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Title: Highlander tournament at Tampere Pelimaa 26.9.2008
Post by: pyyhttu on 28-09-2008, 02:34:33 PM
18 people played 4 rounds with 60 minutes round time organized by Tampere Pelimaa (http://www.pelimaa-shop.com/). The original report can be found from here (http://vaihdetaan.kapsi.fi/forums/index.php?topic=52663.0) with the contributions of decks played by some of the players. No decklist were gathered.

Final standings:

         Tie 1   Tie 2   Tie 3   Matches
Rank   No.   Name   Points   OMW%   PGW%   OGW%   P/W/D/B
1   3   Nevalainen, Ville [FIN]   12   56,2500   72,7273   56,3889   4/4/0/0
2   17   Suvela, Santeri [FIN]   10   45,8333   73,3333   44,1919   4/3/1/0
3   12   Haapa, Mikko [FIN]   9   54,1667   70,0000   51,5152   4/3/0/0
4   8   Ã–hman, Janne [FIN]   9   45,8333   60,0000   48,3586   4/3/0/0
5   15   Becker, Matias [FIN]   8   47,9167   54,5455   52,5000   4/2/2/0
6   2   Puranen, Jari [FIN]   6   77,0833   55,5556   64,0152   4/2/0/0
7   13   Kaipiainen, Arttu [FIN]   6   60,4167   54,5455   50,6061   4/2/0/0
8   18   Salonen, Jussi [FIN]   6   55,5556   50,0000   57,7778   3/1/0/1
9   11   Hiltunen, Jaakko [FIN]   6   54,1667   45,4545   48,1061   4/2/0/0
10   6   Himanen, Teemu [FIN]   6   52,0833   50,0000   48,3333   4/2/0/0
11   16   Becker, Kalle [FIN]   6   45,8333   50,0000   46,0859   4/2/0/0
12   7   Pyyhtiä, Tuomas [FIN]   5   45,8333   53,3333   47,7273   4/1/2/0
13   14   Tuominen, Kari [FIN]   4   54,1667   50,0000   52,8030   4/1/1/0
14   5   Vuorio, Jani [FIN]   3   64,5833   25,0000   61,9697   4/1/0/0
15   4   Matikainen, Lasse [FIN]   3   43,7500   36,3636   46,6667   4/1/0/0
16   10   Virtanen, Joni [FIN]   1   58,3333   18,5185   52,8030   4/0/1/0
17   1   Hämäläinen, Olli [FIN]   1   37,0370   29,1667   42,6587   3/0/1/0
18   9   Välimäki, Joona [FIN]   0   50,0000   20,0000   50,0000   2/0/0/0

Ville Nevalainen won the tournament with pure record of 4-0. His RG-beats won the last round against BR-Goblins played by Mikko Haapa.

Metagame was:
2x RG
1x Suicide Black
1x GW-Ideal/Enchantress/Parfait
1x MonoU-Skies
1x BR-Goblins
1x GB-Meat
1x Staxx

Rest of the decks were either 3C, 4C ja 5C-control builds.

This tournament also offered an opportunity to put Topel's Skies (http://www.corded.org/~pyyhttu/highlander/blue_skies.txt) onto test, as one of the players didn't have time to put a deck together due to a move and his vintage staples were still unpacked. I put the deck together with some minor changes, as didn't find all the necessary cards in time (Curfew & Aether Spellbomb) or some of the choices in Topel's Skies felt suboptimal in short test (Wizard Replica & 1 Dream Stalker).

The Skies was eventually piloted by Kari Tuominen placing 13th.

The deck I ended up piloting was again something from the rogue front, GWEnchantress/Parfait/Ideal-kombo

1 Academy Rector
1 Argivian Find
1 Argothian Enchantress
1 Aura of Silence
1 City of Solitude
1 Crop Rotation
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Decree of Justice
1 Dovescape
1 Earthcraft
1 Eladamri's Call
1 Elephant Grass
1 Enchantress's Presence
1 Enduring Ideal
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Exploration
1 Faith's Fetters
1 Femeref Enchantress
1 Flagstones of Trokair
1 Flooded Strand
1 Genju of the Fields
1 Greater Auramancy
1 Guilty Conscience
1 Holistic Wisdom
1 Hoofprints of the Stag
1 Horizon Canopy
1 Humility
1 Idyllic Tutor
1 Island Sanctuary
1 Ivory Mask
1 Karakas
1 Karmic Justice
1 Kor Haven
1 Krosan Verge
1 Land Tax
1 Life from the Loam
1 Limited Resources
1 Maze of Ith
1 Mesa Enchantress
1 Moat
1 Mobilization
1 Mox Diamond
1 Nantuko Monastery
1 Oath of Druids
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Opalescence
1 Overgrowth
1 Parallax Wave
1 Planar Birth
1 Porphyry Nodes
1 Regrowth
1 Replenish
1 Rise of the Hobgoblins
1 Sacred Mesa
1 Savannah
1 Seal of Cleansing
1 Seal of Primordium
1 Secluded Steppe
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Serra's Sanctum
7 Snow-Covered Forest
13 Snow-Covered Plains
1 Solitary Confinement
1 Squirrel Nest
1 Sterling Grove
1 Story Circle
1 Stuffy Doll
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Sylvan Library
1 Temple Garden
1 Thawing Glaciers
1 Tithe
1 Tranquil Thicket
1 Utopia Sprawl
1 Verduran Enchantress
1 Wasteland
1 Wheel of Sun and Moon
1 Wild Growth
1 Windswept Heath
1 Worship
1 Wrath of God
1 Zuran Orb

The deck has a lot of synergy between various cards and is quite mana hungry. It runs with close to 40 different enchantments and gains card advantage by searching & playing an early game enchantress. The deck has numerous silver bullets (Humility, Worship, Wheel of Sun and Moon, City of Solitude...) and combos like Squirrel Nest/Earth Craft and Stuffy Doll/Guilty Consience. Late game win conditions involve Replenish, Opalesence, Sacred Mesa and Mobilization to name but a few.

The first game was ironically against Topel Skies which ended up as a tie, and because of my play mistake: In one critical attack phase, I could have activated Genju of the Fields multiple times to gain multiple lifelinks and thus secure my following turns to back up Squirrel Nest/Earthcraft combo.

The only win was achieved against GB-Meat and that match up didn't pose any problems. Another tie was against 4c-control because of opponent's fetch/top combinations and my Dowscape which eventually won me the first game after we had traded bird tokens for 30 minutes of so.