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!