[Decklists] Paris T1 - 28-02-2004

[Toad]

Small tourney in the south of Paris last saturday. 21 players for 6 Swiss rounds and a Top4.

Standings after the swiss

#1, Christophe Richard with TNT (5-1-0)

        1 Mountain
        1 Strip Mine
        3 Wasteland
        4 Forest
        4 Mishra's Workshop
        4 Taiga
        4 Wooded Foothills
        1 Black Lotus
        1 Grim Monolith
        1 Mox Emerald
        1 Mox Jet
        1 Mox Pearl
        1 Mox Ruby
        1 Mox Sapphire
        1 Sol Ring

        1 Duplicant
        1 Elf Replica
        1 Karn, Silver Golem
        1 Platinum Angel
        1 Sundering Titan
        1 Triskelion
        2 Solemn Simulacrum
        3 Su-Chi
        4 Juggernaut
        1 Anger
        1 Genesis
        1 Quirion Ranger
        1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
        1 Sylvan Safekeeper
        4 Goblin Welder
        3 Pyrostatic Pillar
        4 Survival of the Fittest

SB:  1 Goblin Sharpshooter
SB:  3 Red Elemental Blast
SB:  3 Blood Moon
SB:  3 Chalice of the Void
SB:  3 Naturalize
SB:  2 Tormod's Crypt

#2 Matthieu Durand with $T4KS (4-1-1)

4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Volcanic Island
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Strip Mine
1 Ancient Tomb
3 Wasteland
2 Polluted Delta
1 Shivan Reef
1 Island
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Grim Monolith

4 Goblin Welder
4 Smokestack
4 Tangle Wire
4 Trinisphere
3 Sphere of Resistance
2 Chalice of the Void
1 Mindslaver
1 Cunning Wish
4 Thirst for Knowledge
1 ancestral Recall
1 Timetwister
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Tinker
1 Memory Jar

SB: 3 Damping Matrix
SB: 3 Red Elemental Blast
SB: 2 Rack and Ruin
SB: 2 Fire/Ice
SB: 1 Triskelion
SB: 1 Viashino Heretic
SB: 1 Echoing Truth
SB: 1 Chain of Plasma
SB: 1 Meditate

#3 Camille Poquet with Urw Landstill (4-1-1)

1 Island
        1 Library of Alexandria
        1 Strip Mine
        2 Faerie Conclave
        3 Flooded Strand
        4 Mishra's Factory
        4 Tundra
        4 Volcanic Island
        4 Wasteland
        1 Black Lotus
        1 Mox Sapphire
        1 Sol Ring
        4 Nevinyrral's Disk
        4 Standstill
        1 Ancestral Recall
        1 Misdirection
        1 Teferi's Response
        2 Stifle
        2 Swords to Plowshares
        3 Fire / Ice
        3 Impulse
        4 Force of Will
        4 Mana Drain
        1 Time Walk
        3 Decree of Justice
SB:  2 Disenchant
SB:  2 Slice and Dice
SB:  3 Red Elemental Blast
SB:  3 Chalice of the Void
SB:  3 Tormod's Crypt
SB:  2 Maze of Ith

#4 Olivier Berly with 1/2 powered TNT (4-1-1)

        1 Mountain
        1 Petrified Field
        1 Strip Mine
        2 Ancient Tomb
        2 Mishra's Workshop
        3 Wasteland
        3 Wooded Foothills
        4 Forest
        4 Taiga
        1 Grim Monolith
        1 Lotus Petal
        1 Mana Crypt
        1 Mox Diamond
        1 Mox Pearl
        1 Mox Ruby
        1 Sol Ring
        1 Duplicant
        1 Karn, Silver Golem
        1 Pentavus
        1 Phyrexian Colossus
        1 Platinum Angel
        1 Solemn Simulacrum
        1 Su-Chi
        1 Triskelion
        4 Juggernaut
        1 Anger
        1 Brawn
        1 Quirion Ranger
        1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
        4 Goblin Welder
        1 Sylvan Library
        3 Blood Moon
        4 Pyrostatic Pillar
        4 Survival of the Fittest
SB:  2 Artifact Mutation
SB:  2 Naturalize
SB:  3 Red Elemental Blast
SB:  1 Triskelion
SB:  1 Bottle Gnomes
SB:  1 Elf Replica
SB:  3 Chalice of the Void
SB:  2 Tormod's Crypt

#5 Laurent Maurice with Enchantress (4-0-2)

2 Forest
2 Serra's Sanctum
4 Bayou
4 Plains
4 Savannah
4 Windswept Heath
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Sol Ring
4 Argothian Enchantress
1 Overgrown Estate
1 Holistic Wisdom
1 Pursuit of Knowledge
1 Words of Waste
1 Worship
1 Earthcraft
1 Ground Seal
2 Sylvan Library
2 Squirrel Nest
2 Humility
3 Sterling Grove
3 Enchantress's Presence
3 Seal of Cleansing
3 Swords to Plowshares
1 Balance
1 Demonic Tutor
3 Replenish
3 Duress

SB: 1 Sacred Mesa
SB: 1 Karmic Justice
SB: 1 Sacred Ground
SB: 1 Aura of Silence
SB: 2 Story Circle
SB: 2 City of Solitude
SB: 3 Choke
SB: 1 Ground Seal
SB: 1 Humility
SB: 1 Seal of Cleansing
SB: 1 Swords to Plowshares

#6 Serge Metz with Pandeburst (4-0-2)

