Hi
None of you must know me, but I'm one of the most respected Vintage player in Brazil.
I know that it means nothing... expecialy in here, where Vintage is almost dead, with a couple of ~10 person tournaments a month.
I'll start introducin myself. I'm Thiago (PizzaMan in here and in Brazilian Foruns, and Natsume_Shin in SCG and MOTL). I play Magic since ~96, but I stoped, sold/trade all my garbage, and just got back in the game on 2002.
Then I started to play Standard, and quickly moved to Vintage, after read about GAT. I used to own a LoA, and bought a Ancestral just to play GAT, and I was happy =D
Then DCI restricted Gush, I found out that the girl I was flerting was dating an other guy, I got sad and sold both top cards.
But things change, I started to date that *amazing* girl, got happy again, and get back to Vintage. =D
I used to own almost the hole P9 set (even if it cost 2-3x more than to the rest of the world, and I needed a full month paycheck to buy a single Mox), some $hops, LoA, etc... but, eventually, had to sold'em all.
Things change, I broke up with that *amazing* girl, moved from my parents house, and started a real life with an other girl...
But after paying all the bills that was left from the move (and now with a higher paycheck), I got back into bussiness (again =D).
I bought a Mox Jet and started to organize a tornament in here, trying to ressurect the Brazilian Vintage scene.
It took me some weeks to find a place, find a date, find nice prizes, find people to play :p.
And the 1st place would take the Mox.
Entry fee was about R$25.00 (~US$12.00)
A LOT of people got excited, but the pre-release date, anounced a week before the tournament, was on the exacly same date =/
Some people went to the pre-release tournaments, other just didn't came.... and the tournament held 16 people only... and it easn't enought to pay for the Mox... so the prize structure went this way:
1st: playset of Tropical Island
2nd: Playset of BE REBs, or playset of BE BEBs, or Foil Vampiric Tutor, or Bayou
3rd: Same as 2nd, without 2nd's choice
4th: Same as 3rd, without 3rd's choice
5th: Japanese Dandan =D
I know the prize structure sucked... but I was expecting 30+ person...
Well... we did 5 rounds of Swiss, with Top4 Playoffs.
I played UBA, because I recently adquired Bazaars and was in a mood to play Uba or Ichorid. As it is the only proxie tournament arround, I wasn't going to waste the chance to play with $hops
So I'll play Ichorid on the next non-proxie tournament ^_^
Ok, I was organizing, but we had a judge and I was only a player during the day
My list was exacly the same that Vroman played in GenCon. I spend the hole week before the tournament working until late and going to college, so I had no time to test anything now, nor any change.
It was like this:
UBA Stax
4 Mishras Workshop *proxie*
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
1 Stripmine
3 Wasteland
2 Rishadan Port
3 Mountain
3 Barbarian Ring
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Mox Ruby *proxie*
1 Mox Sapphire *proxie*
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl *proxie*
1 Mox Emerald *proxie*
1 Black Lotus *proxie*
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Sol Ring
4 Goblin Welder
1 Solem Simulacrum
1 Duplicant
1 Trinisphere
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Crucible of Words
4 Uba Mask
3 Null Rod
4 Smokestack
4 Tangle Wire *MVP!*
SideBoard
4 Granite Shard
3 Tormods Crypt
3 Viashino Heretic
3 Jester's Cap
2 Duplicant
Round 1 - Bruno Tiete playing ??
He starts with a City and a Sapph, and I think he may be playing any weird 4-5C Control, and I start playing around Drains. I start with a Chalice for 1, that is good both againt Control or Combo.
I play some counter baits, that just enter, and soon he scoops for some Crucible+Wasteland or something.
Even not knowing exacly was he was playing, I thought he might have 3- Kill Conditions into his deck. (B.Wish + DSC if Gifts, and Tendrils if Combo)
-3 Null Rod
+3 Jester's Cap
I kept the Chalices because Chalice for 1 broke him nicely on game 1, so I think it may work again, even if I can't play it for zero before he plays his first turn.
He goes City-go.
I played Mox Emerald, Mana Crypt, Chalice for zero, Tolarian Academy, tapped Tolarian and Emerald and played Jester's Cap. Before it resolves, he entered his scoop phase
/o/
I ask him which deck is he playing, and he tells me he's playing Grim Long. =D
1-0 2-0
Nice
I won pretty fast and walk arround to see the other decks in there. There was 2 Ichorids, ~3 UW Fishs, 1 WtG (the one with 9 strips, that won Waterbury #9)
Round 2 - Edu Telefônica playing Ichorid
During my few playtests, it's like 0-100 on game one. And I lost pretty fast.
On game 2 I start with a Tormod's Crypt, that slows him down A LOT. He did not started with neither Needle nor Rod, so he dredges slowly. I took my time and lock him under Trinisphere, CoW, Strip, G.Shard, Welder, another Tormod's Crypt and a Duplicant beatdown =D
On game 3 he kepts a "I HATE CRYPT" hand, but with no gas. He thought that he could easily draw into gas, but he didn't.
The game was like this:
He: Chalice, City, Needle (Welder)
Me: B.Ring, Sol Ring (with 2 welders in hand)
He: Stripmine, Null Rod
Me: Welder (lost the land drop. I was holding 1 Mox, 1 Lotus and some artifacts)
He: Strip you, go.
