Durham NC, June 13-15, Atomic Empire Eternal Weekend VI (Legacy and Vintage)

[wiley]

We had 18 players come out for vintage last sunday, playing 6 rounds of swiss and a cut to top 4.  Neat note, there were 14 separate archetypes among those 18 players. Feature matches are up on youtube here.  Thanks to Millsy for uploading the videos and Josh for typing up the lists and metagame breakdown.
1st Place: Christian Griffin (RUG Delver)

Main Deck:
4 Delver of Secrets
4 Tarmogoyf
3 Young Pyromancer
4 Force of Will
4 Mental Misstep
2 Spell Snare
2 Spell Pierce
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Divert
4 Lightning Bolt
1 Mystical Tutor
4 Gush
1 Ancient Grudge
2 Preordain
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Ponder
1 Time Walk
1 Mox Ruby
1 Black Lotus
1 Brainstorm
1 Island
1 Scalding Tarn
3 Volcanic Island
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Strip Mine
3 Tropical Island
2 Wasteland
1 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand

Sideboard:
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pyroblast
2 Umezawa’s Jitte
2 Hurkyl’s Recall
2 Ancient Grudge
3 Nature’s Claim
4 Grafdigger’s Cage

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2nd Place: Richard Johnson (Control Slaver)

Main Deck:
2 Goblin Welder
1 Myr Battlesphere
1 Mindslaver
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Brainstorm
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Thirst for Knowledge
3 Mental Misstep
3 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
2 Dack Fayden
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
3 Volcanic Island
3 Underground Sea
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Polluted Delta
1 Island
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Tolarian Academy

Sideboard:
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Yixlid Jailer
1 Nihil Spellbomb
4 Ingot Chewer
1 Mountain
1 Trinisphere
1 Lightning Bolt
2 Flusterstorm

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3rd-4th Place: Phillip Braverman (Jace Control)

Main Deck:
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Ancestral Recall
4 Force of Will
1 Spell Pierce
2 Spell Snare
4 Dark Confidant
3 Jace the Mind Sculptor
2 Mana Drain
1 Ponder
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Mystical Tutor
3 Lightning Bolt
3 Mental Misstep
1 Time Walk
1 Brainstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
3 Snapcaster Mage
1 Black Lotus
1 Myr Battlesphere
1 Tinker
1 Sol Ring
1 Toxic Deluge
2 Flooded Strand
2 Scalding Tarn
3 Underground Sea
3 Snow-Covered Island
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Polluted Delta
3 Volcanic Island

Sideboard:
2 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Flusterstorm
1 Spell Pierce
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pyroblast
1 Lightning Bolt
4 Shattering Spree
4 Leyline of the Void

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3rd-4th Place: Kyle Miller (BUG Fish)

Main Deck:
1 Trygon Predator
2 Vendilion Clique
4 Dark Confidant
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Snapcaster Mage
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Diabolic Edict
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Vampiric Tutor
2 Flusterstorm
2 Mana Leak
3 Mental Misstep
4 Abrupt Decay
4 Force of Will
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Null Rod
1 Bayou
1 Strip Mine
2 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea
3 Verdant Catacombs
4 Polluted Delta
4 Wasteland

Sideboard:
1 Swamp
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Scavenging Ooze
2 Yixlid Jailer
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Null Rod
2 Trygon Predator
3 Snuff Out
1 Dismember

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Metagame Breakdown
MUD: 2
Dredge: 1
Merfolk: 1
Oath: 4 (2Golden Gun, 1 Burning, 1 all in combo)
UR Delver: 1
Sneak & Show: 1
Belcher: 1
Jace Control: 2
Control Slaver: 2
UW Angel Control: 1
RUG Delver: 1
BUG Fish: 1

[wiley]

Legacy on saturday had 17 players:

1st Place: Josh Staples (RW Painter)

Main Deck:
4 Imperial Recruiter
4 Painter’s Servant
3 Goblin Welder
3 Simian Spirit Guide
2 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
1 Magus of the Moon
4 Grindstone
3 Sensei’s Divining Top
2 Ensnaring Bridge
2 Lotus Petal
4 Pyroblast
2 Enlightened Tutor
2 Red Elemental Blast
4 Blood Moon
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Mountain
3 City of Traitors
2 Plateau
1 Great Furnace
1 Wooded Foothills

Sideboard:
4 Firebolt
1 Ensnaring Bridge
1 Ethersworn Cannonist
1 Koth of the Hammer
1 Manic Vandal
1 Ratchet Bomb
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Rest in Peace
1 Shard Phoenix
1 Spirit of the Labyrinth
1 Spiritual Focus
1 Trinisphere

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2nd Place: Ryan Miller (Burn)

Main Deck:
4 Eidolon of the Great Revels
4 Goblin Guide
4 Fireblast
4 Rift Bolt
4 Lava Spike
4 Chain Lightning
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Price of Progress
3 Flame Rift
3 Sulfuric Vortex
3 Grim Lavamancer
10 Mountain
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Arid Mesa
1 Wooded Foothills

Sideboard:
1 Goblin Sharpshooter
3 Smash to Smithereens
3 Relic of Progenitus
1 Pithing Needle
2 Pyrostatic Pillar
2 Searing Blaze
3 Red Elemental Blast

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3rd-4th Place: Kyle Miller (BUG Delver)

Main Deck:
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Delver of Secrets
4 Deathrite Shaman
2 Dark Confidant
4 Daze
4 Brainstorm
4 Abrupt Decay
3 Force of Will
3 Ponder
3 Hymn to Tourach
3 Liliana of the Veil
2 Thoughtseize
4 Wasteland
4 Underground Sea
4 Polluted Delta
4 Misty Rainforest
2 Bayou
1 Tropical Island
1 Verdant Catacombs

