[TO Report] 8.18.13 - $2,000 Vintage Event - Part of TDG's 2013 SUMMER OPEN

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Greetings players!  We will be providing live updates of today's festivities, including metagame analysis, pictures, and other fun things.  With 40 players, this should be an exciting event!

Top Eight Decklists

Will Magrann
Winner
"Back in 'Nam"

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

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

4 Ancient Tomb
1 City of Traitors
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Mishra's Workshop
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Wasteland

SB:
2 Crucible of Worlds
1 Duplicant
1 Ghost Quarter
3 Nihil Spellbomb
4 Relic of Progenitus
2 Serrated Arrows
1 Sphere of Resistance
1 Witchbane Orb


Nick Detwiler
Finalist
"Espresso Stax 3.0"

4 Lodestone Golem
3 Steel Hellkite

1 Black Lotus
4 Chalice of the Void
3 Crucible of Worlds
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
2 Ratchet Bomb
4 Smokestack
1 Sol Ring
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Tangle Wire
3 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Trinisphere

4 Ancient Tomb
1 City of Traitors
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Mishra's Workshop
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Wasteland

SB:
3 Dismember
4 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Ratchet Bomb
3 Serrated Arrows
3 Tormod's Crypt
1 Witchbane Orb


James Kohler
Semifinalist
"The Alot"

4 Lodestone Golem
2 Phyrexian Revoker
2 Steel Hellkite

1 Black Lotus
4 Chalice of the Void
2 Crucible of Worlds
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Ratchet Bomb
4 Smokestack
1 Sol Ring
4 Sphere of Resistance
1 Staff of Nin
4 Tangle Wire
2 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Trinisphere

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

SB:
1 Crucible of Worlds
2 Duplicant
1 Ghost Quarter
4 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Relic of Progenitus
3 Serrated Arrows
2 Tormod's Crypt


Greg Fenton
Semifinalist
"Haymaker Rain Dance Oath"

2 Griselbrand

2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

1 Abrupt Decay
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Brainstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
2 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Crypt
3 Mana Drain
1 Memory's Journey
2 Mental Misstep
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Nature's Claim
4 Oath of Druids
3 Preordain
2 Show and Tell
1 Sol Ring
1 Time Vault
1 Time Walk
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Voltaic Key
1 Yawgmoth's Will

2 Flooded Strand
4 Forbidden Orchard
3 Island
2 Polluted Delta
2 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea

SB:
2 Abrupt Decay
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Misdirection
2 Nature's Claim
3 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Show and Tell
1 Steel Sabotage


Joel Lim
Quarterfinalist
"Reel Fish"

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

1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Echoing Truth
1 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
1 Misdirection
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Null Rod
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Time Walk

4 Cavern of Souls
9 Island
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland

SB:
3 Dismember
1 Flusterstorm
2 Ghost Quarter
3 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Pithing Needle
3 Steel Sabotage
2 Umezawa's Jitte

Mickey Mahr
Quarterfinalist
"Stax"

4 Lodestone Golem
2 Phyrexian Metamorph
3 Phyrexian Revoker

1 Black Lotus
4 Chalice of the Void
3 Crucible of Worlds
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Null Rod
4 Smokestack
1 Sol Ring
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Tangle Wire
2 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Trinisphere

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

SB:
2 Dismember
2 Duplicant
2 Ghost Quarter
4 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Relic of Progenitus
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Wurmcoil Engine

Michael Savage
Quarterfinalist
"187 On G-Fent"

1 Blightsteel Colossus
4 Dark Confidant

2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

2 Abrupt Decay
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Brainstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Force of Will
1 Mana Crypt
2 Mana Drain
2 Mental Misstep
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sol Ring
3 Spell Snare
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Time Vault
1 Time Walk
1 Tinket
2 Trygon Predator
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Voltaic Key
1 Yawgmoth's Will

2 Island
2 Misty Rainforest
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea

SB:
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Extirpate
2 Flusterstorm
1 Forest
4 Leyline of the Void
3 Nature's Claim
3 Yixlid Jailer


Brian Schlossberg
Quarterfinalist
"Soul Forge"

