GTC Draft Debate - Round 3 vs. Bernard
Daily Draft Debate
KrazyCaley
8 March 2013
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The matchup
8 March 2013
933 views
The matchup
GTC DDD Deck
Unknown
SCORE: 6 | 169 COMMENTS | 3177 VIEWS | IN 1 FOLDER
Comments by KrazyCaley in italics.
Bernard's GTC DDD Deck
Unknown
416 VIEWS
Comments by Bernard in bold.
Game 1
Tappedout wins the toss and plays first. T keeps a hand of Forest, Plains, Frilled Oculus, Shambleshark, Frontline Medic, Scab-Clan Charger, Ivy Lane Denizen.
Drawing any land makes this a nice hand; drawing an island makes it a phenomenal hand.
Bernard keeps an opener of 3x Mountain, Scorchwalker, Luminate Primordial, Syndicate Enforcer.
Turn 1
T plays Forest and passes.
B draws Urbis Protector, plays Mountain, and passes.
Turn 2
T draws Shambleshark, plays Plains, and passes.
B draws Plains, plays it, and passes.
That's a relief. Swamp to go.
Turn 3
T draws Forest and plays it. He plays Frontline Medic and passes.
Don't see too many green-white decks in this format.
B draws Plains, plays Mountain, and passes.
Turn 4
T draws Forest and plays it. Attacks with Frontline Medic and hits. (T 20, B 17). Casts Ivy Lane Denizen and passes.
I don't like this; where's all his stuff?
B draws Warmind Infantry, plays Plains, casts Scorchwalker, and passes.
Why does everyone love Scorchwalker so much? 1 toughness on a four-mana creature is just dangerous. Bloodrush is nice though.
Turn 5
T draws Gridlock. He casts Scab-Clan Charger and puts a counter on Ivy Lane Denizen with itself. Then he passes.
B draws Vizkopa Guildmage and plays Mountain. He casts Warmind Infantry and passes.
Turn 6
T draws Gyre Sage and casts it, using Denizen to put a counter on Scab-Clan Charger. He attacks with Charger, Medic, Denizen, all indestructible. B does not block. (T 20, B 8). T passes.
B draws Devour Flesh.
This is the first time I'm going to lose a game because of color screw. Guess it could be worse.
B does nothing and passes.
Turn 7
T draws Shambleshark. He attacks with all his creatures. B blocks Frontline Medic with Warmind Infantry, which dies. (T 20, B 1) T passes. End step, B casts Beckon Apparition on his dead Warmind Infantry to get a token.
B draws Swamp and plays it.
Finally. Let's see what I can do here.
Oh my god, it's a red-white-black deck, at LEAST. Well now this means that I have to win, like NOW.
B passes.
Turn 8
T draws Metropolis Sprite.
Sometimes decks taunt me when I'm color hosed by drawing nothing but things I can only cast with that color.
T attacks with all his creatures. B casts Devour Flesh and T sacs Gyre Sage. B concedes.
Just one black mana short. Need some better luck.
Sideboarding
T makes no changes.
Feel like we're about right against a slower deck like this.
B removes 1x Warmind Infantry and 1x Thespian's Stage and inserts 1x Purge the Profane and 1x Mountain.
With all the cards he still had in hand, I'm willing to bet that there's a lot of blue in this deck that I never saw, and that it's an evolve deck. Evolve decks hate discarding, and so do blue decks. Thespian's Stage isn't going to be very helpful probably.
Game 2
B plays first. He keeps an opening hand of 2x Swamp, Mountain, Plains, Executioner's Swing, Warmind Infantry, Tin Street Market.
T keeps an opener of 2x Forest, 2x Island, Prophetic Prism, Shambleshark, Rust Scarab.
Turn 1
B plays Swamp and passes.
Whenever I get color hosed, if I draw that color next turn, I always seem to want to play it first.
T draws Island, plays Forest, and passes.
Turn 2
B draws Purge the Profane, plays Plains, and passes.
T draws Drakewing Krasis, plays Island, and passes.
There is no reason why I should not have played Prophetic Prism. This is an obvious mistake.
I knew he had some blue.
Turn 3
B draws Alms Beast. He plays Mountain, casts Warmind Infantry, and passes. End step, T flashes down Shambleshark.
T draws Island and plays it. He casts Drakewing Krasis, which evolves the shark. (Now 3/2). T passes.
I'm sure he'd be happy to trade his non-evolver for my evolver.
Turn 4
B draws Warmind Infantry. He plays Swamp. He casts Purge the Profane at T. (B 22, T 20). T discards 2x Island. B passes.
