Earlier this week I made a post about the swiss rounds of a 39 person PPTQ that I played in over the weekend. After a great start and then an almost complete collapse I managed to enter the top 8 in the 8th seed.
At the top tables there was another version of the Blue/White Humans deck that had beaten me in the Swiss and that was what I played against in the first round of the top 8. I was worried that this match up was not going to go well for me because my opponent was playing a little bigger version of the deck I lost to, featuring cards like Dragon Lord Ojutai. Fortunately, I almost felt more favored against this version of the deck. Because they were designed to got a little bigger than the traditional humans deck, they actually made their match up against me worse. A couple of timely Kozilek's Return closed out Game 1 for me. I sideboarded into some Clip Wings while lowering my curve a little bit. This proved to be a winning formula against this deck and I managed to get there in the second game.
During the Semifinals I was paired agains the Black White Eldrazi player that I lost to in the Swiss rounds. This match up felt horrible in the Swiss rounds so I was not very optimistic going into it. Honestly, I am not sure how I won either of these games. I had some incredibly fortunate draws with Chandra, Drawing into more Chandras that closed out game 1. In game 2 I felt that my opponent had an early concession. I started to Worldbreaker away there lands and they scooped shortly after that but I didn't even feel close to coming back into that game, oh well a win is a win I suppose.
In the finals I was paired agains the Mono Red Eldrazi player that I had beat in Round 3. Unfortunately, I let this get to my head. Going into it my opponent was under the impression that he had no shot and I think I let that get to me. After winning a quick game 1 I kept a really risky hand in game 2 that I was incredibly punished for. Then in Game 3 I kind of just got rolled over vey quickly by an army of Obligators, Thought-Knot Seers and Reality Smashers. In total the entire match was only about 20 minutes long. I came so close to being able to get one step close to playing on the pro tour.
Despite falling just short I think I learned some valuable lessons, I think the big one for me is not to let the feeling like you can't loose a match up get to your head, it will bite your in the butt. It was also just great to be able to get reps in with the deck. I think that ramp will continue to be a solid choice but I could see a world where the humans decks start to take over and push ramp out.
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