Rotisserie Round 2
NicDanger vs Cognis 2-01-0: Started with
Strip Mine on
Taiga. Then, after checking that AI has no board sweepers I just keep casting creatures (no removal in hand). AI never gets back that red mana I took from him and my creatures easily overcome his.
Baneslayer Angel finishes.
2-0: Plenty of land again, so I start by Wastelanding
Raging Ravine. It works really well since AI doesn't play any lands for the rest of the game (one Mox though but that doesn't let him cast anything.
AI had bad luck with mana so this was almost goldfishing. Pity.Cognis vs Nicdanger 2-01-0: Plenty of land and while I lose
Tarmogoyf, I get Blazing Scepter to stick. AI beats me with Knight of Reliquary though so I can't keep attacking.
Sprouting Thrinax gets me more chump blockers and I then kill the Knight with Chandra. Then AI beats me with
Werebear and I have to refill both of our hands with
Wheel of Fortune. I Pulse the bear out of the way and see what AI will cast...
Gaddock Teeg and
Balance. Nothing I can't handle.
Oversoul of Dusk? That I really can't handle. I block with green creatures, cast
Inferno Titan (targeting AI) and finish the rest with burn.
2-0: I start with
Putrid Leech (goes Nowhere), get
Chandra Nalaar to 8 loyality and... BOOM!
Raging Ravine does the rest.
I love singleton Jund. So many fun cards, so effective. The first game was really hard, so you have to be fast with this.NicDanger vs Shantak 2-01-0: AI gets Magus but no
Natural Order. He starts getting Baloths when he's in 6 life. By then its too late and I can finish him with alpha strike.
2-0:
Steward of Valeron,
Wilt-Leaf Liege, then
Ravages of War to slow AI. Then he can't reach me.
AI didn't get Natural Order and didn't get enough mana for his other good cards (except Rampaging Baloths but that was too late). No problems.Shantak vs NicDanger 2-01-0:
Watchwolf brings me to 12 before I get proper blockers. Then
Natural Order into
Coiling Oracle for
Progenitus. AI has nice gold creatures in play bu they can't touch the hydra and its over in two turns.
2-0: I go to four life by two 2/2 creatures before getting Jace and
Rout. Then it's Akroma and
Tooth and Nail. Then it's over.
My early game was far too slow in both of these. NicDanger's deck is so strong that I desperetely need Natural Order in the start to win easily, or it's really hard.NicDanger vs Monopoman 2-11-0: AI removed my first two creatures but I got Baneslayer to stick and then cast
Armageddon. AI couldn't recover.
1-1: AI had turn two
Show and Tell for
Bogardan Hellkite. I was on a four turn clock and couldn't draw any removal.
2-1: I got creatures while AI fooled around with
Vedalken Shackles.
Other than the Show and Tell surprise, there were no problems. If both decks were in human hands, the situation might have been really different.Monopoman vs NicDanger 2-10-1: AI had
Strip Mine and played
Ravages of War with
Crucible of Worlds in play. I was completely locked and couldn't do anything.
1-1: Let AI gather his creatures, then blew them up with
Magus of the Disk. After some turns AI cast
Ravages of War with neither of us having creatures in play. Luckily I had been saving some lands in my hand. While waiting for creature I cast myself some protection (
Collective Restraint,
Moat). Then I got
Yosei, the Morning Star who killed AI while I protected him with
Counterspell.
2-1: I was about to start beating with
Exalted Angel, but AI got
Baneslayer Angel to play.
Exalted Angel's lifelink with
Wall of Reverence saved me until I got enough mana to
Incinerate +
Lightning Helix the Baneslayer.
Collective Restraint then mostly stops AI's attacks and when I Imprint
Counterspell to
Isochron Scepter AI can't do a thing and all I have to do is wait through the very slow turns and attack four times to win (
Collective Restraint really slows the game).
AI's deck seemed stronger but didn't have as many tricks (though Armageddon effects with Crucible are really mean). If you get the game under control, the victory comes eventually.Cognis vs Shantak 2-01-0: I
Burst Lightning AI's
Magus of the Vineyard just to be on the safe side. After a few turns I Bolt Jace and spin
Wheel of Fortune to refill. I'm doing okay but when AI hardcasts
Novablast Wurm, I find myself searching for solutions.
Eternal Witness the Wheel for new cards,
Sprouting Thrinax can give me one chump block against the Wurm, then finally
Maelstrom Pulse (I'm in 10, AI at 7). Saprolings and
Inferno Titan finish.
2-0: AI doesn't get any early good threats and my
Yavimaya Elder and Goblin
Siege-Gang Commander with some burn finish AI.
I do okay, but a big creature or multiple creatures are hard to deal with.Shantak vs Cognis 2-01-0: Pretty impressive, AI transformed his
Raging Ravine when casting
Shivan Wurm and returned it to his hand. If not for Jace, I would have died. Then AI stopped casting and attackin with Ravine (well, that means also he never broke my
Standstill). I would have likely lost against a human player, but now won when I got a beater in play.
2-0: AI was missing land, but I had really solid hand. Exalted
Lotus Cobra dealt most damage.
The first game was ridiculous: I drew so much land that I should have lost if AI hadn't stopped casting. In the second game, AI never had more than two lands. I would gladly replay these games.Cognis vs Monopoman 2-01-0: My
Inferno Titan kills AI before his
Bogardan Hellkite does the same to me.
2-0: One
Wheel of Fortune refill gives me enough fuel to win. The first card I played was
Dragonmaster Outcast and on the last turn it finally began to give me dragons.
Jund was fast enough that Monopoman's control didn't manage to get hold of the game (not that AI is very good at that either).Monopoman vs Cognis 2-01-0: AI seemed to freeze up at one point, where it had six mana sources and six lands but didn't cast anything. Well, I had three counterspells in hand so I wasn't too worried, but this didn't feel like a proper game. Funny how it happened to Cognis's
Jund deck again
2-0: I bring
Exalted Angel in play through Morph. AI boosts his
Tarmogoyf with
Wheel of Fortune. AI was about to get
Dragonmaster Outcast active, but
Exalted Angel +
Lightning Helix kill him.
First game was too easy. The second was more interesting, but I had enough cards not to be worried.Shantak vs Monopoman 2-01-0: AI kills my Jace with his. Confiscated
Lightning Angel is my beater until I get
Novablast Wurm in play.
2-0:
Elvish Piper calls my
Simic Sky Swallower while AI gets
Magus of the Disk. I start bouncing with Jace while beating with
Sky Swallower. Nothing AI can do but to recast Magus or
Eternal Dragon while I swing at him.
My deck still works, but without an early Natural Order, the early games can be a problem. Luckily Monopoman's deck wasn't too fast either.Monopoman vs Shantak 2-01-0: My counters take care that AI doesn't get any big creatures in play and
Kitchen Finks is the beater. AI decides to stop playing (no spells, doesn't attack with
Noble Hierarch, starts discarding castable spells) so the rest is trivial.
2-0: I let AI cast
Survival of the Fittest to see how it uses it (I have two counters in hand so I'm not worried). AI doesn't seem to cast anything at all.
Bogardan Hellkite and
Kitchen Finks finish him, but this has been a goldfish exercise for me.
A real letdown to see AI lock up so twice with my own deck. I think we'll have to soon deal with that issue before doing any more this big tournaments. Monopoman's deck did fine, though every game it seemed to take an eternity to kill AI.