Tezz Post
Standard*
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FNM with Tezz - round 3 —Sept. 14, 2012
In round 3 I was paired against Sasha, who I knew was playing mono-Green infect. gulp another fast matchup. I think it's actually a pretty good matchup if I make it past turn 3 though since I have quite a lot of removal. This is the match where I was punished for going to 23 lands. My 7 land hand had 1 land but a mycosnyth wellspring and some removal. I shipped it for 6 non-land cards. My mull to 5 was pretty similar to my 7 but with 2 less cards. I kept it and managed to Black Sun's Zenith away two creatures but my opponent read me for the zenith and held back a Glistener Elf. I couldn't afford to not 2-for-1 him though since I was at 7 poison already so I would have been dead to any pump spell.
Game 2 saw me mulliganing to 5 again in very similar way to game 1. Bad timing but not sure if I'm being too results-oriented about interpreting this one batch of mulligans as a reason to go back to 24 lands. I got quickly to 9 poison thanks to Inkmoth Nexus but had Tezz online and was looking in shape to stabilize if only I hadn't goofed my sideboarding. I took out 2xGo for the Throat for 2xDoom Blade but left in the third Go for the Throat. I should have swapped that for the sad Dismember sitting in my sideboard since I died to Inkmoth Nexus with Go for the Throat in hand.
Down to 0-3 for matches and another match that wasn't exactly epic, but again at least I was losing to cards that are rotating. I can't quite explain why that makes me feel better but it really does.