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[LotusHead]

21 people.  After LSV demolished me in top-8, I had to go. Someone, I'm sure has the breakdown.  Pics soon.

David Ochoa (Webster)

4 Forbidden Orchard
1 Island
2 Flooded Strand
3 Polluted Delta
2 Tropical Island
2 Volcanic Island
2 Underground Sea
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
2 Tidespout Tyrand
1 Brain Freeze
1 Flash of Insight
1 Krosan Reclamation
4 Oath of Druids
4 Gush
4 Brainstorm
3 Ponder
4 Duress
4 Force of Will
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
3 Merchant Scroll
1 Fastbond
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 TIme Walk

Sideboard
2 Pithing Needle
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Blazing Archon
2 Extirpate
3 Red Elemental Blast
1 Goblin Bombardment
1 Thoughtseize
2 Shattering Spree
1 Tendrils of Agony

Cory Redmond
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Cephalid colosium
4 Gemstone Mines
3 City of Brass
3 Ichorid
4 Golgari Thug
4 Golgari Grave Troll
4 Stinkweed Imp
4 Narcomeba
1 Flame-Kin Zealot
1 cephalid sage
1 angel of despair
4 Bridge from Below
4 cabal therapy
3 dread return
1 lotus petal
1 black lotus
1 mox sapphire
4 breakthrough
4 careful study

side
4 chain of vapor
4 contagion
3 emerald charm
4 leyline of the void

Merlin Something-duBois

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox sapphire
1 mox pearl
1 mox jet
1 ancestral recall

3 polluted delta
4 flooded strand
1 underground sea
3 tropical island
1 island
4 virulent sliver
1 heart sliver
1 elvish spirit guide
4 protean hulk
4 flash
4 merchant scroll
3 summoner's pact
2 thoughtseize
1 daze
4 force of will
4 pact of negation
4 broinstorm
1 lotus petal
1 demonic tutor
1 vampiric tutor
1 chain of vapor
1 mystical tutor

side
1 pithing needle
4 revered silence
3 tormod's crypt
3 daze
3 chain of vapor
1 sylvan safekeeper

Jeff Huang (JeffTheFob)

4 protean hulk
4 flash
1 body double
1 carrion feeder
1 mogg fanatic
1 reveillark
1 body snatcher
3 summoner's pact
4 brainstorm
4 merchant scroll
4 force of will
4 pact of negation
2 duress
1 mystical tutor
1 ancestral recall
1 demonic tutor
1 mystical tutor !!!
1 vampiric tutor

1 black lotus
1 lotus petal
1 elvish spirit guide
1 mana crypt
1 mox sapphire
1 mox emerald
1 mox jet
1 mox ruby
1 mox pearl
2 city of brass
2 polluted delta
3 flooded strand
1 island
2 underground sea
2 tropical island

side
1 Tinker
1 Platinum Angel
2 Chain of Vapor
2 Bosejiu, Who Shelters All
3 oxidize
1 echoing truth
4 virulent sliver
1 heart sliver

Eirik Aune

4 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
3 underground sea
1 tropical island
3 island
4 duress
4 ponder
4 brainstorm
4 force of will
4 gush
4 dark ritual
1 mox jet
1 mox sapphire
1 mox ruby
1 mox emerald
1 lotus petal
1 black lotus
1 vampiric tutor
1 imperial seal
1 demonic tutor
1 mystical tutor
2 merchant scroll
1 fastbond
1 timetwister
1 ancestral recal
1 misdirection
1 echoing truth
1 necropotence
1 yawgmoth's will
1 time walk
1 hurkyl's recal
2 tendrils of agony

side
4 dark confidant
4 leyline of the void
2 hydroblast
2 engineered explosives
1 swamp
1 thoughtseize
1 hurkyls recall

Luis Scott-Vargas (LSV)

