Dom fell into a big LoA trap in Game 1. He kept not doing anything and letting his life total drop while he drew cards he couldn't yet cast. He tried to play very defensively, when as Timmy pointed out halfway through the game, that's not what his deck is designed to do. Instead of realizing a game between aggressive decks is about tempo, he tried to make it about card advantage. And that's why he lost so handily.
"Tear Blacker Lotus into pieces. Add four mana of any one color. Remove the pieces from the game." Back in Unglued, my and my mate destroyed a few of these, and the Chaos confetti. We were committed to the bit.
Thank you for covering the tournament! This is so rad! Jonathan did a great job setting it all up, It was a great event, and everyone had a lot of fun.
It definitely helped. But Dom fell into a trap. He thought he could just slow-roll and win on card advantage on the LoA. But his cards don't matter if he gets too low on life and that's what happened. He allowed Li to get too much tempo and by the time he could play all his cards, it didn't matter.
Yup, the right side player could use a random Mirror Universe in his sideboard. Mirror works great with mana burn and even better when you're running counterburn (especially with PBlast) while the opponent is also playing burn. It's like 94 version of Death's Shadow.
The first game kind of shows how marginal Black Vise is in that player's deck. Black Vise, which can potentially be excellent, needs to be in a deck that can force the other person to draw cards or force them to hold cards in hand. If the deck was running a black splash, then it could run 1 Demonic Tutor so that you can tutor for a draw 7 both to force the opponent to have 7 cards in hand and also to refill the hand after you dump all the Blasts and Bolts on the opponent's head.
Either that or, with all that burn he could run howling mines. But it is still useful against slower decks and to control an opponent 's LoA (though a play set is too many)
@@lozkko If he used 4x Forks, 4x Howling Mine and Copy Artifacts as well, and splashed black for Dark Ritual and Demonic Tutor, the deck would go to a upper tier deck.
It's marginal in this matchup and because Li won the die rol. And realize that if the die roll goes differently, the Vices would have done 7 damage. Turn 1: Vice. Li takes 3. Turn 2, second Vice. Li untaps and takes 7. 50% of the time, this is how it would play out. If that happens, Dom probably wins because he can simply outrace Li. You don't need Demonic Tutor to make Vice good. What you just saw was the absolute floor of the card (being on the draw against an aggressive deck) and concluded it's bad. It's like saying that LeBron is a bad player because he played with an injury and only scored 12 one night.
