Saturday, February 19th, 2011
 Entry fee: $15.00
 Entry fee gets you 10 proxies + up to 5 more for $1 each
 Registration starts at 2 PM
 Tournament begins at 3 PM
 Format is usual Swiss with cut to Top 4 or 8

 PRIZE:  1st place is a Library of Alexandria with min. 16 people
            More Prize with more People

Address:
Amazing Discoveries
2928 E Broadway Blvd
Tucson, AZ 85716
(520) 320-0338     

Vintage tournament at Amazing Discoveries in Tucson, AZ.

 Saturday, November 13th, 2010
 Entry fee: $15.00
 Entry fee gets you 10 proxies + up to 5 more for $1 each
 Registration starts at NOON
 Tournament begins at 1 PM
 Format is usual Swiss with cut to Top 4 or 8

 PRIZE:  1st place is a Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale with min. 16 people
            More Prize with more People

Address:
Amazing Discoveries
2928 E Broadway Blvd
Tucson, AZ 85716
(520) 320-0338     

Vintage tournament at Amazing Discoveries in Tucson, AZ.

 Saturday, September 11th, 2010
 Entry fee: $10.00
 Entry fee gets you 10 proxies + up to 5 more for $1 each
 Registration starts at NOON
 Tournament begins at 1 PM
 Format is usual Swiss with cut to Top 4 or 8

 PRIZE:  45% of entry fees collected to 1st place as store credit
            25% of entry fees collected to 2nd place as store credit
            15% of entry fees collected to 3rd/4th place as store credit

             The store carries most staples for all formats so you won't have any trouble using up the credit.

Address:
Amazing Discoveries
2928 E Broadway Blvd
Tucson, AZ 85716
(520) 320-0338

I know this is a late reply but yes you can use them like normal as long as they are in completely non see through sleeves.

Vintage Tournament for some dual lands in Tucson, AZ on June 26th, 2010

 Saturday, June 26th, 2010
 Entry fee: $15.00
 Entry fee gets you 10 proxies + up to 5 more for $1 each
 Registration starts at NOON
 Tournament begins at 1 PM
 Format is usual Swiss with cut to Top 4 or 8

 PRIZE:  With Minimum 16 people

            1st  Underground Sea
            2nd Tropical Island
            3rd  Volcanic Island
            4th  Misty Rainforest
            +more if more people show up
 

Address:
Amazing Discoveries
2928 E Broadway Blvd
Tucson, AZ 85716
(520) 320-0338

Aaron and I are planning on attending.  I will see if I can get 1 or 2 more to come with us.

I should be there.  Nothing better than some vintage on the weekend.

31 players attended the event, which made for a 5 rounds with cut to top 8 scenario.

The top 8 decklists:

1st/2nd Adam Prosak (tez):

Maindeck:
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
Ancestral Recall
Time Walk
Brainstorm
Ponder
Merchant Scroll
Thirst for Knowledge
Tinker
Fact or Fiction
Gifts Ungiven

Rebuild
Fire/Ice
Repeal
Trinket Mage
Gorilla Shaman
Inkwell Leviathan
Tezzeret the Seeker

Yawgmoth's Will
Vampiric Tutor
Demonic Tutor
Diabolic Edict
Darkblast

2 Sensei's Divining Top
Voltaic Key
Time Vault
5 Moxen
Black Lotus
Mana Crypt
Mana Vault
Mana Crypt
Sol Ring

3 Island
3 Volcanic Island
3 Underground Sea
4 Flooded Strand
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Tolarian Academy

Sideboard:

4 Leyline of the Void
1 Yixid Jailer
1 Tormod's Crypt
3 Duress
1 Sundering Titan
2 Sower of Temptation
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Ingot Chewer

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1st/2nd Miklos Szidarovszky (tez):

Maindeck:

1 Tolarian Academy
2 Flooded Strand
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Polluted Delta
1 Island
2 Snow Covered Island
3 Underground Sea
3 Volcanic Island

2 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1  Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring

3 Dark Confidant
1 Inkwell Leviathan
1 Magus of the Unseen
1 Tezzeret the Seeker

4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
2 Repeal
3 Thoughtsieze
1 Fire/Ice
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Thirst for Knowledge

1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Merchant Scroll

SB
3 Ingot Chewer
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Pithing Needle
1 Red Elemantal Blast
1 Pyroblast
1 Diabolic Edict
1 Pyroclasm
2 Goblin Bombardment

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3rd/4th Eric Richardson (TMWA):

Maindeck:

4 dark confidant
4 aven mindcensor
4 jotun grunt
2 kataki, wars wage
1 ethersworn canonist
2 gorilla shaman

4 thoughtseize
4 duress
4 pyroblast
4 hide/seek
3 diabolic edict
1 demonic tutor
1 vampiric tutor

4 marsh flats
3 bloodstained mire
3 wasteland
1 strip mine
2 scrubland
1 badlands
1 plateau
1 swamp
1 mountain
1 plains
1 mox ruby
1 mox pearl
1 mox jet
1 black lotus
1 lotus petal

Sideboard:

4 path to exile
4 extirpate
2 goblin welder
2 viashino heretic
2 dark blast
1 tormods crypt

