Northern Clash
Baguio Country Club
19 November 2022
Twiddle Storm
Main deck
4 Dream's Grip
4 Ideas Unbound
4 Peer Through Depths
4 Psychic Puppetry
4 Reach Through Mists
4 Serum Visions
4 Sleight of Hand
4 Impulse
2 Past in Flames
1 Underworld Breach
2 Twiddle
1 Echoing Truth
1 Grapeshot
2 Merchant Scroll
5 Island
4 Lotus Field
2 Scalding Tarn
1 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Otawara, Soaring City
1 Breeding Pool
2 Lonely Sandbar
1 Steam Vents
Sideboard
4 Leyline of Sanctity
3 Veil of Summer
2 Defense Grid
2 Echoing Truth
1 Prismari Command
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Rebuild
1 Empty the Warrens
Match-ups
RD 1 Cascade Rhinos W
RD 2 Amulet Titan W
RD 3 Cascade Rhinos W
RD 4 UW Hammer W
RD 5 Boros Burn L
RD 6 Murktide D
RD 7 UW Hammer W
Q Tron L
I am writing this three days after Northern Clash. Everything is from memory because I lost the piece of paper that I used not just as a life pad but also it is where I inscribed the majority of the information that transpired from my rounds. And since I'll be drawing this from what I can still recall, I'd be sharing my errors and misplays because these are the things that I can easily remember.
Peer Through Depths. I think this is my biggest error of the event. After I resolved the blue instant Kamigawa card, the opponent informed me that I put the should be bottom four cards into my hand. The Head Judge resolved the issue by letting the opponent pick my hand from the five cards off the Peer Through Depths. Then continue to try to resolve the Peer Through Depths from there.
Sleight of Hand. I sometimes bottom the two cards or put one on top and one to the bottom only to realize that I am doing Sleight of Hand instead of Serum Visions. This is my problem too whenever I play this card on MTGO.
The situation was: I had five blue mana floating and, thanks to Serum Visions, I am aware that the top card of my library is Past in Flames. All I needed to do was to tap Lotus Field for red - summon my last cantrip to retrieve the red sorcery card. Cast it and recycle some cantrip cards to find Grapeshot. But alas. I tapped the golden M20 land hastily called blue mana off it into Impulse.
Leyline of Sanctity. I did not opt to mull for leyline because I thought my seven was good. Unfortunately, it turns out it was not.
Quarters
Lost to Tron because Lotus Field did not reach my hand in time.
This is all for now. Thank you for reading!
Round three featured match table: video
Thank you Johnson Gaming for this.
