Team Serious Open - Warren, MI

Thanks to all the great players who came out to play Vintage. We had a smaller turnout this month but no shortage of innovative decks and great games.

On to the metagame breakdown. We had 14 players show up with the following archetypes:

Aggro Control [3] = 21.4%
Workshops [2] = 14.3%
Mana Drain [4] = 28.6%
Misc Combo [4] = 28.6%
Dredge [1] = 7.1%

The following was the top 4 after 4 rounds of swiss. The top 4 split $80 in store credit.

1st place - Marland Moore - U/W StoneBlade
4 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
3 Island
2 Plains
2 Batterskull
2 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
4 Stoneforge Mystic
3 Snapcaster Mage
3 True-Name Nemesis
4 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Brainstorm
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Black Lotus
3 Mental Misstep
4 Force of Will
2 Negate
4 Swords to Plowshares

SB:
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
3 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Abolish
3 Kataki, War's Wage
1 Balance
2 Flusterstorm
2 Council's Judgment

2nd place - Kevin Poenisch - Drepths
4 Stinkweed Imp
4 Narcomoeba
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
4 Ichorid
4 Golgari Thug
1 Flame-Kin Zealot
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Bridge from Below
4 Force of Will
4 Mental Misstep
4 Mindbreak Trap
2 Tormod's Crypt
2 Dread Return
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
3 Petrified Field
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Strip Mine
1 Wasteland

SB:
4 Dark Depths
4 Thespian's Stage
3 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
2 Vampire Hexmage
1 Mana Crypt
1 Riftstone Portal

3rd place - Mike Danielson - BUG Swing for Two
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus
4 Wasteland
3 Verdant Catacombs
3 Misty Rainforest
3 Underground Sea
2 Bayou
1 Tropical Island
1 Forest
1 Strip Mine
4 Deathrite Shaman
2 Spell Pierce
1 Flusterstorm
3 Mental Misstep
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
4 Abrupt Decay
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Dark Confidant
1 Time Walk
3 Snapcaster Mage
2 Trygon Predator
2 True-Name Nemesis
1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Force of Will

SB:
2 Grafdigger's Cage
3 Nature's Claim
1 Mental Misstep
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Scavenging Ooze
2 Yixlid Jailer
1 Null Rod
1 Mismember
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Energy Flux
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

4th place - Geoffrey Moes - BUGgery
3 Polluted Delta
2 Scalding Tarn
2 Misty Rainforest
3 Underground Sea
3 Tropical Island
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Vampiric Tutor
3 Mental Misstep
3 Null Rod
2 True-Name Nemesis
4 Abrupt Decay
4 Deathrite Shaman
3 Spell Pierce
4 Force of Will
2 Vendilion Clique
4 Dark Confidant
3 Snapcaster Mage

SB:
2 Toxic Deluge
2 Dismember
2 Nature's Claim
3 Surgical Extraction
1 Darkblast
1 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Yixlid Jailer
2 Energy Flux

The biggest winners this month, in contrast to last month's results, were aggo-control decks with 100% in the top 4. Dredge also put 100% in the top 4. Kevin Poenisch continues to do well with his creative and inventive Dredge lists. Drains and Shops clumped in the middle and various forms of combo continue to be at the bottom of the standings.

We'll have another Vintage tournament in two months. I hope to see everyone there! Thanks to the Vintage community for the great support.