GGtoor Tournament Report

GGtoor Tournament Report Grixis vampire, 2nd place

Hello ladies and gentlemen…Andy here again and..oh boy!! its tournament report time!!

Yeeah!!! i ended up doing an amazing result on the ggtoor event on past saturday so lets starts from the beginning

I had NO IDEA what to play in standard….i wasn’t playing much of constructed as the last events where limited, but i knew ( after being caster of the last ggtoor event with sandoiche ) that Jeskai Hinata, Bg mid, Esper mid, where solid options but none of my choice….
Even so, the week wants a nice thing as I started on monday with some sore throat kinda a light Flu, that became hard on tuesday..so i wasn’t able to play the entire day and one after.
ON thursday i was feeling better, so i opened stream to talk about news ( the bannings news) and play the “ always 1 per day” draft ( ended 7-1,. uw is busted on new capenna draft) but no only on the weekend was the GGtoor, but also the “ play-in “event for the mythic qualifier and it was Explorer b01

So, i have to not only see what to play in standard, but also in explorer, so i tried a few brews on thursday and they rocked, Mono u Spirits, Bg big dudes, solid options

But when i tried two spicy brews on standard…oh men they didn’t worked at all

I had a sultai “ Fight Riggings “ same as the explorer one, but on standard and a 5 color fantasy with war of the kami and many ways to generate plenty of colored mana

When played the sultai i had such heavy mana issues( screw or flood, not being able to play a single game ) and the 5 color madness was nice, but a single counterspell is all your opponent need to stop you

On friday i had a nice stream, a kinda “ talk show” i call FNC ( viernes de chacharas ) where a few other players and me talk about mtg new and things , we discussed the bannings of winota and iteration mostly because one of them buyed a complete winota deck and never got the chance to play it on a real life tournament

After the show, we keep on talking ( off stream ) on what to play on the “play-in “ event of the next day

While doing this, i tried again the sultai and 5 color and no, not a chance to play any of those
so i asked them” hey guys…what should i play tomorrow ? “ and 2 choices where given, Jeskai Hinata( suggested by parmenion ) and Grixis vampire( suggested by fellow AT writer, Juani Salas, magic potato)

Jeskai hinata seemed to be a good option and y tried it a lil bit but no, not a chance
so i took Juanis list , registered and went to sleep

Yes, i had 0 games played with grixis vampires and i where going to a tournament with it

This was the list

So, saturday morning i woke up, checked in on the ggtoor event , opened my stream and waited for the tournament to start ( so you can still watch it on my channel, twitch/blue_robot)


Round 1 vs Naya runes

Well, here we go!, if read me before, you know that i used to play LOTS of naya runes, so this was something i knew how to attack, because i knew what hurted the runes
Game 1 was a massacre, i killed all the creatures from my opponent and smashed hard

But on g2 i drew lots of lands and my opponent did this

Clip:

https://clips.twitch.tv/CovertHardParrotAMPEnergyCherry-pBt-lFkrfU9io4mR


Sadly, he had the big top deck while i flooded….so into g3


Game 3 was a back and forth, we played cards after cards,but again a topdeck skalds put him back to the game and while i wasn’t having something else, slowly he gained the upper hand a killed me with a pumped spirit-kami that i couldt kill

sb plan: +2 annul, +1 stroke( for skalds) +1 abrade +1 mindflayer
-2 duress -1 underdog -2 kaito

1-2, overall 0-1


Phew…it is hard to start like this the event, but 7 more rounds where ahead and my viewers were there to support me and we make a nice day



Round 2 Mono Black zombies

Oh sh….this deck had no sideboard but full aggressive, finishing it all with invoke prejudice

damn…..this was difficult

game 1 he started full aggro, dropping creatures on the first 3 rounds and those where pumping zombies( champion of the parish)
So he won g1

ON the sb i took out -2 duress -1 ray of enfeeblement and added 1 meathook massacre 1 abrade 1 loitlh

He started as usual, drop 1 , then drop 2 but i have some removal so i could answer his table
my fear was the invoke, because it can give him GAS while taking away some life from me
and the best card i had was Meathook, not only to swipe the board but also netting some life.
And this was it, i finished with the mandlands and rushing to g3

ON the 3rd game i changed thee side, i was on the draw and i needed to answer the invoke, the first at least
so i cut2 kaito for stroke and make disappear

thankfully i opened with a strong hand and drew removal after removal, even afraid of the invoke i managed to take the game

2-1 / 1-1 overall


Round 3 Mono green ( budget version )

Well, not the best mono green around but the selections of cards where nasty

He opened with pack leader t2 and chariot t4 and bom, he started to smash me while i drew the main deck duress…not good


g2 and g3 where the same
i manage to stabilize with meathook supporting it with some removal and well, that was it

2-1/ 2-1 overall


R4 Jeskai Hinata

Well, the first bad guy of the day
Ithink this match up is not that bad, i mean on the first game you have some useless cards but on the sb the thing changed

The sb plan was like this

+2 duress. +2 ray of enfeeblement +1 stroke +1 make disappear +2 go blank +1 evelyn

-4 voltage surge -2 meathook -2 harvester -1 soul transfer

And game 2 and 3, discard while hitting hard is the way and the way was

2-1 on this game /3-1 overall


Round 5 White Winnie
Well, again another aggro, but now a solid one
WhieWinnie could have lost some of the presence on the scene but it is a solid deck , with thalia and pv doing some tempo around spells..is a good one

game 1 was , again, a removal fest
But on g2 he managed to curve me excellent and had responses to all

on game 3 i started solid and a good meathook stopped his board while i drew the removal for “ later on”

The only thing, my opponent took SO MUCH TIME that i thought he was snipping, but after a few miss plays if he knew the info, i just thought he was a slow player only

Sb plan : +2 ray +1 massacre +1 abrade +1 mind flayer( for the legion angels )
-2 duress, -1 underdog -2 kaito


2-1 / 4-1 overall )




Round 6 Izzet control
Something strange happened here, my opponent never showed up….on this moment of the tournament, priceless
I mean, playing is better, but a free win is a free win

10 mins later and i was enjoying with the chat some videos

/5-1 overall

Round 7 Jeskai HInata
well, here we have the “ win and in” match of the day, because if i won i could draw the last round and secure top 8




And.., hinata again, but this time game 1 was a solid aggro with the duress as back up
g2 it gets better, with more duress, more solid cards

it was fast and simple
Sb plan was like this

+2 duress. +2 ray of enfeeblement +1 stroke +1 make disappear +2 go blank +1 evelyn

-4 voltage surge -2 meathook -2 harvester -1 soul transfer

2-0/ 6-1

This was it, I secured round 8 with a draw and top 8 time!!!!

This was huge for me, mostly because i didn’t play a single game of grixis vamp and manage to win great games, and play it like i knew what i was doing


What does this mean? You could say it was a lucky day, but i also said that when you play daily , you get a knowledge of the metagame that you can pick anything and even do a great tournament!


Join me next time while we see some of the spicy decks and later a full top 8 report with the games you didn’t saw on the coverage

you can still watch the stream here : https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1500791224

Tnxs again and Boom on the chat!!!


Andres F. “Blue Robot” Monsalve

Pro tour Honolulu 09 , Pro tou Austin 09 , Pro tour San Diego 2013, Strixheaven Championship 2021

Worlds 2013( captain of Team Argentina )

Finalist Gp Sao Paulo , Semi finalist GP Rio de janeiro

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