Cleveland crew going in hot!

Yea, ravager is very playable in shops.  I know that in the tourney I toped8, ravager won me several games.  Either sacrificeing artifacts to him and them himself to move counters to triskelion. Also I won a game because I was able to make my metamorph(which was blightsteel) bigger then my opponent's.

Good luck to all of the Team Serious dudesweets!

Hi Peter, I' icy_triskelion

Oh man, day is already requested off from work so I'm in.

I built it to play around with.  Testing was fun with the deck, especially with the hiddens.  It was good against blue based decks but very weak against 9-12sphere shops.  I think I have a Demonic Tutor and a Vamp Tutor over the Chrome Moxes.  I did mull a lot to make sure I had wither a turn one bob or a beater.

yep, they were in town and stopped by for some fun.

I'm in the middle at work.

Here is an old deck that I went 3-3 with at 2008 Vintage Champs side event.  I beat two TPS builds and a CotV Oath build but lose to two shops and slaver.  It was a fun deck to play.

Artifacts(6)
2 Chrome Mox
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus

Creatures(16)
4 Evlish Spirit Guide
4 Dark Confidant
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Talara's Battalion

Enchantments(10)
3 Hidden Guerrillas
4 Rancor
3 Hidden Gibbons

Instants(8)
4 Berserk
4 Might of Old Krosa

Soreries(8)
4 Land Grant
4 Toughtsieze

Lands(12)
4 Forest
4 Bayou
4 Dryad Arbor

SB(15)
3 Diabolic Edict
4 Oxidize
4 Root Maze
4 Planar Void

Oh, dear.  Is that the plan for post tourney.

Here you go Twaun:


Played my TPS list with Jaco's suggested changes:

Lands:15
3x Flooded strand
4x Polluted Delta
4 x Underground Sea
2x Island
1x Tolarian Academy
1x Swamp

Artifact:12
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Ruby
1x Mox Pearl
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Mox Emerald
1x Black Lotus
1x Mana Crypt
1x Sol Ring
1x Mana Vault
1x Time Vault
1x Voltaic Key
1x SDT

Artifact Creature:1
1x Darksteel Colossus

Creatures:4
4x Dark Confidant


Instants:15
4x Dark Ritual
4x Force of Will
1x Mystical Tutor
1x Brainstorm
1x Ancestral Recall
1x Gifts Ungiven
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Chain of Vapors
1x Rebuildl

Sorceries:11
4x Duress
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Tinker
1x Yawgmoth’s Will
1x Time Walk
1x Merchant Scroll
1x Mind's Desire
1x Tendrils of Agony

Enchantment:1
1x Necro


SIDEBOARD:15
2x Yixlid Jailer
1x Pithing Needle
1x Relic of Progenitus
1x Trinket Mage
1x Transmute Artifact
1x Darkblast
1x Tormod’s Crypt
2x Hurkyl’s Recall
1x Infest
1x Massacure
1x Sundering Titan
1x Voltaic Key
1x Echoing Truth

RD1: Nam-Iona Oath 1-2
    Game one: early duress followed by Bob with FoW to get it into play and then Tinker robot for win.
    Game two: Kept a neat hand only to get it Twistered away, Nam get Oath, Iona on Blue and wins with Vault/Key
    Game three: took mad beat form Bob and Mana Crypt, took 14 damage during my upkeep.

RD2: Rob- Ad Naus?(local)2-0
    Game one: Tenticals for the win.
    Game two: Vault/Key for the win.

RD3: Chase-UG Stompy 2-1
    Game one: Tenticals for the win.
    Game two: Punted game with Vault in play and Vamp in hand during my upkeep.
    Game three:  Vault/Key for the win.

RD4: CJ- UR Remora 2-0
    Scooped to me to get me in to top 8, but went 1-1 in playing for fun.

Top8:
RD5: John- Dragon Oath 2-0
    Game one: Tenticals for the win.  Baited out his counter with Dark Ritual, then played Lotus, Crypt, Sapphire, Demonic, Will, Lotus, Rit, Demonic, Tenticals.
    Games two:  Played it slow holding first turn tinker back with no counter backup.  Played bob, then Brainstormed at the end of his turn drawing vamp.  Reviled for bob, vamped for FoW, Tinker Crypt for Titan destroying his Trop and 2x Underground with no Moxen in play.  He had no counters in had to worry about.

Top4:
RD6: Well I would of played Angel but Nam, Angel, G, and myself where the top 4 so we decided to split based on points.  Nam took the FtV, I took the Fat Pack, Angel took the Petal, and G took the Planechase.

Over all, my deck played good.  I never got to play Desire the whole night.  I might switch it to Ponder or Trinket.  Also changing the SB around as well.

In.

General- Intent, the Dreamer.

