March Magic Madness - Semifinals

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KrazyCaley

1 April 2013

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The Semifinals

The lights dim and the crowd hushes.

Ladies and gentlemen, each of the cards before you today is two victories away from winning the Grand Championship. We now meet our FIIINALLLLLLLL.....FOUR!


Ladies and gentlemen, introducing our first semifinalist, seeded eighth, originally hailing from RrrrrrrrAVnica set, weighing in at a casting cost of one colorless and one black, he is a creature with a power of 2 and a toughness of 1, the Great One, Bob, the Exemplar of Black, the champion of the Creature division......

Dark Confidant

vs.

And now, his opponent, seeded FIRST, originally hailing from ALPHA, weighing in at a casting cost of one blue, an instant that some call the most high-powered card in the history of Magic, a boon, a member of the Power Nine, the champion of the Instant division.....

Ancestral Recall


KrazyCaley - "Bob continues on to the Final Four by pushing past the Alpha Duals in a tough back-and-forth battle where the Alpha Duals held the lead for most of the fight. Meanwhile, Recall had an even more difficult matchup against Demonic Tutor, which it defeated in the end by only a single vote. It's definitely going to be an interesting matchup between these two powerful card advantage monsters to see who gets to the finals. Here with me is my color commentator and defeated Round of 32 competitor Counterspell. Counterspell, do you have any thoughts on this matchup?"

Counterspell - "No."

KrazyCaley - "All right, well let's watch the introductions for our next pair of Final Four contenders."


And now, our next contender, hailing from TIIIIIIIiiiime Spiral, seeded thirteenth, weighing in at a casting cost of WHITE, BLUE, BLACK, RED, GREEN, with a power of four and a toughness of four, the tournament gatecrasher, the blood of the Ur-Dragon, the champion of the EDH General Division...

Scion of the Ur-Dragon

vs.

And now, his opponent, originally hailing from Conflux with an earlier character representation in Legends, seeded fifth and weighing in at a casting cost of FOUR colorless, ONE red, TWO black, and ONE blue, and starting with five loyalty counters, the SINGLE MOST DANGEROUS BEING IN THE MULTIVERSE, Dominaria's Most Ancient Evil, the Mastermind, the champion of the Planeswalker Division....

Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

KrazyCaley - "And here we have two underdog dragons who made the favorites in their divisions look silly; Scion of course defeating Zur the Enchanter *f-etch* on his way to claiming the EDH throne, while Bolas had no problems at all against Jace, the Mind Sculptor, did he?"

Counterspell - "No."

KrazyCaley - "It should be an interesting matchup between Scion and Bolas. Both are dragons, of course, although it's not clear how that will play into the match. Scion definitely has fan support as a very longlasting Cinderella, but some antipathy started to show through in his last match against Black Lotus, and here he faces a very beloved card in Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker, who beat Necropotence in the last round much more handily than Scion beat Black Lotus. Closing thoughts, Counterspell?"

Counterspell - "No."

KrazyCaley - "In that case, let's sit back and enjoy the action here in the Final Four!"

Counterspell - "No."

This article is a follow-up to March Magic Madness - Quarterfinals The next article in this series is March Magic Madness - Finals

doinitwrong says... #1

BOB vs. SCION!

April 1, 2013 8:19 a.m.

Ohthenoises says... #2

All I could think of.

April 1, 2013 8:19 a.m.

heuertag says... #3

April 1, 2013 8:24 a.m.
  1. Bob

  2. Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker . Sorry Scion, as much as I love five color and dragons, Bolas was the card that got me interested in MTG.

April 1, 2013 8:25 a.m.

KrazyCaley says... #5

doinitwrong - You didn't close your HTML bracket. :P Had to delete your comment. Repost, if you would.

April 1, 2013 8:26 a.m.

doinitwrong says... #6

Oops, sorry about that.

Bob vs. Scion

April 1, 2013 8:30 a.m.

erabel says... #7

Bob vs Nicol Bolas.

April 1, 2013 8:31 a.m.

Aelfstan says... #8

BOB vs Bolas for the Final!

(feel bad for not supporting Scion but I have too much love for Bolas)

April 1, 2013 8:36 a.m.

mtg_deckmaster says... #9

BOB v.s SCION!!! SCION!!!

April 1, 2013 8:41 a.m.

Cdawg44 says... #10

April 1, 2013 8:48 a.m.

Dark Confidant vs Scion of the Ur-Dragon

  • I mean really Scion could just go back in time, pay 2: turn into Nicol Bolas , then never get his spark in the first place.
April 1, 2013 9:27 a.m.

Wolfking3000 says... #12

April 1, 2013 9:58 a.m.

zephyrkey says... #13

April 1, 2013 10:02 a.m.

numa529 says... #14

Bob vs Scion. Bolas never should have beaten jace.

April 1, 2013 10:28 a.m.

