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Saturday September 3rd, 2005
Registration starts at 1:00 PM; 3:00 PM tournament start
Tournament Format: Type 1 (Vintage) non-DCI sanctioned
Entry Fee: $15.00
10 Proxies allowed, 1st – 4th: free; 5th – 10th: $1 each
All Proxies must be standard size and thickness of a regular Magic Card (i.e. Sharpie on a Plains is perfect). The clerk working will verify all Proxies.
NO SPLITS ALLOWED (Play it out for the Fans)

The Prize structure is dependent on the number of people:
Packs are your choice of either 9th edition or Saviors of Kamigawa

8-15 people:
Prize: 1st -- 4x Underground Sea;
2nd - 4th -- 6/4/2 packs

16-23 people:
Prize: 1st & 2nd -- Mana Drain (Italian), 4x Underground Sea;
1st place chooses, 2nd place gets other
3rd - 5th -- 9/6/3 packs

24-31 people:
Prize: 1st – Bazaar of Baghdad;
2nd – Mana Drain (English);
3rd – 5th – 12/8/4 packs

32+ people:
Prize: 1st -- Mox Jet (Unlimited);
2nd – Bazaar of Baghdad;
3rd – 6th – 15/10/8/6 packs

If you call in advance and use a credit card to secure your place, you get $2.00 off.

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I've already mentioned the goblin set-up for a better creature base. But what I'd like to address is the current errata for Shrapnel Blast to clarify what it does, as a few individuals obviously do not.

Shrapnel Blast
   
Instant
As an additional cost to play Shrapnel Blast, sacrifice an artifact.
Shrapnel Blast deals 5 damage to target creature or player.

With the list given, he has 8 artifacts and the 2 fireblast. All I was suggesting was to change the fireblast to shrapnel blast. Do not lecture me if you yourself do not know what the errata on the card is. He does not need to include the artifact lands to support it, as stated before, he is running 8 artifacts to 2 shrapnel blast.

-tech

I find that list to be oriented towards an artifact heavy field. With the afore mentioned maindeck 'flux and B2B it looks to have good game against WS based decks. I also notice it to be much more counter heavy than the usual builds floating around, making the match quite good against control while still maintaining its aggro win. My only concerns are curiousity draw engine being only at 2. Also that there is only 2 strip effects in the deck. Anyone wanna test this out on MWS or apprentice? I'm quite interested in seeing results for this particular list.

-tech

As stated before, I think a goblin creature base is much more efficient. You then could replace the chains for goblin grenade. Also, if you are going to run ahnk in your deck, instead of the 2 fireblast, you could use shrapnel blast in its stead. Its cc fits your mana curve quite nicely and gets that extra point of damage in. I also think slith firewalker is much better creature in the place of the 'pups, though it costs 2, its haste and ability to potentionally "gro" make it much better than the vanilla 2/1 for 1cc w/ the potential to kill yourself.

I was just curious to why is wonder in your SB? I think +2 Wonder -1 Arrogant wurm, -1 Waterfront Bouncer MD is a sound choice. This is one of the reasons why UG madness wins against aggro decks. Undercosted fat that flies. I'm also interested in your match-up agaisnt combo. When I was playing this deck, it was in an aggro & control meta, no combo at all.

Your match-up against Oath should be good. Your current list has 8 counters, and if they resolve an oath, you have 3 'Bouncers. Game one should be yours, albiet, not easily won, as they pack more counters that you. Games 2 & 3 would be more difficult if they are playing the meandeck version, since they will board in the "angel" set-up, but you still have good game since you get to board in naturalize. If it isn't the meandeck version, you should win w/ good gameplay. Though I don't know how you would do against the Eternal Witness/Yawgmoth's Will version.

-tech

My thoughts on the conclave come in negative and positive responses.  
They are:
Positive:
1) Any deck that requires manlands (ie: fish, landstill) needs more than the factories for the beats.

2) Besides being a manland, they tap for U.

3) They fly.

Negative:
1)They come into play tapped. Jeezus, in the early game this is really disheartening when you want UU for drain.

2) They are very mana intensive. There has been many occasions when I did not attack because I wanted UU untapped.

