04/16/05 Star City "Power 9;" Chicago, IL

[matt_v]

Star City "Power 9" Vintage Tournament
April 16th, 2005



Location: Pastimes in Niles; 8478 Golf Road; Niles, Illinois 60714; (847) 470-XMEN (9636)
 
Directions: For directions to the site please visit the Pastimes Website
 
Time: Registration is from 8:00 AM to 9:50 AM. Tournament begins at 10:00 AM promptly.  
 
Tournament Format: Non-sanctioned Vintage, modified swiss with single-elimination top 8. Up to five proxies are allowed. Please note that proxies must follow these rules for this tournament:

• Full name of the card (no abbreviations or nicknames)
• Correct casting cost of the card including all colored mana symbols  
• All relevant/game effecting text  
• Proxies must be created by modifying a basic land card. Photocopies of cards or slips of paper added to a card are not acceptable.  
• Collector's edition cards are not allowed as proxies.  
  
• Print neatly.
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Entry Fee: $30.00  
 
Prizes: A COMPLETE SET of "Power Nine" (Black Lotus, Ancestral Recall, Time Walk, Timetwister, Mox Sapphire, Mox Emerald, Mox Ruby, Mox Pearl and Mox Jet) to be "drafted" by the top eight finishers. The winner will get to choose his prize first, then the second place finisher will get their pick, etc. This will continue until each of the top eight players has selected their prize. The first place finisher will also receive whichever card is left after each player has selected their prize. This prize payout is GUARANTEED by Star City Events regardless of attendance!
 
Head Judge: TBD
 
Judge Certification: TBA
 
Miscellaneous Notes:
1. We will have one of our best and most experienced staffs for this event! We will do our very best to ensure that you have the best experience you can have!
 
2. This event will be run under Rules Level 3 Enforcement.
 
3. While trading is fine, anyone on the floor who buys, sells or solicits other players to do either will be asked to leave the event without refund. Please note that this will apply to both the buyer AND seller.  
 
More Information:
Players who want specific information can contact us at events@starcitygames.com or by calling (540) 767-7263

[Clown of Tresserhorn]

Oh man, this thing is going to be SWEET! CO will be bringing 8 peeps to this thing. It'll be Me, Godot, Scott Limoges, Big Mike, Chris D, Lou, Travis, and someone else. Hopefully we'll get the same turnout as the last P9 tourney in Chicago. Who else is going? Where's everyone staying? I dunno about the rest of ya'll, but there'll def. be some partying before and after this tourney.

-Bob

[Kowal]

This will be the first SCG P9 that I don't attend.  I was going to just ironman the trip by car with The Brass Man, but low funding and low attention span suggests I should be doing otherwise.

Best of luck to those heading out, but in particular I'm going to cheer on JuggernautGO and godot.  Rock the house, guys.

[Dante]

I had asked Matt a question via the star city boards about the proxies and I though everyone might want to see the reply:

Dante77 wrote:
I had a question about the proxies...If we're proxying a card with a lot of text on it (old man of the sea, Chains of Mephistopheles, etc), is it enough to simply clearly write out the card name, casting cost, and power/toughness (for creatures) on the proxy and keep a printout (from a printer not hand-written) of the oracle card text with us for reference if it gets played?

I know from past proxy tournaments, you usually can't read much anyway when hand-written on the card and this would be much easier for all involved.

Bill


Sure.

-Matt

For proxies with a lot of text, this might be best.

[Juggernaut GO]

werrd, I will have to rep the East coast, even though my deck is extremely asstastic.  Mono black BELCHER kid!!

[Godot]

one word bitches

GG

Red is for mods.
-Jacob

[Jacob Orlove]

Updates!

Kevin is 3-1.

The metagame is almost exclusively Control and Combo. He said there were maybe like 2 workshop aggro, almost no fish, about 10 stacks decks, and the rest are all control and combo facing off. Josh Reynolds is playing Tog, but virtually no one else is. It's mostly Oath and Control Slaver.

Jeff Anand is undefeated with Control Slaver, I guess BrassMan just lost with Gifts Belcher (unsure if it's his first or second), Kowal I think is still in it, and there may have been one or two more NE people there.