4 Forbidden Orchard
1 Island
2 Flooded Strand
3 Polluted Delta
2 Tropical Island
2 Volcanic Island
2 Underground Sea
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
2 Tidespout Tyrand
1 Brain Freeze
1 Flash of Insight
1 Krosan Reclamation
4 Oath of Druids
4 Gush
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
2 Duress
1 thoughtseize
4 Force of Will
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
3 Merchant Scroll
1 Fastbond
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 TIme Walk

Sideboard
2 Pithing Needle
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Blazing Archon
2 Extirpate
3 Red Elemental Blast
1 Goblin Bombardment
1 Thoughtseize
2 Shattering Spree
1 Tendrils of Agony

Matt Benjamin

4 Flash
4 Pact of Negation
4 Force of will
4 brainstorm
4 merchant scroll
4 prodean hulk
3 summoner's pact
2 duress
1 chain of vapor
1 mystical tutor
1 vampiric tutor
1 demonic tutor
1 body snatcher
1 mogg fanatic
1 body double
1 carrion feeder
1 elvish spirit guide
1 reveilark
1 ancestral recall
1 mana crypt
1 lotus petal
1 black lotus
1 mox pearl
1 mox sapphire
1 mox jet
1 mox ruby
1 mox emerald
1 snow covered island
2 underground sea
2 tropical island
2 city of brass
2 flooded strand
3 polluted delta

Side
3 oxidize
4 leyline of the void
4 virulent sliver
2 chain of vapor
1 echoing truth
1 heart sliver

Jeff Neilson (LotusHead)

// Lands
    2  Ancient Tomb
    4  Mishra's Workshop
    1  Tolarian Academy
    1  Strip Mine
    4  Wasteland
    4  Ghost Quarter

// Creatures
    3  Triskelion
    3  Karn, Silver Golem
    4  Metalworker
    2  Lodestone Myr
    3  Arcbound Ravager

// Spells
    1  Black Lotus
    1  Mana Crypt
    1  Mana Vault
    1  Sol Ring
    1  Mox Emerald
    1  Mox Pearl
    1  Mox Sapphire
    1  Mox Jet
    1  Mox Ruby
    1  Memory Jar
    3  Staff of Domination
    3  Crucible of Worlds
    4  Chalice of the Void
    1  Trinisphere
    4  Thorn of Amethyst
    4  Tangle Wire

// Sideboard
SB: 3  Damping Matrix
SB: 4  Uba Mask
SB: 2  Orb of Dreams
SB: 4  Jester's Cap
SB: 2  Platinum Angel

Pics!

Ochoa pounding on someone with Tyrant Oath


Control Slaver vs Oath. Remember those days?


Mana Ichorid and it's uber graveyard


Junior's Tyrant Oath vs Goblins!


Eirik's Sideboard Bob's fighting through the hate


Ochoa vs Jeremiah's Old School Keeper


Rememeber when Oathing up Akroma was a hot play?


Austin has too many permanents out to lose to Scepter Chant.  At least I THINK he has permanents out. Damn Yu-Gay-Oh playmat!


Luis had to take one for the team and proxy up 4 Oaths, 2 Tyrants, Goblin Bombardment, etc.


Team Scrubby Bubbles (Cory) vs Team Vacaville (Austin)


I was nice and faild to take pics of the famous Necro-go play.


More Ichorid Graveyards


This looks scary for Luis. Does he topdeck YawgWill in time?


Go go lil' sliver!


Active Explosives vs Reveilark Flash


Keeper vs Flash


someone's winning


Dr Tongue digging for the win!


The top 8 all drew in...

My mini-report:
I'm playing 9 Strip MUDDomination with 4 Thorns and 0 Spheres

Round 1:
My opponent gets locked out by a single Thorn as he fails to see mana after 1st turn. It includes Islands, Trops and Forests (and a discarded Trinket Mage.  I beat down with 2 Metalworkers and a Ravager. TangleWire seals the deal.
I get turn 2 Metalworker/Staff online.

Round 2: Cory Redmond Mana Ichorid
I get slaughtered both games.

