Hero Zone - Sandusky, OH - Top 8 lists and results

[GrandpaBelcher]

This month's Second Saturday Vintage tournament attracted 21 rogues, ruffians and Magic players.  The top four split the total collected prize pool of $315 and took home $78.75 each.  The next cash tournament at the Hero Zone will be the Second Saturday in March, March 8.  $5 Proxy Vintage tournaments will also be scheduled once a week, during the week as a regular event, so look for more information on that in the future.

Top 8 after five rounds:
1  Justin Morford - MUD - 12 points
2  Kyle Paster - Flash - 11 points
3  Josh "Coffee Cup" "The Late JC" Chapple - Red Workshop Aggro - 11 points
4  Francis Hart - Red Workshop Aggro - 10 points
5  Josh Morford - Drain Tendrils - 10 points
6  Michael Smar - Drain Tendrils - 10 points
7  Jeff "Brain" Blystone - UB Mana Ichorid - 10 points
8  Angel Rivera - Masknaught - 10 points

Other decks consisted of two 5-Color Stax, two more Drain Tendrils, Tog, Oath, Slaver, Belcher, Doomsday, UR Phid, UBG Trinket Goyf, Vroman's Deck, and another Red Workshop Aggro.  So quite varied with lots of Tendrils and Workshops.  Player names included four Joshes, a Jeff, a John, and a Justin.

Top 8
Justin Morford beat Angel Rivera
Francis Hart beat Josh Morford
Mike Smar beat Josh Chapple
Kyle Paster beat Jeff Blystone

Justin, Francis, Mike, and Kyle took home $78.50 a piece.

Decks

Justin Morford - MUD

4x Sphere of Resistance
4x Chalice of the Void
4x Tangle Wire
1x Trinisphere
2x Thorn of Amethyst
2x Umezawa's Jitte
4x Juggernaut
4x Triskelion
4x Metalworker
4x Sword of Fire and Ice
1x Memory Jar
4x Mishra's Workshop
4x Ancient Tomb
2x City of Traitors
1x Tolarian Academy
1x Strip Mine
2x Mishra's Factory
3x Wasteland
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Pearl
1x Mox Ruby
1x Mana Crypt
1x Black Lotus
1x Mana Vault
1x Sol Ring

Sideboard
2x Thorn of Amethyst
2x Serum Powder
4x Leyline of the Void
4x Duplicant
3x Crucible of Worlds

Kyle Paster - Flash

4x Merchant Scroll
4x Flash
4x Brainstorm
4x Force of Will
4x Pact of Negation
3x Summoner's Pact
4x Protean Hulk
4x Virulent Sliver
1x Heart Sliver
2x Thoughtseize
1x Elvish Spirit Guide
1x Ancestral Recall
1x Chain of Vapor
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Mystical Tutor
4x Polluted Delta
3x Flooded Strand
2x Underground Sea
2x Tropical Island
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Mox Pearl
1x Mox Ruby
1x Lotus Petal
1x Black Lotus
1x Island
1x Misdirection

Sideboard
4x Leyline of the Void
3x Reverent Silence
2x Duress
1x Rebuild
1x Winged Sliver
1x Echoing Truth
1x Chain of Vapor
1x Tinker
1x Platinum Angel

Josh Chapple - Red Workshop Aggro

4x Juggernaut
4x Solemn Simulacrum
4x Goblin Welder
3x Duplicant
3x Triskelion
2x Gorilla Shaman
1x Viashino Heretic
4x Sphere of Resistance
4x Thorn of Amethyst
1x Trinisphere
1x Sol Ring
1x Mana Vault
1x Mana Crypt
1x Mox Pearl
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Ruby
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Black Lotus
3x Umezawa's Jitte
4x Mishra's Workshop
4x Wasteland
1x Strip Mine
3x Mishra's Factory
6x Mountain

Sideboard
2x Red Elemental Blast
2x Pyroblast
3x Rack and Ruin
3x Magus of the Moon
3x Powder Keg
2x Jester's Cap

