I've been going to the Adventuters Guild for a long time. Not too long ago Nate (the store owner) decided to start having mox tournaments with 5 proxies. They have been drawing quite a crowd, which is awesome. Eau Claire's Type 1 environment has really been changing because of all the different people coming and playing different decks ect. We had 33 people show up for this one.
I had thought about playing a U/W standstill deck, but a buddy asked to borrow my drains for his Oath deck, so I played the deck I've been working on since GenCon 2004:
4 Juggernaut
4 Trinisphere
4 Goblin Welder
4 Thirst for Knoledge
3 Chalice of the Void
2 Tanglewire
1 Grim Monolith
1 Mindslaver
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Tinker
2 Crucible of Worlds
1 Triskilion
1 Duplicant
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Black Lotus
1 Darksteel Collosus
1 Masticore
1 Razormane Masticore
1 Sol Ring
1 Windfall
1 Sundering Titan
1 Memory Jar
4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Shivan Reef
4 Volcanic Island
3 Wasteland
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Strip Mine
1 Libriray of Alexandria
Sideboard
2 Shere of Resistance
2 Rack and Ruin
3 Red Elemental Blast
2 Rushing River
1 Regress
2 Seal of Removal
3 Fire and Ice
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Yeah, not a very good sideboard, and it's 61 cards. I never ran LoA in it, but my buddy Tony was like, "You never use that thing, why don't you put it in your deck?" So I figured what the hell why not.
Why "Regress" in the sideboard you might ask. Once again, no real good explanation. It should probably be a 3rd rushing river, or an extra Duplicant.
Enough about that, lets move on to the games.
Round One Jayd Phelps with U/R landstill.
Game one: I open up with Ancient Tomb, Sol Ring Trinisphere. That got FoW'd. Jayd Wastes the Tomb and passes the turn. I rip a Workshop and lay down a Razormane Masticore. Unfortunatly that got FoW #2. Jayd draws what must have been a Mox, plays that an Island and a Standstill. I break standstill with a Welder, but he doesn't stay around very long due to Fire/Ice. I think the first threat I get on the board was a Juggy, due to an insane amount of Mana Leaks and Counterspells. Jayd did a bit of a risky move though, he tapped out to swing with Fairys *and* lay a Nev's Disk. It was pretty late game at this time, I think I had gotten Jayd down to around 5 life. Anyway I had enough mana to cast and activate a Mind Slaver. What a massacre that turn was, Jayd top decked an Ancestral for me, and blew up 1/2 his lands with Nevs disk, did 2 points to himself with Fire, and tapped out with only a Mana Leak and no way to cast it. I got my Tinker off the Ancestral as well as Welder #3. I bring out the Titan, leaving Jayd with 1 land, cast the Welder and say go. Jayd scoops.
Game #2. U/R Landstill has just a couple hate cards for Workshop decks. Jayd drops a stack of about 8 cards and says, "Well these are comming in for sure." However Jayd mulls to 5, while I have a pretty solid hand of 7. He plays a fetch and says go. I open up with Mana Crypt, Ancient Tomb, Masticore. Jayd misses a land drop, and I start swingin. I get out a Trisk by way of the REB. That might have been counted up as a Mistake, because the next card Jayd played was E-Flux. Unfortunatly by that point, I had the land base to support the beaters.
The funny thing is, I won the game with like 5 life from that stupid Crypt and Tombs =/
Record: 1-0-0
Round 2 Andy Heiser w/ 2 land belcher.
Game one: He wins the dice roll, which is HUGE in this match-up. Heiser opens up with Mox, LED, Mana Vault. I figure I'm dead next turn, but procede to play a Trinisphere off a Workshop anyway. Luck was on my side though, because Andy never found a belcher. He scoops with Chalice for 1 and 4 on the board. I guess he forgot he still had Tinker :p
Game two: I'm not going to lie, I had one of those hands that 2 land belcher has to kill me turn 1. Andy opens up with a Mana Crypt, ESG->Tinder wall, into a Mana Vault and Grim Monolith. Once again, no belcher though. I open up with a savage play of Black Lotus, Workshop, Trinisphere, Tanglewire. Sorry Andy
Record 2-0-0
Round 3 Ian Degraff with 'Tog.
