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This weekend was Magic-time at the Spielraum in Salzburg and my brother Jakob, my friend Max and I decided to take part.
I played with my R/G beatdown-deck, Max with his famous Aluren-Deck and Jakob with his W/B Clerics-Deck.
So we started to play ...

• My first game was against a deck type which I never won against: Suicide-Black.
  And it was starting badly: First round my opponet played Sarcomancy and the second round once again and so I was confronted with two 2/2 Zombies. But I handled them with two Magma Jet and played my weapon Wild Mongrel, Firstborn Fangren and a few other cretures too. He killed many of them but at the end I won all two games easily and was celebrating my first victory. Standing 1:0
  
• Second round I had to play against one of my best friends Max and his famous Aluren-Deck
  I knew his deck and I knew that I don't have much against it except speed, to kill him as fast as I can. First match started fast: with Cabal Therapy he made me short of Rancor but he did not managed to start his combo and so I killed him. Second match he initiated his combo really fast and so I had no chance. So the third game had to decide who will be the winner in this matter of prestige! And I had a perfect start: First game-round I played Birds of Paradise and second round my best card Troll Ascetic came into play. Third round I boosted him with two Rancor and I played a Wild Mongrel which means 7 and next round 9 damage to Max and so I had my greatest triumph in magic history. Standing 2:0
  
• Third match was against Peter, a member of the Spielraum Crew and his Red-Deck-Wins.
  It was really tough fight but this time luck was not on my side and so I lost the decisive game only for 1 (one) lifepoint. Standing 2:1
  
• Fourth game I was without a chance against a Counter-Burn-Deck.
  He countered nearly all of my powerful cards and at later game he attacked my with Lightning Angel, Prophetic Bolt and removed my power with Hibernation. Standing 2:2
  
• The last game was nearly a mirror match against a R/G Beatdown-Deck.
  My deck was the better one and so I managed to win this game easily 2:1 - loosing one of the matches only with bad luck. Standing 3:2
  

We (Max, Jakob and I) decided to undergo our decks a last test before the Magic-Event of the Year: The PCCP Magic-Masters

So we went to the Spielraum in Salzburg to play an Extended-Tournament. It was my most successfull tournament ranked at a terrific 4th place with the standing of 4:1, loosing only one game against my friend Max (man this match was hard and the result was really close).
I won against a R/G beatdown, a Ravager Affinity, a B/W Clerics deck (my brother Jakob) and a Blue Combo-Deck.
Jakob finished 14. and Max finished 9. - chance for revenge will come soon, at The PCCP Magic-Masters

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Last weekend (19.03.) the second PCCP Magic Masters took at our clubhouse place.
We were 15 players, five from our club (Woifi, Alfi, Mugsy, Jean and me), my siblings Judith and Jakob, Mugsys girlfriend Moni and her brother Mike, Andi and Mike K. from the last tournament, our Magic Master and Teacher Bifi and three Magic-Freaks, who I got to know from a Magic-Forum, Wolfgang, Max and Rainer.

- At the beginning it was really stressful (to organize the tournament, the assignment, ...) but then I had time to play my first round against Wolfgang. He played a deck based on a infinite life combo with Nomads en-Kor, Daru Spiritualist and Starlit Sanctum. First game I managed his combo by killing his key cards with my red shooters and killing him with my fast creatures. Second game he was in his combo in the third round and I was without a chance and third game it was a thought fight but he won. In all of this three games I was not able to play Sulfuric Vortex which would have stopped his combo - bad luck!
First game - first loose, great start ... :-(
- Second round was against Mike who played a Ravager-Affinity-Deck, normally a great matchup for me - but he killed me really fast with Ornithopter and Cranial Plating. So it was time to take my best cards against Artifact decks, Artifact Mutation and Naturalize from my sideboard. Second game was an easy win, because I imprinted Artifact Mutation in Isochron Scepter - he was without a chance to win. Third game was really close (he played three Disciple of the Vault) but I took the win.
- Third round was an important game against Moni, to fix my second place in the preelimination. She played a powerful Psychatog-Control deck. Suprisingly I had no problems to win, her Mana Leak in Isochron Scepter was handled by my solid mana base and she had no answer for my Troll Ascetic.
- Fourth round was no problem against Woifi and his Affinty deck, the deck was without Arcbound Ravager and he made many mistakes.
So I finished on second place and had to play against my sister Judith.

- Round before the quarterfinal: Judith played a R/G beatdown, shoot deck, which is really funny but I knew the key to stop her (because I made her deck) and so she was not able to play her most powerful weapon Shivan Wurm - I killed her both games with my creatures and specially with imprinted Shock and Magma Jet in Isochron Scepter.

- Quarterfinal: against my brother and his B/W Clerics Deck. First game he killed me really fast with his zombie tokens from Rotlung Reanimator. Second and third game I won both because of my Isochron Scepter, my creatures were all removed with his bugging Chainers Edict and Diabolic Edict.

- Semifinal: against Bifi and his Minds Desire Deck, who helped me many times with ideas (and cards) for my deck.
First game we played about 6 rounds and he had a shortage of life, but managed to play his combo before I was able to kill him.
Second game I played my boarded Trinisphere, which means the destruction of his combo. Her tried to remove it with Echoing Truth, but I used Shunt to change the target and so the win was mine. Third round I made a decisive mistake: I believed that I could manage his combo (Tendrils of Agony, Brain Freeze) with Shunt, but this spell changes only one target and the others still killed me - if I had known that I would have taken muligans till I got Trinisphere. So he was the winner, against me and later of the whole tournament.

I finished at 4th place and was satisfied by my success and the fun to play Magic all day long.

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