PTQ - Barcelona
Costa Mesa Women's Club, Costa Mesa, CA
Feb 17, 2001
by Joey Ruiz
It was early when I woke up for the day of my second PTQ.
Me and one of my
drafting partners got there at 9:30 giving us enough
time to register and
meet the people. At a little after 10:00 we got
our starters and boosters
and I open some decent packs and mark down the cards.
Then the judge
announces the people who keep their decks and my name is
called and I
rejoice in the revel of the doomsday specter. Well
anyways here are thec ards i got:
1 Global Ruin
1 Restock
1 Juntu Stakes
1 Kavu Runner
1 Cauldron Dance
1 Rainbow Crow
1 Wax\Wane
1 Elfhame Palace
1 Pulse of Llanowar
1 Addle
1 Spirit Weaver
6 Island
6 Swamp
6 Plains
1 Foil Plains
6 Mountains
5 Forests
1 Vodalian Merchant
1 Metheran Zombie
1 Stormscape Apprentice
1 Cursed Flesh
1 Urborg Skeleton
1 Dream Thrush
1 Freinzed Tilling
1 Yavimaya Barbarian
1 Slimy Kavu
1 Crown of Flames
1 Stun
1 Protective Sphere
1 Rampant Elephant
1 Razorfoot Griffin
1 Crimson Acolyte
1 Obsidian Acolyte
1 Prison Barricade
1 Reviving Dose
1 Tainted Well
1 Serpentine Kavu
1 Llanowar Vangaurd
1 Whip Silk
1 Fertile Ground
1 Aniceint Spring
1 Geothermal Crevice
1 Pheyrixian Battleflies
1 Plague Spores
1 Soul Burn
1 Nightscape Apprentice
1 Ruham Djinn
1 Pouncing Kavu
1 Scorching Lava
1 Tidal Visionary
1 Benalish Emissary
1 Doomsday Specter
1 Planeswalkers' Fury
1 Treva's Ruins
1 Darigaaz's Cladera
1 Implode
1 Mogg Jailer
1 Multani's Harmony
1 Rith's Charm
1 Rushing River
1 Magma Burst
1 Bog Down
1 Maggot Carrier
1 Lava Zombie
1 Arctic Merefolk
1 Confound
2 Nightscape Familiar
1 Pheyrixian Bloodstock
1 Insolence
1 Mire Kavu
1 Sinister Strength
1 Root Greevil
1 Pygmy Kavu
1 Amphibious Kavu
1 Aurora Griffin
1 Sunscape Familiar
1 Slingshot Goblin
1 Sisay's Ingineuity
1 Steel-leaf Paladin
1 Daring Leap
And here was the deck I built:
1cc
1 Pheyrixian Battleflies
1 Maggot Carrier (did about 12 damage all day)
1 Nightscape Apprentice
1 Tidal Visionary
2cc
2 Nightscape Familiar (mvp with pure speed)
1 Sinister Strength
1 Scorching Lava
1 Arctic Merefolk
1 Confound
3cc
1 Planeswalkers' Fury
1 Soul Burn
1 Lava Zombie
1 Rushing River
1 Insolence (i truly overrated this card)
1 Slingshot Goblin
4cc
1 Doomsday Specter
1 Magma Burst
1 Mire Kavu
1 Rainbow Crow
5cc
1 Pouncing Kavu(always kick it)
1 Pheyrixian Bloodstock
6cc
1 Plague Spores
1 Cauldron Dance
Land
7 Swamp
6 Mountain
5 Island
The deck sorta built itself but I had to go with 42
cards.
Round 1 vs. mirror
most of this match i cant remeber because I was sick but
game 1 went pretty
fast with me playing a few ealy creatures and the fury
only to be stopped by
larger creatures which i died because i didnt want to
take my chances with
the fury
game 2 was a little more one sided as i am stuck with
off color mana and
dont get a creature 2 turns before I die
Matches 0-1 games 0-2
Round 2 vs. b\r\g
game 1 was awesome for me playing carrier followed by
familiar and then the
carrier came back in and the zombie became sinister
this game was a little worse as i had him down to about
8 before he played
tsabo's assassin. soon enough he took control and
consistently attacked for
the win
the last game involved me using my familiars to stop his
halam djinn and
others until he dropped plague spitter. After that
he played the Assassin
which survived due to a plague block. Then
thunderscape apprentice came out
and drained until 9 before i got to burst. he got
a few land draws and i
played beef for the win. he drops
Matches 1-1 games 2-3
Round 3 vs. ??????????
I can't remember but i made the guy drop after winning
Round 4 vs. b\r\u
this guy plays early urborg phantom against my early
drops until he draws
enough removal to where he has enough fliers to beat me
game 2 is once again one sided with me parising down to
five with one land
and i am overrun (bad shuffle or cut)
Round 5 vs. Brandon with r\g\b
saw his deck playing kicked rage earler so its pretty
devastating so i
decide if he has lots of mana keep my life above twenty.
A long stalemate
is followed by a flurry of removal on both sides until i
get enough
creatures to overrun his for a game win
game 2
goes into us exchanging early damage with sinister
strength until at 11 I
plague spores his key creature an only mountain and in
response he rages.
he has 2 evasion creatures and attacks for kill at which
last turn i played
a kill card and he syas show me removal and you win.
I drop a river and
win.
Round 6 vs. a guy named Ali(he doens't like cocky
players) 4 colorsithink
well i couldnt tell what he was playing but game one saw
him paris and me
drawwing consistent creatures and him taking awhile to
get any so i win and
boast as most do
he is pissed and plays evasion creatures removes my
blockers as i put up
a good defense but it is not enough and i hit 0 like a
sack of bricks
he draws a god hand with a creature every turn and
removal and i am screwed
over in mana color he laughs in my face and i end up
watching gerhardt make
some good plays next to me
Round 7 vs. Anthony with u\w\g
well game was one sided again with a solid creature base
and me
consistentley attacking to win the game
game two he parises and ups killing me with fliers and
acolytes in the next
2 games
So that was my short but informative first report i hope
u enjoy it cause i
sure did enjoy writing it
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