[TO Report] 5.11.13 - $2,000 Vintage Event - Part of TDG's 2013 Eternal Series

[psyburat]

Complete Metagame Breakdown

Jaces

UW Bomberman: 4
BUG Fish: 2
UWB Bomberman: 1
URb Landstill: 1
Intellectual Curiosity: 1

Workshops

Martello/Forgemaster: 3
Moon Shops: 1
Terra Nova/Mutavault: 1

Rituals

Burning Oath: 2
Doomsday: 1

Rods

Merfolk: 2
RG Beats: 1

Bazaars

Dredge: 3
UG Madness: 1

Top Eight Playoffs

Timothy Kenney (Dredge) vs Ray Robillard (Burning Oath) - Ray Wins!
Matt Elias (Burning Oath) vs John Jones (RG Beats) - Matt Wins!
Joel Lim (Merfolk) vs Ryan Glackin (Dredge) - Joel Wins!
Josh Potucek (Landstill) vs Will Magrann (Terra Nova) - Josh Wins!

Josh Potucek vs Matt Elias - Josh Wins!
Joel Lim vs Ray Robillard - Joel Wins!

Joel Lim vs Josh Potucek - Joel Wins!

Top Eight Decklists

Joel Lim
Winner
"Slaughter Smurfs"

4 Cursecatcher
4 Lord of Atlantis
4 Master of the Pearl Trident
4 Silvergill Adept
3 Merrow Rejeerey
3 Phantasmal Image
1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
1 Waterfront Bouncer

4 Force of Will
3 Daze
3 Mental Misstep
3 Null Rod
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Time Walk

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire

9 Island
4 Cavern of Souls
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine

SB:
3 Dismember
3 Grafdigger's Cage
3 Steel Sabotage
2 Ghost Quarter
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Pithing Needle

Josh Potucek
Finalist
"URb Landstill"

4 Force of Will
4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Mana Drain
4 Standstill
3 Engineered Explosives
3 Lightning Bolt
2 Crucible of Worlds
2 Mental Misstep
2 Mindbreak Trap
2 Spell Pierce
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Dismember
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Red Elemental Blast

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire

4 Mishra's Factory
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Wasteland
3 Volcanic Island
2 Island
1 Barbarian Ring
1 Faerie Conclave
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Mountain
1 Strip Mine
1 Underground Sea

SB:
4 Grafdigger's Cage
4 Ingot Chewer
3 Yixlid Jailer
2 Bojuka Bog
1 Goblin Welder
1 Viashino Heretic

Matt Elias
Semifinalist
“Combo Deck”

2 Griselbrand

4 Burning Wish
4 Dark Ritual
4 Duress
4 Oath of Druids
2 Hurkyl’s Recall
2 Repeal
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Memory Jar
1 Mind’s Desire
1 Necropotence
1 Ponder
1 Time Walk
1 Timetwister
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Yawgmoth’s Bargain

2 Chrome Mox
1 Black Lotus
1 Lion’s Eye Diamond
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Opal
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring

4 City of Brass
4 Forbidden Orchard
3 Gemstone Mine
1 Tolarian Academy

SB:
3 Ancient Tomb
3 Nature’s Claim
1 Balance
1 Empty the Warrens
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Laboratory Maniac
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Show and Tell
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Thoughtseize
1 Yawgmoth’s Will

Ray Robillard
Semifinalist
“Burning Oath”

2 Griselbrand

4 Burning Wish
4 Dark Ritual
4 Duress
4 Oath of Druids
2 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Memory Jar
1 Necropotence
1 Ponder
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Thoughtseize
1 Time Walk
1 Timetwister
1 Tinker
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Windfall
1 Yawgmoth’s Bargain

2 Chrome Mox
1 Black Lotus
1 Lion’s Eye Diamond
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Opal
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring

4 City of Brass
4 Forbidden Orchard
2 Gemstone Mine
1 Tolarian Academy

SB:
3 Ancient Tomb
3 Nature’s Claim
1 Cabal Therapy
1 Empty the Warrens
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Laboratory Maniac
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Mind's Desire
1 Pyroclasm
1 Show and Tell
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Yawgmoth’s Will

Ryan Glackin
Quarterfinalist
“The Dredge Report”

4 Bloodghast
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
4 Narcomoeba
4 Stinkweed Imp
3 Golgari Thug
3 Ichorid
2 Ingot Chewer
1 Flame-Kin Zealot
1 Sun Titan

4 Bridge from Below
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Serum Powder
2 Dread Return

4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 City of Brass
4 Undiscovered Paradise
2 Dakmor Salvage
2 Petrified Field

SB:
4 Wispmare
3 Firestorm
3 Nature’s Claim
2 Chain of Vapor
2 Ingot Chewer
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

John Jones
Quarterfinalist
“RG Beats”

4 Elvish Spirit Guide
4 Magus of the Moon
4 Phyrexian Metamorph
4 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Simian Spirit Guide
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Vexing Shusher
3 Tin-Street Hooligan
2 Ingot Chewer
2 Stingscourger