Round 3: Junior w/Tyrant Oath
Game 1:  he either slaughters me or I slaughter him.
Game 2-3: I demolish him with either Jester's Cap or Uba Mask

Round 4: Cory from Reno. He drops, so I get "win"

Round 5: ID with JeffTheFob
Junior/Austin did the math after the tourney, and as all of top 8 were drawing in, I could have chose to play against JeffTheFob, hope Junior won his last round, and he would have gotten in.  I didn't think of it so I drew in.

Top 8: LSV Tyrant Oath
He wins die roll and drops land, two moxes and DT's.  I waste his land. He drops Oath and wins next turn or that turn.

Game 2: I resolve turn 1 Jester's Cap. He brainstorms once or twice, and I cap him. I see 2 Tyrants, a Brainfreeze, 1 Shattering Spree, no Will and no Tendrils and no Archon. I take 2 Tyrants and Shattering Spree thinking he must have a creature in hand or Tendrils in hand. I knew he had will in hand.  Turns out, I should have taken the Brainfreeze as it's a "win condition", but I sucked.  He willed then brainfreezed me next turn.

Game 3: for fun. He slaughters me.   



I had fun.

[jeffthefob]

The result was a top 4 split ^^"

Web took out Cory 2-0 (Tyrant Oath vs Mana Ichorid)
Eirik took me out 2-1 :p (TTS beat Flash)
Luis took out Lotushead 2-0 (Tyrant Oath vs Stax)
Matt took out Merlin 2-0 (Flash mirror that lasted 10 min.)

Flash is such a silly deck :-/

Rd. 1 Vs. Merlin Flash.
G1 I turn 1 him.
G2 He turn 2 me, I FoW, he FoW
G3 I mulled to 5 have t1 kill but he had the nutters.  FoW, Ancestrals, and Flash chop me to pieces.

Rd 2 Vs Ichorid (paired up)
G1 Luis gave me a "gg" look because my opponent is Ichorid >< But I turned 1 him with him mulling and serum powdering DI.  He spent more time shuffling.
G2 I topdecked a non-land land source and t1 him with FoW up.  He even had contagion... keke.

Rd 3 vs. Some sort of mono U dec (paired down)
G1 To be fair, my opponent wasn't too experienced... but I got out of Ertai + Arcane Lab lock..^^"
G2 Bosejiu = MVP

Rd 4 vs 1994 Keeper.
G1 I combo'ed off without too much resistance.
G2 He leylines, I tried to bounce it and he had 2x FoW to save it.  Then I merchant scroll and bounce it.  Go off next turn with a FoW up.  He had StP.  Some may feel this is a joke, but after board he had 4x FoW, 4x Trickbind, 4x Leyline, 4x StP, 4x counterspell, 4x Manadrain.  If my brainstorm didn't hit a FoW, I might had some trouble as I was facing a superman.

Quartersfinal. vs Eirik.
^^ He has leylines, which is good against Flash.  So I lost, just in case.

The reason why I played Flash was because I no longer feel comfortable with GAT despite the huge amount of success I had with it.  It was like UW Fish an year ago, when time is up, got to move on.  I want to move on to Tyrant Oath, but Luis and Web were both Oath'ing, therefore to mix it up I am Flash'ing.  The second reason why I played Flash is because we had a chat about the deck itself among the people, pretty much like the Flash thread in Improvement forums, except in a more civil manner.

Also Luis's trip from the GP also netted some vintage info where some of his playtesting partners just thought Flash is the nuts with testing back up.  So, yeah, and with proxy issues... just a lot of info here and there led me to play a deck I dislike.  A fourth reason actually existed, I played about 12+ games with mono R stax, which I liked.  But wow, workshop decks are just...... not that consistent... I don't think I will ever pick up Stax decks, ever.  Yawg will + blue cards = win.

Peace.  Like usual, thanks for the pictures Jeff

[c dizzle]

Great event! I had a ton of fun despite scrubbing out. I played Dragon. The funny thing was that I was well-prepared for the best deck (Tyrant Oath) and didn't see it all day. I did see Bomberman (a notoriously bad match-up). I felt great when I Thoughtseized first turn, until I saw double Aether Spellbomb. I couldn't find Chain of Vapor fast enough and got held in check by a one-mana Artifact.