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3rd/4th Chase Zenner (dredge)


4x Bazaar of Baghdad
4x Cephalid Coliseum
4x Undiscovered Paradise
1x Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
1x Seat of Synod
4x Golgari Grave-Troll
4x Stinkweed Imp
4x Golgari Thug
4x Fatestitcher
4x Bloodghast
4x Narcomoeba
4x Bridge from Below
4x Cabal Therapy
3x Dread Return
3x Sharuum the Hegemon
1x Altar of Dementia
1x Possessed Portal
1x Lion's Eye Diamond
1x Black Lotus
4x Serum Powder

SB: 4x Force of Will
SB: 4x Chain of Vapor
Sb: 3x Echoing Truth
SB: 2x Dakmor Salvage
SB: 1x Iona, Shield of Emeria
SB: 1x Angel of Despair

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5th-8th Quinn Higgins (dredge):

Maindeck:

4 Bazaar of Baghdad
2 City of Brass
2 Dakmor Salvage
3 Undiscovered Paradise

3 Bloodghast
3 Golgari Thug
4 Ichorid
4 Stinkweed Imp
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
4 Narcomoeba
1 Sphinx of Lost Truths
1 Flame-Kin Zealot
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria

4 Chalice of the Void
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Bridge from Below
4 Serum Powder
1 Darkblast
3 Dread Return
4 Unmask

Sideboard:
   
2 Ancient Grudge
3 Chain of Vapor
1 City of Brass
1 Undiscovered Paradise
2 Contagion
2 Wispmare
4 Leyline of the Void

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5th-8th Eric Melen (noble fish):

Maindeck:

2 Cold-Eyed Selkie
3 Meddling Mage
4 Noble Hierarch
3 Qasali Pridemage
4 Tarmogoyf
1 Trygon Predator

1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
3 Daze
4 Force of Will
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Rebuild
3 Spell Pierce
3 Stifle

1 Time Walk

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Null Rod

1 Flooded Strand
1 Island
1 Misty Rainforest
2 Polluted Delta
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Strip Mine
3 Tropical Island
3 Tundra
4 Wasteland
1 Windswept Heath


Sideboard:

1 Kataki, War's Wage
1 Meddling Mage
2 Trygon Predator
1 Echoing Truth
1 Ravenous Trap
3 Swords to Plowshares
1 Pithing Needle
1 Relic of Progenitus
2 Tormod's Crypt
2 Umezawa's Jitte

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5th-8th Jacob Taylor (monored stax)

Maindeck:

4 Goblin Welder
2 Gorilla Shaman
4 Magus of the Moon
3 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Sundering Titan
2 Triskelion

1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Smokestack
1 Sol Ring
4 Sphere of Resistance
2 Sword of Fire and Ice
4 Tangle Wire
4 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Trinisphere

4 Mishra's Workshop
7 Mountain
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Wasteland
60 cards

Sideboard:

2 Ingot Chewer
2 Razormane Masticore
2 Pyroblast
2 Ravenous Trap
2 Red Elemental Blast
3 Pithing Needle
2 Tormod's Crypt

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5th-8th Alex Amato (Noble Fish)

4 jotun Grunt
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Qasali Pridemage
3 Aven Mindcensor
3 Cold eyed selkie
2 ninja of the deep hours
2 sower of temptation

4 Force of will
2 spell snare
3 spell pierce
1 mystical tutor
1 brainstorm
1 merchant scroll
1 hurkyls recall
1 rebuild
1 ancestral recall
1 timewalk

4 wasteland
3 misty rainforest
3 flooded straind
2 tundra
2 tropical island
1 island
1 forest
1 plains
mox pearl
mox sapphire
mox emerald
black lotus
1 strip mine

sb
2 tormods crypt
3 swords to plowshares
2 sower of temptation
1 threads of disloyalty
2 life from the loam
3 propaganda
2 energy flux

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Now, for my mini-report.

It is all from memory, so I apologize if I remember something incorrectly.  I played Tezzeret and my decklist can be seen above.

Rd 1.  Chris Zaborowski (Tezzcast)

Game 1.  I get an early vault & key with counter backup and he scoops.

Game 2.  He wrecks me with various red blasts and ancient grudges and assembles vault & key himself.

Game 3. I play early thoughtseizes and Bob.  I counter everything he does of worth but Bob has gotten me to really low life. I have a top but need 2 turns in a row with a zero CC card in the top 3 to not die and pull out the win.  I get it the 1st time, but not the 2nd.  I scoop since I am dead at upkeep.

0-1   1-2

Rd 2.  Dusty Ochoa (Iona/Tez Oath)

Game 1.  I get turn 1 Bob followed by turn 2 vault & key.  He scoops when I cast top 2 turns later, as he has less than double my life.

Game 2.  I get turn 1 Bob again, and he has a turn 2 Oath.  On my turn 2 I drop goblin bombardment, swing with Bob and sac him.  Game becomes draw-go but he resolves ancestral several times off regrowth and will, and drops vault & key with infinite counter backup.