Me: Draw Mountain, play it and Welder, and started the beatdown =D
And I won on turn 4-5 after time O_o
Side:
-4 Chalice of the Void
-3 Null Rod
-4 Uba Mask
-1 Bazaar of Baghdad
+4 Granite Shar
+3 Tormods Crypt
+2 Duplicant
+3 Viashino Heretic
2-0 4-1
Round 3 - Maximum playing Worse than GAT
Game 1 he start with Emerald, Land, Kudzu, then Exploration, Land Land, and that's a game.
On Game 2 I keep a solid hand with 2 Tangle Wires, that buy me time to find a Welder and 2 Duplicants, and it eats his beaters, and soon it goes FTW.
Btw, the sideboard:
+2 Duplicant
+3 Viashino Heretic
+3 Tormod's Crypt
-4 Uba Mask
-3 Null Rod
-1 Bazaar of Baghdad
To Game 3 thare is just 5 min left, and I start with a Trinisphere, and soon some goodies, but we run out of time.
2-0-1 5-2-1
Round 4 - Anderson (MageMaster) playing 5C UBA Stax
We IDed to save our brains from a Stax Mirror =D
2-0-2 5-2-1
Round 5 - ?? playing BG Nether Void
He was 2-2, with no chance of Top4ing, (there was 1 3-0-1 and 3 3-1s), so he conceded =D Nice guy ^^
We played and he beated me in 2-1.
Game one he did:
Bayou + Dark Ritual + Black Lotus + Nantuko Shade + Nether Void
I kept a Workshopless hand, and had no time to do anything.
Game 2 I UbaLock him with 2 Welders and one Mask, buy some time with 2 Wires, and soon I draw into a Duplicant.
In game 3 I lose to 2 Hyppies O_O
(Flying r0x!)
3-0-2 6-4-1
After the 5 Rounds, the standings were:
(nicknames from LigaMagic.com, our Brazilian Magic site)
1 Anderson "MageMaster" - 13 (5C Uba Stax)
2 Milton "Psycho" - 12 (UW Fish)
3 Thiago "PizzaMan" - 11 (UBA Stax)
4 Cleber "Maximum" - 10 (WTG)
5 João "Icy_Manipulator" - 9 (UW Fish)
6 Bruno V Santos - 9 (Grim Long)
7 Mateas de Freitas - 9 (não lembro)
8 Daniel S Taranta - 7 (Grim Long)
9 Patrick Dylan - 6 (não lembro)
10 Felipe M Alberto - 6 (não lembro)
11 Aparecido "Cidããããão" - 6 (UW Fish)
12 Bruno "PokéGótico-EMO-Fuzzy" - 3 (Frigorid)
13 Eduardo "Telefônica" - 3 (Frigorid)
14 Felipe Seton - 1 (não lembro)
15 Julio "Nuclear" - 1 (Oath)
16 Leonardo "LeoZerah" - 1 (Gift's Grim Long)
The Top4 Payoffs were:
1 Anderson "MageMaster" x 4 Cleber "Maximum"
3 Thiago "PizzaMan" x 2 "Milton "Psycho"
On game 1 I just got stomped by a huge Jötun Grunt!
On game 2 he plays a early Kataki, and I try to save all I can with 2 Lands and a Mox. Do some Welder tricks during upkp to bring the Mox back. Keep 7 cards in graveyard and then kill his Kataki with B.Ring =)
Then I win shortly after.
On game 3 I started with 2 Welders, some lands (no Workshop) and a Simulacrum. He play 2 Seal of Cleansing, that "stiffle"s my welders 2 times. He plays Kataki, but I had a lot of lands and payed for everything. I killed it again with B.Ring, hold his Grunt on my Wires and soon cleaned his table with Smokestack. He scoops shortly after.
On the Final round, I played the WTG Again.
He won the dice and starts with Fastbond + Wasteland
I try Workshop-Crucible, but it got countered by a PROXY daze.
When I came back, after 2 hrs of crying on the bathroom, he Ghost Quarterer My $hop, and keep both out of land.
I start building my table with Welders and Bazaars, and he keep wasting my non-mountain lands. Soon he is forced to crush both his ghost quarters to find a colored mana (I wasted his Tropical on early turns), so he can LftL his lands back. But he eventualy conceds to a bunch of artifacts, Wires, Smokestacks and Duplicants.
On game 2 I came busted, with $hop, Crypt and Smokestack (with a mana floating this time
), next turn I waste his land and drop Wire. On turn 3 I drop Bazaar and CoW. He tries to Hurkyll my table, but I had a Black Lotus and a Simulacrum in hand and put a defense for his Vinelasher Kudzu, besides the usual artifact locks.
Soon I draw into Duplicant and he scoops
E ended up 5-0-2, 10-5-1 in games.
That's not very impressive, but it was enought to win the tournament
I got the payset of Tropical Islands, which was nice... these were mine and I needed to sold them to the tournament
The good thing is that I learned to play with the deck, and I really think that Vroman did a great job on it!
It's so... perfect! Everything runs so smothly well.
I had never played with Tangle Wires before, and I just LOVED THEM!
They fit so well in the deck. I needed to stop Jötun Grunt inumerous times with Wire + Rishadan Port.
Soon I'll buy myself some $hops and some Power to play with this deck on non-proxie tournaments.
I know my report just sucked, but thanks for reading
See ya!
