Rounds 2-4 (belated, yes)

Round 2 versus Sarah

Blue white skies was ALL THERE WAS in this aerial combat. She takes game one despite my Griffins and Blazing Torch, while I take game 2 when I commit a Blasphemous Act with the only undying creature on the board. Game 3 I get off to a smacking start, when she attacks her voiceless spirit into my Nephalia Seakite, then drop a Mikaeus, the Lunarch for 4!

She then Dungeon Geists him and its stalled. This game started with only ten minutes which wound down. Eventually I wanted to upgrade my Delver into a Relentless Skaabs, but she didn't bite when I began bashing with my 1/1 scientist of insecty doom (and rightly so, being on like 18) and time is called. We're both on 16 and we can't get through the others defense, so we agree to draw.

Games 1-1-1
Rounds 1-0-1

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Round 3 I'm against Tim.

He's got the draw bracket too, so I can tell we're going to go to time unless one of us just plays into the other's tricks. In my case, I played into his deck being the opposite of my deck. My removal was OK, his was just everywhere, plus he had two Skirsdag Flayers.

So unforunately we're fighting game 1 til he gets Mentor of the Meek and it draws him his deck. Including the two Skirsdag Flayers. I had a chance to shoot them at one point, but the Skirsdag got it, while the Mentor kept adrawin'. It's hard at those times to tell what you hate more, losing creatures or them drawing cards?

I figure now it's better to work on percentages. If I leave the Skirsdag, I'm 100% losing a creature. If he draws cards, there's atleast chances he'll draw chaff/land/useless crap.

So game 2 goes similar. I have both my Juggernaut's in my opening hand, but cast the first one turn 4 without protection, despite the Saving Grasp in hand. Turn 5 gets a lot of replay value, eats up his removal, but then I've just used my gas to get rid of his removal gas, and it's top decks for both of us. This stinks as 1/1s beat down, he's marginally ahead on life and then he gets that 3/3 Vampire who steals cards for you to cast, as well as being suddenly on 6 life with him having 6 power of flyers. Poop!

Games 0-2
Rounds 1-1-1

So that's the belated rounds 2-4. I know you've probably already read 5-7 so you know how I end up, but that's the relay. NOW to work it all into a nice article that reads well and concisely for Good Games. Woot!

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Round 4

Round 4 v M Yang

Well this round was good, seeing I was threatening to tilt. My opponent was doing back and forth enough, less removal than my last opponent. Then we manage to trade blows, when I stabilise at 8, and continue to beat him down with my Invisible Stalker and then pump that every turn using a Mikaeus for 5. Life goes 14 11 7 2, INCREASING CONFUSION FOR THE LOSE!

Yeah. Game 2 we keep going, though he has Increasing Confusion again and didn't cast it at the opportune time, and I manage to beat him down.

Game 3 he mulls to five and I'm quite happy, and Liam joins me to watch and I beat him down with some creatures, time some slick moves perfectly to untap and shoot blockers and tap them down permanently with Dungeon Geists, and he doesn't get what he needs to stablise. I was almost packing darts when he seemed about to recover, but even then I just reminded myself that I had 20 life and he didn't.

Games 2-1
Rounds 2-1-1