Well, Team GWS will be here for prize, come one come all...

October 3rd in Milwaukee for Timetwister
October 24 for Mox Sapphire (See below for details)

With new playtesting results, Team GWS set out for Milwaukee for another power tournement.  Results from the night before gave varied results, but when I sat down and tried out Control Slaver, it was all good for me.  Even with play mistakes the deck played as soild as I could ask for.  So I built it and bring it next day.  I played Mark Biller's list.  In fact, i forgot to write my name on this list, so I played the day under his identity.  glad I did him some justice.  

To start, here are the Decks for the top 8

1st Place John Donovan - Control Slaver
Men
4 Goblin Welder
1 Sundering Titan
1 Platinum Angel
1 Pentavus (The Bus for future reference)
Spells
4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
4 Brainstorm
4 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Fact or Fiction
2 Duress
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
2 Mindslaver
Mana
7 SoLoMoxen
1 Mana Crypt
2 Polluted Delta
3 Flooded Strand
4 Volcanic Island
3 Underground Sea
2 Darksteel Citadel
4 Island

Sideboard
3 Old Man of the Sea
3 Blue Elemental Blast
3 Flametounge Kavu
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Rack and Ruin (very little fish, seemed better than Salvage)
2 Duress

2nd Place Gregg Seaverson - Fish
Men
4 Spiketail Hatchling
4 Cloud of Faries
4 Grim Lavamancer
1 Gorrila Shamen
1 Voidmage Prodigy

Spells
4 Null Rod
4 Force of Will
4 Curiosity
3 Daze
3 Standstill
1 Fire/Ice
1 Crucible of the Worlds
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Timewalk

Mana
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Volcanic Island
4 Polluted Delta
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Wasteland
2 Island
1 Mountain
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Strip Mine
1 Faeire Conclave
1 Bloodstaind Mire

Sideboard
3 Tormod's Crypt
1 Energy Flux
1 Shattering Pulse
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
2 Maze of Ith
2 Red Elemental Blast
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Stifle
2 Fire/Ice
1 Rack and Ruin

3rd/4th Manuel Fernandez - Smenicakes Blue
Men
4 Ophidian
2 Mophling
1 Darksteel Collosus
Spells
4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Leak
4 Impulse
4 Chalice of the Void
3 Back to Basics
2 Powder Keg
1 Tinker
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Timewalk
Mana
7 SoLoMoxen
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
4 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta
8 Island

Sideboard
4 Blue Elemental Blast
4 Energy Flux
3 Propoganda
3 Control Magic
1 Back to Basics

3/4 Aaron Jarvis - Draw 7
Men
1 Darksteel Collosus
4 Elvish Spirit Guide
Spells
4 Diminishing Returns
4 Force of Will
4 Dark Ritual
4 Brainstorm
2 Tendrils of Agony
1 Windfall
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Yawgmoth's Bargain
1 Memory Jar
1 Time Walk
1 Crop Rotation
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Timetwister
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Necropotence
1 Mind's Desire
1 Tinker
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Fastbond
Mana
7 SoLoMoxen
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
1 Lotus Petal
2 Glimmervoid
4 City of Brass
4 Gemstone Mine
1 Tolarian Academy

5/8 Mat Endress - Still Should'a Played the Man Show
Men
4 Goblin Welder
2 Sundering Titan
2 Triskilion
1 Platinum Angel
1 Memnarch
Spells
4 Thirst for Knowledge
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
3 Chalice of the Void
1 Mindslaver
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Fire/Ice
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Timewalk
1 Tinker
Mana
7 SoLoMoxen
1 Mana Crypt
3 Guilded Lotus
4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Volcanic Island
3 Flooded Strand
3 Island
2 Ancient Tomb
1 Tolarian Academy

Sideboard
4 Trinisphere
3 Rack and Ruin
3 Blood Moon
3 Red Elemental Blast
2 Dampening Matrix

