TO Report: The Council Open #1- TPG - Bloomsburg, PA - 01/21/12

[Kameli0n]

Big thanks goes out to all that made the trek down here to The Players Guild in Bloomsburg, PA to play some vintage magic. Great to see some new faces, along with all the faithful vintage players that have been coming to these events regularly now. Especially with the Horrendous weather . We had 22 players in attendance today despite Santa coming to town!! Top 4 were awarded for this event. 1st was an Unlimited Mox Ruby, 2nd was $100 in credit, 3rd and 4th were $50 in credit for their efforts. Big thanks to everyone who came out to support the Council Open.

The Metagame Breakdown:

Forces:
Meandeck Landstill: 1 – 4.55%
Landstill: 1 – 4.55%
Gush Grow: 1 – 4.55%
Gush Storm: 1 – 4.55%
Demon Oath: 3 – 13.64%
Golden Gun Oath: 1 – 4.55%
Show and Oath: 1 – 4.55%
Bant Control: 1 – 4.55%
Snapcaster Control: 2 – 9.09%
Jace Control: 1 – 4.55%
Bob Delver: 1 – 4.55%

Workshops:
Espresso: 1 – 4.55%
Kuldotha:  2 – 9.09%

Bazaars:
Dredge: 1 – 4.55%

Null Rods:
Dark Times: 1 – 4.55%
Salty Times: 1 – 4.55%
GW Hatebears: 2 – 9.09%


This event was run with 5 swiss rounds with the cut to top 8.

Top 8 Pairings and Results

Picozzo, Vito vs. Navickas, Justin –  Picozzo Wins
Potucek, Joshua vs. Kohler, Justin – Potucek Wins
Ballester, Lance vs. Varosky, Chris – Ballester Wins
Bomersheim, John vs. Brown, Brandon –  Brown Wins

Top 4 Pairings and Results

Picozzo, Vito vs. Brown, Brandon –  Brown Wins
Ballester, Lance vs. Potucek, Joshua – Potucek Wins

Finals

Potucek, Joshua vs. Brown, Brandon – Potucek Wins
    
Please inform us of any suggestions you may have for us to improve our tournaments in the future! And again, thanks to everyone for coming out to help support the game! Congrats to Joshua for winning it all!

Top 8 Decklists:

First – Joshua Potucek
“UR Landstill”

4 Standstill
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
2 Mindbreak Trap
2 Misdirection
2 Mental Misstep
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Crucible of Worlds
1 Steel Sabotage
4 Engineered Explosives
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Echoing Truth
2 Fire/Ice
4 Wasteland
4 Mishra’s Factory
1 Strip Mine
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Faerie Conclave
1 Polluted Delta
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Volcanic Island
2 Island
1 Mountain
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire

SB:
1 Yixlid Jailer
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Underground Sea
4 Ingot Chewer
1 Chain of Vapor
2 Steel Sabotage
1 Energy Flux

Second – Brandon Brown
“Cat Jesus Beatdown”

4 Elvish Spirit Guide
3 Mental Misstep
3 Tarmogoyf
1 Noxious Revival
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus
4 Path to Exile
3 Stony Silence
2 Beast Within
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Qasali Pridemage
2 Gaddock Teeg
1 Scavenging Ooze
2 Nature’s Claim
4 Kataki, War’s Wage
4 Wasteland
3 Horizon Canopy
4 Forest
3 Plains
3 Savannah
1 Strip Mine
2 Ghost Quarter

SB:
3 Ravenous Trap
4 Surgical Extraction
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Dismember
4 Leonin Arbiter

Quarter-Finalist  – Lance Ballester
“OMG… It’s a Snapagus”

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Pithing Needle
1 Sol Ring
1 Gorilla Shaman
1 Grim Lavamancer
4 Magus of the Moon
4 Snapcaster Control
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Viashino Heretic
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Dismember
1 Echoing Truth
1 Fire/Ice
4 Force of Will
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Mana Drain
1 Spell Snare
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Smash to Smithereens
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Stifle
1 Surgical Extraction
1 Flooded Strand
3 Island
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Mountain
1 Polluted Delta
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Snow-covered Island
1 Strip Mine
3 Volcanic Island
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Gitaxian Probe
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Time Walk