Francis Hart - Red Shop Aggro

1x Sol Ring
1x Mana Vault
2x Duplicant
2x Triskelion
1x Mox Pearl
1x Mox Ruby
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Jet
1x Black Lotus
3x Sword of Fire and Ice
1x Mana Crypt
4x Juggernaut
1x Trinisphere
4x Sphere of Resistance
4x Thorn of Amethyst
4x Solemn Simulacrum
4x Goblin Welder
4x Magus of the Moon
1x Strip Mine
3x Mishra's Factory
4x Wasteland
4x Mishra's Workshop
1x Tolarian Academy
4x Mountain
2x Snow-Covered Mountain

Sideboard
4x Leyline of the Void
2x Rack and Ruin
2x Powder Keg
3x Red Elemental Blast
4x Pyroblast

Josh Morford - Drain Tendrils

4x Accumulated Knowledge
4x Thirst for Knowledge
4x Brainstorm
4x Force of Will
4x Mana Drain
4x Merchant Scroll
1x Mystical Tutor
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Yawgmoth's Will
1x Gush
1x Ancestral Recall
1x Time Walk
1x Hurkyl's Recall
1x Chain of Vapor
1x Tendrils of Agony
1x Empty the Warrens
1x Mind's Desire
1x Fact or Fiction
1x Tolarian Academy
1x Library of Alexandria
2x Island
2x Volcanic Island
4x Polluted Delta
1x Flooded Strand
3x Underground Sea
1x Black Lotus
1x Mana Vault
1x Mana Crypt
1x Sol Ring
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Ruby
1x Lotus Petal

Sideboard
1x Gorilla Shaman
1x Pyroclasm
2x Red Elemental Blast
1x Hurkyl's Recall
1x Rebuild
1x Rack and Ruin
4x Leyline of the Void
2x Leyline of Singularity
2x Duress

Michael Smar - Drain Tendrils

2x Flooded Strand
4x Island
3x Polluted Delta
1x Tolarian Academy
4x Underground Sea
1x Lotus Petal
1x Mana Crypt
1x Mana Vault
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Pearl
1x Mox Ruby
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Black Lotus
1x Sol Ring
1x Ancestral Recall
4x Brainstorm
4x Thirst for Knowledge
1x Time Walk
1x Skeletal Scrying
1x Fact or Fiction
4x Accumulated Knowledge
2x Intuition
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Mystical Tutor
1x Chain of Vapor
2x Hurkyl's Recall
1x Rebuild
4x Force of Will
4x Mana Drain
2x Tendrils of Agony
1x Yawgmoth's Will

Sideboard
4x Leyline of the Void
3x Pithing Needle
1x Echoing Truth
1x Darkblast
1x Tinker
1x Darksteel Colossus
4x Duress

Jeff Blystone - UB Mana Ichorid

1x Darkblast
4x Breakthrough
4x Stinkweed Imp
3x Putrid Imp
4x Golgari Grave-Troll
4x Bazaar of Baghdad
2x Golgari Thug
1x Flamekin Zealot
2x Ichorid
1x Akroma, Angel of Wrath
1x Cephalid Sage
4x Bridge from Below
4x Cabal Therapy
4x Narcomoeba
3x Dread Return
1x Lotus Petal
1x Black Lotus
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Mox Jet
3x Polluted Delta
1x Bloodstained Mire
1x Island
4x Underground Sea
1x Tropical Island
2x Bayou
1x Life from the Loam
1x Ancestral Recall

Sideboard
4x Chain of Vapor
3x Hurkyl's Recall
4x Reverent Silence
2x Darkblast
1x Tropical Island
1x Echoing Truth

Angel Rivera - Masknaught

4x Phyrexian Dreadnaught
4x Dark Confidant
4x Brainstorm
4x Stifle
3x Trinket Mage
3x Illusionary Mask
4x Force of Will
1x Echoing Truth
1x Pithing Needle
1x Tormod's Crypt
3x Duress
2x Thoughtseize
1x Ancestral Recall
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Time Walk
3x Wasteland
1x Strip Mine
4x Polluted Delta
2x Flooded Strand
3x Underground Sea
2x Island
1x Sawmp
1x Black Lotus
1x Mox Ruby
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Pearl
1x Mox Jet

Sideboard
2x Smother
2x Pithing Needle
1x Engineered Explosives
4x Leyline of the Void
3x Extirpate
3x Hurkyl's Recall

[Methuselahn]

Go go Meandeck MUD   ...I guess.   

