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Max Wins Friday Night T2 Tournament at Heroes



Max defeats Ray DeGuzman of ACD in the Finals
Ron, Herbie Lukes (top) and Adam Jansen (bottom) look on

Friday Night (May 8, 1998) Max and Ron decided to check out the Scene at Heroes Unlimited in Roselle, IL (630-980-1080). Every Friday they have a Standard tournament that is infamous for being the testing grounds for a lot of decks from Chicago's teams. The tournament is unsanctioned, and for a small amount of cash. This makes it the perfect environment for testing in a tournament setting without the risk of total humiliation and DCI point loss.

I don't think anyone thier was playing thier Regionals decks, so the environment consisted of even more Rogue designs than usual. Ron opted to play "Serio Green", which is mostly a lot of direct damage and green mana curve creatures. Max went with a configuration that was geared towards controlling other beatdown decks as well as maintaining threats against control.

Red/Black B. Tings by Max Szlagor
4 Shadow Guildmage
4 Jackal Pup
3 Dwarven Miner
4 Acidic Sliver
4 Dauthi Horror
 3 Barrow Ghoul
3 Nekrataal
2 Bone Dancer
4 Incinerate
4 Shock
 4 Cursed Scroll
2 Volrath's Stonghold
4 Sulfurous Springs
8 Swamps
7 Mountains
Sideboard:
4 Perish
4 Gloom
 Sideboard (cont):
4 Pyroblast
3 Shatter

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Max had these comment about the tournament and the deck: "Pretty simple deck centered around the beatdown. It hasn't been finely tuned and probably never will. I normally wouldn't play 4 shock 4 incinerate but theres a lot of weenie decks here. I was just looking to play a fast deck that I wouldn't be playing at regionals. The sideboard is more or less local metagame. Theres a good supply of white weenie, green beatdown, and a few counter heavy decks around. The shatters are for sligh and general annoyance artifacts..but mostly just for sligh. Oh..and Bone Dancer is amazing!"


(Max Szlagor beating Ron Serio in Top 8)

Another highlight of Heroes was some little kid beating the Hell out of PT veterans with Nightmare. Not too many decks at the tournament were prepared for black, much less the flying monstrosity that is Nightmare. Here's some pics of that and other highlights:
Aaron "Shazam" Souders going down to Nightmare in top 8
Max drops the 2nd game of the semi-finals to Nightmare
Adam Jansen shuffling after the saucy double Song of Blood for 16 damage on turn 3
Nightmare Boy drains Max's Bone Dancer a few turns too late

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