Eudemonia 4/20 Results! Lists! Pics!

[LotusHead]

15 People skipped on Easter/420 and slung thousands of dollars worth of cardboard crack at each other.

5 Rounds of Swiss (ie, Swiss plus 1) got the following top 4:

Ryan Reynolds
Alex Rando
Ibrahim Aldridge
Stephen Menendian

They split the prize pool 4 ways  and did NOT play it out for glory.

Lists! Pics later.

Ryan Reynolds

1 Library of Alexandria
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Strip Mine
4 Forbidden Orchard
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Island
1 Forest
2 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Scroll Rack
1 Sun Titan
4 Oath of Druid
1 Life from the Loam
1 Regrowth
1 Pernicious Deed
2 Thoughtseize
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Memory's Journey
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
2 Intuition\
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
4 Force of Will
3 Spell Peirce
2 Mental Mistep
2 Jace, The Mind Sculptor

Sideboard
3 Swan Song
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Pithing Needle
3 Nature's Claim
1 Thoughtseize
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Terastodon

Alex Rando

2 Trygon Predator
1 Bauou
2 Null Rod
1 Strip Mine
4 Deathrite Shaman
1 Vampiric Tutor
2 SPell Pierce
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Scavenging Ooze
3 Underground Sea
1 Edric Spymaster of Trest
3 Mental Misstep
1 Flusterstorm
3 Snapcaster Mage
2 Tropical Island
1 Steel Sabotage
2 Misty Rainforest
4 Force of Will
1 Vendilion Clique
3 Polluted Delta
4 Dark Confidant
1 Mox Sapphire
2 Verdant Catacombs
4 Abrupt Decay
1 Ancedstral Recall
1 Mox Emerald
1 Time Walk
1 Mox Jet
4 Wasteland
1 Black Lotus
1 Brainstorm

Sideboard
1 Null Rod
2 Darkblast
2 Yixlid Jailer
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Flusterstorm
1 Energy Flux
3 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Nature's Claim
2 Dismember

Ibrahim Aldridge

1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
1 Blightsteel Colossus
2 Griselbrand
4 Force of Will
2 Mana Drain
4 Oath of Druids
2 Mental Mistep
1 Flusterstorm
1 Spell Pierce
1 Swan Song
1 Jace, The Mind Scultper
1 Time Vault
1 Tinker
1 Ponder
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Mystic Remora
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Thoughtseize
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Show and Tell
1 Brainstorm
1 Dragons Breath
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Black Lotus
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Sol Ring
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mana Crypt
4 Forbidden Orchard
1 City of Brass
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Island
2 Underground Sea

Sideboard
1 Swan Song
2 Show and Tell
2 Nature's Claim
1 Volcanic Spray (?)
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Flusterstorm
2 Mystic Remora
1 Forest

Stephen Menendian

4 Delver of Secrets
4 Young Pyromancer
2 Snapcaster Mage
2 Vendillion Clique
4 Force of Will
4 Gush
4 Preordain
4 Mental Mistep
2 Flusterstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
2 Spell Pierce
1 Misdirection
3 Lightning Bolt
1 Fire/Ice
1 Time Walk
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
3 Volcanic Island
3 Island
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Flooded Strand
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Polluted Delta

Sideboard
4 Ingot Chewer
1 Mountain
2 Pyroblast
4 Grafdigger's Cage
4 Leyline of the Void


Ibrahim vs LotusHead.  Would you believe he survived this mess by simply grinding it out to the last moment, Oathing up BSC with Dragons' Breath and just winning?


Galen (Aardshark) not so lucky.  My 8 strip effects grind him down.


Galen throws his last card, Mystical Tutor for Yawg Will out there for David (Webster) to try and fight.  David pondered, preordained brainstromed and so forth but couldn't get the goods.


Always refreshing to have fresh faces at Vintage events.  With 15 proxies, anyone can play!


There was plenty of Oath represented. I actually wanted to sleeve up Oath Salvagers (as it is tech vs Grafdigger's Cage), but went with shops instead.


