No security could watch every single person.  Something like this can only be solved by the culture.  If everyone (well at least the majoriy) look out for each other, and get over the "i'm not a rat" foolishness, thats the only way to stop it.  It hurts me to even make a candyass statement like that cause I love being an "every man for himself" sort of guy.  But the theives have all realized by now that we all have the "every man for himself" mindset and exploit it.  When someone steals a backpack right from someones side while they're still there, someone on the opposite side of the table must have noticed something.

How'd we do?

I plan on attending.

Thank you the clarification of prize splits here as well as the other link.  Is there another link for discussion of "setting up 5 suitcases"?

That is to say, while I understand the spirit of the rule, I can imagine someone honestly accidentally crossing the line.  Is there perhaps some number limit on amount of individuals we can trade with, or perhaps a limit on the number of bags we can bring?  Like I say, I do understand the principle, but unless you formally define something it does run the risk of uneven enforcement and confusion, and I'd hate to get kicked out for trading just because I don't understand exactly where it crosses over to acting as a dealer.

I'm experimenting with mox opal in tezz.  But as you can see, I did not top 4.  I'll try it a little longer before feeling certain I gave it every chance.

Scars legal tonight?

To be more specific, you lost to Bill Rosa's strip mine and wasteland.  It was justice of poetic proportions.  A blue deck attacking a shops mana base.

My play of the night was only offering andy 55% for the split. What a sucker.  He forget he never looses a mana crypt roll, never has to mull, and never draws a dead card.  Fortunately, he forget all this, didn't realize his win was guaranteed, and therefore could be talked into an uneven split only slightly favoring him. What a sucker.

I know Borg was working on a hybrid deck with tezz, jace, and helm and was planning on using it, not sure if he actually did though.

I heard a rumor that Brandon Jones-- arguably the best shops player in the world (seriously, arguably, its a really fun argument to have with him)-- may start coming on monday.

Far be it from me to be humble or lower myself in anyway, but I cant take credit for what I didnt do.  I think my breakers actually put me in second.

I'd like to thank Tezzeret.  I make fun of you for your little girly etherium arms, but you know its all in good fun.  I'd also like to thank WOTC for removing power level errata and making type 1 such a fun format.  Without timevault, the populace of Esper was severely underrepresented in type 1.  I thank wizards for finally doing something to address this racial inequality.  And of course, Yawgmoth.  How many times have you saved me from the brink of doom?  I'd also like to give a shout out to the dread pirate, without him, first place seemed but a distant dream.

He's also added blue.  Now he also uses the best card in all of magic, and to draw three creatures at that.

and a sweet split at that.

I'll be there. I love vintage, I love free food, I love rhode island, and now I love dave.  Only thing that would make this better is free Punisher comic books.  For anyone who thinks type 1 is dead, and that type 1 cant be exciting, well, david really broke the glass ceiling on this one!

I personally have a preference for the 6 dollars as I just see this as a practice event more than an actual tournament.  That being said, practice is better with more people, so I would easily put aside my preference if it helped the turn out.  Ultimately, my vote is whatever will get the most people (but does that just mean i'm voting with the majority, in which case my vote is irrelevant since they win anyway?)

I'd show you my list, but then everyone would know I run two ancestral recalls.

Well played Eric! Hard to imagine a better incentive than a mox.  Sadly I'll be on vacation this upcoming monday, but you can be sure I'll be there the other weeks.

I'll be there, coming from fall river, Ma

My apoligies in advance if I get it wrong, but I believe last night went

1. Nick Vallas GW creatures that consistently eat sphinx of the steel wind
2. Bill Rosa vault/key/sphinx that consistently gets eaten by nick's creatures
3. Eric Dupuis dredge
4. Mox dredge
5. Matt Macauley timevault/tezz/key that searches but that doesnt give infinite turns
6. Robbie Connolly goblins

top 2 was a split, but 3rd beat out 4th in tiebreakers, as ELD so eloquently put it, 'by a large margin'.

how'd we do?

With no time limit last night, we saw just how much fun can be had with the proper cards.  1 Bill Rosa + 2 Divining tops +1 time vault +1 key + no time limit=the best magic night ever!!!

There's gonna be an ELD tournament in september, that could be worth the 10 hours, Dave handed out the flyer last night.  I dont have it on me, but I'm sure there's gotta be someone here who would be kind enough to post the date and time.

EDIT: Please don't refer to people as "post whoring" I'm sure there's a place on TMD for categorizing every prolific poster other than yourself as a post whore.  We don't need this string being shut down. Try to keep the comments limited to the results.

You get more than just credit for the squirrel name, you get credit for being the first to bring squirrels to bridgewater as a viable vintage deck.  You're the squirrel princess in my book.

A thanks to Eric and Dave for another great monday night.   I must say, all these squirrel decks are beginning to degenerate the format, but at least some brave players were willing to mix things up a little with vault/key decks.

And dont forget Brandon Jones.  It can be argued back and forth whether he's a stronger player than the big names out there, but one thing's for sure, he's the most exciting player around.

Actually I was attempting to deal with all the hate on tezzeret in a nonconfrontational way by not replying to a tezz hater directly (I do feel the phrase "sad attempt" attempts an argument however).  There is a lot implied and direct digs at tezz players as well as non tezz players.  Saying people without a tezz deck who lost must not know what they're doing, not only offends the non-tezz player (you were justified earlier in finding that comment insulting) it also offends the tezz player by implying they can only beat somoene who doesnt know what they're doing.

I feel Heather made an excellent point, but since it was in the form of a joke it may not have been taken so seriously.  I wanted to expand on it.  Thanks again heather, both for your happy spirit during the game, and your fun way of expressing things.

While I realise Heather was joking, there's actually a valid point hidden in there.  She played a deck she loved, it didnt win but she tried anyway.  We all told her just to play a winning deck, but she stuck with what she loved, she never got bitter about loosing, because she didnt play to win she played for fun.  She didnt ask for lotus to banned to give squirrels a chance, or errat yawg's will to say "play 1 card from your graveyard".  Arent all these people who complain about tezz, really just playing squirrels but lacking the good sportsmanship of our dear heather? really, if you dont play tezz, you might as well be playing squirrels, after all, both ichorid and squirrels have about an equal chance of beating tezz.  You cant look down on decks weaker then yours as being foolish and stupid, and then look down on decks better than yours as broken and stupid.  If the criteria for banning a card is "that card beats my deck, but i love my deck and wish it would win" then people would have a field day banning every vintage card until all that was left was squirrels.  I commend you heather, your good attitude in the face of better decks is an example to all who dont play tezz.  I would also put this challenge out to the non-tezz player.  If tezz is such an easy win, play it and see how you do.  You might find that while it can occasionally give a blow out turn 1, it takes considerably more skill to make it win consistently than you may initially think.