HAY GUYZ IT'S TOTALLY NOT MIKE SOLYMOSSY NOPE NOT AT ALL NOW ENJOY THIS EDITED VERSION OF BELLICOSE AGGRESSIVE FLAMING AND MALAPROPISMS.  BUT REMEMBER - TOTALLY NOT MIKE SOLYMOSSY

Soly, you have committed crimes against TMD and her people.  What say you in your defense?  -DA

WHAT DID I JUST SAY ABOUT BEING MIKE SOLYMOSSY I AM DEFINITELY NOT HIM AND EVEN IF I WAS HE'S AWESOME AND WHO WOULDN'T WANT TO BE HIM I WOULD TOTALLY WISH I WAS SOLY IF I WASN'T ALREADY GOOD THING I AM - I MEAN - OH GOD NO THE TRUTH IS OUT ALL IS LOST.  I'LL DIE BEFORE I GO TO RESTRICTED POSTING!

There's no mistake.  You're a wanted man, and it's time to pay for your crimes!  -DA[/color]

HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY IT I AM NOT SEPHIROTH I AM NOT SOLY AND I AM THE THANE OF GENERAL COMMUNITY AND I DEMAND YOU LET ME GO AT ONCE

Why sit at home when you can go play an 8 man in a store wearing sweatpants while drinking a beer?

Cards I've specifically seen:
Danny Friedman play Looter Il-Kor.
Soly play Vedelkan Archmage
Mat Endress play Brass Gnat
Tommy Koliwth play Glen Elendra Archmage

Other cards that come to mind:
Deglamer
Augery Adept
Meloku
Wake Thrasher
Magus of the Unseen
Dystopia
Cabal Therapy

Seems powerful in combination with Manabond

You could play Darksteel Reactor as a wn condish that no one can deal with since they are all locked down.

They had added an optional rule that allows for a ten card sideboard and the wishes can get cards from it.  Since the exile zone is still an in-game zone it is prohibited as a wish target but getting it from the sideboard is fine.

Taken from these rules:

I have been playing and tweaking this beast for the last 2 years and I think I finally got it close to where I want it.  4 awesome cards from Zendikar made it in and i look forward to adding more from future sets.
it plays like a big mana red deck (think Wildfire from when Standard was Urza and Masques).  It is a blast to play, and games typically go quick since everybody loses half their life at some point.  I have included a sideboard, because they have allowed them now and my playgroup plays with them.

General
Heartless Hidetsugu

Mana
Sol Ring
Mana Vault
Coldsteel Heart
Mind Stone
Heart of Ramos
Darksteel Ingot
Coalation Relic
Thran Dynamo
Gilded Lotus
Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
Spinerock Knoll
Shivan Gorge
Hall of the Bandit Lord
29 Snow-Covered Mountain

Dudes
Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
Viashino Heretic
Magus of the Moon
Joblin Razerunners
Solemn Simulacrum
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror breaker
Siege-gang Commander
Covetous Dragon
Stuffy Doll
Ryusei, the Falling Star
Flameblast Dragon
Hellkite Charger
Duplicant
Godo, Bandit Warlord
Crater Hellion
Hostility
Capricious Efreet (only way red can deal with enchantments, in a convenient 6/4 package)
Hateflayer (I can never take him out cause he kills indestructible Platinum Angel)
Bogardan Hellkite
Shivan Hellkite
Akroma, Angel of Fury
Bloodfire Colossus
Sundering Titan
Greater Gargadon

Spells
Sensei's Divining Top
Price of Progress
Burning Wish
Howling Mine
Ruby Medallion
Fork
Armillary Sphere
Lightning Greaves
Pyrostatic Pillar
Sulferic Vortex
Extraplanar Lens (the reason I play all snow basics, aside from them looking cool)
Wheel of Fortune
Crucible of Worlds
Loxodon Warhammer
Blood Moon
Iron Maiden
Ruination
Pyromancy
Wild Ricochet
Neviyrral's Disc
Sulferous Blast
Gratuitous Violence (MVP in my deck, combos with general and things like Razerunners, Jaya and Stuffy Doll)
Chandra Nalaar
Mind's Eye
Gauntlet of Power
Eternity Vessel (hilarious new addition that allows me to gain back all the life lost from my general)
Chandra Ablaze
Jaws of Stone
Wildfire
Inferno
Obliterate
Darksteel Forge (this combos well with Nev's Disk)
Decree of Annihilation

