A lot of matches like this have seen the light of day yesterday and today at the Pro Tour. Reanimator vs. Reanimator. Both these gentlemen are running the Blue-Black version of the deck with some differences, but still, they tend to do the same thing.
Game 1
Antoine won the flip but got a hand that was best described as mediocre. Double
Vampiric Tutor,
Duress, two
Underground Rivers and a
Visara the Dreadful. He just played the River and said go. Jon took Antoine's
Duress when he
Duressed Antoine himself. Antoine then fetched a
Careful Study with his
Vampiric Tutor, played it on his own turn to put
Visara in the graveyard and
Reanimated it. This put him at 9 life already though. Jon played a
City of Brass and Careful Studied himself, ditching an
Exhume and
Hapless Researcher. Antoine attacked with his
Visara and played
Brainstorm and
Polluted Delta.
Jon then fetched his own Pitfighter Champion - Rorix Bladewing - with Entomb. He Exhumed it and served for 6, bringing Antoine to two precious life. Antoine had to fetch a land with his Delta though to get land that wasn't even more painful. Afterwards he fetched a Mana Leak with Mystical Tutor and kept his Visara at home this turn. Jon entombed a Visara of his own at the end of Antoine's turn. He attacked his Rorix into Visara, mimicking a real pit fight right there. Visara wins though - she tends to win pit fights by cheating and killing the other off without combat. Jon tried to Recoil the Visara during Antoine's attack step but that was Mana Leaked. He then fetched a Life/Death with Vampiric Tutor, cast the Life part with help from a City of Brass and served with 2 lands to take the game.
Game 2
A double mulligan on Antoine's side made this look bad from the start. Even though he got a
Visara on turn two with help from a
Vampiric Tutor,
Entomb and
Reanimate, Jon just
Entombed a
Gilded Drake and took the
Visara from Antoine by casting
Death on the Drake. Antoine who only had one card left in his hand even saw that one stripped by Jon's
Mesmeric Fiend - it was a
Reanimate that could take the Drake should Jon kill it with the
Visara. Another
Mesmeric Fiend takes a
Mystical Tutor on turn later and Antoine scoops it up.
Final Result: Jon Finkel 2 - Antoine Ruel 0
