MTG Manila TO Report - 09/16/2012

[cruzron]

18 Players
Cut to Top 8

Quarters:
Paul (GW Hate) vs. Randy (Cat Stax) - Randy wins
Dennis (Martello) vs. Rommell (RUG Delver) - Rommell wins
Jesse (UB Delver) vs. Jay (Doomsday Maniac) - Jesse wins
Ronald (Cagebreaker) vs. Mik (RUG Delver) - Ronald wins

Top 4 split since we're tired and have work tomorrow 

Metagame Breakdown:

2 RUG Delver
2 White Trash
2 GW Hate
2 Jace COntrol
1 Martello Shops
1 Cat Stax
1 UB Delver
1 Doomsday Maniac
1 Cagebreaker Dredge
1 Ritual Tendrils
1 RG Beats
1 Noble Fish
1 Mono Blue Fish
1 Turbo Tezz

Decklists and Featured Matches to follow

[vanquish]

Hi, here are the top 8 decklists for this event

Decklists:

1st Place – Randy Derueda
Shopsuey!!!

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Trinisphere
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Slash Panther
3 Phyrexian Revoker
3 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Mana Vault
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
2 Null Rod
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Tangle Wire
4 Mishra’s Workshop
4 Ancient Tomb
2 City of Traitors
2 Mishra’s Factory
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy

Sideboard: (15 cards)
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Crucible of Worlds
2 Jester’s Cap
2 Ratchet Bomb
3 Tormod’s Crypt
2 Relic of Progenitus

2nd Place – Ron Cruz
“Derp Dredge”

Maindeck (60 cards):
4 Serum Powder
4 Bloodghast
4 Bridge from Below
4 Cabal Therapy
2 Darkblast
2 Golgari Thug
3 Ichorid
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Stinkweed Imp
4 Narcomoeba
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
1 Ancient Grudge
4 Ingot Chewer

Lands (16):
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 City of Brass
2 Petrified Field
2 Dakmor Salvage
4 Undiscovered Paradise

Sideboard: (15 cards)
4 Chain of Vapor
4 Nature’s Claim
4 Unmask
2 Wispmare
1 Firestorm

3rd Place – Rommel Gomez
TF’s RUG Delver

Creatures: 15
4 Delver of Secrets
3 Snapcaster Mage
3 Trygon Predator
3 Tarmogoyf
2 Vendilion Clique

Support: 17
2 Nature’s Claim
2 Spell Pierce
2 Flusterstorm
3 Mental Misstep
4 Force of Will
4 Lightning Bolt

Enabler:9
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Timewalk
2 Preordain
3 Gush

Mana: 19
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
3 Tropical Island
3 Volcanic Island
1 Mountain
2 Island
3 Scalding Tarn
3 Misty Rainforest

Sideboard: (15 cards)
4 Surgical Extraction
3 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Forked Bolt
2 Ingot Chewer
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Nature’s Claim
2 Steel Sabotage

4th Place – Jesse Moralina
chopsuey u/b control aggro

4 Force of Sill
2 Mana Srain
2 Mental Sisstep
3 spell Snare
4 delver of Secrets
4 dark Confidant
4 snapcaster Mage
2 Jace the Mind Sculptor
1 Echoing Truth
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Demonic tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Ancestal Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
4 Wasteland
1 Stripmine
4 Underground Sea
3 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
2 Island
1 Snow-Covered Island
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Time Walk
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Sol Ring

Sideboard: (15 cards)
2 Flustersorm
3 Steel Sabotage
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Yixlid Jailer
1 Energy Flux
1 Graftdigger’s Cage
1 Pithing Needle
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
2 Dismember

5th to 8th Place in no particular order

Jay Rodriguez
“Doomsday”

Mana/Acceleration
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
2 Dark Ritual
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
1 Island
2 Tropical Island
4 Underground sea

Finishers
1 Laboratory Maniac
1 Tendrils of Agony

Utility
1 Echoing Truth

Countermagic/Disruption
4 Mental Misstep
2 Spell Pierce
2 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
1 Duress
3 Thoughtseize

Bombs/Tutors/Filters
3 Doomsday
1 Fastbond
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Brainstorm
4 Gush
1 Imperial Seal
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Ponder
3 Preordain
1 Time Walk
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Yawgmoth’s Will

Sideboard: (15 cards)
2 Steel Sabotage
2 Hurkyl’s Recall
4 Quirion Dryad
1 Echoing Truth
2 Extirpate
4 Leyline of the Void

Dennis Dabay
Funky Martello

4 Mishra’s Workshop
4 Mishra’s Factory
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
1 City of Traitors
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
4 Kuldotha Forgemaster
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Tangle Wire
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Thorn of Amethyst
3 Phyrexian Revoker
3 Phyrexian Metamorph
4 Sphere of Resistance
1 Sundering Titan
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Duplicant

Sideboard: (15 cards)
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
4 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Duplicant
2 Crucible of Worlds
2 Pithing Needle
1 Staff of Nin
1 Wurmcoil Engine

Mik Regalado
“Derp RUG”

4 Scalding Tarn
2 Misty Rainforest
3 Volcanic Island
3 Tropical Island
1 Island
2 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Black Lotus

4 Delver of Secrets
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Snapcaster Mage
2 Vendilion Clique

4 Force of Will
3 Flusterstorm
2 Mental Misstep
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Mystical Tutor
4 Lightning Bolt
1 Fire // Ice
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Echoing Truth
4 Gush
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
3 Preordain

Side:
3 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Tormod’s Crypt
2 Surgical Extraction
3 Nature’s Claim
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Steel Sabotage
2 Fire // Ice
1 Pyroblast
1 Forest

Paul Pecaoco
GW Hate
**to follow**

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Featured Matches http://mtgmanila.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/mtg-manila-vintage-september-2012-featured-matches/

[Jblaze4lif]

Nice videos.  It looks like multiple players were using top loaders to protect the sleeved cards? A 60 card deck would be huge what kind of cases were those it looks funny.

[cruzron]

yeaaah they ARE top loaders. really can't do anything about it since its the culture locally. but some players are slooowly reverting back to sleeves so that's a plus I guess 

[Jblaze4lif]

Have them double sleeve with the KMC perfect fit inside the KMC ultrapro. I double sleeved every deck this way its awesome. You can barely tell the double sleeve after you work them in.

[grungyboy]

believe or not, our player's cards are perfect sleeved, normal sleeved AND top loaded; that's how people here love their cards

[jam3sbob]

What is the official ruling regarding top loaders? Can you top loader on a high rel event like a GP?

Anyway, videos are awesome.

[credmond]

believe or not, our player's cards are perfect sleeved, normal sleeved AND top loaded; that's how people here love their cards

Does all this protection have anything to do with the weather (humidity, etc.) there?

[cruzron]

@jam3sbob - In the Legacy side event in GP Manila 2010 (not sure about this year), the head judge allowed the few people who played in loaders. It depends I guess.

@credmond - I guess it plays a part. If you check the videos of the dredge player w/ yellow sleeves (me), you'd see that they are horribly, horribly warped, even if it's already double sleeved  Putting them in a drybox helps a bit but it warps again after using it.