5/8 Ryan Maynard - Chain5 Stax
Men
4 Goblin Welder
1 Darksteel Collosus
2 Sundering Titan
Spells
4 Tangle Wire
4 Smokestack
4 Trinishphere
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Memory Jar
1 Tinker
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Balance
1 Demonic Tutor
3 Meditate
3 Crucible of Worlds
Mana
7 SoLoMoxen
1 Mana Crypt
1 Lotus Petal
1 Grim Monolith
1 Darksteel Ingot
1 Mana Vault
1 Sol Ring
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Stripmine
4 City of Brass
3 Gemstone Mine
4 Wasteland
4 Mishra's Workshop

5/8 Damien Miller - Army of Squirrels
Men
4 Argothian Enchantress
3 Veduran Enchantress
Spells
1 Sickening Dreams
4 Enchantress's Presence
4 Gaea's Touch
4 Exploration
3 Squirrel's Nest
3 Earthcraft
1 Goblin Bombardment
2 City of Solitude
4 Eladamri's Vineyard
2 Ground Seal
1 Dark Heart of the Woods
1 Fastbond
Mana
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
2 Bayou
2 Taiga
15 Forest

Sideboard
4 Null Rod
1 City of Solitude
2 Planar Void
2 Blood Moon
2 Seed's of Innocence
3 Naturlize

5/8 Dan Crap I mean Carp (member of Team DD(D!ck Digesters)) - MaskNaught
Men
4 Phrexian Dreadnaught
2 Phyrexian Negator
Spells
4 Dark Ritual
1 Necropotence
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
2 Tainted Pact
4 Brainstorm
3 Unmask
4 Duress
4 Berserk
4 Illusionary Mask
Mana
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
4 Underground River
3 Bayou
2 Bloodstained Mire
2 Polluted Delta
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland

Sideboard
4 Quirion Dryad
4 Coffin Purge
4 Force of Will
3 Daze


Now, on to the report

19 Players 5 Rounds, Top 8

Round 1  Ryan with Stax
Game 1
I shuffle up and win the die Roll...  First turn island and ancestral is in hand.  He gets out two moxes and a sol ring, and nothing else, we procede to play a while, and he passes turn, i draw, get mox, sol ring off ancestral, and pass turn, he lays smokestack and I have nothing for him...
Game 2
What can I say, 1st turn Welder, lots of draw, and a mana drain for his Sundering Titan with Yawg Will on top from a brainstorm, I get 8, go walk, thirst, rack and ruin, and proceed to get titan in yard next turn for the active welder.  
Game 3
Not very eventful, basically, I open the game with 2 rack and ruin's in hand, and we both have welders...  I wreck with a titan and game is over...

1-0 2-1 Games

Round 2 Can't remember his name playing Fish  
Game 1
 He gets out lots of guys and sees 3 standstills...  Sorry I tried
Game 2
I play land, mox, sol ring, tinker out a titan... he scoups
Game 3
I open with welder that dies to fire/ice, and I get out old man of the sea, he steals a guy and I get out a welder and put out a titan.  I win.

2-0 4-2 Games

Round 3I get paired with my friend Brian, we draw and play type 4...  The game ends when the last guy and I are playing, and I get pyromancy with a tower of fortunes.... Good Game

Round 4 Damien Miller with Army of Squirrels
Game 1
He resolves an enchantress and starts going nuts.  I counter an earthcraft but he plays another and proceeds to draw his deck.  He lays a nest and makes a billion guys.  I lose.
Game 2
He gets turn 1 ground seal to answer my turn 1 welder.  in two turns, he goes off and lays the bombardment and nest.   I take 87 billion to the dome after my welders die.

2-1-1 4-4 Games

Round 5 Again, sorry, can't remember the name playing 5/3
Game 1
I get beat down like little orphan annie until I get a thirst to weld in a play angel.  The game ends with me at -8 and my opponent at 0
Game 2
I keep a hand of island, mana drain, double thrist, brainstorm, double welder. My opponent goes Land, mox, sol ring, tinker out darksteel.  I draw, drop island, play brainstorm and see lotus, old man, thirst. I play lotus, play both welders and burn for 1.  He draws, attacks for 11, and thinks for a bit, then passes turn.  I pass turn and he mystical tutors for fire/ice.  He enters draw step and I weld out his darksteel and proceed to watch him frown as he shuffle's the fire/ice away.  I control his board with welders for a while while I dig for land.  Eventually I get another land but it gets wasted, I draw crypt and am able to thirst, I see land and discard Plat Angel, and now I can weld the crypt away for the lotus to cast old man.  This proves to be the right move even though I have no artifacts in play for now.   Eventually, I draw a citadel and get the angel in play for the win.  

