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A Pictorial Report of PT Austin, part 1 by Albert and Nelson

A Pictorial Report of PT Austin, part 1 by Albert and Nelson

A Pictorial Report of PTQ Austin

So this PTQ started brewing in my mind about a month ago or so while I was out painting Jason Gray’s house. We were sitting around and Jason was like i’m going out east in october and if the times work out we should go to Austin, and I was like yeah! lets go win this PTQ!

I applied to be a judge at Canadian Nationals, and John Carter picked me among 3 judges from BC to fly out to Toronto. Will, Max, and I were the lucky ones, and we all flew out within two rows of each other on the same plane.

A Pictorial Report of GP Seattle

When they killed Prismatic for tournament play on MtGO, they created a new format to take its place, called Kaleidoscope. Kaleidoscope uses the extended cardpool, and every non-land card in your deck must be multicolored.

We’re up against a solid player – BC Faeries. Interestingly enough, Ol’ BC has chosen to eschew the trusty Fae for this tournament and is running UR storm combo. We’re running Life from the Loam Death Cloud, so this isn’t a great matchup for us, but we win the roll, and have a sweet opening seven which includes Raven’s Crime and LftL. We start the discard happening, 1 on turn 1, 2 more on turn 2, 1 more + LftL on turn 3. BC has opened with a suspended Lotus Bloom, but by turn 4 he’s down to 1 card in hand, and 2 lands in play.

We slowly wake up at about 7:30am. T-Robs and I check out the Free Breakfast room, they have some muffins, other baked stuff, juices, cereal, etc. Grab some of that. Miller is watching Wild West Tech on TV…We watch that for a bit, get together our stuff and roll to the event. We get there, lots of people. We sign up. I scout a bit. Lots of Mono Red, Affinity, and Faeries. First round starts.