Current SB:
Winds of Change
Shattering Spree
Devastating Dreams
Flame Rift (primarily for use with Hostility)
Act of Treason (is even better if Gargadon is suspended)
Jokulhaups
Warp World
Dragonstorm (what else would you do with 11 mana and burning wish)
Banefire
Scald (only non-wish target)

Trapmaker's snare 1U (uncommon)
Instant
Search your library for a trap card reveal it and put it into your hand.
Then shuffle your library

currently only a rumor on MTGSalvation, but what if you could run 8 archive traps.  I realize this doesn't change the card's playability, but it certainly sheds new light on the what if scenarios.

I cannot see that happening for 2 reasons:

1) They traditionally have more space in the big set for cycles of this nature (5 is easier to squeeze into one set than 10, not to mention the guilds were why they split the duals up)
2) Out of the 3 sets that will be printed this year, Zendikar and Worldwake are the only 2 with a common theme (The 3rd set is a large standalone set with different mechanics and themes than Zendikar)

You want Constructive Criticism? Fine.

Cut the Xantid Swarms, they really are terrible in an aggro deck.  I am 1000% serious.  You wanna know why they are bad?  They printed this:



Not only can he not be countered, but he makes any of your spells uncounterable for just a green mana.  He also attacks for 2.  Last time I checked 2>0, and isn't that what makes an aggro deck an aggro deck?

How many of your opponents do you think will try to counter your spell if you have green mana open?

I do however that Bug Fish would do what this deck is TRYING to do in a more disruptive manner.  6 Duress, 4 Dark Confidant >1 Intuition 4 AK, and the other suboptimal choices you are playing.

why not play a guy that draws cards and attacks instead of playing cards that attack and cards that draw cards but neither cross over.

Virtue's Ruin or Infest

I was also wondering for Cryptic (bounce + draw) who draws all the cards I assume it is you

He was a teammate, and even though I didn't know him well I always talked/traded with him at tournaments.  He was too young to die, R.I.P. Manny

The problem I see with Alan's argument is that:

 , they planned on only having 900-100 players max, anything above that seems like profit in terms of cost on the weekend since they based their estimates on having 200 or so less people than actually showed up.
 , This was a side event, so since as I stated in number 1 you were already at a profit, why do you need to cut an even deeper profit away from the event than is necessary.
 , Cost of the venue should not factor into this side event, as you were paying for the hall regardless of whether or not you held this event.  I suppose the judges you had for this event would have gone home instead of helping with the GP if you hadn't held this side event?

I think if you look at the attendance of the GP, the attendance of the Vintage side event how much you took in - costs for Judges venue, etc. You still came out way ahead that you could have skimped a little less on your prize support to make your customers happy instead of padding your wallet an extra inch or two.

But what would I know I am only a potential customer from the Milwaukee area who has attended several of your events in the past.  At least when Ben Carp runs events he is willing to upgrade his prizes.

ROFLMAO

Oh man it is a shame more people don't know the story behind what Ben just posted

Decklists for this tournament or is Ben's masterpiece all we get to see?

First turn, Tinker-> DSC isn't really enough against dredge, they can still race you (unless you got time walk)

I also made it in at 3-0-2, but my draws were unintentional, and I had to win the last round to get in.  I missed top 4 on a gamble against Brian Fisher.  I knew his hand, he had 3 mana untapped and a sensei's top in play.  I have 6 power of creatures (2 zombie tokens and 2 Narcomoebas) to his 12 life.  I have 5 cards left in library and I am in my first main phase.  I decide to go all in with zealot (my last dread return was in my library and I had to empty it to find it and go all in.  He pops top after I am attacking with a swarm of dudes and e. truths my team leaving me with a zealot.  In hindsight, I have enough power of guys to just attack in 2 turns to kill him, and I should have just attacked. Even if that turn he e. truths my 2 zombie tokens I have enough turns to kill him with 2 Narcomoebas and 0 cards in library.

I thought about Dream Halls when Cruel Ultimatum what printed, why not toss one or two of those in too?

In order for Wizards to print that card, it would have to be a sorcery

for an instant speed effect you usually need to add 1 or 2 more colorless mana or make it much more mana specific ( for instance)

You could make it add  to your mana pool, and be a Legendary Basic land.  That would give it an edge on other basic lands, but at the same time with Legendary status you can't build a deck with them.