If yer gonna Oath up something, do it on the backs of the rare Sliver Tokens of yesteryear.


Frankie Mach's Delver vs Dredge.  Oh boy!...........and BRAINZ!

[msg67183]

That Oath list is interesting. Surprised I don't see Dragon's Breath in there to potentially get both Time Vault AND Voltaic Key out of nowhere. Scroll Rack is an interesting addition, anyone know how well tht performed?

[LotusHead]

That Oath list is interesting. Surprised I don't see Dragon's Breath in there to potentially get both Time Vault AND Voltaic Key out of nowhere. Scroll Rack is an interesting addition, anyone know how well tht performed?

I died to a list similar to this last year (Piloted by Ryan Reynolds). Me: Shops.

I locked him out of game 1 only seeing fetchlands, maybe a brainstorm.

G2 he Oaths up Sun Titan, gets Time Vault, plays Volt Key and wins. G2 and G3. :/

[msg67183]

That Oath list is interesting. Surprised I don't see Dragon's Breath in there to potentially get both Time Vault AND Voltaic Key out of nowhere. Scroll Rack is an interesting addition, anyone know how well tht performed?

I died to a list similar to this last year (Piloted by Ryan Reynolds). Me: Shops.

I locked him out of game 1 only seeing fetchlands, maybe a brainstorm.

G2 he Oaths up Sun Titan, gets Time Vault, plays Volt Key and wins. G2 and G3. :/

I remember playing against an Oath player, I knew he was in Oath, I slammed a turn 1 Jace and said "Ha, let's see you Oath up a guy now" (this was 2-3 years ago) so he proceeds to Oath up Sun Titan, Attach Dragon Breath Bring back Time Vault and then attacked brining back Key. I was in shock.

[StanleyAugust]

That Oath list is interesting. Surprised I don't see Dragon's Breath in there to potentially get both Time Vault AND Voltaic Key out of nowhere. Scroll Rack is an interesting addition, anyone know how well tht performed?

Matt Sperling created the deck back in 2010. I've always been impressed with it when I've been facing it. I honestly think it's the Oath variant I have the worst record against.

You can read more about it here: http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/vintage/20024-Sun-Titan-Oath.html

[LotusHead]

Pics finally up.

[mr.grim]

Props to the top! The oath lists are very cool.
@Steve. How was the 4 cage , 4 lotv sideboard plan?

[serracollector]

I really like steves deck but am honestly suprised at how well it performing. A single chalice at one or pyroclasm or toxic deluge or engineered explosives seems like it could lead to a huge blow out. How do you handle these cards or was there just no one running them?

[Smmenen]

Props to the top! The oath lists are very cool.
@Steve. How was the 4 cage , 4 lotv sideboard plan?

Pretty awesome.  You really want LOTV against Dredge, and Cage against Oath.

I really like steves deck but am honestly suprised at how well it performing. A single chalice at one or pyroclasm or toxic deluge or engineered explosives seems like it could lead to a huge blow out. How do you handle these cards or was there just no one running them?

My deck is a tempo deck.  It's not blown out by Chalice at 1 because I bring in hella sb shit like Ingot Chewer.  If they Clasm or Toxic Deluge it's not a big deal.  I just play another creature and start beating down. 

The biggest advantage of my deck is only 17 mana sources.   The longer the game goes, the more likely I am to win against blue decks.  I have both short term advantage and inevitability.  

[Tha Gunslinga]

Who top-4-splits a 15-person tourney?

[GrandpaBelcher]

Who top-4-splits a 15-person tourney?

Yeah! That sounds like something we'd do in Ohio (and everyone knows we're idiots). Did you at least go out for dinner afterward?

[oshkoshhaitsyosh]

Yeah t4 split a 15 man is doody for sure lol

[Smmenen]

I normally don't split, but any one of us would have had to win two more rounds to make the same amount of money as the split.   And, in this case, there were a ton of cards I wanted to buy from the store for my Old School Magic decks for the next tournament.  Seemed like a win-win.