So basically, I’ve been working on Oath for sometime now, and Meandeck releases their version of oath just before Our tournament. Oh well, I’m actually quite happy, as I get to jack their ideas and make it my own! Me, Jim, and Ian get there and find out it will be 5 rounds of swiss cut to T8. There were 22 people and the metagame was LOTS of Oath and welders with a splash of combo and scrubs. Other control decks were present as well, such as GAT, Tog, and 4cc. Here’s my report:
Round 1: Jim (Godot on TMD) playing Dragon
Seeing as how a draw would fuck us both up, and seeing as how he needed the power (not to mention we’re teammates), I concede to him and we go scout.
0-1, 0-2
Round 2: Zach playing Burninator
Game 1: He plays lavamancer, I play Oath.
Game 2: He plays Ankh of Mishra, I play Oath.
1-1, 2-2
Round 3: Nation playing Belcher
Game 1: I keep a hand with turn 1 force and turn 1 mana leak. He doesn’t do shit turn 1, and I draw Intuition. A couple turns later I win.
Game 2: He plays channel turn 1, which I force. Then he plays lotus Necro. I lose.
Game 3: I’m on the play and keep a hand of mox, land, land, land, leak, energy flux, waste. It was pretty sketchy, but paid off. I lay a land, mox, and pass. On his turn, he drops chrome mox, mox pearl, mana crypt, chromatic sphereX2, breaks them, rituals, then attempts to twister with 2 cards in hand and only 1 floating. I counter. On my turn I play energy flux. He keeps a chrome mox and topdecks a tinder wall. He passes. I then draw Intuition and after 5 or so turns, I drop a platinum angel off a drained will and the game is mine.
2-1, 4-3
Round 4: Chris (Mind Under Matter on TMD) playing Tog
Game 1: I get a turn 2 oath with orchard and force back up. He wishes for edict, but I topdeck the mana drain on my turn.
Game 2: My hand is; 2 intuition, mox jet, mox sapphire, lotus, land, orchard. I draw into brainstorm, lay my power and pass. On his EOT, I intuition, he forces, I do it again, it resolves, and I get the oath to end his day. I think at one point he wishes for stifle (He didn’t run naturalize in the board), but I get to untap and I’m holding the leak.
3-1, 6-3
Round 5: Sam (SamTheHam on TMD) playing Urw Fish
Sam is a great guy. I was going to split, but there was a small chance that he wouldn’t draw in. So, we play it out.
Game 1: I drop an oath off an emerald and island. It stalls long enough for me to find orchard. Turns out, he kept a hand of triple wasteland.
Game 2: I have the god draw of orchard + mox + oath with force back up. He has double force.
Game 3: I’m on the play. I drop an early oath and protect it, as he tries to disenchant it twice. When he taps out to play standstill, I drop back to basics. He can’t handle the enchantments.
I still agree to draw with him, as there’ll be SOME chance he makes it. Turns out, he did make it to top 8.
3-1-1, 6-3-2
Quarterfinals: Conley playing GroStill
Game 1: I crush him with card advantage. I think I Aked for 3 and four.
Game 2: We’re in the late game and we get into a huge war over his ancestral. I wish for Fact and fact into mox, mox, land, land, AK for 1. He facts into regrowth, dryad, land, mox, drain. I lose with the right quickness.
Game 3: I have a turn 1 orchard oath with force back up. Apparently he had a GREAT hand of lotus, land, walk, recall and vamp. When I oath up akroma + pristine, it’s GAME OVER for his man.
4-1-1, 8-4-2
In the semi’s, matt concedes to Jim, and me and Jim wait to see who make it to the finals. 4cc did, and Jim thinks he has the better shot, so I concede to him. He lost in 3 close games.
Thoughts about Oath: Wish is a cute trick, but probably unneeded. I didn’t see a platz all day, so it was kinda worthless, although wish--->fact is pretty sexy. Also, I think I would run with 1 Akroma, 1 Prisitne Main. It free up a precious SB slot, plus, Prisitine is good in about all the match ups I played. She’s fucking incredible. Also, Cinnamon was right about the mirrors. Had I known there would have been THAT many oath lists, I would have upped my waste count from 4 to 5 and ran 3 crucibles in place of ground seal.
Finally, Props go to:
Team Freak-A-Leek – Attendance: 2 Top 4 Appearance: 2 This makes the second tourney in a row that all members have T4ed. Wow.
Shawn, Adam, Conley, and the rest of the Castle Rock Crew – thanks for making the drive!!
Team Doug Musser – Always a pleasure to kick it.
Eugene and Stonebridge Games – Keep up the good work!!
Matt and Drew – Nice to see you two again in quite some time
All my opponents for being mad cool
And Finally, Props to MEANDECK for building my deck. Where would I be without you? My decklist would definitely be sub-optimal by two cards. Ice age Brainstorm >>> MM Brainstorm
Slops go to:
Jim – for not winning the whole shebang
Zach – for not showing up….although I wouldn’t either if my kid had a birthday on that day.
