I decided to take a Matriana Mind wrench deck to the first RQ. I should have borrowed R.Levin's Eternums and taken a Gnome Rogue. The deck did not run enough hard-to-deal-with threats, and spleunker is too easily dealt with.


R1: Jacob M playing JinRohk Pally.
I thought I had good game here, but
Game one, Ice Barbed Spear slowed me down miserably, and eventually he plonked me mostly to death with it, before finishing with 7 or so off a cloak of darkness.
Game two I sided in 2 more pappy and 3 disperse(?) magic. And lost to a Jinrohk that was drawn as the 3rd card from a CTA: Arathi Basin, completed in response to a vampiric tendrils.

R2: Steve L playing Orc Rogue
Game one I have a strong vampiric tendrils, and win with a 22/22 spleunker.
Game two I loose to a sideboarded Shuriken of Negation stealing tempo not once, but twice. Oops!
Game three I seem to be in control, but he top decked a dealiness, dropping me by a resource and a slpeunker. Then, on a critical turn I didn't hold back a omens of terror, so couldn't finish off his treebole once it ran into my Jameson. Boo.


R3: Phill C Gnome Rogue
Game one I loose to his stable board presence, namely, Black amnesty and a hope ender, Dimzers, etc.
Game two is more of the same: my threats do not answer his threats one for one, and eventually I am five-damaged to death, along with a 6 token hope ender.

R4: Bye.
I watch Phill C's match against a horde intimidation hunter, which was very interesting. Intimidation, the armor set, 10or so pets. etc. I forget who won, but it went to three games.

On my left, I watched a cat (sorry I don't remember your name) playing a very interesting glass cannon horde holy priest deck. He runs a few will of the foresaken as well as blind faith, but I didn't see any gavels, which saddens me. I think he lost to being out drawn by a gnome warlock.

Other decks there included: 2 (pretty sure gnome) warlock decks, a midrange(?) horde shaman, and a horde arena hunter deck.

DECKLIST:
4 Auchidon Spirit Towers
4 Darkness Calling
4 Rise and Be recognized
3 Towers and Bunkers

2 Splinter Mind
3 owned!
3 A Taste of Divinity
4 Omens of Terror
4 Mist of Corrosion
4 Horrify
4 Vampiric Tendrils

2 Pappy Ironbane
3 spleunker maddocks
4 gromble the apt
4 Royal Guardian Jameson
4 Mikael the blunt

SIDE:
3 wub's
3 disperse magic
2 pappy
2 splinter mind

Conclusion:
Not enough game changing and/or hard to deal with threats. And in two games, towers and bunkers only drew me one card, / was hard to turn on. And let's face it: every alliance deck should be running weldons and Adams. If they're not, they're missing amazing board presence.

Changes:
-3 owned!
-4 Royal Guardian Jameson

+4 Adam
+3 Weldon

Or
+3 Nether shard
+4 weldon

Or
Quickhands spigot gulp
Weldon

ETC.

Thoughts?

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Chad Gaynier won with Ryno, he beat Phil Cape playing Alliance Deadliness Rogue.

There were 11 players and a cut to top 8. 
3 Ryno (including myself) 1 horde priest with searing light, 1 horde hunter ocs + intimidation, 1 arena.dec, 1 horde enhance shaman, 1 horde deadliness rogue, 1 horde solo pally, 1 alliance deadliness rogue and 1 alliance priest.

Does anyone have the Ryno list that won?

It'll be in my article next week.

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1326613:

It'll be in my article next week.

You never fail to disappoint :)

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I'm assuming that is something that makes sense to British people. 

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He's wanting info now, you're saying next week !

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Only two things are infinite......

Should of been a cut to the top 4 not 8 for only 11 players.

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1326613:

I'm assuming that is something that makes sense to British people. 

You (that's you Phil)
never (ever ever)
Fail (Epically, in fact)
to (infinitive)
Dissapoint (feeling of dissatisfaction that follows the failure of expectations to manifest)

There. Simple. You always dis-satisfy people.

Cheers.

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1189990:

1326613:

I'm assuming that is something that makes sense to British people. 

You (that's you Phil)
never (ever ever)
Fail (Epically, in fact)
to (infinitive)
Dissapoint (feeling of dissatisfaction that follows the failure of expectations to manifest)

There. Simple. You always dis-satisfy people.

Cheers.

Thats not what my girlfriend says!

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893329:

Should of been a cut to the top 4 not 8 for only 11 players.

Judge said it was cut to top 8 regardless of size per a new policy document they recieved from upper deck. i didn't care, so i was cool with that.

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1326613:

1189990:

1326613:

I'm assuming that is something that makes sense to British people. 

You (that's you Phil)
never (ever ever)
Fail (Epically, in fact)
to (infinitive)
Dissapoint (feeling of dissatisfaction that follows the failure of expectations to manifest)

There. Simple. You always dis-satisfy people.

Cheers.

Thats not what my girlfriend says!

That's because she already has access to the decklist :)

Cheers.

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I should come up and check out a michigian event sometime. Sounds like you guys have a growing player base I would like to meet.

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Phil Fails

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893329:

I should come up and check out a michigian event sometime. Sounds like you guys have a growing player base I would like to meet.

Pandemonium's Battlegrounds start at 6pm on Tuesdays. Last Tuesday there were 11-13 of us, including three(?) Day 2 NACC'ers.

The local scrubs aren't to scrubby, either.

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