FNM 6-28-13

  So I went to Mayhem Collectibles, Ames with my Prime Speaker Bant variant deck expecting nothing more than an experience. And I was in for it.
   Let me start off by saying I am immensely irritated by my deck's performance on card draw. It just went to crap real fast. I run 4 Arbor Elf, 4 Gyre Sage and 4 Predator Ooze in my deck, and only one out of every 4 games did I even see one of them in my opening hand, which is extremely disappointing with those card odds. My ramp didn't want to work right, my land base was horrible and overall every match I played it just did not want to work.
   So barring that I learned a lot about my deck.

    Match 1 vs a B/R/G speed deck playing things like Rakdos Cackler, Hellrider and that sort. First game he came out swinging and rolled me in 5-7 turns. Game 2 I beat him in 5 turns by dropping an Increasing Savagery on Gyre Sage and turning around and dropping the same Increasing Savagery onto Predator Ooze from the graveyard and next turn dropping an Ajani, Caller of the Pride for flying doublestrike to the face. Third game he was a little more prepared for the Ooze and planned around it. But it was close. Exava was his only saving grace.

   Match two was basically a kid playing a variant of the first match's deck, except he beat me 2-0. And I had him down to 4 life and made a dumb move swinging with a 8/8 Arbor Elf with a Rancor on it, and he came back and dropped a Legion Loyalist for a battalion effect. Lame.

   Match 3 I came up against my buddy Alvin, and he has a unique homebrew built that runs Golgari colors, but runs a LOT of removal, our first game went 35 minutes, and he had so many answers it was annoying. I had nothing to counter his instant removal, and the second game I had a bad draw and kept it, and it ended much quicker.

   Match 4 I steamrolled with my Predator Oozes and Ajani's and totally destroyed a pauper deck that had no answers for me. It would figure that my last game of the night my deck would finally draw what I needed.

    Oh well, at least I now know some things that I need to change about my deck. Will be doing a tad bit of tooling and will post a new deck some time this week. I won't be using this deck again until after M14 releases due to the 4th being this weekend. (However, my brother will be in town this weekend so I am sure we will be working on it.) Next weekend is Pre-Release for M14, and the next day I leave for 2 weeks of AT, so yeah, my next FNM I might get to play at will be on Aug 2nd.

    So will post any updates between now and then on changes I make, I bought a box of M14, but won't be able to pick it up until after I get back on the 28th of July. So will post any good pulls I get then as well.