The sixth color theory still applies, but that would disrupt the whole game, and they would have to redesign it unless the 6th color was n the center of the pentagon (see the back of a magic card) and it had a unique relationship with each color that was neither friendly nor foe-like

Maybe even make a basic land like Pillar of the Paruns
Have a basic land type that adds gold mana that can only be used to play multicolored spells

Th R/G/W deck doesn't run Gaddock Teeg, because he is way worse than Cannonist.  He cost 2 colored mana, and doesn't stop your opponents as well as Cannonist does

Ben Carp ran a Legacy tournament and guaranteed the following:


I believe he got at least 20 people for his event

I had a rather rough start to my day, as I lost to Jamison round 1, J. Roxas in round 2 and got the bye round 3.  Soly was looking to make top 8 so I played it out per his request.  I play shitter aggro decks all day all 4 of 5 rounds my only sane period was the bye I got.

R1-Jamison Zoo
R2-Roxas UBW Fish
R3- Bye
R4 Endress Shop Aggro
R5 MaskNaughts player

Top 8: I finally got the chance to play one of the 5 Tezzeret control decks that were there.  This is a favorable matchup for me so I had hoped to see it over aggro decks, which are rather unfavorable.

I play against Danny Freidmann playing UBr//g Tezzeret control (Green out of the board only).  I win in 3 after he combos early game 1, I land null rod turn one in game 2 to shut off half of his hand, followed up by wasting every land he plays, leaving him with only a Tarmogoyf on turn 4.  Game 3 I beat him with Goyfs, both mine and his.

Top 4: I play the winner of a Tezzeret mirror between teammates Mike Solymossy and Brian Fisher.  Either way my matchup should be favorable.

I play Brian Fisher (4 color Tez control) and start off game 1 with a turn one null rod. I proceed to waste several of his lands and he never really has much mana the whole game. I win with dudes turns later. Brian's sideboard is pretty strong with Flametongue Kavus and Trygon Predators coming in.  I boarded 2 Sowers Extirpates and artifact hate He beats me game 2 with 2 FTKs and a Trygon. Game 3 I forgot to board in my 3rd Sower and board the Trygons in over the K. Grips He has a DSC and a trygon to my empty board and hand of Goyf, Bob, Sower.  I have Bayou, 2 Wastes, and a Tropical Island for mana.  I play the Goyf to chump and pass at 13 life I can buy myself a turn to rip the blue source to steal his DSC, I should have played the bob to give me one more card, because I was dead either way.  I block the DSC with a 4/5 goyf and begin my turn with 6 life. I rip....a wasteland.  GGs

Jamison beats Fisher to win the pearl

This thing is this weekend, who is all coming?

The Prize and Proxy allowment look much better. Hopefully this will provide you with a larger turnout than you have gotten in the past.

Good Luck, and I will see you there.

Sorry, but maybe you should read Tezzeret again:


What's this? Tezzeret puts the searched artifact INTO PLAY?!  Why, that's better than Tinker!!!

yes, because in a couple more turns you could not have found time vault and taken infy turns yet.

And think of how bad going mox, mox, island Trinishpere on the play is.  Why is Trinisphere restricted it is obviously not good at all.

Have you ever played Trinisphere in a control deck?  Surely the people who sided it at worlds can attest to a blowout or two when their opponent isn't expecting it.

4 Tezzerets? You know that he is Legendary right?  You would NEVER want to see 2 of them, ever, not to mention that it costs 5 mana and you play a draw engine and tutors.  4 Tezzeret would be the equivalent of 4 Karn in any deck with Mishra's Workshop in it, or 4 Tendrils in any deck with Dark and/or Cabal rituals.

It is a win condition, but too many copies can clog up hands and take up much needed deck space.

Tidehollow Sculler   

Artifact Creature - Zombie   
When Tidehollow Sculler comes into play, target opponent reveals his or her hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Remove that card from the game.
When Tidehollow Sculler leaves play, return the removed card to its owner's hand.
2/2

I believe this is the card you are refering to.

Have you considered upping the proxy count?

Ben Carp has had substantially large turnouts at his tournaments which allow 25 proxies.

Just a heads up...

GWS will bring the pain!

Running Welders and Intuitions might help for consistency