Game 3.  I drop island, mana crypt, followed by tinker that resolves.  I do the math and figure I win the race as long as he does not have turn 1 oath and hits sphinx on turn 2 with it.  He does not and I win 3 turns later.

1-1   3-3

Rd 3.  Doug Coats (Tez)

Game 1.  An amazing back and forth game that involves many Bobs, top activations, with me getting vault & key out 1st in the end.

Game 2.  Another amazing game with lots of Bobs on both sides.  Goes at least 20 rounds before I finally resolve a tinker for leviathan and ride him to victory.

2-1   5-3

Rd 4.  Sam Allison (Tez)

   Sam and I did some play testing few days before the event, and our decks are only different by half a dozen cards or so at most.

Game 1.  I resolve turn 1 thoughtseize and see a 1 land hand with an ancestral in it.  I take it and he does not see land #2 until it is way too late.

Game 2.  I don't remember much except that we both play a lot of draw go and I win in the end.  Can't even remember how though.  This was probably cause we were paying more attention to the Bengals/Jets game than our game.

3-1   7-3

Rd 5.  Aaron Lettes (GB aggro hate)

There are many people at 3-1 and we both have terrible tie-breakers so we have to play.

Game 1.  He starts with turn 1 land, ritual, null rod go.  However, this is followed by several turns of no 2nd land.  By the time he has it I got complete control and end up repealing the null rod followed by vault & key.  I show Bob & top which prompts a scoop.

Game 2.  His deck does what it is supposed to.  His 1st 4 turns are duress, null rod, threat, threat.  Mine are 1 land, some moxen and a top. I lose.

Game 3.  I have turn 1 thoughtseize and counters for everything he plays that is relevant.  I eventually assemble vault & key and he scoops.

4-1   9-4

I end up 5th and it is off to top 8.  People decide they want to keep going.

Top 8.  Quinn Higgins (dredge)

I lent Quinn the deck he was using so he actually offered to scoop it up to me.  I told him that ain't fair to him, but if he goes all the way and wants to hook me up I won’t say no.

Game 1.  He mulls to 4 and starts to slow dredge with an unmask on himself for grave-troll.  My deck does nothing relevant and he wins about 5-6 turns later.

In comes 10 cards from the board

Game 2.  I have opening leyline followed by a turn 3 or 4 tormod's crypt without him having any answers for either in hand, so he scoops it up.

Game 3.  He mulls to 4 again with me having the turn 0 leyline.  He manages to bounce it but i just recast next turn.  I draw and cast leyline #2 before he sees a 2nd answer.  He scoops it up again.

5-1   11-5

Top 4.  Eric Richardson (TMWA)

I have played Eric at several other vintage tournaments and I was pretty sure I had not won 1 game off him ever, let alone a match.  Well, off we go.

Game 1.  I have a turn 1 Bob followed by a turn 2 Bob.  I pretty much ride them and their card advantage to victory.  I am at 1 life when I swing for lethal.

Game 2.  My opening hand is 2 land, 2 moxen, lotus, force, top.  In hindsight I should have mulled this as he has the turn 1 duress for the top and the game is pretty much over after that.  He beats me down with a canonist and a mindsensor.

Game 3.  I keep a turn 1 or two Bob, while he keeps a wasteland & plateau opener.  I do pretty much whatever as he cannot buy a black source and almost his entire hand minus blasts and 1 kataki or canonist (can’t remember) is black.  My mana crypt also decides to behave and I don't take anything for 4 turns before getting rid of it.  I end up winning with Bob beats while he can't do anything due to lack of black mana.

I'll be the 1st to admit that I pretty much luck sacked this round as his deck is designed to crush mine.

6-1   13-6

Finals.  Adam Prosak (Tez)

I am starving at this point and really need to go so I offer the prize split and he accepts.  Difference between 1st and 2nd place was too big to decide it with a coin flip since we are playing the mirror., but that is just my honest opinion.

6-1-1   13-6-1

Props:  All the people that attended, especially those that came from out of town.
            The friendliness of everyone, even though the stakes were high.
            My deck for never making me mulligan more than once in a game.
Cons:   Every round going to time.....
            Starvation by the end of the event.

Thank you for reading!!!

Talked to store owner and told him people would appreciate it.  He said okay, sure.  So therefore, CE can be used and not count towards your proxy limit.

Hello.  Looking forward to seeing you guys.  Collectors Edition can be used but they are considered proxies.

 Vintage (Type 1) tournament for Unlimited Black Lotus

 Saturday, January 9th, 2010
 Entry fee: $25.00
 Entry fee gets you 10 proxies + up to 5 more for $1 each
***Due to requests, Collector's Edition can be used as actual cards and not take up proxy slots***
 Registration starts at NOON
 Tournament begins at 1 PM
 Format is usual Swiss with cut to Top 4 or 8

 PRIZE:  Unlimited Black Lotus with minimum of 32 people
            If we get above 32 people, prize trickles down further
            There will be a couple door prizes given out randomly

 at:
Amazing Discoveries
 2928 E Broadway Blvd
 Tucson, AZ 85716
 (520) 320-0338

Photos of Lotus:

These tourneys are always fun so hopefully we get a good crowd.

