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By: Salgy, Michael Salgado
Jan 22 2009 1:04pm
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Back in Lorwyn block I signed up with a Goblin deck and made a quick top 8 which was pretty cool because that was the first PE I ever joined online.  After Lorwyn evolved and everyone started running either UB Control or Faeries I quickly began to slowly decline and fall out of the block scene by the time Morningtide came out I was done with block.  I jumped into Pauper for a good amount of time then I joined CK (Cereal Killaz) and got really into the 2-HG and FFA formats while trying to make a competitive extended deck.  Feeling like I was stretching myself thin I made a block deck and now im focusing all my gaming time into block.  Now that I got into block I began looking at the cards in block and noticed how beefy White Weenie is and after reading Rasparthe's Article the deck that jumped at me the most was WW splashed with black.  So I bought the deck and play tested it alot and realized an Infest would be excellent SBed so I added it in and not having enough to buy the third Elspeth I threw this deck together before joining the PE:


The tournament began with 44 players meaning this was gonna be 6 rounds cut to top8

Round 1
Tomato-Jund/Naya:

Turn two I cast Tidehollow Sculler seeing: Oblivion Ring, double (Woolly Thoctar), and some lands.  I took the o-ring.  Turn 3 he dropped a (Woolly Thoctar) that I Executioner's Capsuled.  Soon after he played another. He got a few attacks in but it eventually ate another capsule.  A few swings back and forth with a few exalted fellows.  He mildly stabilized by killing my Sigiled Paladin and dropping an Ajani Vengeant.  With a missclick of him targetting his Ajani Vengeant and making it not untap I get a free turn with all of my guys.  I send in Sanctum Gargoyle to nuke his Ajani Vengeant so I don't have to deal with that anymore.  Then I dropped a Executioner's Capsule and then passed the turn.  With  my luck he topdecked like a pro and ripped a second Ajani Vengeant killing my Tidehollow Sculler to get back his o-ring.  EoT I shot the Wild Nacatl to clear the board on his side.  On my turn I dropped an Elspeth, Knight-Errant trying to bait the Oblivion Ring.  Of course he o-rings the Elspeth.  On my turn I draw the 3rd Executioner's Capsule but elect to drop a Battlegrace Angel.  On his turn he drops a Ranger of Eos to get Wild Nacatl and Feral Hydra.  He then plays the hydra for 3.  On my turn I drop the capsule and kill-off the hydra.  We swing back and forth for a turn and then he drops another Ranger of Eos grabbing 2 more nacatls putting them into play.  On my turn  I drop a 2nd Battlegrace Angel and swing in with the exalted 6/6 to gain 12.  He topdecks the 3rd Ajani Vengeant and prevents my battlegrace from untapping.  I dropped the 3rd Battlegrace Angel and sent her sister into the red zone and received a quick concession.

Game Result: 1-0

Sb: I took out 3 Akrasan Squires and in went 3 Dispeller's Capsules

I open up a pretty nice hand of some lands, sculler, and capsule.  He led out with forest and Wild Nacatl.  I followed up with swamp into Executioner's Capsule.  Next turn went by and it was pretty unimpressive.  So I cast sculler on my turn with him revealing mountain, Magma Spray, o-ring, thoctar, and ajani.  I took the spray.  He  then took his turn dropping his land and used o-ring on my capsule.  I was having some trouble at this point finding a 3rd land but I topdeck a Dispeller's Capsule and play it.  He plays the big man next turn and passes.  I finally hit my 3rd land but am still missing the 4th.  After an attack or so I end up at 8 with no fourth land and him with an active Ajani Vengeant stopping my plains from untapping.  I eventually topdecked into my 4th land but it happened to be an Arcane Sanctum so no help there.  I decided to try to deal with Ajani Vengeant so I sent the sculler in to remove a pair of counters but it meets a quick death with a Magma Spray allowing him to get the other one back.  I then capsule away his thoctar on his attack.  I finally topdeck a plains and drop a Sanctum Gargoyle getting back the capsule.  The gargoyle meets a swift death from the ajani though.  A few turns go by and I eventually drop a Battlegrace Angel and end up at 2 on his turn.  He then passes turn and I drop a 2nd Battlegrace Angel and send the first to deal with the Ajani Vengeant problem and to bring myself back at 14.  He sends in the nacatl  for 3 and I let it go.  On my turn I untap and topdeck a Sigil of Distinction and drop it for 7 and send in a Battlegrace Angel for 12.
He concedes after that.  So I'm up round one in my first Premier event since like Lorywns release and seem to be doing pretty good. 

