Hi,

Here is a report from the top 8 boosterdraft from the PTQ held in
Brussels
on 11/02/2001

This a report of two top 8 matches of  PTQ Barcelona held in Brussels.

The first report is a report of the quarter-final between two members
of
Team Pinkrabbits from Ghent. Mats Clays and Davy Tavernier fought
eachother
for a place in the semi-finals against the winner of the match between
Jean-Louis Dhondt and the surprising Olivier Devisscher.

Game 1

Davy drafted a black-red beatdown deck and Mats drafted a solid BRG
deck
featuring two Tahngarths.
Davy wins the toss and chooses to play first.
Davy opens with a turn two firebrand ranger and on turn 3 he plays a
sinister strength on it to attack for 5.
Mats plays a turn two fertile ground and a turn 3 Nightscape familiar
with
a forest and swamp open to regenerate. Davy attacks the next turn and
Mats
blocks and regenerates. Davy then plays magma burst to kill the
familiar.
Mats plays a turn 4 pouncing kavu with kicker and passed the turn. Davy
plays his own pouncing kavu with kicker and attacks with the kavu .
Mats
trades the kavu for his own.  Mats plays in his next turn a caldera
kavu.
Davy plays a keldon mantle on his ranger and attacks. Mats blocks and
the
ranger regenerates. Davy passes his turn and Mats plays his Tahngarth
and
passes his turn. Davy simply chooses to attack and Mats chooses not to
block. Davy boosts his ranger and Mats takes 9 damage bringing him to
6.
Mats plays bog down, emptying Davy’s hand, attacks for 4 and plays
Utopia
tree. Davy then attacks and Mats chumps with the tree. Mats once again
attacks for 4 bringing Davy to 12. Mats isn’t able to cast another
creature
and needs to block tke ranger with his Tahngarth. The  ranger
regenerates
and the Thangharth dies. Mats plays another Tahngharth and a yavimaya
barbarian. Davy attacks and Mats chumps with the barbarian. Mats
attacks
bringing Davy to 4. He then plays a Quirion elves. Davy attacks and the
Quirion elves die horribly. Davy drew a lot of lands he can’t produce
additional threaths. Mats attacks and brings Davy to 4. He didn’t
topdeck a
creature so the Tahngarth needs to block the ranger. The ranger then
regenerates and Mats scoops.

Davy Tavernier 1 – Mats Clays 0

Game 2
Mats chooses to draw first. Mats is forced to mulligan down to 6 while
Davy
keeps his initial hand.
Davy starts with swamp, Mats replies with forest. Davy plays mountain,
Shivan zombie and Mats drops a second forest. Davy attacks for 2, plays
mountain, Lava zombie. Mats plays mountain. Davy plays a second swamp
and
attacks for 4. Then he plays Shivan zombie and Firebrand ranger. Mats
plays
his third forest and casts Ancient kavu. Davy plays a swamp and casts a
pouncing kavu with kicker and all of his creatures attack. Mats blocks
the
Shivan zombie going to 6. Mats plays a kavu chameleon. Davy attacks
with his
army and Mats blocks the Lava zombie with his Ancient kavu and the
Pouncing
kavu becomes blocked by the chameleon. Before first strike damage goes
on
the stack Davy plays a scorching lava on the chameleon killing it with
the
first strike damage. Mats takes 2 damage and goes to 4. Davy plays a
morgue
toad. Mats plays a Pouncing kavu with kicker and passes his turn. Davy
topdecks a keldon mantle, plays it on his Morgue toad and Mats scoops.

