{"id":484,"date":"2019-08-20T21:57:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T01:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/?p=484"},"modified":"2019-08-20T21:57:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T01:57:17","slug":"2008-gassy-knoll-vs-2008-kithkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/2019\/08\/20\/2008-gassy-knoll-vs-2008-kithkin\/","title":{"rendered":"2008 Gassy Knoll vs 2008 Kithkin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An unusual match between 2 decks that coexisted at the same time. Kithkin was clearly superior, and was just way too fast for the storm deck, especially on draws with no Lotus Bloom.<br>G1: Gassy Knoll keeps a risky hand, Kithkin gets two Knights of Meadowgrain into Elspeth. Knoll draws too many storm spells and not enough ramp. Knoll plays only one spell all game &#8211; Tarfire &#8211; which was nullified by a Rusty Clachan +1 counter. T6 win for Kithkin.<br>G2: Kept a hand with no Lotus Bloom. Drew too many storm spells, and a Pyromancer&#8217;s Swath I dare not play, and not enough enablers. In desperation I had to make 8 goblins, but lost to fliers. Kithkin 2-0.<br>G3: Still no Lotus Bloom. Overrun by weenies before I can get enough mana to do anything. Kithkin 3-0, even without Burrenton Forge Tenders showing up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unusual match between 2 decks that coexisted at the same time. Kithkin was clearly superior, and was just way too fast for the storm deck, especially on draws with no Lotus Bloom.G1: Gassy Knoll keeps a risky hand, Kithkin gets two Knights of Meadowgrain into Elspeth. Knoll draws too many storm spells and not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}