In case anyone has not seen this yet, here is the link to the event page. There is a lot of info and you can pre-reg from there.

http://www.cardtitan.com/eternal_weekend

Hey man, in my experience, if the deck is firing on all cylinders, ie you have 1-2 peices of dredge hate and/or 1-2 waste effects (and the rest of your hand isnt dead) it is not too difficult to squeeze out a win. Between 5 waste effects, 3 plows, 3 priests, 2 mentor, 3 factories, 3 misstep, 4 FOWs, 1 balance, 1 echoing truth, 1 snap, 1-2 supreme verdicts and the 3 rav traps (after board) you can amass a win over time with incremental advantage like any deck. My plan is always keep their dudes off the table at all costs so i aggressively plow and FOW any incoming threat until i have the mana to cast a priest. once down their only option is to hard cast dudes or sudden shock it (but they generally dont side it in game 2). Before the event, the sideboard number fluctuated a lot and there were a few things i might like to try in future events. 1 tabernacle and 1 rest in peace come in and 1 rav trap and 1 verdict come out. im potentially open to changing 1 trap to a rest in peace but def not all of them. thanks for responding!

tito I piloted the UW list at the event. Though obviously library is a one of the most powerful lands to pair with this style of deck, I eventually opted to cut it because i wanted to run a higher spell density in the deck. I need them to fuel the mentor while also keeping the deck competitive vs delver, which can set up huge turns where they draw 5-10 cards at a time. the other options were to cut a waste or another factory... but they have higher value vs the bad match ups. library is better vs most control decks, which we already have a good match up for. I hope that is decent explanation.

Hey guys, My name is Chris H, i was the pilot of the UW Landstill list at the NYSEIII and i wanted to reply to Stephen and Kevin's comments on my sideboard choices in their podcast. Though i agree that Rest in Peace is a better card vs dredge in a vacuum, there are many factors that i considered when choosing not to run it in place of ravenous trap in my list. First off, i talked to many dredge players prior to the event and every one of them all said the same thing, they live in fear of rav trap. Unless the dredge player has a hand full of cabal therapy's or unmasks, they have no choice but to play into it. Every other dredge hate card they can play around interact with. Secondly, i was set on playing containment priest and i felt that there was a potential to be blown out if i lost the die roll. Having both pieces of dredge hate being two mana, means that i might not ever be able to cast them since killing on turn 2 is not uncommon for dredge. So I opted to having varied cc spells to prevent that. 3rd, Rest in Peace does somewhat hamper your ability to play your game, hitting all delve spells, snapcaster and crucible of worlds is definitely something to consider too. I generally side out most/all of my standstills vs dredge which makes spells like dig and cruise also unplayable. This leaves me with only ancestral and brainstorm as my only draw spells, which doesn't cut it. Lastly, i have done extensive testing with the current configuration and it has played well, and i even played a small event the night before and i played vs dredge twice and won all my match 2-0 (not that this definitive in any way). Now I lost my match in the top 8 for a few reasons, first, He had nut 7 card hands both games, keeping a bazaar/petrified field hand game 1 and a 2 bazaar hand game 2. After side-boarding i mulled to 6 without finding ANY dredge hate except a wasteland. it could be argued i should have mulled more aggressively but it was a strong 6 with a waste, if i drew any piece it probably would have been a good game. As it was the match ended in about 5 minutes as he had everything he needed to kill in 2-3 turns both games. I could definitely see an argument for maybe making 1 trap into a rest in peace to have better results during long games, but im still not sold that it actually better than what is in the list currently for the reasons above.

Hey guys!

My name is Chris Hanson and I am a native from Long Island NY. I have been playing MTG on and off since 94, though my love for competitive vintage followed much later in 2003. I have used TMD for years but i finally felt like it was time to make an account and start contributing to the community.

I have played in a bunch of local events and top 8ed a hand full of them, including this and last years NYSE Open. I play a lot of different kinds of decks, and I love experimenting with new and old card combinations. Most would know me as a shop player, but my first love in vintage was blue (control slaver to be exact) and i recently piloted a pretty sweet home brew of UW Landstill to a 7th place finish at the NYSE Open III.

By profession i am an illustrator and i am the art lead for the indi game company 9Kingdoms games, where we put out ApocalypZe a competitive post apocalyptic card game. My greatest aspiration though is to someday work for Wizards and have my original artwork on MTG cards (would be too bad ass).

The last few years have been spent converting a hand full of local guys into vintage regulars. We now have a pretty good (though small) community of vintage enthusiasts, and our numbers have been growing somewhat steadily. We play regularly at our local store, Brother's Grim games in Suffolk county LI, and those in our playgroup and I have aspirations to start running small vintage events there at some point in the future.

Can't wait to see everyone at Eternal weekend! Cheers!