[Results] ELD's Mox VI (over 80 pics)

[ELD]

27 of New England's best battled it out for not one, but two pieces of power.  With a Mox Jet for 1st, and a Timetwister for 2nd, all the players were hoping to make the finals.  In the end, the two players left fighting it out were no strangers to championship gold.  Rich Shay bested Steven Houdlette in a GAT mirror to take home the title and the Waterbury Bye. 

You can find the tournament announcement here.

Everyone who attended received a Mox Jet proxy, which will not count as a proxy at ELD events, or Myriad events. 



These are my way of saying thank you to everyone who supports the New England Vintage scene.  It is the constant support of the players that allows the community to continue to grow.  You can view pictures from the tournament here. 

The final standings showed a varied metagame.  With 6 distinct decks in the Top 8, there seems to be no shortage of options for making the cut.  Once there though, GAT found a way to win, even against decks that have been built to defeat the reemerging power-house.  In the end, GAT out preformed all the other archtypes, if with a little bit of good fortune.  Rich Shay managed to give his opponent only a single turn in game 3 on his way to the finals.  With the $25 entry fee, the prize support was very rich, despite a slightly below average turn out. 

The Final Standings (with prizes)
1 Rich Shay - GAT (Split Mox Jet and Timetwister with Stephen)
2 Stephen Houdlette - GAT (Split Mox Jet and Timetwister with Rich)
3 Jason Bourque - Ichorid (Mint Mana Crypt)
4 Ross Merriam - Staxless Stax (NM Underground Sea)
5 Justin Bransfield - Gush Tendrils (choice from Type 1 goodness)
6 Mike Lydon - Bomberman (choice from Type 1 goodness)
7 Raymond Robilllard - Staxless Stax (choice from Type 1 goodness)
8 Ben Kowal - URPhid (choice from Type 1 goodness)


The Top 8 bracket
 --------------------------------
  1  Shay, Rich                    ----------------------------
  8  Kowal, Ben                   Shay, Rich                       -----------------------------
 --------------------------------                                            Shay, Rich
  5  Robillard, Raymond
  4  Bourque, Jason             Bourque, Jason
 --------------------------------      -----------------------------                                            Shay, Rich
  3  Lydon, Mike                  -----------------------------
  6  Merriam, Ross                Merriam, Ross
 --------------------------------                                            Houdlette, Stephen
  7  Houdlette, Stephen       Houdlette, Stephen         -------------------------------
  2  Bransfield, Justin            -----------------------------
 --------------------------------

The rest of the field:

Scourbys, Charles    Bomberless Bomberman
Behre, Chad     UWB Fish
McNally, Matt    Bomberman
Colon, Joe    SSB
Meyst, Rich     Oath
Greenbaum, Micah   Grim Long
Fraser, Corey    GAT
Marek, Ryan    Bomberless Bomberman
Rodrigues, Nick     Tog
Yarrington, Dan     TMWA
Katz, Daniel    Draco Explosion
Broderick, Pat     Gifts
Knowlden, Zack   GAT
Shea, Matt    Bomberman
Copes, Bill   BR Stax
Kowalczyk, Jeffrey   Staxless Stax
Earle, Alden   Empty Belcher
Joskiewich, Daniel      Control Slaver
Hughes, Scott     Staxless Stax

Top 8 Decklists

Rich Shay - GAT

2 flooded strand
3 polluted delta
3 underground sea
3 tropical island
1 island
1 volcanic island
1 library of Alexandria
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black lotus

4 force of will
2 misdirection
1 echoing truth
3 mana drain
3 duress
1 cunning wish

4 brainstorm
4 merchant scroll
4 gush
3 opt
1 ancestral recall
1 regrowth
1 time walk
1 fastbond
1 yawgmoth's will

1 demonic tutor
1 vampiric tutor
1 mystical tutor

4 quirion dryad
1 psychatog

sb--
3 yixlid jailer
2 massacre
2 oxidize
1 artifact mutation
1 energy flux
1 red blast
1 berserk
1 fire/ice
2 nullrod
1 submerge

Justin Bransfield - Gush Tendrils

3 Snow Covered Island
1 Swamp
2 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
1 Flooded Strand
4 Polluted Delta
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mana Crypt
1 Lotus Petal
1 Sol Ring
1 Ancestral Recall
4 Merchant Scroll
4 Brainstorm
4 Gush
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Hurkyll's Recall
4 Force of Will
4 Duress
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Dark Ritual
1 Fastbond
1 Timetwister
1 Mind's Desire
1 Necropotance
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Yawgmoth's Bargain
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Yawgmoth's Will

Sideboard
2 Tidespout Tyrant
1 Platinum Angel
4 Oath of Druids
2 Extirpate
2 Massacre
1 Rebuild
2 Forbidden Orchard
1 Tinker