As for me, I am almost certain I am coming(lucky for you :-p).  I'll try to bring others with me if I can.

    1st off, the tournament ended up having 19 players so the total prize pool was $190, which covered the library and had some left over too.

     This gave us a 4 rounds followed by top 8 scenario.  Also, it was my birthday the weekend before so the amazing Jessica Feinberg baked us all a super awesome cake.  Photo to follow at bottom.  She also did some sketches of the tourney which I am posting here as well.

    The field was quite diverse with the following meta:

    2x Tezzeret
    2x Manaless Dredge
    1x Mana Dredge
    1x MUD
    1x 5C Stax (ME)
    1x Elves
    2x Alabama Black Snake
    1x Mono Black Hate(MB Hate)
    2x TMWA
    1x Dryad&Goyf Grow
    1x Time Vault Slaver
    1x Painter
    1x GRW ZOO
    2x I have no idea

    TOP 8:

    Billy G.(mana dredge) vs. Mike B.(manaless dredge)   Mike wins 2-1
    Adam P.(tezzeret) vs. Matt W.(vault slaver)      Adam wins 2-1
    Jared S.(painter) vs. Aaron L.(MB Hate)      Jared wins 2-0
    Anthony A.(tezzeret) vs. Jay W.(snakes)      Anthony wins 2-0

    TOP 4:

    After some discussion and what not, top 4 split and called it a day.

    TOP 8 decklists:

Adam Prosak (Tezzeret)

1 Black Lotus
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sol Ring
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Fact or Fiction
4 Force of Will
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Inkwell Leviathan
4 Mana Drain
1 Merchant Scroll
2 Tezzeret the Seeker
4 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
2 Trinket Mage
1 Regrowth
1 Fire/Ice
1 Ancient Grudge
 
Lands (17):
3 Flooded Strand
4 Island
3 Polluted Delta
1 Snow-Covered Island
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Tropical Island
1 Tundra
2 Underground Sea
1 Volcanic Island
 
Sideboard
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Chalice of the Void
2 Duress
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Pithing Needle
1 Rebuild
1 Relic of Progenitus
2 Sower of Temptation
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Pyroblast
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Anthony Avitollo (Tezzeret)

1 Black Lotus
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sol Ring
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Fact or Fiction
4 Force of Will
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Inkwell Leviathan
4 Mana Drain
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
4 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
2 Trinket Mage
1 Regrowth
1 Fire/Ice
1 Ancient Grudge
 
Lands (17):
3 Flooded Strand
4 Island
3 Polluted Delta
1 Snow-Covered Island
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Tropical Island
1 Tundra
2 Underground Sea
1 Volcanic Island
1 Tormod's Crypt

Sideboard
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Chalice of the Void
2 Duress
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Pithing Needle
1 Rebuild
1 Relic of Progenitus
2 Sower of Temptation
2 Pyroblast
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Jared Sandler (Painter)

3 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
3 Volcanic Island
2 Underground Sea
2 Island
2 Seat of Synod
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Black Lotus
5 Mox
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
=25

2 Sensei's Divining Top
2 Grindstone
2 Relic Progenitus
3 Painter's Servant
1 Trinket Mage
1 Inkwell Laviathan
=11

3 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
4 Thirst for Knowledge
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Pyroblast
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Tinker
=24
TOTAL=60

Side Board
1 Rack and Ruin
2 Ingot Chewer
3 Pyroclasm
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Pithing Needle
1 Pyroblast
2 Arcane Laboratory
=15
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Mike Bahr (Manaless Dredge)

No list as of yet but fairly typical build from what I saw
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Billy Gogol (Mana Dredge)

LANDS (15):
1 Underground Sea
3 Cephalid Coliseum
3 City of Brass
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Gemstone Mine

CREATURES (21):
1 Flame-Kin Zealot
1 Angel of Despair
1 Cephalid Sage
3 Ichorid
3 Golgari Thug
4 Narcomoeba
4 Stinkweed Imp
4 Golgari Grave-Troll

OTHER SPELLS (24):
4 Cabal Therapy
1 Lion's Eye Diamond
4 Careful Study
1 Black Lotus
1 Ancestral Recall
4 Breakthrough
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Dread Return
4 Bridge from Below

sideboard
4 pithing needle,
4 leyline of the void,
3 chain of vapor,
2 contagion,
1 echoing truth,
1 fleshbag marauder
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Aaron Lettes (MB HATE)

main

12xSwamp
2xMishra's Factory
1xStrip Mine
4xWastland
1xBlack Lotus
1xMox Jet
1xLotus Petal
2xChrome Mox
4xDark Ritual
4xhymn to Tourach
4xDuress
1xVampiric Tutor
1xDemonic Tutor
2xExtripate
4xChalice of the Void
3xNull Rod
3xDiabolic Edict
4xDark Confidant
2xNantuko Shade
4xPhyrexian Negator

side
4xSudden Death
2xEchoing Decay
4xBlack Knight
1xExtripate
4xLeyline of the Void
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Jay Webb (Alabama Black Snake)

