Re: MRD Tournament Results!
Posted: 14 Feb 2011, 00:00
NICDANGER vs COGNIS: 2-0
Game 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxYsAWeOH6M Kept a hand with no green mana, gambling I'd draw one quickly. I did, and then dropped Armageddon, and AI never got a land after that; easy win.
Game 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa0jNeJ1XjY Kept a pretty good hand. AI didn't play a single land until the last turn, and I Strip Mined that. I used debug mode and peeked, and it had apparently kept a hand with no land at all. (or had been holding that Taiga for five turns)
I made one misplay where I tapped Steward of Valeron for mana before attacking, but other than that I don't think I goofed in either game. (I forget if I did that in game 1 or 2)
COGNIS vs NICDANGER: 2-0
Game 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5FHhCkzrKU Fairly straightforward win
Game 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8i6lpo6UyU I kept 3 mana, Maelstrom Pulse, and 3 expensive spells. I figured I'd stall with Pulse and draw land in time to cast those. AI strip mined my swamp, and I was pretty worried, but I drew mana just in time for Beacon of Destruction on Baneslayer Angel, and next turn cast Bituminous Blast on Wilt-Leaf Cavaliers. Easy win after that.
NICDANGER vs SHANTAK: 2-0
Game 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2APM_9Xg9Y Armageddon sealed the deal, though it took me a few turns to get going. I'd been on the defensive with Maze of Ith vs Novablast Wurm, and later Balance when it sacced the wurm to Natural Order for Progenitus, but after that I got the ball rolling.
Game 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl8lJ5VASTg Rout proved to be a bit of a speedbump, but Stirring Wildwood kept going; on the last turn I let AI hit me with Genesis rather than use Maze of Ith, so that the wildwood couldn't be blocked by it.
Game 3:
SHANTAK vs NICDANGER: 2-1
Game 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eVzvERr0nY Turn 4 Natural Order, turn 6 win; straightforward.
Game 2: (LOSS) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMKUUjSII30 Kept a hand with Magus of the Vineyard and several really expensive spells, like Rout and Akroma. I delayed playing the Magus at first, since I couldn't make use of it right away, while AI might be able to. When I finally did play the magus, AI already had Steward of Valeron, and dropped Wilt-Leaf Liege and Llanowar Knight. I took my beatings, then cast Rout next turn. AI followed up with Mystic Enforcer, and the turn after that Qasali Pridemage, and made the surprisingly correct play to attack with enforcer, then sac pridemage to destroy my mox diamond and gaining threshold, thus preventing me from casting Akroma next turn and taking me to 1 life. I topdecked a green creature to sac to Natural Order and NOed out Simic Sky Swallower to deter the enforcer, but AI got another creature and I drew an island and conceded. (had I drawn plains I could've cast Akroma, but I had 6WW, not 5WWW)
Game 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1xwwAookBM AI cheated on turn 3, discarding Wilt-Leaf Liege to Fauna Shaman and putting it directly into play. It also took an Armageddon :p However, I played Elvish Piper next turn, took the 7 from those two, and on turn 5 dropped Novablast Wurm in response to the AIs attack. The Wurm then raped everything and went all the way, so fortunately shantak wins despite the AI cheating.
NICDANGER vs MONOPOMAN: 2-0
Game 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpSWW6jU2HM Crucible of Worlds recurred Wasteland once against AI before it cast Disenchant on the crucible, but the damage was already done. AI never recovered from losing those two lands.
Game 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFBgmp0dkUw AI stalled a bit with some removal and Wall of Omens, but it proved no match for Emeria Angel and her babies.
MONOPOMAN vs NICDANGER: 2-0
Game 1: My first attempt at this match locked up. It's just as well; the AI literally gave up after turn 1. It cast a Fyndhorn Elves, then played a few land, then discarded spells it could've cast.
Game 1 again: The AIs turn froze up right before the turn I would've won on.
Game 1 once more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_S44QiuNnI My first hand isn't anything special, but has Show and Tell. On turn 3 I get the perfect topdeck of Emrakul, pop him out, and win turn 5. (no change in the result, since both the locked games I was 99% sure I'd won)
Game 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmoDSqmCX-c The AI gets off to a pretty quick start, but I stall with Mishra's Factory until I get Magus of the Disk out, blow everything up, and then play Isochron Scepter with Counterspell, and I just say 'no' to everything the AI does after that. This is the first game this round where I made significant decisions; the other games so far were really basic, and anyone would have had the same results.
