[Results] Quebec Vintage Championship, September 3th

[Chiz]

82 players played in the first, annual, Quebec Vintage Championship. There were 32 players in the championship (Invitation only) and 50 in the Side-Event. The prize structure was (In canadian Dollars):

Championship
1st: Unl. Black Lotus
2nd: 320$
3rd: 130$
4th: 130$
5th: 70$
6th: 70$
7th: 70$
8th: 70$

Side-event
1st: Library of Alexandria
2nd: 130$, Store Credit
3rd: 90$, Store Credit
4th: 90$, Store Credit
5th: 30$, Store Credit
6th: 30$, Store Credit
7th: 30$, Store Credit
8th: 30$, Store Credit

Door Prizes:
1 Mana Drain English
150$ Store Credit


Jean-Philippe Keable and Guillaume Baril played their own Gifts deck builded for the championship and did pretty well (1st and 4th). Both tournaments had 6 round swiss + top8.

The metagame for the championship was something like:

Gifts: 5
Oath: 3
Control Slaver: 5
Uba Stax: 2
5c Stax: 2
Agro Workshop: 2
Bomberman: 5
Food Chain Goblin: 1
Fish: 2


Top8 Decklists:

1st: Jean-Philippe Keable
Next week gifts

4 Force of will
3 Mana drain
4 Gifts ungiven
1 Regrowth
4 Brainstorm
2 Merchant scroll
1 Impulse
1 Mystical tutor
1 Vampiric tutor
1 demonic tutor
1 balance
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Recoup
1 Burning wish
1 Fact or fiction
2 Cunning wish
1 Time walk
1 Ancestral recall
1 Darksteel colossus
1 Tinker
1 Auriok Salvagers
1 Rebuild

1 Sol ring
1 Black lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox jet
1 Mana vault
1 Mana crypt
1 Lotus petal
2 Flooded strand
3 Polluted delta
3 Tundra
2 Volcanic island
3 Underground sea
1 Tropical island
1 Tolarian academy

SB :
1 Extract
3 Rack and ruin
2 Pyroclasm
1 Pyroblast
1 Red elemental blast
1 Tendrill of agony
1 Stroke of genius
1 Ecoing truth
3 Damping matrix
1 Skeletal scrying


2nd: Stefan Beauchamp
Deck : CosmOath

4 Force of will
4 Mana drain
3 Misdirection
4 Brainstorm
3 Thirst for knowledge
2 Merchant scroll
1 Gaea’s blessing
1 Ecoing truth
1 Time walk
1 Ancestral recall

1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
1 Spirit of the night
4 Oath of druid
4 Chalice of the void
2 Engeneered explosive

4 Island
2 Tropical island
4 Forbidden orchard
2 Flooded strand
2 Polluted delta
3 Wastland
1 Strip mine
1 Mox sapphire
1 Mox emerald
1 Mox ruby
1 Mox pearl
1 Mox jet
1 Black lotus

SB :
3 Damping matrix
3 Ground seal
2 Arcane Laboratory
2 Pristine Angel
2 Energy flux
1 Rebuild
1 Ecoing truth
1 Woodripper

3rd: Martin Bonneville
Bomberman

4 Force of will
3 Brainstorm
3 Thirst for knowledge
4 Mana drain
1 Time walk
1 Fact or fiction
1 Ancestral recall
3 Aether vial
2 Phyrexian furnace
1 Engeneered explosive
2 Aether spelbomb
1 Pithing needle
4 Trinket mage
3 Medling mage
4 Auriok salvagers

4 Flooded strand
4 Tundra
6 Island
1 Mox jet
1 Mox ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox emerald
1 Mox pearl
1 Sol ring
1 Black lotus
1 Library of alexandria
1 Polluted delta

SB :
4 Sword to plowshare
1 Chalice of the void
2 Disenchant
1 Tormod’s crypt
2 Exalted angel
3 Energy flux
2 Veldaken shackles


4th: Guillaume Baril
Next week gift

4 Force of will
3 Mana drain
4 Brainstorm
4 Gift ingiven
1 Regrowth
2 Merchant scroll
1 Impulse
1 Mystical tutor
1 Vampiric tutor
1 demonic tutor
1 balance
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Recoup
1 Burning wish
1 Fact or fiction
2 Cunning wish
1 Time walk
1 Ancestral recall
1 Darksteel colossus
1 Tinker
1 Auriok Salvagers
1 Rebuild