3-1-1 6-4 Games

Top 8
5 Members of Team GWS are in the top 8.  4 of us are in the same bracket half.  
The Matchups look like this
Mask Naught Vs. Fish
AOS Vs. Draw 7
7/10 Vs. Control Slaver
Chain5 Stax Vs Smenicakes Blue

Quarterfinals
I play Mat who beat me back in Chicago for the ancestral... it's revenge time.  Turn 2 I draw mox for tinker, and titan goes all in.  Game 2 I decide that I want Flametounge Kavus Vs. his fat and welders.  I get an opening of welder, he answers with workshop and matrix.  I draw, beat, and pass turn, he plays mox and another matrix, I draw and play rack and ruin.  He enters turn, plays sol ring, and plays plat angel pretty sure he has the win.  I draw, play land, and flametounge his Angel, and get an amazed look from him.  It beats down, and I tinker out a titan to control his mana base.  It wins.

Semifinals
I play Manuel and I play first turn welder for his force of will.   We draw back and forth, and eventually, I whittle his hand down to 1 card, and cast another welder, follow by a thirst.  it gets out a Titan, and I beat down.  Game 2  I get another force of will for my goblin welder.  we play back and forth and his back to basics hits.  I am holding a duress in hand, but make a play error that turns out to be the right play.  I get an island with a fetch instead of a sea to play the duress and resolve the tinker in hand.  I end up getting to sit on two mana drains and wait.  I drain a control magic and a force of will, I use the mana to play The Bus and make a token to weld in a titan and cast lots of draw.  I end up bashing for a lot while he is forced to block with phid.  

Finals
I play against Gregg and remind him that the matchup is favorable.  He responds to revel in his wasteland for my first turn land.  he gets guys in play and I get my mana base set to resolve a tinker past two spiketail's in play.  Out comes 7/10 and he gets in for lethal.  
Game 2 I have ancestral, brainstorm and tinker in the hand with two mana drains and a welder.  i lay land, lotus, he dazes, I pay, we enter his turn, he wastes the land and again is pleased with himself.  I break lotus and play the ancestral and brainstorm looking at spells and an academy.  I draw play academy and pass turn, he plays a guy and gets in, I force null rod and draw citadel.  he bashes and passes, I draw a source of blue, he enters turn, bashes, and plays cloud and I mana drain and he lays waste and uses afterwards, I enter turn and use the 2 mana to tinker away the citadel for titan and lay the land I drew.  I pass turn and he bashes me down to 9, I beat down and end up drawing sol ring.  he enters turn and brings me to 6, i enter turn, lay land, and play The Bus, and he quickly sacs both hatchlings to counter.  Titan keeps the beats comings, and I play Old Man, he blocks with faries, lays a 2nd factory, I bash, attempt control of factory, and he pumps and blocks.  he draws, lays land, passes turn, I attack, attempt control, he pumps and no blockers left with him at 6.  
I shake and get congrats from team mates and friends, minutes later a Timetwister is set in front of me and I finally relax.

This was a solid day and performance by our team and that's what really mattered with the SCG event coming to our Home Town.  The only Midwest team that matters needs to keep taking the goods home from all the local events.  

Thanks to all the GWS members for support, and let's take this thing home.  Also Thanks to game Universe for another solid event.

October 24th will be another Type 1 with 5 Proxies ($1 for each after 5) with first prize Mox Sapphire.  Go to www.game-universe.com for info and directions.

Another report next week after CCG's mox emerald tourney

Fresh off winning a timetwister with LOTS of power up for grabs here in the month of october around chicago and nearby, Team GWS is preparing to show up at the SCG event in our home town, and show the rest of the world how we play type 1 in chicago... it's going to be nice to bring home another lotus...