COGNIS vs SHANTAK: 2-0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h46IWW4vikw (both games in one video, they were short)
Game 1: AI got manascrewed at 1 land and couldn't do much until it was too late.
Game 2: AI didn't do much at all. I think it might've been manaflooded. (or it just gave up early)
SHANTAK vs COGNIS: 2-0
Game 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW8XJYLSyo0 This game was weird. By turn 4 I'd drawn 12 lands :p Still managed to win, though, completely on the back of Tooth and Nail.
Game 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cPhImuj3ac This was a landslide. And THEN I cast turn 5 Tooth and Nail for Progenitus and Simic Sky Swallower from hand to play. Turn 6 was pure win
COGNIS vs MONOPOMAN: 2-0
Game 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOiOhVgtHOs I had many interesting decisions to choose from this game. Unfortunately, the AI put up no fight at all, so it didn't matter what order I did things.
Game 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcmoZHAj8DA Again, many interesting decisions came up, the most important of which proved to be my allowing Solemn Simulacrum to beat on me, rather than bolting it, as I was trying to keep AI from drawing white land, which it had none of until the late game. I'd also given AI Wrath of God and Exalted Angel on a Fact or Fiction that it cast. By the time it got WW on the board, it was too late. The AI made some very poor choices on which order to play things, the worst of which were not fetching white mana with the simulacrum, and disenchanting its own mox instead of my jitte.
MONOPOMAN vs COGNIS: 2-0
Game 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LvjJut4f5s Easy win. AI didn't do anything significant all game.
Game 2: Game locks up. A bug occurs a few turns after my morphed Exalted Angel dies to Chain Lightning, and a morphed 2/2 keeps showing up. Even using debug mode to bury it didn't work; it just came back right away. The turn after that, the game froze. It was too bad; it was a really good game. I had Collective Restraint and Wall of Reverence protecting me, and as soon as I got a 2nd white land I could've dropped Moat or Magus of the Disk, so I think I would've won.
Game 2 again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVdjMi_ziic I make so many mistakes in this game that I'm embarrassed to show it :p Turn 5 I play Hallowed Fountain tapped, which means I have to either discard EOT or play a morphed Exalted Angel when I know AI has Burst Lightning (it used Land Grant earlier). I choose the lesser of two evils and play the angel, who dies. A few turns later, AI plays Broodmate Dragon and I stupidly cast Bogardan Hellkite on my turn, forgetting it had flash, when I could've done it in response to an attack (this turned out to be irrelevant as AI had Terminate for it, but even so it was a mistake) Then I accidentally misclick on one turn when I should've returned Eternal Dragon to hand, but in my defense I thought I clicked on return it :p In any event, AI gives up by this point. I had Moat in play, and it kept discarding nonflying creatures instead of playing them.
SHANTAK vs MONOPOMAN: 2-0
Game 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YJ_9mfXnwA Elvish Piper pops out Progenitus and it's quickly over. AI dropped 7 lands (no red) and cast nothing but one wasted Cryptic Command all game. I peeked at AIs hand as I won and it was holding stuff it could've cast.
Game 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRXV9lOKlwg Lorescale Coatl backed up with Standstill almost goes the distance, but AI plowshares it, giving me 3 cards. I quickly follow up with Elvish Piper for Akroma and that's game. AI had given up here as well.
MONOPOMAN vs SHANTAK: 2-0
Game 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el-_bNUFNCw AI did almost nothing, so the win was easy.
Game 2: I had the game firmly under control. AI did actually do some stuff, but I had answers for it all. Crucially, it missed using Brittle Effigy on Bogardan Hellkite when I flashed it out to block AND then let me attack with it next turn. It exiled it postcombat that turn, but by then it was too late. I'd have won anyway, but it would've taken several more turns. (sorry this video seems to be corrupted)
Scoring: All games were 2-0 except shantak vs nicdanger was 2-1.
