Team Serious Open T8 and Results - 4 August 2012

[GrandpaBelcher]

Another good tournament in Sandusky as 18 people showed up to play for the cash. Not sure how to explain the metagame, but the basics follow, along with the Top 8 in final standings order. Sam Krohlow made his presence in Ohio felt as the Wisconsin transplant took everyone down with a Bomberman deck filled with answers. Mark September 22 on your calendars as the upcoming date of the next Team Serious Open!

5 Dredge
- 2 Sun Titan
- 2 "Turtle"
- 1 Mostly Mono-Black with transformational board

5 Dudes
- 1 UB Invitational Wizards
- 1 UGW Noble Fish
- 1 GW "Exalted Love"
- 1 Red Deck Wins
- 1 RW "Lockout"

4 Blue Decks
- 1 Bomberman
- 1 Turbo Tezz
- 1 UBR Combostill
- 1 Tezzeret

2 Shoppes
- 1 Aggro Smokestacks
- 1 Forgemasters

2 Combo Dudes
- 1 Elves!
- 1 Goblins!

Top 8 decks in order of final finish:

1. Sam Krohlow - Bomberman
4x Force of Will
4x Mana Drain
2x Auriok Salvagers
3x Aven Mindcensor
4x Trinket Mage
1x Black Lotus
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Mox Pearl
1x Mox Ruby
1x Mox Emerald
1x Sol Ring
1x Mana Crypt
1x Aether Spellbomb
2x Sensei's Divining Top
2x Engineered Explosives
2x Mental Misstep
3x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1x Grafdigger's Cage
1x Misdirection
2x Spell Pierce
1x Ancestral Recall
1x Flusterstorm
1x Merchant Scroll
1x Time Walk
1x Thirst for Knowledge
1x Cavern of Souls
3x Tundra
1x Misty Rainforest
1x Scalding Tarn
1x Library of Alexandria
4x Flooded Strand
1x Tolarian Academy
1x Plains
3x Island

Sideboard
1x Engineered Explosives
1x Grafdigger's Cage
1x Blightsteel Colossus
1x Tinker
3x Kataki, War's Wage
2x Steel Sabotage
1x Pithing Needle
1x Tormod's Crypt
4x Swords to Plowshares

2. Jon Neal - Dredge
3x Chalice of the Void
3x Golgari Thug
3x Ichorid
4x Bloodghast
4x Undiscovered Paradise
4x Golgari Grave-Troll
1x Darkblast
2x Dread Return
4x Serum Powder
4x City of Brass
4x Stinkweed Imp
2x Fatestitcher
4x Narcomoeba
4x Leyline of the Void
1x Dakmor Salvage
1x Sun Titan
4x Bridge from Below
4x Cabal Therapy

Sideboard
1x Flame-Kin Zealot
1x Iona, Shield of Emeria
1x Terastodon
1x Darkblast
1x Ichorid
1x Chalice of the Void
1x Firestorm
3x Chain of Vapor
4x Nature's Claim
1x Ancient Grudge

3. William Rosa - Tezzeret
3x Underground Sea
3x Island
1x Tolarian Academy
1x Halimar Depths
1x Strip Mine
2x Wasteland
1x Academy Ruins
1x Library of Alexandria
1x Misty Rainforest
1x Polluted Delta
1x Flooded Strand
1x Mana Crypt
1x Black Lotus
1x Lotus Petal
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Mox Ruby
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Pearl
1x Mana Vault
1x Sol Ring
1x Mox Opal
1x Tezzeret, the Seeker
1x Time Vault
1x Voltaic Key
4x Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1x Sensei's Divining Top
1x Ancestral Recall
1x Time Walk
1x Brainstorm
1x Preordain
1x Yawgmoth's Will
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Gifts Ungiven
1x Timetwister
4x Force of Will
2x Remand
2x Mana Drain
1x Spell Pierce
1x Sphinx of the Steel Wind
1x Tinker
1x Mystical Tutor
2x Dark Confidant
1x Hurkyl's Recall
1x Mindbreak Trap

Sideboard
4x Leyline of the Void
1x Yixlid Jailer
1x Energy Flux
1x Hurkyl's Recall
1x Rebuild
2x Misdirection
2x Mystic Remora
1x Magus of the Unseen
1x Dark Confidant
1x Sower of Temptation

4. Randal Witherell - UB Invitational Wizards
3x Dark Confidant
2x Voidmage Prodigy
3x Snapcaster Mage
3x Shadowmage Infiltrator
1x Blightsteel Colossus
1x Time Vault
1x Voltaic Key
1x Mystical Tutor
1x Merchant Scroll
1x Sensei's Divining Top
1x Ancestral Recall
4x Force of Will
2x Mana Drain
2x Mental Misstep
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Tinker
1x Time Walk
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Pearl
1x Mox Ruby
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Hurkyl's Recall
1x Yawgmoth's Will
1x Vampiric Tutor
1x Brainstorm
1x Ponder
2x Thoughtseize
2x Polluted Delta
2x Flooded Strand
2x Misty Rainforest
3x Island
1x Swamp
3x Underground Sea
1x Tolarian Academy
1x Sol Ring
1x Black Lotus
1x Mana Crypt
1x Flusterstorm
1x Tropical Island

