I was the winner at this tourney.

It was a variation of EBA.  It still needs much playtesting before i leak the deck to the public.

Razor was indeed there, playing a variation of his Oshawa stompy, and his son was playing Urphid.

Here's a good link for this stickers:

http://www.magiclibrary.net/rarities-middle-ages.html

Here's a link to my decklist I played in the Ontario champs last weekend.

http://www.themanadrain.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15406

It's a pretty straightforward list and am sure things can be taken easily from it.

Some thought's on the deck as a whole.....

Any Bargain based deck really needs as much 0-casting cost artifacts as possible to drop while bargaining upp your entire library.  Time Walk - while resetting your board, is not very useful early game where another moxen might help out.  I may want to take a mox over a Walk because of such.

I really like Seal of Cleansing in the deck.  Throughout the entire day, I was wishing that I had maindecked them and probably will in the future.  It might come down to what's more prevalent in your local meta-game.  Rushing River may be generally more usefull against aggro decks - stalling them enough for you to pull of a combo, whereas Seal is extremely usuefull against alot of controls weapons.

Also - Seal is almost an auto-board (depending on your match), because of all the dragon hate.  Something has to take out their Tormod's Crypts.

As for the Illusions.  I would go with 3 again next time I played.  Any less - and I'm most likely never to see them when I need them.  And running 4 would flood out my draws with them.  3 is a good number.

Good luck in your upcoming.

Cyril

aka: How to win a Masticore in 10 hours.

The Ontario Vintage Championships

I've played Vengeur Masque/Ninja Mask over the last 6 monthes and was starting to get a little bored with the deck.  Well, actually I was starting to get fed up with losing with my current build of Ninja (I'm going to go back to Vengeur).  With all the R/G beats, Oshawa Stompy, Madness and other scrubby aggro decks going around in the local tournements leading up to this, I wanted something I thought would wipe their clocks as well as having a good chance against control.  So I went with a deck I played only once last year.

Rector Trix

//Mana Base
4x Underground Sea
2x Scrubland
4x Polluted Delta
2x Gemstone Mine
1x Tolarian Academy
1x Black Lotus
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Pearl
1x Mox Ruby
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Lotus Petal
1x Mana Crypt
1x Sol Ring
1x Mana Vault
4x Dark Ritual
// Combo
4x Academy Rector
3x Illusions of Grandeur
2x Donate
1x Rushing River
// Disruption
4x Duress
4x Cabal Therapy
4x Force of Will
// Draw/Tutor/Brokenness
4x Brainstorm
1x Ancestral Recall
1x Yawgmoth's Bargain
1x Necropotence
1x Time Walk
1x Yawgmoth's Will
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Lim Dul's Vault
//Sideboard
1x Form of the Dragon
3x Blue Elemental Blast
1x Island
3x Energy Flux
4x Ebony Charm
3x Seal of Cleansing

I tested the crap out of it Thursday ('till 4:30am) and Friday ('till 2:00am) and I ended up with about a 80% win/loss ratio.  Lam even "banned me" from his basement because I wasn't losing.  The day of the tournement, I even managed to borrow the missing Ruby which was originally a third Gemstone Mine.

I arrive at the tournement before my mates which allows me to do some trading beforehand.  People slowly start arriving and the usual loaning of cards ensues.

There are a lot of themanadrainers at the tourney: myself, Shockwave, SpecialK, wuaffiliate, bebe, Petko, Moridar, balzary, mtgmooner.  I find out that dicemanxx isn't going to make it and Razor, who was supposed to carpool with some friends but was a noshow, ran in with seconds left in registration.  MIA as well was Razvan.

The tournement starts at 1pm and they announce 7 rounds with top 8 and 66 people in attendance.

Round 1
Greg
Oshawa Stompy

w00t - A deck I should win easily in 2....well that remains to be seen.  I've played Greg in draft a number of times and this was his first type 1 tournement.

Game 1 - Simple - I draw no rectors, no tutors, and no combo pieces to hard cast.  I lose.

Game 2 - I combo him to death with ease.  Nothing to report here.

Game 3.  I Paris away a hand with Mox, Mox, Lotus, Academy, Dual, Dual, Ritual.  For the rest, see game 1.

A glorious start to a glorious tournement.  Oh well - can't lose again as I figure top 8 cut-off will be 5/1/1 minimum.

Matches: 0/1

Round 2
Shockwave
Landstill

Game 1 - I take game 1 after resolving a rector with therapy in my graveyard and bargaining down to 1 life to get the Illusions out.

I side in my Seal of Cleansings.

Game 2 - Rich gets some manlands down and manages to not attack with the Factories into my Rector but does attack with the Conclaves.  I never draw the right combination of Seals and Therapies to get Rector to trigger out Bargain and I lose.

Game 3 - I go first turn Cabal Therapy for Force of Will, Rector, flashback Therpy bringing out Bargain.  Second turn Illusions.  Rich scoops.

Not a good day for Rich as he is now 0/2 and most likely out of top 8 contention.

Matches: 1/1

Brian Phan (Lam Phan's brother) at this point had his Food Chain Goblins deck stolen.  I had loaned cards for that deck, but nothing like Petko who had loaned 2 pieces of power for it. (Beta if I remember right).

