Hump Day: Even more EDH

Let's just get started with the report! Two games and standings!

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The first match is between Nekusar and Karador.

In game 1, Nekusar was stuck on 3 lands while Karador quickly ramped into a sylvan primordial

An early sylvan primordial usually spells a quick death

hitting lands. That quickly ended the game.

In game 2, Nekusar came out on turn 4 followed by 2 incendiary commands for their wheel effects meant that Karador lost a lot of life very quickly. Karador was ready with a Hornet queen defense, but Nekusar had a decree of pain ready for all of the queen's hornets. Thus, game 2 went to Nekusar.

In game 3, Nekusar was slowly building up his combo of Spiteful visions + Nekusar. However, Karador had already summoned the mighty vish kal. With Karador and Golgari Grave Troll, Vish Kal became a 14/14 very quickly and was shooting stuff down left and right.

Nekusar (MGR) 1 - Karador (QSP) 2

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The second match was between Oloro and Rhys!

Rhys got out an early doubling season in game 1 with a lot of elf tokens, then followed up with a

For the right price, you can find anything here

quick humility to negate all of Oloro's big creatures. However, Oloro was able to mindslaver Rhys, and make Rhys use his own return to dust on Humility and Doubling season. Oloro then followed up by opening Lim Dul's Vault, finding Academy Ruins, thus locking Rhys out of the game.

In game 2, Rhys got out a few early elf tokens on turns 2 and 3. Then started using his special redeemed powers to quickly double his army. He had 16 elf tokens that were pumped up by the spear of heliod. Oloro's life gain could not match that much damage output.

Always surprises me when this land does well

So we went to game 3. Oloro seemed to be doing well with a putrid imp pitching some strong creatures, and reanimating a consecrated sphinx, a Drogskol
Reaver, and a Myr Battlesphere. However, Rhys was able to sacrifice the Grove of the Guardian land, making an 8/8 token that he started doubling every turn. Rhys had 8 8/8 tokens with vigilance that Oloro could not draw any kill spells for.

Oloro (MGR) 1 - Rhys (QSP) 2

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Finally, here are some standings as we go into the Thanksgiving Break!

More EDH fun

So here we go, some more EDH reports!
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First off, we had Kaalia versus Lyzolda!

He loves eating Karoo Lands

Game 1 was a sad experience. On turn 2, Kaalia lays down a karoo land, and Lyzolda counters with a simian spirit guide to an avalance riders, effectively putting Kaalia's board state to starting, where as
Lyzolda had 3 lands in play. By the time Kaalia had a chance to recoup, Lyzolda had a bunch of lands and a sire of insanity out. It was a quick game by that point.

Game 2, was the game of answers. Kaalia was summoned quickly, but Lyzolda quickly bitumous blasted her. Kaalia then summoned Oros the Avenger and equipped some Lightning Greaves, but Lyzolda then used Chainer's Edict to get rid of the dragon. Kaalia just ran out of gas at that point.

Kaalia (MGR) 0 - Lyzolda (QSP) 2

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Apparently even Progenitus can't escape the Eye's Doom

The next match we have is Progenitus facing off against Nekusar. The battle of last place!
In game 1, Progenitus called upon the superfriends Koth, Ajani Goldmane, and Gideon, Champion of Justice. He was attacking Nekusar's open board for 11 a turn. However, Nekusar summoned the army
of the damned, and Progenitus was having a hard time getting through. Nekusar was at 10 life and Progenitus was on the field, but Eye of Doom spelled an end to Progenitus's lethal swing. The following turns, the army of the damned overran all the superfriends.

In game 2, Nekusar seemed to be building up all of his pieces. He was out on the field with a spiteful visions, and Progenitus was taking 6 a turn just on his draw step. However, Progenitus summoned Sorin Markov, bringing Nekusar to 10. The following turn, Nekusar took 3 damage to his own draw step, followed by Sorin's +2 bite, and Ajani Vengeant's Lightning Helix.

Game 3 was a quick one. Progenitus was stuck on Black and blue when he needed green and white to even be effective. Nekusar once again had spiteful visions out and progenitus could not recover quickly enough.

