[Report] Collector's Paradise- Winnetka, CA

I was asked to post this by Jin (jn_temp777) who still hasn't done his account registration stuff- what a bum (wait, I'm mentioned in the slops here for not showing up...we'll ignore that)

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Tournament Report Collector’s Paradise

We had an incredible turnout for their first Type 1. 22 players total played in the Type 1 Tournament. The metagame ranged from janky to brutal fully powered decks(5 proxies of any cards was a great rule). Just off hand, some powered deck archetypes that I can remember were: 1 Big O stompy, 1 Fish(Tony Soto), 2 different Chiapets(I hate the name GAT. U/G/B for me, while John played GAT/r with sticks), 1 TNT(Nguyen), 1 Landstill (Farhid), 1 Venguer Mask(Daniel). In addition there were several sligh/Goblin sligh variants, suicide blacks, and a whole lot of stompy.

Top 2 were me and Tony Soto. We split for store credit($55 store credit for each of us). Tony Soto played Fish with a sideboard perfect for this Tourney’s metagame. More on this later.

I felt bad/guilty for Johnny(playing Lackey-Seige Gang Goblins) because I helped him with his sideboard. At one point he says to me, what’s my sideboard vs Stompy’s big ass Creatures? Opps. I said next time, play your U/G Madness deck. I let him borrow my Lotus and Ruby for the tourney, so I don’t think he was too upset.

My Match ups.

Round 1

Me(Chiapet, no sticks) vs Red Deck Wins

Packel pup, Cursed Scroll, Shaman. Quirion Dryad hits. Gets real big. I drop Pernicious Deed, pop for 1. GG.

Second game was pretty similar.

Round 2

vs TNT(U/G/R)

Game1:

I keep a hand with no lands, but a Sapphire, Emerald, Dryad, some countermagic, other stuff. I was sure land was gonna come. This was the wrong gamble. I play first, and drop a first turn Dryad. Nguyen gives me a disapointed look. 1st Turn Dryad vs TNT usually means game over for them. Nguyen attempts to drop a first turn Fatty, I say NO. I get nothing in the next few draws. No land, no card draw, no nothing. I get run over by TNT’s Hasted, Flying creatures.

Game 2:

Some Naturalizes gets added. A janky Royal asssasin gets added. Tormond’s crypt too.

Over the course of a few turns, Nguyen drops a Gorilla Shaman, some moxes, a Survival, a Sylvan. After Survival has hit, I drop a Deed. Next turn, I Deed for 2cc, Nguyen responds by going crazy with Survival>Squee>Anger>Wonder>Welder(in hand). I drop Tormond’s Crypt and remove his graveyard. Nguyen drops a crypt. And Welder. I drop a Royal Assasin and another Crypt. Eventually we both hit a stall with me forcing him to crypt by Yawgwill, and both of us with empty hands. I’m facing down Survival and a Welder. He gets a Darksteel Colossus(yes, Darksteel was legal for the Tourney), casts it, I counter, he taps Welder to weld it into play(turns out you can’t do this, but didn’t find out until later) I crypt in response, I then assassinate the welder. Quirion Dryad drops. It’s ends quickly thereafter.

We decide to split to keep our rankings.

Round 3:

vs Nathan (playing Suicide black)

Game 1:

He looks at his hand, looks really, really happy. Drops a swamp>Dark Ritual>Force of Will>he looks really, really sad. My turn, I Ancestral, then roll over him.

Game 2: Quirion Dryad gets fatter than Nantuko Shade. I roll over him. I attempt to shake hands with him. He leaves me hanging. That just feels dirty(Later on we shake hands).

Round 4:

vs Scepter Sligh

I don’t remember this one too well. He wins game 1 with me about to win on the next turn with a rather large Dryad.

Game2, a Berserked Psychatog kills quickly.

Game3, he got mana flooded. In turn 4 or 5, I drop double Dryads, pump them big.

Finals

vs UW Landstill(Farhid)

I think Farhid was tired by this time because he made several huge critical mistakes. I’m getting beatdown by several Decree tokens. I drop a Deed. He then drops a Standstill. I Deed for 2cc, he then Stifles my Deed, Standstill pops giving me 3 cards, I counter Stifle. I win. Second game, I put in 3 Duress. I rape his hand several times. I win.

Tony and I split for top 2. He shows me his Sideboard. There’s a whole lot of Gilded Drakes and Red Elemental Blasts. The Drakes were perfect for this metagame of Dreadnaughts, Dryads, Togs, TNT Monsters(if he would have jacked Darksteel Colossus, Drakes would start selling for $10 in that store)Green Stompy monsters. If we played it out, even if I took game 1, I feel it is unlikely that I could have overcome his sideboarded games 2&3.

We all went out to In & Out Porter Ranch afterwards.

Props: The entire Lancaster/Palmdale crew for making it. Dan for not playing MTG for a long time, then picking up Venguer and coming in top 4. Collector’s Paradise for finally hosting a Type 1 event. Nguyen for keeping Blue in his TNT even though I argued against this(flying fat Artifact Creatures won him several games that day). Tracerbullet, for posting the tourney in the Tournament Forums.

Slops: Ed, the store owner for not extending prizes to top 4. Tracerbullet, for saying that he would come, then flaking! Me, for telling Johnny to play Lackey-Seige Gang Goblins instead of his UG madness.

One good thing about Ed, the store owner, is that he really doesn't call time on games. When a match is drawn out, and the crowd gathers around to watch, he's wise enough not to call time and piss off both the players and spectators.

Ed said Type 1 will be the first Friday of each month, or whatever works out best for the players. As soon as I find out about the next one, it will be advertised on TMD again.

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Interestingly enough, I don't agree with that second to last part (about calling round times). I think it's important to have set limits due to the fact that some people really do have expectations of round times. I've seen matches that could very easily have gone to two hours were it not for round times, and I think that's detrimental to the game as a whole, as most people can't accomadate a 5 round, 9 hour tournament (that's definitely not to say that's how this one went; in fact, I believe it was to the contrary). All told, they're an intricate part of the game, and something that people should have to consider when constructing a deck and deciding how to play said deck.

That's just my opinion.

Thanks for the report Jin, and I'll definitely try to make it to the next one (long story short, I went to Winnetka 5 hours early, got called up by an ex-girlfriend, and ended up spending the weekend in Santa Barbara- Sue me!)

Pat