PTQ High Point

so went to high point this weekend for Ravnica Sealed PTQ, i wanted to do well because i might acutally be able to go to Prague for the PT.

i get a good sealed deck with Hex, Helldozer, Veldaken Dismisser, and Ethereal Usher to transmute for these great cards. i also have Dimir Doppleganger which is amazing the more and more i play it. other things i had were 2x dark blast, infiltrator+necromatic thirst, double terrarion+3 bouncy lands, and spectral searchlight.

round 1
i draw this round with a pretty good player who doesnt really know the set that well i dont think, he plays vs alot im assuming. anyway game 1 he misses 3rd land drop forever but i get informant out and try to lock him out of lands but fail to do so and eventuall GW guildmage wins. i draw lots of lands this game i think. game 2 i board in the red package of 2 galvanic arc, cleansing beam and rain of embers like i planned for GW matchup, and they win the game fairly easily. time is called on turn 4 or so of game 3 and neither of us can win.

round 2
he is playing GBU i think i lose a game somehow, i win a game when he doesnt regen his houseguard when i hex, and im able to win from there. i hex again game3 and win easily.

round 3
this guy is pretty bad, i win game 1 with infiltrator + thirst and then informant locking him. game 2 is really long he can kill me but doesnt whcih lets me transmute for hex and take control, but i draw nothing to finish him with (deck was really lacking in win conditions) and he finallys draws a guy to kill me a turn before duskmantly would have milled him. not muhc time for game 3 so i choose to play first for the only time all day. i think i boarded in my red for galvanic arc to speed up the game, hes kinda flustered by my pace of play, i get lucky and mill his wrath with my duskmantle, then i hex him and coast to victory.

round 4
this guy is playing GWR has lots of fat, i draw Dimir Guildmage on turn 2 every game and that lets me win 2-1 despite drawing a ton of lands game 2, when i died with 7 lands in hand, 8 in play, and two more on top of my deck.

round 5
guy misses 2nd land drop game one, but then makes two more to play stinkweed imp. i attack into it and darkblast, he dredges and plays it again so i get back darkblast and do it again, he realizes this isnt going to work , eventauly he gets plague boiler but doesnt have enough mana to activate it in time. game 2 is really slow i know he is sandbagging the plague boiler all i have in play is tidewater miniion, lurking informant, and drift with strands of undeath on it (i have 2 in sideboard for UB matchups). eventaully he plays enough cards i can play dimir guildmage and make him discard plague boiler, then i play doppleganger and steal his drooling groodion for his GY ftw.

round 6
this guy had 2 vulturous zombies and 2 psychic drains (combo!). game 1 he nightmare voids me and makes me discard entrancer when i had infiltrator thirst out. i draw hex next turn anyway and win with that. game 2 he nightmare voids me twice but never takes hex, cuz it isnt really relevant. i transmute for doppleganger and end up stealing a zombie from his graveyard. he dredges back stinkweed imp and my doppleganger is huge. i attack and he blocks, so i remove a house guard from his GY to regen my doppleganger. next turn i remove the infiltrator i saced to make my doppleganger unblockable and attack for just enough to kill him. doppleganger is realy really good.

round 7
ID
5-0-2

top 8 draft
first pick fangtail cuz its only good card, i ddint want to but feel better when 2nd pick another one. i ended up with 4 fangtails, 3 fury shields, and a cleansing beam and a Razia. i feel really good about playing against GW or WR cuz i have 2 rain of embers as well. i had to pass GW guildmage pack 2 for faiths fetters (the guy i pass to ends up getting passed glare in pack 3, hl)

quarterfinals RW
i win mirror because i have more fangtails, more fury shields, and a sunhome enforcer.

semifinals GBU
its a close race game 1, but i draw razia when he's at 4 and im at 6. game 2 and 3 he has infiltrators and house guards whcih i cant really deal with efficiently. i have to make an all in attack and hope he screws up, but this is top 8, he isnt that bad i guess, so i lose.

4th isnt too bad, 3 of my opponents in swiss made top 8 (rd1, rd 4, rd7). me and round 1 opponent almost made it to finals against each other, but boht lost in semi's that would have been neat.

top 8 was weird, the NC TO likes to give top 8 players opponents decklists, it helped a whole bunch, especially in quarterfinals in the mirror match.

anyway thats the story i feel better about my game now, i felt pretty bad after GP Charlotte, but getting good sealed deck helps.

ttyl
-Ty