ended in a 2-0 series, in the first game I ended up having 132 health from having True Conviction out with a Strata Scythe swinging for 10+ every turn. He countered many of my spells and played a Gideon Jura to try to get the momentum back but my Hero of Bladehold's 2x Soldier spawns were zipping past him to allow me to win (I had just read that this is perfectly legal to do the day before when Gideon Jura uses his aggro ability). After sideboarding in my Grand Abolishers and Revoke Existence's in round 2 was easy as pie.
Round 5 I had lost 0-2 once again to the Kessig Wolf Run G/R/W deck (Tier 1) with Primeval Titans, Inkmoths, Huntmasters, and of course Elesh Norn which was holding me back from popping a Shrine of Loyal Legion for 10 tokens. I also had mana issues/poor opening hands on both games which didn't help my cause either against such a successful and often COPIED deck.
Round 6 was a free win since my opponent decided to call it early and not mark drop on his last Win/Lose slip.
Round 7 was a very close match against a very quick U/G Infect deck. 2-1 was the outcome with a third turn win from the infect deck via Glisting Elf+Mutagenic and Titanic Growths. The last game was also close with me winning with 9 poison counters total.
Overall, I found this deck preformed beautifully when I shuffled properly and played as I had practiced for weeks. I will be editing it some more when AVR is released and will hopefully get to use it in more Tournaments in the future.