Round 3
Chris aka. "Jose"
Power Conduit/Decree of Silence

Game 1 - I attack his hand early - seeing an Island, Plains, Teferi's Moat, and 2 Power Conduits.  Unsure of what he had in mind, I take a Conduit.  He mises and drops an Arcane Laboratory.  I hard cast an Illusions hoping for the donate, but he messes with me the next turn and I am forced to let the Illusions die.  He eventually gets Decree of Silence - to which I respond with Lim-Dul's Vault and a scoop.

In come the Seals.

Game 2 - He drops an early Seal of Cleansing, followed up with a Sterling Grove.  I manage to get Bargain on the board and eventually find enough Seals to take out his. I drop the Illusions and search for the Rushing River forgetting about the Seal in my hand.  I take the win.

Game 3 - I go all broken fairly early before he can drop a Seal.

Matches: 2/1

Round 4
Enric
R/G Beats

Game 1 - I attack his hand early and combo out a few turns later.

I board in Form of the Dragon and BEBs.

Game 2 - I Rector out Form fairly early.  I go through an upkeep not assigning damage.  My Form is Japanese so I was a little foggy on the exact wording of the card.  I call the judge over and ask if it's a MAY ability.  His states I must deal damage during my upkeep.  I take a warning for the error and deal the damage to Enric.  I'm a little off the ball here and forget about his Lavamancer on the board, which makes short work of me after I lose a Mana Crypt flip.  I SHOULD HAVE KILLED THAT ABOMINABLE LAVAMANCER!  For this, I nominate Form of the Dragon as my Worse card of the day.

Shocked over my mistake, I de-side the Form and proceed to game 3.

Game 3 - Well, there's not much to report here.  I got the mana flood.  The only exceptional memory of this game is the fact the I managed to never lose a flip of the coin from my Mana Crypt.  6 times in a row he would call heads and I would flip a tails.

Matches: 2/2

At this point the side tournement for The Abyss is going to start shortly so I drop from the main event and join up.  Shockwave, Razor, & mtgmooner all had terrible outings today as well and join in.

The side tourney starts and we have 14 people playing.  They announce 3 rounds of swiss with top 8.  Probably to keep the timing parallel to the main event.

Round 1
Steve

Steve never showed up for round 1.  In fact, I think he wasn't there for the entire side tournement.  15 minutes later I get my match victory and do some trading with dicemanxx, who showed up shortly after round 2 of the main event.

Matches: 1/0

Round 2
George
R/G Beats

Game 1 - George draws his hand and keeps.  I draw my hand and see a Blue Elemental Blast.  I haven't de-sideboarded from round 4 of the main tourney.   I call the judge and recieve a game loss for my error.

Games 2 & 3 - Nothing to report here other then comboing out and killing hin.

Matches: 2/0

I figure that I would be able to draw with my next opponent and ease into top 8.

Round 3
Mike
B/g Void

I get paired down and Mike is 1/1 so far and can't take the draw so we end up playing it out.

Game 1 - An early void locks me down.

Game 2 - See game 1.

Matches: 2/1

Not as good as I had hoped, but still good enough for top 8.

Top 8
Nick
Enchantress

Nick said it was Academy, but it was Enchantress.

Game 1 - I combo off fairly quickly for the win.

Game 2 - He drops an early Argivian Enchantress along with a couple of Enchantresses Presences.  He's tapped out and passes over the turn.  I know I have to win this turn.  It took my 20 minutes to do so, but I pulled it off.  I did manage to Time Walk so technically it took me 2 turns.

Top 4
Mike (again)

Game 1 - I duress and stare into a 1 land, 2 Ritual, 2 Void and other stuff hand.  I take a ritual preventing the first turn Void.  Mike mises a second land and resolves a Void.  At this point, he manages to get land screwed and I eventually deal with the void with my Rushing River and take the win.

I side in Form of the Dragon, hoping that experience is truely the best teacher.

Game 2 - I rector out Form fairly early and after realizing he has not too much to deal with a 7 CC enchantment, he scoops.

I then nominate Form for my MVP card for the day.

Top 2
Andrew Culver
Keeper

Thankfully, the top 2 match for the main event is happening at the same time as this one so everyone is over there watching them instead of us, keeping the pressure down.

Game 1 - I get raped.  Andrew pretty much has every answer for every threat I played (who maindecks Seal of Cleansing in Keeper, really?)

Game 2 - Rinse and Repeat game 1.  I end the tournement by Seal of Cleansing his Sol Ring and offering my hand.

Second Place is a Minty Masticore.

I finish up some last minute trading and look at the clock.  It's 11:20pm and now I'm looking to an hour drive to play 3 hours of Halo tonight and Type 1 in Waterloo tomorrow.

The usual Props and Slops.

Props
Wayne - for putting on the event.  May the attendance only rise for you.  I look forward to your Type 2 tournement.
Razvan, Razor, wu, Lam & family - for all the mad testing we did.
The winners in the main event - you guys earned it.
Andrew Culver - as did you.
The guys from out of province - for your dedication to the game.
And everyone else who showed up.

Slops.
The arses who stole Lam's brothers Food Chain Goblins deck.