Apparently there are like 10 or so people from Minnesota/NW Wisconsin playing Kobold Clamp, but only a few are still in contention.

Oh, and there's some landstill.

More updates as they appear on the meandeck forums for me to copy/paste!

[Hyperion]

they have comprehensive standings here too (through Round 5 at the moment):

http://www.starcitygames.com/php/news/event/9432.html

[Jacob Orlove]

More updates from Kowal:

kowal 6-0-1, will draw in
he played against:
round 1: random real deck
round 2: oath
sligh round 5 table 1
gilded claw
something with: bazaar, smokestack, tormod's crypt, riftstone portal, AI, workshop, volc, great furnace, welder, shaman, chalice, wheel, crucible, strips, no force, uba mask, citanul flute. The guy might t8, if not Kowal will get his list directly.

GWS, ICBM doing not great

anand had a feature match, is currently 5-1-1
cron unintentional draw, will have to win out
andy scrubbed out of main AND side events
finals of side event door to nothingness/celestial dawn COMBO vs 13nova
windfall scoops to demars, who is therefore in.

154 people at the beginning of the day

edit: bonus extra info from Kevin:
Josh Reynolds is X-1 with Tog. Roland is out.

[Jacob Orlove]

[20:55] Smmenen:  top 8 is
[20:55] Smmenen: brian demars
[20:55] Smmenen: carp
[20:55] Smmenen: robort roman
[20:55] Smmenen: either anand or ben carp
[20:55] Smmenen: or brian fisher or jesse river
[20:55] Smmenen: tom wee
[20:55] Smmenen: kowal
[20:55] Smmenen: luke owazawa
[20:56] Smmenen: kevin will be 9th placve
[20:56] Jacob 0rlove: you're sure?
[20:56] Smmenen: kevin is mostly sure
[20:56] Smmenen: becuase of his tiebreakers
[20:56] Smmenen: i'm talking to him now
[20:58] Smmenen: there is a possibly he can make top 8

Correcting for cell phone misspellings:
Lee, Thomas
Kowal, Ben
Demars, Brian
ojala, luke
CARP, DAN
Vroman, Robert

Are all in

the following two matches are unfinished:
Jesse River vs Brian Fisher
Jeff Anand vs Ben Carp

Kevin's tiebreakers are going to be lower than any two winners in those matchups, so he only t8s if there's a draw.

Edit: Kevin is in 9th. Not sure who won the two matches yet, though.

The metagame breakdown is up on SCG: http://www.starcitygames.com/php/news/event/9438.html
It's premium, though, so I'll just offer a few highlights:

The top two decks, making up almost a quarter of the metagame, were slaver and oath, with emphasis on slaver.
Decks with Mana Drain made up about 40% of the meta, with Workshop about 15%, with Timetwister about 15%, and with Bazaar about 7%. 75% of the decks ran Force of Will.

For more stats, get premium!

[Jacob Orlove]

Top 4 is almost set:
Ben Kowal (gifts belcher)
Jeff Anand (CS)
Brian Demars (???)

And the winner of the Dan Carp (Gilded Claw) vs Thomas Lee (salvagers oath) matchup. Dan lost game 1, but left in duplicant accidentally for game 2. Sadly for Thomas, he sided out the Salvagers combo for the regular oath kill, and Dup ate an Iridescent or something. They have 26 minutes left in the round (actually, probably more like 20 now).

Kowal beat that utterly random deck with the artificer's intuitions and uba masks, which actually made t8. For shame, Chicago. For shame. GWS, ICBM: this is why you can't have nice things.

[Dr. Sylvan]

Brian Demars is playing Oath. JP demanded to cover the Demars-Anand matchup, so that should be entertaining when it goes up (Demars is standing over here, so I don't think they've started the match yet).

I went 4-2 drop and have been typing up decklists and Top 8 interviews for the last few hours.

