Magic The Gathering - Malaysia

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GPT Singapore @ Manawerx Mar 1 2009 - Semifinals
Vincent Gan vs Matthew Wong

Game 1


Matthew Wong

Vincent mulligan his hand to 6 – appeared unhappy about his hand but kept it anyway. Matthew started off the game with an untapped Blood Crypt taking 2 and played a Mogg Fanatic before playing Chrome Mox and added a Morph creature to his board while all Vincent did was to build up his manabase.

Matthew then added a Shambling Remains to his board before attacking with all of his creatures. Vincent had to cracked his fetchlands to play a Spellstutter Sprite to block the Fanatic, but lost a large chunk of his life totals after all. After looking at the next card he drew, Vincent scooped up all of his cards to move onto the 2nd game.



Vincent Gan 0 - Matthew Wong 1

Game 2


Vincent Gan

Vincent started off with a 1st turn Ancestral Vision after a Flooded Strand fetched an Island, while Matthew started off his game with a Bloodstained Mire fetched a Blood Crypt, paying 3 life to play a Figure of Destiny which chipped Vincent for a 1 before adding a Bitterblossom to his side of the board to pressure Vincent. Vincent meanwhile suspended another Vision and added a Mutavault to his board. Matthew then attacked Vincent for 2 with his pumped up Figure, taking him to 16 while he himself stood at 16. Vincent then played a Secluded Glen tapped before his opponent went down to 15 from his tribal enchantment as Matthew attacked Vincent with his 2 creatures, forcing Vincent to take 3 to go down to 13.



Vincent then filled up his hand as one of his 2 Visions resolved and played a Swamp. Matthew went down to 14 and attacked with his 2 tokens and the 2/2 figure, after playing and equipped his Umezawa's Jitte to a Faerie token. Vincent cracked his Polluted Delta to go down to 12, then played a Cryptic Command to bounce Matthew's faerie token with the Jitte as his Figure traded with Vincent's animated Mutavault. Matt then played another Bloodstained Mire for a Mountain and played a Chrome Mox, cast Boil to destroy almost entire of Vincent's mana resources just as Vincent looked to start to have gained control with a full hand.


The culprit...


and the result...

Vincent fueled up again as his 2nd Visions resolved, playing a Polluted Delta, playing his own Jitte to send both players' Jitte to the graveyard. Vincent then took 2 from Matthew's 2 faerie tokens, went down to 9, and when Vincent tapped out to play a Sower of Temptation to gain control of a untapped token, it got killed by an Incinerate, went down to 6 from the following attack phase. Vincent spent a lot of time agonizing over his options with his limited mana on his following turn but finally settled on playing a Threads of Disloyalty on Matthew's Figure of Destiny but a top-decked Pendelhaven gave Matthew just enough damage to send himself through into the finals.



Vincent Gan 0 - Matthew Wong 2

Matthew Wong won the semifinals defeating Vincent Gan 2-0 to proceed into the finals!