DaShPrime says... #15

April 1, 2013 10:33 a.m.

rickthebrave says... #16

April 1, 2013 10:49 a.m.

dcarpntr says... #17

Bob vs Bolas

@Ohthenoises: Love the Grumpy Cat counterspell.

April 1, 2013 10:54 a.m.

Wabbbit says... #18

Ancestral Recall vs. Nicol

April 1, 2013 10:55 a.m.

Goody says... #19

Recall vs. Bolas

April 1, 2013 10:55 a.m.

Behgz says... #20

Bob vs Bolas

April 1, 2013 11:39 a.m.

Cobthecobbler says... #21

Dark Confidant VS Scion of the Ur-Dragon ! I'm rooting for you, SCI-ON! SCI-ON! SCI-ON!

April 1, 2013 12:06 p.m.

Ancestral Recall SCION SCION SCION!

April 1, 2013 12:10 p.m.

jkarnes says... #23

April 1, 2013 12:50 p.m.

That_Girl says... #24

  1. Ancestral Recall
  2. Scion of the Ur-Dragon . He defeated one Power Nine card; what's stopping him from stomping another after he eats Bolas?
April 1, 2013 1:03 p.m.

yousquiddinme says... #25

  1. Bob gives raw card advantage over a longer time, and can often draw you more than 3 cards if you know what you're doing. Bob is better.

  2. Scion of the Ur-Dragon should win this whole tournament.

April 1, 2013 1:05 p.m.

sewellius says... #26

Recall vs Bolas

April 1, 2013 1:06 p.m.

Rhadamanthus says... #27

  • Dark Confidant advances to the finals because Ancestral Recall gets its power from being an irresponsibly bad design, and that's just distasteful
  • I started this whole thing trying to play it straight with my voting, but recent tournament events and years of personal experience have convinced me that Scion of the Ur-Dragon is one of the best cards in Magic
April 1, 2013 1:46 p.m.

GureiSeion says... #28

Bob vs. Bolas!
Kick 'em in the B!

April 1, 2013 2:02 p.m.

Rewdog says... #29

Ancestral Recall Vs. SCION!

April 1, 2013 2:07 p.m.

Dark Confidant vs Scion of the Ur-Dragon

Lets send cindarella through to the big game! and broken black cards > broken blue ones!

April 1, 2013 2:21 p.m.

SandyDufresne says... #31

Recall vs. bolas

April 1, 2013 2:24 p.m.

Iehovah says... #32

bob

scion

April 1, 2013 3:19 p.m.

Blakkhand says... #33

recall vs. scion

April 1, 2013 3:41 p.m.

Chubbub says... #34

Bob vs. Scion

April 1, 2013 3:54 p.m.

RedCloud2012 says... #35

Counterspell...no ,Tard the grumpy ass cat gives no fucks

April 1, 2013 4:10 p.m.

Thrandir says... #36

BOB V SCION

April 1, 2013 4:10 p.m.

atreyujames says... #37

Bob vs. Scion please

April 1, 2013 4:15 p.m.

smash10101 says... #38

Scion of the Ancestral Recall-Dragon!

April 1, 2013 4:34 p.m.
April 1, 2013 4:38 p.m.

SwiftDeath says... #40

Bob Vs Scion

April 1, 2013 4:53 p.m.

pumpkinsword says... #41

  1. Bob.
  2. Bolas.
April 1, 2013 5:18 p.m.

megawurmple says... #42

1) Dark Confidant because Bob is just awesome. Ancestral Recall is ridiculously broken, but Bob is far cooler and more favourful.

2) For me, Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker wins the battle of the awesome dragons. He is able to take control of Scion. Therefore, he wins.

April 1, 2013 5:22 p.m.

miracleHat says... #43

April 1, 2013 5:25 p.m.

lendrick says... #44

BOB VS BOLAS

April 1, 2013 5:54 p.m.

Nemesis says... #45

Ancestral Recall VS Scion of the Ur-Dragon . Just so Scion can stomp another power nine for the ultimate victory.

April 1, 2013 6:14 p.m.

BuLLZ3Y3 says... #46

Recall vs. Bolas.

-BuLLZ3Y3

April 1, 2013 7:19 p.m.

Salazar968 says... #47

Bob vs. Bolas.

  • Matt
April 1, 2013 7:54 p.m.

cartwheelnurd says... #48

Dark Confidant wins, only because of the horrible new art for the Ancestral Recall . You should have shown the other one.

Scion of the Ur-Dragon wins because of the same reason it beat Thraximundar . five colors trumps three.

I dont think he can beat bob in the finals, though.

April 1, 2013 8:03 p.m.

Carn13 says... #49

Recall versus Bolas.

April 1, 2013 8:08 p.m.

Bob vs Scion

April 1, 2013 9:17 p.m.

legion says... #51

Bob just because he is bob

Nicol Bolas because he can (a) take control of scion and (b) make him be sacrificed

April 1, 2013 10:39 p.m.

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