19 people showed up to sling some vintage cards around! 5 rounds of swiss and we have our top 8:
1 Jeff Neilson (LotusHead: Forgemaster Shops)
2 Michael Lynch : 4 color Mentor Urwg
3 Ryan Reynolds : UR Landstill
4 Ryan Maddux : 4 color Mentor Urwb
5 Elliot Davidoff : Grixis Therapy
6 Michael Mekeel : Grixis Painter (Rich Shay build)
7 Eric Campusano : Grixis Control (now with 6 Jace's!)
8 Blaine Christiansen : Mono Red UbaStax
Top 4:
Jeff beat Blaine
Eric beat Michael L
Michael M Beat Ryan R
Ryan M beat Elliot
5-8 got $33 each, top 4 split for $85.75 each.
Pics and mini-report tomorrow. Decks in order of top 8 standings:
Jeff Neilson
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Mishra's Factory
1 Porcelain legionaire
3 Phyrexian metamorph
1 Myr Battlesphere
3 Phyrexian Revoker
4 kuldatha Forgemaster
4 Lodestone Golem
1 Sundering Titan
1 Duplicant
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Trading Post
3 Sphere of Resistance
4 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Chalice of the Void
3 Tangle Wire
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Coercibe Portal
1 Trinisphere
Sideboard
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Witchbane Orb
1 Tangle Wire
3 Smokestack
1 Dismember
1 Duplicant
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Triskellion
2 Wurmcoil Engine
Michael Lynch
1 Black lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
4 Gush
3 Preordain
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Dig Through Time
2 Sylvan Library
1 Dack Fayden
2 Jace, The Mind Sculptor
4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Pyroblast
1 Izzet Charm
1 Flusterstorm
1 Fire/Ice
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Vendillion Clique
3 Monastery Mento
2 Volcanic Island
2 Tropical Island
2 Tundra
1 Misty Rainforest
3 Flooded Strand
4 Polluted Delta
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Island
Sideboard
4 Rest in Peace
3 Containment Priest
2 nature's Claim
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
2 Sudden Shock
1 Ethersworn Cannonist
Ryan Reynolds
4 Null Rod
1 Black lotus
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Dack Fayden
1 Keranos, God of Storms
4 Lightning Bolt
1 Library of Alexandria
2 Island
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Scalding Tarn
2 Flooded Strand
1 Faerie Conclave
1 Steam Vents
4 Volcanic Island
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
3 mana Drain
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Dig Through Time
1 Brainstorm
2 Jace, The Mind Sculptor
4 Standstill
4 Mental Misstep
3 Spell Pierce
1 Treaure Cruise
1 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
Sideboard
4 Graffdigger's Cage
3 Energy Flux
3 Ingot Chewer
2 Pyroclasm
3 Arcane Laboratory
Ryan Maddux
3 Monestary Mento
1 Time Vault
4 Gush
1 Mox Pearl
1 dig through time
4 force of will
2 flusterstorm
2 tundra
1 swords to plowshares
1 vampiric tutor
4 Mental Mistep
1 Spell Pierce
3 Flooded Strand
1 Sol Ring
1 Pyroblast
4 Scalding tarn
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Voltaic Key
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mana Crypt
1 Underground Sea
1 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Preordain
1 Ponder
1 Tinker
3 Volcanic Island
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 brainstorm
1 Black Lotus
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Jace The Mind Sculptor
1 Dack Fayden
1 Island
1 Mox Jet
Sideboard
1 Mountain
3 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Energy Flux
3 Ingot Chewer
1 Pyroblast
3 Containment Priest
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Wear/Tear
Elliot Davidoff
4 Force of Will
4 Mental Misstep
4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Preordain
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Dig through time
1 treasure Cruise
3 Gush
3 Lightning Bolt
3 Cabal Therapy
1 Demonic Tutor
2 Fluster Storm
2 Dack Fayden
2 Snapcaster Mage
4 Young Pyromancer
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Polluted Delta
3 Volcanic Island
2 Underground Sea
1 Island
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Strip Mine
Sideboard
4 Ingot Chewer
2 Pyroblast
1 Flusterstorm
1 Pulverize
1 Mountain
4 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Dread of Night
Micheal Mekeel
3 Painter's Servant
2 Grindstone
1 Blightsteel Collossus
1 jace, The Mind Sculptor
1 Dack Fayden
4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
2 Mana Drain
1 Time Walk
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Ancestral Recall
4 Thirst for Knowledge
2 Gush
1 Tinker
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Brainstorm
1 Dig Through Time
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
2 Pyroblast
3 Redc Elemental Blast
1 Vampiric Tutor
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Flooded Strand
2 island
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Underground Sea
3 Volcanic Island
Sideboard
1 Thoughseize
1 Duress
1 Surgical Extraction
4 Ingot Chewer
1 Mountain
1 Ravenous Trap
3 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Illness in the ranks
1 Shattering Spree
Eric Campusano
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 yawgmoth's Will
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Time Vault
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Voltaic Key
2 Lightning Bolt
2 Dack Fayden
4 Mental Misstep
2 mana Drain
1 Ponder
1 Dig Through Time
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Tinker
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
3 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy
3 Force of Will
2 Jace, The Mindsculptor
1 Brainstorm
2 Flusterstorm
3 Volcanic Island
3 Underground Sea
4 Scalding tarn
4 Polluted Delta
2 Island
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Mana Crypt
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
Sideboard
4 Grafdigger's Cage
4 Ingot Chewer
1 Mountain
1 Illness in the Ranks
2 Toxic Deluge
3 Red Elemental Blast
Blaine Christiansen
4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Cavern of Souls
3 Mountain
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Goblin Welder
4 Smokestack
4 Tangle Wire
4 Sphere of Resistance
3 Crucible of Worlds
3 Uba Mask
2 Ensnaring Bridge
1 Trinisphere
1 Chalice of the Void
Sideboard
4 Graffdigger's Cage
2 Duplicant
2 Wurmcoil Engine
2 The Tabernacle of Pendrell Vale
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Ensnaring Bridge
2 Null Rod
I leave you this pic of Blaine and I game 2 of round 2. Epic upon epic battles were had!
