| Infectwire | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Creatures (16) 4 Glistener Elf 4 Bighted Agent 4 Plague Myr 2 Viral Drake 2 Viridian Corrupter Pumps (12) 4 Distortion Strike 4 Mutagenic Growth 2 Gigantiform 2 Vines of Vastwood | Other Spells (4) 4 Preordain Artifacts (4) 4 Livewire Lash Lands (24) 4 Misty Rainforest 4 Inkmoth Nexus 8 Forest 8 Island | Sideboard 2 Viridian Corrupter 2 Viral Drake 4 Nature's Claim 2 Vines of Vastwood 2 Withstand Death 3 Contagion Clasp | |
Today I'll be playing against the Grixis Twin deck that placed 2nd on Magic-League.com:
(Note: My opponent chooses the deck he's playing against me, and I don't find out what deck it is until after the match is over.)
Game 1:
I roll a 4 to my opponents 1, and choose to play first. My opening hand is: Forest, Forest, Blighted Agent, Blighted Agent, Plague Myr, Vines of Vastwood, Distortion Strike. Looking back on this, I should have mulled down to 6, but I figured I would be the faster deck anyway, and chose to play with it.
Turn 1: Forest, pass. Scalding Tarn, sac'd for an Island, Gitaxian Probe.Turn 2: Draw Mutagenic Growth. Forest, Plague Myr. Darkslick Shores, Inquisition of Kozilek. Forced to discard Mutagenic Growth.
Turn 3: Draw Plague Myr. Attack with Plague Myr, opponent at 1 poison. Scalding Tarn, sac'd for a Mountain.
Turn 4: Draw Vines of Vastwood. Attack with Plague Myr. Deceiver Exarch flashed in to block. Cast a kicked vines on Plague Myr, kill Exarch. Plays Scalding Tarn.
Turn 5: Draw Island (FINALLY). Attack with Plague Myr, opponent at 2 poison, play Blighted Agent. Cast Mana Leak. Blighted Agent hits graveyard. Plays Blackcleave Cliffs.
Turn 6: Draw Preordain. Cast Preordain, 2 Blighted Agents on top of the stack... Ship them both. Draw a Plague Myr. Attack with Plague Myr. Cast kicked Into the Roil on Plague Myr. Cast Plague Myr. Evolving Wild, Liliana Vess, uses -2 tutor ability. Cast Gitaxian Probe.
Turn 7: Draw Distortion Strike. Play Blighted Agent. Attack with Plague Myr. Flash in Deceiver Exarch, blocks Plague Myr. EOT. Play Splinter Twin. Scoop.
Sideboard:
-2 Viridian Corrupter
-2 Viral Drake
+4 Nature's Claim
Game 2:
Turn 1, Glistener Elf. Turn 2, Plague Myr, opponent at 1. Turn 3, Blighted Agent and the opponent is at 2 poison, by blocking the Elf with Spellskite. Turn 4, Elf, Myr, Agent all head in, Myr is blocked by Spellskite, opponent flashes in Exarch and blocks/kills Elf, opponent at 3 poison. Opponents turn, I cast Nature's Claim on his Spellskite. Turn 5: Gigantiform on Blighted Agent, opponent at 11 poison.
Game 3:
Opening hand is Vines of Vastwood, Island, Misty Rainforest, Nature's Claim, Livewire Lash, Livewire Lash, Glistener Elf. Opponent chooses to play first.
Turn 1: Misty Rainforest finds me a Forest to bring my shiny elf buddy to the yard.Turn 2: Livewire Lash, Elf gets in for 1.
Turn 3: Opponent played a Spellskite, my elf picks up the lash and rushes in, taking Spellskite down to 0/1.
Turn 4: Opponent plays Duress, in response I Nature's Claim the Spellskite, and I'm forced to discard Vines of Vastwood. I play another forest, and attempt to get out Liverwire Lash #2, it gets mana leaked, I drew another one, and Livewire Lash #3 hits the field. Elf gets in for 3 more counters, opponent at 4 poison.
Turn 5: Opponent has all mana open. I attempt to equip Lash #3, and Livewire Lash #1 gets Into the Roil'd in response. Elf has 1 Livewire on him, and I just drew a distortion strike. I show the strike to my opponent, and he has no counters, putting him at a solid 10 poison and I win the game and the match.
I wrote out each game in a different way. Game 1 is written as a straight play-by-play ("I did this, then I did this, then my opponent did this, then I did this...."). Game 2 is a quick summary ("Here's the relevant things I did, and things my opponent did to try and stop it."). Game 3 is more of a narrative ("Team heads into the red zone!").
I'm curious how people feel about the different options. I think game 3 is more amusing, but game 1 more informative. Game 2 is the fastest and shortest for me to type, so doing reports like that would let me put more games in a post (writing this blog post took about 3 times longer than it took to actually play the games).
Leave a comment and let me know what you think.
See Part 1 here: http://ggxgames.blogspot.com/2011/05/testing-infectwire.html
See Part 2 here: http://ggxgames.blogspot.com/2011/05/testing-infectwire-part-2.html
See Part 3 here: http://ggxgames.blogspot.com/2011/05/testing-infectwire-part-3.html
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