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
4 Flooded Strand
5 Island
4 Tundra
1 Plains
1 Tropical Island
4 Force of Will
3 Circular Logic
3 Replenish
3 Saproling Burst
3 Pandemonium
3 Squee, Goblin Nabob
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
4 Deep Analysis
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
1 Mystical Tutor
3 Intuition
4 Careful Study

SB: 1 Circle Of Protection: Red
SB: 2 Circle Of Protection: Black
SB: 2 Seal of Cleansing
SB: 1 Sacred Ground
SB: 1 Enlightened Tutor
SB: 2 Stifle
SB: 1 Chain of Vapor
SB: 1 Serenity
SB: 1 Balance
SB: 3 Tormod's Crypt

#7 Thierry Gourdon with Keeper (4-0-2)

1 Island
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Strip Mine
3 Tundra
3 Underground Sea
3 Volcanic Island
4 Flooded Strand
4 Wasteland
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
2 Gorilla Shaman
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Fire / Ice
1 Mystical Tutor
2 Cunning Wish
2 Skeletal Scrying
2 Stifle
2 Swords to Plowshares
3 Brainstorm
1 Impulse
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
1 Balance
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Mind Twist
1 Time Walk
1 Yawgmoth's Will
2 Decree of Justice
1 Goblin Trenches

SB: 1 Rack and Ruin
SB: 3 Red Elemental Blast
SB: 2 Tormod's Crypt
SB: 2 Disenchant
SB: 1 Vampiric Tutor
SB: 2 Damping Matrix
SB: 1 Swords to Plowshares
SB: 1 Circle of Protection: Red
SB: 1 Circle of Protection: Black
SB: 1 Plaguebearer

#8 Julien Cataliotti with Back to Basics Tog (3-0-3)

1 Flooded Strand
4 Polluted Delta
4 Underground Sea
3 Tropical Island
4 Island
1 Swamp
1 Strip mine
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
3 Psychatog
3 Cunning wish
4 Accumulated Knowledge
2 Intuition
4 Brainstorm
2 Deep Analysis
1 Ancestral Recall
3 Duress
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Mind Twist
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Time Walk
1 Gush
1 Pernicious Deed

SB: 3 Back to Basics
SB: 1 Pernicious Deed
SB: 1 Duress
SB: 1 Deep Analysis
SB: 1 Berserk
SB: 1 Ebony Charm
SB: 1 Oxidize
SB: 1 Naturalize
SB: 1 Vampiric Tutor
SB: 1 Blue Elemental Blast
SB: 1 Last Word
SB: 1 Hibernate
SB: 1 Smother

Top 4

Matthieu Durand ($T4KS) 2 - 1 Camille Poquet (Landstill)
Christophe Richard (TNT) 2 - 1 Olivier (TNT)

I split with Christophe in the finals.

The metagame was really open with no Combo deck other than Serge's Pandeburst.

3 TNT (one being halfly powered)
1 Keeper
2 Tog
1 $T4KS
3 Landstill
1 Mono Green LD
1 Parfait
1 UB Finkeltron
1 Enchantress Control
2 Suicide Black
1 UR Scepter Sligh
1 Gro-A-Tog
1 Pandeburst
1 Millstone Deck
1 Black deck with Visara and Avatar of Woe

[Grand Inquisitor]

I saw this in Cron's list for Ohio, but didn't really get it.  Why does Stax board damping matrix?

[Toad]

Dragon, Landstill, Slavery and Charbelcher.

[Grand Inquisitor]

Dragon, Landstill, Slavery and Charbelcher.

Aha, thank.  I'm curious though.  Doesn't Dragon go straight for Verdant Force post-board?  Also, aren't Rack and Ruin and Chain of Vapors enough game 2 so that possibly negating their disk isn't worth negating your welders?  I obviously haven't tested this, but this is just my gut instinct.

[CHA1N5]

Dragon, Landstill, Slavery and Charbelcher.

Aha, thank.  I'm curious though.  Doesn't Dragon go straight for Verdant Force post-board?  Also, aren't Rack and Ruin and Chain of Vapors enough game 2 so that possibly negating their disk isn't worth negating your welders?  I obviously haven't tested this, but this is just my gut instinct.

Your point about D4RGON is a valid one and I chose The Matrix over Crypt (or other things) due to local considerations.  No one in my area had been bringing Dragon, but I did expect some Belcher.  Turns out... I was right.  

In a wide-open meta, however, I would suggest having something that addresses Verdant Force.

[Toad]

Yeah, Tormod's Crypt is definitly better than Damping Matrix against Dragon. Just don't look at my sideboard, It's pure crap, I had no time to work on it before the tourney and I just randomly threw cards in it. I'd probably go ...

Maindeck
-1 Cunning Wish
+1 Sphere of Resistance or Mindslaver

Sideboard
3 Rack and Ruin
2 Fire/Ice
1 Triskelion
3 Tormod's Crypt
3 Red Elemental Blast
3 Blood Moon

... instead, or something similar. I knew there would be some TNT decks at the tourney so I also considered Electrostatic Bolt over Fire/Ice in the sideboard (deals with Juggernauts, Triskelions, Platinum Angels and Karns). Maybe a Viashino Heretic over a Rack and Ruin because It's a house.

[Thug]

Are you keeping some secret tech hidden Toadie? your decklist is only 59 cards  
Did you run a kill condition other than chain + slaver after all?

Koen

[Toad]

I just forgot to list 1 Ancient Tomb (edited).

I had no other win condition than Welder beatdown (or opponent's concessions, obviously). The Chain of Plasma was just here as a potential Cunning Wish target, and Cunning Wish is really bad here.
So I'll stick to 4 Goblin Welders only