I win another Mox in Lindenhurst IL with Joe Brown's amazing MUD list

[Tha Gunslinga]

So I sucked pretty hard with Oath at my last event, so I played MUD today.  I copied Joseph Brown's Waterbury-winning list, but I cut a Triskelion and 3 Maze of Ith from the SB for 4 Leyline of Sanctity for Oath.  I haven't played MUD ever, haven't played Shops in months, and haven't played Magic in two weeks since I got wrecked playing Oath at Gnome Games.

Benjamin Carp
Team ICBM
75 Problems
deck designer: Joseph Brown

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Tangle Wire
4 Chalice of the Void
3 Smokestack
3 Null Rod
2 Karn, Silver Golem
2 Duplicant
2 Crucible of Worlds
1 Trinisphere

4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Wasteland
2 Mishra's Factory
2 Ghost Quarter
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy

Sideboard:
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Leyline of Sanctity
3 Relic of Progenitus
2 Triskelion
2 Powder Keg


Round 1:  David Devio with Goblins.

Game 1: I open with Chalice 0 and Lodestone.  He Wastes my Shop, so I play a turn 2 Sphere and crush him.

Game 2:  He opens with Lotus, Mountain, Lackey, Warchief, Lackey puts in Ringleader, which hits nothing.  Turn 2 he drops in Siege-Gang with Lackey.  I have nothing.

Game 3:  He mulls to 5, I keep a moderately bad 7 that has a Keg, which I figure I can use to take out his Lackey.  He plays turn 1 Piledriver and slowly grinds me down as my manabase of Mana Vault, Mana Crypt, and Ancient Tomb kills me.
0-1

Round 2: Travis with TPS
Game 1: I blow him out with MUD stuff.
Game 2: I blow him out again.  Highlight was him main-phase Mysticalling for Hurkyl's Recall, so on my turn I Ghost Quartered him, and he reflexively went for the basic land, forgetting the Hurkyl's on top.  These were really brutal games.
1-1

Round 3: Ryan Forsberg (MUD, 71-card mirror)
Game 1: I stomp him with a quick Chalice and Lodestone Golem.
Game 2: His Smokestack resets everything, and we grind into draw-go until I get a Crucible online and drop in 2 Lodestones.  His Mazes of Ith were useless because I just Wasted them.
2-1

Round 4: Michael with Tezzeret
Game 1: I drop lock pieces like crazy and he's never in it.  He manages to resolve a Confidant, but I drop Wire and am hitting him with Lodestone.  His first flip to Bob is Force of Will, then Lodestone puts him to 1, then he flips Spell Pierce.
Game 2: He opens with Volcanic, Mox Emerald, Mox Jet, Demonic Tutor, Mystic Remora.  I play Ancient Tomb, Thorn, go.  He lets the Remora die, which seems awful, until he drops a second land and taps out to play Energy Flux.  Unfortunately for him the rest of my hand is pretty strong, and I drew Tolarian Academy as my first draw, so I play that, Mox, Sol Ring, and some sort of lock piece.  Next turn he loses a Mox, then I walk a Thorn into a Drain, drop Lodestone when he's tapped out, then kill him a few turns later.  Energy Flux was annoying but not really a problem due to Ancient Tomb and Tolarian Academy
3-1

Round 5: Larry Griswold with BUG Fish
draw into top 8
3-1-1

Top 8: David Devio with Goblins again
Game 1: Open with Lodestone, crush him.
Game 2: MULLIGAN into a decent hand, thank you.  Crush him with Lodestone into Triskelion.

Top 4: Larry Griswold with BUG Fish
Game 1: he mulls to 5 on the draw.  I open with Chalice 1.  He Forces pitching Spell Pierce.  I drop Thorn and say go.  He plays turn 1 Noble Hierarch.  I drop 2 Mishra's Factories and beat him to death with them.  I play a few other lock pieces, but the Factories seriously go all the way.

Game 2: He does very little as I blow him out with Lodestone.  At one point he Hurkyl's Recalls me, then TRIPLE-Duresses me (well, Duress, Duress, Thoughtseize), but I just draw more lock pieces.  I Ghost Quarter him and it turns out he has no basics.

Finals: Jimmy McCarthy with Lotus Cobra Tezzeret
We split because I'm a kind person.

Game 1: I stomp him with Lodestone Golem
Game 2: I stomp him with Lodestone Golem
Game 3 (for fun): I stomp him with Lodestone Golem

He got 2 Lotus Cobras out in one game, but it just didn't matter.  MUD is the best deck in the format.  Wow is it good.


Props to Joseph Brown for being an amazing deckbuilder.  Props to everyone who agreed to contribute to the fund for getting Soly a vasectomy, then declawing and debarking him for good measure.

Slops to the folks who didn't know who Eric Becker was.  For shame.

[i_set_fire]

Congratulations, Ben!  I agree MUD is awesome powerful.  Even if you don't get out multiple shops. 

Game 2: I blow him out again.  Highlight was him main-phase Mysticalling for Hurkyl's Recall, so on my turn I Ghost Quartered him, and he reflexively went for the basic land, forgetting the Hurkyl's on top.  These were really brutal games.
1-1

And this is why I am a terrible magic player and need to practice more.  I lose too many games to not thinking through things.  Although in this case it didn't matter.  If I didn't get my land I would have been stuck with swamp and Bob staring down a sphere, karn, and smokestack.  My only way out was the hurkyl's and then lotus flip to bob.  Then the recall in my hand to hopefully get yawg will, rit, and tendrils.  Barring this amazing series of cards, I was dead in two turns. 

Aside from this terrible match, I had a great time and everyone at xtreme is very nice.  Thanks for a great tournament!