Also, it seems one or two of the videos were just over 15 minutes, so youtube rejected them; sorry about that.
Game 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxYsAWeOH6M Kept a hand with no green mana, gambling I'd draw one quickly. I did, and then dropped Armageddon, and AI never got a land after that; easy win.
Game 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa0jNeJ1XjY Kept a pretty good hand. AI didn't play a single land until the last turn, and I Strip Mined that. I used debug mode and peeked, and it had apparently kept a hand with no land at all. (or had been holding that Taiga for five turns)
I made one misplay where I tapped Steward of Valeron for mana before attacking, but other than that I don't think I goofed in either game. (I forget if I did that in game 1 or 2)
COGNIS vs NICDANGER: 2-0
Game 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5FHhCkzrKU Fairly straightforward win
Game 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8i6lpo6UyU I kept 3 mana, Maelstrom Pulse, and 3 expensive spells. I figured I'd stall with Pulse and draw land in time to cast those. AI strip mined my swamp, and I was pretty worried, but I drew mana just in time for Beacon of Destruction on Baneslayer Angel, and next turn cast Bituminous Blast on Wilt-Leaf Cavaliers. Easy win after that.
NICDANGER vs SHANTAK: 2-0
Game 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2APM_9Xg9Y Armageddon sealed the deal, though it took me a few turns to get going. I'd been on the defensive with Maze of Ith vs Novablast Wurm, and later Balance when it sacced the wurm to Natural Order for Progenitus, but after that I got the ball rolling.
Game 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl8lJ5VASTg Rout proved to be a bit of a speedbump, but Stirring Wildwood kept going; on the last turn I let AI hit me with Genesis rather than use Maze of Ith, so that the wildwood couldn't be blocked by it.
Game 3:
SHANTAK vs NICDANGER: 2-1
Game 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eVzvERr0nY Turn 4 Natural Order, turn 6 win; straightforward.
Game 2: (LOSS) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMKUUjSII30 Kept a hand with Magus of the Vineyard and several really expensive spells, like Rout and Akroma. I delayed playing the Magus at first, since I couldn't make use of it right away, while AI might be able to. When I finally did play the magus, AI already had Steward of Valeron, and dropped Wilt-Leaf Liege and Llanowar Knight. I took my beatings, then cast Rout next turn. AI followed up with Mystic Enforcer, and the turn after that Qasali Pridemage, and made the surprisingly correct play to attack with enforcer, then sac pridemage to destroy my mox diamond and gaining threshold, thus preventing me from casting Akroma next turn and taking me to 1 life. I topdecked a green creature to sac to Natural Order and NOed out Simic Sky Swallower to deter the enforcer, but AI got another creature and I drew an island and conceded. (had I drawn plains I could've cast Akroma, but I had 6WW, not 5WWW)
Game 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1xwwAookBM AI cheated on turn 3, discarding Wilt-Leaf Liege to Fauna Shaman and putting it directly into play. It also took an Armageddon :p However, I played Elvish Piper next turn, took the 7 from those two, and on turn 5 dropped Novablast Wurm in response to the AIs attack. The Wurm then raped everything and went all the way, so fortunately shantak wins despite the AI cheating.
NICDANGER vs MONOPOMAN: 2-0
Game 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpSWW6jU2HM Crucible of Worlds recurred Wasteland once against AI before it cast Disenchant on the crucible, but the damage was already done. AI never recovered from losing those two lands.
Game 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFBgmp0dkUw AI stalled a bit with some removal and Wall of Omens, but it proved no match for Emeria Angel and her babies.
MONOPOMAN vs NICDANGER: 2-0
Game 1: My first attempt at this match locked up. It's just as well; the AI literally gave up after turn 1. It cast a Fyndhorn Elves, then played a few land, then discarded spells it could've cast.
Game 1 again: The AIs turn froze up right before the turn I would've won on.
Game 1 once more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_S44QiuNnI My first hand isn't anything special, but has Show and Tell. On turn 3 I get the perfect topdeck of Emrakul, pop him out, and win turn 5. (no change in the result, since both the locked games I was 99% sure I'd won)
Game 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmoDSqmCX-c The AI gets off to a pretty quick start, but I stall with Mishra's Factory until I get Magus of the Disk out, blow everything up, and then play Isochron Scepter with Counterspell, and I just say 'no' to everything the AI does after that. This is the first game this round where I made significant decisions; the other games so far were really basic, and anyone would have had the same results.
