Daily #14
Played in another daily, recorded another match, the wheel continues to turn.
Just wanted to say to commentators that I really appreciate the playskill feedback. I’m certainly not insulted, as I am quite aware of the long road I have to travel to be actively good at this game. Hopefully, the lessons will stick and I can make a leap of some kind soon, but even if that doesn’t happen, I’m pretty stoic about the whole thing and will continue to post videos and appreciate feedback.
I went 2-2 again, and it’s kind of remarkable how consistent that result is. A little frustrating as well, since I realize that it means that 14 daily events = 84 tickets. I 4-0′d once, so that means I’ve gotten 11 packs for 84 tickets. I’m paying like…double store price. 
If these had been 8 mans, chances were I would have won…something, just by winning round 1 occasionally.
Hopefully the learning is priceless, and I do enjoy getting 4 full matches against real decks. Anyway, I beat Time Sieve in the first round, lost to GW overrrun in the 2nd (once to double overrun when I was sure I was winning…had to have been a way to win that game, right?). In round 3 I lost to Jund, which is a great matchup for me, and then round 4 I went full circle and again beat Time Sieve. I wasn’t actually sure whether Sieve was a good matchup or not, but I felt like I outplayed my not so great opponents, and that felt good.
I probably would have posted the G/W match, except it was not available for replay. I know I’ve seen a method for recovering replays before, but I can’t find it anymore and gave up. So I’m posting my 2 losses to Jund, since theoretically I should own that matchup.
This is the match where I have to take ownership of what AJ said about me awhile ago. Basically that I was chalking matches up to ‘variance’ or bad draws or whatever. This is a match that felt like I would have won if I’d drawn anything in either game. It really did feel like despite my misplays, I needed to draw better to be able to win. So let’s see what I missed!
I had already won game 1 and was happy to be coasting to 2-1 in matches if I could keep my head right.
Game 2
I cash in a color screwed hand for something a lot more reasonable. Ironically, I ended up color screwed anyway. I’m willing to accept that I could have done it, so how do I win this game?
Game 2:
This time I mull to oblivion, but I try not to tilt and I take my best shot at victory. Unfortunately, I do tilt somewhat anyway. I play lands in the wrong order, for one thing, and then I badly misplay when I attack a finks into a puppeteer clique. It’s an interaction I should have realized was there, but I had never run into it before and just didn’t think about it. I guess that’s ok in a way, because I’ve already admitted that I’m going to get better through practice, not being smart. I’m glad I was subjected to the situation, because now an interaction that had never really occurred to me before is something I’ll remember.
Anyway, even with these obvious misplays…could I have won this game? I’m just so far behind. Did I keep the right hand? Should I never have mulled the 5 lander in the beginning?
Thanks for the feedback, as always.
I was supposed to play in another daily tonight, but I missed the start time when they suddenly published a new event schedule (that covers 3 weeks instead of 2, w00t!). That moved my event back by 2 hours, and when I logged on just to mess around I discovered my tournament had already started.
I may draft tonight or something. We’ll see. I’m hoping to force through another standard tournament on Thursday.
