Oops All Chandra FNM report:
I went 1-2, which is one better than I was expecting. The guy that I beat wasn't a scrub, he's one of the better players at the shop, although he was playing a brew or at least a non-tier deck (Naya Midrange). My other two matches were against another one of the best players at the shop running Esper Control (I was easily outmatched here) and a regular, but more casual player running a Rakdos Sacrifice brew (this one was close but I couldn't get the dub).
Round 1 - Naya MidrangeGame 1 - I wasn't able to assemble much of a board presence and he overran me before I could do much.
Game 2 - Losing early in Game 1 probably worked out in my favor because he brought in his typical sideboard package to deal with Mono Red (Lyra + Shalai) which I was able to easily deal with using Chandra's Triumph (+Fry out of the sideboard). Big Chandra's emblems closed out the game.
Game 3 - He got stuck on 3 lands, I killed his dorks, and I got a Big Chandra in play before he could do anything else. I think his only removal was a couple of Prison Realms. Ez win.
Round 2 - Esper ControlGame 1 - A close game, he basically drew just enough answers to deal with all of my threats but he didn't have any threats of his own that I couldn't deal with. Then he played a Lili that I wasn't able to get rid of, and that ended the game.
Game 2 - I got stuck on two lands in this game for three turns, but again, he was so light on threats that I almost managed to get back into the game. After he top decked a Command the Dreadhorde and stole my Big Chandra that he Through Erasure'd on T2 though, that put me on a fast enough clock that I couldn't win.
Round 3 - Rakdos SacrificeGame 1 - This deck actually matched up really well against me. He was running a lot of small creatures and a lot of "Sacrifice a creature or planeswalker" effects, which were good against my top-heavy threats (no pun intended
). I narrowly won Game 1 at 1hp with my opponent at 16 by -7 WAR Chandra and turning over a bunch of lands, creatures, and a Chandra, Novice Pyromancer. I played Pyromancer, hit my opponent's face for 2, and then got in with my Chandra's Spitfire that had been buffed to 7/3 to hit for exact.
Game 2 - A lot like Game 1, except instead of stabilizing at 1hp, I stabilized at 0hp.
Game 3 - This time I stabilized at 5hp and I was feeling pretty good untapping with Big Chandra and Chandra's Regulator, but he had Eldest Reborn and stole my WAR Chandra. His clock ended up being faster than mine. :'(
Ultimately, I had fun running it and I actually won a few games and one round, so I'm happy. The shop owner randomly gave out some of the Core 2020 Promo Packs that he had left over and I got one that had Leyline of Sanctity, so that was pretty sweet too.
