Rotisserie III Results

Swanker (GWb hate bears) 5 - 1
Me (UW Scepter Counterbalance) 5 - 1
Farlo (UG Stasis) 4 - 2
The Phyrexian (UB Storm) 3 - 3
Action Dan (RG stompy) 3 - 3
Old Fava Beens (UR Prowess) 1 - 5
Sideshow Cob (mono blue) 0 - 6

	ME	Swanker	Farlo	Sideshow Cob	The Phyrexian	Action Dan	Old Fava Beens
ME		0 – 2	2 – 1	2 – 0	2 – 0	2 – 0	2 – 1
Swanker	2 – 0		2 – 0	2 – 0	1 – 2	2 – 1	2 – 1
Farlo	1 – 2	0 – 2		2 – 1	2 – 1	2 – 0	2 – 0
Sideshow Cob	0 – 2	0 – 2	1 – 2		0 – 2	1 – 2	0 – 2
The Phyrexian	0 – 2	2 – 1	1 – 2	2 – 0		0 – 2	2 – 0
Action Dan	0 – 2	1 – 2	0 – 2	2 – 1	2 – 0		2 – 1
Old Fava Beens	1 – 2	1 – 2	0 – 2	2 – 0	0 – 2	1 – 2

This was a little bit of a silly one and a lot of that was on me. Being in the last seat on the wheel I was somewhat pushed into taking Path and Plow and looked like I was lining up to be a white weenie player. I didn't fancy this at all in a field full of blue and red decks (Swanker was drafting blue to begin with as well). I made an early switch into blue with the aim of doing exactly the deck I did. Both red and blue decks are pretty bad for white weenie and it isn't the most fun of decks to do in such a large and long event. As such I decided the best way to counter blue was to go blue myself and made the event incredibly polarised. There were maindeck Chokes and that kind of thing! Swanker made a very good early call to get out of the highly contested blue and do something else. Sideshow Cob did not do this and got slowly squeezed out of any good archetypal direction or viable colour pairing.

In hindsight I should probably have gone for a black white Pox deck rather than muscling into blue and warping the event. While it worked out pretty well in my favour no one likes to play endless blue decks. The Stasis deck isn't fun, Counterbalance isn't fun, Scepter Chant isn't fun, Tinker a massive threat isn't fun, countermagic isn't fun, Vedalken Shackles are not fun, Upheaval isn't fun and sitting there doing nothing for 15 minutes while your opponent dicks around casting things and untapping stuff isn't fun either. The games where people seemed to be having the most fun where ones where people both had creatures in play of comparable sizes and numbers.

It wasn't even super fun for the blue players when they were winning as it was all so damn hard! Some of the most complicated decks and cards in magic were being used and it was melting fragile old minds. I will certainly be looking to play a load of nice midrange magic for the next few weeks. I want to lay a land and cast a thing each turn developing a board and interacting with my opponents board. Perhaps I should play some Hearthstone instead.... While this event was well worth doing and rewarding, of the last two big events I had a whole lot more fun losing with my deck with 3/4 lands than I did winning with my blue lockdown deck.