1 Sol ring
1 Black lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox jet
1 Mana vault
1 Mana crypt
1 Lotus petal
2 Flooded strand
3 Polluted delta
3 Tundra
2 Volcanic island
3 Underground sea
1 Tropical island
1 Tolarian academy

SB :
1 Extract
3 Rack and ruin
2 Pyroclasm
1 Pyroblast
1 Red elemental blast
1 Tendrill of agony
1 Stroke of genius
1 Ecoing truth
3 Damping matrix
1 Skeletal scrying


5th: Ian Sauvé-Fournier
Control Slaver

4 Goblin welder
1 Yawgmoth’s will
1 demonic tutor
1 Vampiric tutor
1 Mystical tutor
1 Gift ungiven
1 Tinker
1 Platinum angel
1 Triskelion
1 Lightning greaves
1 Time walk
1 Crucible of the world
1 Mindslaver
4 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral recall
4 Thirst for knowlwdge
1 Fact or fiction
4 Force of will
4 Mana drain
1 Ecoing truth

1 Black lotus
1 Mox sapphire
1 Mox jet
1 Mox ruby
1 Mox emerald
1 Mox pearl
1 Mana crypt
1 Sol ring
3 Polluted delta
2 Flooded strand
3 Volcanic island
2 Underground sea
3 Island
1 Tolarian academy
1 Library of alexandria
1 Strip mine
1 Seat of Synod

SB :
3 Blood moon
3 Rack and ruin
2 Pyroclasm
2 Lava dart
2 Red elemental blast
1 Pyroblast
2 Tormod’s crypt



6th: Ugo Rivard
Control Slaver

4 Goblin welder
1 Yawgmoth’s will
1 demonic tutor
1 Vampiric tutor
1 Mystical tutor
1 Gift ungiven
1 Tinker
1 Platinum angel
1 Triskelion
1 Lightning greaves
1 Time walk
1 Crucible of the world
1 Mindslaver
4 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral recall
4 Thirst for knowlwdge
1 Fact or fiction
4 Force of will
4 Mana drain
1 Ecoing truth

1 Black lotus
1 Mox sapphire
1 Mox jet
1 Mox ruby
1 Mox emerald
1 Mox pearl
1 Mana crypt
1 Sol ring
4 Polluted delta
1 Flooded strand
3 Volcanic island
2 Underground sea
3 Island
1 Tolarian academy
1 Library of alexandria
1 Strip mine
1 Seat of Cinod

SB :
3 Blood moon
3 Rack and ruin
2 Pyroclasm
2 Lava dart
2 Red elemental blast
1 Pyroblast
2 Tormod’s crypt


7th: François-Xavier Bélanger
Gift / Salvager

4 Brainstorm
4 Force of will
4 Mana drain
3 Gift ungiven
3 Cunning wish
3 Thirst for knowledge
3 Duress
2 Auriok Salvagers
2 Phyrexian furnace
1 Aether spelbomb
1 Tinker
1 Darksteel colossus
1 Time walk
1 Ancestral recall
1 Demonic tutor
1 Vampiric tutor
1 Yawgmoth’s will
1 Regrowt

3 polluted delta
4 Flooded strand
1 Library of alexendria
2 Tropical island
3 Tundra
2 Undreground sea
2 Island
1 Black lotus
1 Mox sapphire
1 Mox jet
1 Mox ruby
1 Mox emerald
1 Mox pearl
1 Sol ring

SB :
3 Sword to plowshare
3 disenchant
1 Gift ungiven
1 Daze
1 Stifle
1 Counterspell
1 Coffin purge
1 Misdirection
1 Stroke of genius
1 Shallow grave
1 Ecoing truth


8th: Lany Chabot-Laroche
Bomberman the original

3 Aether spelbomb
1 Ancestral recall
2 Aura of silence
4 Auriok salvager
1 Black lotus
4 Brainstorm
1 Engeneered explosive
1 Fact or fiction
4 Flooded strands
4 Force of will

5 Island
1 Library of alexandria
1 Lion eye diamond
4 Mana drain
4 Medling mage
1 Mox pearl
1 Mox sapphire
3 Phyrexian furnace
3 Plains
1 Sol ring
1 Strip mine
2 Swords to plowshares
1 Time walk
3 Trinket mage
4 Tundra

SB :
2 Disenchant
2 Energy flux
2 Sword to plowshare
2 Exalted angel
2 Back to basic
3 Brain freeze
2 Veldaken shackles


Bomberman won the Side-event.

