After 12 hours of play (and a grand total of 4 Drafts and 4 Sealed Pools) Elmer wins The CubeVitational 2011!
Sixteen players gather in Cafe De 2 Klaveren on the morning of September 17th:
Qualifier 1 - Jesse
Qualifier 2 - Daan (Invited becaaue Thijs_H couldn't attend)
Qualifier 3 - Hylke
Qualifier 4 - Geert
Qualifier 5 - Eef
Qualifier 6 - Rene
Qualifier 7 - Cedric
Qualifier 8 - Jan
Rating 1 - Mattias
Rating 2 - Elmer
Rating 3 - Floris
Winnaar 2010 - Tijs
Invite 1 - Peter
Invite 2 - Terry
Invite 3 - Quirijn
Invite 4 - Thomas
Two times two draft pods cut to a Top4: Daan, Elmer, Tijs and Mattias.
Details of the draft pods can be found in posts below.
The Top4 players each receive 80 card Sealed Pools. It played out like this.
| Semi-Finals. | ||||
| X. | Daan | vs | TIjs | 0-2 |
| Y. | Mattias | vs | Elmer | 1-2 |
| Final. | ||||
| Z. | Tijs | vs | Elmer | 0-2 |
Deckpix
Elmer's Finals Deck
Tijs' Finals Deck
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1 Tijs // Sep 22, 2011 at 4:18 PM
Well, i'll let you know, that didnt stop me from slamming my Big Buddy Bolas 3rd pick, and go for a nice und greedy deck in the first draft ;)
But lucky as i am, i got away with two times 2-1, and that 4-2 record apparently was good enough for t4. Hurray, a chance to defend the Crown of the Cube King!
T4 was sealed, and personally, i found that a bit of a let down, it seems that that leaves a lot to luck with your pool. Oh boy, was i right in that...
I opened a pretty decent 2 color deck with two swords and a library, and i was pretty content with my pool. I proceeded to crush Daan in the semi-finals, and was rewarded by seeing last year runner up Elmer in the finals again.
And there the hurting began...
It migth be an understatement to say he opened a bit better than me. He had a sword in his sideboard because it didnt make the cut...
He had a recuring nightmare/survival combo.
He could combo infinte turns, and tutor it up with Liliana Vess.
He could put you into a stripmine lock with crucible of worlds.
And to top it off, with a nice array of CIT creatures (2 card draw, 3 creature kill, and a witness), he had a prety decent base of operations, fully abusable with recuring nightmare. Eeeks...
Needles to say, i lost.
Game 1 started off with me on the play, but Elmer had a t2 crucible on his side, followed by a stripmine.
I tried to destroy the crucible, but it was regrowthed, and i ended the game with very few permanents on the board...
Game 2 started a bit slow, but soon i had some butcher/eratic portal shenanigans going, keeping Elmer out of creatures. However, since i had to set up that combo, i didnt have much time to really dent his life total.
The game went down the hill after a t7 Skyswallower, followed by a t8 Lilana Vess and a timewalk. And he failed to see that at that point, he had unlimited turns. But taking 2 in a row was good enough, since i couldnt do much, and went down to the big flying menance.
So, I crowned Elmer the new Cube King! Let he be a worthy ruler!
Thanx all for playing in the most fun competion out there ;)
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