[Results] Eindhoven, September tournament

[Pyromaniac]

Hey everyone, here we are with a report on Eindhoven's monthly Type 1

tourney. Today featured most kinds of decks, but unfortunately only 17

entries, which was kinda bad. Oh well.

The Top 8 decklists are posted, as well as a q&d report of my performance.

Top 8 after swiss:

1. Steffen van Veen, Control Slaver
2. Marco Kiewit, TPS
3. Bram Verhees, Chang-Stax
4. Lennart Freitag, Gifts
5. Bjorn Lefevre, Oath
6. Wouter Dhondt, Gifts (weird build though )
7. Hero 't Mannetje, Mono-Ravager
8. Tim Steurs, Cron-Stax

T8 results:
1. Bram Verhees
2. Lennart Freitag
3. Marco Kiewit
4. Tim Steurs
5. Steffen van Veen
6. Bjorn Lefevre
7. Wouter Dhondt
8. Hero 't Mannetje

Decklists

1. Bram Verhees, Chang-Stax

4 City of Brass
1 Gorilla Shaman
1 Strip Mine
4 Mishra's Workshop
1 Triskelion
1 Duplicant
1 Trinisphere
3 Sphere of Resistance
3 Crucible Of Worlds
3 Thirst For Knowledge
4 Tangle Wire
1 Barbarian Ring
4 Wasteland
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Sol Ring
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mana Vault
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Black Lotus
1 Balance
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Tinker
4 Goblin Welder
1 Crop Rotation
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Smokestack
1 Karn, Silver Golem
1 Vampiric Tutor
3 Gemstone Mine

Sideboard
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Jester's Cap
3 Chalice of the Void
2 Seal of Cleansing
2 Choke
3 Red Elemental Blast
2 Viashino Heretic

2. Lennart Freitag, Gifts

3 Duress
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
4 Gifts Ungiven
4 Brainstorm
3 Merchant Scroll
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Impulse
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Recoup
1 Tinker
1 Darksteel Colossus
1 Rebuild
1 Burning Wish
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
3 Flooded Strand
3 Polluted Delta
3 Underground Sea
3 Volcanic Island
2 Island
1 Snow-covered Island
1 Tolarian Academy

1 Tundra should be in there somewhere, but it's not listed on the decklist.

Sideboard
1 Eye of Nowhere
1 Hurkyll's Recall
1 Rack and Ruin
1 Mind Twist
1 Primitive Justice
1 Duress
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Pithing Needle
1 Sundering Titan
1 Pyroblast
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Balance
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Sacred Ground
1 Seasinger

3. Marco Kiewit, TPS

1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
4 Dark Ritual
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Duress
1 Necropotence
2 Tendrils of Agony
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Bargain
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Ancestral Recall
4 Brainstorm
1 Chain of Vapor
4 Force of Will
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Mind's Desire
1 Rebuild
2 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Time Walk
1 Timetwister
1 Crop Rotation
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Regrowth
1 Lim-Dul's Vault
1 Meditate
1 Llanowar Wastes
2 Forbidden Orchard
4 City of Brass
4 Gemstone Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Underground River
1 Darksteel Colossus

Sideboard:
1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
1 Spirit of the Night
2 Forbidden Orchard
3 Ground Seal
1 Woodripper
4 Oath of Druids
1 Sundering Titan
1 Echoing Truth
1 Recoup

4. Tim Steurs, Stax

1 Barabarian Ring
1 Sundering Titan
1 Sol Ring
3 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Black Lotus
3 Sphere of Resistance
2 Seal of Cleansing
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
4 Smokestack
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Goblin Welder
3 Crucible of Worlds
4 Mishra's Workshop
1 Triskelion
1 Ancestral Recall
4 Gemstone Mine
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Crop Rotation
1 Gorilla Shaman
4 City of Brass
1 Karn, Silver Golem
1 Memory Jar
1 Tinker
1 Trinisphere

Sideboard
2 Viashino Heretic
2 Rack and Ruin
3 Ensnaring Bridge
3 Tangle Wire
1 Choke
2 Red Elemental Blast
1 Duplicant
2 Tormod's Crypt

