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Figured I'd put this out as a combination report, seeing as how we had these back to back.  MD first, since it came first.

T1-2P (MD)

I was playing with a Gen/Philly/Sadducee deck, details of which will be posted some time later.

Round One: Tony DiMaggio

First thing I gotta say about this game, me and Tony got marooned.  We had twenty people playing, and seats 1-18 were all at tables with other people.  Seats 19-20, however, were apart from everyone else.  Maybe that's appropriate after someone's lost a game or two, Korunks, but first round?  That's cold, man.  Anyway, Tony and I had a fun game.  His deck wasn't all that special, and I beat him fairly easily, but we definitely practiced the 'fun and fellowship' creed.

W 5-1

Round Two: Alex Jacobs

Alex is an RLK who's pretty dang good at this game.  Knowing his deck, I thought I had a chance if I could get a good draw.  Did better than that, getting a good number of playable cards, then Mayhem second turn.  I walked in with Leah for the female-only on the first turn, then he started blocking my attacks with some deck-discard stuff.  Eve got around his favorite characters, and there was my second soul.  SoG/NJ to get four, then Simeon+Levi+AotL FTW.

W 5-1

Round Three: Blake Maust (drrek)

This is where the games started getting tight.  This game was memorable for a play I stole straight out of SomeKittens playbook.  At Creation, SK played FA on his own LS in order to deactivate his opponent's TGT.  My situation was a little different; I had the anti-Burial in my LoR, and a tapped two-liner in my LoB.  My only defensive card was Philly Outpost, but without any enhancement support I didn't think 12-Fingered Giant would be enough to protect the two-liner.  Blake also had his Guardian out.  So when he came after me, I decided to FA the anti-burial and give it to him.  This had several benefits: I could now bury the two-liner (when I drew Burial, of course), Blake only got one soul instead of two, and he couldn't pull a burial block of his own later in the game.  These benefits would prove crucial, as I barely squeaked out the victory.

W 5-4

Round Four: Jaden DiMaggio

This is a game I feel kind of bad about, b/c Jaden should have won this game, and quite convincingly as well.  He had a great draw at the beginning of the game, and found himself up 3-1, waiting for the Big Two.  Well, he got them, then he played them, and then he realized that there was only one LS in play.  If this had been a casual game, I probably would have let him pick them back up, but not at the top table in the second to last round of a state tourney.  What was really tough for him, though, was the Samaritan Water Jar that he had in his hand that he could have activated before dropping SoG/NJ.  Instead, he did that after, and of course a LS came out.  By that point, however, my Phillys were rolling, and he could not break through.  I played my Big Two, then started walking in with Zeb (I think, don't remember exactly, my deck has lots of finishing moves) to finish.

W 5-4

Round Five: Thomas DiMaggio

Another really fun game, some good back and forth that I don't really remember.  I'm sure we both made good plays, b/c my notes say "Great game!", but nothing specific is recorded or jumps to mind.  I do know that I won to finish the 5-0 run and claim the title of MD State T1-2P Champ.

W 5-3, Final Place: 1st/20
I think Blake took second and Gretel took third.

T1-MP (MD)

Round One: Blake, Gretel, Jerome Beers

Weird tourney tracker shuffling.  got four of the top six in T1-2P at the same opening table.  I was using a trimmed down version of my 2P deck.  It worked well enough in this game.  Sorry about no specifics, but I didn't write any notes down other than the score, and I cannot remember the details of the game.  Scores are posted in the same order as above.

W 5-2-4-1

Round Two: Hannah DiMaggio, Daniel (I AM DANIEL), Papa DiMaggio

In this game, we learned the importance of using the three-liner instead of the two.  both Hannah and I had two-liners in our decks (mine was b/c I forgot to switch it with my three, Hannah might not have a three).  Mine got shared between Hannah and Daniel early.  At the endgame, with me, Hannah, and Daniel tied at 4, I played Mayhem to try and generate a LS somewhere so I could win.  Only one that came out was Hannah's two-liner, and I couldn't get at Papa D's sited LS's.  So I took half of the two-liner and hoped for the best.  This meant that, if play got back around to him, Daniel had a chance to rescue the other half, and we would have tied at 5.  fortunately for Shawn, Hannah had site access and didn't give Daniel the chance.

L 4-5-4-2
Final Placing: T-3rd

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