SB:
1 Sower of Temptation
1 Viashino Heretic
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Dismember
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
3 Mental Misstep
1 Ravenous Trap
1 Misdirection
2 Mishra’s Factory

Quarter-Finalist – Vito Picozzo
“FOW Trygon Control”[/b]

3 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Gush
4 Trygon Predator
2 Flusterstorm
3 Mental Misstep
2 Underground Sea
1 Volcanic Island
3 Tropical Island
2 Scalding Tarn
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta
1 Island
1 Snow-covered Island
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Fastbond
1 Nature’s Claim
1 Sol Ring
1 Brainstorm
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby

SB:
1 Volcanic Island
1 Nature’s Claim
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Dismember
2 Ingot Chewer
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Firespout
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Yixlid Jailer

Semi-Finalist – Justin Kohler
“Kuldotha”

4 Metalworker
4 Kuldotha Forgemaster
4 Lodestone Golem
1 Karn, Silver Golem
1 Myr Battlesphere
1 Sundering Titan
2 Phyrexian Metamorph
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Tangle Wire
4 Chalice of the Void
1 Trinisphere
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Black Lotus
4 Mishra’s Workshop
4 Ancient Tomb
3 City of Traitors
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy

SB:
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
2 Crucible of Worlds
4 Relic of Progenitus
4 Tormod’s Crypt
4 Wurmcoil Engine

Semi-Finalist – Chris Varosky
“Gushstorm”-

1 Tinker
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Empty the Warrens
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
3 Flusterstorm
1 Misdirection
3 Trygon Predator
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
4 Gush
2 Preordain
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Fastbond
1 Time Walk
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Lotus Petal
1 Sol Ring
2 Tropical Island
2 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
1 Island
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Misty Rainforest

SB:
2 Dismember
2 Duress
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
3 Ingot Chewer
1 Island
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Yixlid Jailer

Semi-Finalist – John Bomersheim
“Boom’s Headshot (Golden Gun)”

2 Emrakul, the Aeons Turn
1 Blightsteel Colossus
2 Dragon Breath
4 Oath of Druids
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Sol Ring
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
1 Lotus Petal
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Show and Tell
4 See Beyond
1 Tinker
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Channel
1 Praetor’s Grasp
4 Force of Will
1 Ancestral Recall
3 Spell Pierce
2 Flusterstorm
1 Beast Within
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Strip Mine
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Forbidden Orchard
3 Underground Sea
1 Tropical Island
1 Forest
1 Island

SB:
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Mental Misstep
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Nature’s Claim
1 Mindbreak Trap
2 Witchbane Orb
2 Nihil Spellbomb


Semi-Finalist – Justin Navickas
“Demon Oath”

4 Forbidden Orchard
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Polluted Delta
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Flooded Strand
2 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
1 Volcanic Island
1 Island
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mana Crypt
1 Lotus Petal
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
4 Oath of Druids
1 Gaea’s Blessing
2 Rune-Scarred Demon
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
3 Mental Misstep
3 Spell Pierce
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Brainstorm
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Noxious Revival
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
4 Preordain
1 Yawgmoth’s Will

SB:
3 Mystic Remora
2 Nature’s Claim
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Ancient Grudge
2 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Firespout
1 Tinker
1 Blightsteel Colossus

Again, thanks for all the support. The date of the next Bloomsburg Council Vintage event is not set as of yet. Thanks again everyone!!!!! And once again, Congratulations to the top 4!!!

[oshkoshhaitsyosh]

It was 5 rounds of Swiss not 4...but anyways this was a great event even tho it snowed awesome event, awesome people, and an all around awesome day. Thanks Shawn and TPG

[Kameli0n]

Thanks. Updated.

[A.-1.]

Surprise. Surprise. Josh won another event with Landstill. I hope everyone takes note of the -4 Null Rod +4 EE he's rocking now. We just missed out seeing this tech from NEV 1 since he just missed top eight with breakers. Sick run you've had with Landstill man. Grats to the rest of top eight. Keep playing those Oath decks while you can.

Shawn: I'm really pissed that I couldn't make it. We only got five, maybe six, inches of snow here. If it was my decision, I would've driven in it. WTF is Salty Times?

