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I was blessed enough through Bill to able to attend this year’s Type 2 only tournament, so I figured I would do my service and post a tournament report for those unable to attend.

I caught a flight from Pittsburgh at 4:40 pm. I was on the only plane out of my terminal not to get delayed, so the blessings came early in my trip. I arrived at Minneapolis a bit early, where I spent about 30 minutes figuring out how to get to the entrance where Bubbleboy picked me up. After arriving at the tournament, I set to work constructing my sealed deck. I was paired with Bubbleboy and we were the only ones to choose to use the E/F starter decks. I got a bit lucky on the random selection and ended up with the Silver offense, so for my 6 packs, I selected 3 Angel Wars and 3 Patriarchs in addition to my Disciples and TexP packs.

My deck wasn’t overly intimidating, but I did get enough worthwhile neutral cards to run a 40/40/25 set up. By “worthwhile neutral cards”, I really mean I drafted 4 sites and traded for Bubbleboy’s 4 sites to give myself 8 sites, allowing myself to lock out anyone without access to my sites after Son of God and Burial. The other notable about my deck was the epic hero that is Abram/Abraham. I managed to convert Abram to Abraham in 3 separate games, including one where he finished the game with 4 counters. He was beastly when backed up by my Covenant of Abraham x3, Abraham’s Descendants, and Jubilee x2. Abraham was definitely my MVP. If I recall correctly, I finished 3-2 in sealed deck.

After the conclusion of the Sealed Deck unofficial tournament, the Save Que Foundation proudly presented the first prize to Jordan Alstad. First prize was a beautiful shirt reading “Save Que” with a picture of the Q-tie himself courtesy of Matt Brinkman. The Save Que Foundation had one Elder under their grasp. An informal meeting was then held among the members in attendance + Professor Alstad and a guy from Iowa who’s name I do not remember (and by informal meeting, I mean we stayed up until about 5:30 talking about ridiculous things and rulings).

After getting a robust 3 hours asleep, I was awoken by Bill, grabbed a bowl of Cocoa Puffs for breakfast, checked in my deck (it was legal) and prepared for my first matchup. I couldn’t wait to see what was going to be popular. As it turns out, I didn’t even have to go to the tournament to know that, as my suspicions about popular offenses were correct.

For my first game, I was paired with Scott Reuter. He said he wasn’t a very good player, but I assured him I didn’t play much Type 2 anyway. The game commenced. Unfortunately for Scott, his deck was a very bad matchup against. His combination of Captain Banding, Job, and Bulletproof Samson was no match for my CBNB + Horses/End the battle defense, and his Roman Emperors were not doing much against Thaddeus. He managed to pull off 3 rescues, but two of them were with Dominants. I rescued 7 with my disciples.

After a solid performance, I was feeling good about the next game. I got matched with Jacob Fountain. He surprised me with an Angel/Demon deck. He used Consuming Fire on offense to keep me from using my horses, on my Archers and had the solid defense of not drawing souls. He also spotted a Strong Demon against my purple Disciples for most of the game. In the end, he walked through me pretty quick due to the combination of a bad deck matchup and a terrible defensive draw. The final score was 7-2

Slightly random note, Scott Reuter's board name is Wanderer.

And again, I beg for multi.

Phillies are the best way to go to stop Thad. Satan's Seat is a fail.

Multi was awesome.

Justin: "Why did you convert all his Pharisees [I had like 3 converted PP and 2 converted Pharisees] to heroes? And you made one white?"
Craig: "It seemed like a good idea at the time...."

Whatever . Also, the guy from Iowa that stayed up was Sepjazzwarrior.

To me, multi always failed.     ANB just made it a little more bearable.    I'm glad I picked board games instead.  Civilization the board game is awesome! 

Wow Great report Alex! I wish I could have been there!

Great Report Alex! I really appreciate the time you spent to write this up for us who wished we could have been there. I really thought Jobs Faith and Emps would have done better. Maybe some decklist for Disciples?
Thanks Again