Duck Weekly Tourney #20

[AmbivalentDuck]

Hi all!

Every week, I'm going to start an 8-player single elimination bracket.  Rules are very similar to the TMD online invitational:
1. Games are played publicly on Cockatrice
2. Players have at most a week to complete each match.
3. Lists must be posted after all round 1 matches are complete.
3a. You cannot change lists between rounds.
3b. If requested by your opponent, you must reveal your deck at the beginning of each match after the first week.
4. Brackets are fully randomized.

Registration will be closed once we have 8 people or about a week passes and I remember to draw up a bracket.

Players signed up as of last update:
1. AmbivalentDuck
2. serracollector
3. GI
4. brainpk80
5. mrjumbo

First matches must be complete by June 18th.  If all matches complete before then, the next set will be due within a week, and so on.

[serracollector]

+1 in it to win it

[Grand Inquisitor]

+1

[brianpk80]

Will join.

[mrjumbo03]

+1 need more Vintage burn

[AmbivalentDuck]

Bracket is up:
Me vs jumbo
Everyone else has a round 1 bye.

[serracollector]

Me and brian played.  He took notes.  I got it 2-0.  Here is my list:

4 Lotus Cobra
2 Inferno Titan
2 Consecrated Sphinx
2 Mana Drain
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mana Crypt
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Vault
4 Force of Will
4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Sol Ring
2 Mental Misstep
2 Phyrexian Metamorph
3 Tropical Island
3 Volcanic Island
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Misty Rainforest
1 Island
1 Forest
1 Ancient Grudge
2 Fact or Fiction
2 Snapcaster Mage
2 Flusterstorm
1 Fire // Ice
1 Regrowth
1 Mountain
1 Strip Mine
1 Library of Alexandria
SB: 1 Rack and Ruin
SB: 1 Steel Sabotage
SB: 4 Leyline of the Void
SB: 3 Grafdigger's Cage
SB: 2 Nature's Claim
SB: 2 Fire // Ice
SB: 1 Flusterstorm
SB: 1 Mindbreak Trap
EDIT: Was missing two cards from my SB  they are in Bold.

Seemed like a good idea for the growing creature meta, with plenty of counters and answers to tinker maindeck for big blue. I have yet to have a bad FOF.  I really like this deck.  GG Brian.

[brianpk80]

I signed on with Birds.dec.  Opponents find it upsetting when they lose to it, "I came here for serious Vintage, not Birds," I recall hearing once.  It has a lot of flying utility creatures, counterspells, Wastelands, and Ninjutsu critters in it.  I was hoping to test it and learn more about what works and serra mentioned we had a match scheduled and asked if we should make it the Duck match.  "Sure, why not."  His deck is pretty strong and I said beforehand it might be brutal.  Given all of his burn spells, I said the match-up may as well be called "Kentucky Friend Chicken."

Game 1 I mull to six, he Forces my Baleful Strix.  Next turn, I hardcast a Ninja with Lotus.  It starts connecting the following turn for 3 w. a Noble Hierarch exalting.  He Drains a Squadron Hawk.  Things seem to be going well when I connect for a second time w. Ninja and resolve a Baleful Strix.  He copies the Strix next turn w. a Metamorph and Forces my Ancestral on his turn.  I decline to attack w. the Ninja because I don't want to die to his Metamorph so I swing for 2 w. the exalted Baleful.  He plays Jace next turn and I'm feeling good about killing it since I have an Aven Mindcensor in hand.  I know I'll have to get him to lose his copied Baleful before it has a clear path so I don't play it then.  He plays a Snapcaster and flashes back Time Walk I believe and on the next turn copies my Strix again.  My hand is forced; Aven at EoT.  Things went downhill as I drew into unnecessary mana 3 times consecutively while he got out a Consecrated Sphinx the following turn.  Soon there were three Lotus Cobras over there as well.  I don't remember the finishing move 100% since we played a bunch of games afterwards, but I think that was when he regrew the Metamorph and copied his Spinx.  

Game 2 I have a hand that should win against him under ordinary circumstances, given the somewhat control-mirror nature and his lack of Wastelands.  Library of Alexandria, 3 Cavern of Souls, Rafiq of the Many, Gavony Township, and an on-color mox.  He plays a bunch of artifact mana, Black Lotus, and a first turn Inferno Titan.  Not good.  I try to throw Birds out there to absorb the 3 damage from its attack trigger but it's a two turn clock, since the Titan also has firebreathing.  I did not draw Jace.  Death. 

[Grand Inquisitor]

first turn Inferno Titan

fucking.awesome.

[serracollector]

Yea the best part is I mulled to 6, and my hand was Mox,mox, Lotus, Titan, FOW, so I needed  a mana source, and topdecked scalding tarn. I assumed he didn't run FOW, and getting a mana source was good odds.  Titan is amazing.

[brianpk80]

Yea the best part is I mulled to 6, and my hand was Mox,mox, Lotus, Titan, FOW, so I needed  a mana source, and topdecked scalding tarn. I assumed he didn't run FOW, and getting a mana source was good odds.  Titan is amazing.

Not enough blue for the Force, so Mental Misstep and Mindbreak Trap.  I didn't have the Trap. 

[Grand Inquisitor]

Game is up, I'm REH16

[mrjumbo03]

Won against GI 2-1. Report to follow as I saved the log for this game.

