So I played in Nick's tourney yesterday. I played the oath reanimater deck. Won round one verse fish pretty quickly. Also won round 2 without much trouble versus MUD. Then again he did mull to 3 game 3 which helped, after he dropped turn 1 Trinisphere game 2 that did me in.



Game 3 I played Matt Elias the guy that wrote the article for the deck that I was playing, which I didn't know until halfway thought the match. Game one I reanimate Iona on blue which he has no answer for. Game two I'm sitting on 3 lands with Show and Tell, Blightsteel, and Thoughtseize in hand. Now my thought is do I do I Thoughtseize first and Show and Tell next turn, or show and tell now and go for it. I decided to go for it Show and Tell, it resolves I flip Blightsteel, and he flips a land. So this gives him one turn to get out of it. He plays Yawg Will, into Vamp Tutor, into Gush, into Jace, bounce . He won that game. Should have gone the conservative route. This is when he asks me when I got my deck list from after a short conversation about it we realize it is his deck list. So game 3 this is where I learn a major lesson about this deck. I get out like turn 2 Oath turn 3 into Jin-Gitaxis and draw 7 a couple of times. I have Iona in the grave and exhume in hand. I didn't attack because he still had the 2 spirits to block and I didn't want he to be able to Oath into Blightsteel or something. So instead of just reanimating Iona and flying in for the win I decide to use Oath, and naturally my Blightsteel is 4 from the bottom and Blazing Archon is on the bottom. So I lose to the Jin draw trigger at end of turn. Lesson of the day don't use Oath if Jin is on the board.


I'm still 2 and 1 and not in bad shape. Next, round i played Dredge. He won round one after much thought on his part of a Cabal Therapy and naming oath when I only had and Underground Sea in play and Oath, Forbidden Orchard in hand. Games 2 and 3 I dominated after siding, getting Elesh out both times and Blazing Archon once to go with it.


Sitting at 3-1 with two rounds to play. Win and a draw and I'm in top 8. Game one I  first turn Oath T2 into Jin and he scoops after he draws for turn. I remembered him playing Ad Nauseam sitting next to me round one cause he was making a big deal of his T1 win, so I brought in Gaddock Teeg and a second Show and Tell. He even questioned about me being able to side since he didn't show me anything, just told him I was playing a hunch. So I have 3 mana available with thoughtseize, Gaddock Teeg, and show and tell in hand. I couldn't hard cast Teeg cause I didn't have white. So here I am again do I thoughtsieze first which I didn't do last time, and  ended up costing me the game, or do I go balls out again and just play the Show and Tell. I decide to go the safe route and thoughtseize. This is clearly the wrong play here cause if I think it out more if he does have a force he will use it to protect his hand. Also not being familiar with the deck I didn't know it doesn't even run force cause of Ad Nauseam. So I Thoughtseize and he shows, Dark Rit, Cable Rit, Lotus, Pact of Negation, and Duress. I take the duress so he can't take Show and Tell on his turn and pass. Of course he rips Ad Nauseam off the top and wins. G3 he comboed out early and beat me.


Now I'm 3-2 going into the final round and playing the oath mirror. He wasn't playing the reanimator part of the deck. I T1 thoughtseize and he misdirects it back to me. I show Oath, Orchard, Entomb, Demonic Tutor, And Mox. He takes Oath, then takes his turn. My next turn I rip Exhume, Demonic for Lotus crack for black Entomb and Exhume Iona GG. G2 he wins after an Oath battle that he comes out on top when he plays his second orchard. I win game 3 with an early Entomb, Reanimate Iona again.


So I finish 4-2 on the day and in 9th place If I didn't punt hard round 3 I think I would have had a different day. The deck ran great and not many people had answers for both the Oath and Reanimator portions at the same time. The only changes I think I would make would be to go 3 Reanimate and 3 Exhume, just cause there were lots of mental missteps, and I think I would cut the Ingester or the null rod for a flusterstorm from the board. The Ingester was for the mirror but I didn't really need him even though I did bring him in in that match-up. I didn't bring in the Rod all day. Any suggestions on this?


Overall it was a fun day. Next one is at Top Deck Games on Jan. 7th. Any interest in playing Simon? Don't know how you would feel about playing in an event at your store Jim, but I know you like T1.


Eric

Oath Reanimator
60 cards, 15 sideboard
1 Bayou
4 Forbidden Orchard
1 Island
2 Misty Rainforest
3 Polluted Delta
1 Swamp
2 Underground Sea
1 Verdant Catacombs

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15 lands


1 Terastodon
1 Blazing Archon
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
1 Blightsteel Colossus

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5 creatures


 1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
2 Careful Study
4 Entomb
1 Mystical Tutor
4 Reanimate
1 Sol Ring
2 Spell Pierce
4 Thoughtseize
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
2 Exhume
4 Oath of Druids
1 Time Walk
1 Show and Tell
1 Tinker
4 Force of Will

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40 other spells


Sideboard
1 Show and Tell
1 Phyrexian Ingester
1 Gaddock Teeg
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Steel Sabotage
1 Pithing Needle
1 Null Rod
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
1 Strip Mine

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15 sideboard cards

I would advise changing the date since Full of Win has a tournament planned for the same day and conflicting tournaments is never good for business.

http://www.themanadrain.com/index.php?topic=43024.0

I'm not drinking I'm winning.

A-1 wasn't the Penn Stater in the Top 8.  That was another Penn State player, The Duressed, who doesn't post on the forum  often anymore.  He was playing Oath, which he successfully piloted to a Top 8 on Sunday as well. 

I plan on beating Nick Detwilers brains in with a terrible deck playing terribly overpriced ( in both value and casting cost).  Look out nick here comes jokulmorder!

First up Simon and I housed a 2HG EDH game.

As of now it looks like I'll be making the trip along with Matt Elias, Brian Carey, Ralph Parsinitz, Mike Noble, and Ryan Glackin.  Thank god for 2005 Honda Odysseys and captain chairs (we are not small folk).

I had intended to attempt a tournament on this scale at some point, but I really had to crunch some numbers when I first thought about it.  I took in to account the fact that in the United States today east of the Mississippi which is your expected distance to travel, there are at a maximum, 200 total competitive vintage players.  

The tournament begins at 12:00pm sharp  Please, PLEASE be on time

What I find even more entertaining is that I heard what retailers actually pay for the "from the vault" sets at cost from a local card store.  While the amount he could reserve was limited, he could only pre order 11, at cost they were only $15 and change.

I'm all for getting as many people as possible to come out to play T1. If that means playing for UL power, then that's great. If that means playing for black-bordered power, then that's great too. My only concern is that there is the possibility that you and Mike Smith could be offering the same piece of power in the same month. I don't know if that would hurt attendance or if you and Mike could work things out, but I wouldn't mind trying to win a Recall or a Walk in back-to-back weeks.