Salutations. Not that it matters much to the quality of this thread (my apologies in advance to you especially Jon), but since I haven't shown my face around here in so long I figured I'd help to *partially* answer the question as to which of the t8 folk have I.d. here.

I am Phil, the ill-fated wanderer who called upon the power of the broken snow covered landzorz to win me games. I used to post on the old MD once and a while, but that was a while ago. As a side note I'd like to thank both waSP and Frost for pushing me to play... Brian/Browser had a say in it too.

A combination of school work, college visits, working as a pharmacy technician, and debating over magic vs. women kept me from playing for a long time (I'm amazed there was ever any debate at all anymore in my mind).

My props go to Jon for lending me Terravore #2-3, since I refused to purchase non foil ones before the tourney (this ended up costing me), being the senile old hermit that I am... Brian, for playing such a techno deck and doing well... all my opponents, for being GREAT guys to play against and fair in both victory and defeat... Jason, for holding such awesome tournies... and Steve for being gracious in his hard day and offering constructive advice on how to approach my t8 matches, since I apparently have magic alzheimers, or something close to it...
Steve, man, I'm sorry I failed you, it wasn't meant to be. I can't help that the deck didn't draw a single threat except for a lonely Troll when I was pounded mercilessly in the most embarrassing and one sided routage in the t8      da*n you Terravore, for never being castable/showing up in 5 straight games. I wanted to cry, but that would have been a questionable call in that situation. At least it was proven that Thermokarst wins games.... take that Nick G, and dropping only fetchlands and a 3 cc lotus under TriniSphere and weldable fatties conversely looses games againt TnT... who would have thought... *sigh*  

Concerning Milton/Craig's crisis, I can only say "that sucks".  Man, I sort of wish afterword you could have taken my place, at least you would have done better then me, because there's no way it could have been worse. I wanted to win to give the day some purpose, the lesson I learned was that loosing and winning are what you make of them. I was glad to have had some "worthy moments" in my day, including a win with a single elf under a nethervoid during a game that included me blowing up 3 Nantuko Shades, hyppies, too many lands too count, and getting my board cleansed by Perish, Deed, and edicts. And, yes, of course there was the ridiculous first turn "snow covered forest, go". broken. *bows in submission to SC lands*

Anyway I'm sorry for wasting everyone's time with that lamenting recount, but I DID give props where they are due, and I did mention that I have posted here, one way or another. I might do a report to assist with the t8 matches in case mine doesn't go up. If for some ludicrously unexplainable reason anybody would like to ask questions or other random things, I'll be happy to respond as best I can. Once again, mad props to aforementioned folk, and congrats to the tourney winner. It was a fun time!