Dime a Dozen #8: Cursebreak

Grats on the wins man. It was interesting to watch it all unfold.

Why, why, why are you not pitching the gatewarden in the very last game, it is by far the worst card in your hand since it does NOTHING. It can’t ever block without you dieing. Instead you pitch a land (which draws you a card) and curse which might be usefull at some points.

Some other misplays, especially in the storm matchup, but good matches in general.

Not that many actually, my memory must have multiplied it a bit. My main problem is with game 3: the hand was keepable, but you tapped out to much and kept the piracy charm. In a way you forced him to go off early as he did not want to face your hand, but one the other hand you never got to even use your charms as he simply went of when you tapped out.
The correct play, I think would have been to not keep the piracy charm and not play the delver the turn you did. Especially when you have double charm (keeping the charm) keeping up dispell/hydroblast seems much better since you can endstep charm if he does not do anything, and then play delver, again keeping up dispell/blast and again having charm for his endstep.

The other point was in match 4 game 3 where you should have protected your delver from removal with your second echoing bounce spell (which wasn’t doing anything else) and discarded the defender instead of charm and/or land. If he resolved a gnarlid (sp?) you had more then enough chains and if another creature resolved you were dead anyway.

Besides that you played well I think. Especially G1 against WW I do not think I personally could have resisted countering the unmake with the deprive and replaying the land, which would have given him an opportunity to resolve squadron hawk, which is much more problematic, so yeah.

Congrats on the showing and enjoyed the vids, so thanks.

I think in the storm mu your biggest misplay was tapping out in g1 for spire golem. I know hindsight is wonderful, but even before you made the play I was sitting there going “please don’t play the golem”. As soon as you get double counterspell mana, you’re in a very strong position to stop him and waiting an extra one turn before starting to put some pressure up isn’t going to change the fundamentals of the game significantly.

I’m also not sure whether it was right to keep the spire golem that you found from preordain given that your biggest priority there should be getting to double counterspel mana, but I guess you had no other possible threat at that stage.

Gratz on the 4-0, good videos as usual.

I was also concerned when you played the Golem rather than leave double counterspell up in the Storm match since 2x Counterspell actually has a shot at fizzling them vs 2 power and one Counterspell. I’m glad that deck fizzled in game three.

M4G3: At 20:33 when the first Journey is played, would killing your own Gatewarden with the Charm and bouncing the Delver be a good play? It forces him to Journey his heavily enchanted creature. That was my thought.

Just curious what you meant when you said you weren’t a huge fan of nerdy9 in the last round? You said something about confronting him and was just curious if it was a personal problem or he’s not a great player?

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