Game 1: I might have gotten games 1 & 2 mixxed up. I *think* it was game #1 that I beat him. Trinisphere and chalice was enough to slow down Ian in enough time for a couple of Juggys to go the distance.
Game 2: Ian gets a solid mana base under his feet, and turns a Juggernaut into a Mind Twist for all my cards, by use of a well placed Drain. Caught with the hand in the cookie jar. Looking back I should have scooped when Ian was deciding which counterpells to discard, and I was hoping for a good top deck.
Game 3: Neither of us really get off to the races, we go to time and draw.
Record 2-0-1
Round 4 (Sorry for forgetting your name) Playing Salvagers
Game 1: I really don't know what he is playing. I lost to an early Tinker -->Darksteel Collosus. I did actually find my Duplicant, but he got an Exaulted Angel out there also. I die a horrible, horrible death.
Game 2: He mulls to 5. I get out a Workshop and a Sol Ring and a Juggy. He plays a Ruby and says go, I swing for 5, and play a 2nd Juggy. He misses a land drop and scoops.
Game 3: I still don't know what on earth he is playing. I start out by getting a Trinisphere Forced. I get a Stip mine and start to kill his White mana, and I resolved a Cruicible. From there I got a Titan into play, along with a Chalice for 0, 1 and 2. Needless to say, this game was pretty one sided.
Record 3-0-1
Round 5 Jeremy Zwirn and I draw into the top 8.
Record 3-0-2
Quarter finals Brad Ojala with 3cc
Game 1: This match is a little hazy. They were really long games, I think game 1 Brad held me off really well with removal spells, and eventually the Exalteds got the dirty work done.
Game 2: I think I got a Trinisphere into play and got some threats down and a Chalice for 2.
Game 3: This was a nail biter. The game boiled down to Brad emptying his hand to Tinker a Darksteel out, but I Rushing river it and get a Juggy through for the kill.
Semi-Finals Ian Degraf with 'Tog
Game 1: Ever get that hand that looks soooo sweet, but you know you just should throw it back? Well I keep a hand consisting of this: Mana Crypt, Chalice, Chalice, Trinisphere, Tanglewire, Juggernaut, Thirst. I go first and open with Mana Crypt, chalice for 0, chalice for 1. Ian plays a land and says go. I top deck Tolarian Academy and punch out a Trinisphere. After that Ian was pretty squandered for ways to kill stuff, he does wish up a Rushing River to bounce back my Juggy to gain 1 more turn, but he scoops.
Game 2: I scoop when Will goes off. The whole 0 card hand vs 7 card hand thing can be a killer.
Game 3: Ian mulls to 6, I open with Workshop Trinisphere. Ian sighed, but it resolved, and I went on to victory before Ian was able to get a solid mana base.
Well, me and Jeremy Zwirn split in the finals because it was 3:30am and splitting just seemed like a good idea.
The only thing I used in my SB all night was pretty much REBs, and Rushing Rivers. Oh, and Seal of Removals against Ian.
I think for the next Mox Tournament I'll take notes, so I can make a pwnsauce report next time. Sorry this thing was so undetailed, working off memory is not good.
Props:
All the great people who showed up.
Taco Johns for being open so late.
Wizards, for unrestricting a stupid stupid card.
Slops:
Taylor, Todd and all the other WoW junkies that would rather play that game that Magic...seriously guys wtf!
Wizards, for unrestricting a stupid stupid card.
Tony for scrubbing out!
Jake for taking off 1/2 way through Ian and my game in the quarter finals, so you could go home and play WoW.
