8 Chris Egley
5-4
This game was really good. We had played a lot together before T1-2p online and for fun + Iron Man. I knew what he was running and even gave him some tips to increase the speed. It was working. He was blazing fast and HSR did nothing to stop his New Jerusalem played with Son of God. I honestly feel this game was so close that the entire thing only came down to him having one misplay. He didn't know that a rule had changed from last season where Foreign Wives is no longer a dynamic check. He blocked one turn and played Mayhem thinking she would be protected and she wasn't, then he had nothing to follow up with for the block. I honestly feel like this one misplay cost him the game since it was so close at the end.
9 Gabe Isbell
0-5
I imagined all along, the entire season, I would make it to top cut and get to play Gabe Isbell. He is one of my favorite people in the Redemption community not only for his contributions to the game, but also for his fellowship and mentorship. Gabe is a phenomenal Redemption player who is truly the model of a pro player. He had all full artwork cards which looked stellar!! He played an early game Coliseum and I really started hunting for Mercy of James. I thought that I would be able to outlast his defense if I could get my Thorns soul out and my 2 solid CBN blocks in, as I already had Onesimus and Moses was no where to be found. I intentionally kept Disagreement Over Mark in my deck for The Strong Angel and sure enough when he was resucing with The Strong Angel I was holding it, but he had up Coliseum!! Haha. The biggest error I made in this game was drawing like a race horse with Philemon while I had only the Crowds Soul out and no HSR up. I knew in this match up I needed to cut low with Jude and Onesimus like I did at regionals to win those games against similar defenses, but instead I wanted to draw to get up Guardian of Your Souls and find Mercy of James. It sure cost me! Confusion the Son of God, I got the soul which was fell away before Guardian came out. Oh no!! After that I still wasn't worried because I had won a lot of games without Son of God before. I wound up getting a 5 turn paralyze on Gideon with the Serpent when he came in with Auto to Joshua/Captain. I had out the Punisher soul and he had turned up You Will Remain. It was my initiative and I played Nebuchadnezzar's Pride. He said it was prevented and I pointed out that he had 5 brigades with You Will Remain! Between Paralyzing Gideon and setting aside a phenomenal rescuing band for 4 turns I knew I had a window of opportunity to pull the win with a tapped liner in his territory if I could get to Eternal Inheritance since he had already played Falling Away early. I came in for a rescue with Philemon and I think he was matyred then I used You Will Remain to come in with Barnabas and search his deck for a soul. What a view!! I felt like I was looking over a mountain checking out all of his awesome full art cards ^^ I didn't see much that worried me until I didn't see Son of God or The Second Coming. At that point I knew that if I had not pulled off the Serpent block it may have been over sooner than expected. He blocked and played dou to shuffle his souls because Philemon was no longer in the battle to protect them with Onesimus, plus I had no thorns out! Nooo!! I was also holding Mayhem and should have played it right there but I think I instinctively wanted to save it for Hypocrisy since I was already drawing a lot. I bought myself some time but I didn't do enough with it. He was able to walk in a few times with TSA and I wound up rescuing again to which he blocked with Lions to discard his own Gideon (which was brilliant!!) and play Son of God The Second Coming. Great game.
