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Been busy the last couple of weeks. It finally paid off this season

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Modern RCQ: Boros Energy

First RCQ of the Modern season, and maybe the first I’ve participated in this year, in the books. Sad to report that I crashed down the stretch to miss a Top 8 finish.

Six rounds of Swiss before a cut to Top 8, and I started 3-0-1. I only needed to win one of my last two matches to get in, and as you can tell, I lost both of those matches. Brutal, disappointing, *sigh*. I’m cognizant that the competition is tougher as you move up the standings, but it was still a tough pill to swallow.

Overall I finished 3-2-1 (8-6-0; 13th place out of 36).

I used the same deck that I practiced with earlier in the week and felt much more comfortable with it. After a super tight first match vs Necro (W 2-1), I settled in for a draw with Control (1-1), then rolled through my next two matches (W 2-0 vs Goryo’s Vengeance and W 2-0 vs 4C Omnath). In Round 5 I ran into the mirror (L 1-2 vs Boros Energy) and then crapped out against Jeskai Control (L 0-2).

While the sting is fresh, I am trying to remind myself that this is one of my better finishes at an RCQ. I was sitting in third place after Round 4, which in the past would’ve been around the time that I dropped from the event. Keeping that in mind, I should really be proud of my progress, especially since it’s only the 2nd time I’m playing the deck. As I get more familiar with it and the competition, I should be able to better respond to their threats and will hopefully be able to position myself for more opportunities to Top 8. Another step in my journey, and definitely a step forward.

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I heard that my LGS was running a Dominaria Remastered Sealed RCQ with a top 8 draft! My wife thought I should go, that I needed the time for myself. I was pretty excited to get to my first paper Magic event in almost 9 months. Lets see how this mtgdad did...

It has been a minute since I've had to register a sealed deck.

I think my pool was pretty decent. I immediately pulled together blue and black, as Urza and Chainer were probably my best cards, and I had some nice interaction. White had an okay curve with some fliers, but nothing to write home about. Red had an okay curve but no removal outside of a Slice and Dice, which had my eye. Almost all of my green cards were unplayable, but I could splash a Call of the Herd and a Spiritmonger essentially for free. Juggernauts are nice on rate, but they don't necessarily fit with controll-y Sultai.

I ended up splashing red for Slice and Dice, and white for Radiant's Judgment. I really agonized over a Pyre Zombie, and ultimately cut it. Maybe the card is okay, but I always thought it was so unbelievably slow, and I was worried about the double red.

I had interaction, a lot of cycling to dig for my rares, i thought I could back door into the top 8 draft.

So how'd it go?

About as terrible as possible.

Okay, so my first event in 9 months, I've been starved of slinging cardboard, I am literally chomping at the bit... Bye. I get the bye round 1. So i get to sit around for another hour. Great.

Looking around the room, I have to say I'm feeling pretty okay about where I'm at. Lots of grinding, and maybe my deck is a little underpowered, but it's got the tools. I'm excited for round 2.

0-2. My deck just decided to vomit all over the floor. I mulliganed three times in two games, I drew all my expensive cards, none of my interaction. Ugh. I knew my opponent, I drafted against him a couple times at this shop, and he was up for getting in some more reps. So we played a couple more games that I won pretty handily. Just have to run the table.

When I saw the Siege-Gang Commander in game 1, I thought I lucked out with the Slice and Dice to mitigate the tokens. I was kind of expecting a Whitemane Lion at some point, but I was in a pretty good spot, or so I thought. But have you ever played a game of Magic against the Siege-Gang Commander and Deadwood Treefolk combo? 0-2.

So I wait for an hour, my deck just decides not to show up for a match, and then I lost to infinitely recurring probably the best rare in the set. Pretty hard to find the positives.

A couple observations:

The Lairs are nice in that you can pick up your cycling lands. Also, the Lairs enter the battlefield untapped. It's been a long time since I played a Lair, and I'm used to the Ravnica bounce-lands. It's not all upside though, there are bounce spells that can hit lands, and I watched someone get Recoiled into last week. Ugh.

Snap over-performed. I thought I wouldn't really want it because I'm not so much a tempo deck, but being able to double-spell is just so, so powerful. It also deals with Pacifism pretty cleanly.

The Radiant's Judgment splash was ill-advised. I thought it would be fine since I could just cycle it away (and the land could cycle also) but the card as written was just dead every game. I probably should have played the Pyre Zombie instead.

Could I have built a different deck? I could have leaned harder into Grixis or Sultai, and in hindsight, I think the green cards I could have played would probably be a little better?

Anyway, Dominaria Remastered seems sweet, I hope I can get a chance to draft it...

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