Norwegian Vintage Nationals

[Bone]

Norwegian Vintage Nationals 2009

The meta consisted only of unpowered decks and was very weak, but balanced.

The winner got a Mox Pearl and alot of foil and textless stuff. T8 got alot of boosters and foil and textless stuff.

Number of Swiss rounds completed: 5
Number of playoff rounds completed: 3

Final result:
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 1 Skinstad, Erik D
 2 Luo, Erik
 3 Krukhaug, Thor
 4 Tollaksen, Jarle
 5 Taushanis, Zenon
 6 Raugstad, Oddvar
 7 Rosnes, Ragnar
 8 Runde, Nikolai

The final was a single-elimination with 8 players

Swiss Top:
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Rank                            Points    Tie 1    Tie 2    Tie 3

 1   12 Taushanis, Zenon          11    56,0000  72,2222  54,7980
 2    1 Raugstad, Oddvar          11    52,0000  66,6667  54,8368
 3   10 Skinstad, Erik D          10    54,6667  63,6364  53,8384
 4    7 Rosnes, Ragnar            10    50,6667  63,6364  50,9091
 5    3 Krukhaug, Thor             9    50,6667  54,5455  50,7071
 6   11 Runde, Nikolai             9    48,0000  58,3333  47,8671
 7    6 Tollaksen, Jarle           8    60,0000  57,5758  57,7273
 8    8 Luo, Erik                  8    58,6667  52,7778  56,8687

Decklist:

1. Erik D Skinstad – Angel Oath

Maindeck:
2 Repeal
3 Chalice of the Void
1 Gaea’s Blessing
1 Krosan Reclamation
1 Regrowth
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Scroll Rack
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
4 Impulse
1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
1 Hellkite Overlord
4 Oath of Druids
4 Duress
4 Negate
4 Force of Will
1 Lotus Petal
1 Sol Ring
2 Island
2 Mishra’s Factory
1 Strip Mine
1 Wasteland
1 Flooded Strand
3 Polluted Delta
4 Forbidden Orchard
3 Breeding Pool
3 Watery Grave
1 Wipe Away
1 Mana Leak

Sideboard:
2 Engineered Explosives
1 Tinker
1 Platinum Angel
1 Simic Sky Swallower
1 Gaea’s Blessing
2 Trickbind
1 Stifle
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
3 Oxidize
2 Echoing Truth

2. Erik Luo – Ad Nauseam Tendrils

Maindeck:
4 Dark Ritual
4 Cabal Ritual
4 Chrome Mox
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Lotus Petal
2 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
3 Ad Nauseam
3 Tendrils of Agony
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Echoing Truth
1 Repeal
4 Duress
2 Cabal Therapy
2 Thoughtseize
1 Pithing Needle
1 Engineered Explosives
3 Swamp
1 Island
4 Polluted Delta
1 Bloodstained Mire
3 Flooded Strand
1 Steam Vents
2 Watery Grave

Sideboard:
1 Trinket Mage
1 Academy Ruins
1 Riptide Laboratory
1 Inkwell Leviathan
1 Sundering Titan
3 Blood Moon
1 Vendillion Clique
1 Cabal Therapy
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Ensnaring Bridge
1 Tinker
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Fact or Fiction

3. Thor Krukhaug – Cripple (Pox)

Maindeck:
4 Tombstalker
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Dark Ritual
4 Pox
4 Sinkhole
4 Smallpox
4 Duress
3 Crucible of Worlds
1 Mind Twist
1 Diabolic Edict
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Thoughtseize
4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 Mishra’s Factory
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
10 Swamp

Sideboard:
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Null Rod
4 Engineered Plague
2 Diabolic Edict
1 Darkblast

4. Jarle Tollaksen – Painter

Maindeck:
4 Painter’s Servant
4 Thirst for Knowledge
2 Force of Will
2 Counterspell
1 Mana Leak
1 Aether Spellbomb
1 Fact or Fiction
3 Grindstone
4 Counterbalance
3 Sensei’s Divining Top
4 Trinket Mage
1 Goblin Welder
1 Disrupt
1 Brainstorm
9 Island
4 Volcanic Island
2 Flooded Strand
2 Bloodstained Mire
4 Seat of the Synod
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Pyroblast
1 Tinker
1 Platinum Angel
1 Sol Ring

Sideboard:
3 Trickbind
3 Blue Elemental Blast
3 Tormod’s Crypt
4 Dodecapod
2 Goblin Welder

5. Zenon Taushanis – Landstill

Maindeck:
16 Islands
4 Mishra’s Factory
2 Mutavault
3 Wasteland
1 Faerie Conclave
1 Strip Mine
4 Standstill
3 Treachery
4 Legacy’s Allure
4 Force of Will
4 Counterspell
4 Mana Leak
4 Relic of Progenitus
4 Nevinyrral’s Disk
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Chain of Vapor

Sideboard:
4 Null Rod
4 Misdirection
3 Chainb of Vapor
2 Meloku the Clouded Mirror
2 Threads of Disloyalty

6. Oddvar Raugstad – Merfolks

Maindeck:
1 Cold-Eyed Selkie
4 Cursecatcher
4 Lord of Atlantis
4 Merrow Reejerey
3 Silvergill Adept
2 Sygg, River Cutthroat
1 Brainstorm
3 Daze
2 Disrupt
2 Echoing Truth
4 Force of Will
2 Mana Leak
1 Misdirection
3 Standstill
3 Stifle
4 Wasteland
3 Flooded Strand
9 Islands
1 Mutavault
3 Polluted Delta
1 Strip Mine

Sideboard:
3 Curfew
1 Disrupt
4 Energy Flux
4 Null Rod
3 Umezawa’s Jitte

7. Ragnar Rosnes – Suspend

Maindeck:
1 Balance
4 Nihilith
4 Greater Gargadon
4 Balancing Act
2 Jokulhaups
4 Thoughtseize
4 Duress
3 Lotus Bloom
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Hide / Seek
1 Cranial Extraction
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Mishra’s Bauble
2 Urza’s Bauble
1 Lotus Petal
1 Petrified Field
1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
1 Strip Mine
1 Ravaged Highlands
1 Abandoned Outpost
4 Archaeological Dig
3 Sulfur Vent
4 Gemstone Mine
4 Bog Wreckage
4 Ruins of Trokair

Sideboard:
1 Smallpox
3 Swords to Plowshares
3 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
3 Cranial Extraction
3 Hide / Seek
2 Gaea’s Blessing

8. Nikolai Runde – Goblins

Maindeck:
5 Mountains
4 Badlands
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
3 Wooded Foothills
3 Bloodstained Mire
1 Mana Crypt
1 Lotus Petal
4 Goblin Lackey
4 Mogg Fanatic
4 Duress
4 Goblin Piledriver
2 Warrens Weirding
2 Stingscourger
4 Goblin Warchief
4 Goblin Matron
1 Fatal Frenzy
4 Goblin Ringleader
1 Siege-Gang Commander
3 Earwig Squad
1 Genpalm Incinirator

Sideboard:
3 Pyroblast
4 Aether Vial
4 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Extirpate

[LotusHead]

You know? These lists are actually refreshing?

Non-powered Top 8 with such diversity.  Thanks for sharing!

[mslano]

There are a lot of surprising decks in this top 8.  I would love to read some tournament reports from this tournament, particularly for Ragnar's Suspend deck.

[LordHomerCat]

Playing against someone named Ragnar or Thor would probably be pretty intimidating.  I know that I would be a bit worried that if I won, he would cleave me in two with a huge battleaxe or something.

[policehq]

A Jimmy could sick the mob on me if I beat him.

I'm with LotusHead, these are great to see. Erik Luo's sideboard is a bit baffling, but otherwise, I enjoyed thinking of playing in a meta like this, like olden times.

I wonder if everyone knew things would be unpowered? There are lots of Null Rods in sideboards; would they have stayed if you knew the top 8 wouldn't have any power?

[Bone]

Other decks in this tournament was TezzVault, Hypergenesis, BW Fish, Affinity, UW Control, Merfolks and some other decks I don't remember. This is my results with merfolks. My deck was designed originally for a powered metagame (BoM3) but I changed -4 Null Rod, +2 Disrupt, +2 Mana Leak for this tournament.