[spitfire_moe]

Was fun to go to my first real vintage tournament in like 10 years.

Flash is such a silly deck. And the flash vs Flash mirror is super comical.

Thanks for the quick post of pictures and decklists.
Hope to see you guys all again soon.

-Merlin
Outer Planes Comics and Games, Santa Rosa

[Tobi]

Matt's List misses a sideboard. Rest is ok 

[The Acidic Hasidic]

ill do you a favor jeff and win this next one on sunday

[Dr_Tongue]

Matt's List misses a sideboard. Rest is ok 

3x Oxidize
4x Leyline of the Void
4x Virulent Sliver
2x Chain of Vapor
1x Echoing Tuth
1x Heart Sliver

 I compiled the usual 3-2 finish it seems. Lots of Scrub mistakes, including: *sigh* Necropotence/ get all excited about FoW in hand/ pass the turn and forget to draw/ lose the game scrub. Meh, so it is the "unpimpest" of Necropotence (5th) , I still need to remember when chat time with the player next to you is over: remember wtf you were doing.

 I did get to savagely rip a Will FTW against Ichorid when he flashback Cabal Therapied my Echoing with his last remaining CT (I never would have guessed he'd say that card or I would have bounced his  few tokens/Narco or w/e he had at the time) . So he's out of cards in his deck and can't do lethal this turn (23 at most and I'm at 24 from an early Tendrils for 10 that I was hoping to combine with another or Will) and must settle for Plat. Angel to save him from losing on his next forced draw step. 2 cards in my hand after he nabs Truth (Brainstorm/Mana Crypt). I EOT BS into Will/Demonic/Ruby. I cast "Yawg Win!" and only play Echoing out of my GY for the turn and pass the turn. Not like it mattered anyways, just guess the topdeck Gods wouldn't let me lose that game.

 Had fun and got to meet some other Vintage players with some kick ass old school kards (as oppossed to say my Necropotence)

John

[yespuhyren]

Game 2: I resolve turn 1 Jester's Cap. He brainstorms once or twice, and I cap him. I see 2 Tyrants, a Brainfreeze, 1 Shattering Spree, no Will and no Tendrils and no Archon. I take 2 Tyrants and Shattering Spree thinking he must have a creature in hand or Tendrils in hand. I knew he had will in hand.  Turns out, I should have taken the Brainfreeze as it's a "win condition", but I sucked.  He willed then brainfreezed me next turn.

Yeah the rule is ALWAYS take the win conditions.  ALWAYS.  Why would you fear Shattering Spree?  Even if they blow up your entire board, if they can't win then you can literally win with anything.

[c dizzle]

Yeah the rule is ALWAYS take the win conditions.  ALWAYS.  Why would you fear Shattering Spree?  Even if they blow up your entire board, if they can't win then you can literally win with anything.

LH already acknowledged his mistake. Sheesh.

BTW, big ups to LotusHead. He never gets enough credit for chronicalling the left coast Vintage activities.

[LotusHead]

Game 2: I resolve turn 1 Jester's Cap. He brainstorms once or twice, and I cap him. I see 2 Tyrants, a Brainfreeze, 1 Shattering Spree, no Will and no Tendrils and no Archon. I take 2 Tyrants and Shattering Spree thinking he must have a creature in hand or Tendrils in hand. I knew he had will in hand.  Turns out, I should have taken the Brainfreeze as it's a "win condition", but I sucked.  He willed then brainfreezed me next turn.

Yeah the rule is ALWAYS take the win conditions.  ALWAYS.  Why would you fear Shattering Spree?  Even if they blow up your entire board, if they can't win then you can literally win with anything.

I think LSV had a Black Lotus in play, I knew he had Will in hand, and I don't always make the best plays. (I assumed he had another win in hand with say, Tendrils).