Barney beats Gemini 2-0

He didn't Crack an evolving wilds to create a much needed second blocker. Maybe a glitch?

Anyway super fun matches, great opponent

0-2 against Barney's Thopters.

1st game lost to a glitch in the games targeting system and 2nd game made a critical misplay (not glitch) that could've saved me the 2 life I needed to possibly come back in it. Great games!

Still felt good about making top 8 with a deck I've never ever play-tested.

Overall score 8-3 record in games in swiss rounds as 2nd seed and 0-2 in top 8. 8-5 total game score.

The grim inevitability of it, ah well. The game 2 draw on CGB side, what you going to do.

#Travesty.

What ya gonna do...

Plus I blame myself for leaving chat open and talking at the same time. Could've changed things.

I don't know what this means

Did you watch the video? CGB draws 3 moss in his opening hand! Not much for an opponent to do unless he was playing an aggro deck or control with equally lucky counters to hand. Not sure CGB could believe that draw either!

Who was he playing against ? Moss should always be able to wreck slower decks

mega

Omg, and people are saying Dan got a good draw in that match-up ? How can beast possibly win against that deck ?

We sure see a lot of comments on quality of draw instead of analyzing what should normally happen. Converge is fragile because of mana. Moss will act like a big fat yellow highlighter on this fragility.

I agree. The funny thing is, those 3 moss could easily have been the reason CGB loses, rather than wins. Mega got his 5/5 wanderer down, and then CGB was in actual potential trouble. It didn't go that way, but it easily could have. Anyway, moss will wreck even remotely greedy mana bases, and 5 color converge is about as greedy as mana bases can get. Definitely a prime target for moss, or just LD in general.

Plans have changed, I won't be able to play tonight, hopefully tomorrow.

True, but beast got the wanderer out in both games. From that perspective his deck was doing as well as he might have expected. CGB though was not about sitting back and just letting that happen. Maybe 3 moss in opening hand could have been his undoing, but it wasn't, besides he had the option to ship it back. He must have been confident enough and so it proved. Maybe giving up the wanderer was best but tricky given he is out on the board. As CGB says some folks had swapped out the Colossus in the Gruul build but he had kept it in. It was his face off v the wanderer that let the moss dictate the remainder.

EDIT: need to check but think the wanderer was 6/6 when it came out I.e. It was cast with 5 colours.

wanderer can only be cast with 4 or less colors

The Wanderer 1st game was a 6/6, traded with a Colossus.

The Wanderer in game 2 was a 5/5, traded with a Gaea's Revenge.

Wanderer as a 5/5 is good enough to evade Languish. I cannot see any real reason to make it a 6/6 over a 5/5. It's good enough in a tri-color deck.

I didn't check, just saw it as a 6/6 and knew it had converge.

Heyo. My latest post covers the Hakumite quarterfinals and looks ahead to the Steam Showdown.

http://tinyurl.com/zvnwfxu

Good read man, thanks for all the hard work at posting this week.

Peepy seems to have vanished so I'm not sure when we're playing