Wolf Run v. Wolf Run

Played in an FNM this weekend at Knightfall Games. I ended the tournament 3-1, in clear second place.

I'm posting this article a bit late, so I don't remember the exact details of each round, but I remember the last two rounds because they were the most important. I decided to run R/G Wolf Run against, because the deck is just so damn pretty. I won rounds 1 and 2, and quickly took the lead in the tournament. In round 3 I faced Adam Brown, who was playing W/G aggro control. The deck included Hero of Bladehold, Birds of Paradise, Gavony Township, and Oblivion Ring. I've always enjoyed playing W/G myself, so I applaud Adam's color choice. The games were very close, but Adam got land screwed in the third game, and I ended up winning the match.

After 3 rounds I was in clear first place. A draw would secure the win so I offered the draw to my opponent. He refused. I didn't know it at the time, but my opponent was running Mono-Green Wolf Run, a deck which was all the rage at the beginning of the current season, but which has since fallen out of favor. The deck has poor matchup's against a lot of the metagame (especially against Delver decks, or any deck running Mirran Crusader), but it has great matchups against other Wolf Run versions. In both games, my opponent played Birds of Paradise on turn 1, Dugrove Elder on turn 2, and then just beat me down every turn. It wasn't pretty, and I lost the match, 0-2.

I now stood at 3-1, and since there were no undefeated opponents, this meant the tiebreakers would determine who ended up in first place. Oddly enough, my tiebreakers were worse than Adam's, and I placed second. Sigh. The whole final round felt like bullshit. I used to play that Mono Green deck. I know it sucks. It beats my deck, and no others. Anyway, you can tell I'm a little bitter.

In all likeliness, that was the last Standard tournament I play in before Dark Ascension becomes Standard legal. Until next time readers!