Here is my decklist by request. I probably deserve ridicule based on what is in my sideboard. Fire away. I love suggestions, anything to make my favorite deck better.

inebriate


Reanimator w/Bazaar of Baghdad

Mana Sources (20)

swamp x11
dark ritual x4
sol ring x1
strip mine x1
lotus petal x1
mox jet x1
mox emerald x1

Creatures(22)

krovikan horror X4
nether shadow x4
ashen ghoul x4
squee x2
verdant force x1
visara x1
petradon x1
sliver queen x1
phantom nishoba x1
spirit of the night x1
symbiotic wurm x1
worldgorger dragon x1

Discard/Draw (6) - not enough

bazaar of baghdad x4
buried alive x1
entomb x1

Reanimation (9)

recurring nightmare x2
animate dead x3
reanimate x2
living death x2

Search (2)

vampiric tutor x1
demonic tutor x1

Other (1)

yawgmoth's will x1

sideboard

tormod's crypt x3
petrified field x1
engineered plague x3
cabal therapy x4
duress x4

Greetings all,

My standings for this week came out, well, err .. quite different this time.
March 31st is as follows:

Evidently I didn't have a car, so I could not get there at 7 p.m. Luckily my roommate was on his way home, so I decided to call up the moderator and ask him if it were possible for us to enter the tourney late, he said it was fine but we had to play each other keeping in mind that the round would very soon be over. Wonderful.

Round 1 - James - Landstill  1-1-1

Game 1: Not only was I hosed; I was absolutely showered!! I had to mull down to 4, and that didn't help at all. He came across with manlands and a Rainbow Efreet. Game over.

Game 2: In my opening hand, I got a bazaar. I Duress my opponent twice in the first 2 turns, knocking out a Counterspell and an Impulse. Turn 4, I put an Ashen Ghoul into play. At this point, I am drawing multiples of recurring creatures. I Duress my opponent for the third time, knocking out a Capsize and to find out he had 4 islands in his hand.
That was relieving. I continue my attack with Nether Shadows and Ashen Ghouls. He cannot deal with the aggro. Game over.

Game 3: As soon as we draw our opening hands, they announce the 5 minute warning. The next few turns, I am drawing non-creature spells; I begin to think about the outcome of the game at this point. Darn, I am not getting anything! On top of that, my opponent blocks my Ashen Ghoul with a Mishra's Factory. So far my opponent has 2 Faerie conclaves in play, so I cast a Krovikan Horror. At this point they call time in the round; the countdown for 5 turns begin. Over the next 5 turns, nothing happens exciting. I make a dumb mistake by casting a Recurring Nightmare, unknown why I did that. I should have left the mana open to use for the Horror. Just as my opponent attacks with 2 Conclaves, they call time. This game ends up in a tie.

Round 2 - Bryan - B/G Recursion  1-0

Game 1: I win the dice roll, and play first. I drop a Bazaar of Baghdad and use it. End turn. My opponent drops a Wasteland on me. Instant Tiny Tim. I now have unplayable cards in my hand. The next turn I top-deck a Demonic Tutor and get my favorite non-basic land. The next turn he responds by giving me the Wasteland treatment again. Over the next few turns, he drops 2 Wall of Roots and a Masticore. I am now in big trouble. He attacks with the Masticore twice. Not only does he have a monster on the board, but I have absolutely nothing to vouch for me. I think this might be the end. The next turn, I top-deck a Yawgmoth's Will, what luck! I cast a Dark Ritual, play the Will, play a Demonic Tutor. I search for the only card that will save me at this point, everyones favorite card, Living Death! I then cast 2 Rituals from my graveyard and play the Living Death. It seems like this is the turning point in the game. I attack with everything I got next turn. I look at his life total: 3. I then sac 3 creatures to the Horror and win. Game over.