5. Steffen van Veen, Control Slaver

1 Mystical Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Echoing Truth
1 Tinker
4 Brainstorm
4 Mana Drain
4 Thirst for Knowledge
4 Force of Will
1 Fire/Ice
1 Gorilla Shaman
4 Goblin Welder
1 Rack and Ruin
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Mindslaver
1 Pentavus
1 Triskelion
1 Sundering Titan

1 Darksteel Citadel
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Island
2 Underground Sea
4 Volcanic Island
1 Flooded Strand
3 Polluted Delta

Sideboard:
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Claws of Gix
1 Lava Dart
2 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pyroblast
2 Pyroclasm
2 Rack and Ruin
1 Blue Elemental Blast
2 Arcane Laboratory
1 Duplicant

Bjorn Lefevre, Oath

1 Tinker
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Dragon Breath
2 Darksteel Colossus
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Gaea's Blessing
2 Mana Drain
3 Intuition
4 Brainstorm
4 Oath of Druids
1 Frantic Search
2 Counterspell
4 Force of Will
2 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
2 Tropical Island
4 Forbidden Orchard
2 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Volcanic Island
3 Polluted Delta
3 Island
3 Flooded Strand

Sideboard:
1 Platinum Angel
1 Naturalize
1 Hurkyll's Recall
1 Ancient Hydra
1 Swords to Plowshares
3 Ground Seal
1 Woodripper
1 Pristine Angel
3 Arcane Laboratory
2 Jester's Cap

7. Wouter Dhondt, Gifts
3 Island
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Snow-Covered Island
2 polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
2 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Darksteel Colossus
4 Force of Will
2 Gifts Ungiven
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Burning Wish
4 Mana Drain
1 Mystical Tutor
4 Brainstorm
1 Recoup
2 Pithing Needle
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Tinker
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Rebuild
2 Merchant Scroll
2 Duress
4 Thirst for Knowledge

Sideboard:
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Pithing Needle
1 Rebuild
1 Duress
2 Pyroclasm
1 Pyroblast
1 Hurkyll's Recall
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Rack and Ruin
1 Eye of Nowhere
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Sundering Titan

8. Hero 't Mannetje, Mono-Ravager

4 Arcbound Ravager
2 Arcbound Worker
4 Myr Servitor
4 Myr Retriever
4 Triskelion
4 Metalworker
4 Skullclamp
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
1 Memory Jar
4 Tangle Wire
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Darksteel Citadel
1 City of Traitors

Sideboard:
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Phyrexian Furnace
4 Razormane Masticore
3 Welding Jar

I don't feel like typing up a report, but suffice to say that the deck ran

pretty well. I'm gonna switch the 2 Citadels with Blinkmoth Nexus's, so I can

get a flying beatdown going, seeing no-one plays flyers in T1. Other then

that, I wouldn't change anything at the moment.

[Eddie]

Hey, what's so weird with my gifts build ? It's basically Andy's Gencon list without white and a tenrils kill. Congrats on the finish ;D. Too bad we only had 17 people playing. It was a lot of fun, and not that easy cause most of the best players where there.

[mrieff]

Go Hero!    Ravager

[Disburden]

Hey, what's so weird with my gifts build ? It's basically Andy's Gencon list without white and a tenrils kill. Congrats on the finish ;D. Too bad we only had 17 people playing. It was a lot of fun, and not that easy cause most of the best players where there.

Yeah, I think it's weird that your list was even called weird  :lol: Shortbus gifts is a lot different than meandeck gifts.

[BigMac]

I am not gonna write a report as mine would be very short.

I won of Hero in the quarter final due to a counting mistake on his account in the second game after winning the first. The third game i just had a very good draw and i could easily crush him.

In the semi i had to play Bram, so the second teammember i had to play in the top 8. I would rather have played him in the final as i would have rather played Hero in the final. But we had to do it.

Against Bram i knew i would be close but it could be done. The first game i outdrew him and just won by playing a desire of 10 and there was a tendrils in there somewhere. After boarding perhaps i could have kept playing pure combo and perhaps i should have kept my forces in there. But i was unlucky not to be able to play my oath turn 1 the third game. I could have done it game 2 but he played a sphere turn 1 and i never recovered from that. The third game could have been mine but Bram mulled to 6 and kept a hand with 3 wastes, 2 moxes and had a sphere down turn 1. I managed to get my colossus in by tinker after he had played a seal of cleansing pretty much shutting my oath win down. He then played a smokestack and managed to get rid of my final permanent (wasted my last land) and i had to sac my DSC to the smokestack. So well don't to Bram as it was looking good for me at the time.