Mike Lydon - Bomberman

4 Trinket Mage
4 Aven Mindcensor
4 Flooded Strand
4 Tundra
3 Daze
3 Swords to Plowshares
1 Plains
2 Island
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
4 Force of Will
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
3 Jotun Grunt
3 Auriok Salvager
4 Brainstorm
1 Pithing Needle
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Mana Crypt
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Aether Spellbomb

Sideboard:
4 Energy Flux
4 Children of Korlis
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Skullclamp
1 Jotun Grunt
1 Swords to Plowshares

Jason Bourque - Ichorid

4 Glogari Grave-Troll
4 Stinkweed Imp
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Dryad Arbor
3 Golgari Thug
4 Dread Return
4 Narcomoeba
4 Ichorid
4 Street Wraith
4 Bride From Below
4 Serum Powder
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Cabal Therapy
2 Cephalid Sage
2 Flame-Kin Zealot
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
1 Darkblast

Sideboard
2 Bayou
3 Wooded Foothills
3 Oxidize
2 Darkblast
3 Reverent Silence
2 Emerald Charm

Raymond Robillard - Staxless Stax

4 Goblin Welder
4 Sphere of Resistance
3 Crucible of Worlds
2 Powder Keg
2 Chalice of the Void
2 Coalition Relic
2 Sensei's Divining Top
2 Gorilla Shaman
1 Trinisphere
1 Time Walk
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Memor Jar
1 Crop Rotation
1 Balance
1 Triskellion
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Tinker
4 City of Brass
4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Wasteland
2 Gemstone Mine
1 Strip Mine
1 Barbarian Ring
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Bazzar of Baghdad
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crupt
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Sundering Titan
1 Korn Silver Golem

Sideboard
4 Leylind of the Void
2 Chalice of the Void
2 Eon Hub
2 Red Elemental Blast
1 Shattering Spree
1 Darkblast
1 Uba Mask
1 Triskellion
1 Jester's Cap

Ross Merriam - Stackless-Ubaless-Ubastax, Now with more Uba Mask

4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
3 City of Brass
3 Gemstone Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Barbarian Ring
1 Bazzar of Baghdad
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Ererald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Valut
2 Coalition Relic
1 Ancestral Recall
2 Sensei's Divining Top
3 Crucible of Worlds
1 Time Walk
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Crop Rotation
1 Balance
1 Tinker
4 Goblin Welder
2 Gorilla Shaman
2 Chalice of the Void
2 Powder Keg
4 Sphere of Resistence
1 Trinisphere
1 Platinum Angel
1 Duplicatn
2 Sundering Titan
1 Memory Jar

Sideboard
2 Uba Mask
2 Chalice of the Void
1 Darkblast
2 Anceitn Drudge
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Red Elemental Blast
1 Triskellion
1 Shattering Spree

Stephen Houdlette - GAT

4 Quiron Dryad
1 Psychatog
4 Brainstorm
4 Gush
3 Merchant Scroll
1 Fastbond
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Yawgmoth's Will
4 Force of Will
2 Misdirection
2 Mana Drain
2 Fire//Ice
1 Echoing Truth
1 Cunning Wish
4 Duress
2 Opt
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Island
1 Volcanic Island
3 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea
3 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
1 Black Lotus

Sideboard
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Volcanic Island
2 Pyroblast
1 Energy Flux
1 Oxidize
1 Naturalize
1 Artifact Mutation
1 Rebuild
1 Darkblast
1 Smother
1 Beserk

Ben Kowal - UrPhid

4 Ophidian
2 Meloku, the Clouded Mirror
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
3 Mana Leak
2 Misdirection
1 Counterspell
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Disrupt
3 Fire//Ice
2 Engineered Explosives
2 Merchant Scroll
2 Blood Moon
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Echoing Truth
1 Dominate
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Strip Mine
1 Wasteland
3 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
7 Island
3 Volcanic Island

Sideboard
4 Leyline of the Void
3 Serum Powder
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Pyroclasm
2 Rack and Ruin
2 Gorilla Shaman

Congratulations to Bill Copes the winner of the pre-registration drawing.  He received Family Guy Vol 1 on DVD. 
Congratulations to Daniel Katz, the winner of the side draft for a free Force of Will. 

Thank you again to everyone who made it out to this event.  I hope to see you all at my next event, which I will be announcing soon. 

[Mon, Goblin Chief]

Sounds like a great tournament (though it seems a bit small for such a prize-support). And I do like the T8. And the top 2, obv...

Congrats to Rich and Stephen! Sweet to see my take on GAT works as well for you guys as it did for me . Opt + Drain for the win! (I presume you followed the "control if in doubt" play-style I also use?)
I'd be incredibly interested to see a tournament report from you guys. In hopes that these actually will be written I'll hold questions on the performance of special cards/choices back for the moment.

random other questions concerning the metagame breakdown: What is Bomberless Bomberman? And how do you play Gifts with a single Gifts?

