Round four saw a clash between two top-notch local players. Matt Ferrando aka Matt qualified for this year’s Nationals with his token deck and finished that event with a Top 32 finish. Matt was playing an almost identical list to the Blightning Beatdown list I used to 3-0 the Mock the other night.

His opponent was Christian Calcano, winner of the first ever Top8Magic Mockvitational. Chris had a hand in the design of the Mannequin as a member of Team Unknown Stars. Calcano was running a Cruel Control deck with a little something extra for the red decks after sideboarding — Kiss of the Amesha.

Matt lost game one but seemed like he was going to bust through a mana-strapped Calcsno in game two. Matt’s deck yielded too many lands while Calcano clung to the game by his fingernails. Soon Calcano as fortifying behind Forge Tenders, Finks, and finally he sealed the game with a Kiss of the Amesha into Cruel Ultimatum.

“BDM,” said Matt as he picked up loss number two, “Do you have any sets for a draft?”