BBGD #17 TO Report - Top 8 Decklists and more!

[Iron_Chef]

We had thirty-three players ignore the beautiful summer weather to come play Vintage at AU Blue Bell!  We had an awesome showing, and we had eleven unique archetypes represented, with Suicide Jace Vault (defined as a Time Vault/Key deck with Jace and Dark Confidant, closely mirroring the list that Paul Mastriano has played in recent events) taking over the field.

The Metagame Breakdown

Suicide Jace Vault	8	24%
East Coast Wins	3	9%
Turbo Tez	2	6%
Dredge	2	6%
Oath	2	6%
Noble Fish	1	3%
Demars Control	1	3%
Landstill	1	3%
Painter	1	3%
RG Beats	1	3%
Mono White Shops	1	3%
Jace Control	1	3%
Show and Tell Oath	1	3%
Keeper	1	3%
Dark Depths	1	3%
TPS	1	3%
Hulk Flash	1	3%
4 Color Stoneforge	1	3%
Trygon Tez	1	3%
MUD	1	3%
Proliferate	1	3%

                  

The Top 8 Results

A reminder to all of the Top 8 Competitors.  If you write a Tournament Report and post it on TMD, I will give you 10% off your next BBGD entry fee.

8) Dominic DiFebo (Suicide Jace Vault) defeated 1) Mike Noble (Noble Fish)

4) John Jones (Turbo Tez) defeated 5) Matt Elias (Dredge) who had to leave early

6) Josh Potucek (Landstill) defeated 3) Shawn Griffiths (Demars Control)

7) Joseph Brown (Painter) defeated 2) Shawn Anthony (East Coast Wins)

Top 4 Results
 
Dominic DiFebo (Suicide Jace Vault) defeated John Jones (Turbo Tez)

Josh Potucek (Landstill) defeated Joseph Brown (Painter)

Finals Results

Josh Potucek (Landstill) defeated Dominic DiFebo (Suicide Jace Vault) to become the BBGD #17 Champion!


Top 8 Decklists

1st Place: Josh Potucek
Landstill

4 Standstill
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
2 Misdirection
2 Spell Pierce
4 Null Rod
2 Crucible of Worlds
3 Lightning Bolt
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Stifle
1 Echoing Truth
2 Steel Sabotage
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Scalding Tarn
3 Island
4 Volcanic Island
1 Library of Alexandria
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
4 Mishra’s Factory
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire

Sideboard:
2 Vendillion Clique
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Pyroblast
2 Red Elemental Blast
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
3 Energy Flux
1 Ingot Chewer
1 Threads of Disloyalty
2 Pyroclasm

2nd Place: Dominic DiFibo
Suicide Jace Vault (with ETW and no Bob)

4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
2 Mana Leak
1 Misdirection
3 Preordain
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
3 Mystic Remora
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
1 Tinker
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Empty the Warrens
2 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
2 Volcanic Island
4 Island
2 Polluted Delta
2 Scalding Tarn
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Lotus Petal
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Nature’s Claim
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Brainstorm

Sideboard:
4 Ravenous Trap
3 Steel Sabotage
2 Fire//Ice
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Pyroclasm
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Krosan Grip

3rd Place: John Jones
Turbo Tezz

2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
3 Tezzeret, the Seeker
1 Tinker
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Time Vault
2 Sensei’s Divining Top
2 Voltaic Key
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Imperial Seal
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Time Walk
1 Rebuild
1 Fire//Ice
1 Echoing Truth
1 Preordain
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Ponder
4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Misdirection
2 Grim Monolith
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
2 Underground Sea
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Polluted Delta
1 Swamp
3 Island
2 Volcanic Island

Sideboard:
3 Ravenous Trap
3 Red Elemental Blast
2 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Echoing Truth
2 Dismember
1 Rack and Ruin
1 Fire//Ice
1 Pithing Needle
1 Pyroclasm

4th Place: Joseph Brown
Painter

1 Tolarian Academy
1 Strip Mine
1 Mountain
3 Island
2 Underground Sea
2 Volcais Island
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Flooded Strand
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
4 Force of Will
3 Mindbreak Trap
2 Mana Drain
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Pyroblats
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
3 Mystic Remora
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Braistorm
1 Time Walk
1 Gush
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Timetwister
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Merchant Scroll
2 Jace, the Mindsculptor
1 Tinker
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
3 Painter’s Servant
2 Grindstone
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Vendilion Clique