Game 2: You guys are gonna love this one for multiple reasons, I guarantee it.
I mull down to 5, knowing that if I go any lower, I would be swimming in liquid poop even faster. He plays first and drops a Birds of Paradise. I play a Cabal Therapy, naming Recurring Nightmare. I see his hand, revealing 2 Wall of Roots, 2 forests and a Crater Hellion. This is going to be fun. As the game goes on, things get even worse; he drops a Survival of the Fittest and begins to filter out his deck and fill his graveyard with nasty stuff. During my turn, I Animate Dead his Masticore, maybe it will buy me some time. During my upkeep, I totally forget to pay the Masticore's upkeep and draw a card for the turn. I love this next part. My opponent hastily grabs the Masticore with great ferocity and throws it in his graveyard, as if he is implying something. I frown at myself, but I'm not too upset because I never play with Masticores, and the only one I own is in California. Not much to do this turn, so I end it. during his turn, he plays a Recurring Nightmare, sacs a Squee, and puts an Avatar of Woe into play. End turn. During my upkeep, I put a Nether Shadow into play. I draw another Animate Dead, yee ha. This is where I make a very good play, so listen up. For being a mediocre player, I'm surprised I was able to pull it off.
Ok, this is the situation:
He has an Avatar in play, a Birds of Paradise, and 2 Wall of Roots, 1 with p/t 0/3 and one with p/t 0/2. Casting Animate Dead on his Crater Hellion would do no good, since it only deals 4 damage to everything and the Avatar has a toughness of 5. I think about this one for a bit. I have a Cabal Therapy in my graveyard, and I could sac the shadow to flash it back and knock the Recurring Nightmare out of his hand OR I can attack with my Nether Shadow, but would he block with one of his walls or his Avatar? If he blocks with his Avatar, it would reduce its toughness to 4, allowing it to be killed by the Hellion. I think about this for about 2 minutes total, but seems like it is forever. If he blocks with his wall, nothing will happen but during his turn I will take 6 from the Avatar. Oh, what the hell, I'll do it. I declare my attack with the Nether Shadow. He blocks with his Avatar!! He looks at me funny, like I really am Tiny Tim. I then cast Animate Dead on the Crater Hellion, dealing 4 damage to his Avatar, Birds, and 2 walls. He takes his creatures and throws them into his graveyard, as if he is pitching a baseball. Since the Hellion's Echo cannot be paid during my next upkeep, I flashback Cabal Therapy, naming Recurring Nightmare, his face is on fire, and he slams the Recurrring Nightmare into his graveyard, making a loud snapping noise.  It was very amusing. They call time in the round, 5 turns left.
Lets go into dialogue mode:
Him: (very pissed off facial expressions and tone) : "You're purposely stalling, damnit. Thanks alot"
Me: "It's true, that play did take some time, but it wasn't to stall on purpose. I just had to think of the best possible play"
Him: "WHATEVER"
During the rest of the game, every card he puts into play he abruptly slams onto the table, making very loud snapping sounds, I loved it. It was very un-sportsman like conduct and very childish. He Survivals for a Phantom Nishoba and a Symbiotic Wurm. He ended up top-decking another Recurring Nightmare, putting both the Wurm and the Nishoba into play. The next turn, I draw a Strip Mine. I examine my hand, determine there is nothing to do, and play the Strip Mine. End Turn.
More dialogue:
Him: (in a violent voice) "OH SURE, JUST WHAT I THOUGHT, MORE STALLING"
Me: "Not really"
He declares his attack and hits me for 14 with the Nishoba and the Wurm.
It wasn't enough to kill me. He then scoops up his cards in a berzerking fashion and storms off outside. Very awesome opponent.

Round 3: Shawn - T1/T2 Goblin aggro/food chain   1-2

Game 1: He begins to drop Goblin Piledrivers, Warchiefs and the likes. I start Bazaaring away, dumping really big creatures into my graveyard, including a Worldgorger Dragon (big mistake). The next turn, he attacks for alot, putting me at 1 life. I happen to top-deck a Living Death, and I have 2 Dark Rituals in my hand. I play the Living Death, putting beasts into play but then the Worldgorger makes them go away.  He drops 2 goblins. During my next turn, I still only have one blocker available, the Worldgorger. Game over.

