Myriad Games Type 1 Tournament Saturday July 17th

[Myriad Games]

Magic: The Gathering New Hampshire Type 1 Tournament
(10 Proxies Allowed)

Where: Myriad Games
8 Stiles Road
Salem, NH 03079

Saturday July 17th, 2004

Onsite registration will begin at 10:00 AM and Swiss rounds will begin around noon.

Entry: $15.00

Prizes:
1st Place = [card]Mox Emerald[/card] (Unlimited)
2nd Place = [card]Mana Drain[/card] (English)
3rd Place = [card]Mana Drain[/card] (Italian)
4th Place = [card]Ice Storm[/card] (Beta)
Best Sport = [card]Ice Storm[/card] (Beta)

Prizes as listed are for 32 - 48 Players; for fewer than 32 players, prizes will be apportioned accordingly. Prize cards are in played condition.

Everyone who preregisters will be entered in a drawing for a bonus Dual Land!

Seating is limited to the first 48 players, so be sure to preregister now to reserve your spot.

You may use any major credit card, PayPal (via www.myriadgames.com), or cash to preregister. Payments must be received by July 16th to count as preregistration.

You may also preregister by phone by calling 1-800-459-5516 or (603) 681-0355.

There will be beverages and snacks available throughout the day.

To help registration and reporting run more smoothly, you may email your deck list to vintage@myriadgames.com and we'll have them printed off for you at the event so you can make any last minute adjustments and confirm them. You can also print them out ahead of time and bring them to the event. Just click here to download the Deck Registration Sheet.

You can download the flyer for the event here.

We've made a bunch of improvements since our last event in May including an earlier start time and more expeditious schedule to keep the event moving along. We've also beefed up the prize support. So for all of you who are not going to Virginia for the SCG tournament, come by for a great day of Magic. If anyone has any further suggestions for this or future events, please post here or email vintage@myriadgames.com.

[Zherbus]

Yeah, so I'll be there... Who else?

[Kowal]

Ouch.  Simultaneous with SCG makes me sad.  I might have to cheer you guys on from the sidelines.

[CrazyCarl]

you may want to reschedule.

afaik the scg tourney is going to take all of the new england players as well as the new yorkers :\.

[Zherbus]

For real? Fack. I really didn't think that many would be travelling so far for that.

[SliverKing]

of course they are!!!  the more the merrier!

Although, if any of you new england bastards knock out the meandeckers  before Shortbus gets another chance to humiliate them; we wont be inviting you back to Virginia....

[Jacob Orlove]

of course they are!!!  the more the merrier!

Although, if any of you new england bastards knock out the meandeckers though before Shortbus gets another chance to humiliate; them we wont be inviting you back to Virginia....

Just come up to Waterbury sometime. Ray's started giving away almost as much power as SCG.

[Detroit]

Me and two of my friends are planning on attending. Hope to see those of you not go to SCG.

[Zherbus]

Well, having personal responsibilities like a real job and actual bills, I cannot make it to Virginia to play in the uber-type 1 shin-dig. It's nice to have something the New Englanders can play at while everyone else loses to PTW and Triple_S (No, I mean it - you're all doomed) in Virginia.

[Myriad Games]

11 Days and counting til the big day. Be sure to preregister now. Looking forward to a great local tournament!

[theorigamist]

Out of curiosity, do you know what the prize structure might look like for less than 32 players?

It turns out that I won't be able to bring my intimidating origami creature tokens and otherwise mediocre playing to Scarborough tomorrow, so instead I'll be coming to Salem for this tournament.  Unfortunately, that means I'll have to spend money I don't really have on cards.  Oh well.

[Zherbus]

theorigamist, lemme know what you'll need to borrow. I'm usually pretty well-stocked on commonly used T1 cards.

[CHA1N5]

while everyone else loses to PTW and Triple_S (No, I mean it - you're all doomed) in Virginia.

Whoa, Buddy:  Who are you and what have you done with my teammate, Z-H-E-R-B-U-S?

[Phantom Tape Worm]

while everyone else loses to PTW and Triple_S (No, I mean it - you're all doomed) in Virginia.

Whoa, Buddy:  Who are you and what have you done with my teammate, Z-H-E-R-B-U-S?

