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At first it wasn't planned that I'd attend Eindhoven. I was supposed to go to a
lanparty this weekend, but that got cancelled so all of a sudden I was free to
go. Well, after some debating, I decided to play Dragon, seeing that Marco, the
guy who won Dulmen last time, wanted to borrow my Chalices so I'd have none for
the weekend. I browsed around a bit and found a list from Dulmen which I copied.
It was remarkably similar to the one Roy Thijsen plays, so it should do ok.

After some general testing on Friday and Saturday, me and Bram (Kaervek) talked
some about sideboards for his keeper and my Dragon and then went home. I browsed
around some more and remembered Dicemanx posting a primer, so I looked it up and
found a list more to my liking. I played the following:

4x Worldgorger Dragon
4x Squee

4x Force of Will
4x Intuition
2x Compulsion
1x Ambassador Laquatus
1x Cunning Wish
1x Ancestral Recall
1x Time Walk

3x Duress
3x Animate Dead
2x Dance of the Dead
3x Necromancy
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Vampiric Tutor

4x Bazaar of Baghdad
1x Black Lotus
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Mox Pearl
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Ruby
1x Sol Ring
1x Mana Crypt
4x Underground Sea
4x Polluted Delta
2x Bayou
1x Tropical Island
1x Island
1x Swamp

Sideboard:

4 Xantid Swarm
3 Rebuild
3 Chalice of the Void
3 Verdant Force
1 Stroke of Genius
1 Chain of Vapor

I realize this is a blatant ripoff from your primer, so live with it
Dicemanx/Shockwave. All I did was modify the maindeck a bit (switched one
Compulsion for a Cunning Wish so I'd have another win condition or sideboard
access vs MUD).

Anyway, on with the report.

Round 1: Koen van de Hulst with WelderMUD

Koen is well known for his work on wMUD and today he was playing it again. Last
time I'd beaten him round 1 too, so I was confident I should have a chance. We
both started of slow, with him getting no pressure and he stripped my Bazaar. I
mized another a few turns later, while all he drew was crap and land. Needless
to say, I won game 1.

Sideboard: add Verdant Force/Rebuild, remove stuff I didn't write down

Game 2 was even weirder. He played turn 1 Tormod's Crypt, my Bazaar survived,
while he got 2 Metalworkers into play. I had 2 lands, Bazaar and a Lotus in play
when he cast Smokestack and Tangle Wire. I played Rebuild end of his turn,
returning his Crypt. In my turn I activated Bazaar, ditched the Dragon I was
holding for 2 turns and went off.

2-0, 1-0. An easy victory

Round 2: Jordy with suiblack

Game 1 was over fast. He played turn 1 Negator, I went turn 1 Bazaar. He
attacked, I drew a moc from the Bazaar, ditched Dragon and won turn 2.

Sideboard: Verdant Forces for stuff I forgot (as usual)

Game 2 gave him the perfect start: Ritual, Duress (which took Lotus over
Ancestral), Hymn (which took Verdant Force and a land). I cast Ancestral turn 1
off the land I'd kept and animated Verdant Force turn 2. Needless to say, 3
turns later he was dead.

2-0, 2-0. Hmm..even easier victory

Round 3: Steven Bukkems with Stacker 3

Hmm..yet another matchup I don't really like. But for some reason my deck
decided to work today. Game 1 saw him beating down with a Welder for 5 turns
straight and me drawing cards with double Squee and bazaar, but I couldn't find
a Dragon. Turn6 I found one and it was on to game 2.

Sideboard: Verdant Forces and Rebuild

Game 2 was over faster then I could've imagined. He started with turn 1 Crypt,
Chalice for 0, Sphere. Great. Needless to say, I was wrecked by svg. beatings
from Juggie & co.

Game 3 was over just as fast, only this time in his disadvantage. Turn 1 Bazaar
turned into turn 2 or 3 win.

2-1, 3-0. It's going pretty well today

Round 4: Maarten Bukkems (Levelzero) with Gay Fish

This promised to be a lot of fun. And fun we had. Game 1 was easily the weirdest
I'd played so far. Rootwater Thief snatched Ambassador from my deck, so I was
forced to draw the game. By then my Squee was in my GY, a Lord was in his, so I
had to play 3 animate effects to draw the game.

Sideboard: Verdant Force (notice a trend?)

Game 2 was over pretty fast. I got out 2 Bazaars while he had to mull and
proceeded to lose.

Game 3 was another turn 2 kill, nothing to say about it.

2-0-1, 4-0. It's REALLY going well today.

Round 5: Tom v/d Logt with WelderMUD

Hmmm... was to be expected, but never a favorite matchup for me. Game 1 saw
me take a total of 1 damage before I won. By now I was pretty screwed over, so I
don't remember a lot, except I got 3 Bazaars in the first 5 cards. He managed to
strip 2 of them, but the 3th won me the game.

Sideboard: Rebuild and... you guessed it, Verdant Forces

Game 2 saw me get another broken hand, which ensured a turn 3 victory.

2-0, 5-0.

Round 6: Jochem van Hoven with keeper.

The first keeper player of today(and fortunately, the only one). Game 1 was a
beating for me. I mulled into crap, didn't want to mull any further and
proceeded to get my ass handed to me.

Sideboard: 4 Xantid Swarm

Game 2 saw me with a hand of Bazaar, 4 lands, Vamp and Intuition. This looked
pretty good, with regards to the first game. How wrong could I be. Jochem showed
me what keeper is capable of and savagely owned me. I never had a chance in this
game, cause he had an answer to everything (the few things I did manage).

0-2, 5-1

Well, me and Maarten (Levelzero) both ended up at 5-1 and so shared first place,
while I inched him out on tiebreakers for first place overall. The boosters
yielded a Charbelcher and a foil Luminous Angel, so they weren't too bad.

Props:
My deck, for not crapping out on me.
Rudy, for being an overall good judge the few times he was needed.
The atmosphere: Type 1 seems to make people behave differently. Maybe it's
because winning doesn't mean a lot, except you get to show off with a rating
that doesn't count for anything, but players are in general far more relaxed.
The fun games between me and Koen, Maarten, Tom etc are evidence of this.

Slops:
Xantid Swarm, for not showing up the one time I needed you.

I'm sure I've forgotten/misrepresented some stuff, but it shouldn't be game
breaking, and otherwise, screw it...