T draws Shambleshark. He plays Forest and casts Prophetic Prism, drawing Rapid Hybridization. He attacks with Drakewing Krasis and hits. (T 20, B 19). He passes.
Turn 5
B draws Firefist Striker. He casts it and passes. End step, T flashes down Shambleshark.
Sharkchievement Unlocked: You're going to need SEVERAL boats - Control multiple copies of Shambleshark.
T draws Forest and plays it. He casts Rust Scarab, evolving one shark to 4/3 and another to 3/2.
T attacks with the 4/3 shark and with Drakewing Krasis, which all hit. (T 20, B 12). T passes. End step, B kills the 4/3 shark with Executioner's Swing.
Turn 6
B draws Vizkopa Guildmage. He casts Alms Beast and passes.
T draws Frontline Medic. He casts it, evolving Shambleshark into a 4/3. He attacks with Drakewing Krasis and hits. (T 20, B 9). He passes.
Turn 7
B draws Arrows of Justice. He does nothing and passes. End step, T casts Rapid Hybridization on Alms Beast.
YOUR FROG LIZARD IS VERY CHARITABLE.
T draws Nimbus Swimmer and casts it for 3. He attacks with all his creatures except the Swimmer. B kills Drakewing Krasis with Arrows of Justice, but then concedes. T wins the match 2-0.
Thoughts
So yeah, evolve is pretty good.
I got a little mana screwed there at the end, but wow, what a good deck. No one else must have been drafting any Simic.
Results
Tappedout def. Bernard 2-0
Muton def. Sectoid 2-1
Grim def. Lee 2-0
Elaine def. P.T. 2-0
Next round
Tappedout (3-0) vs. Sectoid (0-3)
Grim (3-0) vs. Bernard (1-2)
P.T. (0-3) vs. Muton (1-2)
Elaine (3-0) vs. Lee (1-2)
SupremeAlliesCommander says... #2
Bernard's deck can get nasty when it draws all three colors early.
Our deck is just too fast, though. It's a fully-automatic evolver.
March 8, 2013 9:40 p.m.
ChiefWannaHacka says... #4
Is it just me or do we seem to be breezing through this?
March 8, 2013 10:48 p.m.
We have yet to face the other two players with 3-0 records, let's not celebrate just yet ChiefWannaHacka
March 8, 2013 11:11 p.m.
There's nothing I can say that beats SupremeAlliesCommander's comment. Nor Cirdan13's follow-up.
I'm just so proud of our little monster! sniff
March 8, 2013 11:52 p.m.
keilahmartin says... #8
crushed him. I was very very sad when he played Purge the Profane instead of Alms Beast on t4. Alms is better the sooner it's played, and purge is meant to be played when the opponent has 2-3 cards.
March 8, 2013 11:56 p.m.
Nice job getting us another win, KC!
And for some odd reason, I can only hear Billy Dee Williams voice every time I read, "Shark. 45."
March 9, 2013 12:45 a.m.
Did our little abomination really win both games 20 to 0? Wow. Yay us!
March 9, 2013 1:38 a.m.
KrazyCaley says... #11
"There are two rules to remember if you want to win a game of Gatecrash limited. Rule number one, never run out of Shark 45. Number two, never forget rule number one. You want to know why you should keep plenty of Shark 45 on hand? You never know when enemy creatures might show up. I don't claim you can have a better time with Shark 45 than without it. But why take chances? The power of Shark 45. It works every time."
March 9, 2013 1:39 a.m.
@ CWH Elaine's GTC DDD Deck seems pretty competitive. don't know if we'll breeze through that one. :P
March 9, 2013 1:55 a.m.
KrazyCaley says... #13
Man, I haven't seen that deck OR Grim's yet, don't scare me and/or tell me anything.
March 9, 2013 2:02 a.m.
ChiefWannaHacka says... #14
Sorry if it seems I meant that we're handily in the lead guys, I just meant that each match has seemed to run exactly how we planned except maybe game 2 against Lee. I was just curious if anyone was surprised by that or not. I mean we drafted it to do things, and it's been doing them. Yet how often does that happen?
March 9, 2013 2:17 a.m.
As I've said before, only a proper Boros, or Dimir deck has any hope of beating us. as long as our average cmc is lower than anyone else's we should be able to bring down the beats. With that said, Elaine's deck looks rather tasty. Tasty, as in "The fish-crabs will dine in HELL!"
March 9, 2013 2:19 a.m.
