Ames PTQ Experience

   So we here at MTG The Journey played the Ames, IA P.T.Q. Sealed event, hosted by Mayhem Comics. We hoped to pull some good stuff and have a great time, and we sure did. We posted some updates as to how we did throughout the day, and took some pictures of our decks we put together, and we now have them here for your enjoyment.

   Before we go into the decks though, we just want to say that this was our first PTQ Event ever, and we were a bit overwhelmed by the sheer size of the event. There were 238 people who showed up, as opposed to last year's 183 people who showed. Also we were not ready for registering our cards, and then passing them away from us and getting a set that someone else had registered, but we dealt with it. We both decided to drop in round 4, as we were not expecting 9 rounds, and had afternoon activities already planned. We both ended up 2-2 though, and the prize payout for the day was X-2, and we didn't figure that we were going to go 5 more rounds with no losses, so rather than keep playing, as it was already 3:30pm, we just decided to drop and run.

    First up, we will go through David's Deck and how it performed.

First Round:
 Came out 1-2 after mana-flooding game 1, winning game 2 handily and mana screwing game 3. He is playing a R/W, Heroic based deck. He played against a U/G/W beatdown deck.

Second Round:
   So the deck did better this round, he went 2-0 against a U/B who drew bad hands. Both games were over within 6 turns, so he came over to watch my games at that point.

   It went to a 45 minute lunch break at this time, then we came back and started into the next round.

Third Round:
   David won 2-1 against a U/R deck that utilized Scry a lot. The game he lost to he drew a 1-mana hand and kept it, not very smart.

Fourth Round:
   Not so good this round, David went 0-2 due to bad hands and mana screw after mulligans down to 5. No dice.

Here are some pics of David's build, and what he ran with: 

The Whole Deck

The Unused White Cards

The Unused Red Cards

The White Creatures

The White Support Spells

The Red Creatures

The Red Support Spells

The Multi-Colored Spells

 

     Not bad pulls, he also could have gone a couple of different directions with the other cards he pulled, and if you feel like checking it out, you can look at them on our Photobucket account under David's PTQ Deck.

    On to how Chuck did now!

Round 1:
   I played a R/G/W beat-down with heavy creature and burn emphasis. I went 2-0 first round after my opponent, who was playing U/W couldn't respond to my Xenagos.

Round 2:
   I went 1-2 against a guy who pretty much was playing the same deck as I was with more flying, and more emphasis on White. He won game 1 handily and game 3 was close, but he came away with it because of the flyer with a finishing life total of 6. Game 2 was lengthier due to Xenagos saving the day once again.

Round 3:
   Well I lost to a R/B/G beat down deck that just had too many answers. 1-2 on that one. Never saw Xenagos in any of the games and mana screwed hard both of the last games.

Round 4:
   So I went 2-1 this round against a B/U combat trick deck with a lot of evasion, and the last round he had to mull down to 5 and keep there. Just steamrolled over it. It was a hard choice after this to drop. But the chances of going 5-0 after that point just didn't seem likely.

Here are some pictures of Chuck's deck!

The whole deck

The Green Spells

The Red Spells

The White Spells

The Multi-Colored Spells

The Green Sideboard

The Red Sideboard

The White Sideboard

   If you want to look at the rest of the Sealed pools, once again, both of them are available at our MTG The Journey Photobucket page. Feel free to check those out!

   As always, thanks for reading! Look forward to our next post, featuring our Mono-Black Build.