Colorado, Mox Pearl 2nd place Black Gold Tournament Report

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Here is the list I played:

4x Duress
4x Brainstorm
4x FOW
4x Dark Ritual
4x Polluted Delta
2x Bloodstained Mire
2x Underground Sea
2x Thoughtseize
2x Island
1x Swamp
1x Volcanic Island
1x Badlands
1x Black Lotus
1x Lotus Petal
1x Tendrils of Agony
1x Mana Crypt
1x Necropotence
1x Mox Ruby
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Mox Jet
1x Yawgmoth's Bargain
1x Vamp Tutor
1x Hurkyl's Recall
1x Time Walk
1x Mystical Tutor
1x Recoup
1x Cabal Ritual
1x Ponder
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Memory Jar
1x Burning Wish
1x Yawgmoth's Will
1x Sol Ring
1x Time Twister
1x Wheel of Fortune
1x Darksteel Colossus
1x Mana Vault
1x Ancestral Recall
1x Lion's Eye Diamond
1x Tinker
1x Gifts Ungiven

SIDEBOARD
1x Tendrils of Agony
3x Tormod's Crypt
2x Offalsnout
1x Empty the Warrens
3x Mystic Remora
1x Hurkyl's Recall
2x Rebuild
2x Misdirection

Round 1

MUD Agro...

The first game he wins the die roll and starts the game with sphere of resistance off ancient tomb. I groan to myself but I try a few things... I get off brainstorm and find a mana crypt so I can do stuff. He's beating me down with a factory for a while when I burning wish for Empty the Warrens, not realizing that his life is at 9 and he has a mana crypt, and only the factory for beats... Tendrills wins more than likely as I have 2 dark rituals so I can get it off through sphere. He draws wasteland and I get buried as he hits my only red source and I have no plays. I kick myself because I could have wished for Tendrills, but he points out that he could hit my underground in that case and there was no way to win.

Game 2
+1 Hurkyl's
+ 2 Rebuild
+1 Empty the Warrens
+1 Tendrils of Agony
-1 gifts ungiven
-1 Recoup
-1 burning wish
-1 ponder
-1 wheel of fortune

Game 2 I start with thoughtseize and see his pair of metal workers and only the workshop for mana, plus 2 trisks which I only realize are the same card after asking as they have 2 different pics. I take metalworker, counter the other with force of will, and make short work of him with tendrills off a mystical tutor for yag will.

Game 3
I have rebuild and brainstorm and blue so I keep my hand. I manage to see no gas the whole game, and he beats me to 4 with factory, as he only has waste and factory and can't play any spells., I hurkyls and rebuild twice to keep the factory from killing me, and with one minute left I drop memory jar. I decide to go off the turn when time is called and I break the jar into a crap hand with no tutors. I drop Lotus petal, brainstorm into land, and then a lions eye, ponder into brainstorm after shuffling, then brainstorm with only a volcanic island untapped, braking the lions eye in response for 3 black hoping to hit tendrills or empty to tie or maybe win. I luck out and hit empty the warrens, 12 dudes and 2 attack steps later I win the game.

ROUND 2
Carl With MUD STAFF STACKS

Game one the quick Jugg and trisk combined with tangle wire jack my life up, and I goof up and tap a dual land to tangle instead of a fetch when I'm at four, and while I draw the win with will, I can't play it because trisk has 3 counters and I need to sack the fetch to cast will. I scoop

Out
1 Ponder
1 Burning Wish
1 Gifts
1 Recoup

In
1 Empty
1 hurky's
2 Rebuild

On the play I start with a Mana Crypt, a Saphire, a Black Lotus, a Ruby, 2 Rebuild and 1 Tinker. I get to jar with storm 100000 so I play out my hand, pick it up, play it out, pick it up, play it out and then tinker the ruby for jar with 3 red floating. I break the jar and find no real gas, I drop a fetch and a sol ring then burn for 2. I hate draw sevens! He plays a metalworker and passes. Next turn I draw wheel of fortune and find will, storm 100000 tendrills. I love draw sevens!!

Game 3

I force of will a sphere, then turn 2 tinker for DSC. He slows me down with tangle wire but I keep playing land and He takes 11 twice and dies.

Round 3
Pierce with Long

The first game he wins the attrition war with Confidant in the maindeck, and the game state where duress happens 4 times plus random force of wills always goes to the guy with bobs

Out
1 burning wish
1 time twister
1 wheel of fortune
1 ponder
1 hurkyl's recall
1 recoup
1 cabal ritual
1 Bargain

In
2 misdirections
3 mystic remora's
3 Tormods crypt

I Brainstorm into FOW and relax a turn. He tries to case Bob but I counter it. The attrition war goes on for a while and I play mystic remora after a second force of will on demonic tutor. He lets me have a bunch of time in which I keep drawing crypts and sol rings etc. and remora sticks forever. He decides to try to go off because I only have 2 FOW left and he's feeling the pressure of my building hand... pretty much all rituals at this point. He plays like 11 spells, and I draw 2 fow and 2 brainstorm, plus a time walk. He duresses me so I Brainstorm to put back 2 fow after remora triggers. I he hits brainstorm then tries to cast will. I draw FOW and hardcounter into his FOW, which triggers Remora and I pitch time walk to counter the force. GG next turn with my 10 cards or whatever it was.

