[Results - Top 8] T1 Speyer (Germany), 14.10.2006

[Tobi]

14 people showed up at the first Speyer T1. Good location and a quite good price support regarding the few participants (1st Drain, 2nd bb dual).



1st
Peter Sieb
Gifts

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
2 Duress
1 Mind Twist
3 Dark Confidant
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
4 Brainstorm
4 Gifts Ungiven
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Recoup
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Sundering Titan
2 Merchant Scroll
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Rebuild
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
1 Swamp
3 Island
3 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand

Sideboard:

1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Rack and Ruin
1 Massacre
1 Pyroclasm
1 Darkblast
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pyroblast
2 Pithing Needle
1 Duress
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Darksteel Clossus
1 Rushing River



2nd
David Harald
"Mono Red Stax"

4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Wasteland
4 Mountain
1 Strip Mine
2 Barbarian Ring
1 Tolarian Academy
1 God's Eye, Gate to the Reikai
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
2 Gorilla Shaman
4 Goblin Welder
2 Triskelion
2 Solemn Simulacrum
4 Smokestack
4 Tangle Wire
3 Sphere of Resistance
2 Jester's Cap
1 Trinisphere
4 Chalice of the Void
1 Wheel of Fortune
3 Crucible of Worlds
1 Memory Jar
1 Karn, Silver Golem

Sideboard:

2 Duplicant
2 Tormod's Crypt
2 Viashino Heretic
2 Pyrostatic Pillar
2 Pyroclasm
2 Pyroblast
1 Red Elemental Blast
2 Rack and Ruin



3rd
Heiner Litz
"TSR 5C Stack" - 5color Stack  <--  deckname change because of singular occurence of Smokestack, noticed by JDizzle. Thank you!

3 Sphere of Resistance
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Goblin Welder
1 Trinisphere
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Imperial Seal
3 Crucible of Worlds
1 Triskelion
3 Dark Confidant
1 Tinker
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Sundering Titan
1 Gorilla Shaman
1 Balance
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Vault
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Crop Rotation
1 In the Eye of Chaos
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mana Crypt
2 Tangle Wire
1 Smokestack
1 Barbarian Ring
4 City of Brass
4 Wasteland
4 Mishra's Workshop
3 Gemstone Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Strip Mine
1 Bazaar of Baghdad

Sideboard:

2 Jester's Cap
3 Pyrostatic Pillar
4 Red Elemental Blast
3 Viashino Heretic
1 Darkblast
2 Razormane Masticore



4th
Daniel Scherer
"Volle Möhre Tempo" - UW Fish

4  Flooded Strand
3  Island
2  Plains
4  Wasteland
1  Windswept Heath
1  Polluted Delta
4  Tundra
1  Strip Mine
3  Ninja of the Deep Hours
4  Meddling Mage
3  Kataki, War's Wage
4  Jotun Grunt
4  Savannah Lions
3  Null Rod
4  Brainstorm
3  Daze
4  Force of Will
4  Stifle
3  Swords to Plowshares
1  Ancestral Recall
1  Mystical Tutor

// Sideboard
SB: 3  Energy Flux
SB: 4  Seal of Cleansing
SB: 3  Umezawa's Jitte
SB: 3  Annul
SB: 2  True Believer



5th
Marcus Quandt
"Horden Gifts"

3 Gifts Ungiven
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
4 Brainstorm
2 Merchant Scroll
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Tinker
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Rebuild
4 Dark Confidant
2 Duress
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Recoup
1 Sundering Titan
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Lotus Petal
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
3 Undergound Sea
2 Volcanic Island
3 Island
1 Swamp

Sideboard:

2 Duress
1 Darkblast
1 Pyroclasm
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Rack and Ruin
1 Viashino Heretic
2 Pithing Needle
3 Tormod's Crypt
1 Darksteel Colossus