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!1!!  Your own teammates have turned against you CHA1N5!  Meandeck has been shaken to its core.  Beware of defectors CHA1N5, when morale drops this low, you never know what could happen

[theorigamist]

Zherbus, thanks for the offer.  I've chosen a deck that I may be able to make with 10 proxies, but I think I'll still be a couple cards short (basically only in the sideboard).  I'm going to try to buy as many of the cheap cards as I can at my local store, but I'll PM you if I can't get ahold of something.

In return, assuming that you're playing some form of 4CC (and assuming you use a Decree), if you'd like, I can provide you with the best soldier creature token ever.  The intimidation of having to face origami creature tokens has won matches in the past.

[Saucemaster]

while everyone else loses to PTW and Triple_S (No, I mean it - you're all doomed) in Virginia.

Zherbus, God told me to tell you that the last time His chosen people lost confidence in His promises, shit hit the fan.  Also, just because of that, He's switching to Tog.

[Zherbus]

I wrote that without the frame of mind that Meandeck members would attend.

[Matt]

Didn't God make the rainbow as a covenant with mankind that He would never again play Tog?

[Myriad Games]

Just 4 days left to preregister. We already have more people preregistered for this event than we did for the last tournament at this time (and over half the players preregistered last time). Be sure to preregister now. Looking forward to a great event!

[Myriad Games]

Just 12 hours left till the tournament begins. See everyone there!

[nataz]

a friend and I will be down from Maine tommrow.

This is a last min decision, and we just wanted to make sure that there would be room for us.

-thank
carter

[theorigamist]

This tournament was a lot of fun.  I didn't want to start a new thread for a report, but I will when I get back from Canada in two weeks, maybe.  Right now I've only got a few minutes, and then I have to pack.  So here's a really quick summary.

Round 1: GaT
This guy was threatening to be a rules lawyer by almost making me remove my entire deck from the game when I Consulted for "Belcher" instead of "Goblin Charbelcher."  He would have been right, but he decided not to be a dick, and he was cool about it.  I was more careful for the rest of the night.  He was also frequently pissed off that I randomly top decked powerful cards (even though powerful cards are like half the deck).

Sidenote:  After this round, he asked if I had any stuff to trade.  I hand him my box to look through.  After he's done looking through it, on his way to hand it back, he accidently drops the box into his lap and spills all the cards out all over the place.  He then did put them back in the box in random piles that he picked them up in (they had been in order before), apologized, and then realized that several stacks of cards had fallen into his backpack.  He even commented on how bad that must have looked.  I didn't accuse him of anything, nor am I doing so now.  It was just sketchy.

Round 2: Landstill
This kid didn't really know what my cards were.  He had to read almost all of them.  He also wasn't prepared for the matchup at all.  For example, in the first game he pitched Stifle to Force of Will my Charbelcher when I had Welder on the board.  Second game I had a really fast draw with a turn two win.

Round 3: UG Madness
Game 1: Null Rod.
Game 2: Null Rod.

Round 4: Not even as good as suicide black
I don't know how he was at 2-1.  The cards I saw, as far as I remember, were Chittering Rats, Erg Raiders, Sinkhole, and swamps.  He stole the first game by destroying my Bayou.  The next two games were over before thirty minutes was called.

Round 5: Stax
Game 1 he kicked my ass with multiple Spheres of Resistance.  Games two and three I made sure to mulligan into decent hands that included artifact destruction (I sided in Oxidize/Naturalize/Deconstruct).  The last two games his Damping Matrix and Triskelion weren't enough to stop my tons of artifact mana and a huge Yawgmoth's Will for the match.

Round 6: Trinispheres
ID.  But we played some games and he raped me.  Belcher can play around some hate, but not a Trinisphere.

So I was 4-1-1, which was good enough for 4th after 6 rounds.  Unfortunately, Trinishere.dec was 5th, so I was quickly eliminated, and I took fifth place overall.

Before the top 8, I got into a low limit crap rare Hold 'Em game with some other people and bad cards flew around the table.  That was fun.

I also finally met a bunch of TMDers, including Zherbus, who was awesome.  By some weird coincidence, I was sitting at the table ahead of him for I think four rounds of the six, but we never played.  He still signed my origami dragon, though.

Props:
Myriad games, for hosting
Everybody who signed my dragon.  The thing is covered in sharpie now.
Nataz, for signing the dragon's cack.
All the opponent's I beat who weren't pissed about my cheap-ass wins (which is every time a Belcher deck wins, period).

Slops:
Ben, for being sketchy.
Trinisphere
Null Rod

[nataz]

signing the cack was fun
I just wish i had the foresight not to sign both sides.
ugh, i gotta learn to share the love, that was my bad.

