Last Sunday held another Standard constructed tournament at Critical Hit: Comics and Games in Atria. I decided to join this time, as opposed before I was only the TO, to refresh myself of the gameplay of the current metagame. The deck I played was Eldrazi Red with old archetype back when Shadows over Innistrad has just entered the format. This time list was somewhat complete as we were able to buy Thought-knot Seers. The deck components somewhat looks like this:

4 x Hangarback Walker
4 x Hedron Crawler
3 x Pia and Kiran Nalaar
4 x Reality Smasher
4 x Thopter Engineer
3 x Thought-Knot Seer
4 x Vile Aggregate

4 x Chandra, Flamecaller
2 x Roast
3 x Spatial Contortion

There were 8 players present at that time so it was a 3-round tournament. Here is a short summary of the results of my matchups:

Round 1 vs Whine Weenie, won 2-0

Round 2 vs G/W Tokens, won 2-1

Round 3 vs R/G Ramp, won 2-0

All three matches were very close. For instance, I was down to one life against Mono White but as a result of correct blocks and combat tricks, she could not finish me off and ran out of gas. I was able to recover with TKS, Reality Smasher and Pia and Kiran Nalaar. Tokens was also a very hard match, with Avacyn clearly giving him advantage over combat blocks. Game 3 got me ahead as he mulligan to 5 and was somewhat stuck on 3 mana. It was still a close match but I was able to win the game with an activated Foundry of the Consuls to attack him on one life.

I finished in first place and got the first priority pick on the rares from the booster packs. Luckily I got Fortified Village as I badly needed that card for my Naya Planeswalkers deck which I am planning to build this week and also my deck of choice for the upcoming WMCQ I in June.

Anyhow, I hope this weekly Sunday Standard tourney will continue on the coming weeks as one way for the community to enjoy playing the format as well as tournament experience for those who are new of the game.

Until the next post.