Next Level Games: February Edition (Vintage Masters Qualifier)

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With an Underground Sea, Force of Will and two tickets to our Vintage Masters 2013 up for grabs, ten players made it out to Next Level games for an afternoon of cardboard slinging action. With a mixture of newcomers, stalwarts and even some players from the woodwork there was plenty of fun and of course Magic to be had.

Nobody expected coming into this event that it would be an all fish final but at the end of the day it was the little men who managed to take first and second leaving everybody behind in the dust.

There were 4 rounds with a cut to top 4

Finals

Andy Horne (Walking Fish) D Joshua Butler (Turbo Tezzeret) (2-1)
Bill Murphey (Noble Fish) D Brett Hughes (Grixis Control) (2-1)

Andy Horne (Walking Fish) D Bill Murphey (Noble Fish) (2-0)

Standings (6-10 are by memory, will edit)

1) Andy Horne (Walking Fish)
2) Bill Murphey (Noble Fish)
3) Joshua Butler (Turbo Tezzeret)
4) Brett Hughes (Grixis Control)
5) Michael Lau (Death and Taxes)
6) Luke Mcandless (Espresso Shops)
7) Zac Crowley (Dredge)
8) Jimbo Dowling (RUG Delver)
9) Lee Greaves (Cerebral Assassin)
10) Graham King (Terra Nova)

Top 4 Decklists

Andy Horne (Walking Fish)

Lands
1 Tropical Island
1 Scrubland
1 Bayou
2 Savannah
2 Horizon Canopy
4 Windswept Heath
3 Cavern of Souls
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
1 Karakas

Artifacts
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Lotus Petal

Creatures
2 kataki, War’s Wage
3 Aven Mindcensor
3 Qasali Pridemage
4 Dark Confidant
1 Mayor of Avabruck
3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
3 Knight of the Reliquary
1 Gaddock Teeg
4 Noble Hierarch

Sorceries
1 Time Walk

Instants
1 Ancestral Recall
2 Abrupt Decay
4 Swords to Plowshares
3 Mental Misstep

Sideboard
2 Path to Exile
2 Wall of Denial
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Kataki War's Wage
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Yixlid Jailer
2 Mayor Avabruck

2) Bill Murphey (Noble Fish)

Lands
2 Cavern of Souls
1 Strip Mine
3 Wasteland
4 Misty Rainforest
3 Tropical Island
1 Forest
1 Island
2 Tundra

Artifacts
3 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus

Creatures
4 Dryad Militant
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4 Quasali Pridemage
4 Trygon Predator
3 Ethersworn Cannonist
3 Meddling Mage

Enchantments
3 Stony Silence

Sorceries
1 Time Walk

Instants
2 Steel Sabotage
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm


Sideboard
2 Dismember
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Tropical Island
2 Hurkyl's Recall
3 Ravenous Trap
1 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Stony Silence
1 Tropical Island
1 Wasteland
2 Path the Exile

3) Joshua Butler (Turbo Tezzeret)
Land (15)
1 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Scalding Tarn
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Library of Alexandria
5 Island
2 Underground Sea

Artifacts (20)
3 Grim Monolith
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
3 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault

Creatures (1)
1 Blightsteel Colossus

Planeswalkers (5)
4 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas

Sorceries (8)
1 Imperial Seal
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
3 Thoughtseize

Instants (7)
4 Force of Will
2 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Vampiric Tutor

Sideboard
1 Tormod's Crypt
3 Relic of Progenitus
1 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Sower of Temptation
2 Steel Sabotage
3 Dismember
2 Mental Misstep
1 Echoing Truth.

4) Brett Hughes (Grixis Control)
Lands
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Misty Rainforest
3 Undergrond Sea
2Volcanic Island
1 Island
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Tolarian Academy

Artifacts
5 Moxen
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key

Creatures
4 Dark Confidant
3 Snapcaster Mage
1 Blightsteel Colossus

Planeswalkers
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

Sorceries
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Time Walk
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Tinker
1 Ponder

Instants
4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
3 Mana Drain
2 Lightning Bolt
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Brainstorm

Sideboard
4 Ingot Chewer
2 Lightning Bolt
2 Red Elemental blast
2 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Yixlid Jailer
1 Mountain

Again, well done for everyone who showed up and I trust everybody had a great time. Our next tournament will be on SUNDAY March 3rd at Next Level Games (106 Foster Street Dandenong) and I hope to see everyone there.