PS: Those proxies look sweet man!

[ELD]

random other questions concerning the metagame breakdown: What is Bomberless Bomberman?

It is a Trinket Mage, Dark Confidant fish style deck, that has a Dark Ritual/Tendrils package as well.  It basically replaces the Salvagers with traditional brokeness.  Tutors, mana acceleration, and Will/Tendrils with the back up plan of the 2 power beaters.  The deck is very interesting.  It has 4x Scroll, with a pitch counter suite as well as Duress.  Trinket Mage often finds Lotus, so your Will consistently has both Ancestral and Lotus.  It has similarities to early SSB that would always fetch Lotus off Gifts, then use Welder to recur it. 

And how do you play Gifts with a single Gifts?

Replacing the other copies with Skeletal Scrying, Fact or Fiction and Fire/Ice.  The result is a weakened deck, but it still has game vs most of the field. 

PS: Those proxies look sweet man!

Thank you, they are a ton of work.  I will be doing Time Walk next, which should be a fun challenge. 

[The Atog Lord]

ELD ran a smooth and very fun event. The ELD proxies also look excellent.

Mon, your posting here on TMD was a factor in my doing well. Much props. I plan to write a detailed report.

[Marek]

random other questions concerning the metagame breakdown: What is Bomberless Bomberman?

It is a Trinket Mage, Dark Confidant fish style deck, that has a Dark Ritual/Tendrils package as well.  It basically replaces the Salvagers with traditional brokeness.  Tutors, mana acceleration, and Will/Tendrils with the back up plan of the 2 power beaters.  The deck is very interesting.  It has 4x Scroll, with a pitch counter suite as well as Duress.  Trinket Mage often finds Lotus, so your Will consistently has both Ancestral and Lotus.  It has similarities to early SSB that would always fetch Lotus off Gifts, then use Welder to recur it. 


Yep, ELD pretty much covered it.  Incase you are curious what the list looks like:
4 Duress
4 Force of Will
2 Misdirection
4 Brainstorm
4 Merchant Scroll
4 Dark Confidant
3 Trinket Mage
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vamp Tutor
1 Mystical
1 Imperial Seal
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
2 Repeal
1 Yawg Will
3 Dark Ritual
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Tormod's Crypt
5 Moxen
1 Lotus
1 Petal
1 Mana Crypt
4 Delta
2 Strand
4 Sea
1 Island
1 Swamp
1 Library

Sideboard:
1x Tormod’s Crypt
4x Jailer
3x Energy Flux
4x Old Man
1x Hurkyl's
2x Trickbind


I also ended up playing this at Myriad the next day with the change of:
- 1 Imperial seal
- 1 Mana Crypt
+1 Echoing Truth
+1 Engineered Explosives

Charles Scourbys sent me an idea for the list and we ended up building this.  It seemed really solid at ELD's tournament and only started losing matches due to horredous confidant flips, and mislplays...however it wasn't as good in the Myriad meta.  Who knows, I plan on working on the list a little more to see if it can be improved, so you may see the list in the future.

[FTKzak]

ELD,

This was a great event, I had a lot of fun despite spending most of my time at the high-numbered tables. You can definitely count me in for your next tournament.

I had just thrown together a very rough GAT list the night before and wasn't expecting to do well - but as a learning experience and a warm-up for Waterbury, it was well worth it.

Also, lots of pictures = awesome.

[desolutionist]

Awesome job, Rich; I heard you won Myriad too.

[Mon, Goblin Chief]

Awesome job, Rich; I heard you won Myriad too.

Wow, awesome showing! I guess Opt is for real

@ELD: Thanks for the prompt response!
@Marek: Thanks for the list, the deck looks really interesting. Do you think a single Gush (awesome to Scroll for on random occasions and during the combo-turn) might be usefull? Or maybe a few Mind Twist so that you have something broken to do early with the Rituals?

@Rich: Thanks for the props and congrats again. Happy to have been of service . I'm looking forward to your report. So did you actually win Myriad, too? And again with GAT?

[The Atog Lord]

So did you actually win Myriad, too? And again with GAT?

Yes, both times with Opt.

[Mon, Goblin Chief]

Masterfull Opting for the win

[desolutionist]

ELD, I'm totally jealous of that pic gallery. 

[Marek]

@Mon, Goblin Chief:  The singleton gush may be something to consider, however I'm not too much of a fan of the mindtwist.  With so much misdirection going around in our metagame, I wouldn't like to be hit by my own twist.  I also don't like the fact that it cant be pitched to FoW or Misdirection.  I'll definitely test out the gush idea though.  Thanks for your input