11th at GP Lille - spoiler I beat Saito in Round 15
Hello everybody,
I just wanted to share my list from GP Lille with you.
4 Delver of Secrets 4 Nimble Mongoose 4 Tarmogoyf
4 Ponder 2 Forked Bolt
4 Brainstorm 4 Daze 4 Force of Will 2 Dismember 2 Spell Pierce 4 Stifle 4 Lightning Bolt
1 Flooded Strand 2 Misty Rainforest 3 Polluted Delta 3 Tropical Island 3 Volcanic Island 4 Wasteland 2 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard (15) 2 Destructive Revelry 2 Flusterstorm 1 Grafdigger's Cage 2 Red Elemental Blast 2 Rough // Tumble 2 Submerge 1 Sulfur Elemental 1 Surgical Extraction 1 Sylvan Library 1 Vendilion Clique
http://magic.wizards.com/en/events/coverage/gplil15/top-16-decklists-2015-07-05#th_susann_heidemuellers_temur_delver
I ended up in 11th place with 1 bye.
My only real loss happened on day 1 in round 4. I was up against UWr Delver and in the third game mulligan down to 4 cards, against an opponent who dropped a turn 2 Stoneforge and put a batterskull into play on turn 3. In round 2 I was up against foodchain. A slow player paired with a grindy deck, so we ended up in a draw. He did not want to concede to me, even though my board state was better but I can't really blame him, since it wasn't guaranteed that I would have won the game but I really did not want to pick up the draw in the second round and play miracles and slow players all day, so I begrudgingly conceded to him.
In round 11 i picked up a draw against death and taxes. the last 6 minutes or so were on camera. I told him that a draw most likely gets us out of top 8 contention and I was asking if we just play the last 5 round and who ever has the better board state concedes to the other. He was not thrilled at the idea since he believed his tie breakers to be good. Fair enough, we drew a game that I would have most likely won.
I played the following decks: Day 1 1 Foodchain 2 Jeskai delver 2 Miracles 1 RUG Delver 1 Merfolk 1 Grixis Control
Day 2 Round 10 Infect Round 11 Death and Taxes Round 12 UR Delver Round 13 BUG Delver Round 14 Dark Maverick Round 15 Grixis Delver
My main take away from the weekend (feel free to disagree)
Nimble mongoose is still the all star of the deck
Playing 2 dismember in the main was correct for the current meta
Forked Bolt still has a place at the moment
siding out two wastelands against miracles was great
Sulfur Elemental is amazing, but I think 1 is the correct number
Destructive Revelry is better than Krosan Grip
I think it's still correct to never side out Goyf
Call people out on slow play once and then get a judge involved, not doing so will cost you games.