Fiends In The Tall Grass

My first game today was with Mafioso. Empress Gia would tear into my stuff without mercy. When I built a Weave/Core deck, I used Empress Gia myself so I have seen the potential. Just run without playing the Core stuff and that one extra card each turn can make a world of difference. Empress Gia would go first with Stumbling Junjertrug and Seaweed Lascinth. Tiller went next, or first for me. He starts off my second Twilight War test deck. He did his usual start, including the Vortex of Knowledge. For creatures, he played a Giant Carillion, Leaf Hyren, Weebo, and Flame Rudwot. Things were looking good for me. Except, Warrior's Boots with Weave Seed would show me no mercy. In some ways, it was like facing a variety of my own Weave decks mixed together, the might of an open deck with the Warrior's Boots I started using in my restricted Weave deck. Their deck would remain in top form. Tiller didn't last more than just a couple turns. While I only do the Vortex trick once, the loss of his power would be painful. A Frusk would mean that all my relics being played would just be more cards for Weave. When Tryn played Crushing Roots on her opening turn, I went after the Seaweed Lascinth, forgetting all about the Weave Hut in play. Dang, it survived with one energy and would continue to be my bane. In the end Tryn wouldn't last long. My last hopes would be pinned on Pruitt. With eleven relics in the deck, I was drawing a number of these and really didn't want to play them with the Frusk out there. Pruitt was also suffering for creatures to play. All she had in hand was a Forest Hyren. One big nasty Forest Hyren after she used her power upon it. While she would end up dreamcrossing the power using a K'teeb on her next turn, the fact she had attacked with the Forest Hyren would allow Sawgrass to eliminate the big threat I had finally managed to field. The rest of Weave would crash into the massive K'teeb. Pruitt would play a Flame Rudwot, burn the Frusk although it would live with one energy. Then, all it took was a Warrior's Boots and playing the Seaweed Lascinth from under the Tomes of the Great Library. Combined with The Hunt, Pruitt would not survive the assault of Weave either. It was a terrible loss for me, but I have to admit that I loved the play of Weave I saw in that game. From that point of view, it was an awesome game. I almost wish I had used one of my own Weave deck(s) to have had the chance to see how that matchup would've worked out. I have a pic from the end of the game, but cannot seem to post it on the blog at the moment.