Top 4 Decks at Tucson Vintage Tournament 2-15-09

[snowmanmiki]

There were 23 total players at our tourney, so it was a cut to top8 after 5 rounds of swiss.
The Top 4 decided to split the prize.  The decklists follow:

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

Doug Coats playing shaymora

  3 Underground Sea
   3 Volcanic Island
   4 Island
   3 Polluted Delta
   2 Flooded Strand
   1 Library of Alexandria
   1 Darksteel Colossus
   3 Old Man of the Sea
   1 Black Lotus
   1 Sol Ring
   1 Mox Pearl
   1 Mox Emerald
   1 Mox Sapphire
   1 Mox Jet
   1 Mox Ruby
   1 Tinker
   1 Voltaic Key
   1 Time Vault
   1 Demonic Tutor
   1 Vampiric Tutor
   1 Yawgmoth's Will
   4 Force of Will
   3 Commandeer
   4 Mana Drain
   1 Brainstorm
   1 Ancestral Recall
   1 Time Walk
   4 Mystic Remora
   4 Meditate
   2 Repeal
   1 Fact or Fiction
   1 misdirection
   1 Echoing Truth
   1 Merchant Scroll

// Sideboard:
SB: 3 Energy Flux
SB: 2 Relic of Progenitus
SB: 1 Red Elemental Blast
SB: 2 Pyroblast
SB: 1 Rack and Ruin
SB: 2 Yixlid Jailer
SB: 1 Pithing Needle
SB: 1 Engineered Explosives
SB: 2 Thoughtseize

Jared Sandler playing Painter

1 Trinket Mage
1 Darksteel Colossus
3 Painter's Servant
2 Grindstone
2 Relic of Progenitus
2 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Thirst for Knowledge
3 Thoughtcast
4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Pyroblast
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Brainstorm
1 Tinker
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
5 Moxen
2 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
3 Volcanic Island
2 Underground Sea
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Island
2 Seat of the Synod
1 Library of Alexandria

Sideboard:
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Pithing Needle
2 Arcane Laboratory
2 Pyroclasm
2 Ingot Chewer
1 Viashino Heretic
1 Rack and Ruin
1 Red Elemental Blast

Matt Walker playing Angel Oath
Artifacts
1 Black Lotus
4 Chalice Of The Void
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire

Enchantments
4 Oath Of Druids

Instants
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Crop Rotation
4 Force Of Will
3 Mana Drain
3 impulse
1 fact or fiction
2 Misdirection
3 Thirst For Knowledge
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Echoing Truth

Legendary Creatures
1 Akroma, Angel Of Wrath
1 Razia, Boros Archangel

Sorceries
1 Demonic Tutor
2 Gaea's Blessing
1 Time Walk
1 Ponder

Basic Lands
2 Island

Lands
2 Flooded Strand
4 Forbidden Orchard
2 Polluted Delta
1 Strip Mine
3 Tropical Island
2 Underground Sea
2 Wasteland

Sideboard:
2 Pithing Needle
1 Progenitus
4 Leyline Of The Void
2 Oxidize
2 Energy Flux
2 Stifle
2 Null Rod

[ChaosOrb]

I was at that tourney, making the drive from Phoenix with a good guy named Jeremy, and it was my first one since getting back into Magic.  Had a great time.  I was happy to see many diverse decks out there.  I went in with a non-fully powered deck with no proxies.  I just wanted to play and get my feet wet.  I actually won my first match against a really cool Storm deck, and I gave him the draw because my opponet was fully powered (proxied) and I felt he'd have a better chance than I would (plus he was representing Phoenix/Mesa like me).  The next match a took a draw because my opponet took too much time.  Then I faced a tanglewire deck which I hated!  Some good trades were had and the owner was really nice.

Props to a new friend I made over there named Eric who was really cool.  He was playing a no proxy fully powered deck (The first deck listed above I think).  Had an awesome binder full of betas that made me drool.  He was nice enough to part with his Chaos Orb too, and let me play it in a casual game with him.  I'm glad he split the top prize cause I was really rooting for him.

Also propos to LotusHead all the way from NorCal who helped me with my deck and has given me really good ideas for substitutes until I power up fully.

[MEATROCKET]

I went down from Phoenix in the homo-car with Doug, Jay and Dan.

I put Thoughtcast Painter together that morning and sleeved up in the car.  I lost in top 8 to the dude playing Oath (two Blessings in the main, really?  Oh yeah, reading Mana Drain = tech).   Really though, it was fun and I look forward to going down there again, and hopefully you guys will be up here at the Inn this Saturday.

Doug should have played it out instead of splitting.  That deck is savage.  Bonkers, even.

[vassago]

Well Meatrockecket, splitting in a casual tournament where the prize is only store credit, is more of expected thing in my mind. You should battle over a serious prize though. 

Also, the only homo in the car was you sir.  =op

[LotusHead]

Also propos to LotusHead all the way from NorCal who helped me with my deck and has given me really good ideas for substitutes until I power up fully.

To give you an idea who ArtVandelay is, he is actually the one who told me about TheManaDrain in the first place (this would be just prior to Mirroden Block). Then he dissappeared just after Mirroden Block.

Glad you're back buddy! 

[vassago]

Yes it is true that Adam is an awesome guy, and I am glad to have him as a part of our type 1 community.  If it were not for The mana drain, I probably would never had the pleasure of meeting him.  Hopefully this saturday he will not offer draws to those he crushes with his still unpowered list. 

[treyfour]

actually you are all homo's, except jay.  he will probably kill me.

[ChaosOrb]

Thanks guys.  Glad to be back.   

Doug has been extremely helpful in getting me the cards I need to get back into vintage.  Keep holding on to that Library for me buddy. 

And MeatRocket, thanks for whipping me with your painter deck.  What ever doesn't kill me, will make me stronger.   

[vassago]

actually you are all homo's, except jay.  he will probably kill me.

I am telling Jay you called him a homo.  =op

[wjgogol]

this thread is packed with content, great job guys. 

the tournament was fun. granted, it would be funner if i could win a match, (thanks btw to adam, on a better day, i would have rode that draw to top eight, but alas...)
im really glad to see such a healthy type 1 following cropping in az. props to doug and eric for that one. every tournament, theres new players that crush me because apparently i suck at magic. but yeah. woot for fresh blood, and jays a fag. whut.