TMC OPEN 3 - Top 8 Vintage Lists

[iamfishman]

26 Players

1st Place
Nick Vallas
4 Qasali Pridemage
3 Tarmogoyf
3 Knight of the Reliquary
2 Ethersworn Canonist
4 Heartwood Storyteller
4 Elvish Spirit Guide
3 Aven Mindcensor
4 Gaddock Teeg
4 Null Rod
2 Kitaki, War’s Wage
1 Flooded Strand
1 Forest
4 Windswept Heath
1 Plains
3 Horizon Canopy
1 Mox Pearl
4 Savannah
4 Wasteland
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus
1 Strip Mine
2 Temple Garden
3 Mishra’s Factory

SB:
2 Samurai of the Pale Curtain
3 Wispmare
2 Path to Exhile
2 Oxidize
1 Krosan Grip
3 Gutteral Response
2 Sylvan Safekeeper

2nd Place
James Hangley
2 Powder Keg
2 Crucible of Worlds
4 Mishra’s Workshop
3 Smokestack
4 Sphere of Resistance
3 Gemstone Mine
4 Goblin Welder
4 Wasteland
4 City of Brass
4 Tangle Wire
2 Gorilla Shaman
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Tinker
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Barbarian Ring
1 Sol Ring
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Mox Jet
1 Mana Vault
1 Triskellion
1 Mox Emerald
1 Sundering Titan
1 Mana Crypt
1 Black Lotus
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Strip Mine
1 Mox Ruby
1 Crop Rotation
1 Bazaar of Baghdad
1 Memory Jar
1 Pithing Needle
1 Trinisphere
1 Inkwell Leviathan

SB:
1 Balance
1 Jester’s Cap
3 Red Elemental Blast
2 Null Rod
2 Choke
4 Chalice of the Void
1 Platinum Angel
1 Tormod’s Crypt

3rd Place
Matt McNally
4 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta
3 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
3 Island
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
4 Thirst for Knowledge
2 Duress
2 Thoughtsieze
1 Misdirection
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
1 Black Lotus
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Tinker
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Brainstorm
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Trinket Mage
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Regrowth
1 Inkwell Leviathan
1 Echoing Truth

SB:
3 Tarmogoyf
2 Duress
2 Yixalid Jailer
1 Pithing Needle
1 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Annul
2 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Krosan Grip

4th Place
Jesse Martin
4 Dark Ritual
4 Duress
4 Force of Will
2 Cabal Ritual
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Imperial Seal
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Grim Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Timetwister
1 Tinker
1 Misdirection
1 Inkwell Leviathan
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Mind’s Desire
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Yawgmoth’s Bargain
1 Necropotence
1 Memory Jar
1 Sol Ring
1 Rebuild
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Island
2 Swamp
3 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
2 Underground Sea
1 Chain of Vapor

SB:
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Hurkyl’s Recall
2 Xantid Swarm
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Bayou
1 Massacre
1 Yixalid Jailer
1 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Pithing Needle
1 Wipe Away

5th Place
Andy Probasco
4 Force of Will
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
1 Darksteel Colossus
1 Tinker
2 Mana Drain
2 Misdirection
3 Repeal
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Skeletal Scrying
2 Pyroblast
1 Brainstorm
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Ponder
1 Red Elemental Blast
4 Mystic Remora
3 Impulse
1 Empty the Warrens
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Polluted Delta
2 Volcanic Island
3 Island
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Flooded Strand
2 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island

SB:
1 Rebuild
3 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Pyroclasm
1 Leyline of the Void
2 Yixalid Jailer
1 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Gorilla Shaman

6th Place
Chris Roberts
4 Dark Ritual
4 Duress
4 Force of Will
2 Cabal Ritual
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Imperial Seal
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Grim Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Timetwister
1 Tinker
1 Misdirection
1 Inkwell Leviathan
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Mind’s Desire
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Yawgmoth’s Bargain
1 Necropotence
1 Memory Jar
1 Sol Ring
1 Rebuild
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Island
2 Swamp
4 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
2 Underground Sea
1 Chain of Vapor

SB:
3 Leyline of the Void
3 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Yixalid Jailer
2 Tormod’s Crypt
2 Pithing Needle
1 Echoing Truth
1 Diabolic Edict

7th Place
Stefan Ellsworth
4 Force of Will
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
1 Darksteel Colossus
1 Tinker
2 Mana Drain
2 Misdirection
3 Repeal
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Skeletal Scrying
1 Pyroblast
1 Brainstorm
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Ponder
2 Red Elemental Blast
4 Mystic Remora
3 Impulse
1 Empty the Warrens
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Polluted Delta
2 Volcanic Island
3 Island
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Flooded Strand
2 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island

SB:
1 Rebuild
3 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Firespout
1 Leyline of the Void
2 Yixalid Jailer
1 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Pithing Needle

8th Place
David Bedoukian
3 Gorilla Shaman
3 Grim Lavamancer
3 Sage of Epityr
2 Cloud of Faeries
4 Ninja of the Deep Hours
4 Spellstutter Sprite
2 Vedallion Clique
1 Voidmage Prodigy
4 Null Rod
4 Force of Will
3 Daze
2 Spell Snare
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
3 Island
4 Volcanic Island
4 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
2 Mishra’s Factory
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby

SB:
3 Rack and Ruin
3 Threads of Disloyalty
2 Red Elemental Blast
3 Relic of Progenitus
4 Tormod’s Crypt

[Stormanimagus]

Very Interesting to see 2 Fish decks and 2 Storm Combo decks in the T8. And more interesting to see only 1 traditional Tezzeret list. The 1 Shop deck making it in at 2nd place is also nice to see and I'm glad that Shop players still realize the power of MD or SB Chalice. It is too good a card in too many match ups not to include. I'd be curious to see how this top 8 played out. Match reports from anyone? I think my Noble-Fish deck from Waterbury as spawned a beast and the GW/x Fish variants are beginning to abound. I realize the winning deck is miles from my list, but I recently switched from Trygon Predators MD to Qasali Pridemage and haven't looked back. Exalted is actually a great ability in Vintage because you'll often be facing down 0 blockers and the extra points of damage stack. I've been tweaking a new GUW list, but I may have to take some hints from this list. Heartwood Storyteller? Bombtastic! Nicely done Nick! I mean, since I created the sickness of Noble Hierarch + Cold-Eyed Selkie, I'm probably still going to stick to that deck, but the time may finally have come to drop Stifle and add Aven Mindcensor instead. I'd say both are on about equal footing against Storm combo in hosing the strategy except that Mindcensor has much wider applications against the field. That may be the biggest change to my list shortly.

Question for Nick: Did you ever find Tarmogoyf + Knight of the Reliquary to be a bit of overkill on the beats? Would one or the other be sufficient? Just a thought.

-Storm

[Oath of Happy]

Wow, congradulations to Nick on that number 1 deck.  You're the man

[Mith]

Nick has been playing this deck for a LONG time now...and it he's managed to streamline it considerably. He played it at the TMD Open, but ran into quite a bit of aggro. The deck does very well vs. combo, and has a decent clock.

Heartwood Storyteller in a deck that runs basically no non-creature spells is absolutely amazing. I personally hate it's casting cost, but a Remora without upkeep that beats for two is hard to ignore

He's a big fan of the Knight...originally they functioned as additional Goyfs...but their ability to fetch specific lands and get rather large very fast has been key.

[HungryHungryHeifer]

Wow, congradulations to Nick on that number 1 deck.  You're the man

Fixed.

And totally agreed. I was very happy to see Nick get first place here. It was well deserved.

Great tournament once again. Thanks Ray!

[MagicIsCardboardCrack]

Nick has been playing this deck for a LONG time now...and it he's managed to streamline it considerably. He played it at the TMD Open, but ran into quite a bit of aggro. The deck does very well vs. combo, and has a decent clock.

Heartwood Storyteller in a deck that runs basically no non-creature spells is absolutely amazing. I personally hate it's casting cost, but a Remora without upkeep that beats for two is hard to ignore

He's a big fan of the Knight...originally they functioned as additional Goyfs...but their ability to fetch specific lands and get rather large very fast has been key.

Mith, thanks for speaking up for Nick so quickly. I started reading that post and almost couldn't find the reply button quick enough. Then I saw you said what needed to be said quicker than I could have.  It does stink though, because it looks now like he just went with the flow considering there was a very similiar top 8 deck in Europe that just posted, as well as a similiar deck top 4'd at Hadley. But the people that know him though, know he's been tweaking his deck for more years than I can count on one hand maybe even two, but you'd probably know that exact number, Mith.

[Smmenen]

I can vouch for this.

When I was designing my GW Beatdown deck for my SCG article, I was also typing up the Waterbury decklists and I when I came across Nick's, I was like: Wow, What's this?!

His deck from mid-March Waterbury is available on my blog: http://www.themanadrain.com/index.php?topic=33669.270

I was very impressed with his list.  It gave me good ideas to explore, and inspired me to keep working on the archetype.   I admit that I had to read Heartwood Storyteller to find out what it did

It does look like Nick streamlined his list, and I hope that my work had in turn helped rethink some of his choices.  Notice that Nick didn't run Aven Mindcensor before (really important!!), otherwise I'm sure he could have done even better.    And his mix of Canonist and Kataki in this list (he had no Kataki in his earlier list) are what I settled on as well.  Kataki is amazing!  

[MagicIsCardboardCrack]

Stephen, funny thing is he never goes online ever or reads magic articles. All his tweaks are strictly from Monday night Scholars, lol. That is pretty great though that, again, by chance he seams to be following what works with everyone else. Naturally, the meta there is all Vailt/Key and TPS, so his course is directed parallel to what's played majorily in the current National/New England meta. We only really lack a Shops opponent, but even when we had a couple it was nothing like we saw at TMC, that thing was a house.

[waywreth]

Considering the deck runs Pridemage main along with Kataki, Oxidize, and Grip appearing in the sideboard, his matchup against Shops is pretty good.  This is speaking from experience as someone who was playing Ubastax.

[Smmenen]

I run a Seal of Cleansing and a Seal of Primoridum maindeck for their usefulness against Stax and Time Vault as well.  That's ontop of 4 Pridemage.