[49 Cents]

What is UP with all the bomberman around there? Do people not play with Needle / Chalice?

[Seldon]

What is UP with all the bomberman around there? Do people not play with Needle / Chalice?

LoL..

Chalice and Needle is good against Control Slaver too right? And do ppl stop playing CS because of that?

All "good" deck have answer to the hate you play against them and bomberman is no different.

[Chiz]

What is UP with all the bomberman around there? Do people not play with Needle / Chalice?

LoL..

Chalice and Needle is good against Control Slaver too right? And do ppl stop playing CS because of that?

All "good" deck have answer to the hate you play against them and bomberman is no different.

That's true!

A lot of people misunderstand Bomberman: It's not a combo deck. It's a Control-Combo-Agro Deck. Bringing combo hate like CotV or event worst, Needle, won't stop the deck at all! They will tutor (with Trinket Mage) for a Engeneered explosive and destroy your hate or they will simply beat you. Mage Beatdownâ„¢ (Trinket and Meddling) wins a lot of games! Its versatility makes it efficient: Try it and you will understand why I say it's a Control-Combo-Agro deck.

Bomberman is probably one of the most underrated deck... A deck that placed 4th and 5th in the last Syracuse Power tourney and bring back 2 Moxen shouldn't be a bad deck...

[49 Cents]

I did not mean it in a disrespecting way. I'm just so surprised to see Bomberman doing so good. But I don't think that the deck is able to beat Staxx, with Sphere's, Chalice's, etc..

[Chiz]

I did not mean it in a disrespecting way. I'm just so surprised to see Bomberman doing so good. But I don't think that the deck is able to beat Staxx, with Sphere's, Chalice's, etc..

I don't know why you find it so surprising... The metagame had 4 Stax (Out of 32 decks), that's not that much!

Stax is not a very good matchup for bomberman, but it's not impossible to win. I finished 3rd in that tournament with Bomberman and in the 6th round, I beated Stax to make top8. In the first game, I played early Meddling Mage and trinket Mage to beat him down to 2, when He topdecked Karn for the win...  I won 2nd and 3rd game, thanks to Energy Flux and Disenchant!

[moxpearl]

Wow, that's a lot of infinite mana.  Gotta love it.  Now, if only that oath deck was salvagers based, you would have had the full triad.

Anyone in that top 8 going to write a report?  I'd be very interested in seeing how those Salvagers (Gifts or Bomberman) decks faired against the Workshop decks that packed chalices and spheres.

[Marton]

There is, but they are posted in french in a different website.

[Moxlotus]

I'm surprised more people didn't play Stax.  In a meta of Bomberman and Gifts-with-terrible-mana-bases, it seems like Stax would streamroll.

[Marton]

It was clearly the best metagame choice, even before meandeck gifts was publicly revealed, and before stax started winning the big tournaments (and that for some ungodly reason people are just like sheeps - the follow blindly whatever deck won the last tourney). Basically, all the stax players were just on the border between top-8 and not top-8, and they all got amongst the top tables. What happenned is that the pairings turned in a way that the stax eliminated themselves. I am sure that the 9th-10th positions are stax players.

In addition, I believe that every stax deck player at least 2 null rod, in foresight of the expected metagame. It is hard to explain how such a clearly great choice didn't turn up into more wins, but I guess that it can be mostly attributed to the pairings, from what I can recall.

[Wolven]

I'm surprised more people didn't play Stax.  In a meta of Bomberman and Gifts-with-terrible-mana-bases, it seems like Stax would streamroll.

Umm Stax has a VERY hard time dealing with Sacred Ground.

[LotusHead]

Five out of eight decks in top 8 ran Salvagers?

 :lol:

Then again, it looked like the field was 1/3 Salvagers/Bomberman.

Sounds like a friggin nightmare!