GP Sydney- Vintage Side event

On Sunday 24/08/2014, 26 players made their way out for the Sanctioned Vintage Side event at GP Sydney. With 5 rounds and a cut to top 8, there was plenty of Vintage to be had. At the end of the day, it was Benjamin Huang who was declared the winner with RUG Delver. It was fantastic seeing everybody again and there was a fantastic camaraderie surrounding the whole event. Special thanks to those players who came out for their first vintage event/ came out of the woodwork for their first in a while. Hope to see you all again.

When the dust settled, our final standings and decks* were:

*Deck names have been included where provided

1) Benjamin Huang - RUG delver “The Minibus”
2) Dillon Kikkawa – Cagebreaker Dredge “Dredge McDredge Dredge”
3) Joshua William Butler - Espresso Stax
4) Charles Lee - BC Stax
5) Shane Svoboda - Noble Fish
6) Jacob Dunn - Grixis Control
7) Luke McCandless - Golden Gun Oath
8) Karl Thekakastorm Reeves - Burning Oath

9) Nicholas Chmielewski – Turbo Tezzeret “Me”
10) David John Putz – BUG Fish “Powered Standard”
11) Lachlan Saunders – Grixis Control “National Highlander Champion Jacob Dunn Control”
12) Leroy Martin – Always Sunny in Philadelphia Dredge
13) Adam Gale – Hegemann Dredge
14) Thomas Koch – Noble Fish
15) William Lou – Pitch Burning Oath
16) Jack Williams – URg Landstill “Lands”
17) Simon Qu – Dirty MUD
18) Jared Mallet – Merfolk “Fish for Days”
19) Robert Bartlett – Grixis Control
20) Graham Croucher – Grixis Control
21) Thomas Ribet – Devastation Blue
22) Damien Hutchins – Jund “Fair Deck Wins”
23) Allen Belobrajdic – Emrakul Oath
24) Yunus E Yuksel – Martello Shops “M.U.D”
25) Adrian Preston – UW Bomberman “Bomberman”
26) Scott Lennon – Night’s Whisper Control Slaver ”The ‘Mini Bus’”
Meta Breakdown:

Top 8 Decklists:
Benjamin Huang – RUG Delver “The Minibus”
4 Delver of Secrets
4 Young Pyromancer
2 Trygon Predator
2 Snapcaster Mage
4 Force of Will
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Gush
3 Mental Misstep
2 Spell Pierce
2 Flusterstorm
1 Fire//Ice
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancient Grudge
4 Preordain
1 Ponder
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Misdirection
1 Dack Fayden
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Flooded Strand
3 Volcanic Island
2 Tropical Island
2 Island

Sideboard
4 Ingot Chewer
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Pyroblast
1 Umezawa’s Jitte
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Mountain

2) Dillion Kikkawa – Cagebreaker Dredge
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
1 Griselbrand
4 Undiscovered Paradise
2 Petrified Field
4 Serum Powder
1 Flame-Kin Zealot
4 Unmask
2 Dread Return
3 Darkblast
3 Leyline of the Void
4 Bridge from Below
4 Stinkweed Imp
3 Bloodghast
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
1 Golgari Thug
4 Ichorid
4 Narcomoeba
4 Mental Misstep
4 Cabal therapy

Sideboard
3 Wispmare
4 Ingot Chewer
2 Firestorm
2 Mana Confluence
4 Nature’s Claim

3) Joshua Butler – Espresso Stax
4 Mishra’s Workshop
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Wasteland
4 Mishra’s Factory
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
4 Serum Powder
4 Smokestack
4 Tangle Wire
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Lodestone Golem
3 Karn, Silver Golem
3 Crucible of Worlds
2 Thorn of Amethyst
2 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Trinisphere

Sideboard
3 Null Rod
3 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Tormod’s Crypt
2 Wurmcoil Engine
2 Maze of Ith
2 Karakas
1 The Tabernacle at Pendral Vale

4) Charles Lee – BC Stax
4 Mishra’s Workshop
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Buried Ruin
4 Wasteland
1 City of Traitors
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Vault
1 Trinisphere
4 Tangle Wire
3 Crucible of Worlds
4 Chalice of the Void
3 Smokestack
2 Ratchet Bomb
3 Phyrexian Metamorph
3 Triskellion
4 Lodestone Golem
3 Karn, Silver Golem
3 Phyrexian Revoker

Sideboard
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
4 Tormod’s Crypt
3 Wurmcoil Engine
3 Sphere of Resistance
1 Crucible of Worlds

5) Shane Svoboda – Noble Fish
1 Savannah
3 Tundra
4 Tropical Island
3 Flooded Strand
4 Misty Rainforest
3 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
3 Stony Silence
4 Noble Hierarch
3 Spirit of the Labyrinth
2 Vendillion Clique
2 Mental Misstep
3 Trygon Predator
2 Qasali Pridemage
2 Aven Mindcensor
4 Swords to Plowshares
3 Spell Pierce
3 True-Name Nemesis
4 Force of Will
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald

Sideboard
3 Flusterstorm
3 Stoneforge Mystic
2 Rest in Peace
1 Umezawa’s Jitte
1 Batterskull
1 Serenity
3 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Nature’s Claim

6) Jacob Dunn – Grixis Control
4 Dark Confidant
2 Snapcaster Mage
2 Mental Misstep
2 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Polluted Delta
2 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
3 Lightning Bolt
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Tinker
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Myr Battlesphere
2 Spell Pirce
1 Island
1 Swamp
1 Black Lotus
1 Yawgmoth’s Will

Sideboard
4 Ingot Chewer
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
3 Yixlid Jailer
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Strip Mine
1 Mountain

7) Luke McCandless – Golden Gun Oath
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus
1 Vampiric Tutor
2 Spell Pierce
3 Thoughtseize
1 Voltaic Key
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
2 Preordain
1 Ponder
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Mental Misstep
1 Sol Ring
1 Time Vault
4 Oath of Druids
2 Dragon’s Breath
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Tame Walk
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Tinker
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Force of Will
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Emrakul, the Æons Torn
4 Forbidden Orchard
3 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
1 Island
1 Volcanic Island
1 Polluted Delta
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Strip Mine
1 Wasteland

Sideboard
3 Nature’s Claim
1 Ruric Thar, the unbowed
1 Mental Misstep
3 red Elemental Blast
1 Toxic Deluge
2 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Helm of Obedience
3 Leyline of the Void

8) Karl Reeves – Burning Oath
1 Black Lotus
2 Chrome Mox
1 Lion’s Eye Diamond
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Memory Jar
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Opal
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
1 Necropotence
4 Oath of Druids
1 Yawgmoth’s Bargain
4 Burning Wish
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Duress
1 Mind’s Desire
1 Ponder
1 Time Walk
1 Timetwister
1 Tinker
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Windfall
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Dark Ritual
2 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Vampitic Tutor
4 Forbiffen Orchard
2 Gemstone Mine
4 Mana Confluence
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Griselbrand

Sideboard
4 Ancient Tomb
1 Balance
1 Diminishing Returns
1 Enpty the Warrens
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Laboratory Maniac
3 Shattering Spree
1 Show and Tell
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Yawgmoth’s Will

Once again, thank you to everybody who came out for Vintage at GP Sydney 2014. I hope to see you all at MASTERS later in the year.