Ok so this is how this bad boy went. I arrive to the scene about an hour before it's scheduled to start, so I have time to make a deck registration and relax before it starts. I start to notice not alot of people showed up (come on guys, you went to the lotus tourney instead, lame). At least the hadley guys arrive, and there ends up being only 18 people in all, alot of familiar faces. maybe 1 or 2 scrubs out of all 18.
After some guy takes 45 minutes on his deck registration, it finally begins at about 12:30 and the pairings go up.
Round 1: Bill w/Random.dec
Ok so I said there were about 1-2 scrubs, Bill is one of them, but he is a really nice guy, and i've played with him in the past. So I knew what to expect.
Game 1: I don't remember much about this, I think I tinkered in a sundering titan killing off his lands, which he then intuitioned for 3 scepters (when I have welder on the board) and imprinted counterspell, I won that game.
Game 2: The game pretty much went exactly like the last game, easy win, I never saw a threat the whole game
1-0: 2-0
Round 2: Chris K w/ staff mud with draw
Game 1: I play a turn 1 crucible, he plays a turn 1 metalworker, I can't get it off the board, he reveals enough mana to cast titan, I lose the game easily.
Game 2: I mulligan down to five and get something like: Workshop, Mox, Mox, Gilded Lotus, Memnarch. I cast a second turn memnarch, start stealing his mana and go on to win.
Game 3: Now it's his turn to mulligan down to 5. I keep an ok hand, It had a couple of lands, recall and welder, but he's playing first, he drops crypt, land, wheel, I draw 1 land, and it's glimmervoid with no artifacts, I am never even in this game.
1-1: 3-2
Round 3: Eathan w/ Back To Basics Tog.
Game 1: I go broken and cast double welder, and thirst on turn 1 discarding juggernaut. A few turns past and he gets deed out. He blows for 4 sweeping my board, I respond by fact or fiction and get tinker. I tinker in titan and win.
Game 2: Not to discredit him at all but I didn't draw 1 colored mana source the entire game, and ended with a hand of REB, welder, welder, recall, thirst.
Game 3: I don't remember much about this game, I know I won easily.
2-1: 5-3
Round 4: Brian Phelon w/ Suicide GAT
Game 1: I do something, It wasn't important, because on his turn he timewalks and lays mox, mox, land, tinker for darksteel, I find a welder 1 turn too late and lose.
Game 2: I keep an amazing hand. Workshop, mana crypt, trinisphere, trinisphere, sundering titan, sundering titan, tolarian academy. I play turn 1 crypt, trini, it resolves. He plays a fetch and passes the turn. I play another trinisphere and tolarian and pass back, he plays yet another fetch and passes again. I hardcast titan. No lands are lost. On his turn he goes stripmine, energy flux...
On my turn I pay to keep titan, a trini, and a crypt alive, and swing for 7, I pass back to him and he plays Nullrod, and strips my tolarian. WTF, I lose everything, topdeck a trisk, he annuls it, I lose. He sided in 6 cards against me and saw 5.
2-2: 5-4
Round 5: Ray Roballiard (I hope I spelled that correctly) w/ 2 land belcher.
So I was going into this round knowing that if I won i'd make it in, just to add pressure to the situation. Earlier in the day ray had one of the most amazing topdecks EVAR, so I was a little nervous.
Game 1: Ray wins the roll, then mulligans to five. His first turn was..............go. He eventually gets a land out, I waste it and tinker in trinisphere, ray scoops
Game 2: Ray mulligans to six now. He plays a turn 1 land grant showing me his hand, I smile as you can't really do much THAT turn. On my turn I play mana crypt, mana vault, workshop, trinisphere, he responds by casting spoils of the vault, naming ESG, Ray takes 19 damage to find his spirit guide, and I cast a turn 1 juggernaut to go along with the trinisphere.
3-2: 7-4
So I get into the top 8
Top 8: Purple Hat w/ Dragon.
Me and hale have had our share of good games in the past, and I knew these games were going to be interesting.
Game 1: I play turn 1 workshop, lotus, mox, mox, Titan. I knock him down to six life, before he combo's out on me.
Game 2: I mulligan to six, I had a pretty good hand, but too slow against dragon. I keep a turn 1 tormod's crypt and mana pretty much. I eventually cast platinum angel and there isn't much he can really do about it. We're going to game 3.
Game 3: I mulligan to six yet again, I hate throwing away workshop hands, but it had nothing useful against dragon. on my first turn I cast tormod's crypt, trinisphere. I sit on that for the longest time before I finally find a juggy. Hale ends the game being 1 mana short from comboing me out and juggy takes me to victory.
Top 4: Dave Mazza w/ modified slavery.
I recognize dave from the earlier dual mox tournament when he control magic'd my darksteel colossus. So I was teasing with him the whole day about control magic. He then tells me he now maindecks 4 control magics and 3 flametounge kavu's. I'm a little nervous about this, those cards house me.
Game 1: I don't really do much besides play a welder that gets stolen away by control magic, he then tinkers in memnarch and owns the crap out of me.
Game 2: I mulligan and my hand is nothing but mana, but I decide to keep it. I play a turn 1 gilded lotus, I eventually top deck Ancestral, drawing... hmmm.... sol ring, mox, and tolarian.... yay more mana. Right after I do that he tinkers in memnarch again! YES i'm so happy now. I have no cards in hand, but going into my 4th turn I already had 21 mana open. I topdeck... what else? Tinker. I resolve a tinker and start to look through my library... what should I do, his welder is tapped and memnarch is on the board and will start stealing things soon. He tells me I have to go for duplicant, I chose to go for jar. I break jar that turn. I didn't really get anything special, the only important cards were crucible, strip mine, trinisphere and trisk. I cast trinisphere, then crucible, strip his basic island, and then play trisk killing the welder. I now get him in strip lock and he cannot reach 4 mana to steal with memnarch and I pull it out of nowhere.
Game 3: It went pretty well for a short time for me, I double wasted actually mana screwing him, but he topdecks tolarian academy with 3 moxen out. I cast welder, he casts duplicant. On my turn I cast memnarch, and steal his duplicant all on one turn. He of course on his turn, stole away memnarch with control magic yet again. I cannot recover, I LOSE.
now the only interesting part of this whole story, and why the title of the report is what it is. Because on the ride home, we took the deck reg sheets, and we were reading daves list. He has 4 control magics listed in his sideboard along with some other things that were in his main when he played me. I had already left and didn't realize this until after. It goes to find out he had two deck reg sheets ready and handed in the wrong one, not intentionally cheating in any way. I apologize if I made it sound like he purposely cheated to beat me, it was all accidental.
Here is a list of what I ran.
Mana: 29
7 SoLoMoxen
3 Gilded Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana vault
3 Shivan Reef
2 Volcanic Islands
1 Glimmervoid
1 City of brass
4 Mishra's Workshops
5 Strips
1 Tolarian Academy
Fatties: 9
3 Juggernaut
3 Sundering Titan
1 Razormane Masticore
1 Triskelion
1 Duplicant
Brokeness: 15
4 Thirst for knowledge
4 Joblin Welders
1 Tinker
1 Memory Jar
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Windfall
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Timewalk
The Hotness: 7
4 Trinisphere
3 Crucible Of Worlds
Props: Everyone who went there is really cool, and playing the top 4 in mcdonalds due to getting kicked out of the community center, I LOVED THIS. Pizza.
Slops: accidental cheating, 18 people was totally unexpected, this could have been really awesome if more people had showed up.
