Mox Sapphire Tournament Results Ogres Cards St. Louis 5-29

[vroman]

Heres the top 8 from Ogre's saphire tournament on 5-29-05:

1 Mike Shean      -  URG Chalice Oath
2 Wes Cherry      -  URB Control Slaver
3 Robert Vroman -  R Uba Stax
4 Ben Allen         -  UG Fish
5 Kyle Kloster      -  R Goblins
6 Jim Erlinger       - URB Control Slaver
7 Caleb Scherer   -  UG Fish
8 Brian Minnick     - RG Goblins

Here are the deck lists:

1st - Mike Shean - Chalice Oath

4 polluted delta
4 forbidden orchard
3 wasteland
3 island
2 tropical island
1 volcanic island
1 stripmine
5 mox
1 black lotus
1 ancestral recall
1 time walk
1 akroma angel of wrath
1 ancient hydra
1 gaeas blessing
2 intuition
3 thirst for knowledge
4 mana drain
4 force of will
4 accumulated knowledge
4 brainstorm
4 oath of druids
3 chalice of the void
3 phyrexian furnace

Side
1 woodripper
1 pristine angel
2 spawning pit
2 genju of the falls
2 arcane lab
2 back to basics
2 rack and ruin
3 red elemental blast

2nd - Wes Cherry - Control Slaver

4 volcanic island
4 polluted delta
3 island
2 underground sea
1 seat of the synod
1 great furnace
1 tolarian academy
5 mox
1 black lotus
1 sol ring
1 mana crypt
4 goblin welder
4 force of will
4 mana drain
4 brainstorm
4 thirst for knowledge
3 fire/ice
1 mystical tutor
1 tinker
1 time walk
1 ancestral recall
1 cranial extraction
1 yawgmoths will
1 demonic tutor
1 duplicant
2 mindslaver
1 jesters cap
1 pentavus
1 triskelion

side
1 sundering titan
2 acquire
1 chain of vapor
1 echoing truth
2 stifle
2 pyroblast
2 rack and ruin
2 starstorm
2 viashino heretic

3rd - Robert Vroman - Uba Stax

5 mountain
4 mishras workshop
4 wasteland
4 bazaar of baghdad
1 stripmine
1 riftstone portal
1 tolarian academy
5 mox
1 black lotus
1 sol ring
1 mana crypt
1 mana vault
4 goblin welder
4 uba mask
4 chalice of the void
3 smokestack
3 crucible of worlds
3 null rod
3 myr enforcer
2 solemn simulacrum
1 duplicant
1 sundering titan
1 wheel of fortune
1 viashino heretic

side
4 lava dart
3 orb of dreams
3 eon hub
2 duplicant
1 sundering titan
1 viashino heretic
1 null rod

4th - Ben Allen - Fish

4 flooded strand
4 mishras factory
4 wasteland
3 island
3 tropical island
1 polluted delta
1 stripmine
1 library of alexandria
1 mox saphire
1 mox emerald
1 black lotus
2 umezawas jitte
1 ancestral recall
1 time walk
4 standstill
4 force of will
4 chalice of the void
4 aether vial
4 ninja of the deep hours
4 spiketail hatchling
4 wild mongrel
4 basking rootwalla

side
4 oxidize
4 waterfront bouncer
3 river boa
3 phyrexian furnace
1 umezawas jitte

5th - Kyle Kloster - Sklamp Goblins

10 mountain
4 wooded foothills
1 stripmine
1 black lotus
1 mox ruby
1 sol ring
1 mana crypt
4 skull clamp
4 skirk prospector
4 goblin ringleader
4 goblin lackey
4 goblin piledriver
4 goblin warchief
4 goblin recruiter
3 gempalm incinerator
3 goblin matron
2 siege gang commander
1 goblin vandal
1 goblin tinkerer
1 goblin sharpshooter
1 kiki jiki mirror breaker
1 wheel of fortune

sideboard
4 pyroblast
4 red elemental blast
4 pyrostatic pillar
3 goblin bombardment

6th - Jim Erlinger - Control Slaver

4 Volcanic Island
4 polluted delta
3 island
2 underground sea
1 darksteel citadel
1 tolarian academy
5 mox
1 sol ring
1 mana vault
1 mana crypt
1 black lotus
1 tinker
1 ancestral recall
1 time walk
1 yawgmoths will
1 demonic tutor
1 mystical tutor
1 platinum angel
1 duplicant
1 triskelion
1 pentavus
4 goblin welder
4 mana drain
4 force of will
4 thirst for knowledge
4 brainstorm
2 intuition
2 deep analysis
2 mindslaver

side
3 echoing truth
3 arcane laboratory
3 rack and ruin
2 viashino heretic
2 acquire
1 jesters cap
1 sundering titan

7th - Caleb Scherer - Fish
Identical to Ben Allen's list

8th - Bryan Minnick - Foodchain

5 mountain
4 bloodstained mire
4 taiga
4 wasteland
1 stripmine
1 mox ruby
1 mox emerald
1 black lotus
1 mana crypt
4 food chain
4 goblin recruiter
4 goblin lackey
4 goblin piledriver
4 goblin warchief
4 goblin ringleader
3 goblin matron
3 gempalm incinerator
2 goblin vandal
2 seige gang commander
2 skirk prospector
1 goblin sharpshooter

side
3 red elemental blast
3 artifact mutation
3 naturalize
3 ground seal
3 null rod

Thanks to everyone who came out and congrats to Mike Shean for winning the saphire. Look forward to late June when we give away an Ancestral Recall!

[Lunar]

How many players were there total?

Any way to find out what the overall meta was like?

[spieh]

17 players I believe.

3 oath of druids
2 goblins (1 foodchain, 1 clamp)
2 U/G fish ala Jitte
1 U/G bazaar madness
1 uba stax
3 control slaver

I thought I saw 1 doomsday deck there though I never got to watch it.
A few other forms of workshop variants I don't recall the other decks.

All in all a very controllish environment excepting the goblins. I was suprised no one played Dragon at all.

[vroman]

Yes only 17, low turnout. probably due to memorial weekend.
heres the complete breakdown:
3 Workshop (5C aggro, gilded claw, uba stax)
3 Goblin (2 foodchain, 1 mono red clamp)
3 Control Slaver (2 URB standard, 1 rogue UR w stax elements)
3 Oath (2 chalice, 1 original meandeck)
2 Fish
1 madness
1 Suicide black
1 Doomsday

[w00t3n4t0r]

I had the luck to walk in at the end of the tournament to see the last 2 rounds of play.  Great to all those in the tournament.  Unfortunately I couldn't be there, see ya in the Ancestral tourney! Congrats to all that played.