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First round we played the father/son duo of John and Jonathan Myers.  The son Jonathan was playing all defense but didn't draw what he needed to deal with a Jacob+Captain band.  John on the other hand was all offense with lots of great banding.  Unfortunately for him he didn't draw a way to deal with The Twelve Fingered Giant.  We won 5-0.

Second round we played Nathan Voigt and Chris Bany.  We all know each other really well.  Chris activated Three Nails during his intro prep phase.  Kevin got rid of their Philistine Outpost with Land Dispute so Chris changed his Artifact to Unholy Writ.  I think we were ahead 2 to 1 when Nathan decided to play his Mayhem.  He didn't realize that we had RBD active.  He and Chris both shuffled their hand to discard their top 6 cards while Kevin and I each drew a new hand.  We realized well after our game that RBD actually should not have effected Chris.  But after a 24 card swing our game ended quickly 5-1.

Third round we played Michael Leung/Brandon Abbott, two guys I got to know personally from Nationals 2009.  Brandon and I play online regularly and I've learned a healthy respect for his unconventional play style.  Michael went first and rescued with Priests of Christ.  He used his Trumpet Blast to get rid of our Philistine Outpost and AotL to remove the Philistine Garrison I pulled out to block him so they jumped out to a quick 1-0 lead.  Brandon was using pale green and had most of their defense.  True to his nature he pulled off a couple blocks that I didn't see coming.  His FBTN banding offense even grabbed a Lost Soul from us.  Then, for the first time in the tournament we pulled off our combo with "the crazy chick".  Kevin chose Michael to pick on.  He hit some nice cards but didn't get any Dominants.  Michael discarded Jacob with CM.  Then on my next turn I drew my OoN so I also picked on Michael with our combo making it a total of 16 cards we took out of his deck!  This time we hit NJ so he played his SoG right away.  Later Brandon blocked Kevin and played Confusion.  Fortunately for us he chose Kevin's deck to search.  He didn't find SoG or NJ so he assumed Kevin was holding them.  When we got to 3 and Kevin didn't play the big two he figured out our deck building strategy but it was too late.  We ended up winning 5-3.

Round four was by far our toughest game.  Nick Archick/Ben Michaliszyn are skilled opponents.  They had a defense very similar to ours with both orange and Philistines.  There were a lot of great plays during the game which made it really intense.  I really can't remember them all.  There was a lot of exchanging with the Wanderer LS and the 2/3 Liners, up to 3 per turn at one point.  I had SoG/NJ early and used Lampstand to protect from a Mayhem that Nick announced he was holding.  Midway through the game we needed a blocker so I discarded to Gates but it took me a while to find anything which crippled my offense.  Eventually they used Captured Ark to remove Lampstand so I played the big 2 taking a shuffler.  Nick played his Mayhem trying to generate a LS.  Kevin ended up carrying our offense the rest of the game and won us our 5th soul at the time limit.  We squeezed out a 5-4 victory by the hair on our chinny-chin-chin.

We had first placed locked up at this point so we could relax a little in the 5th round which was nice considering how stressful the previous game was.  We were paired up with Jonathan Greeson/Christian Fong who had been timing out almost every round.  Jonathan had a 100 card orange defense and Christian has a "speed style" offense.  Jonathan's defense was going to be hard to get past so Kevin and I just waited patiently to get the cards we needed to break through.  Both teams played SoG/NJ and before we knew it we were almost out of time.  It was the last round of the game and I got the combo so I had Christian block with "the crazy chick".  We got his AotL and some other stuff.  He played Grapes to shuffle Jacob.  Since the score was only 2-2 I made another rescue.  I won a rescue against Jonathan making it 3-2 which was our final score.

yeah that was a pretty amazing game xD
we lost so bad

really interesting decks. I would have been interested in seeing how it'd fare against a huge combo deck.

the original combo used sabbath breaker, made notable by timmierz when he won nats.

Yeah, I had a deck based around that concept. But using Damsel with a multi-color in my hand never crossed my mind.

This deck was a nightmare, I don't want to play them again, is just a fresh kill. LOL

Michael Leung

Yeah,,,,,,,, Gabe, Jacob, Obedience of Noah on your Demsel with the Spirit of Devination, while Rain became Dust on me twice. That really stinks. Thank you.

ML.

with choose the blocker in teams, do you get to decide which player blocks?

Thats how we played it at nats...

Yeah, that damsel block was a neat idea.  very interesting!  That might make a good type 1 deck.

I second that. Thanks.

ML.

Wow, and just for overkill with that brutal combo, throw Abom in... Really cool idea Gabe, I am surprised that no one came up with that before.

Teams makes it easier to pull off since you have Obedience x2 and Damsel x2.

claudia+et (philosophy) +OON choosing damsel with RBD active is sick butwas always hard for me to pull off everygame. It feels good everytime it happens though. real good. and to win on top of that! i know your stoked Gabe. good job buddy!

Quote from: Alex_Olijar on August 20, 2010, 12:25:52 AM

Teams makes it easier to pull off since you have Obedience x2 and Damsel x2.

And RBD x 2 and you can band to your partner's ET to search out your Philosophy and play OoN. 

Other people have told me that they tried CTB with the Damsel and RBD so I know it's not original, but I did come up with it independently and made it tournament viable.  It's really only a variation of the Sabbath Breaker+CTB+RBD combo that's been around for a few years.  Actually, that combo was in the original draft of the decks but got cut because it didn't flow well enough with everything else.

Man, sounds like a type 2 players dream.