4 Bazaar of baghdad
3 Tropical Island
2 Bayou
1 Underground sea
1 polluted delta
2 windswept heath
2 woooded foothills
2 rifstone portal
3 wasteland
1 stripmine
1 black lotus
1 mox jet
1 mox sapphire
1 mox emerald

1 crop rotation
1 vampiric tutor
1 demonic tutor
1 ancestral recall
1 timewalk
1 brainstorm
1 ponder
1 echoing truth
2 diabolic edict
4 squee goblin nabob
4 tarmogoyf
3 lorescale coatl
3 chalice of the void
3 null rod
1 life from the loam
4 Thoughtsieze
4 accumulated knowledge

sideboard
2 zombie infestation
1 krosan grip
2 seal of primordium
4 extirpate
3 oxidize
1 engineered explosives
2 Smother
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Matt Walker (Vault Slaver)

4 goblin welder
1 gorilla shaman
1 sundering titan
1 triskelavus
1 platinum angel
4 mana drain
4 FOW
4 TFK
1 time walk
1 ancestral recall
1 d-tutor
1 v-tutor
1 mystical tutor
1 yawgmoth's will
1 echoing truth
1 brainstorm
1 tinker
1 gifts
1 crucible of the worlds
1 mindslaver
1 timevault
1 voltaic key
1 tormods crypt
1 top
3 polluted delta
2 flooded strand
3 volcanic island
2 underground sea
2 island
1 seat of the synod
1 tolarian academy
1 strip mine
5 moxen
1 sol ring
1 mana crypt
1 mana vault
1 black lotus

sideboard
2 duress
2 razormane masticore
2 pyroclasm
2 tormod's crypt
3 REB
2 rack and ruin
2 energy flux

    Following is my tourney report.  It is my 1st and therefore got really sloppy by the end.  I ended up 2-2 and in 9th place.

This is the deck I ran:

1x Ancestral Recall
1x Tinker
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Demonic Tutor
4x Goblin Welder
2x Gorilla Shaman
1x Crop Rotation

1x Black Lotus
1x Mana Crypt
5x Moxen
1x Mana Vault
1x Sol Ring
2x Powder Keg
4x Sphere of Resistance
3x Crucible of Worlds
4x Tangle Wire
1x Trinisphere
4x Smokestack
1x Karn, Silver Golem
1x Triskelion
1x Sundering Titan

1x Barbarian Ring
1x Bazaar of Baghdad
1x Strip Mine
1x Tolarian Academy
3x Gemstone Mine
4x City of Brass
4x Mishra’s Workshop
4x Wasteland

SIDEBOARD:
1x Balance
4x Leyline of the Void
3x Red Elemental Blast
3x Chalice of the Void
2x Pithing Needle
2x Relic of Progenitus

    RD. 1 Doug Coats Playing Alabama Black Snake
   
    I win the die roll.  No mulligans.  I play barbarian ring, mox monkey.  He plays bayou.  I waste his bayou to which he vamps.  He drops wasteland, black lotus, sacs lotus for green drops double goyf.  I play workshop, smokestax.  He drops chalice on 0, waste shop, swings for 6.  I put smokestax to 1, play a gemstone mine, a tangewire which is followed by him scooping up.

    Game 2 starts with no mulligans either.  He starts off with tropical island and ponder.  I play city of brass and welder.  He draws, says go for him. I play bazaar, cast mana vault, use that to cast sphere of resistance, activate bazaar to discard titan and some other chaff and finally weld in titan for mana vault to eat tropical.  He draws, plays wasteland and passes.  I play a shop, weld in vault, cast trike he scoops.

   1-0,  2-0

   RD. 2  Chris Zaborowski Playing TMWA

   He wins die roll, then mulligans to 6.  Then I mulligan to 5.  He plays emerald, fetch into swamp and casts confidant. I play city of brass, mana crypt, mox monkey(forget to eat emerald...).   His confidant flips a pyroblast, then he plays a wasteland and a duress to take my powder keg.  I take no crypt damage, then follow that up with a shop, welder, smokestax and now remember to eat emerald.  His bob flips a wasteland, he plays a fetch and gets a plateau.  I put smokestax to 1, and swing with monkey.  He draws, and scoops.  His hand had a hide/seek but he decided it wont matter with cause of the smokestax.

   Game 2 has no mulligans.  He plays fetch and passes.  I play shop, crucible.  He plays a scrubland and passes.  I play a gemstone mine, and a tangle wire to which he fetches up a badlands and hides the wire.  He misses his land drop and plays a sculler taking my 2nd wire.  I play a city of brass, crop rotate my mine for a shop and drop a trike.  He plays sculler #2, takes the titan in my hand but then scoops when he sees that I am just going to trike away the sculler with the titan, play my mine from the yard and cast titan to eat both his lands.

   2-0,  4-0

   RD. 3 Aaron Lettes Playing MB HATE

   No mulligans and we are off.  He plays swamp, lotus, sacs lotus and drops confidant and nantuko shade, followed by chalice for 0(my hand was lots of 3 drops, 1 land 2 mox...).  I play city of brass.  Confidant reveals extirpate, followed by a swing for 6.  I draw, its not a land and scoop.

