Standard FNM Report

I know this isn't that big of a tournament or anything, but I went 4-0 with a sort of pet Naya deck that I find a lot of fun to play. Also, it doesn't hurt to get some practice at this sort of thing.

So, to start off with, my deck list:

4x Bloodbraid Elf

4x Wooly Thoctar

4x Lightning Bolt

4x Jund Hackblade

4x Tattermunge Maniac

4x Enlisted Wurm

3x Oblivion Ring

2x Cliffrunner Behemoth

2x Blitz Hellion

2x Pyroclasm

2x Volcanic Fallout

1x Hallowed Burial

1x Behemoth Sledge

4x Forest

4x Mountain

3x Plains

4x Jungle Shrine

4x Terramorphic Expanse

3x Rootbound Crag

1x Sunpetal Grove

Sideboard:

3x Hallowed Burial

3x Qasali Pridemage

2x Naya Charm

2x Pyrclasm

2x Ajani Vengeant

1x Behemoth Sledge

1x Oblivion Ring

1x Mage Slayer

This may not be the best deck, but I do find it to be a ton of fun to play. At any rate, matches!

Round 1: White/Blue...something?

This round was kind of a bye, as I was playing against someone who really seemed to mostly play casually with his brothers. He was around 13 years old, give or take a year or two, and had a really baaaaaaaaad white/blue deck. I had to read some of the cards just to know what they did. A Worldpurge was cast. This didn't help him at all.

Overall, it was two fairly quick games. I sort of felt sorry for him, as it was a rather rough introduction to tournament level Magic.

Round 2: Red/Black burn

As a note, when I say burn, I mean it. The only creatures he had maindeck were Hellspark Elemental and Ball Lightning.

Game 1 I pretty much did the "How do you deal with these guys" thing that the deck tends to do. Good times.

Game 2 was more interesting. We basically spent the entire game with me playing creatures and him killing them. This was imperative, as I had a Behemoth Sledge on turn 4 or so, making all of my subsequent creatures massive threats to his game plan. I eventually won the game, but it was somewhat grueling. I had to side out a bunch of my creature removal because he didn't have any (Pyroclasms, O-Rings, and the Burial) for Ajanis, Pridemages (because they're dudes), and the second Sledge. Overall, though, it was a pretty interesting game.

Round 3: Bant Aggro

This match was against probably one of the better decks there, as a lot of our strongest players were not there (a number of them had headed off to a PTQ). The deck has overall strong cards, like Rhox Warmonk, Rafiq of the Many, Birds of Paradise, Noble Heirarchs, and the like.

Game 1 saw him mulligan down to six cards, and get stuck on two lands for the entire game. I got horribly mana flooded, and really only drew Maniacs. Which he Path to Exiled. The game eventually ended, but it was a really boring one.

Game 2 was much more exciting, with him having a very powerful draw. I scooped this game, as there wasn't any point in continuing when all I could really do was chump his Warmonk being backed by Rafiq. I had sided out a couple of cards for more Pyroclasms, but this didn't really help.

Game 3 had me go aggro crazy, and quickly beat him down. He still had some scary stuff, but it wasn't nearly as good as the previous game. I also boarded out the Maniacs for Hallowed Burials, as I wanted a way to deal with his large creatures, as well as the Dauntless Escorts he ran. They never really showed up, but they also weren't relevant.

Match 4: Mono Green, mostly M10 stuff.

To be honest, I'm not quite sure how this guy was also 3-0 at this point, but then again, as I said, many of our stronger players weren't there tonight.

Game 1 my deck decided I shouldn't be able to play anything but two Lightning Bolts, as I drew a grand total of three mountains and a plains. He crushed me with Howl of the Nightpack.

Game 2 and 3 were pretty much identical, with me going "Hey, look! Big creatures! Deal with this!" And he couldn't. So yea, that was pretty much that. Not terribly exciting.

Overall, good times. Winning was pretty awesome, though I realized that overall, I had pretty good matchups. This deck is just strong against random stuff, and is going to beat many slightly weaker aggro decks. Wooly Thoctar is just flat out a massive creature, and requires immediate attention. I also didn't play against any control decks, so things overall went well for me. I have no doubt that I would have probably done worse had some of our stronger players been there, but it was nice to win one.