I have to say I really like this store, the staff is really friendly and I would recomend the place to everyone.

-carter

[Myriad Games]

Thanks to everyone for making our second T1 event even bigger than our first. We had 43 Players!

Thanks to Rob for officiating and helping setup and cleanup.

Thanks to Zherbus and the entire Mana Drain community for your continued support.

We're looking forward to running another T1 in a couple of months, the major barrier being acquiring reasonable power and other prizes. Please send all your requests and suggestions to vintage@myriadgames.com so that we can continue to improve upcoming events.

And now, the Top 8:

1st Place: Chad O'Brien

U/G Madness

1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Flooded Strand
4 Wasteland
4 Tropical Island
1 Strip Mine
5 Island
4 Forest
1 Time Walk
2 Wonder
4 Aquamoeba
4 Basking Rootwalla
4 Circular Logic
2 Deep Analysis
4 Wild Mongrel
3 Arrogant Wurm
4 Force of Will
3 Null Rod
2 Brainstorm
1 Gush

Sideboard:
4 Naturalize
3 Ground Seal
3 Back to Basics
2 Tormod's Crypt
2 Gaea's Blessing
1 Blue Elemental Blast

Chad took home an Unlimited Mox Emerald

2nd Place: Steve "Zherbus" O'Connell

Check out Steve's report here

//GermBus ZherbMans

4 Flooded Strand
3 Tundra
3 Underground Sea
2 City of Brass
2 Volcanic Island
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Library of Alexandria

1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl

4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
4 Brainstorm
3 Cunning Wish

1 Ancestral Recall
1 Fact or Fiction
4 Skeletal Scrying

1 Demonic Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Mind Twist
1 Time Walk

2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Fire/Ice
1 Balance

1 Gorilla Shaman
2 Exalted Angel
1 Decree of Justice

SB: 3 Red Elemental Blast
SB: 3 Flametogue Kavu
SB: 2 Rack and Ruin
SB: 2 Crucible of Worlds
SB: 1 Disenchant
SB: 1 Vampiric Tutor
SB: 1 Swords to Plowshares
SB: 1 Blue Elemental Blast
SB: 1 Gush (Take that Titan)

Steve took home an English Mana Drain

3rd Place: Jeff Greene

Forty 40s

4 Tangle Wire
4 Trinisphere
4 Juggernaut
4 Goblin Welder
3 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Fact or Fiction
2 Gorilla Shaman
1 Time Walk
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Tinker
1 Memory Jar
1 Sundering Titan
2 Crucible of Worlds
1 Duplicant
1 Triskelion

1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Black Lotus

4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Volcanic Island
2 Ancient Tomb
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Shivan Reef
1 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta

Sideboard:
4 Blue Elemental Blast
3 Rack and Ruin
2 Winter Orb
4 Chalice of the Void
1 Duplicant
1 Mindslaver

Jeff took home an Italian Mana Drain

4th Place: Kent Kolbig

4 Tangle Wire
4 Smokestack
1 Memory Jar
1 Karn Silver Golem
1 Mox Pearl
4 Volcanic Island
4 Trinisphere
1 Sol Ring
1 Tinker
1 Mox Emerald
2 Ancient Tomb
1 Triskelion
1 Time Walk
4 Wasteland
1 Mana Crypt
3 Crucible of Worlds
4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Goblin Welder
4 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Black Lotus
3 Shivan Reef
1 Goblin Charbelcher
1 Strip Mine
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Timetwister
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Mox Jet
1 Grim Monolith
1 Mox Ruby
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Wheel of Fortune

Sideboard:
3 Blood Moon
3 Red Elemental Blast
3 Fire / Ice
3 Damping Matrix
3 Rack and Ruin

Kent took home a Beta Ice Storm

5th Place: Crossman Wilkins

U/R Fish

4 Force of Will
4 Standstill
4 Cloud of Faeries
4 Curiosity
4 Spiketail Hatchling
4 Grim Lavamancer
4 Volcanic Island
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Flooded Strand
4 Wasteland
3 Null Rod
2 Island
2 Faerie Conclave
1 Voidmage Prodigy
2 Daze
1 Strip Mine
1 Misdirection
1 Stifle
1 Echoing Truth
1 Gorilla Shaman
1 Polluted Delta
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk

