Daniel Ryan Balderas

Finally, when Ryan showed up he sleeved up UW Control and promptly smashed John and I to the point that I was lying face down into my pillow crying.  I hate you Ryan Balderas!  I hate you!  I don’t want to play in the PTQ tomorrow! Ryan’s new nickname should be something like Dream Killer or “Ambition Sniper” or something like that.  Ryan and I are cool now, but I nearly threw him from our second floor balcony a couple of times.
OK, so Boros had a bad matchup to Storm and Ryan Balderas, I could live with that.  I put Boros in my new blue Dragonshields and dozed off dreaming of crushing someone with a Steppe Lynx that got boosted by a Path to Exile on one of my own creatures.  Here’s the list I ran, a 75 card copy of the one that won the online PTQ.

- Brendan Reginibald 2nd place PTQ Detroit Tournament Report