Team Serious Open Results - Sandusky, OH - November 14

[GrandpaBelcher]

We had a great turnout of 23 players on Saturday, filling the store to capacity with Vintagey goodness. Dave P. Baum and the Pop! shop were great and accommodating hosts, allowing us also to set up the streaming rig. In case you missed it, the event is archived here for the time being: http://www.twitch.tv/seriousvintage/v/25777585.





Thanks to everyone who came out! I'll be in touch with the Ohio store owners this week to schedule the first part of 2016.

When the dust had settled, 8 players stood out of the crowd, and they played it out to the finish.

After Swiss:
1. Stephen McGrew - URW Delver
2. Jake Hilty - Gush/Oath Tendrils
3. Geoff Moes - Glass City Vault
4. Steven Sasala - Merfolk
5. Duane Haddix - Tiny Robots
6. Alec Capas - Grixis Thieves
7. Kyle Lenox - Dark Petition Storm
8. Sam Krohlow - Doomsday

Interestingly, the top four all lost to the second four.

Krohlow (Doomsday) beat McGrew (Delver)
Lenox (DPS) beat Hilty (Gush/Oath Tendrils)
Capas (Thieves) beat Moes (Glass City Vault)
Haddix (Robots) beat Sasala (Merfolk)

In the Top 4:

Lenox (DPS) beat Capas (Thieves)
Haddix (Robots) beat Krohlow (Doomsday)

Haddix (Robots) beat Lenox (DPS) in the finals! Tiny Robots everywhere!

Top 8 Lists by Final Standings

1. Duane Haddix - Tiny Robots
Deck Designer - BrassMan
4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Contested Warzone
4 Ancient Tomb
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Strip Mine
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Memnite
4 Signal Pest
4 Genesis Chamber
3 Arcbound Ravager
3 Hangarback Walker
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Cranial Plating
4 Skullclamp
2 Expedition Map
4 Tangle Wire

Sideboard
4 Grafdigger's Cage
3 Tormod's Crypt
4 Thorn of Amethyst
2 Dismember
2 Witchbane Orb

2. Kyle Lenox - Dark Petition Storm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Chain of Vapor
4 Gitaxian Probe
2 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Mind's Desire
1 Ponder
1 Timetwister
2 Cabal Ritual
3 Cabal Therapy
4 Dark Petition
4 Dark Ritual
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Duress
1 Necropotence
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Bargain
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Wheel of Fortune
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 Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
1 Badlands
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Library of Alexandria
4 Polluted Delta
1 Swamp
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Underground Sea

Sideboard
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Defense Grid
1 Empty the Warrens
2 Extirpate
2 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Ravenous Trap

3. Alec Capas - Grixis Thieves
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Dig Through Time
1 Tinker
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Pyroblast
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Yawgmoth's Will
2 Dismember
2 Flusterstorm
3 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
2 Snapcaster Mage
1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
1 Consecrated Sphinx
2 Notion Thief
2 Dack Fayden
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
3 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
2 Polluted Delta
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
1 City of Brass
2 Island

Sideboard
1 Mountain
2 Engineered Plague
1 Rakdos Charm
1 Slaughter Games
1 Red Elemental Blast
2 Energy Flux
3 Ingot Chewer
1 Pithing Needle
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Sudden Shock

4. Sam Krohlow - Doomsday
1 Misdirection
4 Force of Will
3 Flusterstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
4 Preordain
4 Gush
1 Thoughtseize
1 Labratory Maniac
1 Dark Ritual
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Fastbond
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Dig Through Time
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
4 Doomsday
2 Island
4 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
4 Misty Rainforest
2 Polluted Delta

Sideboard
3 Nature's Claim
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Forest
2 Trygon Predator
1 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Ravenous Trap
2 Extirpate
2 Snuff Out
1 Toxic Deluge

5. Steven McGrew - URW Delver
4 Delver of Secrets
4 Young Pyromancer
2 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy
4 Mental Misstep
4 Preordain
3 Gush
2 Gitaxian Probe
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Dig Through Time
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
1 Flusterstorm
2 Lightning Bolt
2 Swords to Plowshares
2 Pyroblast
1 Stony Silence
1 Dack Fayden
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
3 Volcanic Island
2 Tundra
2 Island
1 Strip Mine

Sideboard
4 Ingot Chewer
2 Containment Priest
2 Rest in Peace
2 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Stony Silence
1 Sulfur Elemental
1 Wear & Tear
1 Pyroblast
1 Mouhtain

6. Jake Hilty - Gush/Oath Tendrils
4 Preordain
4 Gush
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Dig Through Time
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
3 Thoughtseize
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Noxious Revival
1 Regrowth
1 Time Walk
1 Mystical Tutor
4 Oath of Druids
1 Griselbrand
1 Memory's Journey
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Show and Tell
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Lotus Petal
1 Fastbond
3 Underground Sea
1 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Tropical Island
1 Island
1 Forbidden Orchard
2 Misty Rainforest
3 Underground Sea
1 Flooded Strand

Sideboard
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Yixlid Jailer
1 Doomsday
1 Laboratory Maniac
2 Hurkyl's Recall
3 Defense Grid
2 Forbidden Orchard
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

7. Geoff Moes - Glass City Vault
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Memory Jar
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Sol Ring
1 Time Vault
2 Voltaic Key
2 Goblin Welder
4 Notion Thief
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Fire & Ice
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Vampiric Tutor
2 City of Brass
4 Mana Confluence
4 Seat of the Synod
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Dack Fayden
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Imperial Seal
1 Ponder
1 Reforge the Soul
1 Tendrils of Agony
4 Thoughtcast
1 Time Walk
1 Timetwister
1 Tinker
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Windfall
1 Yawgmoth's Will

