40 players showed up at Top Deck Games for the latest NEV Series spectacular. There were six rounds of Swiss followed by a cut to the Top 8. At the end of the day, it was Matt Elias dredging his way to an NEV Series title!
Top 8:
Matt Elias (Dredge) defeats Ryan Glackin (Dredge)
Josh Potucek (Empty Gush) defeats Shawn Griffiths (Martello)
Alex Lin (Merfolk) defeats Rob Edwards (Landstill)
Justin Kohler (Bomberman) defeats Joel Lim (Merfolk)
Top 4:
Matt Elias defeats Josh Potucek
Alex Lin defeats Justin Kohler
Finals:
Matt Elias defeats Alex Lin
Congratulations to Matt, Alex, and all of our Top 8 finishers!
Now, what report is complete without some pie charts?
First, the metagame breakdown by deck type:
Whoops, my bad! Apparently EVERYBODY wrote "Slaughter Smurfs" as their deck type!
Let me go through all these deck lists and try again.
OK, here we go. The real metagame breakdown by deck type:
Much better. And now, the metagame breakdown by pillar:
Just two Bazaar decks, but both made Top 8. Hmmm...
And now, without further ado, the Top 8 Deck Lists:
Matt Elias - 1st place - Dredge
Deck
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Bloodghast
4 Bridge from Below
4 Cabal Therapy
4 City of Brass
1 Dakmor Salvage
2 Dread Return
1 Fatestitcher
1 Flame-Kin Zealot
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
3 Golgari Thug
3 Ichorid
4 Ingot Chewer
4 Narcomoeba
4 Petrified Field
4 Serum Powder
4 Stinkweed Imp
1 Sun Titan
4 Undiscovered Paradise
Sideboard
1 Chain of Vapor
2 Darkblast
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
2 Firestorm
1 Gemstone Mine
4 Nature's Claim
2 Serenity
2 Wispmare
Alex Lin - 2nd Place - "Reel Fish" (Merfolk)
Deck
4 Æther Vial
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
4 Cavern of Souls
4 Cursecatcher
3 Daze
4 Force of Will
6 Island
4 Lord of Atlantis
4 Master of the Pearl Trident
3 Mental Misstep
3 Merrow Reejerey
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Phantasmal Image
2 Scalding Tarn
4 Silvergill Adept
2 Spell Pierce
1 Strip Mine
1 Time Walk
4 Wasteland
Sideboard
2 Dismember
3 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Island
1 Phantasmal Image
4 Steel Sabotage
4 Tormod's Crypt
Justin Kohler - 3rd/4th Place - "Red Deck Wins" (Bomberman)
Deck
1 Æther Spellbomb
1 Ancestral Recall
2 Auriok Salvagers
2 Aven Mindcensor
1 Black Lotus
2 Cavern of Souls
1 Engineered Explosives
4 Flooded Strand
1 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
1 Grafdigger's Cage
3 Island
4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Mana Crypt
4 Mana Drain
3 Mental Misstep
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Plains
2 Polluted Delta
2 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sol Ring
3 Spell Snare
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Time Walk
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Trinket Mage
3 Tundra
1 Vendilion Clique
Sideboard
2 Devout Witness
2 Disenchant
1 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Pithing Needle
2 Steel Sabotage
4 Swords to Plowshares
3 Tormod's Crypt
Josh Potucek - 3rd/4th Place - Empty Gush
Read Josh's report
here.
Deck
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Brainstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
3 Empty the Warrens
1 Fastbond
1 Flooded Strand
2 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Gush
2 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Island
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Mana Crypt
3 Mana Drain
2 Mental Misstep
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Mountain
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Polluted Delta
1 Ponder
2 Repeal
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Sol Ring
1 Time Walk
2 Tropical Island
2 Underground Sea
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Viashino Heretic
2 Volcanic Island
1 Yawgmoth's Will
Sideboard
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Ingot Chewer
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Red Elemental Blast
2 Spell Snare
1 Viashino Heretic
2 Yixlid Jailer
Ryan Glackin - 5th-8th Place - "The Dredge Report" (Dredge)
Deck
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Bloodghast
4 Bridge from Below
4 Cabal Therapy
4 City of Brass
2 Dakmor Salvage
2 Dread Return
1 Flame-Kin Zealot
1 Gemstone Mine
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
2 Golgari Thug
3 Ichorid
4 Ingot Chewer
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Narcomoeba
4 Serum Powder
4 Stinkweed Imp
1 Sun Titan
4 Undiscovered Paradise
Sideboard
3 Chain of Vapor
2 Darkblast
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
2 Firestorm
3 Nature's Claim
4 Wispmare
Rob Edwards - 5th-8th Place - Landstill
Deck
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
2 Crucible of Worlds
1 Echoing Truth
4 Engineered Explosives
2 Faerie Conclave
2 Fire/Ice
4 Force of Will
1 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Island
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Library of Alexandria
4 Mana Drain
2 Mental Misstep
2 Mindbreak Trap
2 Misdirection
4 Mishra's Factory
1 Mountain
1 Mox Sapphire
2 Red Elemental Blast
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Standstill
1 Strip Mine
1 Time Walk
2 Tropical Island
3 Volcanic Island
4 Wasteland
Sideboard
2 Ancient Grudge
4 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Hurkyl's Recall
3 Ingot Chewer
2 Lightning Bolt
3 Relic of Progenitus
Shawn Griffiths - 5th-8th Place - Martello Shops
Deck
4 Ancient Tomb
1 Black Lotus
4 Chalice of the Void
1 City of Traitors
1 Duplicant
4 Kuldotha Forgemaster
4 Lodestone Golem
1 Mana Crypt
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Mishra's Workshop
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Phyrexian Metamorph
3 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Sol Ring
3 Sphere of Resistance
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Strip Mine
1 Sundering Titan
4 Tangle Wire
4 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Trinisphere
4 Wasteland
Sideboard
2 Crucible of Worlds
2 Duplicant
2 Ensnaring Bridge
4 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Ratchet Bomb
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Wurmcoil Engine
Joel Lim - 5th-8th Place - "Reel Fish" (Merfolk)
Deck
4 Æther Vial
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
4 Cavern of Souls
4 Cursecatcher
3 Daze
1 Flooded Strand
4 Force of Will
6 Island
4 Lord of Atlantis
4 Master of the Pearl Trident
3 Mental Misstep
3 Merrow Reejerey
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Phantasmal Image
1 Scalding Tarn
4 Silvergill Adept
2 Spell Pierce
1 Strip Mine
1 Time Walk
4 Wasteland
Sideboard
2 Dismember
4 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Island
1 Phantasmal Image
4 Steel Sabotage
3 Tormod's Crypt