6th
Philip Stirm
"Tom Bombadil" - Bomberman

4 Force of Will
4 Brainstorm
4 Mana Drain
4 Trinket Mage
3 Thirst for Knowledge
2 Mana Leak
2 Cunning Wish
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
3 Meddling Mage
3 Auriok Salvager
2 Aether Spellbomb
1 Pithing Needle
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
5 Island
4 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta
3 Tundra
1 Plains
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Library of Alexandria

Sideboard:

2 Disenchant
2 Orim's Chant
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Misdirection
1 Brainfreeze
1 Repeal
3 Energy Flux
2 Old Man of the Sea
1 Engineered Explosives



7th
Tobias Egelhof
"Hordredge" - Friggorid

4 Chalice of the Void
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Unmask
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Imperial Seal
4 Careful Study
4 Ashen Ghoul
4 Ichorid
4 Putrid Imp
4 Stinkweed Imp
4 Golgari Grave troll
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mox Jet
4 City of Brass
4 Gemstone Mine
2 Underground Sea

Sideboard:

4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Chain of Vapor
4 Pithing Needle
3 Root Maze



8th
Christian Hangel
"TSR maskierte Bobs" - Dark Illusions

4 Illusionary Mask
4 Phyrexian Dreadnought
3 Island
1 Swamp
4 Polluted delta
1 Flooded Strand
1 Strip Mine
3 Wasteland
4 Dark Confidant
4 Brainstorm
3 Mana Leak
1 Rushing River
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
4 Duress
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Black Lotus
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
3 Underground Sea
4 Chalice of the Void
2 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Muddle the Mixture
2 Dimir Cutpurse
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Chain of Vapor

Sideboard:

2 Arcane Laboratory
2 Pithing Needle
2 Extract
2 Old Man of the Sea
1 Darkblast
1 Massacre
1 Tinker
1 Sundering Titan
1 Rebuild
2 Phyrexian Negator



Deckbreakdown:

1. Gifts
2. Mono Red Stax
3. 5color Stax
4. UW Fish
5. Gifts
6. Bomberman
7. Ichorid.dec
8. Dark illusions
9. Gifts
10 Mono Red Stax
11. Grimlong
12. Ichorid.dec
13. Oath
14. Wild Zombies (unpowered)


edit: fixed decklist #6

edit: fixed deckname #3

[Phele]

The sixth decks name is actually Tom Bombadil, not Bobadil. And one Enginieered Explosives in the maindeck is missing. (I would never play this deck without an Explosives, the most flexible card in the deck). But anyway nice tourney, fun deck to play and challenging field, even though just 14 people appreared.

[yespuhyren]

It's funny, I was looking at mono red stax, then looking at some of the card choices, and my instinct was HOW did he fit in so much stuff?

Then after some looking, I realized that he actually IS playing Stax, and not Uba Stax.  He has 0 Uba Masks and 0 Bazaars.  Very interesting list.

[Auracon]

Congrats to everyone on the results!

Anyway, the gifts list seems a bit odd to me featuring only 2 merchant scrolls and 3 dark confidants as well as 1 Mindtwist and sundering titan. Why the titan over dsc? Surprise factor, or just earlier tinkering in desperate situations? Do these changes signal a new direction for gifts?

Also @Phele, what do you think of academy ruins in bomberman?

[Phele]

The meta here is full of Tendrils combo and Gifts, where Mind Twist and Sundering Titan really shine and are much better than say Collossus and Merchant Scroll.

Academy Ruins is a fine card I thought a bit about, but I don't see it too usefull in Bomberman. I already play salvagers, that should be enough.

What I'm thinking about in the moment ist improving my sideboard against - surprise, surprise - combo and Gifts. Orims Chant are fine as long as I play Meddlings main, but I would like to cut them for a Thirst, a Mana Crypt and a Salvagers. But then I need some sort of permanent sollution in these matchups and I don't want to play Chalice as it hinders me pretty much the same.

[Komatteru]

It seems difficult to call Litz's Stax deck "Stax" when it only contains 1 Smokestack...

[zeus-online]

It seems difficult to call Litz's Stax deck "Stax" when it only contains 1 Smokestack...