Sideboard
2 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Nihil Spellbomb
4 Force of Will
1 Goblin Welder
1 Myr Battlesphere
2 Toxic Deluge
3 Vandalblast

8. Steve Sasala - Merfolk
4 Cursecatcher
4 Silvergill Adept
4 Lord of Atlantis
4 Master of the Pearl Trident
2 Phantasmal Image
4 True-Name Nemesis
1 Chalice of the Void
3 Null Rod
1 Ancestral Recall
4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
1 Flusterstorm
1 Echoing Truth
1 Misdirection
1 Time Walk
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
11 Island
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
4 Cavern of Souls

Sideboard
4 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Annul
1 Misdirection
1 Mindbreak Trap
3 Dismember
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Pithing Needle

Metagame Breakdown
4 Workshops
- 1 Tiny Robots
- 1 Metalworker/Staff
- 1 Large Robots
- 1 Wurmcoil MUD
3 Dredge
- 1 Dredge and Dragons
- 2 Look Like Dredge
4 Combo
- 1 Dark Petition Storm
- 1 Glass City Vault
- 1 Pyromancer Tendrils
- 1 Worldgorger Combo
9 Blue Control
- 1 UW Mentor Bomberman
- 1 UW Landstill with Mentor
- 1 URW Bomberman
- 1 Grixis Thieves
- 1 Grixis Hellkites
- 1 Grixis Slaver
- 1 BUG Gush Tendrils
- 1 BUG Gush/Oath Tendrils
- 1 BUG Doomsday
3 Aggro/Other
- 1 Merfolk
- 1 URW Delver
- 1 UGW Infect

[serracollector]

I am so sorry I was not able to make this. Brassman that deck is beautiful sir. If they are gonna restrict chalice then just use all the broken one and zero costing artifacts and get there. Contested War Zone was clutch how many games? I really am in love with that deck sir.

[merfolkOTPT]

Just wanted to thank Pop! and Nat for organizing a great event.  It had been too long since I saw all you guys from team serious, and I forgot how much fun vintage was.  Hope everyone is excited for the next one.

[TheBrassMan]

I am so sorry I was not able to make this. Brassman that deck is beautiful sir.

Thanks! Though I have to say that most of this deck has been around for a while, if anything I made some very minor tweaks and rediscovered that's it's effective in the new meta. The Contested War Zone's are entirely Duane's tech, and I'm also looking forward to hearing how the worked out for him!

[drumstix576]

Sam Krohlow's Doomsday list appears to be a few cards short.  Any idea what's missing?

[TendrilsFTW]

I would guess 3 mental misstep.

[sillysam71]

I would guess 3 mental misstep.

Yep, there should be 3 Mental Missteps in there.

[gkraigher]

I've always seen Gaea's Cradle in those Genesis Chamber decks.  Any reason why it was absent?  The #1 copy seems better than #4 contested war zone.  At a very minimum, Gaea's Cradle is better than Strip Mine here. 

Also, with contested warzone, how many people played it correctly?  Each time you lose control of it, you are supposed to tap it for colorless mana so the opponent gets it tapped.  

[cutlex]

I've always seen Gaea's Cradle in those Genesis Chamber decks.  Any reason why it was absent?  The #1 copy seems better than #4 contested war zone.  At a very minimum, Gaea's Cradle is better than Strip Mine here. 

Also, with contested warzone, how many people played it correctly?  Each time you lose control of it, you are supposed to tap it for colorless mana so the opponent gets it tapped.  

Honestly, the only reason I didn't try a Cradle is because I don't own one. Tolarian Academy was (of course) really solid all day, but, looking back, I'm not sure if Cradle would have been nearly as good: if you have a few dudes out, you're probably in a pretty good spot already and probably would prefer a utility land. Even Tolarian wasn't as necessary as I thought it was going to be when I included Expedition Map. The Maps didn't do any work all day, being cast once and never activated. They were great for siding out, though. I'm considering leaving one in the 75 and adding a Karakas, as Oath is probably the worst matchup.

The Warzones were a ton of fun, but I'm not sure if they are a tactically better choice than the Wastelands I replaced: all but one of my opponents seemed to have never seen the card before. It was very good as a followup to Genesis Chamber, as beating with three or four 1/1s and an active Warzone ended many of my games. It was also useful to sandbag in my hand until I had enough guys on board to swing for lethal after the activation. Most of the time I didn't mind if the Warzone changed hands, as I had a ton of dudes that could claim it back during my next turn before they could untap it. The one time my opponent was able to activate (and kill me with) my Warzones, I think I would have lost anyway. Though I definitely punted a game because I wasn't using the card correctly.

[gkraigher]

I'm certain that Academy is way better than Cradle, but I still think Cradle #1 seems really good in the list.  

Maybe over an expedition map then.

Karakas has been great, I've put it in my normal (non-tiny robots) MUD list recently and have been very happy.  I honestly can't believe I wasn't playing it before, and now that Baby Jace is lurking around it gets even more important.  In a vacuum, it's probably aslo better than strip mine.

I rushed out and bought 4 FOIL genesis chambers after I caught wind of this list.  The card has been on my radar for quite sometime now, and I finally pulled the trigger.  Of all things, I might play it in Modern Affinity.  Go straight MUD affinity with Mutavaults instead of Glimmervoid and jam chamber.  I've always hated cards like Springleaf Drum as well, so cut that and add more threats.  Maybe maindeck Revokers. 

Have you given any consideration to Steel Overseer in this list?  Maybe out of the sideboard.  Again, I have a more traditional MUD list with Ravages and Hangarback Walker in the main, and Steel Overseer out of the board in the mirror match has been really good.  

[drumstix576]

I would guess 3 mental misstep.

Yep, there should be 3 Mental Missteps in there.

Awesome, thanks!