Sideboard:
2 Disfigure
2 Spell Pierce
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Golgari Charm
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Creeping Tar-Pit
1 Krosan Grip
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Engineered Plague
1 Pithing Needle
1 Force of Will

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3rd-4th Place: Phillip Braverman (Deathblade)

Main Deck:
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Stoneforge Mystic
2 Snapcaster Mage
2 True-Name Nemesis
1 Baleful Strix
4 Swords to Plowshares
3 Thoughtseize
1 Ponder
4 Brainstorm
1 Umezawa’s Jitte
1 Liliana of the Veil
1 Vindicate
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
3 Force of Will
4 Flooded Strand
4 Polluted Delta
2 Marsh Flats
3 Tundra
4 Underground Sea
1 Tropical Island
1 Scrubland
1 Karakas
2 Wasteland
1 Creeping Tar-Pit

Sideboard:
2 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Spell Pierce
1 Flusterstorm
1 Thoughtseize
1 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Path to Exile
1 Disenchant
1 Zealous Persecution
2 Baleful Strix
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Force of Will

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5th-8th Place: Palmer Smith (Nicfit)

2 Island
2 Swamp
2 Forest
1 Watery Grave
1 Bayou
1 Tropical Island
3 Verdant Catacombs
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Creeping Tar-Pit
1 Volrath’s Stronghold
1 Phyrexian Tower
1 Dryad Arbor
4 Veteran Explorer
3 Deathrite Shaman
1 Starved Rusalka
1 Eternal Witness
1 Acidic Slime
1 Thragtusk
1 Primeval Titan
3 Notion Thief
4 Green Sun’s Zenith
4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Brainstorm
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Abrupt Decay
3 Pernicious Deed

Sideboard:
4 Golgari Charm
4 Negate
4 Force of Will
2 Fungal Shambler
2 Surgical Extraction

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5th-8th Place: Matthew Paolantonio (Merfolk)

Main Deck:
4 Cursecatcher
4 Lord of Atlantis
4 Master of the Pearl Trident
4 Silvergill Adept
3 Phantasmal Image
4 True-Name Nemesis
1 Thassa, God of the Sea
4 Aether Vial
3 Standstill
1 Umezawa’s Jitte
4 Daze
4 Force of Will
11 Island
4 Wasteland
4 Mutavault
1 Cavern of Souls

Sideboard:
1 Pithing Needle
2 Relic of Progenitus
3 Grafdigger’s Cage
3 Submerge
3 Swan Song
3 Spell Pierce

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5th-8th Place: Jeff Abbott (Jund Depths)

Main Deck:
4 Abrupt Decay
4 Chalic of the Void
4 Crop Rotation
3 Dark Confidant
4 Life from the Loam
4 Living Wish
4 Mox Diamond
3 Punishing Fire
3 Vampire Hexmage
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Bayou
3 Dark Depths
1 Forest
2 Grove of the Burnwillows
1 Karakas
1 Maze of Ith
1 Sejiri Steppe
1 Swamp
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1 Taiga
3 Thespian’s Stage
2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 Verdant Catacombs
3 Wasteland

Sideboard:
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Dark Depths
1 Glacial Chasm
1 Grove of the Burnwillows
1 Karakas
1 Maze of Ith
2 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Thespian’s Stage
1 Tower of the Magistrate
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Vampire Hexmage
1 Volrath’s Stronghold
1 Wasteland

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5th-8th Place: Brian Diefendorf (Shardless BUG)

Main Deck:
4 Deathrite Shaman
2 Baleful Strix
4 Tarmogoyf
3 Shardless Agent
2 Tombstalker
2 Liliana of the Veil
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Force of Will
4 Abrupt Decay
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Ponder
4 Brainstorm
1 Creeping Tar-Pit
2 Misty Rainforest
3 Verdant Catacombs
2 Tropical Island
4 Underground Sea
2 Bayou
4 Wasteland
3 Polluted Delta

Sideboard:
2 Thoughtseize
1 Vendilion Clique
2 Golgari Charm
1 Null Rod
2 Disfigure
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Engineered Plague
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Life from the Loam
2 Spell Pierce

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Metagame Breakdown:
Deathblade: 2
MUD: 1
BUG Delver: 2
UWR Delver: 1
Jund: 1
ANT: 1
Reanimator: 1
Elves: 1
RW Painter: 1
Burn: 1
Nicfit: 1
Merfolk: 1
Jund Depths: 1
Shardless BUG: 1

[wiley]

I played UW Angel Control (called Dance Magic Dance on the forums).  From the main deck posted here, I cut a brainstorm and force of will for a sdt and elesh norn.  The only time I drew the elesh I didn't have another blue card in hand so it didn't end up mattering that I only had three force.  The tops were pure value all day, and I was happy with how consistent the deck was.  Unfortunately in almost every match I was just shy of winning the game when my opponent caught me out of resources and cast a bomb that won them the game.  Ultimately I had the worst showing at a tournament I have ever had, and the closest games I have ever had.

The deck just kind of sputters if you can't find fact, and even with 2 tops and multiple fetch activations there were many games where all I saw off top were mana sources.  I blame variance, but it still left me with enough of a sour taste that I probably won't be sleeving the deck up again.  My biggest take away though is that spirit of the labyrinth is a legit vintage card.  It cut off many of my opponents' lines of play and the winner of the tournament forgot it was in play and cast a main phase brainstorm in r2 g1 against me.  Ultimately if the angel was a 4/4 I would have won the majority of games I lost, but she isn't.