3) They are 2/1's. They can be hit by anything and just die.

Overall, I think they are a necessary evil. Until something else comes along, fish and landstill will be using them.

-tech

I tend to be a last minute playtester, but this only holds true to the weekly T1 tournies that I attend. When a larger tournament, or to say, a better prize structured tournament rolls around, I will playtest my deck against a gauntlet for the predicted metagame. Though sadly, its quite hard to get playtesting in as I work full time at the hospital. I usually always playtest w/ my brother, as the other magic players in town are "casual" players and do not take the game as seriously as my brother and I.

ok, im going to chime in on this one...unless your metagame is totally infested w/ oath, why bring this up? hate decks usually do not do well against the rest of the field...look at Oshawa stompy, its a great deck, w/ a maindeck full of hate, in theory, it should peform quite well in the new meta w/ all the workshop decks running around, and to put it str8, where is it? its not very good anymore, many decks have bumped up the basic land count and 3sphere really slows it down...w/ a 6 counter base, 10 if you want to include the mages, oath still has way more counters that you and they play back to basics, and you still have to deal w/ specific UW casting cost of the mage...im a great fan of UW, but w/ only forces as your only real hard counter, your going to have a hard time, its more of an uphill battle for this deck, im not saying it cant win, even w/ serenity, a good suggestion to deal w/ artifacts and enchantments, how is this synergistic w/ all the enchantments you play MD? you take the main draw engine of fish away, are you going to rely on the lone ancestral?

this looks like EBA, which in general is 4cC -Red...anyways, comments on the deck...does your metagame attribute the reason for 2 MD annuls? i really dont see a reason for it in the MD, maybe a few duress in its place? also i think with all the welder decks running around that coffin purge is not that bad in multiples in the side...i can also see echoing decay being played in the side at least, as a wishable target to get rid of multiple welders and fish alike...also, are you having good results w/ a 3 skeletal build? i ran a decklist very similar to this but w/ only 2 skeletal scrying and it worked out fine, though sumtimes i wish i had a scry on occasion, though my SB was a little different as there arent many workshop decks around my area (2 only) i used damping matrix in the place of the energy flux and tormod's crypt over the coffin purge...

it all depends, everyone uses different cards for their meta-game...try it out and if it works then keep on using it, if not then u'll know...personal opinion though, ive used it to sum degree of success as i shot down plat angel, metalworker, karn, and juggys...so its really your call on if you want to try it or not....different things work for different ppl

off topic, check your box for tournament info

hi, im from corpus christi area, i know its about an hour and a half or 2 hours away but we recently started to have tournies for power, the first one was a month and a half ago, and the next one will probably be in november sumtime, but its 4 proxy (why 4 i have no idea) tourny w/ entry fee of $15, at the 1st tourny we had a few ppl from san antone come down to play, it was for a psa graded unlimited ancestral...which is
 very very pretty and looks nice in my collection (yay for me i won it w/ FCG) i think also the prize for the next tourny will be for an unlimited sapphire, PM me and we'll talk about upcoming tournies

@Hi-Val

mis-d's are good against chalice black and sui....mis'd their hymn or sinkhole and you can screw up their gameplan quite a bit...this is from experience as im a sui player and had a hymn backfire .....sui is going to be a staple deck for budget players for awhile and has proven to a pain for a control heavy meta

in my version of elfball i used gaeas cradle w/ 2 wirewood lodges and going beatdown alittle w/ alpha status...in my build i also used pack hunt, slate of ancestry and collective unconcious for draw, w/ a little disruption in the form of winter orb

Hello fellow type 1 players, ive ventured into type 1 a few months ago and rather play this format than anything else...i started playing magic around 7th ed. but played on and off and then seriously started to play again when
torment came about, i was not able to buy cards for quite awhile since i live in a small ass town and didnt know where any card shops were, so my decks sucked ass....after finding a shop in Corpus Christi texas, an hour away from home, i started to play 1.5 quite frequently....then one sat nite they played type 1 and my MBC didnt hack it....i then sought after many vintage staple cards for black....i currently run suicide black and goblin ahnk sligh....my current meta is unpowered so it is quite a diverse crowd of decks....