[Tourny]Monster Den in MN. Mox Pearl. June 27. 10$

[Methuselahn]

That's right, another piece of power going up for grabs in Minnesota.  This is the first power tourny for the store, so lets get a real good turnout here!

What: Sanctioned Tourny (no proxies(subject to change?))

Prize: Mox Pearl (BETA!)to the winner.

When: Sunday, June 27, 2004.  1pm.

Cost: 10$

Where:
1815 E. 41st St #B (41st and Cedar)
Minneapolis, MN  55407

Fone: (612)724-4543

[Methuselahn]

Looks like there was a great turnout for their first power tourny ever.  41 duelists showed to fight over the Beta Pearl.  Jesse Rivers emerged the victor.

Here's some stats:

1st place, Jesse Rivers, Mox Pearl
2nd place, Andy Sponheim, 4x Foil 8th ed Underworld Dreams
3rd place, Ron Gordine , Revised Underground Sea
4rd place, Mike C White, Revised Tundra

Seeds going into t8:
1. Jesse River w/ Modular.dec
2. Andy Sponheim w/ Dragon.dec
3. Colin DeVilbiss (x3n0n) w/ budgetized PTW Gay/R  
4. Mike White w/GAT
5. ?
6. Ron Gordine w/ Rector Tendrils
7. Daren Thomas w/ FCG
8. ?
(I'm told missings decks were workshop based)
(edit: Matthew Jendro (playing slaver) and Mike Vraa (4cc?) also T8'd-not sure of the seeds tho)

Top 2 Decklists

1st) Modular-Brown, Jesse Rivers

4 arcbound ravager
4 myr servitor
4 metalworker
2 triskelion
1 arcbound crusher
4 skullclamp
3 sword of fire and ice
4 sphere of resistence
1 memory jar
4 tangle wire
1 sol ring
5 moxes ( one of each)
1 mana crypt
1 mana vault
4 mishras workshop
4 ancient tomb
2 city of traitors
4 wasteland
1 strip mine
1 tolarian academy

sideboard
4 trinisphere
3 tormods crypt
4 powder keg
2 arcbound crusher
2 triskelion

2nd) BUG Worldgorger, Andy Sponheim

1 cunning wish
1 sol ring
5 moxes (one of each)
4 force of will
1 ancestral recall
1 mana crypt
4 squee, goblin nabob
4 worldgorger dragon
4 intuition
4 bazaar of baghdad
3 underground sea
3 bayou
4 polluted delta
1 tropical island
1 swamp
1 gemstone mine
3 necromancy
3 animate dead
2 dance of the dead
1 demonic tutor
1 vampiric tutor
1 time walk
1 compulsion
1 sliver queen
1 ambassator laquatus
3 duress

sideboard
3 pernicious deed
4 xantid swarn
2 verdant force
2 plated slagwurm
1 chain of vapor
2 reanimate
1 stroke of genius

Props:
-The store, for hosting a beta pearl for their first power tourny in Minnesota.
-Minnesota, for having 3 venues to win big cards at now.  <3 <3 <3
-Everyone who played.
-x3n0n, for providing results from this monster.

Slops:
-The store, for only giving like a weeks notice of what the power would be.  You guys will pull in more money with a bigger notice.
-Minnesota, WTF is up with 3 proxies and Sanctioned tournies...odd (not that I mind.  :p )
-Me, for using my wedding anniversary/vacation with wife+son to Wisconsin Dells as an excuse for not playing.  

[Dr. Sylvan]

Yeah seriously, get your priorities straight, Methu. If you didn't take that silly vacation, you would only need like eight bums off the street to inflate your attendance to fifty. Why don't more people do this?! :p

[Jacob Orlove]

-Minnesota, WTF is up with 3 proxies and Sanctioned tournies...odd  

Are you serious?

[Methuselahn]

-Minnesota, WTF is up with 3 proxies and Sanctioned tournies...odd  

Are you serious?

Yes, I'm serious.  But they don't happen simultaneously... I probably could have been more clear on that.

The Lotus/Ancestral tourny earlier this month at Dreamers was 3 proxy.  I think Matthew's store also is doing 3-5 proxy.  I'm pretty sure this Monster Den tourny was sanctioned or 3 proxy, instead of any other number.  I just found it odd in comparison to the rest of the USA.

[Jacob Orlove]

Okay, because we had one TMD member (who shall remain "Nameless") who held sanctioned tournaments with 3-proxies allowed. It was kinda messed up.