Staxless Stax has been going around for...like...½ year?

/Zeus

[AJFirst]

The name Stax doesn't originate from the use of Smokestack. The name is an acronym:

t - the
S - $
A - 4 (look similar)
k - k (meaning thousand)
S - Solution

The $4k Solution

tS4ks

switch the t and the S and it comes to St4ks, or Staks. Stax being the shorthand. The price of Bazaars, power, and Workshops combine to make it one of the most expensive decks in the old metagame. The name is now used for any archetype based around locking down the board prison-style utilizing Workshops ever since.
-AJ

Edit :: I don't want to get into an arguement here. I know you know JD, I'm just clarifying for anyone who actually thought that's why the deck was called Stax.

(Just in case you missed it - T$4KS is an acronym for The Four Thousand Dollar Solution. Switch the $ and the T and you have Stax).

http://www.starcitygames.com/php/news/expandnews.php?Article=5273

[Komatteru]

Thanks, I never knew that or anything...it's not like I haven't been around for a while. 

There were no Bazaars in Stax when it debuted in 2003, let me tell you that.  Do you really think that Steve and Toad sat down and built a deck called "The Four Thousand Dollar Solution," and that a central card in the deck, Smokestack, just happens to shorten nicely to "Stax" if you make it pural?

[Twaun007]

Thanks, I never knew that or anything...it's not like I haven't been around for a while. 

There were no Bazaars in Stax when it debuted in 2003, let me tell you that.  Do you really think that Steve and Toad sat down and built a deck called "The Four Thousand Dollar Solution," and that a central card in the deck, Smokestack, just happens to shorten nicely to "Stax" if you make it pural?

When I decode the hidden clues for www.thehiddenmanadrain.com in the columbus mox tourney forum I found a secret article written by none other than Stephen Menendian and Matthieu Durand. It illustrated the development of the deck known as stax and the reasons it was created. Thus, with this knowledge, it is proof that Stephen and Mattieu did indeed come up with the deck called The $4Ks solution.

[Phele]

It seems difficult to call Litz's Stax deck "Stax" when it only contains 1 Smokestack...

Thanks, I never knew that or anything...it's not like I haven't been around for a while. 

There were no Bazaars in Stax when it debuted in 2003, let me tell you that.  Do you really think that Steve and Toad sat down and built a deck called "The Four Thousand Dollar Solution," and that a central card in the deck, Smokestack, just happens to shorten nicely to "Stax" if you make it pural?

So what? There has been a thread on Staxless Stax by Iamfishman for months now, so why unnecessarily spam this thread with advice on the deck name? Some comments on the deck lists themselves would be much more appreciated? Thanks a lot!

[Tobi]

Since there is indeed only one Smokestack in Heiner's list (thanks to JDizzle for noticing), the name "Stax" is of course inappropriate. The deck should be named "Stack".

Fixed that.

[Twaun007]

Since there is indeed only one Smokestack in Heiner's list (thanks to JDizzle for noticing), the name "Stax" is of course inappropriate. The deck should be named "Stack".

Fixed that.

Well played.

[heiner]

Anyway, I am still not sold on the Tangle WIre vs. Smokestack issue. Stax is slow but still is a good card. I thnk in 5c stax at least a single copy which can be tutored for is necessary to get rid of pesky permanents. I am currently using 2 smokestacks and 4 spheres.

Altogether I was fairly impressed of how good the deck works. The Bobs are amazing as they really allow this deck for the first time to have a clock. WIth all the welders, mox monkeys and artifact beaters the stax problem of going into time and draw the game is now much less probable. Plus they draw cards and they are sooo good with bazaar.
In the Eye is also very good. Only the SB just wasnt too good next time I need s.th. vs. Ichorid and fish.

[unknown.root]

2nd
David Harald
"Mono Red Stax"
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1 God's Eye, Gate to the Reikai
......

That makes me so happy to see the germans using this card too, i don't feel so alone in the world anymore.