Trip and tournament pictures taken by Markus

Taken by Markus Thibeau and Josh Layne

A Pictorial Report of PTQ Austin

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.

Josh reports on the Berlin PTQ in Vancouver in pictures and video clips.

It’s game 3. You’ve just spent your last card to counter your opponent’s last card. You have a small board advantage, but it’s definitely a topdeck war. You draw. Please, please, please be a good card….. it’s a land.

Keep Fighting! You lose game 1 and start shuffling up for game 2. A sinking feeling in your stomach; is it all going to end here? But this is a pretty good result… No, reject that hint of resignment – Keep… Fighting!

I recently got a digital camera, and I figured, what better place to use it than to do a pictorial tourney report at YJ? New sets are always good times, and this one was pretty welcome as far as I’m concerned, since I haven’t really liked Lorwyn block.

So, today marked the culmination of the City Champs at both Yellowjacket and Skyhaven Games. I decided to go down to Yellowjacket to watch all the champions do battle.