[Jacob Orlove]

I see jeek finally gets to start his matchup database. Too bad there are only like 3 matchups with an adequate sample size.

edit: well, T8 decklists are up: http://www.starcitygames.com/php/news/event/9446.html

[Jacob Orlove]

[01:39] Smmenen: it's all over
[01:39] Smmenen: brian demars
[01:39] Smmenen: and kowal
[01:39] Smmenen: split first second
[01:39] Smmenen: our goth oath list v. short bus belcher
[01:39] Smmenen: brian demars saw me play it at columbus

[rvs]

[01:39] Smmenen: it's all over
[01:39] Smmenen: brian demars
[01:39] Smmenen: and kowal
[01:39] Smmenen: split first second
[01:39] Smmenen: our goth oath list v. short bus belcher
[01:39] Smmenen: brian demars saw me play it at columbus

So.... Brainstorm is in?

[Jacob Orlove]

[01:39] Smmenen: it's all over
[01:39] Smmenen: brian demars
[01:39] Smmenen: and kowal
[01:39] Smmenen: split first second
[01:39] Smmenen: our goth oath list v. short bus belcher
[01:39] Smmenen: brian demars saw me play it at columbus

So.... Brainstorm is in?

I linked the t8 lists in the post just above that one. They aren't even premium. Since you asked, though, the key features include Ancient Hydra, Chalice of the Void, Phyrexian Furnace, and Thirst for Knowledge, in addition to the Intuition/AK engine and standard Oath cards. It's a beating against Control Slaver.

[M.Solymossy]

Top 4 is almost set:
Ben Kowal (gifts belcher)
Jeff Anand (CS)
Brian Demars (???)

And the winner of the Dan Carp (Gilded Claw) vs Thomas Lee (salvagers oath) matchup. Dan lost game 1, but left in duplicant accidentally for game 2. Sadly for Thomas, he sided out the Salvagers combo for the regular oath kill, and Dup ate an Iridescent or something. They have 26 minutes left in the round (actually, probably more like 20 now).

Kowal beat that utterly random deck with the artificer's intuitions and uba masks, which actually made t8. For shame, Chicago. For shame. GWS, ICBM: this is why you can't have nice things.

For the record, Dan Carp IS a member of ICBM, and his brother ben had lost to anand in the last round.  So we had 2 still in contention.


Out of the 3 side events an ICBM member played in, we took home 1 library and 2 bazaars.

so 3 side finishes, and 1 top 8 isn't bad!

[Dante]

the side events were crappy, not in terms of prizes, but to get them...

it was $25 entry for an 8-man, single elimination for Bazaar or Library....

Andy and I ran more or less the same list as Kowal.  Andy went 0-2 drop and I ended up at 4-2-2, somewhere around 25-30th place.  I'd only picked up the deck 3 days ago and it showed when Jeff anad killed me in round 3.  I'll have a medium size-ish report up later....

[Triple_S]

The Josh Reynolds mentioned in this thread is not the Josh from Team Short Bus, he was head judge for a PTQ I attended in Richmond yesterday.

[Jacob Orlove]

Congratulations to Kowal for winning a finals match with nothing on the line. Have fun in Franceland.

[thecapn]

The Josh Reynolds mentioned in this thread is not the Josh from Team Short Bus, he was head judge for a PTQ I attended in Richmond yesterday.

Jacob was copying my posts from the Mean Deck boards, it was Josh Franklin (who is in the same crew as Mark Biller and Brian Demars) from Michigan, not Josh Reynolds.  We met them all at the Columbus tournament, and I think Kevin was just getting the names mixed up.  I realized it after a while, but I guess that didn't get relayed.

[M.Solymossy]

I do have to say though

finals of side event door to nothingness/celestial dawn COMBO vs 13nova

The Finals was myself (ICBM control Titan) versus Mat Endress AKA Lost In Admiration (GWS 7/10 Split)

[Jacob Orlove]

Since there were multiple side events, I can only assume that Ben heard about two people making the finals and assumed it was in the same event.

[Dante]

the side events were $25, 8-man single elimination tournaments for either a Bazaar or Library.  What do others think about that...

I'd rather have a longer, 3-4 round side event with top 4 than a single elim...

[Methuselahn]

So I take it you DIDN'T partake in the 100$ tourny for the single elim top8 for an unlimited starter???     Did that actually make it to 8 people?

[M.Solymossy]

Brass man (with his brass balls) was the only one who signed up for that...