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Vintage Community Discussion / Non-Vintage / Re: [Contest] Gencon Predictions!
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on: August 10, 2006, 04:41:36 pm
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1. What do you predict the turnout to be? 140 1 point
2. How many Force of Wills do you expect to see in the Top 8? 16 1 point
3. How many Swords to Plowshares in the Top 8? 16 1 point
4. How many Wastelands in the Top 8? 12 1 point
5. How many Standard-legal cards in the Top 8? 6 0 points
6. In the top 8, what will be the most popular:
a. Blue card: Brainstorm 2 points
b. White card: Swords to Plowshares 2 points
c. Green card: Nimble Mongoose 2 points
d. Red card: Goblin lackey 2 points
e. Black card: Dark Ritual 2 points
f. Gold card: Meddling Mage 0 points
g. artifact: Pithing Needle 0 points
h. non-land card (most popular of 6a-g): Brainstorm 3 points
7. What's the most common basic land type in the Top 8? Island 0 points
8. What's the most common dual land in the Top 8? Tropical Island 2 points
9. Goblins in the T8? (yes or no) Yes 1 point
10. Threshold (UWG) in the T8? (yes or no) Yes 0 points
11. Threshold (other) in the T8? (yes or no) Yes 1 point
12. Survival.dec in the T8? (yes or no) No 1 point
13. High Tide in the T8? (yes or no) Yes 0 points
14. BW Deadguy Ale (Disruption) in the T8? (yes or no) No 1 point
15. What's going to be the highest placing combination deck? Aluren 0 points
BONUS
14. ______________ [deck] will take first place. Aluren 0 points
15. The winner will be: ______________. (Specific player name) Jeremy Zwirn 0 points
LT...
Total: 23 points
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Eternal Formats / Global Vintage Tournament Reports and Results / Re: [Results] Monster Den, Lotus, 7-15-06 results
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on: July 17, 2006, 02:58:56 pm
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The tournament ended up being a great success with more people showing up than at star city Charlotte. Its rather funny to walk into a tourney though and realize that SS seems to be everywhere, but that seems to be the case at a lot of places recently. Four members of ICBM decided to run the SS at this event and 3 of us took the deck into the top 8 which once again just showed how strong the deck truly is.
I was 4-1-1 on the day going into top 8 and then lost to the b/w/r mask naught played by sue. My only loss in the swiss was to my friend Chris in the SS mirror. and the one draw i had was because i was 4 dmg short of finishing off Jake (who split for first) on turn 5.
The tournament was a lot of fun and was relatively well run except for one thing. This tournament may have had the worst prize support of any tourney Ive ever seen. 5-8 only got 10 dollars in store credit, 3rd only got $25, I'm not sure what 4th got, and second got $100. Which if you look there was 57 people playing multiplied by the $20 is cost each person to get in that equals $1140. assuming that the lotus which was nice is worth $700 tops and the other prizes that were given away comes to a total of $890 this is assuming that 4th also got $25. So looking at the fact that the store I'm sure didn't pay anywhere near $700 for the lotus they still pocketed $250 of pear profit which i think would have better spent on prizes. I know most people walked out of there very disgusted with the $10 they won in a tourney that cost them $20 to enter.
Xue walked out with $25 as well... I'm glad all you guys came up to play. Hopefully we'll be able to make it out to more WI Vintage tournaments as well. LT... |
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Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / Re: A topic of discussion: Scoop now, or no?
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on: March 22, 2006, 12:41:49 pm
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I was actually in this situation a few weeks back except I was on the other end. We were playing a T1T mirror and my opponent casted AK for one and at his end step I casted Intuition for triple AK. During my turn he Forced my AK for 4 and then during his turn I Drained his AK for 5. I then drew my last AK and casted AK for 6 and my opponent then scooped.
Acouple things struck me about this. First of all he won game 1 and there was about 10 minutes left in the round and with playing a control mirror, I was almost assured that we'd end up taking a draw. (I actually ended up losing to Tinker-Colossus with FOW backup) When he annonuced that he scooped I looked at my top 4 cards and 3 of them were mana sources(2 land and 1 mox) and the 4th was a Mystical Tutor. I know I had two more cards to draw but just the first 4 didn't seem like enough for me to win that turn.
I feel you should have just played the situation out. Worst case scenario would have been he ends up beating you and you have to go to a game 3 with a high possibility of a draw. By scooping you ensured your opponent that he had a chance to win the match as well.
LT...
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Vintage Community Discussion / Non-Vintage / Re: [Contest] Grand Prix: Lille Predictions
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on: December 16, 2005, 12:04:54 pm
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Sounds like fun here we go...
