Subject: Tournament Report Deck: NBC (New Black Control) Name: Arturo Gomez Tagle Location: Pasadena, California Date: June 22, 2003 Main deck: Lands: 23 Swamp 2 Cabal Coffers TO-U (25) Total Creatures: 1 Undead Gladiator ON-R 1 Visara the Dreadful ON-R (2) Total Spells: 4 Chainer's Edict OD-U 3 Corrupt 7E-C 2 Decree of Pain SC-R 4 Diabolic Tutor OD-U 1 Haunting Echoes OD-R 4 Innocent Blood OD-C 4 Lethal Vapors SC-R 3 Mind Sludge TO-U 1 Mirari OD-R 4 Mutilate TO-R 1 Riptide Replicator ON-R 2 Skeletal Scrying OD-U (33) Total ((60)) TOTAL Sideboard: 1 Visara the Dreadful ON-R 4 Engineered Plague 7E-U 4 Duress 7E-C 4 Rancid Earth TO-C 2 Persecute 7E-R First Round: ME vs Jason Game 1: He started off real good with his white weenie deck gettin me down to 14 before me playing lethal vapors and 9 before i got a mutilate to wipe the board, he let me take an extra turn and all i did was play a land, i finally got a visara down and corrupted him to death Game 2: I sided in 4 engineed plague he got out a Divine Sacrement with threshold so i had to mutilate his army away then played a riptide replicator makin 13/13 WHITE elephants (white so they can get +2/+2) and that won me the game. Matches: 1-0, Games 2-0 Second Round: ME vs Chris Game 1: he was playing clerics and got a real crappy draw (we play tested before the tourney he smashed me easily) but this was the real thing and i was doing good, he got 2 rotlung reanimators out but i mutilated and doubled it with mirari wiping the whole field i finnaly put down visara with a chainers edict in hand 4 turns later he was at 0. Game 2: i side boarded in 4 engineerd plagues and 1 visara he put in cop blacks and disenchants. he got another crappy draw and couldnt do anything to a undead glagiator turn 3 and a lethal vapors turn 4 but giv me an extra turn and playing a visara with the extra turn. after next turn he played cop black and i had to wait until i got a tutor or a replicator, it came and i won. Matches 2-0, Games 4-0 Third Round: ME vs Raul Game 1: he was playin sum wierd wizard deck with coat of arms he drew no answer to a turn 6 visara and scooped. Game 2: it was pretty hard for me this game he was playing lots of wizards and had a patron wizard i finnally snuck in a lethat vapors and mutilated with a coffers so he couldnt "force spike" it. he skipped a turn i played another, skipped a turn i played another then he skipped again i now had around 10 lands and a coffers he had around 6 i played a replicator and won. Fourth Round: ME vs Ryan Game 1: he had u/g but i kept all his creatures in check i decreed of slienced on the 6th turn drawing 4 cards and said go, he flashed back a roar of the wurm and played a rootwalla i untapped drew tapped sum land played lethal vapors and mutilated for 6, he skipped his turn i drew a visara played it was easy from there and i ended up corrupting him to death. ame 2: I sided in another visara and we started playing he put in a gigapede turn 5 i mutilated his crew away next turn playin lethal vapors he got out a compost and was drawing sum cards but forgot like 5 times, i haunting echoed him leaving pretty much nothin and killed him with a visara. Finals: ME vs Ryans brother (sorry i cant remember his name) well, they were starting a draft so we split 24 packs (i would have won he had r/g) Props: -Winning! well sorta -Winning the draft! i got like 4 foil rares and a foil renewed faith! Slops: -sumone loosing sum of there deck - me having to sideboard so much! come down to the next tournament!! theyre every sunday at 11 A.M. the adress to Comic Odyssey is 319 Arroyo Seco pasadena, california and, the cross street is Del Mar. HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!! if you have any comments or suggestions AIM me at daognumnutz _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail