1st off, the tournament ended up having 19 players so the total prize pool was $190, which covered the library and had some left over too.
This gave us a 4 rounds followed by top 8 scenario. Also, it was my birthday the weekend before so the amazing Jessica Feinberg baked us all a super awesome cake. Photo to follow at bottom. She also did some sketches of the tourney which I am posting here as well.
The field was quite diverse with the following meta:
2x Tezzeret
2x Manaless Dredge
1x Mana Dredge
1x MUD
1x 5C Stax (ME)
1x Elves
2x Alabama Black Snake
1x Mono Black Hate(MB Hate)
2x TMWA
1x Dryad&Goyf Grow
1x Time Vault Slaver
1x Painter
1x GRW ZOO
2x I have no idea
TOP 8:
Billy G.(mana dredge) vs. Mike B.(manaless dredge) Mike wins 2-1
Adam P.(tezzeret) vs. Matt W.(vault slaver) Adam wins 2-1
Jared S.(painter) vs. Aaron L.(MB Hate) Jared wins 2-0
Anthony A.(tezzeret) vs. Jay W.(snakes) Anthony wins 2-0
TOP 4:
After some discussion and what not, top 4 split and called it a day.
TOP 8 decklists:
Adam Prosak (Tezzeret)
1 Black Lotus
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sol Ring
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Fact or Fiction
4 Force of Will
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Inkwell Leviathan
4 Mana Drain
1 Merchant Scroll
2 Tezzeret the Seeker
4 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
2 Trinket Mage
1 Regrowth
1 Fire/Ice
1 Ancient Grudge
Lands (17):
3 Flooded Strand
4 Island
3 Polluted Delta
1 Snow-Covered Island
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Tropical Island
1 Tundra
2 Underground Sea
1 Volcanic Island
Sideboard
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Chalice of the Void
2 Duress
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Pithing Needle
1 Rebuild
1 Relic of Progenitus
2 Sower of Temptation
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Pyroblast
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Anthony Avitollo (Tezzeret)
1 Black Lotus
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sol Ring
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Fact or Fiction
4 Force of Will
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Inkwell Leviathan
4 Mana Drain
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
4 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
2 Trinket Mage
1 Regrowth
1 Fire/Ice
1 Ancient Grudge
Lands (17):
3 Flooded Strand
4 Island
3 Polluted Delta
1 Snow-Covered Island
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Tropical Island
1 Tundra
2 Underground Sea
1 Volcanic Island
1 Tormod's Crypt
Sideboard
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Chalice of the Void
2 Duress
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Pithing Needle
1 Rebuild
1 Relic of Progenitus
2 Sower of Temptation
2 Pyroblast
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Jared Sandler (Painter)
3 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
3 Volcanic Island
2 Underground Sea
2 Island
2 Seat of Synod
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Black Lotus
5 Mox
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
=25
2 Sensei's Divining Top
2 Grindstone
2 Relic Progenitus
3 Painter's Servant
1 Trinket Mage
1 Inkwell Laviathan
=11
3 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
4 Thirst for Knowledge
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Pyroblast
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Tinker
=24
TOTAL=60
Side Board
1 Rack and Ruin
2 Ingot Chewer
3 Pyroclasm
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Pithing Needle
1 Pyroblast
2 Arcane Laboratory
=15
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Mike Bahr (Manaless Dredge)
No list as of yet but fairly typical build from what I saw
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Billy Gogol (Mana Dredge)
LANDS (15):
1 Underground Sea
3 Cephalid Coliseum
3 City of Brass
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Gemstone Mine
CREATURES (21):
1 Flame-Kin Zealot
1 Angel of Despair
1 Cephalid Sage
3 Ichorid
3 Golgari Thug
4 Narcomoeba
4 Stinkweed Imp
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
OTHER SPELLS (24):
4 Cabal Therapy
1 Lion's Eye Diamond
4 Careful Study
1 Black Lotus
1 Ancestral Recall
4 Breakthrough
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Dread Return
4 Bridge from Below
sideboard
4 pithing needle,
4 leyline of the void,
3 chain of vapor,
2 contagion,
1 echoing truth,
1 fleshbag marauder
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Aaron Lettes (MB HATE)
main
12xSwamp
2xMishra's Factory
1xStrip Mine
4xWastland
1xBlack Lotus
1xMox Jet
1xLotus Petal
2xChrome Mox
4xDark Ritual
4xhymn to Tourach
4xDuress
1xVampiric Tutor
1xDemonic Tutor
2xExtripate
4xChalice of the Void
3xNull Rod
3xDiabolic Edict
4xDark Confidant
2xNantuko Shade
4xPhyrexian Negator
side
4xSudden Death
2xEchoing Decay
4xBlack Knight
1xExtripate
4xLeyline of the Void
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Jay Webb (Alabama Black Snake)
4 Bazaar of baghdad
3 Tropical Island
2 Bayou
1 Underground sea
1 polluted delta
2 windswept heath
2 woooded foothills
2 rifstone portal
3 wasteland
1 stripmine
1 black lotus
1 mox jet
1 mox sapphire
1 mox emerald
1 crop rotation
1 vampiric tutor
1 demonic tutor
1 ancestral recall
1 timewalk
1 brainstorm
1 ponder
1 echoing truth
2 diabolic edict
4 squee goblin nabob
4 tarmogoyf
3 lorescale coatl
3 chalice of the void
3 null rod
1 life from the loam
4 Thoughtsieze
4 accumulated knowledge
sideboard
2 zombie infestation
1 krosan grip
2 seal of primordium
4 extirpate
3 oxidize
1 engineered explosives
2 Smother
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Matt Walker (Vault Slaver)
4 goblin welder
1 gorilla shaman
1 sundering titan
1 triskelavus
1 platinum angel
4 mana drain
4 FOW
4 TFK
1 time walk
1 ancestral recall
1 d-tutor
1 v-tutor
1 mystical tutor
1 yawgmoth's will
1 echoing truth
1 brainstorm
1 tinker
1 gifts
1 crucible of the worlds
1 mindslaver
1 timevault
1 voltaic key
1 tormods crypt
1 top
3 polluted delta
2 flooded strand
3 volcanic island
2 underground sea
2 island
1 seat of the synod
1 tolarian academy
1 strip mine
5 moxen
1 sol ring
1 mana crypt
1 mana vault
1 black lotus
sideboard
2 duress
2 razormane masticore
2 pyroclasm
2 tormod's crypt
3 REB
2 rack and ruin
2 energy flux
Following is my tourney report. It is my 1st and therefore got really sloppy by the end. I ended up 2-2 and in 9th place.
This is the deck I ran:
1x Ancestral Recall
1x Tinker
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Demonic Tutor
4x Goblin Welder
2x Gorilla Shaman
1x Crop Rotation
1x Black Lotus
1x Mana Crypt
5x Moxen
1x Mana Vault
1x Sol Ring
2x Powder Keg
4x Sphere of Resistance
3x Crucible of Worlds
4x Tangle Wire
1x Trinisphere
4x Smokestack
1x Karn, Silver Golem
1x Triskelion
1x Sundering Titan
1x Barbarian Ring
1x Bazaar of Baghdad
1x Strip Mine
1x Tolarian Academy
3x Gemstone Mine
4x City of Brass
4x Mishra’s Workshop
4x Wasteland
SIDEBOARD:
1x Balance
4x Leyline of the Void
3x Red Elemental Blast
3x Chalice of the Void
2x Pithing Needle
2x Relic of Progenitus
RD. 1 Doug Coats Playing Alabama Black Snake
I win the die roll. No mulligans. I play barbarian ring, mox monkey. He plays bayou. I waste his bayou to which he vamps. He drops wasteland, black lotus, sacs lotus for green drops double goyf. I play workshop, smokestax. He drops chalice on 0, waste shop, swings for 6. I put smokestax to 1, play a gemstone mine, a tangewire which is followed by him scooping up.
