PTQ Berlin – Epilogue

So, in case you couldn’t tell from the lack of a post from the fourth round, I scrubbed out at 2-2. In round four I lost again to Faeries. I feel my opponent was an inferior Magic player but I got some bad draws and couldn’t pull it out against double Mistbind Clique.

In retrospect I feel that the Justice Toast deck is very solid all-around but also very slow and clunky. If you can stabilize then you’re going to win. However, a fast deck like Faeries can easily blow you out by turn five while you’re still playing lands that come into play tapped.

Will I still play the deck? Probably not. My two match-wins against Doran and Merfolk were not very convincing. I won both matches 2-1 and really struggled with some of the game wins. Those results added to the Faeries beatings mean I will probably throw my Runed Halos back into my Shadowmoor binder and sleeve up something different for tomorrow night.

What will it be? Well I guess that depends on what Pat Chapin wrote about today. Ha ha. I jest. Seriously.

Tonight is draft but I have to do laundry. I was too lazy yesterday. Boo laundry. My next tournament should be Tuesday night Block Constructed over at Neutral Ground. Maybe I won’t net-deck. Stay tuned to find out.

PTQ Berlin – Round 3

Well I had my ass handed to me by Faeries. A misplayed attack cost me game 1 and double Mistbind Clique won him game two. So now it’s an uphill battle to win the next four rounds.

At least this one was quick so I was able to go grab some breakfast at Statbucks.

2-1 (4-4)

PTQ Berlin – Round 2

Another round that took 50 minutes but I am once again victorious. My opponent playing Merfolk pulled out the win in game one with Sygg but I took the next two easily. On to round 3.

2-0 (4-2)

PTQ Berlin – Round 1

Quick update:

I won round one against Doran with 2 minutes left in the round. I boarded out broken ambitions and cloudthreshers for shriekmaws, runes halos and hallowed burial.

1-0 (2-1)

PTQ Berlin – Prologue

I’ve been pretty busy at work this quarter so this is my first chance to get to a PTQ this season. It’s being held at Fight House in midtown Manhattan. Because of work I haven’t had time to test as much as I wanted so I’ll be playing Pat Chapin’s Justice Toast deck.

In case you’re unfamiliar with the deck it is a four color mid-range control deck with Archon of Justice and Runed Halo. Pat wrote about all this already so I’m not going into details. The real reason I’m playing this is I don’t own Mutavaults and when my gf left me last week she took hers with her. How unfair!

Stay tuned for more after round 1.