   Game 2.  This game was just a giant sad face for me.  It was basically both decks doing their thing but at around turn 6-7 I wiped the board to the point where he had nothing but a null rod in play and I had 2 workshops and a wasteland.  This was followed by literally 9 rounds of draw go where i managed to draw all my colored spells and zero colored sources and he managed to draw into nothing either.  Then, he starts drawing lands and dropping dudes while i continue to draw blanks and end up losing around turn 20 or so.

   2-1,  4-2

   RD. 4 Adam Prosak playing Tezzeret

   Game 1 notes were non-existant so all from memory.  Both decks are doing their thing with me slowing him down and him developing board.  I also manage to get an active keg at 2 to sit back and relax.  The pivotal turn is when he ices my keg at eot, then drops time vault and tezzeret.  I enter my scoop phase.

   Game 2 had no mulligans.  I play city, shaman, jet.  He plays library.  I waste the library and play a sphere of resistance and swing.  He discards.  I play shop, smokestax, he scoops.

   Game 3.  Once again, zero mulligans.  He starts off with island, jet, sapphire, emerald GO.  I play lotus, jet, city of brass, ancestral recall myself, tinker away the jet using the lotus to get powder keg, bust to leave him with 3 cards and island and me with city and 6 cards.  He plays strand.  I play shop and smokestax.  He fetches for a sea, drops a mana crypt, casts yawg. will, replays all his moxen, followed by trinket mage for top and lastly a fetch.  I play karn, waste his sea, and swing with the smokestax.  He tops during upkeep, draws his 1 card in hand, then ancient grudges my Karn and swings with mage.  I play a second smokestax to try and reset the board.  Unfortunately, he keeps drawing permanents so when all is said and done, he has nothing but a trinket mage and i have no permanents but a sol ring, mana vault, wire, smokestax in hand.  He proceeds to draw 4 lands while i draw welder, mox monkey, crucible and lastly tolarian academy and then die to trinket mage.

   2-2,  5-4

   Overall, the tourney was awesome as always and a HUGE thanks to all you guys from PHX who took the time to drive down.
   Big slops to my deck for either winning by turn 3 or not winning at all . . . If I was playing combo, I'd expect that, but not from 5C Stax.

This was Chase Z. vs. MEATBAG


Me(front left) vs. Doug C.(front right) and Adrian A.(top left) vs. Aaron L.(top right)


John R.(left) vs. Chris Z.(right)


And Lastly the SUPER CAKE

I am not sure if this is allowed, but bump.  Tell me if it is not, and I apologize accordingly.

Vintage (Type 1) tournament for Library of Alexandria
 
Saturday, June 13th 2009
Entry fee: $10.00
Entry fee gets you 10 proxies, but 5 more can be bought at $1 each
Registration starts at 12:00 NOON
Tourney starts at 12:30pm
Usual swiss with cut to top 4 or 8
 
PRIZE:  Library of Alexandria with min. 15 people.  More people over that means more prize further down


at:
Amazing Discoveries
2928 E Broadway Blvd
Tucson, AZ 85716
(520) 320-0338

Hey,

   i don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but I am pretty sure that is the same day as regionals.

There were 23 total players at our tourney, so it was a cut to top8 after 5 rounds of swiss.
The Top 4 decided to split the prize.  The decklists follow:

Eric Anderson U/R Shop Aggro

4 Force of Will
3 Stifle
4 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Tinker
1 Time Walk
 
4 Goblin Welder
1 Gorilla Shaman
 
1 Sundering Titan
1 Triskelavus
1 Karn, Silver Golem
4 Juggernaut
 
4 Tangle Wire
3 Crucible of Worlds
1 Tormod's Crypt
 
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
 
3 Seat of the Synod
4 Volcanic Island
1 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
 
SB:
3 Annul
3 Sphere of Resistance
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Trinisphere
2 Echoing Truth
1 Pyroclasm
1 Razormane Masticore

Doug Coats playing shaymora

  3 Underground Sea
   3 Volcanic Island
   4 Island
   3 Polluted Delta
   2 Flooded Strand
   1 Library of Alexandria
   1 Darksteel Colossus
   3 Old Man of the Sea
   1 Black Lotus
   1 Sol Ring
   1 Mox Pearl
   1 Mox Emerald
   1 Mox Sapphire
   1 Mox Jet
   1 Mox Ruby
   1 Tinker
   1 Voltaic Key
   1 Time Vault
   1 Demonic Tutor
   1 Vampiric Tutor
   1 Yawgmoth's Will
   4 Force of Will
   3 Commandeer
   4 Mana Drain
   1 Brainstorm
   1 Ancestral Recall
   1 Time Walk
   4 Mystic Remora
   4 Meditate
   2 Repeal
   1 Fact or Fiction
   1 misdirection
   1 Echoing Truth
   1 Merchant Scroll

// Sideboard:
SB: 3 Energy Flux
SB: 2 Relic of Progenitus
SB: 1 Red Elemental Blast
SB: 2 Pyroblast
SB: 1 Rack and Ruin
SB: 2 Yixlid Jailer
SB: 1 Pithing Needle
SB: 1 Engineered Explosives
SB: 2 Thoughtseize