Game Result: 2-0
Match Result: 1-0

Round 2 - Iceageforelife -WW

Round 2 begins about 10 minutes later and I end up with one land starter and all kinds of gas but decide not to risk it.  Mulligan  and end up with no land.  Then I end up with 3 lands, Executioner's Capsule and Oblivion Ring.   He leads with a Akrasan Squire. And I drop a capsule.  A few chops later from the squire he drops an Elspeth, Knight-Errant that I am force to o-ring.  He follows up with a Ranger of Eos.  The ranger happens to find two more squires.  I topdeck a Sanctum Gargoyle and go get capsule again.  He drops a squire then an Oblivion Ring returning his Elsepth so he could make a squire a 6/6 and send it straight to my forehead.  I draw an Elspeth and drop it to negate his.  He in return untaps and drops another….he makes a soldier fly again and gets double exalted and forces me to capsule it to attempt and stabilize he passes the turn to me.  I drop a (Sigil of Distincition) on my turn for 5 and equip it to my gargoyle to deal with the 2nd Elspeth.  We trade back and forth for a few turns and I desperately need to topdeck a Battlegrace Angel but draw a Tidehollow Sculler instead.  I play it and see double Ranger of Eos, double Sigiled Paladin, and a Battlegrace Angel.  I take the angel.  On his turn he drops a o-ring to hit my Sigil of Distinction and then swung with the team.  I draw another sculler.  He drops another ranger and gets his last squire and brings the team again.  I draw a swamp and concede.

Game Result: 2-1

SB:  I drop out all 4 squires and 1 paladin for 3 infest and 2 dispellers capsule
 
I go land go.  He goes land into his favorite play of squire.  We trade back and fourth for a bit but he stalls early trying to find his 3rd land.  He drops a Dispeller's Capsule in an attempt get rid of my sculler but not enough to activate so I drop my capsule and activate to stop him.  He concedes after an numerous attack phases or due to still not hitting his 3rd land.

Game Result: 3-1

The 3rd game starts out pretty aggro other than a capsule here and there.  I Executioner's Capsule his Sigiled Paladin and then we go: land go for a few turns until he drops another paladin.  I seem to be pretty deep in a river of mana at this point.  I finally drop a Battlegrace Angel though.  Guess who follows up with one of there own though.  He swings for 4 also gaining him 4.  I drop my newly draw Knight of the White Orchid to try and thin out the land a bit.  I then drop o-ring to draw out the usage of the dispeller's on his end so I can drop a large Sigil of Distinction.  He follows up by popping his capsule to get back his Battlegrace Angel.  He drops a Ranger of Eos getting two Squires and playing them both and an Elspeth.  On my turn I drop a infest to clear the board except for the 2 angels on opposing sides.  He then drops a sigil for 8 and gets some aggro going.  I swing in and kill off his elspeth and hold on to Resounding Silence.  He swings in with the angel and I eat it with the Resounding Silence.  I swing a few times and my angel gets Excommunicated eventually.  I recast angel equip my sigil and after a few exalted attacks I wrap it up.

Game Result: 4-1
Match Result: 2-0

So 2-0 and rocking and rollin.  So looks like there are 11 of us 2-0s at this point.


Round 3 Black_Mamba1 WW/r
Game one started out pretty rough I got hammered at pretty hard then had an internet crash and didn't get very many notes due to trying to get back before time ran out.

Game Result: 4-2

Sbing- Took out 4 squires and 1 knight of the white orchid for 3 infest and 2 dispellers.