Final result :
Davy Tavernier 2 – Mats Clays 0

Semi finals :  Davy Tavernier – Jean-Louis Dhondt
  Kurt Verbinnen – Nicolas Fournier

Davy tavernier – Jean-Louis Dhondt (UWb)
Game 1
Davy wins the toss and chooses to play first. JL mulligans.
Davy plays a swamp and JL replies with an island and tidal visionary.
Davy
plays a second swamp. JL attacks and plays a plains. Davy plays his
third
swamp and plays bog down without kicker. JL discards exotic curse and
Phyrexian bloodstock. JL attacks, plays plains and casts silver drake.
Davy
misses the land drop and casts mourning on the Silver drake. JL
attacks,
plays tidal visionary, plays island and casts probe without kicker. He
discards plains and annihilate. Davy then misses another landdrop and
can’t
do anything. JL attacks and takes Davy down to 15, he then plays an
Obsidian
acolythe. At this point JL only holds a star compass and a swamp. Davy
has
red destruction in his hand with scorching lava and breath of Darigaaz.
JL
passes his turn and Davy isn’ able to find a land and passes his turn.
JL
plays plains, gives his drake protection from black, Davy returns his
mourning to his hand and JL attacks with his drake and his acolythe.
Davy
plays nightscape apprentice and he discards mourning. JL attacks with
his
drake and acolythe, bringing Davy to 7. Then he plays his star compass.
Davy
finds his mountain but due to his small life total he can’t play breath
of
Darigaaz and passes his turn. JL plays swamp and attacks with the drake
and
acolythe. Davy resonds by playing magma burst with kicker. JL had a
prohibit
for it waiting in his hand. By seeing the prohibit Davy scooped and JL
showed his sportsmanlike behaviour by apologizing for the mana screw.

Jean-Louis Dhondt 1 – Davy Tavernier 0

Game 2
Davy chooses to play first and has to mulligan down to 5 cards.
Davy starts with swamp, JL opens with Island. Davy plays a second swamp
and
JL plays plains, obsidian acolythe (witch he just pealed from his
library).
Davy misses the landdrop but plays nightscape apprentice. JL plays
plains
and passes the turn. Davy plays mountain, slingshot goblin. JL now
misses
the landdrop and passes the turn. Davy attacks with the goblin and JL
goes
to 18. JL finds a swamp and at the end of his turn, Davy tries to play
a
scorching lava on the acolythe but JL had the prohibit. Davy once again
seemed upset by the prohibit. Davy plays a swamp and attacked with the
goblin, bringing JL down to 16. JL played a voice of all, choosing red
and
attacked with the acolythe. Davy simply played mountain. JL played an
island
and a second voice of all, choosing red. He then attacked with his
first
voice of all, bringin Davy to 17. Davy played swamp, alloy golem,
choosing
white and passed the turn. JL plays terminal moraine and casts exotic
curse
on the alloy golem, he then attacked with both of the flyers and then
he
plays a vodalian zombie. Then we proceded to the turn that was decisive
for
the game : Davy plays sinister strenght on the golem, JL plays his
second
prohibit to counter the sinister strenght.( He didn’t have to counter
the
sinister strenght because it made the golem black and JL had the
acolythe.
After the game he explained that he hadn’t tested with Planeshift much
and
he didn’t know that sin. Strenght made the creature black.) Davy then
tried
to zap the acolythe but JL had a major trick. He played a liberate on
his
acolythe, saving the acolythe and denying Davy the extra card. Davy
passed
the turn and didn’t look very happy. But it got worse : JL played probe
with
kicker and discarded island and swamp, Davy discarded cursed flesh and
swamp. JL attacked with his 2 flyers and Davy went to 7. At end of
turn,
Davy killed the vodalian zombie with his slingshot. Davy drew but
didn’t
found an answer and passed the turn. JL attacked with both of his
flyers,
bringing Davy to 3. Then he played a second obsidian acolythe. Davy
drew and
scooped.

Final result :

Jean-Louis Dhondt 2 – Davy Tavernier 0

In the other semi finals won Kurt Verbinnen with 2-1

Jean Louis and Kurt splitted in the finals

Congratulations to both of the players for qualifying.

Frederick Ongena
(Team Pinkrabbits – Gent)
 
 

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