So is this the UB mana ichorid deck people have been talking about?  It looks like it folds to chalice for 1.  Yes? No? Anybody?

$5 Proxy Vintage tournaments will also be scheduled once a week, during the week as a regular event, so look for more information on that in the future.

That's awesome for you guys,  I hope you set a trend nationwide. 

[GrandpaBelcher]

$5 Proxy Vintage tournaments will also be scheduled once a week, during the week as a regular event, so look for more information on that in the future.

That's awesome for you guys,  I hope you set a trend nationwide. 

Me too!  The goal is to get the players local to Sandusky interested in the format without pitting them against the Vintage elite every time and discouraging them with losses.  Recently we've had 20 or so players at these tournaments, and all but one or two come from less than an hour away.  Getting another half-dozen or more local players would really put these tourneys on the map.

[Twaun007]

This tourney was awesome. The only match I won was the "buy" 1st round. I guess that is what happens when you play a poop deck.

Props:
-Hero Zone for being so bad ass!
-1 dollar beers from the bar across the street.
-Meeting Kyle P
-Everyone being friends
-Eddy Brain and TK for making it out.
-Going 1-3-1 and being in the casual circuit all day.

Slops:
-Shouldn't of played a poop deck.

[LennonMarx]

Dude, Twan, playing a poop deck like that is, dare I say, your Price of Glory. Good seeing everyone again and the Tourny was a blast. I didn't take notes, but I suppose I can post a mini-report for those who care.

Round 1: Nam w/ 5c Stax

Game one he wins the die roll (I didn't get my Rock Lobster/Paper Tiger/Scissors Lizzard until later, and once I did I never lost with it.) and ellects to play. He opens with wasteland, mox, mox, lotus (I call cheatz!) and 3sphere. I have no force and feel compleely desimatied. He drops a smokestack a few turns later and I scoop. However, the only cards he saw of my deck were islands and an AK so (at least according to our banter) he boarded as though I was playing oath.
Game two I'm on the play Nam applies no pressure at all. After a few turns i play a few moxes, rebuild, replay them, chain them back to my hand, replay them, and tendrils for exactly 20.
Game three is epic. He opens with a gemstone mine, then a city and plays a 2sphere. I have basics and a few moxes and am just biding my time. He plays a keg, I force, and he REBs, and trhen he kills my moxes. The next turn he strips me down to 2 land. I play a ruby and pass. He proceeds to tinker for crucible and strip an island. At this point his only mana sources are City and his Mine with 1 counter on it. I have Hyrcles Recall in hand and if I topdeck a land I can recall him and if he doesn't draw a mana source he can't replay the Crucible and I'll have time to get back in the game. I topdeck a Flooded Strand and he does in fact miss the land drop, and opts to play his 2sphere again. By the time he gets mana to do much more I have drains back online and counter the crucible and then a second one. I soon combo him out.
All told, this was my 2nd match with the deck ever, and the win against shops was a good omen.
1-0

Round 2: Twan w/ 5c poop stax
Game one he plays cards like supression field and price of glory. We joke at each other through the game and have a generally good time. Eventually I H. Recall him to get his Orb of Dreams off the field and do broken Will things.
Game two he plays an early mana crypt and it does something like 14 damage to him. At some point I tinker up the big man and he scoops after drawing orb of dreams.
2-0

