UGC: Boros, Semifinals!

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Dallie

25 February 2014

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Ultimate Guild Challenge: Boros, Seminfinal results!

Hello everyone and thank you for clicking on this article describing the event before the event, the semifinals of UGC: Boros!

Last time I left you we were nearing a conclusion to the series, and I, in lieue with current series strategy left you with a cliffhanger, so that you'd all stay sharp as we waited to see who the finalists were!

The two match-ups have been played out, and you can find the results below.

Results of the semifinals!

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exarkun809 (1) (Challenge Accepted, Boros) versus TheLameSauce (2) (Concerted Boros)

Game 1:

TheLameSauce looked to have a slow starting hand, but drew into more gas. However exarkun809 laid down a pair of Order of the Stars both naming red, which slowed down the beats, and had a hand full of removal.

TheLameSauce played a Boros Reckoner, which immediately ate a Lightning Helix, and was stuck with a Boros Swiftblade, a Boros Recruit, and a Legion Loyalist. He topdecked a Tajic, Blade of the Legion and played it (with trample, the potential 7/7 could make swift process of exarkun809, but on the first attack, exarkun809 had the Condemn to permanently deal with the issue.

A Firemane Avenger from TheLameSauce suffered the same Lightning Helixy fate as the Reckoner, and with only weenies on the board, TheLameSauce had to rely on topdecks, which were mostly lands and a Blind Obedience.

Meanwhile exarkun809 set up a Gideon, Champion of Justice which gained 5 loyalty counters on the first turn. A few turns of exchanging beats, with exarkun809 heavily favoured, exarkun809 had the Angel of Serenity to clear the board, and TheLameSauce succumbed to a hit for 9 from Gidoen and a Char to the face.

Game 2:

TheLameSauce opened the ball with a pair of Boros Recruits and followed it up with a Sunforger. He hit his fourth land drop and played a Tajic, Blade of the Legion which exarkun809 didn't have an answer for.

With three Lightning Helixes and a Warleader's Helix, exarkun809 managed to stay afloat for quite some time, but his draws didn't get him any answers to the 6/2 Tajic, and Arrows of Justice had to hit Boros Recruits in order not to deal with an 11/7.

Assemble the Legion showed up too late to present blockers, and a hit for 6 plus an un-equip from the Sunforger ended the game in TheLameSauce's favor.

Game 3:

exarkun809 had to mulligan a no-land hand that contained all his crucial cards, and received a hand of lands and removal. TheLameSauce set up a turn one Boros Recruit, a turn two Blind Obedience and a turn three Boros Reckoner. The reckoner met its end to a Lightning Helix, but spells and cheap creatures extorted by Blind Obedience withered away at his life.

exarkun809 set up for a big overload on Mizzium Mortars, but TheLameSauce got a Guardian of the Guildpact, along his Order of the Stars naming red, which helped him preserve some board.

TheLameSauce then played a Boros Reckoner which was Condemned, but the Guardian stuck around, through an Arrows of Justice, thanks to a Boros Charm.

exarkun809 got the Wear / Tear for the Obedience, but by then it had already done its job, by extorting 6 times.

Another Boros Reckoner meant the end for exarkun809, as he was out of removal, save for Char.

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CaveShinobi (2) (Righteous Rushin') versus Jimhawk (1) (the-tactics-of-war)

Game 1:

Thanks to a turn two Truefire Paladin, CaveShinobi got a head start on lifetotals against the slower and more controlling build of Jimhawk.

With lots of ramp, Jimhawk spewed a turn four Assemble the Legion, but it met a Wear / Tear, and CaveShinobi followed it up with an Assemble the Legion of his own.

At turn 5 neither had a reasonable play, but the mana sink of Truefire Paladin helped put Jimhawk down even further. Jimhawk played an Angel of Serenity which exiled the tokens and the paladin, and established board control.

However, with a topdecked Boros Charm, CaveShinobi could attack with his generated tokens, and play both to the face for game, while Jimhawk was tapped out.

Game 2:

Jimhawk played the control game again, and hit a few targets with Lightning Helix to slow down the aggro from CaveShinobi. Along that he ramped with Boros Keyrume, Boros Signet and Boros Cluestone, which allowed him to drop an Angel of Serenity to clear the board.

CaveShinobi played lots of small creatures and had with his initial rush gotten Jimhawk to 9 life, which put him in a good position, as he played an Assemble the Legion. The Legion generated tokens, but Jimhawk managed to stay out of potential double Boros Charm shennanigans thanks to a Warleader's Helix.

On the following turn, Jimhawk dropped a Blazing Archon, and with nothing in hand to get rid of it, Jimhawk could start hitting with the Angel.

Though CaveShinobi's army could swing for lethal and then some, the Archon kept them at bay, whilst Jimhawk steadily cruised his way to victory, on the back of Angel of Serenity.

Game 3:

CaveShinobi led off with a Boros Elite and then proceeded to play Truefire Paladin and Wojek Halberdier on the subsequent turns. Jimhawk meanwhile ramped with his artifacts, and produced a turn 4 overloaded Mizzium Mortars to clear the opposing board.

CaveShinobi played a Firemane Avenger which met its end to a Lightning Helix and it looked like Jimhawk could stabilize. However, when CaveShinobi hit his fifth land drop he dropped an Assemble the Legion which Jimhawk had no answer for.

Digging for answers, and with plenty of mana to spare, Jimhawk sac'ed his Boros Cluestones to find something, but his deck showed only more mana rocks and lands at the top. Having ticked the Assemble the Legion up to 4 counters, Jimhawk only barely managed to stay out of lethal with a Warleader's Helix, but was Overrun on the following turn.

Congratulations to CaveShinobi and TheLameSauce for making it to the finals! Next time we'll do a turn-by-turn article of the match to become Guild Representative of Boros!

The match-up is:

CaveShinobi with his deck Righteous Rushin' versus TheLameSauce and his deck Concerted Boros.

I hope you all enjoyed the read, despite the big Delay. I was apartment hunting and skiing, but that's all over since university has begun again, and I can go back to having no social life, apart from you guys.

If you have comments, hooray's, questions or tribal slurs (damn dem Faeries), please leave them below!

//Dallie