 Round 2 Reinhard Blech vs. Jim Herold Mirror Reinhard is featuring a very anti control build of MonoBlack Beatdown and Jim pilots a similar build better prepared for the mirror  Game1Blech starts with a duress taking his opponents duress. Withered Wretched joins Blech's side and Jim answers taking a nantuko shade with a Mesmeric Fiend.Trird turn duress and Cabal Therapy depletes Jim's hand, who is worried about his few lands. Reinhard Topdecks his second shade while Herold finds the 4th Land he needs. Blech sends in his shade for damage and casts a 5th turn Braids to is opponent's discontempt. Blech calls for a smother to remove his opponents Shade and his deck delivers it inmediately. The Shade keeps going into the red zone damage until Herold decides to go to the next Game. 1-0 Sideboarding Both player have an interesting chat about their builds during sideboarding. Jim boarded his fiends out. Reinhard boarded some Easter Palladins to Combat the armies of 2/2 zombie tokens.  Game 2 Jim starts with a duress and strips a Mutilate from Blech's hand. The situation from the first game repeats itself only this time the Shade and the Fiend switch sides. Blech removes a Rotlung Reanimator from Herold's hand and passes his turn. While looking at his opponents hand both players discuss the efficiency of Mortivore in this matchup. Both players cast two Rotlungs and Jim keeps serving with his Shade. Mutilate whipes the board clean, but the Rotlungs deliver 6 zombie tokens to Reinhard and 3 to Jim respectively. Tokens trade and Herold finally decides to cast his 6/6 Mortivore. A Graveborn muse and an Unholy Grotto turns the match in Jim's favor. Finally Blech casts a new Mesmeric Fiend and realizing Jim's hand and board advantage decides to scoop. 1-1 Sideboarding Blech comments on Herold'S Faceless Butchers and about the matchup in general. Jim boarded his Fiends in to combat possible Braids from Reinhard.  Game 3Blech starts with a duress taking a duress away from Jim' hand. And again he sees a Mortivore and a Shade in his opponent's hand. Second turn Fiend from Jim removes a Shade, to which Blech answers with two Fiends of his own in the following turns. He takes a Shade and Faceless Butcher. He sees 2 Mutilates on his opponents hand, one of which whipes the board clean. Mortivofre comes again to greet Reinhard, but a Chainer's Edict takes good care of of him. Herold's second Mutilate trades for a Rotlung and a Shade. Blech tries to get rid of Jim's nantuko shades but he keeps drawing them from the top. Finally it all omes down to Reinhard topdecking a mutilate or not. His call is not answered so he is forced o extend his hand. 1 - 2 for Jim Herold |
