Myriad Games Vintage - October 19th, 2008

[Myriad Games]

Thank you to everyone who attended our latest Vintage event here at Myriad Games.

Every player received a special Halloween Myriad Games Magical Mana Cookie!

The Bonus Preregistration Prize, an ELD Time Vault custom proxy, went to Oliver Beaumont.

The Bonus Carpool Prize, an ELD Time Vault custom proxy, went to Stephen Houdlette.

The Best Deck Name Prize went to "You know what everybody likes? Parfait. - Courtesy of Donkey" by Jeff Rodgers.

Oliver Beaumont won the Bananagrams Side Event.

As always, if you have any comments or suggestions about our events, please email us at Myriad@MyriadGames.com

Tournament Results

Top 4   Stephen Houdlette -- Tezzeret
Top 4   Oliver Beaumont -- Tezzeret
Top 4   Rich Shay -- Tezzeret Oath
Top 4   Jeff Rodgers -- Mono White Parfait
5th   Dan Cunningham -- Ad Nauseam Combo
6th   Geoff Prugh -- Mono Black
7th   Sara Yarrington -- Belcher
8th   Mark Daly -- Ichorid
9th   Craig Dupre -- Izzet Control
10th   Bryan Fram -- Mono Green Elves


Top 4 - Split

Stephen Houdlette -- Tezzeret
Oliver Beaumont -- Tezzeret
Rich Shay -- Tezzeret Oath
Jeff Rodgers -- Mono White Parfait

Top 4 Decklists

Top 4 Stephen Houdlette -- Tezzeret

2x Tezzeret the Seeker
1x Time Vault
1x Voltaic Key
4x Force of Will
4x Mana Drain
4x Accumulated Knowledge
2x Intuition
2x Trinket Mage
1x Echoing Truth
1x Time Walk
1x Ancestral Recall
1x Brainstorm
1x Mystical Tutor
1x Merchant Scroll
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Yawgmoth's Will
1x Tinker
1x Cunning Wish
1x Fire and Ice
1x Ponder
1x Trygon Predator
1x Sensei's Divining Top
1x Engineered Explosives
1x Sundering Titan
1x Library of Alexandria
1x Sol Ring
1x Mana Crypt
1x Black Lotus
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Pearl
1x Mox Ruby
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Island
4x Polluted Delta
2x Flooded Strand
1x Tolarian Academy
2x Underground Sea
2x Tropical Island
2x Volcanic Island

Sideboard
1x Red Elemental Blast
1x Krosan Grip
1x Smother
2x Ancient Grudge
1x Pithing Needle
1x Tormod's Crypt
2x Tarmogoyf
3x Chalice of the Void
3x Thoughtseize


Top 4 Oliver Beaumont -- Tezzeret

2x Tezzeret the Seeker
1x Time Vault
1x Voltaic Key
4x Mana Drain
4x Force of Will
4x Mystic Remora
4x Duress
1x Time Walk
1x Ancestral Recall
1x Brainstorm
1x Ponder
1x Tinker
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Mystical Tutor
1x Yawgmoth's Will
1x Darksteel Colossus
1x Merchant Scroll
1x Echoing Truth
3x Impulse
1x Fact or Fiction
1x Black Lotus
1x Mana Crypt
1x Sol Ring
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Ruby
1x Mox Pearl
1x Mox Sapphire
4x Flooded Strand
1x Polluted Delta
1x Library of Alexandria
1x Tolarian Academy
6x Island
3x Underground Sea

Sideboard
3x Energy Flux
2x Tormod's Crypt
3x Sower of Temptation
4x Extirpate
3x Master of Etherium

Top 4 Rich Shay -- Tezzeret Oath

2x Tezzeret the Seeker
1x Time Vault
1x Voltaic Key
4x Oath of Druids
1x Hellkite Overlord
1x Akroma, Angel of Wrath
4x Force of Will
3x Mana Drain
2x Gaea's Blessing
2x Thoughtseize
4x Accumulated Knowledge
2x Intuition
1x Brainstorm
1x Ponder
1x Merchant Scroll
1x Time Walk
1x Ancestral Recall
1x Yawgmoth's Will
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Echoing Truth
1x Sol Ring
1x Black Lotus
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Mox Ruby
1x Mox Pearl
1x Mox Emerald
4x Flooded Strand
1x Polluted Delta
2x Island
3x Underground Sea
1x Volcanic Island
2x Tropical Island
3x Forbidden Orchard
1x Library of Alexandria

Sideboard
2x Volcanic Island
2x Ancient Grudge
2x Krosan Grip
2x Relic of Progenitus
2x Empyrial Archangel
1x Massacre
2x Pyroblast
2x Red Elemental Blast

Top 4 Jeff Rodgers -- Mono White Parfait

3x Aven Mindcensor
4x Ethersworn Canonist
1x Tormod's Crypt
1x Trinisphere
1x Zuran Orb
4x Land Tax
1x Enlightened Tutor
2x Orim's Chant
3x Scroll Rack
1x Balance
3x Swords to Plowshares
2x Abeyance
3x Argivian Find
4x Aura of Silence
1x Crucible of Worlds
1x Mobilization
4x Mox Diamond
1x Black Lotus
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Pearl
1x Mox Ruby
1x Sol Ring
10x Plains
1x Strip Mine
1x Wasteland
3x Ghost Quarter

Sideboard
3x Tormod's Crypt
2x Orim's Chant
1x Swords to Plowshares
2x Abeyance
2x Rule of Law
1x Wheel of Sun and Moon
2x Pithing Needle
1x Moat
1x Sacred Mesa

Thanks again to everyone for coming to this event.

We'll be hosting the next event in our Vintage Tournament Series on Saturday, November 8th.

Make plans now to come join in the fun!

[madlucas]

@Oliver Beaumont:
I really like your decklist even if I didn't playtest it yet at all.
How were the Master of Etheriums performing?
It doesn't seem like a good choice to me...I mean you play only 11 artifacts including DSC.
Or you play them maybe because they crush along with Tezzeret and animated Moxen?

[jmedina]

Hey Oliver...

How does your deck do against dredge/ichorid? I tried a similar build and I am getting destroyed. What is your game plan in that matchup?

Thanks!

[Englishman_in_NH]

In response to the questions:

Master of Etherium was a test slot as additional hate against aggro decks, as I felt there would be a few showing up. As it was we had a low turnout and I didn't get to test them that much. However I do feel that they have the ability to act as a quasi Goyf without resorting to 3 colors.

In terms of the dredge matchup, you board in the extirpates and tormod's crypts and hope your opener is full of hate or a quick start. To be honest I took a gamble with that sideboard that there would be less dredge around and cut 2 slots of hate. If you are worried about dredge decks more, I would run either Jailers in the Master of Etherium slot or cut an extirpate and the masters of etherium and run Leyline of the Void. Either way your gameplan is to hope to have enough disruption to race them by getting Tezzeret down. Also remember that once Tez lands your first choice should be to get Crypt and remove the threats. Having not seen so much dredge in my meta right now, I have dropped a lot of the hate for it.

I hope this helped a little. The deck is certainly a work in progress and needs more work.

Oli