KC PTQ in 20 minutes or less!

I know I'm late getting this up (SORRY LANDON) but I have 20 mintues before my next class and I'm going to try and get everything in here in that time.

AND WE'RE OFF!

The week between last PTQ and this one I spent brewing with Ben Jackson. We tried lots of different things from BG Depths to BG Depths with Abyssal Persecutor to UB Depths with Trinket Mages and Persecutors. Basically we just wanted a decent man plan to go along with making 20/20s. Eventually we came to our sences and just played the best deck.

What I registered:
4 Dark Confidant
4 Vampire Hexmage
4 Thoughtseize
3 Thirst for Knowledge
2 Compulsive Research
4 Muddle the Mixture
3 Smother
1 Slaughter Pact
3 Thopter Foundry
2 Sword of the Meek
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Chalice of the Void
4 Chrome Mox
4 Dark Depths
4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 Sunken ruins
4 River of Tears
3 Island
1 Swamp
1 Dimir Aquaduct
1 Academy Ruins
2 Tolaria West
SB:
3 Leyline of the Void
3 Deathmark
2 Sphinx of Jwar Isle
2 Damnation
2 Duress
1 Exile into Darkness
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Darkblast

Round 1: Mark E. Donovan -- Zoo
I Thoughtseize him turn 1 and he kept a hand full of animals. I make a 20/20 on turn 3 and he scoops them up after his draw step. Game two I kill his first few dudes, Thirst at the end of his turn, Thoughtseize him, make a 20/20. This time he doesn't scoop after he draws his card so I figure he drew an answer. Oh well, I'm still in complete control of the game. Turns out he was just slow rolling me when he lays two more guys and empties his hand.

1-0

Round 2: Logan A. Petersen -- Boros
This matchup is pretty tough. I don't remember exactly what happened but I got double Bolted out of game one and in game two I was two turns away from killing him with Sphinx when but he draws the burn to finish me off again when I'm sitting on a hand full of removal.

1-1

Round 3: Randi L. Durrin -- AIR
Game 1 I'm going to 20/20 on turn 2 but she's got a Blood Moon before I can do anything. I never cast any spells and get ran over by Demigods. Game 2 I'm all set up to make a 20/20 on turn 2 again but she has the turn 1 Blood Moon. I'm still able to get a Island in play and a Chrome Mox on black and I play Thopter Foundry and Sword before she can get any animal into play. Game 3, once again, I draw Hexmage and Dark Depths and a Urborg (how lucky right?), and ones again she has a turn 2 Magus of the Moon. This time I'm ready with a Slaughter Pact and a Chrome Mox on black to make sure another Moon effect won't keep me from paying for it. She doesn't have an answer (Dead/Gone was her only out, if she plays it) and we're done.

Round 4: Kyah Hicks -- MBC
Not much to say here, he got mana flooded and didn't have answers for either one of my combos. Game two the opposite happened and he didn't get any lands and got ran over by a 20/20.

Round 5: Aaron J. Stockman -- Zoo
I Explosive'd away his first two guys, chained some draw spells and got Factory online and game 1 was over. I boarded in more removal, blew up all his guys, and then killed him with something large.

Round 6: Kyle D. Dembinski -- Zoo
As the round is starting Kyle gets a text from Boss asking if he has won the PTQ yet. He tells Boss he is playing against me so basically, he has. Boss then texts me and berates me on my deck choice because I can't beat Zoo. Kyle says something about how we can draw this round and smash in the next and both make Top 8. I ask him if he wants to, he says not really and we play. I'm sure he can remember the details clearer than I can but everything goes to play. I Smother some guys and make a 20/20 backed up with disruption. Going into game 2 he asks if I want to draw and I tell him to ask me after this game and he refuses. He gets stuck on his 3rd land for a while and can't cast the Thought Hemmorhage in his hand for my Foundries. But he doesn't have any guys in play and I'm attacking with a 5/5 shroud guy so I'm not sure it mattered. Comes down to he needs to draw a Tribal Flames to win and he doesn't. Sorry Kyle.

Round 7: Jon Klimek -- Gifts/Punishing Fire/Thopter Sword abortion of a deck
Here's the deal with this guy. I see him on the midwest PTQ circuit all the time. Never been impressed. Him and his friends were giant assholes/retards to my friend Rader at GP KC but Rader smashed them anyways. So I beat his wife earlier in the tournament (AIR player) and was looking forward to ending the tournament for both of them. I watched his round when he was 4-0 against Living End. He punted turn after turn and ended up getting a draw instead of the win he should have had. He then had to play against Penick who was playing the same deck I was and lost. So from a position where he should have been able to draw in at 5-0 he is now in some pretty serious danger of not Top 8ing. And it's not looking good because it is me in his way. Game one I get Thopter/Sword online early and I find out he must have the Bajoka Bog I saw him playing with earlier in his sb because he doesn't use Knight to fetch it up and I get a quick win. Game two I start with a Leyline of the Void in play and Thoughtseize him. I think I messed up here because I took his Path instead of one of his creatures. So he gets his guys into play and I'm not drawing any gas. I'm getting beat down by Vendilion Clique and 2 Knights of the Reliquary. A turn comes where he can put me to one but instead he thinks he is going for the kill and attacks with one Knight and a Clique and taps the other Knight to search up a fetch land and sac it. I remind him Leyline is in play, "those are rfg right?" and he says, "yeah" like that was on purpose. I go to 3, draw a Thopter Foundry and am able to sac a Mox to survive a turn, draw a Smother to kill a Knight, Hexmage to make a 20/20, but he drew a Gifts and was able to get that one last point through. Game three was pretty cool cause I got a Dark Confidant in play early and just answered everything he played. He had a Needle on Thopter Foundry and I drew an Engineered Explosives. I decided to lay it for 1 without being able to blow it in case he gets a Clique and takes it away from me. So with Explosives for 1 in play he lays a Birds of Paradise. GOOD PLAY. On my turn I blow it up and hear his friends behind me whisper, "HE JUST LAYED A BIRDS INTO A EXPLOSIVES." He never lands anything important and eventually I get there.

Top 8: Some random jk Scott Ruggs -- Zoo
Pretty anticlimatic. I mulliganed and didn't draw any lands both games. Poop.

Oh well, I played well. I'll get there next week.