So let me counter that worry by saying that our deck is pretty damn good. Don't worry, Caley. I know you won't take anybody lightly, and that's good. But they should fear us too, you know. You seem to have a good feel for the deck. You'll be fine.
March 9, 2013 4:55 a.m.
Of course he has a good feel for the deck. With that many of his beloved blue superiority symbols on the cards, how could he not?
March 9, 2013 4:59 a.m.
I do hate to be hindsighty, but I'm just damned curious about something. Game 2, our Turn 4: Curious why you didn't also swing with the 3/2 shark on the board, then if he blocked with Warmind Infantry, you flash in the other shark, evolving the one attacking to 4/3.
March 9, 2013 5:01 a.m.
Although it was irrelevant, why was Bernard able to kill the Drakewing Krasis if you attacked with all your creatures including Frontline Medic? Wouldn't they all be indestructible until end of turn?
March 9, 2013 12:08 p.m.
Lotex (and everyone): D'Oh! Pretend I never said that.
But yeah, I was also wondering how the Arrows of Justice killed Drakewing Krasis.
March 9, 2013 2:51 p.m.
Oh whoops, I was looking at game 2 t7. Well they must have just not really cared at that point.
March 9, 2013 2:55 p.m.
mossflower says... #26
I believe that Frontline Medic's ability goes on the stack when all his creatures attack. Bernard should be able to cast Arrows of Justice and kill Drakewing Krasis before the ability resolves. Not that it really matters in that game.
March 9, 2013 8:23 p.m.
@KrazyCaley: LOL!!! I just found that same commercial on YouTube. Billy Dee Williams was like the World Most Interested Man in the 80's.
March 9, 2013 9:29 p.m.
NobodyPicksBulbasaur says... #28
I was hoping for another match today. When can we expect the match against Sectoid?
March 9, 2013 10:28 p.m.
DeckBuilder345 says... #29
I am not surprised by the results we have been seeing so far. I am a bit suprised that KC drew double white in one of his games though before he drew a single blue mana. But Bernard's deck lacked focus... like ours might have had we included all of those other white cards which we wisely choose not to splash and he choked on the tri color requirements. The previous deck we were custom built to destroy b/c he is a durdly slow orzhov deck which agro is designed to crush. Lee our first match whiffed on the early game as his deck was far too late game dependent and he had almost no low level blockers. Classic mistake of not understanding the speed of the format. So no the wins so far do not surprise me. I am expecting we win the next round as well. it will be the other two that should be very interesting.
March 9, 2013 10:44 p.m.
That reminds me of something. If we sideboard in the Angelic Skirmisher again, there is that WW risk. I know we've been lucky so far with getting White sources(ahead of the odds), but I wouldn't expect that to last. I'm thinking another Plains should come in with it. Even if it means just running 41 cards.
March 9, 2013 11:58 p.m.
KrazyCaley says... #31
To answer all the stuff piling up-
@vic - Yep, shark cannot evolve shark.
@Zerix and vic - When I attack, a trigger goes on the stack saying "All your creatures are indestructible until end of turn." My creatures become such when it resolves. While that is on the stack, he responds with Arrows of Justice, allowing the kill right before my trigger resolves.
@landgrafb - I played against Sectoid much earlier today, but haven't had time to put it up. The Sectoid match will go up shortly and be up all of Sunday, then the next match will be up on Monday.
March 10, 2013 4:27 a.m.
SupremeAlliesCommander says... #32
@vic: Yeah, I agree about the extra Plains.. Caley has boarded-in the Skirmisher twice. Once it didn't get drawn. If it had, we would not have had the WW necessary to cast it. The other time, we had freakish mana issues and actually got the white before blue. Not a good track record.
March 10, 2013 9:23 a.m.
MagnorCriol says... #33
Favorite part about these match writeups: Rapid Hybridization comments. "YOUR FROG LIZARD IS VERY CHARITABLE." I'm totally doing this sort of thing out loud next time I draft a blue deck.
Also, while the idea of a well-built Boros deck scares me, Dimir doesn't. There's very few cards in Dimir that are actually good, and most of those are getting snapped up by the other guilds (see: Hands of Binding) or are rare/mythic. Further, most Dimir decks try to split themselves between two strategies (mill and damage) rather than focusing on one. Not that there can't be scary Dimir decks; they're just hard to make happen in limited.
Boros decks have a much easier time of it, since they have so many good, common creatures and a single goal. But with this many people taking white and red in this draft, I think the chance of a great Boros deck suffered.
Goody says... #1
Nicely done. We didn't really see his deck in action to much, but I guess that's the point of our deck!
They never see it coming.
March 8, 2013 9:24 p.m.