Realm Qualifier 1/3/09

The 4 people who got there invite at First Pick are:
Ly - Umbrage
Matt W. - Mother Misery
Gavin - Kil'zin of the Bloodscalp
Seth - "Black Ice" Fizzlefreeze

The decklist I played:
Hero: Umbrage
Ally - 8
4x Steelsmith Joseph Carroll
4x "Chipper" Ironbane
Weapon - 17
4x Whispering Blade of Slaying
4x Electrified Dagger
4x Black Amnesty
2x Perdition's Blade
3x Stiker's Mark
Armor - 6
3x Eye of Rend
1x Moonstider Boots
1x Forest Stalker's Bracers
1x Predatory Gloves
Item - 4
3x Major Healing Potion
1x Eskhandar's Collar
Ability - 14
4x Surprise Attack
2x Cloak of Shadows
3x Sinister Strike
3x Jackknife
2x Evasion
Quest - 11
1x The Missing Diplomat
4x One Draenei's Junk...
3x Corki's Ransom
3x Finkle Einhorn, At Your Service!
Side:
Item - 1
1x Eskhandar's Collar
Ability - 9
2x Demolish
2x Cloak of Shadows
3x Prey on the Weak
2x Kick

Round 1 - Ringleader Kuma - I drew
This deck it the typical "Kung Fu Shaman" build. It has daggers like P-Blade and Ashtongue Blade (This dagger was hard to deal with); Rockbiter Weapon for buffing weapon; Stormstrike and Rak for multi-attacking; Cheap ferocity allies; and some burns. I won the 2 matches pretty easy, but I think he had a hard time getting his weapons out.
-2 Cloak of Shadows, -2 Evasion
+1 Eskhandar's Collar, +2 Demolish, +1 Kick

Round 2 - Jonas White - I played first
This deck was a resource destruction deck. He uses vigor to add more resource. This is another 2 matches win because he only had Tatulla to deal with my equipment.
-4 "Chipper" Ironbane
+3 Prey on the Weak, +1 Kick

Round 3 - "Black Ice" Fizzlefreeze - I drew
This deck was the typ. Black ice deck. These 2 matches was close. I was about 1 turn away from losing each match but Evasion save me match 1 and top deck Sinister Strike save me on match 2. Getting though the protectors to attack Myriam and Water elemental and those magma spike was dealing so much dmg to me. Playing this round made me wish I had another Forest Stalker's Bracers in my side deck.
No Side Change

Round 4 - Matt W. - Mother Misery - I drew
In this round I was thinking the person who goes first is going to win because both of our deck are pretty quick equiment decks. In the first match, Matt took control of my steelsmith, but he couldn't stop my evasion. Match 2 we about matching dmg with each other until the wraith scythe came out. I took the wraith scythe with demolish, but a second one came out. I only need 7 dmg to kill me and Matt needed 6 dmg to kill him. He was trying to end it with a draw, but I had a chipper in hand to get rid of one of his weapon to win the game.
-3 Jackknife
+1 Eskhandar's Collar, +2 Demolish

Top 4 - Seth - "Black Ice" Fizzlefreeze - I drew
I barely won against the other "Black Ice" Fizzlefreeze in round 3, but seth deck has chippers and Talians. Pretty much I got destroy in both match against him.
-1 Eskhandar's Collar, -2 Cloak of shadows, -2 Evasion
+3 Prey on the Weak, +2 Kick

Surprised you wouldn't side in the preys vs. the first fizzlefreeze - chuipper in particular seems not too useful there.

Whoa, realm qualifiers already? Is this schedule different compared to last year?

I didnt take out chipper because i though he might side in metalmorph. I though about siding in evasion and Eskhandar's Collar for Prey but his version was alittle more aggressive and evasion save me in the first match.

I think the first one last year was on the first weekend in Jan also, but not sure.

Schedule: http://www.cascadegames.com/games/7

(There are 2 realm champs per year, if that's what you're getting confused about - this one will be in May or so I think)