Sideboard
1x Rebuild
2x Extirpate
1x Bayou
3x Trygon Predator
2x Pithing Needle
1x Hurkyl's Recall
2x Nature's Claim
1x Darkblast
2x Grafdigger's Cage

5. Duane Haddix - Forgemaster MUD
4x Mishra's Workshop
4x Ancient Tomb
4x City of Traitors
3x Buried Ruin
2x Cavern of Souls
1x Tolarian Academy
1x Black Lotus
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Mox Jet
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Ruby
1x Mox Pearl
1x Sol Ring
1x Mana Crypt
1x Mana Vault
4x Grim Monolith
4x Voltaic Key
2x Sensei's Divining Top
1x Blightsteel Colossus
1x Duplicant
2x Triskelion
2x Myr Battlesphere
2x Staff of Nin
4x Kuldotha Forgemaster
4x Lodestone Golem
2x Wurmcoil Engine
2x Karn Liberated
1x Time Vault
2x Precursor Golem

Sideboard
3x Pithing Needle
4x Grafdigger's Cage
3x Crucible of Worlds
3x Jester's Cap
1x Duplicant
1x Phyrexian Metamorph

6. Riley Curran - Elves!
2x Llanowar Elves
1x Fyndhorn Elves
4x Wirewood Symbiote
4x Heritage Druid
4x Nettle Sentinel
3x Birchlore Ranger
2x Priest of Titania
2x Mirror Entity
3x Elvish Visionary
1x Regal Force
4x Glimpse of Nature
4x Skullclamp
4x Green Sun's Zenith
1x Mox Emerald
1x Black Lotus
1x Timetwister
1x Ancestral Recall
4x Misty Rainforest
2x Verdant Catacombs
2x Savannah
2x Bayou
1x Tropical Island
2x Forest
2x Gaea's Cradle
1x Dryad Arbor

Sideboard
1x Pithing Needle
3x Nihil Spellbomb
4x Leyline of the Void
2x Seeds of Innocence
1x Viridian Corrupter
2x Thoughtseize
1x Qasali Pridemage
1x Scavenging Ooze

7. Paul Blakeley - Noble Fish
4x Misty Rainforest
1x Flooded Strand
3x Tropical Island
3x Tundra
1x Island
1x Forest
1x Strip Mine
4x Wasteland
1x Black Lotus
1x Mox Emerald
1x Mox Sapphire
1x Mox Pearl
3x Stony Silence
4x Noble Hierarch
4x Qasali Pridemage
4x Meddling Mage
3x Trygon Predator
3x Phyrexian Revoker
1x Time Walk
4x Force of Will
3x Daze
3x Mental Misstep
3x Swords to Plowshares
1x Ancestral Recall
2x Steel Sabotage

Sideboard
4x Ravenous Trap
4x Grafdigger's Cage
3x Nature's Claim
2x Flusterstorm
1x Trygon Predator
1x ?? (listed as 14 cards)

8 - Kevin Poenisch - Dredge
4x Bazaar of Baghdad
4x Undiscovered Paradise
4x City of Brass
1x Petrified Field
1x Gemstone Mine
2x Ingot Chewer
1x Mental Misstep
4x Serum Powder
4x Cabal Therapy
4x Narcomoeba
4x Bridge from Below
2x Golgari Thug
3x Golgari Grave-Troll
4x Stinkweed Imp
4x Darkblast
4x Ichorid
4x Bloodghast
4x Street Wraith
2x Gitaxian Probe

Sideboard
4x Nature's Claim
4x Chain of Vapor
3x Mental Misstep
1x Wispmare
2x Ingot Chewer
1x Firestorm

[InfectedMushroom]

Wow...those 3rd and 4th place decks are insane. I always heard weird things happen out in the hills of Ohio.

[hitman]

Thanks for organizing these, Nat.  If work ever permits, I'll be sure to be there.

[GrandpaBelcher]

Here's some pictures from the event:


The ample tournament space.


More shots of the venue. The arcade games around the edge are all free to play.


The top 4. From left to right: William Rosa, John Neal, Randal Witherell, and Sam Krohlow.

[President Skroob]

The arcade games around the edge are all free to play.

I'd recommend to everyone to play through Die Hard at least once.

[GrandpaBelcher]

The arcade games around the edge are all free to play.

I'd recommend to everyone to play through Die Hard at least once.

I agree. And play through on two-mode so you get the more awesome ending.

[Prkchpsndwiches]

The arcade games around the edge are all free to play.

I'd recommend to everyone to play through Die Hard at least once.

I agree. And play through on two-mode so you get the more awesome ending.

Skroob on two-player is like facing off versus Sgt. Al Powell from Die Hard, except it's more like his character Carl Winslow from Family Matters.  Loch is like playing John McClane himself, before you know it your dead on your back and he's standing on your dead corpse shouting out "Yippie Ki-ya!, MotherF#$ker!".

Anyways, check it out!