Game 3

Atrittion going his way as 2 Bobs get down early via mana crypt and whatnot. I don't have enough to tendrills him out, although tendrills is in hand, and he tutors for will so I Demonic for Crypt and tendrills him to 6 with crypt and 2 bobs in play. He manages to mystical into brainstorm and draws another to make his way through the next couple of turns after chain of vapor on his own mana crypt and 1 bob. He plays a memory jar and I'm in trouble, but he is at one life with a bob and I play my own jar. He breaks the jar on upkeep in response to bob. He brainstorms, which resolves, then I Jar for the win if the card costs any mana. He flips swamp and kills me. Memorable game.

Round 4
Lou with Long

Scary to face the mirror match against the mastermind, and Lou starts us off with his usual shit talking.

He wins game one after ancestrall pulls him through the attrition.

Same sideboard as last round

Game 2

I bust up the hand with duress and will into the win.

Game 3

Lou has got me next turn as he just tutored for Yagwill after mad attrition, but I draw and play bargain at 17 life. After taking like 10 cards, I duress him to find force, 2 exterpate (SURPRISE!) and yag will of course. I think that I need to take force as I may not be able to tutor for will as he can shuffle my deck. I have a crypt so I play it and keep drawing cards, I mystical and he shuffles me taking my brainstorms. I need to spend the 3 black from my lions eye so I drop necro and pass at 1 life Memory Jar in hand. He tries to duress but I force the hard way. Next turn I play jar, remora remora and pass, crypt the grave on his turn and win with DT next turn.

Round 5
Brennan with stacks

Intentional Draw.

TOP 8

Round 1 Travis the champ with Mana Ichorid

I hate this matchup but I win the die roll.
I play first turn jet, timetwister off Black lotus and drop a land, draw ritual vamp tutor tinker and go get DSC using the black extra for Vamp tutor. I put the timewalk on top. He plays bazzar, discards a dredge guy and congradulates me on my good play.

Out
4x Duress
2x Thoughtseize

In
3 Tormod's crypt
2 Offalsnout
1 Empty the Warrens

He plays a cephalid colluseum and unmasks his own golgari thug.

I play turn 1 tormods and empty for 8 tokens

He has no yard and passes. I attack pass

He unmasks a grave troll which I offalsnout.

Attack

He draws and passes. Attack. On to top 4

ROUND 2

Connely with BWG fish.

Never Quite seen this kind of deck so I don't know what to expect, but its aggro so I want to play it out.

I win the die roll and duress his Black Lotus, his only mana source besides wasteland. He has Jotun Grunt x2, Goyf and some other stuff I can't remember. He wastes my land and then can't draw mana until I tinker. He say's he needs "runner runner" so I know he needs a white and a swords. He draws a fetch and gets a white source, and I am relieved that he only found the easy part. DSC attacks twice before he does anything.

In
1x Tendrills
1x Empty the Warrens
2x Misdirection

Out
1x Hurkyl's
1x Burning Wish
1x ponder
1x cabal ritual

I open with turn one sapphire mox tutor for lotus necro for 14. I draw 3 FOWS and tendrills, brainstorm and some other stuff. I tendrills him for like 16 on the next turn and draw again, countering everything in the meantime. He makes a comment about how i got necro time walk and passed the turn 3 times before he dies but he gets shut off and recoup tendrills finishes him after crypt for storm 3.

Finals
Brett with Ichorid

We decide to play it out. He wins the die roll and keeps after removing a serum hand. I mull to 6 and keep an explosive hand with gifts, and he drops leyline. Can't do much with gifts now so I lose in short order.

Same sideboard choice as Ichorid match above.

I Brainstorm into time twister in hand so I pass.

He plays bazzar so I twist after his dredger goes to yard on my next turn.

He taps and discards another dredger, Golgari thug.

I have to hurry so I play wheel of fortune hoping he will get greedy and then I can find tormod's. He tries to get greedy but can only dredge twice and then draws 5... I find crypt and curse the gods. I hit his graveyard at the end of his next turn after he activates bizzar and gets 2 narcos with ichorid in play. He plays a dryad arbor. Nothing to dread return... good for me. He is running out of gas and I play a second crypt. I think I have him so I DT for yagmoth's will and pass. He then cabal therapy for will and Unmask taking the empty that was in my hand. I lose to flying narcos and an arbor pair.

(SIDE NOTE) Should have DT'd for mystical tutor, in which case I would have been able to get will next turn and win.

Second place gets a dual land and Brett wins a mox. Fun day regardless.

Props
Carl- Cool New store

Bob Yueh - For your suggestions with the deck and all your advice, and for being the most consistantly good vintage player I have met.

Becca- For supporting my decision not to split just so I could live the dream and play for the mox and for not getting to upset that we got nothing much out of the tournament.

Brennan- For making top 8 and for all the playtests

Lou- for making Trevor smile

Connely- for playing the most rogue thing I've seen in a long time into the top 4

Slops

Me- for not taking the split

Bob- For calling me your apprentice, not remembering that I have beaten you in tournaments that were held in the 90s.

Thanks all