Game 2 starts with no mulligans either. He starts off with tropical island and ponder. I play city of brass and welder. He draws, says go
for him. I play bazaar, cast mana vault, use that to cast sphere of resistance, activate bazaar to discard titan and some other chaff and finally weld in titan for mana vault to eat tropical. He draws, plays wasteland and passes. I play a shop, weld in vault, cast trike he scoops.
1-0, 2-0
RD. 2 Chris Zaborowski Playing TMWA
He wins die roll, then mulligans to 6. Then I mulligan to 5. He plays emerald, fetch into swamp and casts confidant. I play city of brass, mana crypt, mox monkey(forget to eat emerald...). His confidant flips a pyroblast, then he plays a wasteland and a duress to take my powder keg. I take no crypt damage, then follow that up with a shop, welder, smokestax and now remember to eat emerald. His bob flips a wasteland, he plays a fetch and gets a plateau. I put smokestax to 1, and swing with monkey. He draws, and scoops. His hand had a hide/seek but he decided it wont matter with cause of the smokestax.
Game 2 has no mulligans. He plays fetch and passes. I play shop, crucible. He plays a scrubland and passes. I play a gemstone mine, and a tangle wire to which he fetches up a badlands and hides the wire. He misses his land drop and plays a sculler taking my 2nd wire. I play a city of brass, crop rotate my mine for a shop and drop a trike. He plays sculler #2, takes the titan in my hand but then scoops when he sees that I am just going to trike away the sculler with the titan, play my mine from the yard and cast titan to eat both his lands.
2-0, 4-0
RD. 3 Aaron Lettes Playing MB HATE
No mulligans and we are off. He plays swamp, lotus, sacs lotus and drops confidant and nantuko shade, followed by chalice for 0(my hand was lots of 3 drops, 1 land 2 mox...). I play city of brass. Confidant reveals extirpate, followed by a swing for 6. I draw, its not a land and scoop.
Game 2. This game was just a giant sad face for me. It was basically both decks doing their thing but at around turn 6-7 I wiped the board to the point where he had nothing but a null rod in play and I had 2 workshops and a wasteland. This was followed by literally 9 rounds of draw go where i managed to draw all my colored spells and zero colored sources and he managed to draw into nothing either. Then, he starts drawing lands and dropping dudes while i continue to draw blanks and end up losing around turn 20 or so.
2-1, 4-2
RD. 4 Adam Prosak playing Tezzeret
Game 1 notes were non-existant so all from memory. Both decks are doing their thing with me slowing him down and him developing board. I also manage to get an active keg at 2 to sit back and relax. The pivotal turn is when he ices my keg at eot, then drops time vault and tezzeret. I enter my scoop phase.
Game 2 had no mulligans. I play city, shaman, jet. He plays library. I waste the library and play a sphere of resistance and swing. He discards. I play shop, smokestax, he scoops.
Game 3. Once again, zero mulligans. He starts off with island, jet, sapphire, emerald GO. I play lotus, jet, city of brass, ancestral recall myself, tinker away the jet using the lotus to get powder keg, bust to leave him with 3 cards and island and me with city and 6 cards. He plays strand. I play shop and smokestax. He fetches for a sea, drops a mana crypt, casts yawg. will, replays all his moxen, followed by trinket mage for top and lastly a fetch. I play karn, waste his sea, and swing with the smokestax. He tops during upkeep, draws his 1 card in hand, then ancient grudges my Karn and swings with mage. I play a second smokestax to try and reset the board. Unfortunately, he keeps drawing permanents so when all is said and done, he has nothing but a trinket mage and i have no permanents but a sol ring, mana vault, wire, smokestax in hand. He proceeds to draw 4 lands while i draw welder, mox monkey, crucible and lastly tolarian academy and then die to trinket mage.
2-2, 5-4
Overall, the tourney was awesome as always and a HUGE thanks to all you guys from PHX who took the time to drive down.
Big slops to my deck for either winning by turn 3 or not winning at all . . . If I was playing combo, I'd expect that, but not from 5C Stax.
This was Chase Z. vs. MEATBAG
Me(front left) vs. Doug C.(front right) and Adrian A.(top left) vs. Aaron L.(top right)
John R.(left) vs. Chris Z.(right)
And Lastly the SUPER CAKE