Game 2: I top-deck a Bazaar, an Entomb and an Animate Dead. By turn 3, he already has 3 goblins in play. I draw a swamp, play it, and cast Animate Dead targetting the Dragon. I mention that I have a Sliver Queen (somewhere) in my deck. Dialogue mode again:
Him: "I want to see you do this, prove to me that you correctly know how this combo works, we have lots of time before the round is over. I just want to make sure that the Queen isn't the last card in your library"
Me: "Ok, we can do that"
After doing the combo the slow way (step by step) after drawing 10 cards or so, I finally get a Sliver Queen. Game over.

Game 3: I am overwhelmed by goblins, I am struck down almost immediately. No contest here! Game over.

Fourth and final round

Round 4: Ryan - G/R Zoo  2-1

Game 1: He plays a forest and an Orcish Lumberjack. I have not seen this ridiculous card for quite some time. I draw a Bazaar, but it does me no good, no creatures are coming up. In the next few turns, he plays a Call of the Herd, and a Wild Mongrel. He ditches a Roar of the Wurm to the Mongrel. Oh boy. The next turn he flashes back his Roar. I manage to hard cast a Krovikan Horror, and a Nether Shadow, but my defense is quickly reduced. Nothing came up the rest of the game. Game over.

Game 2: I thought, I need to get home and get some rest for work tommorrow, I'll just keep my opening hand regardless. Apparently, my opponent kept a crummy hand, because all he was dropping was basic lands. I had enough lands to hard cast my Ashen Ghouls and Horrors, which led the way to victory. Other than not having a Bazaar in play, I actually did quite well; I had 3 Ghouls in play and 2 Horrors. I beat him down quickly after that. Game over.

Game 3: Hmm, I thought. Maybe I will win this round after all.
He starts off by playing a forest. End turn. I begin to dump large creatures in my graveyard (Spirit of the Night, Verdant Force, Symbiotic Wurm). During his turn, he plays an Orcish Lumberjack. I put an Ashen Ghoul into play. I top-deck a Living Death but I don't have the mana to use it yet. I attack with the Ghoul and he takes it. During his turn, he plays a mountain, and casts a Kird Ape. Next turn, I ditch 2 Ghouls and a Horror. I play Dark Ritual, tap 2 swamps, play a Living Death. During his turn he plays a forest. Poor guy is getting really bad draws. End turn. During my next next, I attack without mercy. This put him at 1 life. I sac a creature to a Horror. Game Over.

Overall, a very unique night to say the least. I think I'll play a different deck next week. Take care C&J guys.

Ok here it goes,

I was lucky to have received my cards on wednesday just in time for the T1 tourney. Fortunately, all my cards were intact, my folks saw to that. My card tin looked like it was wrapped to withstand a nuclear explosion, but I was quite happy since my cherished cards were protected.

Round 1 - played Chris - modified ankh sligh format
lost 0-2
Game 1: I got a rotten hand, had to mull down to 6, then to 5, arghh no bazaar either; I felt like Tiny Tim. He dropped a jackal pup and a mog fanatic, and began to send over the beats. After 2 turns of that punishment, I managed to cast a ghoul. I used to to block a fanatic, sending it to the graveyard.   He casted another pup and a goblin cadet. The next turn I cast animate dead on the fanatic, his face was wrought with dissolution. I used the fanatic to block a jackal, and then sac to take down another jackal. He bolted me plenty of times and grenaded me. game over

Game 2: Mulled down to 6 cards again, this time a little better hand but still no bazaar, hit or miss. 3 turns later, I draw a bazaar, but it does me little good, the same bad situations re-occur as last game. game over.

After round 1, I had to pick up my roomate, I told them that they could give me the bye if they wanted to. I happen to make it back in time (a game was still in session) but despite this, they still gave me the bye.

Round 3 - played unknown name -  G/R jank
won 2-0
Game 1: Despite not drawing a bazaar in my first hand, I had a vampiric tutor to make up the difference. I immediately cast it to get my special land. By turn 3, he had 3 forests, a wild growth on one, and a llanowar elf. I began to get my annoying ghouls on the board and then dropped a recurring nightmare. I used it twice the next turn to get a spirit of the night and a petradon into play. Game over

Game 2: I didn't feel like Tiny Tim anymore. Got a  bazaar, ghoul and shadow into play immediately, then I tutored for a recurring nightmare. Next turn I got out the recurring nightmare/symbiotic wurm combo, really crappy to deal with. He tried to lava blister my bazaar, but I took 6 to the face. Game over.