Getting into top 8 was not really hard really crushing slaver and some critterdeck. After that i could id into top 8 as it was only 4 rounds and 2 0 1 probably already would do the trick and i could do with some rest.

Cudos to Bram for winning the tournament and another (not so proud of this one) top 8 with my TPoath. I am getting more and more content with this build as it is proving to be very stable as a deck. I am still working on what the best sideboarding way is but i keep trying to find the good configuration after boarding against what deck. Some decks are very easy to board against but some decks are really hard. The sideboard is working out great but i am still looking for ever better critters with more crummy sideeffects as the look on peoples faces when i oath up some bigone they did not expect turning the tables completely.

Recoup was plain bad. Never used it and so it has to give way to something else.

I was really content with meditate as it is a great drawer when going combo, and it pitches to FoW. Next to that it is an must counter for control at end of turn or they probably would not survive the next turn i would get.

[Bram]

My play-of-the-day was a completely skill-less win in the third game vs. Lennart's Gifts. I had lost the second game, so I chose to start. I drew a seven card hand with no turn one lock components. I was hoping for a Sphere of R at least, or maybe a Trinisphere, but I got a slow hand so mulliganed to six. I played Workshop, Mox Jet, Mana Vault, Jester's Cap (which I'd only sided in for the third game), and waited for him fo FoW. He didn't. I activated, and ripped DSC, Burning Wish and Will (or something). He scooped. I kinda felt bad for him, but good at the same time

Sadly, since there were only 17 players, I 'only' won a minty english The Abyss. Still nice, though. Oh, and I hear that starting next month, Eindhoven will be a sactioned event again. Yay! Down with proxies. Attendance has only decreased since we did that. My guess is that some 15 out of 17 players were fully powered regardless.

[BigMac]

the low turn out probably had something to do with the ravnica prerelease some 2 miles away from this vintage tournament.

But perhaps it will work as there now are points to be earned again.

[Eddie]

Well, I'm happy about it. My rating sucks and my T8 results at Eindhoven don't help out.

[Bram]

I absolutely agree. This would have been awesome for my rating, and for some inexplicable reason, it does matter to me.

[Bob The Builder]

My play-of-the-day was a completely skill-less win in the third game vs. Lennart's Gifts. I had lost the second game, so I chose to start. I drew a seven card hand with no turn one lock components. I was hoping for a Sphere of R at least, or maybe a Trinisphere, but I got a slow hand so mulliganed to six. I played Workshop, Mox Jet, Mana Vault, Jester's Cap (which I'd only sided in for the third game), and waited for him fo FoW. He didn't. I activated, and ripped DSC, Burning Wish and Will (or something). He scooped. I kinda felt bad for him, but good at the same time

I played jester's cap on him second game (I lost the first one) I got in on the board turn 1 and activated it next turn I had.  Freitag had a win in his hands though and was able to use it to win again.  After this game I came over to see you (Bram) play him (Freitag) and I was trying to keep myself from eating my own fist when I saw you pull the Cap-trick with greater succes than I did.

Sadly, since there were only 17 players, I 'only' won a minty english The Abyss. Still nice, though. Oh, and I hear that starting next month, Eindhoven will be a sactioned event again. Yay! Down with proxies. Attendance has only decreased since we did that. My guess is that some 15 out of 17 players were fully powered regardless.

I second that feeling.  I like it better when the tournament is sanctioned, even though I don't have a Black Lotus (yet).  And absolutley don't mind my rating, I'm playing the game for fun and mental challenge.

Seeing only 17 players was indeed a bit of a dip, but come to think about it, most of the best players where there...

[Starke of Rath]

Eindhoven is going to be sanctioned again? NOOO MY BROKEN TURN 1 HATCHLING!!
Now i cant play severance belcher anymore, but it doesn't

It couldn't attend at this tourney cause i was in winschoten at my grandparents (north-east in groningen)