Lion's Dice Tiny Leaders Reborn Septiembre - Dolmen's Gate
It's the last round, the undefeated player is playing mono-green, his opponent? Also mono-green. It's their third match, tied 1 to 1. You see the life totals of both players: 20-20 and one player says to the other... 64 trample damage. GGs.
The Podium
- 1st Place: 🏆 Omar Gonzalez piloting Tifa Lockhart (First time player, First time Winner!)
- 2nd Place: 🥈 Laca_Laca piloting Legolas, Master Archer (Running Mono-Green this time!)
- 3rd Place: 🥉 Exilius piloting Aminatou, the Fateshifter (Frequent Podium Placer, his 7th appearance in the top 3)
Highlights
We had two "new" players today, Omar, coming from Commander and building a Tifa deck and managing to get First Place, and Ivan, who borrowed my Spidey deck.
### Play by Play
For this tournament, I decided to reprise my Tidus deck, and while it didn't do too bad, I did quickly regret it. Between the fetchlands and the shocklands, I dealt 5 damage to myself on an average game. 7 on a longer one.
Round One - Vs RogDog
By all accounts, I should have lost this match, but the pilot was a kid that was more excited about putting counters on the Dog, than actually winning the game. He's still inexperienced in a lot of the nuances of combat, and I managed to scrape by a win, 1-0.
Round Two - Vs Legolas
This second match was very much one-sided. On game one, I thought I had him, where "out of nowhere" comes Legolas and using it's ability, destroys both of my creatures and by the next turn, wipes my board. The Legolas deck certainly packed a punch, and I couldn't out-punch him on Game 2, where I started with 6 lands, after a mulligan, kept it for who knows what reason, and kept drawing lands despite cracking fetches.
Round Three - Vs Sarulf, Realm Eater
Playing against Sarulf is always a scary proposition, it's literally a boardwipe on-legs. Lucky for me, he didn't manage to wipe my board on either game, with a Goldvein Hydra on my side surpising him with it's Haste, Vigilance, Trample, and the ever-efficient Botanical Brawler / Shelinda on game one, Botanical Brawler / Sazh's Chocobo on game two just putting some early pressure on the board meant both games went by quickly.
Round Four - Vs Aminatou
Control decks are annoying, and facing against Aminatou, doubly so. At least it was over quickly. Game One, I lost against Oath of Kaya + Aminatou just blinking it. For Game Two, I packed as much Enchantment removal as I could.
An early Hopeless Nightmare meant I had to use one of the removal pieces, which got countered, which meant I had to use a second enchantment removal... which then allowed him to play Oath of Kaya safely, taking him from 3 life, up to around 17 before the game was over. So close, yet so far.
Closing Thoughts
60% of the decks had Green in them, two of them mono-green. The finals match was Mono Green v Mono Green as I mentioned earlier, with Tifa dealing through 64 damage thanks to fetchlands.
Decks like Aminatou are more common online, but seeing one in paper means we'll be seeing more of the online meta pouring into paper.
Talking with Laca Laca after the match, about how 'painful' shocklands are, he mentioned how paper communities will tend to use 1 or 2 colors due to the unaffordable alfa-lands unless proxies are allowed in the store.
Overall, great matches, and a great night, with Pizza and Drinks included in the ticket prize as is now the custom in Lion's Dice, I can't wait for the next one.