He goes turn one squire.  I turn 2 sculler and take a Sigil of Distinction so I can Infest away the rest of his team.  We trade attacks back and forth for a few turns until I finally capsule away his paladain.  He follows up by playing a Elspeth.  I draw my 5th land and drop Battlegrace Angel.  He drops an angel of his own and its off to the races.   I eventually o-ring his Elspeth.  He then drops a dispeller's to bring back the Elspeth and make his Battlegrace Angel and exalted 9/9.  I finally get an attack in on the Elspeth to kill her.    On his turn he swings with the angel and I let her eat a Resounding Silence in response though he shoots me with a Soul's Fire.  On my turn I drop another Battlegrace Angel and swing.  On his turn he drops multiple dudes causing me to use my infest and sweep the majority of the board giving him back his (Sigil of Distinciton).  He then drops a Knight-Captain of Eos and equips a sigil on it.  On my turn I destroy his sigil and drop one of my own for 7.  We trade attacks back and forth with him using his soldier tokens to stop the large beefy angel.  He drops a Ranger of Eos grabbing nothing.  I draw a Sanctum Gargoyle and return my e-capsule and playing it killing the Knight-Captain of Eos.  He then draws and casts a Ajani Vengeant.  I draw an o-ring and send the planeswalker packing. I then equip the sigil on an angel and send in the team for 16 damage sending us into game three.

Game Result:  5-2

I mullgian away a one lander into a decent 6 on the draw.  We both play a few lands until he drops a Sigiled Paladin causing me to drop a capsule to deal with it.  Next turn he goes for attacks and I shoot the paladin with the capsule.  I untap and draw an Espeth which I then drop and make a soldier.  He then o-rings my Elspeth.    I use an o-ring of my own to get her back.  I use her ability to make my token beefy and send it in for some attacks.  He then drops an Ajani Vengeant  and uses its Lightning Helix ability to send the Elspeth packin.  On my turn I drop a Battlegrace Angel and send in the token to deal with the Ajani.  He o-rings the angel away on his turn luckily though I had another in hand to fill her position on the field. Fortunate for him he had yet another o-ring for the 2nd angel.  I draw a plains while he draws and drops an Elspeth.  I then draw a Sanctum Gargoyle grabbing an Executioner's Capsule and played it.  He then taps out for a large Sigil of Distinction and equips his soldier up.  I draw another Infest.  I use it to clear the board of a few soldier tokens.  He then drops another soldier token and a Knight of the White Orchid.  A turn or so later he drops a Battlegrace Angel.  We both drop Sigil of Distinctions for 6 he just equips his to a bit bigger body as in his Battlegrace Angel.  After a few sigil/elspeth powered attacks that sent me packing.

Game Result: 5-3
Match Result:  2-1

Round 4 Dennis the Dragon Jund/Naya

I play a few dudes which he eventually wipes away with a Jund Charm.  His next turn he drops a Sarkhan Vol.  I in return drop a (Battlegrace.Angel)  He then drops a Bone Splinters targeting my angel sacking his Sprouting Thrinax.  He then uses his planeswalker to let him swing for 6.    A turn or so later he drops some dragons into play and sends me packing into the sideboard.

Game Result: 5-4

SB: I dropped out 3 squires for 3 infest just like normal.

Game two started out slow I just attacked with a Knight of the White Orchid for a few turns.  He shot a Blightning I discarded a land and Sigil of Distinction.  Then we went land go for a bit.  Until I drew a gargoyle and he played an Executioner's Capsule.   I play a Sanctum Gargoyle to return the sigil I discarded.  He then capsules away my gargoyle.  He untaps and passes.  I untap and play another gargoyle down to get back the one that died.  He plays a (Fleshbag Maurauder).  I decide to then use my gargoyle in hand to get back the other one that had died again.  We pass back and forth for a bit with me drawing multiple o-rings.  He then drops a Sprouting Thrinax.  I Oblivion Ring it and swing 4.  I draw  tidehollow and drop it to take a look at his hand which happens to be 2 Caldera Hellion, 2 Bone Splinters and a Jund Charm.  I took the charm.  We trade guys back and forth  but eventually I swing in for lethal and send us to game 3.

Game Result: 6-4

Game three I get the aggro going early and don't let up and with him not drawing more than two lands.  It didn't take long to receive the concession here.

Game Result:  7-4
Match Result: 3-1


Round 5: Wonnejkral (BGRW)

Game one Went by really fast my notes seem to be sketchy I know (Battelgrace Angel) won it for me.