1. What do you predict the turnout to be? 400
2. How many Force of Wills do you expect to see in the Top 8? 12 1 point
3. How many Wastelands in the Top 8? 16
4. In the top 8, what will be the most popular:
a. Blue card: Force of Will 2 points
b. White card: Swords to Plowshares 2 points
c. Green card: Werebear 2 points
d. Red card: Goblin Lackey
e. Black card: Dark Confidant
f. Gold card: Mystic Enforcer
g. artifact: Tormod's Crypt
h. non-land card (most popular of 4a-g): Force of Will 3 points
5. What's going to be the highest placing combination deck? Solidarity
6. What's the most common basic land type in the Top 8? Mountain
7. What's the most common dual land in the Top 8? Tropical Island 2 points
8. Goblins in the T8? (yes or no) Yes 1 point
9. Flame Vault in the T8? (yes or no) No 1 point
10. Threshold (UWG) in the T8? (yes or no) Yes 1 point
11. Threshold (URG) in the T8? (yes or no) Yes 1 point
12. Survival.dec in the T8? (yes or no) Yes 1 point
13. High Tide in the T8? (yes or no) No 1 point
14. Landstill in the T8? (yes or no) Yes 1 point
15. BW Deadguy Ale (Disruption) in the T8? (yes or no) Yes
BONUS
16. W/R Goblins [deck] will take first place.
17. Who will win: Pro or Not? Not
18. The winner will be from (FRANCE)
19. The winner will be: ( uhh... JEAN-CLAUDE VANN DAMME)
Total: 19 points
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Vintage Community Discussion / Non-Vintage / Re: Post your GenCon List (whether you're going or not)
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on: August 18, 2005, 01:39:09 pm
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I haven't been piloting Vengeance but I've been running all manner of deck into Landstill and I have to say that I fear Vengeance way more than Disk, because I can fight disk with Disenchants and Pithing Needles and so on. Vengeance can only be countered (or possibly LD can keep them off double-white). If the  {W} doesn't faze you, my opinion as a dedicated Landstill opponent is that Vengeance > Disk. Also: No, not Doomsday. If you're running Wrath of God in Landstill, the double white shouldn't be a problem. My thing was just that everytime I played with Vengeance I ended up cycling it more times than actually playing the card. LT... |
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Vintage Community Discussion / Non-Vintage / Re: Post your GenCon List (whether you're going or not)
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on: August 18, 2005, 09:47:35 am
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I don't even know, there's like six decks I'm considering, and trying new ones out all the time. Here's a hint though: it won't be base-white or base-red. How very rogue of you Matt.  @ Landstill players: have you tried the versions with Akroma's Vengeance? I've play tested Vengeance several times and in tournaments I've only hardcasted Vengeance only twice. Vengeance to me just seems like an expensive way to draw another card. Nev's Disk just works better for me. LT... |
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Vintage Community Discussion / Non-Vintage / Re: Post your GenCon List (whether you're going or not)
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on: August 17, 2005, 01:44:27 pm
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Oops... here's my updated 3 color Landstill decklist that I top 8'd with back when Shinders had their first Legacy tournament
2 Decree of Justice
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Wrath of God
2 Disenchant
2 Fire/Ice
1 Slice and Dice
4 Brainstorm
4 Standstill
4 Force of Will
4 Counterspell
2 Fact or Fiction
3 Nev's Disk
1 Crucible of Worlds
4 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta
4 Tundra
3 Volcanic Island
4 Mishras Factory
2 Faerie Conclave
3 Wasteland
3 Island
1 Plains
Changes I made were -1 fire/ice, -1 slice and dice +1 Crucible of Worlds, +1 Swords to Plowshares
My sideboard looked something like:
2 Meddling Mage
2 Kami of Ancient Law
2 Pyroclasm
3 Tormod's Crypt
2 Pithing Needle
2 Hydroblast
2 Stifle
LT...
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Vintage Community Discussion / Rules Q&A / Illusions of Grandeur VS The Stack
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on: March 24, 2005, 12:00:49 pm
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I was recently watching a Legacy match and one player was playing Trix while the other player was playing Angel Stompy.
The Trix player casted Illusions and the Stompy player said it was good, but then he annonced that he was going to put the "when Illusions of Grandeur comes into play gain 20 life" on the stack and he claimed that before that resolves he disenchanted the Illusions. The Stompy player claims that since the life gain never happened and the Illusions was destroyed the Trix player loses the 20 life before the gain life ability resolves.
No judge was on hand because this was a casual game.
LT...
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Eternal Formats / Miscellaneous / Adventurer's Guild Mox Tournament 1-14-05 **8th**
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on: January 17, 2005, 03:41:48 pm
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Congrads on the top 8. I was the only Oath player there to my knowledge and played retarded towards the end (2-0-1 then lost the next two because I didn't draw one land vs I@n and i lost to landstill... yes I said Landstill BOO for me)
It's nice to see some one play a deck that's different from the rest of the field. I play Salvagers in 1.5 with LED's and I never really figured that it could do well in vintage but you proved me wrong. I guess I'll have to take another look at Salvagers in Type 1.
LT...
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Eternal Formats / Creative / Budget U/g Madness
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on: January 03, 2005, 05:16:41 pm
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I'd suggest you also cut the Wonder count down from 3 to either 2 or 1. Also I know you're trying to go the budget route but try to play with 4 Tropical Islands and 4 U/Fetchlands.
And another note: Fireblast and Jackal Pup don't see much play in Type 1 so you can cut that Misdirection count down as well.
LT...
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