Team Serious Open - Columbus

Travel plans and illness decimated the turnout for the March TSO, as 15 people showed up to play for cash at Comic Town. Eight brave gamers fought through the final rounds until only one, Kurt Crane, stood victorious. Top eight decklists follow:

1st Kurt Crane
MAIN DECK: RUG Delver
4 Delver of Secrets
2 Tarmogoyf
1 Trygon Predator
1 Scavenging Ooze
3 Snapcaster Mage
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Force of Will
4 Gush
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Vapor Snag
2 Mental Misstep
2 Spell Pierce
1 Surgical Extraction
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Flusterstorm
1 Stifle
1 Daze
1 Time Walk
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Fastbond
1 Polluted Delta
1 Misty Rainforest
2 Scalding Tarn
2 Flooded Strand
3 Tropical Island
3 Volcanic Island
1 Island
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
SIDEBOARD:
1 Energy Flux
1 Pyroblast
1 Pithing Needle
1 Flusterstorm
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Sulfuric Vortex
1 Rough / Tumble
1 Surgical Extraction
3 Tormod’s Crypt
2 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Krosan Grip
1 Ancient Grudge

2nd Charles Rolko
MAIN DECK: The Dredge Report
4 Ichorid
4 Bridge From Below
4 Stinkwood Imp
4 Narcomoeba
4 Cabal Therapy
3 Leyline of the Void
4 Bazaar of Bagdad
3 Darkblast
4 Golgari Thug
3 Petrified Field
4 Unmask
4 Undiscovered Paradise
4 Serum Powder
4 Bloodghast
2 Dakmoor Salvage
4 Mental Misstep
1 City of Brass
SIDEBOARD:
4 Nature’s Claim
4 Ingot Chewer
3 Wispmare
3 City of Brass
1 Gemstone Mine

3rd Nicholas Sherwood
MAIN DECK: RUG Delver
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Lotus Petal
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Flusterstorm
1 Misdirection
1 Spell Pierce
1 Spell Snare
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Trygon Predator
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Steel Sabotage
2 Nature’s Claim
2 Vendilion Clique
3 Preordain
3 Snapcaster Mage
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Delver of Secrets
4 Force of Will
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Scalding Tarn
3 Misty Rainforest
3 Tropical Island
3 Volcanic Island
2 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
2 Island
1 Forest
SIDEBOARD:
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
3 Ingot Chewer
2 Nature’s Claim
2 Ancient Grudge
2 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Pyroblast
1 Mountain

4th David Beall
MAIN DECK: Mystic Bomberman
1 Black Lotus
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Aether Spellbomb
2 Sensei’s Divining Top
2 Aven Mindcensor
2 Auriok Salvagers
4 Trinket Mage
1 Thirst for Knowledge
3 Mystic Remora
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Spell Snare
2 Flusterstorm
2 Mental Misstep
4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Opal
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Sol Ring
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Cavern of Souls
2 Polluted Delta
4 Flooded Strand
3 Tundra
1 Plains
4 Island
SIDEBOARD:
4 Swords to Plowshares
1 Pithing Needle
1 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Flusterstorm
2 Grafdigger’s Cage
3 Disenchant
2 Steel Sabotage
1 Terminus

5th – Eric Butler
MAIN DECK: Stoneblade
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Helm of Obedience
1 Rest in Peace
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Echoing Truth
1 Spell Snare
1 Mindbreak Trap
2 Mental Misstep
4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
2 Snapcaster Mage
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Stoneforge Mystic
2 Batterskull
3 Swords to Plowshares
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Polluted Delta
1 Scalding Tarn
4 Flooded Strand
1 Plains
3 Island
3 Tundra
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
SIDEBOARD:
2 Rest in Peace
4 Ravenous Trap
1 Swords to Plowshares
2 Engineered Explosives
1 Pithing Needle
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Seal of Cleansing
1 Serenity
2 Disenchant

6th – John Knight: Wizard Sniping
4 Dark Confidant
2 Trygon Predator
2 Deathrite Shaman
2 Snapcaster Mage
2 Guttersnipe
4 Force of Will
2 Mana Drain
2 Flusterstorm
2 Spell Snare
2 Mental Misstep
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Time Walk
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Lightning Bolt
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
2 Wasteland
2 City of Brass
2 Volcanic Island
2 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
1 Strip Mine
3 Scalding Tarn
3 Polluted Delta
SIDEBOARD:
2 Lightning Bolt
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Trygon Predator
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Shattering Blow
1 Echoing Truth
1 Fire / Ice
3 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Pithing Needle
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Tormod’s Crypt

7th – Mark Trogdon
MAIN DECK: Poopshops
4 Metalworker
2 Arcbound Ravager
4 Triskelion
4 Phyrexian Metamorph
3 Wurmcoil Engine
2 Kudotha Forgemaster
4 Lodestone Golem
3 Staff of Domination
4 Pithing Needle
2 Grafdiggers Cage
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
4 Mishra’s Factory
4 Mishra’s Workshop
4 Wasteland
2 Ancient Tomb
2 Cavern of Souls
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
SIDEBOARD:
3 Ravenous Trap
3 Relic of Progenitus
3 Tormod’s Crypt
2 Grafdiggers Cage
2 Crucible of Worlds
2 Jester’s Cap

8th – Sam Krohlow
MAIN DECK: UW Landstill
4 Force of Will
2 Mindbreak Trap
2 Mental Misstep
1 Misdirection
4 Mana Drain
2 Steel Sabotage
4 Standstill
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
3 Swords to Plowshares
2 Crucible of Worlds
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
3 Stony Silence
2 Snapcaster Mage
1 Balance
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Lotus Petal
4 Mishra’s Factory
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
1 Library of Alexandria
4 Flooded Strand
1 Misty Rainforest
3 Tundra
3 Island
SIDEBOARD:
2 Spell Pierce
2 Vendilion Clique
1 Plains
4 Rest in Peace
3 Kataki, War’s Wage
2 Engineered Explosives
1 Supreme Verdict

The next event will be sometime in mid-to-late May, I believe. We may do an event Memorial Day weekend.