Game Result: 8-4

SB- -4 squires -1 orchid + 3 infest +2 dispellers

He drops a Steward of Valeron.  I started off with a Tidehollow Sculler making him reveal a Ajani Vengeant, Elspeth, Knight-Errant, couple of lands, and (Woolly Thoctar) I rip the Ajani.  And he drops the Beast.  I play a Capsule.  He drops Elspeth and swings for 10.  still not drawing a 4th land I drop Dispeller's Capsule.  On his turn I pop e-capsule on his Thoctar and he drops a Broodmate Dragon sending me looking for cover.

Game Result: 8-5

He got ahead with a Druid of the Anima and a (Woolly Thoctar), I had two plains and had to discard a e-capsule due to having to many cards in hand.  after taking damage I top decked into a swamp and dropped a e-capsule.  He dropped a o-ring removing my e-capsule and knocks me down to 8.  I top decked into a Arcane Sanctum and played o-ring removing the beast.  he attacks and plays a second druid and I draw into a swamp dropping my much needed Battlegrace Angel.  He plays a Caldera Hellion devouring for 2.  On my turn I play e-capsule and kill off his CH gaining more life and dropping another e-capsule.  he top decks a o-ring removing my Battlegrace Angel.  I play Elspeth making a token and end turn.  He top decked a land and ended.  I dropped Sanctum Gargoyle grabbing and playing e-capsule and pumping my token to 4/4.  He drew and played a Battlegrace Angel making me pop the e-capsule.  I swing again dropping him down to 5 and end turn.  He o-rings my Elspeth making me drop the other one in my hand for the win

Game Result: 9-5
Match Result: 4-1

Williamdias: Jund/Naya

I start off with a Sigiled Paladin.  he plays his 3rd land and plays Elvish Visionary and passes.  I drew into a Battlegrace Angel and played Knight of the White Orchid using his ability to pull another plain and dropped a swamp holding another land.  He didn't draw into another and ended.  I dropped the Battlegrace Angel he responds with Jund Charm.  and plays double Elvish Visionary and passes.  I play Sigiled Paladin and Akrasan Squire attacking with the BA.  He double cycles Viscera Dragger and ends.  I top deck and play a Sigil of Distinction for 6 he quickly concedes.

Game Result: 10-5

-4 squire -1 knight orchid  +3 infest +2 relic

He mulliganed down to 6 and played a land,  I dropped a Sigiled Paladin and began my beats  later dropping a Elspeth.  Continued with my beats and due to mana screw and a Paladin/Elspeth I led my army to a top 8 finish

Game Result: 11-5
Match Result: 5-1

At this point im super stoked I haven't been in a PE for months and the first one I manage to jump in I make top 8.  I guess adding the Infest to my SB was a life saver since it saved my tail numerous times in the PE.

Top 8

Korno WW

This was horrible my laptop was lagging and freezing up a lot not to take anything away from korno he owned me fair and square I will man up and admit it.  All 3 games was a race finished quickly or as quick as possible due to lag.  He out raced me first game and I out raced him second.  And he owned game three he had complete board control.  I wished him luck and I conceded he later went on to the finals congrats Korno

I had a awesome experience again in block and again I am fully into it and wouldn't mind seeing more people jump in events and have fun.  I wish everyone best of luck and have fun.

4 Comments

I have played a lot of 4-man by Shane (Elvish_Warrior (not verified) at Mon, 01/26/2009 - 15:04
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I have played a lot of 4-man queues with a Jund deck that splashe 4x O-rings and 1 Ajani(all I have). Anyways, it does pretty well with lots of 2 for 1s like dragon fodder,elvish visionary, sprouting thrinax, and broodmate dragon, also jund battlemage(but I am still not sure about him). I will definitely have to give a PE a try. Great tourney report by the way.

im glad you enjoyed it hope by Salgy at Mon, 01/26/2009 - 15:45
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im glad you enjoyed it hope to see you next PE. or the upcoming events that will be hosted with Conflux

12 Sideboard Cards?? Which by Anonymous (not verified) at Thu, 02/05/2009 - 12:17
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12 Sideboard Cards??
Which one is missing?

see u

the missing SB cards by Salgy at Fri, 02/06/2009 - 02:53
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The 3 missing Sb cards are 3 relics.