Wow.....This report's been up for almost 3 hours now, and Gottschall hasn't posted within 30 seconds of it going up? Weird.....
Anyways, big ups to those who Top 8'ed today! Especially Keith Seals, because Keith Seals is da sexiest mo-fo in Vintage.
First of all Chris, my last name is Gottshall. I will say I had fun despite my piss poor performance.
Here is a mini report of my day:
First, the list:
4 Cavern of Soul
2 Gaea's Cradle
5 Snow-Covered Forest
Black Lotus
Mox Emrald
4 Elvish Spirit Guide
1 Dryad Arbor
3 Llanowar Elves
4 Fyndhorn Elves
4 Elvish Mystic
4 Nettle Sentinel
4 Heritage Druid
4 Wirewood Symbiote
1 Priest of Titania
4 Elvish Visionary
4 Wirewood Hivemaster
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Craterhoof Behemoth
4 Green Sun's Zenith
4 Skullclamp
Sideboard:
4 Grafdigger's Cage
4 Deglamer
3 Reclamation Sage
2 Ravenous Trap
1 Gaea's Herald
1 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
Round 1 Unpowered UR Delver
Game 1 I crush him pretty hard
Game 2 he has turn one Delver turn 2 Delver turn 3 Delver and a Bolt.
Game 3 I had the game but he naturally draws his one of Engineered Explosives that he boarded in and blows me out.
0-1
Round 2 Gush Storm
Game 1 he combos turn two.
Game 2 we go back and forth for a while with tokens via my hivemaster and his pyromancer, but he eventually just goes nuts with Yawg Will.
0-2
Round 3 BWg Pox
Game 1 I empty my hand turn two thanks to top decking lotus after he duresses and sees all dudes, making his liliana really bad. I hardcast Craterhoof about turn 4.
Game 2 is fairly easy as I assemble the turn 3 win and take a ten or so minute turn.
1-2
Round 4 URG Landstill
Game one I thought I was fair off until I see my opponent drop Huntmaster of the Fells and I get wrecked.
Game 2 I have Ezuri to answer his EE. He only plays colorless lands and I win easily shortly after.
Game 3 I get wrecked hard because he assembles Life from the Loam with Strip Mine as well as Academy Ruins and EE... Sad Panda.
1-3
Round 5 against Magus Top Helm of Awakening Combo
Game 1 I win fairly quickly as he drew no business.
Game 2 he counted to ten and asked if we could go to game 3 after showing me tendrils.
Game 3 he assembled Magus, Top and Helm, draws his deck, makes near infinite storm, and tendrils.
1-4
So from what I see, I shouldn't have lost the Delver match, my opponent even said that. Other than that it just seemed like I played against Tendrils too much which I can't really do anything against. All in all I had fun though so that's all that matters.
People may think it's stupid to play a deck that they aren't used to seeing, when I say who are you to judge what I do? I may not win all the time, but I have fun playing what I play. It may appear to not feel very Vintage, but in fact this deck plays similarly to the storm decks you see, if you don't believe me proxy it up and test it for yourself.
On a different note, thank you Shawn for a great event. Congrats to Brian, Joe, Keith, Dom and the rest of the Top!
Also a thank you to Mickey Mahr for allowing me to test my deck against Workshops after the Swiss. The testing was proving my point that I in fact do not have a problem beating Workshops. The deck loses to the same hands any deck loses to, but it can out attrition Workshops fairly easily as Mickey soon found out.
Sorry for the late reply to this report.
I was the lucky guy in match one who happened to top deck the EE at just the right moment. It was almost a shame, I really wanted Elves to do well in Vintage.
This was my first trip to The Players Guild, and it was well worth the 2 hour drive!
I played an unpowered U/R Delver deck with no intention of doing well, just wanted the practice of playing unpowered against full on powered decks in preparation of playing at Worlds in October. My day consisted of 1 win and 4 loses, but it was a great time scrubbing out!
The absolute highlight of the day for me, was my son making the top 8 playing my MUD deck. This was his first top 8 in Vintage, and I couldn’t be happier for him!
Thanks to all of my opponents for being an outright delight to play this silly game with!
Kevin