{"id":404,"date":"2014-04-18T18:53:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T17:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neurons.dk\/?p=404"},"modified":"2014-04-18T18:53:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T17:53:10","slug":"ptq-post-mortem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neurons.dk\/?p=404","title":{"rendered":"PTQ Post mortem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi again,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a follow up on my previous post. The PTQ in Aarhus is over and I feel it&#8217;s time to look back on how things shaped out for me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With unlimited time and the intellect of a genius I guess anythings possible. Unfortunately I had neither, although I think less could have put me at the top.\u00a0 In the end the result was not a ticket to the Pro Tour, since I went 4-4 on the day of the PTQ. The final result put me at a 49th place out of a 150 participants.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The pool<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pool contained the cards below. To begin with I built a midrange RB deck, but after losing my first three matches, I asked a friend and went into aggro. That helped \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The final deck contained the following<\/p>\n<p>[d]<\/p>\n<p>Creatures<\/p>\n<p>1 Felhide Brawler<\/p>\n<p>1 Pain Seer<\/p>\n<p>1 Blood-Toll Harpy<\/p>\n<p>1 Odunos River Trawler<\/p>\n<p>1 Nyxborn Eidolon<\/p>\n<p>1 Felhide Minotaur<\/p>\n<p>1 Insatiable Harpy<\/p>\n<p>1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel<\/p>\n<p>1 Marshmist Titan<\/p>\n<p>1 Cyclops of One-Eyed Pass<\/p>\n<p>1 Everflame Eidolon<\/p>\n<p>1 Nyxborn Rollicker<\/p>\n<p>1 Minotaur Skullcleaver<\/p>\n<p>1 Thunder Brute<\/p>\n<p>1 Firedrinker Satyr<\/p>\n<p>Spells<\/p>\n<p>1 Pharika&#8217;s Cure<\/p>\n<p>1 Read the Bones<\/p>\n<p>1 Lash of the Whip<\/p>\n<p>1 Sip of Hemlock<\/p>\n<p>1 Bolt of Keranos<\/p>\n<p>1 Fearsome Temper<\/p>\n<p>1 Rage of Purphoros<\/p>\n<p>1 Magma Jet<\/p>\n<p>Lands<\/p>\n<p>1 Unknown Shores<\/p>\n<p>9 Swamps<\/p>\n<p>7 Mountains<\/p>\n<p>Sideboard<\/p>\n<p>1 Servant of Tymaret<\/p>\n<p>1 Cavern Lampad<\/p>\n<p>1 Warchanter of Mogis<\/p>\n<p>1 Marshmist Titan<\/p>\n<p>1 Spearpoint Oread<\/p>\n<p>1 Read the Bones<\/p>\n<p>2 Rise to the Challenge<\/p>\n<p>1 Portent of Betrayal<\/p>\n<p>1 Siren of the Fanged Coast<\/p>\n<p>1 Nimbus Naiad<\/p>\n<p>1 Chorus of the Tides<\/p>\n<p>1 Divination<\/p>\n<p>1 Vortex Elemental<\/p>\n<p>2 Retraction Helix<\/p>\n<p>1 Artisan of Forms<\/p>\n<p>1 Crypsis<\/p>\n<p>1 Stratus Walk<\/p>\n<p>1 Crackling Triton<\/p>\n<p>1 Priest of Iroas<\/p>\n<p>2 Loyal Pegasus<\/p>\n<p>1 Nyxborn Shieldmate<\/p>\n<p>1 Observant Alseid<\/p>\n<p>1 Wingsteed Rider<\/p>\n<p>1 Ray of Dissolution<\/p>\n<p>1 Decorated Griffin<\/p>\n<p>1 Fated Retribution<\/p>\n<p>1 Hold at Bay<\/p>\n<p>2 Last Breath<\/p>\n<p>1 Great Hart<\/p>\n<p>1 Vanquish the Foul<\/p>\n<p>1 Ephara&#8217;s Radience<\/p>\n<p>1 Forsaken Drifters<\/p>\n<p>1 Weight of the Underworld<\/p>\n<p>1 Drown in Sorrow<\/p>\n<p>1 Medomai the Ageless<\/p>\n<p>1 Ephara&#8217;s Enlightenment<\/p>\n<p>1 Sealock Monster<\/p>\n<p>1 Dissolve<\/p>\n<p>1 Triton Shorethief<\/p>\n<p>1 Gainsay<\/p>\n<p>1 Lost in a Labyrinth<\/p>\n<p>1 Evanescent Intellect<\/p>\n<p>1 Thassa&#8217;s Rebuff<\/p>\n<p>1 Nylea&#8217;s Disciple<\/p>\n<p>1 Sedge Scorpion<\/p>\n<p>1 Nessian Wilds Ravager<\/p>\n<p>1 Pheres-Band Tromper<\/p>\n<p>1 Swordwise Centaur<\/p>\n<p>1 Satyr Hedonist<\/p>\n<p>1 Fade into Antiquity<\/p>\n<p>1 Time to Feed<\/p>\n<p>1 Raised by Wolves<\/p>\n<p>1 Satyr Piper<\/p>\n<p>1 Hunt the Hunter<\/p>\n<p>1 Defend the Hearth<\/p>\n<p>1 Satyr Wayfinder<\/p>\n<p>1 Guardian of Meletis<\/p>\n<p>[\/d]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When looking back I think I made a mistake when I constructed my deck. The cards to take it towards aggro where there, but I missed it and went into some midrange solution. The deck tried to do two different things, which I&#8217;m not interested in in general. I believe that the more uniform a decks plan is, the better it will perform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi again, &nbsp; This is a follow up on my previous post. The PTQ in Aarhus is over and I feel it&#8217;s time to look back on how things shaped out for me. &nbsp; With unlimited time and the intellect &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/neurons.dk\/?p=404\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,26,31],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magic","tag-magic-the-gathering","tag-mtg","tag-ptq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neurons.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neurons.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neurons.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neurons.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neurons.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/neurons.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neurons.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neurons.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neurons.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}