Dear T/O, TIFU by playing Legacy

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Posted on May 31, 2015, 4:55 p.m. by fluffybunnypants

So, today I broke my golden rule. I played when I had absolutely no desire to do so. GP Charlotte is in 2 weeks and I only had 1 tournament with Grixis Delver, so I figured it was probably a good idea. Where's that buzzer button when you need it?

Lost to Faeries round 1, played sloppy, wrote down cards so that I couldn't discern what I wrote, just bad. Good Faeries player, but I legit wrecked myself.

Lost round 2 to Twin. Played super sloppy game 1, it was just bad. I should have won off a double Delver start, but I fucked up. Mentally kicked my own ass, picked up a little for game 2, but drew 10 lands out of 20 in the deck. Oh baby. Good opponent, I still could've played better.

So, round 3. I'm playing against what I can only describe as Affinity Goblins. No, you read that right. He has a kid watching him play and is talking big shit and was wearing a full steampunk getup, it was amusing. I mull to 4 game 1 due to no landers, decided to keep a hand with a Watery Grave and no other action. Fantastic. Lose that game. Game 2 I flood ending the game with fetches that can't find any lands because they're all in play and have a Delver that doesn't flip for 8 turns. I lose game 2.

I ask the kid if he wants to play another just for the lolz. He says that he wants to play his Slivers deck that he originally wanted to play today but didn't know it was Modern, not Legacy. He says his deck is busted and all foil. I say something along the lines of "okay, I'll play Legacy as well then if you don't mind."

So, I throw my tarns, delta and bolts back into my Legacy deck and shuffle up. I let him play first, no cuts, whatever, it's for the lolz. He goes Island, Metallic Sliver, go. I kept what I would normally call a shady 7, a couple fetches, a Daze, a Brainstorm, meh. We go a few turns, I Brainstorm a few times, shuffle away an Umezawa's Jitte, Daze some black sliver and drop a True-Name Nemesis right on time. Proceed to go get my Jitte back with a Stoneforge Mystic and just pulverize this kid.

Take it from me, there's no glory in thrashing a kid-who-has-never-played-actual-Legacy-before-and-thinks-his-decks-are-busted-as-shit's pet deck.