Team Serious Open Results - Columbus

Thirteen Vintage players--nay, gods--descended on Columbus, Ohio, to play for a guaranteed $400 prize pool put up by Comic Town. When the dust had settled, Matt Hazard told his foes, "Eat lead!" and Nat Moes told his to "Eat at Thurman's!" They split the final prize, each taking home $150. Decklists and tournament info follow.

13 Players, cut to top 4
1/2 Nat Moes - Regrowth Gush ($150)
1/2 Matt Hazard - UW Landstill ($150)
3 Duane Haddix - Tribal Constructs ($50)
4 Jared Rice - Dredge ($50)

Top 4 Decklists

Split posted in order of final-standings finish.

Nat Moes - Regrowth Gush
4 Force of Will
4 Gush
4 Dark Ritual
4 Preordain
3 Regrowth
1 Flusterstorm
1 Thoughtseize
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Fastbond
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Imperial Seal
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Necropotence
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Ponder
1 Mind's Desire
1 Timetwister
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Time Walk
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Misty Rainforest
3 Underground Sea
2 Polluted Delta
2 Tropical Island
1 Volcanic Island
1 Snow-Covered Island
1 Island

Sideboard
1 Forest
2 Trygon Predator
1 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Nature's Claim
1 Massacre
1 Pyroclasm
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Flusterstorm
2 Tormod's Crypt
2 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Ravenous Trap

Matt Hazard - UW Landstill
4 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Scalding Tarn
3 Island
1 Snow-covered Plains
2 Tundra
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Lotus Petal
2 Snapcaster Mage
4 Stoneforge Mystic
4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Batterskull
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Standstill
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Time Walk
2 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
2 Mental Misstep
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Misdirection
2 Spell Pierce
2 Spell Snare

Sideboard
4 Rest in Peace
3 Serenity
1 Swords to Plowshares
2 Spell Snare
2 Annul
1 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Hurkyl's Recall

Duane Haddix - Tribal Constructs
4 Metalworker
4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Traitors
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Cavern of Souls
2 Buried Ruin
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
4 Lodestone Golem
2 Triskelion
2 Myr Battlesphere
2 Phyrexian Metamorph
2 Sensei's Divining Top
3 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
4 Kuldotha Forgemaster
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Ratchet Bomb
2 Duplicant
2 Wurmcoil Engine
2 Karn Liberated
1 Pithing Needle

Sideboard
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1 Expedition Map
2 Tormod's Crypt
2 Pithing Needle
1 Wurmcoil Engine
2 Ratchet Bomb
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Triskelion
3 Mental Misstep

Jared Rice - Dredge
4 Undiscovered Paradise
4 Ichorid
4 Bloodghast
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Serum Powder
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Bridge from Below
4 Narcomoeba
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
4 Stinkweed Imp
2 Dakmor Salvage
1 Darkblast
1 Fatestitcher
2 City of Brass
2 Golgari Thug
2 Dread Return
1 Flame-Kin Zealot
1 Petrified Field

Sideboard
4 Chain of Vapor
3 Nature's Claim
3 Ingot Chewer
3 Wispmare
2 Pithing Needle

Metagame Breakdown

5 Control
- 3 UW
-- 2 with Restoration Angel
-- 1 with Standstill
- 1 Esper (Bob and removal)
- 1 UR Landstill

4 Combo
- 1 Regrowth Gush
- 1 Doomsday
- 1 Burning Oath
- 1 TPS

2 Workshops
- 1 Tribal Constructs (Forgemaster, Wurmcoil, TV Key)
- 1 MUD

1 BUG Control with Deathrite Shaman
1 Dredge, mostly manaless

Vintage Achievements

We brought back Vintage Achievements at this tournament. My plan had been to randomize a list of 15 achievements to work toward. But the list was too hard! Except for one round, most winners had one or two points. Jerry Yang was the big winner in round three, with four achievements (Still had all these, That was premature, Only in moderation, and Got there!) but deferred his prize to Theo Limber. As such, prizes were distributed like this:

Sam Krohlow, Vintage Achiever. He went to a Smash Mouth concert last night.

Round 1 - Sam Krohlow (#1 Vintage Player Coffee Mug designed by Twaun P. Pwnertown)
Round 2 - Geoff Moes ("The Tables of Magic," by George Baxter)
Round 3 - Theo Limber (cork lined tournament notebook)
Round 4 - CJ Moritz (Worldwake Jace playmat)

This tournament's haul. Who wants treacle?!

8 Still had all these… :: Discard down to your max hand size during your end step.
1 Yangtime Award :: Reveal Blightsteel Colossus in hand because of a spell or ability, or discard it at end of turn.
0 The meaning of the word pain :: Attack for 20 or more damage in one turn.
0 Stop having fun! :: Control two of Chalice of the Void, Null Rod, Stony Silence or Magus of the Moon.
0 Who needs 'em? :: Win a game without casting a spell.
1 Et tu, Bobby? :: Lose a game to a permanent you control.
1 That was premature :: Achieve a storm count of 10 on your turn and pass the turn without winning.
0 All Natural :: Win a game without ever controlling an artifact.
2 Speed Racer :: Win a match with 35 minutes or more left on the clock.
2 “He could go all the way!” :: Attack with the same single creature, unblocked, for four turns in a row.
0 Butterfingers! :: Lose a tutored-for card to a shuffle effect, mill effect, discard or fateseal.
0 Emphasis on the "Master" :: Resolve Kuldotha Forgemaster's ability and end up with as many or more permanents in play than you started with.
0 Cut Heard 'Round the World :: Cut your opponent's deck to a game-winning (for your opponent) topdeck.
0 Recursion, see Recursion :: Produce an arbitrarily large amount of something (life, mana, damage, etc.).
0 For the squad! :: Have 10 or more power divided among five (5) or more creatures you control.
2 Only in moderation :: Remove just enough cards with Necropotence to put you to seven (7) cards in hand.
2 Got there! :: Win a game with zero (0) cards in hand.