Green Spells (12)
3x Roar of the Wurm
3x Werebear
2x Krosan Beast
4x Quirion Dryad

Blue Spells (26)
4x Opt
4x Peek
4x Fact or Fiction
2x Tolarian Winds
4x Traveller's Cloak
4x Memory Lapse
4x Predict

Multi (4)
4x Temporal Spring

Land (20)
4x Yavimaya Coast
4x Cephalid Collisium
8x Islands
4x Forest

SB
4x Rushing River
4x Aether Burst
4x Divert -they failed me
3x Mana Short

Round 1: Played one of my good friends with his Balancing Act deck
First game, My Dryad gets to be 11/11 and my buddy was at 3 and I had a krosan beast but he pulled an orim's
chant. That gave him an extra turn and he pulled off the combo. After sideboarding out my Traveller's Cloak, I put in
4 Rushing River. I won the second game easily and the 3rd game was another win considering he got mana screwed. But
a win is a win.
Record: 1-0

Round 2: Played against Aggro U/B/R
First game, he killed me. My Dryad was a 7/7 with Island Walk but he Recoiled it and that sucked real bad.
Second game, I lost horribly to a rage with kicker. I diverted it twice, first time he paid, the second time he
Disrupted it. I felt bad but I ended up trading with the guy.
Record: 1-1

Round 3: Machinehead
First game, he gets an early blazing out but I just discarded my roars and gained threshold. I played a Krosan
Beast and traveler's Cloaked him with Mountain Walk. He plays a Skizzik and then tried to terminate my Krosan
Beast but I memory lapse it and I predicted which was kinda cool. I won that game and the second game was a
close one but my Aether Bursts kind of hurt him a lot.
Record: 2-1

Round 4: Black/White deck
I haven't seen this deck in a while. You can guess that the spectral lynx almost killed me. I won the first game after
using Traveller's Cloak on my Dryad when he became an 8/8 Plains Walk. Second game was real fun. He had
about 2 lands in his opening hand and I had 3 memory lapse. I kept countering his Spectral Lynx and he kept
taking pain when he played it over and over. My Dryad was a 5/5 and I beat him down with a Roar of the wurm after
he Vindicated my dryad. He used Voice of All and I Aether Burst everything that was in the wurms way.
Record: 3-1, Making top 8

Top 8, First Round: R/G/B Beatdown sort of thing
The guy gave me a dollar because I predicted that his next card would be a Phyrexian Rager. That was pretty fun
but I lost the first game. I sideboarded in my Aether bursts and Rushing Rivers which helped me clear the path for
the Dryad and pumped him up nicely. I was down to 6 when he conceded considering he was gonna lose anyways.
Third game was a cheap way to win using Werebear with threshold. He was down to 1 and he used Haunting
echoes to empty my graveyard. In response, I used the Collisium and drew a Rushing River. I bounced his Skizzik
and he called game since I was gonna attack with my 1/1 werebear.
Record: 4-1, Advancing to the semifinals

Top 8, Semifinals: R/W expensive Trenches
This guy had it all, rages, skizziks but he lacked skill. One time, he tapped his barbarian Ring, took a damage and
he asked if he can take it back. I allowed him and I beat him down with a Cloaked Werebear. Second game took
forever to start, it took him about 10 minutes to sideboard while I was trading with the guy that I previously beat.
Second game was quick especially since I pulled 2 Memory lapses and the Krosan Beast was unblockable.
Record: 5-1, advancing to the Finals

FINALS
I offered the guy $5 to concede but he offered the winning price just so he can get his rating up. I accepted and we
played a fun game and I won being at 1. It was pretty fun tourny.

Don't call pieces of cardboard "him". Especially, don't call pieces of cardboard that illustrate a female character "him". Here's a quote:

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Third game was a cheap way to win using Werebear with threshold. He was down to 1 and he used Haunting
echoes to empty my graveyard.

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So, the Werebear was down to 1 and it used Haunting Echoes to empty your graveyard? That must have been pretty stupid bear. Since you had called your cards "him" from the start, we have basically no way of knowing to what you're referring to every time you blurt out the word "he" or "him". And it just looks stupid if you think Dryads are males.

Now, you think bribing your way through a tournament is interesting to read? Not to mention it's basically unallowed. Yes, in finals it's allowed, but only in the terms of the prize. If the prize was 10 bucks, your "bribe" would have been allowed. If it was, say, boosters, it would have NOT been allowed. The "bribe" must be a settlement of dividing the prizes.

Overall, your writing style was a tad childish. That article could have been so much better.

Jay

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Originally posted by 2pacalypse:
Thanx for whatever you're trying to do. But the quote you pointed out to should be pretty clear. "Him" meaning my opponent not the bear and the Dryad is too powerful so I think it should be a male. I do agree that this article can be better but this was my first one I ever wrote. Usually I'd get mad but it's all good. I'll take those comments as pointers for next time.

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You've earned some respect from me.

However, my points still stand. It does not matter if we can deduce what you're talking about when saying "him"... we shouldn't have to in the first place.

And how, just HOW can you justify "... Dryad is too powerful so I think it should be a male"???

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Originally posted by 2pacalypse:
Dryad can get pretty powerful though and the name does sound man-like. I'm playing a finkel deck for next FNM and I'll try to write a better report if I get time.

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The powerfulness has NOTHING to do with it. Would you say Lin Sivvi has to be called "him" just because it was the thing that made rebel variations Tier 1 decks in the previous T2?

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Originally posted by 2pacalypse:
The name sounds like a male name, that's all. People have different opinion and yours is different from mine.

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It's NOT a question of opinion. My point here is that not only you were ignorant, you keep on being ignorant. I won't even go to how horribly wrong things will go if you get your hands on too much power (as a politician, for example) if your way of thinking is that biased.

And 'sides, dryads aren't males, in the same way as pegasus's aren't flying crocodiles. End of debate.

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Originally posted by 2pacalypse:
Dude, whatta hell is your problem? One of the things M:TG taught me is that you can't change someone's mind once it's made up. SO LIVE WITH IT!!

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Are we speaking of the same M:tG? I don't see how the game itself could teach you that you can't change someone's mind... not that the teaching itself would be correct.

My problem is the ignorant human population that takes too many things granted and can't think outside the box. This is just my way of making the world a better place... maybe just not for you.

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