R1 vs Hypergenesis 2-0 (Yeah, there was a Hypergenesis deck in this tournament...)
R2 vs TezzVault 2-1
R3 vs Painter 1-1
R4 vs Ad Nauseam 2-0
R5 vs Landstill 1-1 (chickendraw, needed a break before t8)
T8 vs Painter 1-2 (good matchup but bad played)

Here is the playoffs:

Jarle Tollaksen (painter) defeated Oddvar Raugstad (merfolks)
Erik D Skinstad (angel oath) defeated Nikolai Runde (goblins)
Thor Krukhaug (pox) defeated Ragnar Rosnes (suspend)
Erik Luo (ad nauseam) defeated Zenon Taushanis (landstill)

Erik D Skinstad (angel oath) defeated Jarle Tollaksen (painter)
Erik Luo (ad nauseam) defeated Thor Krukhaug (pox)

Erik D Skinstad (angel oath) defeated Erik Luo (ad nauseam)

[Isaac85]

I think Erik called yangtime for that side.

[Smmenen]

You know? These lists are actually refreshing?

Non-powered Top 8 with such diversity.  Thanks for sharing!

There are a lot of surprising decks in this top 8.  I would love to read some tournament reports from this tournament, particularly for Ragnar's Suspend deck.

Yeah, but note that it's a small tournament.    Because it was less than 33 players, it won't make the cut for the bimonthly metagame report. 

[mslano]

You know? These lists are actually refreshing?

Non-powered Top 8 with such diversity.  Thanks for sharing!

There are a lot of surprising decks in this top 8.  I would love to read some tournament reports from this tournament, particularly for Ragnar's Suspend deck.

Yeah, but note that it's a small tournament.    Because it was less than 33 players, it won't make the cut for the bimonthly metagame report. 

The fact that it was a small tournament is really why I'd like to see reports - to highlight some key interactions within these decks and against opponents' decks to try and understand how they actually work out in matches.  That insight may indicate ways to refine and possibly improve these decks for use in larger events.

[oneofchaos]

Other decks in this tournament was TezzVault, Hypergenesis, BW Fish, Affinity, UW Control, Merfolks and some other decks I don't remember. This is my results with merfolks. My deck was designed originally for a powered metagame (BoM3) but I changed -4 Null Rod, +2 Disrupt, +2 Mana Leak for this tournament.

R1 vs Hypergenesis 2-0 (Yeah, there was a Hypergenesis deck in this tournament...)
R2 vs TezzVault 2-1
R3 vs Painter 1-1
R4 vs Ad Nauseam 2-0
R5 vs Landstill 1-1 (chickendraw, needed a break before t8)
T8 vs Painter 1-2 (good matchup but bad played)

Here is the playoffs:

Jarle Tollaksen (painter) defeated Oddvar Raugstad (merfolks)
Erik D Skinstad (angel oath) defeated Nikolai Runde (goblins)
Thor Krukhaug (pox) defeated Ragnar Rosnes (suspend)
Erik Luo (ad nauseam) defeated Zenon Taushanis (landstill)

Erik D Skinstad (angel oath) defeated Jarle Tollaksen (painter)
Erik Luo (ad nauseam) defeated Thor Krukhaug (pox)

Erik D Skinstad (angel oath) defeated Erik Luo (ad nauseam)

Hypergensis seems god awful for vintage.

1)  The deck is not allowed to play anything costing less than 3 for obvious reasons.  That means you can't play power, brainstorm/ponder/recall, tutors, disruption aside fow/misdirection etc.
2)  The deck really only gains 4 ESG when you transition it from extended to vintage.

[Bone]

The fact that it was a small tournament is really why I'd like to see reports - to highlight some key interactions within these decks and against opponents' decks to try and understand how they actually work out in matches.  That insight may indicate ways to refine and possibly improve these decks for use in larger events.

Due to the fact that these decks played eachother then I don't think alot of them could have done it well in a powered tournament. My guess is that if any powered deck showed up he would have had an easy way to the top with only Merfolks and perhaps Pox and Landstill being hard after sideboarding. I may ask some of the players if they are interrested in writing a report.

[Tobi]

Indeed very refreshing lists. Thanks for posting!

The winning list misses one card, and it is really hard to figure out which one 

[Bone]

Indeed very refreshing lists. Thanks for posting!

The winning list misses one card, and it is really hard to figure out which one 

Thanks. Np The missing card is Mana Leak, added it now. My mistake

[Tobi]

Thanks. Np The missing card is Mana Leak, added it now. My mistake

Thanks. Forgot to ask: how many players did the tournament have?

[sorcutt]

I love the Legacy Pox deck (+ a Mindtwist).  Suck on Small Pox, Leviathan!