magic tourney from my eyes

all in all, it was a good weekend. i'm still kinda thrown off by daylight savings though.

the magic tourney was excellent. i think for the most part we did a pretty good job at hosting the event. i hope illy will provide an awesome tournament next year.

as much as i have been anticipating the event..i'm so glad that it's finally over. i can stop stealing from my babies piggy bank and start using all our money to finally finish the baby area in our apartment. it's time that i start dedicating everything to my two boys.

i think i played a lot better than i expected and a lot better than what most people expected. having probably the least experience of everyone there, i was able to take every match the distance. this is the first time i've ever played competitively so i had lacked tons of experience, but i was really impressed with my draft. heres what i can remember from my deck:

x1 bone splitters
x2 wretched banquet
x1 call to heel
x1 unsummon
x1 cancel
x1 infest
x1 goblin assault
7

x1 bloodpyre elemental
x2 sedraxis specter
x1 rotting rats
x1 bloodhall ooze
x3 brackwater elemental
x1 goblin razerunners
x1 shambling remains
x1 corpse connoisseur
x1 firefield ogre
x1 dreadwing
x1 vithian stinger
14

x17 lands

i think i'm missing 1 or 2 cards. i really liked my draft and i thought i could go far with it, but a few misplays ruined me. the best game i played all day was against isiah during the draft portion. we ran out of time so i thought whoever won the first match would get the entire game so i started to feel pressured and felt i had to win, now. i then started playing really agressive and ended up losing the match in game 3 even though i controlled the board for the majority of the match. that's a rookie mistake by me...not knowing the full rules of the competition. that ones gonna sting for a while. awesome game though! another match that hurt was against vipat. there was one card that ruined me against him. "Cumberstone"! totally destroyed me. it completely slowed me down and eventually i lost to a bunch of flyers. i totally wasn't planning on seeing a cumberstone. for some odd reason i thought cumberstone was a 10th edition card.

i played pretty well for the standard portion. i went 2-2... i had two bad matchups and two good matchups. i played kithkin and won against lhang's elf deck and Geu's UW control/Mill deck. i lost to jimmy's realm razer deck and obe's red deck wins. i could'nt beat blong's RR deck all week so when i found out i had to play jimmy i wasn't looking forward to it. i came close to beating it though. the first game i almost won but jimmy pulled a volcanic fallout on me late game. the second game i was one turn from winning and jimmy pulled a wrath of god and left me with 3 windbrisk heights that could do nothing. i had a path under one, an ajani under one, and a glorious anthem under one. that hurt me bad!!!! against, obe's...i pretty much lost to flame javelon both turns. that card is powerful! he sided in a moonglove extract which surprised me. i should of took blong's advice and sideboarded a lapse of certainty but thought that card was weak. could've saved me..haha

my kithkin deck:
x4 figure of destiny
x4 knight of meadowgrain
x4 wizened cenn
x4 cloudgoat ranger
x2 burrenton-forgetender
x2 ranger of eos
x2 thistledown liege
22


x4 path to exile
x4 spectral procession
x2 oblivion ring
x2 glorious anthem
12

x2 ajani goldmane

x4 rustic clachan
x4 windbrisk heights
x2 mutavaults
x14 plains

sb
x2 burreton-forgetender
x2 stillmoon cavalier
x1 mark of asylum
x2 celestial purge
x1 wrath of god
x2 oblivion ring
x2 moonglove extract
x1 relic of progenitus
x2 ??? i forget

i will consider this the end of my rookie season. after only playing for a year i'm pretty satisfied with how i'm doing in the game right now. i think next year though i will be a tougher and better player.