MKM Pre-Release (2-1)

Special thanks to Red Castle Games for hosting a great event, making things a lot of fun! Extra thanks to my teammate Rebecca for being a good human to play with, and making some great plays that absolutely won us games. 

I've put our respective decklists at the end, but we were able to put together a solid GB deck with some real haymakers for her, and a more complex UR deck for me that could power through some shortcomings. UR artifacts & clues did me some good!

Round 1 Vs Milo & Vin

Got out to a fast start with a Frantic Scapegoat and Snarling Gorehoud, but some key Reasonable Doubts kept Rebecca’s stuff of the table. They put a  Topiary Panther out and we held off on dealing with it because I had thopters, and Rebeca was bound to topdeck something else. Instead, she drew three lands in a row and by the time we were able to stabilize our side of the board, we were down to six life, just like them. The final blow was countering a Cornered Crook once they had solved The Case of the Gateway Express. We almost got there...

Round 2 Vs Daniel & Joe

After the turn four No Witnesses board sweep I thought we were in trouble: Rebecca lost one creature, but I lost three. Fortunately, I was able to make two Clue tokens off that, which kept me in cards. Then Rebecca followed up with a Vein Ripper, and I used my clues to generate more creatures. This was critical, because they were using Warleader's Call to ping us for two, every time Daniel cast a creature. Plus, they were able to use Makeshift Binding to keep our early pressure off.  Fortunately, the Vein Ripper did what it was supposed to do: completely wreck a game. Killing creatures came with the punishment of a four point life swing each time, and 6 damage in the air per turn did them in after that. 

Round 3 Vs Alex and Nick

The game started fairly evenly, until Rebecca used Analyze the Pollen on turn 3 to get the Vein Ripper, and we put massive pressure on them after that. I kept the smaller beats going with the low key help of Gleaming Geardrake and a well timed Felonious Rage, but make no mistake about it; once the Vein Ripper arrived, they were on a clock and they just couldn't quite get there. 

In the end, we came in fourth overall and our only loss was to the team that won the entire event. That feels pretty good!

The GB deck:

Kraul WHipcracker

Nix Weaver

Urgent Necropsy

G

Topiary Panther

Rubbelbelt Mavrick

Pompous Gadabout

Analyze the Pollen

Tunnel Tipster

Axebane Ferox 

Sample Collector

Vitu-Ghazi Inspector

Nervous Gardener

B

Hunted Bonebrute

Repeat Offender

Unscrupulous Agent

Nightdfrinker Moroii

Extract a Confession

Snarling Gorehound

Toxin Analysis

Undercity Eliminator

Murder 2

Vein Ripper

The UR deck

Multi

Gadget Technician

Gleaming Geardrake

R

Case of the Burning Masks

Garbage Orangutan

Person of Interest

Suspicious Detonation

Frantic Scapegoat

Torch the Witness

Bolrac-Clan Basher

Crime Novelist

Innocent Bystander

Vengeful Tracker

Harried Dronesmith

Shock 2

Corners Crook

Reckless Detective

Felonious Rage

U

Deduce

Hotshot Investigators

Burden of Proof

Steamcore Scholar 

Dramatic Accusation

Cold Case Cracker

Escape Tunnel 2