Double fisting, pt. 2
Pioneer wraps up at ~3:30. I jam a bunch of Red vs Jeskai Vehicles games for funsies against a fellow teacher (high school math, though; slightly different day-to-day activities than my inclusive education toddler room). I crush six or seven games in a row. Modern players start trickling in. One bring (his mom's?) chocolate & cherry cheesecake... blondie... cookie... bars? for the store owner. I'm offered one and it's fuckin delicious. I spend some of my $25 on nonsense like Arcane Artisan for S&S. It's starting to snow more.
Modern is pushed back from 5 to 5:15 or so after a late call-in. We do get pairings, and I step outside to call in my cigarette-smoking opponent. He comes in, slightly snowy, settles down in front of me, and mutters something that I hear as "Ah, I know exactly what I'm going to play" as I've got my well-used maroon Lantern sleeves piled up on the table. I figure that means Infect, which is pretty bad for me but definitely beatable.
Instead, he mulligans twice and plays T1... Arboreal Grazer. Huh. I set up Bridge-Orb-Lantern lock pieces, but he's got a known Scapeshift in hand and a few blind draws from the opening turns. I assume the blind cards are crap because my lock goes uninterrupted for a bunch of turns, but he eventually gets to his eighth land and casts a Summoner's Pact. Ruh-roh. I'm dead to Reclamation Sage, but he gets Woodfall Primus instead and goes for Orb. I return Orb with Codex Shredder, re-cast it while he reads Codex Shredder, then he draws for his turn and forgets to pay for Pact and declines my offer to rewind the game.
The Woodfall Primus gambit pays off G2 where it kills a Bridge then kills me. Go figure. G3 I do more locking than he does answering, so I win.
My second round opponent comes in slightly after the timer starts, quite high. He chuckles at his 7 and keeps with a Goblin Guide start. I Inquisition and see... Eidolon and five lands. I wind up with a Bridge and an empty hand at 12 life and he's had enough. Second game has some sweet back-and-forths with Welding Jar and Spellskite holding up Bridge/Orb but no Lantern. He has a bunch of blind draws that don't yield a lethal Smash to Smithereens. I wisely topdeck my one copy of Oko -- that's only in the 75 because I opened it at a prerelease -- and he helps me binge-eat my way to victory.
I'm feeling good at 2-0 and match up against chocolate-cherry bars guy on Grixis Shadow. G1 I play to beat one Stubborn Denial, but lose to a second copy. G2 I keep a land-heavy 7, get Thoughtseized, and draw more lands plus a Grafdigger's Cage. Ah well. I lose fast enough to jam some more for-funsies Magic against him afterwards that starts with tapped Temple Garden and Time Warp as his two revealed cards and ends in me getting infinite turn'd by Soulherder. Go figure.
The finale turns into another case of Magic: The Bookkeeping. My UW control opponent and I get $25/0 if I win, $0/$50 if he wins. Or... a handshake for $25/$25 and I can go feed and walk my dog. Jackpot. I grab fifteen copies of Oath of Nissa from the bulk bin and a foil Ptermander for cube on my way out, then wish I hadn't as I see a $50 Dutch promo Plains with a sweet windmill in the art. You're mine next time, windmill plains.
Modern is pushed back from 5 to 5:15 or so after a late call-in. We do get pairings, and I step outside to call in my cigarette-smoking opponent. He comes in, slightly snowy, settles down in front of me, and mutters something that I hear as "Ah, I know exactly what I'm going to play" as I've got my well-used maroon Lantern sleeves piled up on the table. I figure that means Infect, which is pretty bad for me but definitely beatable.
Instead, he mulligans twice and plays T1... Arboreal Grazer. Huh. I set up Bridge-Orb-Lantern lock pieces, but he's got a known Scapeshift in hand and a few blind draws from the opening turns. I assume the blind cards are crap because my lock goes uninterrupted for a bunch of turns, but he eventually gets to his eighth land and casts a Summoner's Pact. Ruh-roh. I'm dead to Reclamation Sage, but he gets Woodfall Primus instead and goes for Orb. I return Orb with Codex Shredder, re-cast it while he reads Codex Shredder, then he draws for his turn and forgets to pay for Pact and declines my offer to rewind the game.
The Woodfall Primus gambit pays off G2 where it kills a Bridge then kills me. Go figure. G3 I do more locking than he does answering, so I win.
My second round opponent comes in slightly after the timer starts, quite high. He chuckles at his 7 and keeps with a Goblin Guide start. I Inquisition and see... Eidolon and five lands. I wind up with a Bridge and an empty hand at 12 life and he's had enough. Second game has some sweet back-and-forths with Welding Jar and Spellskite holding up Bridge/Orb but no Lantern. He has a bunch of blind draws that don't yield a lethal Smash to Smithereens. I wisely topdeck my one copy of Oko -- that's only in the 75 because I opened it at a prerelease -- and he helps me binge-eat my way to victory.
I'm feeling good at 2-0 and match up against chocolate-cherry bars guy on Grixis Shadow. G1 I play to beat one Stubborn Denial, but lose to a second copy. G2 I keep a land-heavy 7, get Thoughtseized, and draw more lands plus a Grafdigger's Cage. Ah well. I lose fast enough to jam some more for-funsies Magic against him afterwards that starts with tapped Temple Garden and Time Warp as his two revealed cards and ends in me getting infinite turn'd by Soulherder. Go figure.
The finale turns into another case of Magic: The Bookkeeping. My UW control opponent and I get $25/0 if I win, $0/$50 if he wins. Or... a handshake for $25/$25 and I can go feed and walk my dog. Jackpot. I grab fifteen copies of Oath of Nissa from the bulk bin and a foil Ptermander for cube on my way out, then wish I hadn't as I see a $50 Dutch promo Plains with a sweet windmill in the art. You're mine next time, windmill plains.
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