Progenitus (MGR) 1 - Nekusar (QSP) 2

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The final match for today's report, Karador versus Marath!

In game 1, Karador had a Teneb and himself out dealing a lot of damage. However, as Marath seemed

Marath's trusty hammer

down for the count, he got a sunforger to get all of his answers. A selesnya charm for Teneb, a condemn for Karador, and a boros charm when Karador tried to sunblast angel to wrath Marath's board.

In game 2, Marath had out a witch hunt and was constantly being resummoned after removing all of his counters to ping Karador's life total. Karador had a vish kal out, but because of witch hunt and all of the exile effects Marath had, Karador could not come through.

Karador (MGR) 0 - Marath (QSP) 2

Hump Day: EDH adventures

So time for some EDH adventures!

First up, we had a new commander on the block! Derevi (piloted by me), who took the place of Rafiq as master tactician in charge of the bant army vs Rhys (piloted by QSP) and his token armies.

Will she have what it takes to become master tactician?

The bane of Bant armies

Game 1 between these two was extremely close. Rhys got Derevi down to 1 life very quickly with an aggressive start. Derevi had to oblivion stone twice (with the help of academy ruins) to live through. Then Derevi was able to wargate a thragtusk back in and start blinking it to regain life, thus shutting down Rhys's intense pressure.
Game 2, Rhys got an early torpor orb, and most of Derevi's creatures were useless. However, a
bribery into elesh norn was able to seal the deal as most of Rhys's creatures and tokens could not even live through an Elesh Norn.

So, Derevi (MGR) 2 - Rhys (QSP) 0



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Not as good as a lotus petal however

40 dollar powerhouse

Next up, we had more new contenders on the block! Lyzolda, the Blood Witch versus Jeleva, Nephalia's scourge!
In the first game, Lyzolda was able to get out a quick dwarven blastminer thanks to a simian spirit guide, and start taking down
all of Jeleva's lands. Avalanche riders and Lay wastes made sure that Jeleva never had any blue sources, sealing the deal in that game.
In the second game, Lyzolda was able to get an early Sire of Insanity against Jeleva, and with the land destruction to keep Jeleva off of red, Lyzolda was easily able to win despite Jeleva's True Name Nemesis.

Lyzolda (MGR) 2 - Jeleva (QSP) 0

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The next match was the battle of kings. Oloro, king of his own island, the ageless ascetic versus the Reaper king!

A better damnation

A great reanimation creature

In game 1, an early toxic deluge keeps reaper king off the table. However, Oloro could not get through Reaper King as mishra's factory was constantly making tokens. So Oloro decided to get off of his throne and start drawing a bunch more cards. However, reaper king was able to set up an eternity vessel at 17, and Oloro could not punch through 17 damage. Additonally, Reaper King was setting up the maze's end win, so Oloro had to act extremely fast. However, Oloro was able to get the mindslaver lock, effectively winning the game.
In game 2, Oloro got an early buried alive putting karmic guide, sharum the hedgemon, and sphinx of steel wind in the graveyard. Next turn, he exhumed the karmic guide, getting sharuum, getting the sphinx. Reaper king once again summoned his eternity vessel at 15, but the trio of creatures was able to punch through for enough damage.



Oloro (MGR) 2 - Reaper King (QSP) 0

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Devastating

Next up we had Lyzolda vs Oloro. Would Lyzolda be able to keep Oloro off of colors, or would Oloro's life gain be too much for the blood witch? We had to find out!
In game 1, lyzolda had a manaforge cinder which was great at filtering mana in the early turns, as all
she was drawing was swamps. Lyzolda had set up orcish settlers and was one turn away from destroying all of Oloro's lands, but Lyzolda's greediness didn't pay off as Oloro killed the goblin settlers. Filigree angel and Oloro's life gain was then too much for Lyzolda's aggro plan.
In game 2, Oloro was able to get a putrid imp to discard a sphinx of steel wind then exhume it. Lyzolda had 0 ways of dealing with it, and with the sphinx's life gain, it was all over very quickly.

