[Free Article] So Many Insane Plays - Tezzeret the Unreal, and Other Vintage

[AngryPheldagrif]

Could you please post your list?

8 Island
3 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
4 Wastelands
1 Strip Mine
1 Library of Alexandria

1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus

4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
2 Negate
4 Mana Leak
4 Impulse
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
4 Ophidian
2 Back to Basics
3 Powder Keg
3 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Time Vault
1 Fact or Fiction

Sideboard:
4 Energy Flux
4 Propaganda
4 Chalice of the Void
3 Sower of Temptation

@AngryPheldagriff:
Could you please post your list?

No... only 24 people showed up. Why would anyone post lists for a tournament below 40 people?

But the good news is that it's for the greater good. If you threaten people to come by not posting lists... then next time you'll get more people. So you see, it's worth it in the end.

I'd respond to this with something pointing out the inanity of your posting a random sarcastic flame in a totally unrelated thread, but I think everyone already ignores you after some of the things you've posted in the past. I know I do. Please feel free to contribute your input in the appropriate thread and maybe, just maybe consider posting something intelligent having to do with Steve's article or get out of this thread.

[The Atog Lord]

Gents, please keep things civil going forward.

For the record, a tournament can be quite intense without it having 40 people.

[Noah_33]

How good were Sower of Temptations for you?

[andrewpate]

How good were Sower of Temptations for you?

They seem pretty essential.  Anything with creatures can attack to bust up the combo, and Sower is like generating 3 blockers with a single card (it blocks, it takes an attacker, the stolen attacker now blocks).  Against Fish, TMWA, or the R/G/W Beatz deck that made top 8, you would really need to bring those in, especially when you're eschewing other kill-cons such as Tinker Colossus.

Dan, was this ever a problem?  I see that you did not drop a match to aggro, but did you have any issues with Tezzeret getting attacked?  Or was Ophidian consistently enough to handle it with the backup out of the board?

[Tha Gunslinga]

Sower was absolutely ridiculous in the games I watched.  In game 3, Tommy opened with Meddling Mage on Tezzeret, then dropped Meddling Mage on Powder Keg.  Dan stalled until he could play Sower with Drain backup and steal the Mage on Tezzeret, then killed Tommy with the Sower over the next 10 turns.  Possession of the Mage ensured that Tommy couldn't attack into it.

[theLastGnu]

@AngryPheldagriff:
Could you please post your list?

judging from what he said, it should look a lot like this:
8 Island
3 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
4 Wastelands
1 Strip Mine
1 Library of Alexandria

1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus

4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
2 Negate
4 Mana Leak
4 Impulse
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
4 Ophidian
2 Back to Basics
3 Powder Keg
3 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Time Vault
1 Fact or Fiction

Sideboard:
4 Energy Flux
4 Propaganda
4 Chalice of the Void
3 Sower of Temptation