Myriad Games Vintage - Sunday, May 24th, 2009

[Myriad Games]

Myriad Games
8 Stiles Road
Salem, NH 03079

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

Registration will begin at 11:00 AM, decklists are due at 11:30 AM.

Entry: $25.00

Fifteen (15) proxies are free with entry. ELD's Power Proxies do not count against this 15 proxy limit. ELD Power Proxies include the following 12 custom proxies issued at ELD events: Black Lotus, Mox Ruby, Mox Pearl, Mox Jet, Mox Emerald, Mox Sapphire, Ancestral Recall, Time Walk, Timetwister, Bazaar of Baghdad, Mishra's Workshop, and Imperial Seal. Other ELD custom proxies count as normal proxies.

Prizes

As with all our events, prizes scale up with attendance, so the more the merrier!
About 90% of the prizes will go to the Top 8.
The remaining 10% will go to community support prizes including Myriad Games Mana Cookies, Preregistration Prize, and the Carpool Prize.

Here are some examples of the prize distribution based on attendance.

20 Players - Top 8 Total ~ $450 Myriad Money
30 Players - Top 8 Total ~ $675 Myriad Money
40 Players - Top 8 Total ~ $900 Myriad Money

The results from this event will count toward the new Vintage Rankings.
Myriad Games is providing $1,200 in prizes for the 2009 Vintage Rankings!

Myriad Games Mana Cookies!
Every player who would like one will receive a complimentary world-famous Myriad Games Mana Cookie. Scrumptious!

Carpool Prize!
In addition to the economic, social, and environmental benefits of sharing a ride to our fine Vintage events, all players who attend that come to the event via a carpool will be entered in a bonus drawing for an additional door prize. So make plans with your friends now to get a car together for this event. You'll save money on gas and have a chance to win as well!

New Player Bonus Booster Packs!
Every new player will receive a Free Booster Pack!

Preregistration Prize!
All players who preregister will be entered in a drawing for a Bonus Preregistration Prize for an additional door prize.

Preregister today by emailing us, calling (603) 681-0355, or stopping by Myriad Games.

To help registration and reporting run more smoothly, please print out your deck registration sheet ahead of time and bring them to the event. We recommend that you type out your deck list and print it off ahead of time. Or you can click here to download the Deck Registration Sheet and fill it in by hand.

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this event, please post here or email us.

Make plans now to come join in the fun!

[Myriad Games]

This is coming up this weekend!

[Eastman]

Sweet, I'm moving into Boston tomorrow and if I can get my act together this will be the first of many Vintage events i hit this summer 

[Myriad Games]

This is coming up this Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!!! Be sure to include another fine Myriad Games Vintage event in your Memorial Day plans!

[Englishman_in_NH]

Looking forward to this, hope to see everyone there.

Oli

[waywreth]

I will be there.  
I may even will have a Highlander deck with me!

[ELD]

I'm in, and hopefully carpooling for a change!

[Myriad Games]

Thanks to everyone who attended today!

We had 16 players and another great event. We'll look forward to seeing everyone at our next event coming up on Saturday, June 13th.

[waywreth]

Hopefully Dan will post the top 8 and the decks when he has the chance, but in the meantime...

Top 4 consisted of:

1st - Tezzeret - Matt Macauley
2nd - 4 color aggro - Andrew Fox
3rd/4th - TPS - Bill Copes
3rd/4th - GUW Fish - Connor (I apologize, I don't know your last name)

[iamfishman]

Who were these top 4 players?

[Bill Copes]

Hell has definitely frozen over, as I did well with something that didn't have Mishra's Workshop in the deck.  I figured it's time for me to break out of the box and try something old, but new to me.

Here's the list, sans 1 card.  I always play 61 cards maindeck because I'm a terrible magic player and deck constructionist, but I can't remember what the last one was.  It was probably an island or a swamp.

4 Polluted Delta
1 Bloodstained Mire
3 Underground Sea
1 Badlands
1 Swamp
1 Island
1 Tolarian Academy

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Lotus Petal
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt

4 Dark Ritual
1 Cabal RItual

4 Force of Will
4 Duress

1 Memory Jar
1 TImetwister
1 Mind's Desire
1 Necropotence
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Yawgmoth's Bargain
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Fact of Fiction
1 Tinker

1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Timewalk

1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Imperial Seal
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Merchant Scroll

2 Tendril's of Agony
1 Darksteel Colossus

1 Rebuild
1 Chain of Vapor


Sideboard:
2 Yixlid Jailer
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Hurkyll's Recall
2 Chain of Vapor
1 Extirpate
1 Relic of Prognitus
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Volcanic Island
1 Swamp
1 Island
1 Empty The Warrens

[Myriad Games]

Thanks again to everyone who attended.

Here are the final standings after four rounds of Swiss and top 8 playoffs.

Final Place   Player
1st   Matt Macauley
2nd   Andrew Fox
3rd   Connor Cobean
4th   Bill Copes
5th   Jeff Carpenter
6th   Oliver Beaumont
7th   Arik Pogrebinsky
8th   Eric Dupuis
9th   Tony Costello
10th   Eric Rose
11th   Demonic Attorney
12th   Rich Shay
13th   Charlie Winger
14th   David Henry
15th   Kyle Del Paggio
16th   Jeff Rodgers

We'll have Top 8 decklists processed shortly.

[Myriad Games]

Results are up!