Lyzolda (MGR) 0 - Oloro (QSP) 2

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So Oloro was doing pretty well, we had to see if the king of the throne could continue. His next opponent, the champion of meletis, Daxos!

Anti-equipment girl

A naked man's favorite spell

In game 1, Oloro and Daxos were duking it out when Daxos decided to create a catalysm, destroying all but 1 land, creature, artifact, and enchantment. However, Oloro was able to rebuild his mana within a few turns and reanimate a karmic guide into a sphinx of steel wind. Oloro
ended up winning soon after.
In game 2, Oloro was going for the quick kill. He tried to buried alive but Daxos decided to daze it. Additionally, Daxos had an isochron scepter with a swords to plowshares imprinted. Things were not looking good for the ageless ascetic as all of his creatures were getting exiled! (And thus could not be reanimated). However, Oloro was able to get a mindslaver and enslave one of Daxos's turns. When he did, he decided to have Daxos cast cataclysm. Oloro was able to recover his mana faster and animate a sphinx of uthuun. However, Daxos had a banisher priest with a sword of light and shadow equipped, and the two were racing. Daxos had a decent setup, however! Sydri, Galvanic genius was there to decide Daxos's fate by making the swords of light and shadow a creature, thus it fell off the creature it was equipped to!

Oloro (MGR) 2 - Daxos (QSP) 0

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And the final match of the night, could the Ageless king take down the bant tactician?
In game 1, oloro was able to get out an early oona, queen of the fae. It was facing off versus a derevi

Sometimes being queen isn't enough

Bant armies are very persuasive

and a sun titan. Derevi was able to keep oona off her back with a maze of ith. Then, Derevi casted a bribery that would end up becoming a big bribery chain: Bribery got a karmic guide from Oloro's deck, the karmic guide brought back the sun titan in Derevi's graveyard, which got back the eternal witness, which got back the bribery. The bribery was then cast again to get a consecrated sphinx! That ended the game soon after, as the card advantage and creature advantage proved too much.
In game 2, Derevi was able to strip mine a lot of Oloro's early lands with a sun titan to recur the strip mine to keep Oloro off of white. Derevi had an army of X/2's and Oloro was going to cast a famine to get rid of them; however, Derevi was able to Time stop to counter that plan. Then Derevi opened a wargate and get a Mirror Entity, and start swinging for X=7, Oloro could not recover from it.

Derevi (MGR) 2 - Oloro (QSP) 0

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So that is the matches for this week. Here are the standings if you are curious!

The seedings are a bit messed up but hopefully will get fixed. The reason we are keeping track of seeds and records? QSP will talk about it in a future post...

Until next time!

Hump Day: Matches 9, 12, & 13

So first off, I'll be talking about Match 9 that QSP left for me to report on.

Game 1: So, I was on the progenitus deck and QSP was on the Rafiq deck.
I was stuck on just green and black lands forever! He had an academy rector out and was swinging every turn. I didn't want to block it with my garruk relentless tokens because that would allow him to get any enchantment he wanted from his deck. So I was taking one every turn. Stuck on just green and black lands, I finally drew a demonic tutor. I can search for a land! No one ever counters the tutor, they counter what you tutor for right?

Well no, he played mystic snake to counter the demonic tutor....
Long story short, game 1 was a disaster. I didn't really get to do much of anything while he beat down with academy rector and a mystic snake.

As you can see in my hand, I needed more than just Green and black mana. I drew one island, but I needed a lot more to even do anything.

So anyway, lost game 1.

He top decked a good one!

Game 2: I had a quick start with an ajani vengeant, karn liberated, tezzeret agent of bolas, and doubling season out in play. Karn was at ultimate, ajani V was at ultimate, and tezzeret was making

my artifacts 5/5 every turn to swing in. Additionally, because I was making so many 5/5's, I had QSP down to 4 life. Then the turn I was going to win, he time stops me when I try to ultimate with Ajani. He top decks an oblivion stone and takes everything out. Then the tables were turned. He started coming back. Eventually the board state looked like this:

He had a venser that he was crystal sharding, and a mulldrifter with double swords! Things were not looking good.