[psu42]

Dark Times with White.

[oshkoshhaitsyosh]

Surprise. Surprise. Josh won another event with Landstill. I hope everyone takes note of the -4 Null Rod +4 EE he's rocking now. We just missed out seeing this tech from NEV 1 since he just missed top eight with breakers. Sick run you've had with Landstill man. Grats to the rest of top eight. Keep playing those Oath decks while you can.

Shawn: I'm really pissed that I couldn't make it. We only got five, maybe six, inches of snow here. If it was my decision, I would've driven in it. WTF is Salty Times?

Thanks Rob, sorry you couldn't make it you were missed. And yeah how about that I told u 2 weeks ago at NEV1 when I disappointingly missed top 8 that this list was for real...it doesn't f*ck around haha just ask Fisher :-p

[Yukon Cornelius]

Dark Times with White.

Yes indeed Dark Times with White. It'll get there next time, I assure you.

[ModflyDesign]

Thanks to Josh for that ass kicking in the finals... =p  Engineered Explosives is a house currently.  I had a lot of fun though. 
Thanks to everyone that came out to our Bad Weather Open.  We appreciate it and hope you had an awesome time too!

[Troy_Costisick]

2 Emrakul, the Aeons Turn
1 Blightsteel Colossus
2 Dragon Breath
4 Oath of Druids

Isn't it a little risky having 2 Emrakuls in an Oath deck?  You don't always hit a Dragon's Breath and Oathing an Emrakul into an Emrakul could really slow you down.  Is this list right?

[cvarosky80]

2 Emrakul, the Aeons Turn
1 Blightsteel Colossus
2 Dragon Breath
4 Oath of Druids

Isn't it a little risky having 2 Emrakuls in an Oath deck?  You don't always hit a Dragon's Breath and Oathing an Emrakul into an Emrakul could really slow you down.  Is this list right?

He has 2 Show and Tells and a Channel. Basically, this a modified Show and Oath deck and the original Show and Oath ran 4 Emrakuls in the main.

[oshkoshhaitsyosh]

My list is missing 2 mindbreak trap in the maindeck, its 2 short!

[rpf5029]

Surprise. Surprise. Josh won another event with Landstill. I hope everyone takes note of the -4 Null Rod +4 EE he's rocking now. We just missed out seeing this tech from NEV 1 since he just missed top eight with breakers. Sick run you've had with Landstill man. Grats to the rest of top eight. Keep playing those Oath decks while you can.

Shawn: I'm really pissed that I couldn't make it. We only got five, maybe six, inches of snow here. If it was my decision, I would've driven in it. WTF is Salty Times?

Thanks Rob, sorry you couldn't make it you were missed. And yeah how about that I told u 2 weeks ago at NEV1 when I disappointingly missed top 8 that this list was for real...it doesn't f*ck around haha just ask Fisher :-p

Round 4 Game 1, Me on play:

Me:  Lotus, Emerald, Bob, Bob.  Pass.

Him:  Lotus, Volcanic, EE on 2, activate.  (With drain backup, not that it mattered)



Game Three:  (shenanigans, including an epic misplay on my part over a standstill)

Me:  Bob, Pass.

Him:  EE on 2, activate, Pass.

Me:  Bob, Pass

Him:  EE on 2, activate, Pass.

Me:  Bob, Pass.

Him:  Fire. 

O_ o


Great games, though, and another great event!

[boggyb]

Dark Times with White.

Yes indeed Dark Times with White. It'll get there next time, I assure you.

What was your list? I tried to get that to work for a long while (using Mindcensors, Ethersworn Canonists, fast mana, and Tidehollow Sculler in place of Duresses) but could never get it to work quite right. Tidehollow just sucks -- artifact creatures die very easily.

[Yukon Cornelius]

Dark Times with White.

Yes indeed Dark Times with White. It'll get there next time, I assure you.

What was your list? I tried to get that to work for a long while (using Mindcensors, Ethersworn Canonists, fast mana, and Tidehollow Sculler in place of Duresses) but could never get it to work quite right. Tidehollow just sucks -- artifact creatures die very easily.




I'll type it up when I;m not dying of mono lol