My mini-report:
I haven't touched Magical cards for a month (mysteriously, at the last Adventures tourney in Sac) and Austin built me up The Gilded Claw with Gilded Lotus x2, Intuion x3, 4 Maindeck Thorn, 0 maindeck Chalice of the Void. He was even thoughtful enough to gimme a sideboard and have 75 sleeves for the deck.
Thenf Cory Redmond shows up and tells me about the Helm of Obedience/Leyline of the Void combo, so 10 minutes before the round starts, I swap 20 maindeck cards with an hastily build a generic Stax SB.
Round 1: Vincent (Brainiac7) playing Doomsday.
Game 1: He wins the die roll plays Delta, go.
I rape him with turn 0 Leyline, Turn 1 Welder, Chalice for 0 and Trinisphere.
I tutor for Helm of Obedience eventually and combo him out just to say I did.
Game 2: I start with Leyline of the Void x2 again. He plays Delta go again.
I play Mox Mox Sol Ring Sphere of Resistance, but Vincent forces it. He really hates Sphere Trinisphere Thorn and all the other fun cards that Stax has...So I play gemstone mine, Ancestral targetting me and draw 2 good cards plus REB.
Vincent Scrolls up Ancestral Recall and I REB it with my Mox Ruby that just happend to be untapped.
He is out of gas, and I start getting mean stuff on the board.
Round 2: Michael Klemic - Stragetic Slaver
Game 1 he mulls to 5 plays delta go.
I play Mox Mox Shop Gilded Lotus, which he forces pitching Time Walk. He knows enough about my Shoptech to know that turn 1 Gilded Lotus is bad news. He draws and passes.
I play Smokestack, Tolarian Academy and Time Walk. He scoops.
Game 2: He rapes my field with Mox Monkey, Wastelands, Ingot Chewer and Tolarian/Trike hotness.
Game 3 I get a Trike on board, Titan, then Demonic Tutor for Trinisphere to make his 2 moxen near worthless. Mike drew lots of cards (if I recall), but I had no pressure for the first 5 turns or so. The Fatties finally appeared.
Round 3: Johnny Knadler playing ???
He doesn't know me, I don't know him and we have no idea what each other are playing.
I win die roll Probably put Leyline into play and play Shop, go. I kept a hand that is awesome as long as I live till turn 3.
He plays Forbiden Orchard, Ancestrals, Mox Lotus Tinker for Colossus. I play a Welder, waste his Orchard (I think) and Gilded Lotus, Tutor for Duplicant, burn for 1 and get ready to get smashed for 10.
He smashes me for 10. Plays Oath and passes.
I ramp up smokestack, topdeck a Shop and hardcast Duplicant on DSC. Whoot!
He sacs a permanent, Oaths up Akroma and I'm down to 1 life. I can't take mana burn.
I sac Duplicant, Ramp smokestack up to 2 and RFG Akroma.
He loses his field, but gets to Oath up Gaea's Blessing.
He plays land Ancestral go.
Bazaar gets me hotness and it's over.
Whew!
Round 4:
Alex Bloch - Crushing Chamber.
Game 1 I get an early Karn to stop his equipment shenanigans. Eventuall Titan joins the field and he eventually runs out of chump blockers.
Game 2 I side out Chalices and Leylines and side in 3 Ancient Grudge, 2 Seal of Cleansing 2 Platinum Angels and something else. I thought they would be worthless and hate cards worth more.
I was wrong. He plays dude after dude after dude, draws a zillion cards with SkullClamp and I die.
Game 3: Same thing again.
Round 5:
Luis Scott-Vargas - Pitchlong.
We are both 3-1 and have to play it out.
Game 1: I win the die roll and play Mox, Chalice for 0 land go.
Luis draws a card and goes into his discard step. Ouch.
Repeat for a few more turns and he scoops.
Game 2: I play early Land, Sol Ring, Sphere of Resistance go.
He plays land go.
I drop 2nd Sphere and proceed to not draw any more land for the rest of the game.
Luis gets Bob online eventually, Tutors up a Hurkyl's Recall (of got it from Bob) and drops a 2nd Bob.
I'm trapped under my own spheres and Luis is just waiting to do the EOT Hurkly's thing.
He smashes me down to 6 and he was at a comftorble 13 life.
I pass the turn (ie, pick up all my artifacts at eot) and Luis reveals Darksteel Colossus and Rebuild to his two Bobs and dies on the spot. Lucky me!
Round 6: Josh Stewart - Shops
I shuffle up and he offers me the draw. Doh! Forgot I can draw in.
Top 8:
Alex Junior and myself all make top 8. I get paired up against Alex.
I'm still scarred by our earlier battle.
I keep a hand with Leyline in it and it shuts down Alex's Skullclamps right on the spot.
He gets some Frogmytes on the board (with Genesis Chamber giving him extra oomph) but I get Karn.
Then Trike.
Then Titan.
Game 2: I decide to keep the Chalices and Leylines in, and merely take out 5 Spheres for 3 Ancient Grudges and 2 Seal of Cleansing.
I play double Leyline turn 0.
Alex plays Shop, Genesis Chamber Skullclamp. PWNED!
I waste his land and maybe play Mox and Chalice.
He plays a land and passes.
I play Smokestack and Welder.
He plays a Frogmyte and gets a dude.
I ramp up smokestack and ride it out.
Alex plays Tolarian Academy and gets 2 Enforcers out.
I get Karn, then Trike then Titan, etc.
Ok, so I forgot what happened in game 2 but Leyline saved me and I won. Whoot!
Top 4 - Dan Messineo - Painter Control
I lose the die roll, mull to five and play land go.
He plays Mox Crypt Land Magus of the Moon, go.
I play gemstone Mountain go.
Trinket Mage joins in the fun. and I die soon enough.
Game 2 I keep a weak hand, but at least it has 2 ancient grudges and 2 land.
He forces and REB's must stuff (Damn Painter) and I kill artifacts day in and day out, but he gets a Welder online first, and gets a 2nd one to trump my new dude. I can't do anything and I die.
But I got $80 in store credit which turned into 2 Volcanic Islands and 15 for next time!
Props:
All in attendance! The vibe was great and everyone had a good time.
JeffTheFob for playing Shops!
My deck. I only mulliganed once in Swiss.
Fish for not facing me all day.
Bob for killing LSV out of the blue.
Credmond for handing Austin a working Shop deck with just 6 proxies and lending me the singlton Helm of Obedience.
Webster for buying Alex a drink.
The SoCal crew for bringing 8 up.
Slops:
My back! I hurt it a few days before and had to hobble around like an old man and play Vintage in pain.
I only got to go to 3 of the 9 Eudemonia tournies this year, as I am indispensible at work and sometimes teach SAT prep on Sundays, but I'm glad I got top 4 and got a prize finally.