COGNIS vs SHANTAK: 2-0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h46IWW4vikw (both games in one video, they were short)
Game 1: AI got manascrewed at 1 land and couldn't do much until it was too late.
Game 2: AI didn't do much at all. I think it might've been manaflooded. (or it just gave up early)
SHANTAK vs COGNIS: 2-0
Game 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW8XJYLSyo0 This game was weird. By turn 4 I'd drawn 12 lands :p Still managed to win, though, completely on the back of Tooth and Nail.
Game 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cPhImuj3ac This was a landslide. And THEN I cast turn 5 Tooth and Nail for Progenitus and Simic Sky Swallower from hand to play. Turn 6 was pure win
COGNIS vs MONOPOMAN: 2-0
Game 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOiOhVgtHOs I had many interesting decisions to choose from this game. Unfortunately, the AI put up no fight at all, so it didn't matter what order I did things.
Game 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcmoZHAj8DA Again, many interesting decisions came up, the most important of which proved to be my allowing Solemn Simulacrum to beat on me, rather than bolting it, as I was trying to keep AI from drawing white land, which it had none of until the late game. I'd also given AI Wrath of God and Exalted Angel on a Fact or Fiction that it cast. By the time it got WW on the board, it was too late. The AI made some very poor choices on which order to play things, the worst of which were not fetching white mana with the simulacrum, and disenchanting its own mox instead of my jitte.
MONOPOMAN vs COGNIS: 2-0
Game 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LvjJut4f5s Easy win. AI didn't do anything significant all game.
Game 2: Game locks up. A bug occurs a few turns after my morphed Exalted Angel dies to Chain Lightning, and a morphed 2/2 keeps showing up. Even using debug mode to bury it didn't work; it just came back right away. The turn after that, the game froze. It was too bad; it was a really good game. I had Collective Restraint and Wall of Reverence protecting me, and as soon as I got a 2nd white land I could've dropped Moat or Magus of the Disk, so I think I would've won.
Game 2 again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVdjMi_ziic I make so many mistakes in this game that I'm embarrassed to show it :p Turn 5 I play Hallowed Fountain tapped, which means I have to either discard EOT or play a morphed Exalted Angel when I know AI has Burst Lightning (it used Land Grant earlier). I choose the lesser of two evils and play the angel, who dies. A few turns later, AI plays Broodmate Dragon and I stupidly cast Bogardan Hellkite on my turn, forgetting it had flash, when I could've done it in response to an attack (this turned out to be irrelevant as AI had Terminate for it, but even so it was a mistake) Then I accidentally misclick on one turn when I should've returned Eternal Dragon to hand, but in my defense I thought I clicked on return it :p In any event, AI gives up by this point. I had Moat in play, and it kept discarding nonflying creatures instead of playing them.
SHANTAK vs MONOPOMAN: 2-0
Game 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YJ_9mfXnwA Elvish Piper pops out Progenitus and it's quickly over. AI dropped 7 lands (no red) and cast nothing but one wasted Cryptic Command all game. I peeked at AIs hand as I won and it was holding stuff it could've cast.
Game 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRXV9lOKlwg Lorescale Coatl backed up with Standstill almost goes the distance, but AI plowshares it, giving me 3 cards. I quickly follow up with Elvish Piper for Akroma and that's game. AI had given up here as well.
MONOPOMAN vs SHANTAK: 2-0
Game 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el-_bNUFNCw AI did almost nothing, so the win was easy.
Game 2: I had the game firmly under control. AI did actually do some stuff, but I had answers for it all. Crucially, it missed using Brittle Effigy on Bogardan Hellkite when I flashed it out to block AND then let me attack with it next turn. It exiled it postcombat that turn, but by then it was too late. I'd have won anyway, but it would've taken several more turns. (sorry this video seems to be corrupted)
Scoring: All games were 2-0 except shantak vs nicdanger was 2-1.
Also, it seems one or two of the videos were just over 15 minutes, so youtube rejected them; sorry about that.