Sideboard:
3 Rack and Ruin
2 Maze of Ith
2 Fire / Ice
2 Unsummon
2 Red Elemental Blast
1 Null Rod
1 Stifle
1 Plagiarize
1 Blue Elemental Blast

6th Place: Jim DeMarsico

Mr. Seven-Ten

4 Shivan Reef
4 Mishra's Workshop
1 Ancient Tomb
1 City of Brass
1 Glimmervoid
2 Volcanic Island
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
3 Gilded Lotus
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Goblin Welder
4 Force of Will
4 Brainstorm
4 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Windfall
1 Timewalk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Fact or Fiction
3 Chalice of the Void
3 Sundering Titan
2 Triskelion
1 Memnarch
1 Platinum Angel
1 Duplicant
1 Memory Jar
1 Tinker

Sideboard:
4 Red Elemental Blast
3 Trinisphere
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Triskelion
1 Echoing Truth
1 Fire / Ice
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Shattering Pulse
1 Rack and Ruin

7th Place: Andy Eisenberg

4 Goblin Charbelcher
4 Land Grant
4 Tinder Wall
4 Elvish Spirit Guide
4 Dark Ritual
4 Chromatic Sphere
2 Living Wish
3 Goblin Welder
2 Xantid Swarm
1 Cabal Ritual
1 Mana Vault
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Chrome Mox
1 Grim Monolith
1 Memory Jar
1 Bayou
1 Sol Ring
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Necropotence
1 Tainted Pact
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Lion's Eye Diamond
1 Windfall
1 Tinker
1 Channel
1 Lotus Petal
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Black Lotus
1 Timetwister
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby

Sideboard:

1 Oxidize
1 Naturalize
1 Deconstruct
1 Xantid Swarm
1 Goblin Welder
1 Elvish Lyrist
1 Scavenger Folk
1 Viridian Zealot
1 Uktabi Orangutan
1 Bone Shredder
1 Gilded Drake
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Gemstone Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Gorilla Shaman

8th Place: Sam "Sammy" Edson aka Harry Potter

Check out Sammy's complete report here

Ninja Mask

// Lands
1  Forest
4  Wooded Foothills
2  Windswept Heath
4  Bayou
4 [Beta] Tropical Island

// Creatures
4  Phyrexian Dreadnought
1  Phage the Untouchable
4  Volrath's Shapeshifter
3  Quirion Ranger
3  Birds of Paradise
1  Squee, Goblin Nabob
1  Gigapede
1  Psychatog

// Spells
4  Survival of the Fittest
4  Illusionary Mask
4  Force of Will
4  Duress
4  Brainstorm
1 [Beta] Mox Emerald
1  Mox Sapphire
1 [Beta] Mox Jet
1  Black Lotus
1  Ancestral Recall
1 [Beta] Time Walk
1 [Beta] Demonic Tutor

// Sideboard
SB: 4  Naturalize
SB: 3  Root Maze
SB: 4  Xantid Swarm
SB: 4  Ground Seal

Best Sport: Chris Kitzmiller
Chris took home a Beta Ice Storm

Other Prizes:
The Bonus Preregistration Duel Land went to Steve Bloomfield.
Places 5th - 8th each received Myriad Money.
Other prizes included Bonus random door prizes including Myriad Money.
Door prizes went to Kent Kolbig, Andy Eisenberg, Chris Kitzmiller, Ethan Wilfong.

Domenic Minicucci gets special props for coming in 10th place with a deck sporting Thieves' Auction and Fiery Gambit.

Modified Oshawa Stompy contained:

1 Menacing Ogre
2 Gilded Drake
1 Crystal Shard
1 Bosh, Iron Golem
1 Grim Lavamancer
3 Flametongue Kavu
1 Echoing Truth
2 Engineered Explosives
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Burning Wish
1 Deep Analysis
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
3 Brainstorm
3 Fire / Ice
4 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Tinker
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Mox Ruby
1 Sol Ring
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
3 Flooded Strand
3 Mountain
3 Island
4 Shivan Reef
1 Underground Sea
4 Volcanic Island
1 Shatter

Sideboard:
1 Fire / Ice
3 Rack and Ruin
3 Null Rod
1 Fiery Gambit
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Thieves' Auction
1 Pulverize
1 Fireball
1 Upheaval
1 Decree of Annihilation

Thanks again to everyone for making this a great event!

Let me know if I made any typos and I'll update them as soon as I return from vacation next week.

- The Dan