It's been awhile since I've done a tournament report since I haven't been to any tournaments. As usual, I'm piloting my RG Tron deck since I don't have the funds to make new decks (If anybody wants to donate to the "Build Zane a deck" fund, please do so.
So anyway, the venue for the Grand Prix Trial(GPT) was at Card Master Games(CMG) at Beauty World, Bukit Timah. Registration was at 10, but I met up with Con at 9 to chill for a bit and while I had breakfast at MacDonalds. We went up to the level the card shop was on and ran into Ben(one of the co-owners of Games Haven) and we headed back down to MacDonalds where it was Ben's turn to have his breakfast while we waited for Dan and his cousin Amir to show up.
We headed back up to CMG at 10 and waited for one of the owners; Wind to open up the shop. Once in, we registered, paid our registration fee and started filling up our deck lists. While waiting for people to show up, Con helped Amir fix up his deck and playtested against him.
The tournament started some time around 11, with 15 people playing. And without further ado, let's jump right into the report!
Round 1: Jake(Merfolk)
Game 1: A turn 4 Karn allowed me to control him while he was land stuck on 2 lands and he scooped once I exiled his land.
Game 2: I dropped a Wurmcoil while he had a Merrow Reejerey and a Silvergill Adept. A top deck-ed Lord allowed him to win the game with his Islandwalk and constant beating.
Game 3: I got a game loss here because I missed out my graveyard from the previous game and didn't shuffle it back into the deck. Jake pointed it out, and when we were deciding what to do, one of the spectators called for the judge and pointed out the situation. Wind, who was the judge gave a game loss as I was playing with a deck that had less than 60 cards in it.
Jake didn't want to win like this though, but there's no way that he could possibly surrender so he took the match. It sucks to lose like this, but rules are rules.
Results: OXX
Right after that first round, Wind got me to go over and talked to me. Then he went through my decklist with me and it turns out that I missed out a card from my side board when I submitted my deck list. So I was awarded with yet another game loss.
Round 2: Johnson(Jund)
Since I had a game loss, all he had to do was take 1 game off me. But, since I have a game loss, that meant that I decided whether to be on the play or the draw.
Game 1: I chose to play first, and dropped a Karn on Turn 3 while he was stuck on 1 land without being able to do anything. He scooped when I exiled his land.
Game 2: Only 2 Sowing Salts in his deck, and he draws one. He exiles my Mine, which means I won't be able to get Tron online. Meanwhile I got land stuck on 4 lands, and he kept beating my face in with a Dark Confidant and some 3/2 creature. A Sylvan Scrying allowed me to get to 5 lands but it was futile as he killed me since I wasn't able to defend myself. By the way, I ended the game with Ulamog, 3 Karns, All is Dust and Wurmcoil Engine in my hand.
Result: XOX
As Elmo and I were both 0-2 at this point, we both considered dropping to play Pack Wars, but we ended up being paired against each other so we played it out.
Round 3: Elmo(Storm)
Round 1: I use Relic of Progenitus on him to stop his Storm combo, and wiped his board with a Pyroclasm and he scooped when I dropped the Karn on him.
Round 2: He drops Pryomancer's Swath and bolts me for 5 damage and then he finishes me off with two Grapeshots; one for 7 damage, and one for 8 from the Storm count.
Round 3: I can't remember what happened here, but he won because he managed to Storm off.
Results OXX
Round 4: Andrew(RG Tron)
He was playing a Tooth and Nail variant of Tron, which was...interesting.
Game 1: I think an early Karn won me the game while he was busy trying to assemble his things.
Game 2: He wins by using Tooth and Nail, searching Iona and some Conscript creature, entwining for the Conscript and Emrakul giving Emrakul haste, which meant it was game for me.
Game 3: We were both destroying each others' lands, making small plays until he Oblivion Stones' my Karn, while I had my own Oblivion Stone up with 4 mana open. However, I did not realise that I could actually place a Fate counter on Karn to prevent it's destruction(I only realised this after Wind told me about it after the round ended)., so Karn died. Finally, he used Mind Slaver on me, drawing a Karn and revealing the All is Dust in my hand. He actually made several misplays here, but seeing as I didn't realise anything, Wind kept quiet about it. He exiles my Urza Mine using my own Karn, and tapped me out intending to use the All is Dust in my hand. But seeing as he didn't declare it, Wind judged that it wasn't valid. According to JY, he didn't actually untap his lands during his untap step, and only untapped it after he ended his turn. Once again, as I didn't realise this, everyone kept quiet about it until the round ended. He pulled off the same combo as he did in Round 2 to end the game.
Results: OXX
After the matches, we all dropped and played pack wars where I pulled a Mythic Rare vampire from the pack I got for participating. I bought a pack and managed to pull a Blood Crypt. After that, we all went to lunch where we also decided to do a draft. Unfortunately, Con and Dan had to go back down to school so they were unable to join us.
I can't exactly remember how the matches went, but I went 2-2, pulling a Steam Vent from one of my packs. It was my first ever Draft, so I wasn't sure how well I would do, but it turns out I did pretty well. I made a Selesnya Populate deck, which turned out pretty decent. Elmo made an Izzet deck, Jake an UWR deck, Jason a Rakdos deck and for JY, a Golgari deck seeing as he pulled a Vraska. Both Elmo and JY went 3-1, Jake and myself went 2-2, and JY went 1-3, managing to only beat me.
While I may have failed at the GPT today, it was certainly a learning experience, and I'm glad I went for it. I may also start to go to CMG at Beauty World more often, as the people there were pretty friendly. On that note, I bid you adieu.
Peace out,
Zane
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