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Played in another daily tonight. Decided I wanted to at least split my time between the 5cc deck that I’m tuning (possibly badly) and proven decks. So today I played Gaven Verhey’s Lark deck.

I don’t have much experience with it, but I played lark before when I started the blog. I got two matches in on tournament practice to try to get my legs under me, and here we go.

I went 2-2, which is my thing, losing to U/W baneslayer and Faeries.  I beat some sort of white weenie with ajani and a random mono black rogues.  I admit to feeling like I should 3-1 when I get to play against mono black rogues. Of course, that was once I was out of contention. I’d love to play it round 1 someday.

Faeries is supposed to be a bad matchup, but baneslayer isn’t.  When I reviewed the  baneslayer match, I just made a huge number of big mistakes that I could easily see.  Honestly, I saw them after I did them while I was playing.  It was my first match, and I must have just done dumb things from inexperience.  Hopefully I’ve already learned some lessons from that match.

So here’s the match against Fae.  I lost it in 2 games, but felt like I was in it for one, and maybe improved play would have stolen the game.

Game 1:
The big mistake I see is walking lark into spellstutter sprite. I am not used to seeing that card counter spells that cost 5, and it didn’t occur to me to count faeries before casting it. With that said, it’s a long game, and I’m sure there are other mistakes that need to be pointed out to me. Felt like I could have won this one.

Game 2:
Mull to oblivion. I’m including it for completeness and so that people will hopefully validate what I perceive as correct mulligan decisions. Also, I wonder if I should have let myself be cliqued in the hopes that he would incorrectly give me a shot at a land.