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Modern FNM —May 30, 2014

Note: Seeing as how the FNM was modern, I threw in a spare Ajani Vengeant I had, who is just plain awesome, so keep that in mind. The store is pretty small without too much hardcore competition so my (almost) standard deck placed third with a record of 3-1.

Round 1: Simic Evolve 2-0

Bad matchup for the other guy, and his deck was not completed. Also simic evolve isn't the most competitive deck on the block. Game 1 I managed to get Ajani Vengeant's -7 off and then Supreme Verdict. Proceeded to beat him up with AEtherling. Game 2 was trickier. He managed to get a Sword of Body and Mind on a Cloudfin Raptor and start milling everything away and smashing me with wolves, and reequipping whenever I killed his creatures. Thankfully, Ajani Vengeant managed to tap down his only Island, and I stabilized at 3 life to bring him down from 20. Scary game.

Round 2: White Midrange 2-0

He had a deck based around building up creatures with walkers like Elspeth, Knight-Errant and Ajani, Caller of the Pride to buff up his already buffable guys like Gideon's Avenger. Didn't have too much trouble here, really.

Round 3: Vampire Aggro 0-2

This was already a tough matchup for me. It also didn't help that both games I didn't reach four lands until at least turn 6 or 7. Lived off of charms and an Anger of the Gods for as long as I could. Game 2 he sided in most of his sideboard and I lost again without mana again. I was really disappointed because I've beaten this deck with mine quite a few times in the past, and this would have paired me with the match for first. Oh well.

Round 4: Green Aggro/Midrange

Game one was a bit scary at first with a turn 3 Leatherback Baloth coming at me as well as Polukranos, World Eater next turn, but I managed to Supreme Verdict a few times, which really hurt him, and I swung in for the win with 23 1/1's from Assemble the Legion and my trusty 8/1 unblockable AEtherling. Game to I popped Ajani Vengeant relatively fast and got my final win.

Good Rounds, I'm excited to try it out in standard. The shop is pretty small so I only got 2 prize packs for third, but oh well.