12 - 22 - 2002 T1 Tournament in Greece

Because at the same time there was a T1.5 master tournament with prize a Lotus many of our T1 players decided to go there so at the T1 there were only 12 people but 8-10 of them had powered decks.

TNT (thanks Teletubby and Mom's Goblin Raider)

   4 Juggernaut
   4 Su-Chi
   4 Goblin Welder
   4 Survival of the Fittest
   2 Triskelion
   1 Druid Lyrist
   1 Masticore
   1 Karn, Silver Golem
   1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
   1 Quirion Ranger
   1 Wonder
   1 Anger
   1 Tinker
   1 Memory Jar
   1 Ancestral Recall
   1 Time Walk
   1 Uktabi Orangutan
   1 Sylvan Library
   1 Mox Pearl
   1 Mox Jet
   1 Mox Sapphire
   1 Mox Ruby
   1 Mox Emerald
   1 Sol Ring
   1 Grim Monolith
   1 Strip Mine
   3 Wasteland
   2 Forest
   4 Mishra's Workshop
   4 Taiga
   2 Flooded Strand
   2 Tropical Island
   4 Wooded Foothills
   1 Flametongue Kavu (61 card)
SB: 2 Naturalize
SB: 1 Elvish Lyrist
SB: 2 Tormod's Crypt
SB: 1 Gilded Drake
SB: 2 Blood Moon
SB: 3 Red Elemental Blast
SB: 1 Artifact Mutation
SB: 2 Bottle Gnomes
SB: 1 Genesis

My match-ups were

Round 1 vs Panagiotis Lambiris rector-Bargain-Trix Draw 1-1
game 1 I laid on turn 2 a Jugger and during his turn he played a rector(I had already destroy a Phyrexian Tower ) He blocked next turn my anxious Jugger and get sacrificied to bring a Bargain..

SB
- Kavu ,Jugger X4, Tinker, Memory Jar,Masticore, Grim Monolith, Uktabi
  + 2 Naturalize ,3 Reb ,2 Blood Moon ,2 Bottle Gnomes ,Genesis
(it was my mistake not to side in the 2 crypts -unfortunately I realized this after the tournament. the crypt prevents the rector from getting the enchantment )

game 2 He comboed me again once but with continuous recursion of Bottle Gnomes I stayed alive and killed him with his own Illsusion (he hadn't another donate and couldn't play upkeep cost , he could win because when I was at 3 life I thought that his keg had 5 (and not 4) counters and I laid down a shu-chi.) Better lucky than good!!

Round 2 vs Dimitris Panourgias turbo-Stasis (monoblue ,powered with Time Vault!? , howling mines, tangle wires , i didn't see any morplhings) Win 2-0
game 1
He locked me early with Tangle Wire and Stasis later but I casted 2 welders simultaneously and forced him with his Tangle wire (traded for a mox sapphire he had in play) not to have any islands to keep the stasis and finally he had to sac it. A quirion ranger later sealed the game

SB
  - Kavu ,Tinker, Memory Jar, Masticore, Wonder
  + 2 Naturalize ,3 Reb

game 2
A turn 1 Jugger rides all the distance

Round 3 vs Evangelos Papatsarouchas rogue PowerArtifact Combo-Academy stylish (not powered, based on Academy's card drawing with Fastbond, Lion's Eyes instead of moxes,Helm of Awakening..deck's goal was to produce infinite mana via the power artifact combo and stroke to death) Win 2-1
game 1
He comboed me early

SB
- Wonder ,Kavu, Tinker, Memory Jar, Uktabi
  +3 Reb ,2 Blood Moon

game 2
turn 1 land mox . He played a Un.Sea

turn 2 land blood moon He conceded next turn
game 3
he mull to 5. He kept a hand of City of Brass,Power Artifact,Grim Monolith,Stoke and Regrowth!!
He didn't draw during his next 2 turns a land and I laid a turn 3 Blood Moon + Juggernaut.

round 4 vs rector-Bargain- Trix (full powered ) Win 2-1
game 1
He casted an early Bargain on turn 3-4

SB
- Kavu ,Jugger X4, Tinker, Memory Jar,Masticore, Grim Monolith, Uktabi
  + 2 Naturalize ,3 Reb ,2 Blood Moon ,2 Bottle Gnomes ,Genesis
game 2
He casted a turn 2 Rector. During his 3rd turn he activated his scroll rack for 3 ,found a Tower to which he sacrified the rector for Bargain
He done a lot of things and then he made a mistake. He had another scroll rack in hand but he forgot to play it He used again the rack he took 12 cards and put 12 cards from his hand on library. I didn't noticed that he he had already used the rack but the guy who was taking notes about our match (I didn't know him) pointed that the rack had been already used. The judge came to our table and gave a match loss to my opponent. If he didn't make that silly mistake he would be the winner.

SB
- Kavu ,ShuChi X4, Tinker, Memory Jar,Masticore, Grim Monolith, Uktabi
  + 2 Naturalize ,3 Reb ,2 Blood Moon ,2 Bottle Gnomes ,Genesis
I chose the sidein the Juggers for the ShuChis because of the extra 1 damage
game 3
He kept his hand with a mox sapphire and a recall. He didh't draw another land for the next 4-5 turns He FOW' ed a blood moon but a survival -->anger --> squee , welder and jugger killed him

I was first with 3-1-0 and I played in the finals
round 5 Final vs Christos Portozoudis rogue UB controls(finkels,morplhs,painlands no power nor duals, his first T1 tournament) 3-1
game 1
An early welder and a survival at the beginning seemed to overcome him but he managed with a cunning wish to fetch from his sb a coffin purge for my anger and squee. I kept exchanging Juggernaut and triskellions with my welder and soon we moved to game 2

SB
- Tinker, Memory Jar, Grim Monolith, Uktabi, Wonder
  + 1 Naturalize ,3 Reb , Genesis
game 2
I kept a hand with a tropical forest,workshop,2 reb,welder,f.kavu,1 more red card.He wasteland my tropical, stripped my forest, a planar void nullified my graveyard and 2 finkels started to bite me. I managed to recover (thanks to my triskellion and Jugger) but a disk cleaned the board with me at 5 life and him at 1. I laid Squee and he topdecked Morplhing ...
game 3
I had an explosive start with Mishra's Workshop, Sol Ring, Shu-Chi.I stripped his swamp and though he FOW'ed a Welder the Shu-Chi alone brought him to death
game 4
We both laid lands in the first 2 turns but I time walked. Next turn he didn't counter my Sylvan Library and I knew that the game was mine.He didn't lay land in the following 2 turns and though he countered my next Shu-chi and Juggernaut a Triskellion came down followed by a Karn next turn.

At the tournament there were
1 TNT (powered)
2 Black discard
1 DragonCombo (full powered)
1 Draw-go(powered)
3 rector-Bargain-Trix (powered)
1 U/B Control
1 Stasis (powered)
I don't remember the remaining 2 decks

Possible changes :
Cut the main deck F.Kavu,Wonder (down to 60 cards)
Cut the lonely artifact Mutation from the Sb
1-2 main deck Blood Moon
Increase the number of Blood Moon or Tormod's Crypt
at the sb

My thanks to :
my wife (and her parents) ,
Teletubby for the original design of the deck,
Mon, Goblin Chief for his suggestions about the deck and the help that he provided to me,
Petros and Akis for keeping notes about my matches during the tournament,
Zherbus for this site
and to all of you who have been tolerated my bad Enlgish.

I wish you a Happy new Year