Martello Shops (Same list as Duck Tourney #19)
4 Mishra's Workhop
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 City of Traitors
1 Tolarian Academy

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
4 Tangle Wire
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Trinisphere

4 Lodestone Golem
4 Kuldotha Forgemaster
3 Phyrexian Revoker
3 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Duplicant
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Sundering Titan

SB
4 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Tormod's Crypt
2 Crucible of Worlds
2 Ratchet Bomb
2 Duplicant
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Wurmcoil Engine
2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

[AmbivalentDuck]

Won against GI 2-1. Report to follow as I saved the log for this game.

Warning for not posting your list after our match.  I have to look through prior tourneys to see if it's two or three strikes before I start awarding game/match wins to your opponents for this.  It's not a serious mistake, but we need to use a consistent penalty to deter abuse.

3. Lists must be posted after all round 1 matches are complete.
3a. You cannot change lists between rounds.
3b. If requested by your opponent, you must reveal your deck at the beginning of each match after the first week.

[mrjumbo03]

Noted. I just thought that since we were the only ones playing the first round, it might influence the deck choice of my subsequent opponent since I'll be his first opponent. That's why I held off posting until after my match with GI.

[AmbivalentDuck]

Noted. I just thought that since we were the only ones playing the first round, it might influence the deck choice of my subsequent opponent since I'll be his first opponent. That's why I held off posting until after my match with GI.

Unfortunately, byes happen.    I'm sure we'd all prefer an even multiple of 2 each week.

I'd prefer everyone somehow "register" their list prior to ANY games being played, but the environment around here is so casual that I think people play decks they enjoy or want to practice with as opposed to decks tailored to beat their opponents that week.

[mrjumbo03]

Yup I totally understand. Haha I wasn't trying to be rude or anything. I'm sorry if it came off that way. 

[AmbivalentDuck]

Yup I totally understand. Haha I wasn't trying to be rude or anything. I'm sorry if it came off that way. 

Nope.  No worries.

[serracollector]

MrJumbo when you wanna play?  Im on cockatrice almost every night at 9 pm EST.  Hit me up on there, same nick, or on here.

[mrjumbo03]

Follow-up report from game with GI (I won 2-1)

Game 1 (on the play): Wasteland, mox, sphere of resistance. He goes land mox mox. I go city, revoker on mox emerald. He plays a land and a delver. I play workshop lodestone, he forces, I also waste his waste so he can't waste my shop, attack with revoker. Delver doesn't flip he attacks for 1. Play a factory, and play another revoker which meets a spell snare, attack again. Delver flips off misstep, swings for 3. I play metamorph copying revoker on his other moxen, attack. He draws and ends. I play a thorn, and attack with revoker, revoker and factory, he blocks a revoker and goes down to 9. He plays another delver, I swing with factory. He flips off vampiric tutor. I swing with factory he blocks with insect. He plays a land and passes. I swing and he blocks with snapcaster. Later I play a hellkite but he has a guilded drake. I play revoker on hellkite, and kuldotha forgemaster but he repeals the drake again, and steals forgemaster. I lose. I think I could've won if he didn't have the repeal with an activation from forgemaster.

Game 2 (on the play): Tomb, sphere. He goes land mox mox again. Factory, revoker, but he forces. He plays land and go. I play strip mine, play another revoker but he hyrkyll's, I strip his sea. He draws and passes. I play another factory, and lodestone. He drakes it. I play 3rd factory, another golem and swing with my drake. He draw-goes for a couple of turns while I drop revoker, sphere, chalice for 2 while swinging with drake. I drop my 4th factory and swing with everybody when he's down to 6, off to g3.

Game 3 (on the draw): He mulls, delta go. Workshop, trinisphere go. He plays another delta, go. Wasteland, golem go. Sea go. I play a thorn, he responds with hukyll's, play another workshop and play tangle wire (I misplayed by not dropping my mox). He plays delver. I drop tomb, play golem, metamorph golem, go. Delver flips off merchant scroll. Waste his untapped land, swing with 2 golems (he blocked 1), drop mox, trinisphere, sphere of resistance. He draw goes. I waste another land and dropped a new tangle wire and won from there.

@serracollector, any chance you can do mornings? 9pm EST is 9am for me and I always have classes from morning to the afternoon.

[serracollector]

Mrjumbo got me.  Jace drawing into jace is bad vs MUD note to self.

[mrjumbo03]

Won 2-1 against serracollector

Game1 (on the play): He mulls, tomb lotus Golem. He plays a land. Next turn, workshop golem and off to g2.

Game2 (on the draw): Kept a bad hand and paid for it with him going turn 2 jace via lotus. Should've mulled but drawing into a sphere, with a metamorph already in hand with a strip mine and 2 wastes was too tempting for me. Alas I kept on drawing more mana.

Game3 (on the play): Tomb into sphere. He goes land into lotus. I play workshop revoker, he thinks and lets it resolve, on lotus. He plays a land and go. I play a factory and try to drop a tangle wire but meets a steel sabotage, I attack. He drops another land puts mox into play. I drop golem and attack again, he eot claims my revoker. He uses lotus into Jace and bounces golem. I replay my golem, met a force of will and kill jace with factory. He drops 2nd Jace and fateseals me, leaving it (mox pearl). I play the pearl and drop a hellkite. He brainstorms and says go. I swing both hellkite and factory (just to be sure) at jace, I play another golem. He plays 3rd Jace hoping to draw into something but I have lethal on board (golem, hellkite pumped twice and factory to his 14 life).

Thanks for the games guys! Looking forward to the next duck tourneys.