Jared Sandler playing Painter

1 Trinket Mage
1 Darksteel Colossus
3 Painter's Servant
2 Grindstone
2 Relic of Progenitus
2 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Thirst for Knowledge
3 Thoughtcast
4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Pyroblast
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Brainstorm
1 Tinker
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
5 Moxen
2 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
3 Volcanic Island
2 Underground Sea
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Island
2 Seat of the Synod
1 Library of Alexandria

Sideboard:
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Pithing Needle
2 Arcane Laboratory
2 Pyroclasm
2 Ingot Chewer
1 Viashino Heretic
1 Rack and Ruin
1 Red Elemental Blast

Matt Walker playing Angel Oath
Artifacts
1 Black Lotus
4 Chalice Of The Void
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire

Enchantments
4 Oath Of Druids

Instants
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Crop Rotation
4 Force Of Will
3 Mana Drain
3 impulse
1 fact or fiction
2 Misdirection
3 Thirst For Knowledge
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Echoing Truth

Legendary Creatures
1 Akroma, Angel Of Wrath
1 Razia, Boros Archangel

Sorceries
1 Demonic Tutor
2 Gaea's Blessing
1 Time Walk
1 Ponder

Basic Lands
2 Island

Lands
2 Flooded Strand
4 Forbidden Orchard
2 Polluted Delta
1 Strip Mine
3 Tropical Island
2 Underground Sea
2 Wasteland

Sideboard:
2 Pithing Needle
1 Progenitus
4 Leyline Of The Void
2 Oxidize
2 Energy Flux
2 Stifle
2 Null Rod

Vintage (Type 1) tournament, Store Credit (store has most vintage staples, forces, duals etc.)

Sunday, February 15, 2009
Entry fee: $10.00
Entry fee gets you 15 proxies
Registration starts at 11:30am
Tourney starts at 12:00(NOON)
Format is usual Swiss with cut to Top 4 or 8
 
PRIZE:
 
1st place: 45%
2nd place: 25%
3rd place: 15%
4th place: 15%

at:
Amazing Discoveries
2928 E Broadway Blvd
Tucson, AZ 85716
(520) 320-0338

Hey. 
    I will be there for sure.  Last tourney was a lot of fun, so I am sure this one will be good too.
    Also, I'll try to bring some other Tucsonans with me as several people have shown quite a bit of interest when I told them about the event.

See you on the 21st.

We had 16 people in attendance for our tourney for an Unlimited Time Vault.  This turn out is not bad, and an extra thanks for those people that drove down from Phoenix to play.

The metagame was fairly typical, with a little bit of everything represented.  We had:
1 U/W Fish
1 W/G/B Fish
1 Mono Blue Shop Aggro
1 U/R Shop Aggro
1 Mono Red Shop Aggro
1 5 Color Stax
1 Hulk Smash
2 Oath
1 Tezzeret Control
1 Mono Black Hate
1 Long, no FOW, full load of rituals
1 Flash, Multi color, every tutor known to man
3 I don't know, did not see

Top 4 was the following:

Winner Doug Coats with Dawn of the Dead

4 dark confidant
4 tarmogoyf
2 gaddock teeg
4 squee goblin nabob
3 zombie infestation

4 thoughtseize
3 duress
2 life from the loam
4 swords to plowshares

4 bazaar of baghdad
1 null rod
1 vampiric tutor
1 demonic tutor
1 crop rotation

2 riftstone portal
3 bloodstained mire
2 windswept heath
3 bayou
3 scrubland
1 mox ruby
1 mox diamond
1 mox jet
1 mox emerald
1 mox pearl
1 black lotus
1 strip mine
2 wasteland
 
sideboard
1 balance
1 null rod
1 krosan grip
4 extirpate
2 ray of revelation
4 thorn of amethyst
2 oxidize

Runner-Up Eric Anderson U/R Shop Aggro

4 Force of Will
3 Stifle
4 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Tinker
1 Time Walk
 
4 Goblin Welder
1 Gorilla Shaman
 
1 Sundering Titan
1 Triskelavus
1 Karn, Silver Golem
4 Juggernaut
 
4 Tangle Wire
3 Crucible of Worlds
1 Tormod's Crypt
 
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
 
3 Seat of the Synod
4 Volcanic Island
1 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
 
SB:
3 Annul
3 Sphere of Resistance
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Trinisphere
2 Echoing Truth
1 Pyroclasm
1 Razormane Masticore

3/4th Jay Webb Tezzeret Control

mana drain x4
Force of will x4
counterspell x2
Misdirection x1

impulse x2
yawgmoths will x1
ancestral recall x1
demonic tutor x1
fact or fiction x1
brainstorm x1
thirst for knowledge x4
vampiric tutor x1
time walk x1
ponder x1
tinker x1
sensei's diving top x1

sundering titan x1
echoing truth x2
tormods crypt x1
gorilla shaman x2
rack and ruin x2

voltaic key x1
time vault x1
tezzeret the seeker x2

Polluted delta x3
flooded strand x2
volcanic island x2
underground sea x1
island x4
tolarian academy x1
mox x 5
black lotus x1
sol ring x1
mana vault x1
mana crypt x1

