It went like this:
First round was against this girl with a 75 card golgari deck running 22 lands... Won that one 2-0 without any problems, winning both times with a boros charm to the face. Thankfully, she was very willing to take suggestions over the deck, and I basically told her to run 27 lands and make it 60 cards, because it had an avg cmc of like 3.8.
Next round was against my friend, Tre_Duce32, and his deck Selesnya Aggro. His deck usually beats mine, but both of my hands were super solid both rounds so I secured 2 wins. Usually likes to ramp to Loxodon Smiter, but I would burn all of his mana dorks before he got a chance to, and I swung hard and often with 2 madcapped dudes.
The 3rd round was some dude who behaved in a stoic and accelerated manner, shuffling his deck compulsively and trick-cutting my deck after shuffling, and completely ignoring any attempt at conversational levity whatsoever. My friend said he was pretty MLG pro. Needless to say, I wrecked his Bant twice, the first time by letting him shock himself into submission with his lands and then swinging with some madcapped dudes and spark trooper. After he sideboarded in like, 8 cards, we began the second game. He made the same mistake of shocking himself often, and tried to make up for it by breaking my madcap skills with his enchant breaks. He tried using Avacyn's Pilgrim to ramp to something, but I never got to see what, because he lost by then. He was really pissed that he got beaten by someone who's first time it was, in a silent and "suddenly shoot up the whole store from quiet rage" kind of way.
The 4th round I lost both games, because it was a RBW that was running lots of burn, and Blood Baron of Vizkopa, to which I have no answer. He was able to sustain his game for long enough to get the baron out there, and once he did, it was a good old fashioned beatdown.
The 5th round was played against a mono-red that played heavy burn/removal until enough mana was reached to play Thundermaw Hellkite. He beat me doing just that, the first game, and I also had an awful hand. The second game I won because I outraced his deck, which was fairly easy to do, since his entire strategy was winning with the hellkite. I lost the tiebreaker though, because I only had 1 land for the first 7 turns. By the time I got two, I just madcapped his hellkite just for the hell of it, but he loudly exclaimed "No one makes me bleed my own blood" and Searing Speared his own Boros Reckoner instead of just attacking with it, for the glorious win.
All in all, a fun experience, and it helped me realize that Swagtusk is not a problem because I can just outrace any deck that uses him. I mean, I feel sorry for that third guy, I never even got to see anything other than Avacyn's Pilgrim.
