Vegas called and we answered!

Death Knights, Death Knights everywhere! People just couldn't quit whining about how they cracked Army of the Dead and had to pass it away. I opened a solid pool of Warlock but then there was the this little card named "Devouring Plague" it was a tough call but I ended up in Priest.

First four rounds I kinda cruised through, took a couple of game losses but I was confident in the deck so at the end of round four I was sitting at Table 1 with great tiebreakers.

In round five I got thoroughly spanked by an absolutely sick Death Knight deck. Edge of Oblivion and double Suffocating Grip blow me out in game 1. In game two, I sent his weapon to the bottom of the deck, and now have a clear board, but lo and behold the one card he topped was a second weapon which promptly smacked me for 8. At this point I was unable to recover and that was game, set, match.

In round six I got paired down into the 3-2 bracket, this was a winnable matchup, but in all three games my opponent managed to have an immediate answer for Devouring Plague. In the third game he managed to curve me while I drew into six of my eight quests in the first six turns.

I am out of the top eight at this point, but I think I have a shot at top sixteen. I easily win my next match going into the final round at 5-2 with what I think are good tiebreakers in 21st. I meet up with my opponent Kyle who is currently in 11th with great tiebreakers and a win puts him in top eight. I have a tough choice, do I play dreambreaker and shoot for top sixteen, or do I scoop and put my opponent into top eight.

I decide that I need to prove myself better than a top thirty finisher at a big event, and go for the win. I managed to somehow pull out an amazing win in game one, he is the aggro for about 90% of the game, but Tuuskar and a couple of reshuffle quests eventually allow me to push to an insane +22 cards in the game. Eventually I manage to swing the board and get enough in to end it. Game two is more of the same, he is aggressive and but I just continually make trades and try to keep up the card advantage with Tuuskar Kite. Devouring Plague hits when he is at 7 resources with a King Varian Wrynn in his hand. He completes quests to keep the King in his hand while I pile up board position hoping to get the king gone. He somehow manages to make it two turns and drops the epic monster wiping my board, but as a final play before they go I get one more card from the Kite. On my turn with only eight cards left in the deck I go fishing and hit my removal to force the scoop.

When all was said and done I finished up 6-2, but after polling the field it doesn't look like I got enough wins in the low bracket 6-2 players to push five people out of the way.

Sure enough I finished in 17th on the second tie-break, sooooo frustrating to bubble out of a good prize. 12 Packs for the finish, 16th would have gotten me 20 packs and 100$ to Best Buy. All and all I am very happy with my performance, it was a 6-2 deck that I piloted about as well as I think I could have.

Hasta!

4 of the top 8 are DKs... 3 with army of the dead and 1 with corpse explosion >.<

can't wait to see how the draft will go

did you guys get the new crafting stuff?

Congrats on the finish, Randy! Good job!

Also: DMF seems like a really tough environment to win decent prizes at. At least, that's how I felt after going 5-3 at the DMF in Austin and getting like 2 or 3 packs. (And Fred was 6-2 and got I think 4 packs?)

Grats on doing so well dude! that's awesome!

Good Job Randy!!! Glad to hear you did good. Good luck next weekend if I dont see yall.

Fred...we did get the new crafting stuff...i was in charge of doing all the crafting...and the boots were by far the hot ticket at DMF Vegas...followed by the Badge Ring of Invincibility.

So did anyone hear anything about that Jan Palys thing? I guess he got a DQ for trying to bribe his opponent...?

Also: Randy, this link has you finishing 16th!
http://entertainment.upperdeck.com/wow/en/...eid=55&aid=7264

Maybe because Palys got the DQ?

Oh my!

I wonder if I get my 100$ Best Buy Gift Card and eight extra packs.

I bet if you raise a stink, you will. :) You totally deserve it, so you should. (And I bet if you don't say anything, they'll "forget".)