No sideboard available

3/4th Miklos Szidarovszky Hulk Smash

3 Psychatog
1 Berserk

4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
2 Misdirection
4 Duress
1 Fire/Ice
1 Echoing Truth

1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
4 Accumulated Knowledge
1 Fact or Fiction

2 Intuition
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Regrowth

1 Time Walk
1 Yawgmoth's Will

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
3 Polluted Delta
3 Flooded Strand
3 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
2 Tropical Island
3 Island
1 Library of Alexandria

Sideboard
2 Pithing Needle
1 Fire/Ice
3 Red Elemental Blast
1 Echoing Truth
4 Energy Flux
4 Yixlid Jailer

I have heard back from over a dozen "regulars" saying that they are attending.  Hope that many more show besides them and we will have a nice big tourney to close out this calendar year.

Thanks for pointing that out.  It has been changed.

MY bad.

Vintage (Type 1) tournament, 1st place is an Unlimited Time Vault
 
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Entry fee: $10.00
Entry fee gets you 10 proxies, but up to 5 more can be bought for $1.00 each
Registration starts at 1:30pm
Tourney starts at 2:00pm PROMPTLY
Format is usual Swiss with cut to Top 4 or 8
 
PRIZE(with minimum of 20 people):
 
1st place: Unlimited Time Vault
2nd place: 2x Force of Will
3rd place: Bayou
4th place: Polluted Delta

at:
Amazing Discoveries
2928 E Broadway Blvd
Tucson, AZ 85716
(520) 320-0338

Vintage tourney in Phoenix, AZ.  All Entry fees go towards prize.
 
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
Entry fee: $10.00
Entry fee gets you 10 proxies, but up to 5 more can be bought for $1.00 each
Registration starts at 11:30am
Tourney starts at 12:00 (NOON)
Format is usual Swiss with cut to Top 4 if number of players warrants it.

PRIZE= All entry fees go towards prize.  Store has many great vintage/legacy staples in stock.
 
at:
Gamer's Inn
1232 E. Southern Ave., Mesa, AZ, 85204
(480) 507-0509

I hope some people reading this post get to attend tomorrow.

Vintage tournament, 1st place is choice of Italian Mana Drain or 2 Force of Wills
 
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
Entry fee: $10.00
Entry fee gets you 10 proxies, but up to 5 more can be bought for $1.00 each
Registration starts at 1:30pm
Tourney starts at 2:00pm PROMPTLY
Format is usual Swiss with cut to Top 4 or 8
 
PRIZE(with minimum of 16 people):
 
1st place: choice of Italian Mana Drain or 2 Force of Wills
2nd place: whatever 1st place did not choose
3rd place: choice of revised Bayou or Polluted Delta
4th place: whatever 3rd place did not choose
 
at:
Amazing Discoveries
2928 E Broadway Blvd
Tucson, AZ 85716
(520) 320-0338

Tucson, AZ vintage tournament for Alpha Gauntlet of Might on September 13th, 2008

Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Entry fee: $10.00
Entry fee gets you 10 proxies, but up to 5 more can be bought for $1.00 each
Prize: 1x gauntlet of might with minimum 16 people (if less people show, difference can be paid by winner, if more people show, additional prizes will be given out)
Registration starts at 1:30pm
Tourney starts at 2:00pm PROMPTLY
Format is usual Swiss with cut to Top 4 or 8

at:
Magic tower games
Ina & old father
Tucson, AZ
(520) 744-9922

Vintage tournament for 1x Imperial Seal (asian)

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

Entry fee: $10.00
Entry fee gets you 10 proxies, but up to 5 more can be bought for $1.00 each
Prize:  1x Imperial Seal (asian) with minimum 16 people (if less people show, difference can be paid by winner, if more people show, additional prizes will be given out)
Registration starts at 1:30pm
Tourney starts at 2:00 pm PROMPTLY
Format is usual Swiss with cut to Top 4 or 8
 
at:
Amazing Discoveries
2928 E Broadway Blvd
Tucson, AZ 85716
(520) 320-0338

Vintage (Type 1) tournament for Unlimited Mox Jet

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Entry fee: $15.00

Entry fee gets you 10 proxies, but up to 5 more can be bought for $1.00 each

Prize:  Unlimited Mox Jet guaranteed for 1st place, additional prize dependent on number of players

Registration starts at 1:30 pm

Tourney starts at 2pm

Format is usual Swiss with cut to Top 4 or 8
 
at:
Game Nightz
9617 N Metro Pkwy W
Phoenix, AZ 85051.
(602) 870-8501

Vintage (Type 1) tournament for 4xTarmogoyf

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Entry fee: $10.00

Entry fee gets you 10 proxies, but up to 5 more can be bought for $1.00 each

Prize:  4xTarmogoyf with minimum 16 people (if less people show, difference can be paid by winner, if more people show, additional prizes will be given out)

Registration starts at 11:30am

Tourney starts at 12:00(noon) PROMPTLY

Format is usual Swiss with cut to Top 4 or 8
 
at:

Amazing Discoveries

2928 E Broadway Blvd

Tucson, AZ 85716

(520) 320-0338