Round 4 - played unknown (damnit I can't remember) - power artifact/monolith combo
lost 0-2
Game 1: I was Tiny Tim again. A filthy hand to start off with, my opponent dropped a monolith and a volcanic island. I was decimated by the infinite mana/magma mine combo. Game over.

Game 2: I attempted to duress him, he forced it, discarding a mana drain. I topped another duress and knocked out a mystical tutor. He managed to topdeck a power artifact and comboed me again.

Not playing my reanimator deck for nearly 4 weeks was hurtful; losing touch with the dynamics of my deck. Maybe next week will be a better draws. Greets to the hardcore players at C&J's.

inebriate

This is my T1 report from wednesday, march 10 2004. I found a store in Tucson called Kards for you who hosts T1 tourneys, but not dci sanctioned. Better than nothing. Since I didn't bring my decent decks, all I brought was a cheasy sindbad deck. This is hilarious, so here goes:

Round 1: Played against Sam b/u Tog/hulk smash

Game 1:He won the dice roll so he played first. The first land he dropped was a polluted delta, at that moment, I already knew that he was playing Tog/hulk smash. A few turns later, he duressed me, i gave him my hand and he had a very peculiar look on his face, he saw what I was playing and it didn't make any sense to him. When my turn came, I drew a brass man and played it. He picked the card up and stared at it for a while, noting the eyes I decided to color in red. As the game went on, I took him down to around 12 life or so, he did the usual intuition, get 3 ak's and so forth. He attacked with his tog, and berzerked it. Game over.
Game 2: I guess he got bad draws or kept a crummy hand because I won!! I topdecked 3 bloodcurdlers and a nether shadow, along with an unstable mutation. When the game was over, his face looked like a puzzled grin, as if someone has broken a bottle over his head.
Game 3: Same as game 1, I was decimated.

Round 2: forgot the guys name, he was playing mono black + tendrils combo

Game 1: He cast a wrench mind, hoping to make me ditch 2, but instead I discarded a fountain of youth, his face was very puzzled as well. He topdecked 2 hypnotic specters, and wrecked my hand. Then he began to cast urzas bauble and cabal rituals and tendriled me for 10. Game over.
Game 2: I got a sindbad into play, and began to use its ability, but I wasn't drawing any land, darn. He got his specters on my butt again, and then he tendriled me for the killing blow. Game over.

Round 3: Played John Jackson, some guy from Georgia with an accent. He wa playing mono black

Game 1: First turn, I cast a brass man, and my opponent stared at its eyes, yet another player with a puzzled look on their face. He casted a carnophage, but it wasn't enough to take down my brass man. After 4 turns of paying life to keep the carnophage untapped during his upkeep, he finally decided to play an innocent blood. After that, he began to summon specters and order of the ebon hand (ooohhhhhh). He beat me down quickly. Game over.
Game 2: I had 2 fountain of youths in play, which kept me alive for a few more turns. But in the end, I was tore up by 2 specters and 2 order of the ebon hands. Game over

I had to pick up my roomate from work, so I dropped before round 4 started. Overall, even though I lost badly, I was very excited to have beaten even once a high end deck such as Tog. Shocking, isn't it? I asked my folks to send me my 'real' cards, hopefully they will arrive before next wednesday.

I have enclosed my deck list so you can laugh at its effectiveness. More reports to come. Greets to all the guys at C&J Collectibles.


Sindbad Deck

Land
9x islands
11x swamps

enchantments
unstable mutation x3
yawgmoths agenda x1
last laugh x1

artifacts
sisays ring x2
fountain of youth x2

creatures
sindbad x4
diabolic machine x2
demonic hordes x1
cloud djinn x1
clock work avian x1
juggernaut x1
bloodcurdler x3
cephalid vandal x2
nether shadow x1
triskelion x1
brassman x1
scavenging ghoul x2

sorcery
demonic tutor x1
vampiric tutor x1
rhystic syphon x1
dream cache x2