3 Goblin Welder
4 Lodestone Golem
3 Phyrexian Metamorph

1 Black Lotus
1 Contagion Engine
1 Crucible of Worlds
3 Kuldotha Forgemaster
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Sol Ring
4 Sphere of Resistance
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Sundering Titan
4 Tangle Wire
2 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Trinisphere

4 Ancient Tomb
4 Cavern of Souls
1 Great Furnace
4 Mishra's Workshop
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Wasteland

SB:
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Duplicant
1 Ghost Quarter
4 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Pithing Needle
2 Porcelain Legionnaire
1 Ratchet Bomb
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Witchbane Orb
1 Wurmcoil Engine

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The Metagame Breakdown

5 BUG Fish
4 Baleful Richards
4 Bomberman
4 Martello Shops
4 Pyromancer Gush
2 Bomberwoman
2 Bob-Jace Control
2 Demon Oath
2 Dredge
2 Espresso Stax
2 Landstill
1 Affinity
1 Burning Oath
1 Human Fish
1 Marinara Stax
1 Pitch Long
1 Merfolk
1 Terra Nova

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Right before the player meeting.

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Round Two Pictures



Sundering Titan wears a Skullclamp against Martello



Summer Islands duke it out against Tangle Wire

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Round Three Pictures



Some hot "Richard" on "Richard" action!



The humans bring Landstill to a halt!



The Workshops battle it out at Table 1!



Mickey Mahr



JP Kohler



A 75% Island still taps for U!



A clogged board for the blue control mirror match.

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Round Four Pictures



Don't ask.



Workshop plague in the top tables (two mirror matches).



Battle of the champions!  Mastriano's (NYSE I Champ) deck wants to populate his field with tokens, while Fenton's (NEV Champion) wants to populate Mastriano's field with tokens.

[brianpk80]

Thanks for the updates, Mike.  I wish I could be there today but I had other commitments. 

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Round Five Pictures



Baleful "Richards" uses Affinity's engine against it.



Two of the locked top 8 competitors pose for pictures.



The Human Fish duke it out against Workshops for Top 8 contention.

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Round Six Pictures



Fake Bob, after a fresh Mishra's Workshop flip, faces real Bob.



Standings after Round 5.



After declaring "I pulled a Mastriano on you!", Savage draws a Black Lotus for a Turn 1 win.  The offending card is signed.



The signed Voltaic Key.

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Quarterfinals Pictures



Our Top 9 finishers!  Poor Jimmy lost on tiebreakers, but can't resist a cameo.



JP "ADHD" Kohler (Espresso Stax) vs Brian Schlossberg (Mariana Shops) and Will Magrann (Martello Shops) vs Michael Savage (Trygon Tezz)



Nick Detwiler (Espresso Stax) vs Joel Lim (Merfolk) and Mickey Mahr (Espresso Stax) vs Greg Fenton (Demon Oath)



Double Crucible helps JP overcome Brian with Mishra's Factory beatdown.



Grafdigger's Cage is no match for what Greg has brought to show and tell about.



Alex Owen checks this very coverage.  How meta!



Dark Confidant sticks around as Savage sits at precariously low life.



Yawgmoth's Will deals the death blow to Savage!



Serrated Arrows offs Phantasmal Image to reduce the power of the fish army.

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Semifinals Pictures



The semifinalists (and Jimmy) pose with the trophy!



Nick Dewiler squares off against James Kohler with a new breed of Espresso Stax.



James Kohler also pilots Mishra's Workshop, but with a version that Nick finds frustrating.



Greg Fenton sits proudly as the only non-Workshop deck in the Top 4.



Colonel Will Magrann fends off the ghosts of Saigon as he prepares to make Fenton a POW.



Magrann begins to suffocate his opponent.



Fenton's tools to battle.



Magrann's backup.

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Finals Pictures



Nick Detwiler and his young padawan Will Magrann get ready to battle in a Workshop mirror finals!



Duplicant mistakes itself for a Steel Hellkite to take over game one.



Nick Detwiler, flustered as he mulligans to 4 for game 2.



Nick still has tools to work with as the machine is assembled game 2.