Here is my current deck.  I play in the Cleveland area with Twaun and Snoop-Trog, trying to get yangtime to play.  I mainly have a bunch of infinite combos all in one, enjoy.

Artifacts:
Coalition Relic
Crucible of Worlds
Feldon's Cane
Gruul Signet
Izzet Signet
Mana Vault
Mindslaver
Sensei's Divining Top
Simic Signet
Skullclamp
Solenm Simulacrum
Sol Ring

Blue:
Body Double
Boomerang
Clone
Concentrate
Condescend
Draining Whelk
Intruder Alarm
Mana Leak
Meloku, the Clouded Mirror
Misdirection
Mulldrifter
Mystical Tutor
Ophidian Eye
Pemmin"s Aura
Ponder
Remove Soul
Serendid Sorcerer
Stifle
Thirst for Knowledge
Trickbind
Unsummon
Whispers of the Muse
Wipe Away

Red:
Akroma, Angel of Fury
Dead/Gone
Fireball
Goblin Welder

Green:
Bird of Paradise
Elvish Harbringer
Essence Warden
Eternal Witness
Fyndhorn Elves
Harmonize
Imperious Perfect
Llanowar Elves
Life from the Loam
Priest of Titania
Recollect
Regrowth
Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
Squirrel Nest
Wirewood Channeler
Wood Elves
Yavimaya Granger

Multi:
Coiling Oracle
Guided Passage
Invoke the Firemind
Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind

Lands:
City of Brass
Dryad Arbor
Faerie Conclave
Forgotten Cave
Gemstone Caverns
Gemstone Mine
Ghitu Encampment
Great Furnace
Gruul Turf
Izzet Boilerworks
Kher Keep
Lonely Sandbar
Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
Mishra's Factory
Reflecting Pool
Remote Isle
Seat of the Synod
Simic Growth Chamber
Slippery Karst
Smoldering Crater
Tendo Ice Bridge
Terramorphic Expanse
Tolaria West
Tranquil Thicket
Tree of Tales
Treetop Village
Vesuva
4x Forest
4x Island
4x Mountain

Congrats Nat on another great Belcher performance . 

Yeah, man yeah!    Con grats!!!   

Makes me want to mess with Belcher again.

Check on the NEOH forums or contact yangtime for info(he is in Taiwan right now though).

Coffeecup, you should come.  You'll have a place to crash at.  There's about twelve of us going that I know of.

@ Lochinvar81, I usually run those side board due to Workshops, about 3 of them with 3 Price of Progress, 3 Pithing Needle, 3 Pyrostatic Pillar, 3 Tormod's Crypt.

I like running 4 Pyroblast over 4 Guttural Response mainly because if you know your opponent in not playing blue(such as Ichorid or Gobs game one), Pyroblast can be used to ramp up you storm count for ETW.

I think there will be a couple of us Clevelander's there.

Lochinvar81

Here's my current list:

Artifacts:19
1 Black Lotus
4 Goblin Chrabelcher
1 Mana Crypt
1 Memory Jar
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Lotus Petal
1 Lion Eye Diamond
1 Mana Vault
1 Sol Ring
1 Grim Monolith
2 Chrome Mox

Creatures:21
4 Elvish Spirit Guide
4 Simian Spirit Guide
3 Goblin Welder
4 Street Waith
4 Timber Wall
2 Storm Entity

Sorcery:14
4 E.T.W.
1 Wheel of Fortune
4 Land Grant
1 Channel
4 Rite of Flames

Instant:5
3 PyroBlast
2 R.E.B

Land:1
1 Taiga

Sideboard
2 Rack and Ruin
2 Ancient Grudge
3 Gathan Raiders
2 Hunting Pack
2 Desperate Ritual
2 Seething Song
1 Boil
1 Tsunami

I'm still messing around with side broad.  The Boil and Tsunami might change to Ignited Memories for the Shop matchup.  And as for why only 2 Chrome Mox, I rather have an extra protection/disruption spell.   

Hey snoop-trog, check this out http://www.themanadrain.com/index.php?topic=36478.0. But yeah, I saw Juan but no yangtimg?  TwaunOO7?

Yeah, Jerry went 5-1 with the deck.  Took second to Nam because of tie breakers but the deck is awesome.

Hello, I have a couple of questions about cards. 

The first is Swans of Bryn Argoll, now I know that if you target it with Chains of Plasma, damage is prevented and Chains controller draws three cards.  The question is, when do you make the copy of Chains, before draw or after?

The next two deal with Trinisphere.
The first question is Trinisphere and Aluren, since Aluren allows you to play creatures with the CC of 3 or less without paying their mana cost, do they have to still pay 3 colorless or nothing at all?
The second question Trinisphere and Mind's Desire, does one have to pay 3 colorless to play the spell off Desire?

Thank You.

Congrats to Jerry Yang on the top 8.
Good luck to team Ohio on day two.