Me in game 1 round 1. I had awesome start, and somehow fucked it up.
Game 2 went a little better.
Aahz trying to do the shop thing (73 cards identical to BC's deck)
Elliot dies with 4 mental misstep in hand (I had Tormod's crypt/wasteland do my dirty work)
Aahz with tons of permanents vs victim.
Galen with good cards...
Galen declines to draw 7. Dustin Doomsday's next turn. Doh!
I think I'm doing good here vs BC...
Our youngest vintage player is now seasoned pro (2 years slugging it out now, I believe).
So yeah, taking out an ensnaring bridge takes patience. Blaine planned on decking me since I was drawing 2 cards to his 1 via Coersive Portal (heh)
He holds out till the very end.
Pretty sweet for Game 3, eh?
I give this 2 turns before packing it in for game 3.
Adam (left) has a DCI number with FOUR DIGITS!!!
See? Playing against Dredge is FUN! See proof on right side of pic!
Smennen braves the field with some old school tech. Between rounds, that is...
I might have survived this, I might not have. I don't remember.
BC vs Aahz round 5 win and in, vs each other.
Me vs BC in top 8. Just wanted to show off BC's bad ass altered Black Lotus!
Michael Lynch vs Eric Campusano
I fix the situation so I have the Crucible, and our Welders get revokered.
Round 1 Elliot Burk playing ???
I don't know who wins the die roll, but I keep a hand that gives me a Thorn of Amethyst and a turn 2 Forgemaster. He has Bazaar and draws and discards a Gravetroll and Stinkweed imp. I, for some reason, decide to play permanents then activate my Forgemaster on MY mainphase, getting Myr Battlesphere (I had 2 Phyrexian Metamorphs in hand, I figured that would be enough to seal the deal. I was wrong). He unmasked on of the Metamorphed, dredged into 2 Bridge From Below (and to Narcomoebas) by the time I got around to playing Metamorph on Myr Battlesphere. I could have done many, many other things instead. I could have killed 2 bridges by playing Metamorph, I could have turned a Factory into an Assembly Woker before I sacrified it to Forgemaster. I could have played a second sphere effect. Elliot burk pwned me with 12 Zombies and a zealot due to his now full graveyard, forcing me to chump with 8 myr tokens bringing me to 1 life. I lose next turn.
Game 2 and 3 he gets nothing going. He does play a Dark Depths which was worrisome, but my Tormod's Crypts sneaked past his Mental Missteps and I take the match.
ROund 2: Blaine playing Mono Red UbaStacks.
Game 1: He gets smokestack out quickly, and probably a crucible or something to make me scoop quickly.
Game 2: He drops an early Ensnaring Bridge which lets us get to the game state you see in the above pick.
Game 3: I get a Smokestack and Crubile early. He has a Welder, I metamorph it. I get him to tap his welder to mess up my welding out his crucible for Null Rod (he reacts by welding out crucible for Smokestack). I then lay down my Phyrexian Revoker naming Welder and take the game from there (Duplicating both of his WurmCoil Engines in the process whoot!)
Round 3: Ryan Renolds playing UR something
Game 1: I kill him with 2 uncracked fetches and a wasteland in play. I don't know what to side in except a second crucible.
Game 2: He drops Energy Flux and I scoop a few turns later to Mishra Beats.
Game 3: He mulls to five, and I get a Smokestack to stick at 1 soot counter, and play a permanent every turn and take the match.
Round 4: Ryan Maddox playing Mentor
Game 1: I get the craziness out and he dies quickly.
Game 2: He plays an early Energy Flux and I scoop
Game 3: He answers my first 3 threats, then my spheres/wastes slow him down enough to get eaten up by factory and porcelain legionaire beats and I take the match
Round 5: ID with Michael Lynch.
I would have played it out, and he would likely make top 8 even if he lost, but I cut him some slack and ID'd with him as I am thrilled that he (probably still under 18) has been fighting his way into a Vintage Metagame, and we always need to players to enter our format. No need to be a dick. (he's not a noob, just newish. Been in the meta 2 years now, I think.)
Top 8: Blaine
I don't remember these much (as they were a bit short), but mostly it involves my getting my singleton Crucible before his gets one of his 3 maindeck Crucibles. Or something. Blaine can fill in the details if he wants.
Now the plan is to convince my students tomorrow, that since I had 3 teeth extracted on Saturday (true), I wasn't able to grade stuff I said I'd grade. I had a terrible headache/toothache for 1 entire week, so I'm sure they'll buy it.
Pics up tomorrow!
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