Magrann fans out his goodies to fight his opponent's initial start.



Phyrexian Revoker locks down the Ratchet Bomb.



Will floods the board with threats, slowly turning off Nick's machine.



Will Magrann takes down the finals in two games.  Thank you Mike Noss for head judging!



Will Magrann is officially the 2013 Summer Open Vintage Champion!

[msg67183]

So much for Workshops being on a decline! Out of the Top 8 decks, 5 of them were Mishra's Robots!
Congrats to the Top 8, and especially Will, "Back in 'Nam"... Priceless!

[TheProfessor]

Great tournament report, and I am happy to see that Nick is back to playing Vintage! 

Greg, those miscuts are freaking sweet!

[Eastman]

Looks like a lot do fun. Great coverage by the way!

[voltron00x]

Nothing was stopping Will and the power of "Yee Haw" today.

[Thecheese]

Great tournament

[H]

Nice Moxes Savage, ;^)

You need to practice your Bob flips, though, young padawan.

[Prospero]

My sincere thanks to Nick Coss, Mike Noble, Mike Noss, Jules, Miles and all the TDG staff.  You did a great job today.

Congrats to Will for beating me and to the rest of the top eight.

It was a strong event.  There were a lot of old faces.  It was good to see everyone again, including Roland and Brad.

I had the main 60 for this deck back in June, but didn't have a tournament to play it in.  The board changed a lot in the meantime, but I think it's a strong variation on traditional Espresso.

Also nice to see that after about a year off from serious Vintage play that I still had a good run in me.  I was rusty as hell.

[Greg]

This was simply an awesome event that showcased an even more awesome Vintage community battling it out for the trophy.

Great job on capturing the excitement of the event, Mr. Noble. Can't wait for the next Top Deck Games party.

[jlim17]

Congrats to Will and the other T8 competitors! This was quite a diversified field and a great event!

Too bad we didn't get Fenton's "Death to Shops!!!" war cry before the Top 8 on video. That gave me goosebumps.

[Prospero]

Too bad we didn't get Fenton's "Death to Shops!!!" war cry before the Top 8 on video. That gave me goosebumps.

I was shocked when I heard it.  The odds were not in favor of the blue decks in that top eight though.

[Catzul Warlord]

Just wanted to say that I was really impressed with the professionalism of this event. I always find it's a delicate balance with vintage as a) a lot of the crowd doesn't really travel to PTQs or anything and therefore aren't used to tournaments at a competitive REL or aren't familiar with what that implies and b) the event itself is unsanctioned and puts a lot of power in the TO's discretion as opposed to the letter of WOTC law.

One of my frustrations with vintage events is the tension between wanting to the respect the more casual/friendly nature of the community as a whole, but also expecting rules/procedures to be enforced at a level commiserate with the prize support offered/entry fee paid.

ANYway - I just mean to say I really appreciated the reviewing of deck lists, random deck checks, making sure people were properly de-sideboarded in the top 8 matches, urging players to make a decision when time was an issue, etc.

[Will]

This was a great tournament, thanks to everyone who made it happen especially Mykie for documenting the day for us through photographs, hopefully this is a trend that continues as it really enriches the TO Report.  It was awesome to take home the trophy, thank you to all of my opponents for the great games, you know back in 'Nam nobody ever shook your hand and said, "good games" when they lost. 

PS: Mykie, the Metagame breakdown only has 38 decks listed, any idea what the 2 missing decks were?

[Thecheese]

2 dredge I think are missing

[ramrodjon]

Congratulations to the top 8 and all the players who "came to game" at this fine event.  Special thanks to Mykie, the TDG crew, and Mike Noss all running a tight ship and keeping things smooth.  I personally had a rough day, but getting out for an entire day among this great community is always fun.  Props to my opponents (Egan, Joel, Griffiths, Murray, and Jesse) for whooping me soundly, the TDG crew, and my teammates for coming out for the 2 1/2 hour ride.

[HelloSamwise]

So much MUD.  O.o  I was really hoping to see more BUG Fish after last month's event.

Congrats to the T8!  This month's tourney was a lot of fun, and educational as always.