Sideboard:
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Pithing Needle
1 Engineered Explosives
4 Ingot Chewer
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
2 Lighting Bolt
1 Misdirection

5th Place: Mike Noble
Noble Fish

4 Meddling mage
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Qasali Pridemage
4 Tarmogoyf
1 Trygon Predator
4 Daze
4 Force of Will
4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Null Rod
3 Mental Misstep
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Wasteland
3 Tropical Island
3 Tundra
1 Black Lotus
1 Flooded Strand
1 Forest
1 Island
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Strip Mine

Sideboard:
4 Nature’s Claim
4 Path to Exile
4 Ravenous Trap
3 Trygon Predator

6th Place: Shawn Anthony
East Coast Wins

4 Scalding Tarn
1 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strang
1 Misty Rainforest
2 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
2 Volcanic Island
2 Island
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Fastbond
1 Empty the Warrens
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Imperial Seal
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
2 Preordain
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
4 Gush
1 Merchant Scroll
4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
2 Mental Misstep
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Hurkyl’s Recall

Sideboard:
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Pithing Needle
1 Island
1 Mountain
3 Ingot Chewer
1 Pyroclasm
2 Nature’sClaim
1 Ancient Grudge   
1 Duress

7th Place: Shawn Griffiths
Demars Control

4 City of Brass
4 Misty Raindforest
2 Scalding Tarn
2 Underground Sea
2 Island
1 Volcanic Island
1 Tropical Island
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
3 Preordain
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Tezzeret, the Seeker
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Rebuild
1 Tinker
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Time Walk
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Spell Pierce
1 Imperial Seal
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Noxious Revival

Sideboard:
1 Forest
1 Flusterstorm
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Yixlid Jailor
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Nature’s Claim
1 Pyroblast
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Dark Confidant

8th Place: Matt Elias
Dredge

4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Undiscovered Paradise
3 City of Brass
2 Dakmoor Salvage
4 Serum Powder
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Lion’s Eye Diamnd
1 Lotus Petal
1 Black Lotus
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
4 Stinkweed imp
2 Golgari Thug
1 Darkblast
3 Dread Return
3 Sun Titan
3 Fatestitcher
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Bridge from Below
4 Narcomoeba
4 Bloodghast
2 Ichorid
1 Ancestral Recall

Sideboard:
2 Ancient Grudge
2 Firestorm
4 Nature’s Claim
1 City of Brass
2 Darkblast
4 Chain of Vapor


The Player of the Year Race has been updated in its own thread! (click here)

Thanks again everyone!

[desolutionist]

East Coast Wins it is :p

[Iron_Chef]

Yea, I'll go with whatever you name your deck the first time, but I'll be damned if you get to change it every event

And besides, "Best Deck Ever"?  Really?

[psyburat]

I definitely wrote "Me Fish" on my decklist.

[Mr. Type 4]

wow, 24% Suicide Jace Vault... What have I done?? lol

[Ten-Ten]

what makes the 2nd place list Suicide Jace Vault?

how many of the other 7 decks under "suicide jace vault" actually play Bob?

[Iron_Chef]

That was the one deck that I included in the Suicide Jace Vault category that did not have Bob, in lieu of creating another category all together.  That was the only difference, otherwise all of the decks are very similar.  See Paul Mastriano's deck from previous events or from Brian Demars article to see what the "original" SJV deck.

-Nick

[Eastman]

I don't think I've ever gotten into one of these debates, but people have been playing bob time vault lists for years, with and without jace. Credit to Paul for being an awesome and frequently format-shaping player (everyone with a brain tests whatever he plays after lists are posted, and he usually top 8s so his lists usually are), but I don't think the list deserves its own category and name. It's just bob tezz with jaces, isn't it?  I'd suggest callingl it "Mastriano control" ala what we have done with Demars' list, since in both cases it is really the fact that one players particular tuning of a blue deck is being copied, rather than the card choices themselves, that is notable.

[Tobi]

Thanks for the lists.

Missing cards report:
Dominic: 3 cards MD missing
John: 2 cards MD missing

--> http://www.morphling.de/top8decks.php?id=1471