The Dormant Dragon

3xISD Draft 2

Davide — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:23:18 +0000

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3xISD draft 1

Davide — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:17:50 +0000

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SoM Draft #1

Davide — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:06:44 +0000

So here the first SoM draft on magic online, it was an 8-4:

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The deck I played was this one:

and I sided in Instill Infection against infect decks and one Ezuri’s Archer against my second turn opponent because he was playing two Plague Stingers.

I was able to win the tournament beating:

Turn one: an awful mono blue deck, with venser’s journal, architect, tower of calamities, mindslaver… I lost the first game because he was able to stay alive until the tower was active while he was gaining 3-4 life points every turn with the journal. In game two and three my Ezuri’s brigade and chrome steeds killed him before he could put any of his “combos” online.

Turn two: an almost awesome infect deck. I think it was just a little short on removal, but it has a lot of good infect dudes: two plague stingers, cystibear, contagious nim, two tel-jilhad fallens, ichor rats plus darksteel axe, bladed pinions, sylvok lifestaff, contagious clasp and untamed might. Those games were thought, I lost game one and I won the other two games because I drew really well and because arc trail and embersmith are great cards.

Turn three: a bg deck which had some good cards along with some fillers. I won game one when I put him at one, he wiped the board and a couple of turn later I drew my vulshok replica. Game two I killed his second turn myr, played a chrome steed, tapped his second myr with tumble magnet and the job was done.

Piacenza City Champ – 4th tournament – SoM Draft

Davide — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 19:54:03 +0000

Magic is such a bitch. Every time you start thinking maybe it’s the time to just stop, because you’re not as good as before and you will never be as good again, then you’ll win something.
That was my case today. After a 0-2 drop at my first PTQ, a 0-3 in an online pre-release and a 2-1-1 in my first draft I started thinking that magic is just a loss of time for me right now and that I will never be able to make some decent result again.
I decided to play anyway today just because I planned to play GP Florence and I want have a decent grasp of the format. So I played, drafted a great deck and 4-0ed the tournament. It was a small tournament of course, but it feels so good to finally play some good magic and to win game after game that I can’t wait to play more right now. PTQ Bologna is next Sunday and I’ll probably play it, so not along time to wait.

Anyway, just to put in some interesting content I’l list my draft deck.

8 mountain
7 forest

2 copper myr
2 carapace forger
1 palladium myr
2 vulshok replica
1 snapsail glider
2 chrome steed
1 oxidda scrapmelter
1 rusted relic
1 steel hellkite

2 horizon spellbomb
1 galvanic blast
2 arc trail
1 trigon of rage
2 tumble magnet
1 cerebral eruption
1 slice in twain
1 trigon of corruption
1 turn to slag

awesome, right?

Mid-October wrap-up

Davide — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:41:59 +0000

It’s already the half of October and I’m still breakeven, not a good news. I feel like I was even in term of luck too, with a great run last sunday and some days, like yesterday, in which I couldn’t hit a flop and my opponents always had a better hand when I had a strong one. So I haven’t much to complain about, those bad results are my fault. Anyway it’s not a big deal, it’s been only two months since I began playing HUSNGs so it’s ok if i’m not a big winner yet.
In order to improve my results I decided to watch videos on HUSNG.com, take notes about things I didn’t know or I was doing wrong and then search in my pokertracker database some hands in which I could have applied those new knowledges. I think I’ll do a new series of blog posts about that, because writing down my thoughts helps my learning process a lot. The last step obviously is to apply things i’ll learn in the new games, which will probably be the more difficult thing to do.
Last sunday I played two big tournaments too, an €100k guaranteed and an €25k guaranteed, because I had two tickets for those. Even if I busted pretty early, playing a couple of hands really bad, mostly because I was tired, I think I’ll try to qualify for those every week by playing steps sit and goes. This is because people seems really bad and I think there’s a lot of dead money in those tournaments.
From tomorrow I’ll have dsl at home, so I could stop playing from uni’s library and go back to my normal schedule. This will probably help me because I could be ore focused and I’ll have a poker-only moment during my day. Hopefully my win rate will improve.

September Wrap-Up

Davide — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:09:19 +0000

September was very disappointing. I lost a lot in a big downswing and then recovered a bit finishing second in a MTT for about €120.

Near the end of the month I had another downswing and I simple stopped playing because I was really too tired due to work

Thanks to some bonuses I got, my roll is about €330. I want to reach €560 on the site before sitting at the 14s again, so my goals for October are:

Play at least 500 games at the 7s. Starting from tomorrow this means I have to play 19 games per day, which is not too difficult.
Play only €7 HUSNG and MTT with €5 max buyin.
Watch and study at least 6 videos from husng.com.
Bring bankroll to €560.

SoM sealed deck construction #1

Davide — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:30:38 +0000

I and Michele, a friend of mine who’s a great Magic player, decided to make a video about a Scars of Mirrodin sealed deck construction (using Magic Workstation).

The video is intended to help Piacenza’s local players, because the limited PTQs and GPs season is incoming and most of the are quite unexperienced with limited formats. So it probably won’t be so interesting for good players.

Also, this was the first time I’ve seen Scars of Mirrodin cards while Michele played the pre-release event at least; so we probably made some mistakes. Don’t judge us too harshly.

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8 Men Standard #1

Davide — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:57:03 +0000

A couple of days ago I played and recorded an 8 men standard tournament on Magic Online.

I don’t know why, but YouTube can’t process the video about the first match. Anyway this isn’t a big problem because I played against a dumb deck filled with enter on the battlefield tapped lands and I easily won 2-0.

The list I played is the one which won US Nationals:

4  Celestial Colonnade
5  Forest
2  Island
1  Marsh Flats
4  Misty Rainforest
2  Plains
1  Sejiri Steppe
3  Stirring Wildwood
3  Verdant Catacombs

4  Birds of Paradise
4  Knight of the Reliquary
4  Lotus Cobra
4  Noble Hierarch
4  Sovereigns of Lost Alara

2  Eldrazi Conscription
3  Elspeth, Knight-Errant
2  Explore
4  Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4  Mana Leak

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1  Bojuka Bog
4  Celestial Purge
2  Jace’s Ingenuity
4  Linvala, Keeper of Silence
2  Obstinate Baloth
2  Spell Pierce

We have only 2 Jaces on MtGO, so I played a Negate and the third Explore instead of them. This probably was an error. Playing two additional threats is probably better, I’m thinking about 2 Baneslayer Angel or a Baneslayer and a Gideon Jura.

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Level 3 achieved

Davide — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:10:27 +0000

The title of this post is just to stay positive, because the only good thing about yesterday is that I achieved level 3 of the VIP system.

This was yesterday:

Obviously I could have played better, even if I think I didn’t played too bad.
By the way there isn’t a lot you can do when you run like this:

This forced me to play lower, so I’m playing the 7s instead of the 14s. Also I’ll go back to one tabling, I’ll try again two tabling when I’ll be a consistent winner at the 7s.

Bad plays

Davide — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:18:42 +0000

Last week I played really bad. I started playing two tables and I found myself tilting a lot when things get harder. I think this is because I’m quite stressed by work and other stuff. By the way I ran really hot at the end of the last session and I played a little better, so I’m almost even on the month.

This is my September graph:

Hopefully things will change in the next few days. My plan for tomorrow is to play a lot of games and hit level 3 of the vip club on GDpoker. Hopefully I’ll keep the good run on.