He eventually just outright won as I drew nothing that could dig me out of that ditch.

So final score for match 9, Progenitus (MGR) 0 - Rafiq (QSP) 2

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The next match I have to report on was a new EDH deck that QSP was building based on Karador, Ghost chieftain. He considered it a "beta" deck, but I said I wanted to try it out anyway. So he picked up the Kaalia deck to play against it, and there we went.

A new commander enters the fray

One of the best budget reanimation spells.

Game 1, I got mana screwed. I had 3 lands and couldn't do anything. Luckily, I had an animate dead in my hand, so when I got to 8 cards in hand, I discarded a Teneb the Renewer. The next turn, I was able to play a lotleth troll and stall out with teneb as Kaalia was summoned on the opponent's
battlefield. The following turn, I attacked with both teneb and lotleth troll, discarded more creatures to lotleth troll and started a reanimation engine that Kaalia could not beat, even with angelic arbiter out.

Game 2, I was stuck on 2 lands. QSP put a reliquary tower in the deck so I could not start the same shenanigans again with the discard at cleanup step due to 8 cards in hand. I thought I was going to lose when I played Erebos Emissary (which QSP asked me about as a last slot). I was using the Emissary to pitch my creatures to the graveyard to play gnaw to the bone to keep me in the game, because at this point, I have about 6 or 7 angels, demons, and dragons attacking me. I am down to 5 life when I have enough mana to pitch a sunblast angel to the graveyard thanks to the emissary and then cast it with dread return. It wipes Kaalia's entire board and I slowly start to come back after that, to end up winning.

So final score for this match, Karador (MGR) 2- Kaalia (QSP) 0

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So next match was to see if Karador could do it again, another upset? I picked up Rafiq with many changes while QSP was to play Karador.

One of the best green creatures in EDH

Game 1: I was stuck on 2 lands for a while, although I was able to play simic signet and coalition relic to mana ramp me up. On QSP's side, he played a karoo land which allowed him to discard
Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts. Since I was able to ramp up to 5 lands, I played an acidic slime and blew up the karoo land. However, he played exhume getting his Teysa into play.







I played a crystal shard and returned acidic slime to my hand to recast him, to try to keep him off of

Really annoying to attack into

lands while he continued to swing in with Teysa. His teysa was getting to be too much so I had to cast oblivion stone, as Teysa was being joined by friends. Additionally, since his reanimator deck plays big creatures, his lurking predators enchantment made me play around it. Everytime I cast a spell, I had to wonder if a big creature was going to come out into play.

However, QSP kicked marshal's anthem to bring teysa back into play. Then I genesis wave'd for 6, mostly getting lands, but also getting a phyrexian metamorph to copy teysa. QSP then reanimated mageta the lion from his graveyard. I played a deadeye navigator and a prime speaker zegana, while QSP continued to swing all out with his big army of big beaters.

He brought me down to 6 life, while I wargated for 6 grabbing a mana reflection with a grim monolith on the board already. That allowed me to sphinx's revelation and draw my entire deck, and proceed to win the game from there.

Best non Black tutor in EDH

 Game 2: So at the start of game 2, he played a karoo land on turn 2. I ended up strip mining it, allowing me a large tempo advantage. There was a turn he was stuck on one land and I thought I was going to be okay, however he played kodama's reach, recollect into another kodama's reach on turns 4 and 5, making him ramp even faster than I was.

Better than primeval titan?

He was able to pitch his sylvan primordial to the graveyard along with an unburial rites, so I destroyed his strionic resonator he had out on the field with bant charm. I did not want him blowing up 2 of my lands. I then cast prophet of kruphix which allowed me to cast a lot more spells than him, eventually leading to me casting a genesis wave for 13 a few turns later.

Reads: Destroy an artifact, counter an instant, or tuck a general

He then conceded when the board state looked like this:

So in the end for match 13, Rafiq (MGR) 2 - Karador (QSP) 0