Me – for not laying a savage deuce like I did last time
Eugene’s Niece – for not giving me free candy
As for Top 8 Lists,
First Place: Michael Lefkof playing 4cc
4 Flooded Strand
2 City of Brass
3 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
3 Tundra
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 LoA
2 Exalted Angel
1 Balance
1 YawgWill
1 Fire/Ice
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Mind Twist
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Sol Ring
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Mystical Tutor
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
4 Brainstorm
4 Skeletal Scrying
1 Decree of Justice
1 Gorilla Shaman
2 Swords to plowshares
3 Cunning Wish
SB:
2 Rack and Ruin
2 Crucible of Worlds
3 REB
1 BEB
3 Flametongue Kavu
1 Swords to plowshares
1 Disenchant
1 Vamp. Tutor
1 ?????
Second Place: Jim Gaffney (Godot on TMD) playing Dragon
Decklist “misplaced� by Godot
Third Place: Bob Yu (ME!!!) Playing BUKKAKE Oath
2 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
4 Islands
1 Tropical Island
4 Forbidden Orchard
3 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus
4 Oath of Druids
1 Gaea’s Blessing
1 Spirit of the Night
1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Leak
2 Cunning Wish
4 Brainstorm
4 Accumulated Knowledge
4 Intuition
2 Impulse
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
SB:
2 Pristine Angel
1 Platinum Angel
2 Back to Basics
3 Energy Flux
3 Ground Seal
1 Naturalize
1 Echoing Truth
1 Fact or fiction
1 BEB
Fourth Place: Kalen Culkin playing Belcher aka Big Sexy
4 ESG
4 Dark Ritual
4 Land Grant
4 Tinder Wall
4 Goblin Charbelcher
3 Goblin Welder
3 Chromatic Sphere
2 Cabal Ritual
2 Living Wish
2 Brainstorm
1 Wheel of fortune
1 Mox Ruby
1 Timetwister
1 Bayou
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Tropical Island
1 Chrome Mox
1 Vamp. Tutor
1 Mox Jet
1 Ancetral recall
1 Windfall
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Black Lotus
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Lotus Petal
1 Necropotence
1 Darksteel Collosus
1 Mana Vault
1 Sol Ring
1 LED
1 Channel
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Grim monolith
1 Memory Jar
SB:
3 Xantid Swarm
3 Oxidize
1 Ancient tomb
1 Viridian Shaman
1 Glimmervoid
1 Scavenger Folk
1 Forbidden Orchard
1 Mishra’s Workshop
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Strip Mine
Fifth Place: Adam Ramsay playing Oath-a-Tog
2 Cunning Wish
4 Force of Will
3 Duress
1 Mox Emerald
3 Oath of druids
1 Pernicious Deed
1 Black Lotus
2 Cranial Extraction
1 Sol Ring
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Vampiric Tutor
4 Brainstorm
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Mana Drain
1 Mox Jet
1 Krosan Reclamation
1 LoA
1 YawgWill
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Berserk
1 Psychatog
1 Darksteel Colossus
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
2 Intuition
4 Polluted Delta
4 Forbidden Orchard
1 Swamp
2 Wasteland
4 Island
1 Underground Sea
1 Tropical Island
1 Strip Mine
1 Gush
SB:
1 Morphling
1 Stifle
3 Ground Seal
2 Night of Souls’ Betrayal
2 Null Rod
1 Psychatog
1 Oxidize
1 BEB
1 Smother
1 Berserk
1 Duress
Sixth Place: Matt Wood (Tainted_Wood on TMD) playing CruciSlaver
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Pentavus
2 Mindslaver
1 Tinker
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
3 Intuition
4 Accumulated Knowledge
4 Thirst for Knowledge
4 Brainstorm
4 Goblin Welder
4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Black Lotus
1 Darksteel Citadel
1 Strip Mine
1 LoA
2 Underground Sea
4 Volcanic Island
3 Island
4 Polluted Delta
SB:
2 Echoing Truth
1 Sundering titan
3 REB
2 Lava dart
2 Flametongue Kavu
2 Rack and Ruin
3 Sphere of Resistance
Seventh Place: Conley Woods playing GroStill
2 Psychatog
1 Regrowth
4 Standstill
4 Force of Will
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Mana drain
4 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral recall
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Pernicious Deed
4 Quirion Dryad
1 Time Walk
2 Misdirection
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Fact or Fiction
3 Cunning Wish
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Mox Jet
1 Gush
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus
2 Island
4 Tropical Island
4 Wasteland
4 Polluted Delta
3 Underground Sea
1 Strip Mine
1 Swamp
SB:
1 Snuff Out
1 Echoing Truth
1 Berserk
2 Oxidize
1 Naturalize
1 Stifle
1 Ebony Charm
1 Fastbond
2 Null Rod
2 Ground Seal
2 Crucible of Worlds
Eighth Place: Sam Tallet (SamTheHam on TMD) playing W!WTF
4 Tundra
4 Volcanic Island
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
4 Mishra’s Factory
3 Polluted Delta
3 Flooded Strand
3 Meddling Mage
4 Cloud Of faeries
1 Gorilla Shaman
4 Spiketail Hatchling
4 Grim Lavamancer
2 Sowrds to plowshares
4 Standstill
1 Crucible of Worlds
3 Null Rod
4 Force of will
2 Daze
1 Stifle
4 Curiosity
SB:
1 Gorilla Shaman
2 Hydroblast
1 BEB
3 Pyroblast
2 Crucible of Worlds
3 Disenchant
2 Fire/Ice
1 Stifle