Sunday - Grand Prix Trial for Shizuoka, Japan. I was playing a 3-color black-red=green deck. I had very few playable creatures.
Rares are at the end of the page
Round 1: Tan Wui Kit
He was playing a blue-black-red deck. He used a granite shard to deal 1 damage each turn to me, so my life went 20-19-18-17-16-15-14-13-12-11-10-9. But in the meantime I had got some stuff into play, especially a plated slagwurm. He used his creatures to block a few times but quickly died like this: 20-18-16-11-5.
I don't really remember what happened this time... Except I won. His life total: 20-13-10-1-dead. My life total: 20-19-18-17-16-15-14.
Score: Matches: 1-0/Games: 2-0
Round 2: Saw Soon Kuan
This round is also a complete black in my memory, except I won 2-0. I remember using Oblivion Stone to destroy some stuff to save myself, and using deconstruct on his nuisance engine so i could have the green mana to play the plated slagwurm. but i won
Score: Matches: 2-0/Games: 4-0
Round 3: Phang Kok Fai
He played red-green. I got a Nim Shambler (sac a critter: regenerate) early and whenever he blocked, i would regenerate the shambler by saccing my worst critter while he would lose whatever he blocked with. eventually i used shrapnel blast to finish him off. His life total: 20-16-13-9-4-dead. Me: 20-17-13
Second game he got a spikeshot goblin equipped with leonin scimitar, which quickly killed all my critters and me. My life: 20-19-18-14-13-9-7-6-2-dead. His life: 20-18-16-14.
Third game, he got megatog. OUCH. mirrodin is an artifact set. last turn it became a 15/16 trampling death dealing machine. his life: 20-19-17-16. My life: 20-17-16-11-6-dead
Score: Matches: 2-1/Games: 5-2
Round 4: Joseph Low
He played white-red-green. He used sculpting steel to copy my oblivion stone. plus his creatures were better than mine. His life: 20. My life: 20-17-14-12-10-6-dead
The next game he got altar of shadows, and used the mana each turn to kill my critters. his life: 20-17-14-11, my life: 20-17-15-12-8-4-dead.
Matches: 2-2/Games: 5-4
Round 5: Edwin
This is my third time playing edwin. he has the habit of having the same rare as me but gettign his card out faster than mine. he won the last two. He was playing red-green. First game he used a viridian longbow, shifted it around his critters so each one could deal one damage and kill me and my critters. his life: 20-12-7. my life: 20-17-16-15-14-13-12-10-9-8-5-4-dead
The next game he got his slagwurm out before me, equipped it with neurok hoversail (flying) and killed me. His life: 20-17-13-12-11. My life: 20-19-18-11-10-2-dead
Matches: 2-3/Games: 5-6
Round 6: Izam
He had ogre leadfoot (whenever blocked by artifact creature, destroy artifact creature). since i only had artifact creatures, i could't kill it. luckily i had synod sanctum so i saved my creatures each turm in the sanctum (2, tap: remove permanent you control from the game. 2, sac sanctum: bring them all back). finally i got slagwurm and managed to kill the ogre and win. his life: 20-19-18-13-8-3-1-dead. Me: 20-18-17-14-11-8-5
The next game he got early creatures which took my life down: 20-19-18-17-15-13-10-8-7. I think they were spikeshot goblins. then I got an oblivion stone and destroyed everything. i had played a skeleton shard and protected it from the stone with a fate counter. so i rebuilt my forces with the shard and won. his life: 20-17-14-10-dead
Matches: 3-3/Games: 7-6
Round 7: Azmady (Final round! phew!)
He played white-black-green. The first round was forever. we both got like 10 creatures each. nobody could get through. He had a tel-jilad archers (2/4, blocks flying, protection from artifacts) which stopped my flying artifacts, and a loxodon mender (3/3, W, tap: regenerate target artifact), which meant he could block my slagwurm forever. I had the slagwurm to block his creatures, synod sanctum to save any creature that would die after blocking, skeleton shard to return any creature that did die, and a 4/4 flying creature to block his flying creatures. Then I drew Terror, killed his tel-jilad archers and killed him with the 4/4 flying equipped with bonesplitter (+2/+0), and a shrapnel blast. his life: 20-17-14-12-8-2-dead. My life: 20
the next game was much easier because he didn't get any creatures until fangren hunter (4/4 trampler) which i terrored to win. his life: 20-19-16-15-11-8-7-4. My life: 20
Final Score: Matches: 4-3/Games: 9-6
I finished 25th and got 2 packs.
Here are all the rares I got:
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