I originally posted my report as replies to my decklist thread but from looking at older threads it seems reports usually go in threads here so I've moved it over.
This is the first time I've attempted to write a tournament report and realized that partially due to my terrible memory and partially due to Hypocisy/Mayhem slowing the opponent down and Col games generally not including a large number of turns or much interaction with the opponent, I can't recall enough details of my opponent's decks to give a solid write up of the games I won. For the most part, they all included getting CoL in my hand turn 1 in some manner, attacking with Justin to draw 3 off BotL and getting the occasional turn 1 soul, block with Fire Foxes or a dominant, flipping up Ram's Horn turn 2 and planning all the enhancements, Hypocrisy, play them all again, walk in with Children, occasionally toss some dudes, play Mayhem on their turn, block with wives, then either walk in for the third soul and SoG/NJ or, if they used W Falling Away or kept Justin from a turn 1 soul, setting up the double soul combo and ending that way. Add a fourth turn of walking in with Children if the opponent had an obstacle I had to delay a turn to remove.
I apologize to Martin Miller, Simon Miller, Zac Cornell, and Issac Miller (So many Millers
) that I did not remember much from our games. I greatly enjoyed every match we played.
Game 1 5-1
Martin Miller
Game 2 5-2
Simon Miller
Game 3 3-5
Kye Murphy
Kye had the bravery to run a Liner abuse defense in spite of the new Guardian and it paid off for him here. His turn 1 DoU denied me an opportunity to play Blood of the Lamb, which combined with my poor opening hand forced me to either fall behind or risk putting Children in territory without Peter. He had the Christian Martyr and the presence of mind to shoot Children instantly before I go off with it. I'm used to getting punished for this play and Love Righteousness allows me to retrieve CoL from discard. I had used it on Justin to search CoL out from my deck in the first place but fortunately Consider the Lilies can recur Love Righteousness so all I had to do was delay a bit to draw into Consider the Lilies and proceed with the normal game plan. Unfortunately, I did not notice until after the game that when I played Consider the Lilies on turn 1 to exchange to deck for Love Righteousness, instead of exchanging Consider the Lilies into the deck as the ability states, I had accidentally put it into my discard pile after playing it. Neither Kye or I caught the misplay and unfortunately we won't be able to know what the outcome of the game had been had it not occurred, but Kye definitely deserved the win either way for punishing the risks I took and doing his best to deny my usual strategy.
Game 4 5-2
Zac Cornell
