Results from Vintage tourney in Tucson, AZ on 12/13/08

[snowmanmiki]

We had 16 people in attendance for our tourney for an Unlimited Time Vault.  This turn out is not bad, and an extra thanks for those people that drove down from Phoenix to play.

The metagame was fairly typical, with a little bit of everything represented.  We had:
1 U/W Fish
1 W/G/B Fish
1 Mono Blue Shop Aggro
1 U/R Shop Aggro
1 Mono Red Shop Aggro
1 5 Color Stax
1 Hulk Smash
2 Oath
1 Tezzeret Control
1 Mono Black Hate
1 Long, no FOW, full load of rituals
1 Flash, Multi color, every tutor known to man
3 I don't know, did not see

Top 4 was the following:

Winner Doug Coats with Dawn of the Dead

4 dark confidant
4 tarmogoyf
2 gaddock teeg
4 squee goblin nabob
3 zombie infestation

4 thoughtseize
3 duress
2 life from the loam
4 swords to plowshares

4 bazaar of baghdad
1 null rod
1 vampiric tutor
1 demonic tutor
1 crop rotation

2 riftstone portal
3 bloodstained mire
2 windswept heath
3 bayou
3 scrubland
1 mox ruby
1 mox diamond
1 mox jet
1 mox emerald
1 mox pearl
1 black lotus
1 strip mine
2 wasteland
 
sideboard
1 balance
1 null rod
1 krosan grip
4 extirpate
2 ray of revelation
4 thorn of amethyst
2 oxidize

Runner-Up Eric Anderson U/R Shop Aggro

4 Force of Will
3 Stifle
4 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Tinker
1 Time Walk
 
4 Goblin Welder
1 Gorilla Shaman
 
1 Sundering Titan
1 Triskelavus
1 Karn, Silver Golem
4 Juggernaut
 
4 Tangle Wire
3 Crucible of Worlds
1 Tormod's Crypt
 
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
 
3 Seat of the Synod
4 Volcanic Island
1 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
 
SB:
3 Annul
3 Sphere of Resistance
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Trinisphere
2 Echoing Truth
1 Pyroclasm
1 Razormane Masticore

3/4th Jay Webb Tezzeret Control

mana drain x4
Force of will x4
counterspell x2
Misdirection x1

impulse x2
yawgmoths will x1
ancestral recall x1
demonic tutor x1
fact or fiction x1
brainstorm x1
thirst for knowledge x4
vampiric tutor x1
time walk x1
ponder x1
tinker x1
sensei's diving top x1

sundering titan x1
echoing truth x2
tormods crypt x1
gorilla shaman x2
rack and ruin x2

voltaic key x1
time vault x1
tezzeret the seeker x2

Polluted delta x3
flooded strand x2
volcanic island x2
underground sea x1
island x4
tolarian academy x1
mox x 5
black lotus x1
sol ring x1
mana vault x1
mana crypt x1

No sideboard available

3/4th Miklos Szidarovszky Hulk Smash

3 Psychatog
1 Berserk

4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
2 Misdirection
4 Duress
1 Fire/Ice
1 Echoing Truth

1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
4 Accumulated Knowledge
1 Fact or Fiction

2 Intuition
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Regrowth

1 Time Walk
1 Yawgmoth's Will

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
3 Polluted Delta
3 Flooded Strand
3 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
2 Tropical Island
3 Island
1 Library of Alexandria

Sideboard
2 Pithing Needle
1 Fire/Ice
3 Red Elemental Blast
1 Echoing Truth
4 Energy Flux
4 Yixlid Jailer