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Craig Jones Field Journal - Grand Prix Stockholm 2007

Saturday, May 5: 6:30 p.m. - Round 9 vs. Knud Nommensen

Well if you'd told me I'd be here, actually playing for day two with the cards I opened nine hours ago, I'd have called you a liar. Sometimes ordinary looking decks with a solid curve and enough guys can still fight. Also my two rares, Greater Gargadon and Chronosavant, really worked double time throughout the day. I've definitely got a new appreciation for Chronosavant backed up with a discard outlet.
So one more match. Nommensen hasn't lost as I've been paired up against a player with 20 points. That means he needs a draw, I need a win.

The first game I came racing out of the blocks. Both Stingscourger and Ghostfire gave me enough disruption to stop his more powerful green-red-blue deck from ever settling.
I also had a good draw in Game 2, but I couldn't quite maintain the pressure. Nommensen was able to stall my offence with Dream Stalker and then grind me out of the game once he got tricks going Deadwood Treefolk. Charging blindly into the red zone wasn't enough this game.

Then the lack of not being able to see a clock from my side of the table whacked me. I thought we'd been cracking on at a reasonable pace but with the match no tied Nommensen announced we had two minutes left.

Two minutes?

Had the two games really taken that long?

Damn, I wish we had clocks on both sides of the room.

That meant I was probably screwed.

Full credit to Nommensen. With just two minutes left he could have used gamesmanship to eat up the remaining time. He played fast enough to let me get a few turns in, but again Dream Stalker and Deadwood Treefolk arrived to blunt my offense.

I had a Gargadon lurking, but even if I was able to rush it in, Nommensen was holding Snapback in any case.

Close, but not close enough. We timed out in a draw that put me out and Nommensen in day two.

Still, I'm happy that I managed to fight so hard with a pool I thought was straight up horrible.

1-1, 6(3)-1-2.

Update: the final standings are in and boy do I feel a heel.

If I'd have been thinking straight I should have just scooped to Nommensen once we timed out. A draw was nothing to me at that point apart from a slightly higher, but still not day two finish.

The standings went up and Nommensen finished in 70th place. We were both eliminated.

If you're reading, I'm very sorry Knud.

Purists would argue this is how the game should be played, but I've never looked to be the dream wrecker, so I feel pretty bad about this.

One person's loss is another person's gain and in this case Quentin Martin was the lucky recipient of my oversight as he managed to squeeze in in 64th place.

Overall I'm very happy with how the day went with what I thought was a sub-optimal pool, but I'm a little disappointed I managed to accidentally screw over my last round opponent.

Source: https://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Events.aspx?x=mtgevent/gpsto07/pblog1#7