Round 3 Kyle Paster w/ Flash
Game 1 is akward. He plays an early virulent sliver and I can't find a black mana to tutor for a way to win. I get slowly poisoned Napolian style.
Game 2 I play control all game. A sliver is swining but I'm in no real hurry. He tries to flash me out and I have quadruple counter up. I only need 3 of them to make sure he dies to a pact trigger on his next upkeep.
Game 3 I keep a bad hand because it has leyline. I'm almost in the game for a while, then he chain of vapors the leyline and has 2 pacts for my 2 drains.
2-1
 
Round 4 John Blystone w/ U/R Phid
Game 1 he gets a phid going and I feel as though I need to go for it before I get burried by the phid. I play some draw at his EoT, then Will on my turn. He forces and I force back... and that's it! In his full grip he had but one counter and my Will gets there.
Game 2 I needle phid to shut off his draw(edit: Doesn't actually work. Whoops. Sorry John). We both whittle each others resources down, then I refill with an Intuition for AKs. He can't keep up with the card advantage, and I eventually cast Will for the kill.
3-1

Round 5 Francis Hart w/ Shop Agro.
We are both locks for the T8, so we draw. We play for fun and he beats me 2-1.
3-1-1

Top 8 Coffee Cup with Shop Agro
Game 1 he plays some moxes and some disruption but doesn't apply much pressure. I drain a few guys and get a boatload of mana. Each time I burn a bit, but the mana turns into cards that put me way ahead. I eventually Rebuild and go off.
Game 2 is very similar to game 1. He has red blasts this game, and counters a few of my bounce spells, but at one point he taps out, and I H. Recall him and then cast a massive will. I had to get some extra storm due to him gaining 8 life off Jitte, but it wasn't an issue.

It was a great tourny and all of my opponents were great players and people. Sorry to my round 4 opponent for forgetting your name. All in all, I love this deck and will likely be playing it for some time in the shop heavy field of Sandusky. I hope to see everyone next month: this means you Yang Time and Guhstin!

[nartman99]

Round 1: Nam w/ 5c Stax

Our games were a lot closer than you make them sound. I think that I would have won game 3 fairly quickly if Sundering Titan wasn't the last card in my hand when I resolved Tinker. Oh well, it happens! Hopefully I'll be competitive the next time we play.

The guy that you played in the fourth round was John Blystone. He is a very good local Type 2 player that hasn't played very much since he graduated from college. Hopefully he'll try his hand at the gentleman's format more!

Also, I wonder if you guys knew that Pithing Needle on Ophidian doesn't work. Oracle text: Whenever Ophidian attacks and isn't blocked, you may draw a card. If you do, Ophidian deals no combat damage this turn.

All in all, it was a great time! I can't wait for the next one. I hear that there may be a tournament at the Hero Zone for a Mox Sapphire coming up sometime soon!

Props to all of my friends for hanging out and having fun! Props to the people that come out from all over the place. Props to the Hero Zone for being awesome!

[LennonMarx]

As far as the games go, I didn't mean to make them sound like blowouts, I was just typing what I remembered of them. Game 1 was a blowout for sure. Game 2 I don't remember card for card, but I remember never feeling threatened and I won fairly easily. Game 3 was, as I said epic, and probably one of the best games of magic I've played ever. No doubt that it was close. Tinker for titan would have gotten the same result as tinker for crucible though: kill an island, then have it back in your hand via the H. Recall played off the topdecked land. If I sounded cocky about the game I didn't mean to. You are an amazing player and it was a tightly played match.

John Blystone was a cool opponent and I shall now and forever remember his name.

We were not aware that needle didn't work on phid, thanks for the heads up. The printed wording seems functional and we didn't think to oracle it.

Again, sorry Nam if I misrepresented the games, and hearing them from your side would be very interesting as well.

Mike

P.S.
There is a Time Walk missing from my list.

[nartman99]

It's cool. I must beat you the next time we play!

Hopefully see you guys in March!

[Seismic Assault]

Nat you missed 3 Wasteland in my deck.  Tournament was great, well run, and as always good times.  I'm looking forward to next month.