GenCon Main Event t8 Coverage on SCG

[Kowal]

For the top eight, I obviously couldn't cover every match myself. Of those who tried to help me, Marc Perez was asked to leave by one of the players he was covering because of his affiliation with the other player in that match. Thankfully Josh O covered the second game, but because of the incomplete coverage, I'm not including it. Also, Micahel Simister's Goblin Charbelcher vs. Nick Trudeau's TnT is a matchup both uncovered and uninteresting. That leaves Mark Biller versus Kevin Cron (which StarCityGames.com Featured Writer Philip Stanton covered) and Giovanni Conedera versus Tom Rotchadl as the quarterfinals matches covered.

Once again, if you see any inconsistancies, please point them out.

Also, the_luke already pointed out an error in which Mark Biller's deck is being described under the wrong match.  I'm not sure if that mistake was mine or Knut's, but I'm guessing I'm the moron.

[thorme]

Good coverage, and consistent with my memories.  I do remember having out, in addition to Trinispheres, a Chalice on 0 and a Chalice on 1 against Belcher in game 3 of the semis.  I believe his only win condition at that point would be to pitch 3 Elvish Spirit Guides and play Channel.


From what I remember, Marc was asked to leave the quarterfinal match after game 1 was complete, so he does have coverage from that game.  Combined with Josh O. you should be able to piece together the match.

[SliverKing]

minor clarification, all of us were using the same build for the main event (with fire/ice main)

[Eastman]

minor clarification: The name of Dave's deck '5/3' wasn't actually clever at all.