4 Lightning Bolt
2 Dismember
1 Blood Moon

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby

4 Forest
4 Taiga
4 Wasteland
2 Mountain
1 Strip Mine

SB:
4 Grafdigger's Cage
3 Tormod's Crypt
2 Dismember
2 Ingot Chewer
2 Thrun, the Last Troll
1 Blood Moon
1 Pulverize

Timothy Kenney
Quarterfinalist
“Red Deck Wins”

4 Bloodghast
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
4 Narcomoeba
4 Stinkweed Imp
3 Golgari Thug
3 Ichorid
1 Fatestitcher
1 Flame-Kin Zealot
1 Griselbrand
1 Sun Titan

4 Bridge from Below
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Serum Powder
3 Dread Return
3 Nature's Claim
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Mental Misstep

4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 City of Brass
4 Undiscovered Paradise
2 Dakmor Salvage

SB:
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Chain of Vapor
2 Ingot Chewer
2 Mental Misstep
2 Wispmare
1 Darkblast
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
1 Nature's Claim

Will Magrann
Quarterfinalist
"Terra Nova"

4 Lodestone Golem
4 Phyrexian Metamorph
4 Phyrexian Revoker

4 Chalice of the Void
4 Dismember
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Thorn of Amethyst
2 Sculpting Steel
1 Trinisphere

1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring

4 Ancient Tomb
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Mutavault
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy

SB:
4 Grafdigger's Cage
3 Null Rod
3 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
3 Tormod's Crypt
2 Ghost Quarter

The Prizes

In addition to 24 players receiving $2,000 in prizes (the top 2/3rds of the event got their money back!), we had a special treat...



An eleven pound trifle!



And twelve Creme Brulees!



Will Magrann, two Creme Brulees.



Ryan Glackin, oblivous to the Creme Brulee.



Anticipation!



The chalice is now set to zero.



And for our vegan winner, grapes!  Congrats Joel!

See you all on June 22nd!

[msg67183]

How did the UG Madness deck do?
What is Intellectual Curiousity?
What is Moon Shops, I assume red Shops with Blood Moon?

[mr.grim]

Props to John , Matt , J-pot and the rest of the top.
Vintage players beware, Slaughter Smurfs is back!

[personalbackfire]

I love that John continues to just play whatever he feels like. It's great.

Congrats, John, Will, Josh, and Glackin.

Always cool to see people who have been playing vintage forever in this area do well.

Also congrats to the winner!

I had my doubts about merfolk but I got smashed in testing against it playing gush so I'm more of a believer now.

Edit: AND MATT ELIAS!!! Keeping it real with the rituals... I'm choosing to believe you play that deck for your love of combo over love of oath. I know Bob Tendrils was your favorite deck in years past... ehh ehh?

[psyburat]

How did the UG Madness deck do?
What is Intellectual Curiousity?
What is Moon Shops, I assume red Shops with Blood Moon?

Somewhere in the 9th-24th place range.
A deck containing at least one Jace, the Mind Sculptor.
A deck containing at least one Mishra's Workshop.

Joking aside, the players you are asking about are Andrew Close, Visna Harris and Scott Hughes (in that order).  I'll leave those answers to them.

[jlim17]

I'm sick of the inaccuracy in the breakdown of archetypes!!! It should be:

Jaces
Workshops
Rituals
Rods
Bazaars
Visna

Enough already!!!

Congrats to the rest of Top 8! This was a tough field overall, one that even Pokey wasn't even able to crack Top 8 in, a unique rarity in 2013. And in Josh's tourney report, his run to the finals looked like quite the gauntlet.

The top 8 field was basically a nightmare for Merfolk. Running good and being on my game (mostly) apparently offset my stubborness to play this deck in a field with only 7 favorable matchups. Feels good both personally and in my faith in the deck to back-to-back against all the odds!

So long and thanks for all the grapes! Victory Grapes!

[Prospero]

Victory Grapes!

[Vise]

Lol, Visna Decks...

[Worldslayer]

Shoutout to Jon Jones for keeping it real with the homebrews and getting back into the top 8 swing. You might be my favorite vintage player alive.

Props to my Burning Oath comrades. As much fun as I made of that f***ing deck, it is a sweet sweet pile to play with: and if you notice, has been cracking top 8s all over the place, usually in pairs (for some reason).

Congratulations to JLim for winning, and continuing the Slaughter Smurfs tradition, because suck it, that article DeMars wrote forever ago.

High five to all of the Top 8, of course. It's a rough X rounds when almost every one of them is a Name now, yeah? Who's up for storming GenCon with NE wizardry?

Finally, brofist bumpsplosion to the fact that Dark Rituals are almost an even contender to Dr. Wiley's Robot Masters anymore. Is Burning Oath secretly Megaman? Only this summer will tell.


And, of course, slops to having to miss this, but a family wedding reception was happening and I certainly wasn't missing that. I'll be back with some crazy noise next time, though, because my new motto is "What Would John Jones Play?" 

[rpf5029]

Is Burning Oath secretly Megaman? Only this summer will tell.


And, of course, slops to having to miss this, but a family wedding reception was happening and I certainly wasn't missing that. I'll be back with some crazy noise next time, though, because my new motto is "What Would John Jones Play?" 

That. Is. Awesome.