[results] Game Universe (Milwaukee, WI) 2/27

[M.Solymossy]

Over 30 people showed up to make claim to an Unlimited Mox Jet.   Team GWS was in full force, with about 10 or maybe even more people.   The new team, ICBM, had 8 members.  

So after 6 rounds, the top 8 looked like so.

Name: (TMD Handle, Team name) Deck

"Rhyno" Ryan Spindlar (?, GWS): 7/10 split
Ryan Mayrand (?, GWS) Riddler
Mike Solymossy (13NoVa, ICBM)  Pulse-Titan
Tommy Kolowith (TK, ICBM)  Riddler
Sean Ryder, (?, ?) Doomsday
Ben Carp (ThaGunslinga, ICBM): KEEPER!!!
Gregg Seaverson (?,?) UR Fish
Manual Fernandez (HSpecter, GWS): Custom Slaver *List Withheld*

Top 8
Ryan Spindlar V Ryan Mayrand
Mike Solymossy V Tommy Kolowith

Ben Carp V Sean Ryder
Manuel Fernandez V Gregg Seaverson

Top 4
Ryan Spindlar V Mike Solymossy
Ben Carp V Manuel Fernandez

Finals
Ben Carp  V Ryan Spindlar

Ben Carp Takes home the prize.



Decklists:

Ben Carp: Keeper
4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
4 Brainstorm
3 Cunning Wish
1 Ancestral recall
1 Time Walk
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Gorilla Shaman
2 Skeletal Scrying
2 Crucible of Worlds
1 Balance
3 Swords to Plowshares
1 Mind Twist
1 Isochron Scepter *
1 Masticore
2 Exalted Angel
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Library of Alexandria
2 City of Brass
3 Tundra
3 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
4 flooded Strand
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SB:
---
1 Blue Elemental Blast
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Disenchant
1 Stifle
1 Coffin Purge
3 Rack and Ruin
1 Fire/Ice
1 Orims Chant
1 Shrapnel Blast
1 Swords To Plowshares
3 Red Elemental blast

* I hear Ancestral Recall on a stick is really good first turn.

Ryan Spindlar: 7/10 Split
 
4 Goblin Welder
1 Memnarch
1 Diplicant
2 Sundering Titan
1 Platinum Angel
3 Triskellion
3 Gilded Lotus
1 Engineered Explosives
2 PULSE OF THE GRID**
4 Brainstorm
4 Thirst for Knowledge
4 Force of Will
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Rack and Ruin
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Tinker
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black lotus
1 mox pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 mox Emerald
1 Mox ruby
1 Sol Ring
1 ancestral Recall
4 Mishra's Workshop
3 Flooded Strand
4 Volanic Island
2 Island
2 Ancient Tomb
1 Tolarian Academy
---
SB
---
4 Trinisphere
3 rack and ruin
3 Red Elemental Blast
2 Blue Elemental Blast
3 Tormod's Crypt

**  He stole my Pulse of the Grid Tech, which I stole from I@n DeGraff

Manuel Fernandez: CSlaver
*decklist Withheld by request*

Mike Solymossy: Pulse Titan (YAY MY LIST)
2 Flooded Strand
2 Pulluted Delta
5 island
3 Volcanic island
1 Strip Mine
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Cunning Wish
4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
4 Goblin Welder
1 Mystical Tutor
4 Brainstorm
4 Thirst for Knowledge
2 Deep Analasis
2 Intuition
2 PULSE OF THE GRID
1 Platinum Angel
2 Sundering Titan
1 Treskellion
1 Crucible of worlds
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
---
SB
---
2 Rack and Ruin
2 Red Elemental Blast
1 Lava Dart
1 hurkyl's recall
1 Rushing River
1 Echoing Truth
1 Stifle
2 tormods crypt
2 Arcane Laboratory
2 Back To Basics

Tommy Kolowith: Riddler
5 mox
1 black lotus
1 ancestral recall
1 timetwister
1 time walk
1 sol ring
1 Mana Crypt
3 Wasteland
3 mishra's workshop
1 anceint tomb
1 demonic tutor
1 hurkyl's recall
4 illusionary mask
1 regrowth
4 trinisphere
1 time walk
4 gemstone mine
4 city of brass
1 sundering titan
1 tolarian academy
1 fabricate
1 tinker
1 balance
1 vampiric tutor
4 phyrexian dreadnaught
1 Karn Silver Golem
2 Juggernaight
1 Platinum Angel
2 Crucible of Worlds
1 city of traitors
1 triskellion
1 hannas custody
1 duplicant
1 enlightened tutor
1 mystical tutor
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sb
---
2 choke
2 defense gridd
2 hannas custody
1 hurkyls recal
2 chalice of the void
2 tormods crypt
2 stifle
2 rule of law

Ryan Mayrand: Riddler (thank you for being the ONLY neat Writer, Ryan)

5 mox
1 black lotus
1 ancestral recall
1 timetwister
1 time walk
1 sol ring
1 Mana Crypt
4 Wasteland
3 mishra's workshop
1 demonic tutor
1 hurkyl's recall
4 illusionary mask
4 trinisphere
1 time walk
4 gemstone mine
4 city of brass
1 sundering titan
1 tolarian academy
2 fabricate
1 tinker
1 balance
1 vampiric tutor
4 phyrexian dreadnaught
1 Karn Silver Golem
2 Juggernaight
1 Platinum Angel
2 Crucible of Worlds
1 city of traitors
1 triskellion
2 hannas custody
1 enlightened tutor
1 mystical tutor
---
sb
---
2 Chalice of the Void
1 Tormods Crypt
2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Choke
2 Red Elemental Blast
1 Chains of Mephistopholes
2 Ray of Revolation
2 stifle
2 ARcane Laboratory

Sean Ryder: Doomsday
4 Dark Ritual
4 Doomsday
2 Flooded Strand
4 polluted Delta
4 underground sea
3 island
1 swamp
4 force of will
4 brainstorm
4 duress
4 unmask
1 timewtister
1 lim duls vault
1 tendrils of agony
1 lions eye diamond
1 hurkyls recall
1 time walk
1 ancestral recall
1 mox jet
1 mox sapphire
1 black lotus
1 lotus petal
1 yawgmoths will
1 demonic tutor
1 chromatic sphere
1 vampriic tutor
1 mystical tutor
1 gush
1 necropotence
2 cabal ritual
1 minds desire
1 beacon of destruction
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sb
---
2 back to basics
2 energy flux
1 chain of vapor
1 echoing truth
1 brain freeze
2 hydroblast
1 tinker
1 darksteel colossus
2 control magic
1 time styop
1 night of souls betrayal

Gregg Seaverson: UR Fish
1 Library of Alexandrai
4 Wasteland
4 Misrhas factory
4 Polluted Delta
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Strip Mine
3 island
4 Volcanic island
1 mountain
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Cloud fo fairies
4 Spiketail Hatchling
4 Grim Lavamancer
1 Gorilla Shaman
1 Voidmage prodigy
4 forrce of will
3 daze
3 null rod
2 fire/ice
4 curiosity
1 crucible of worlds
1 ancestral recall
1 time walk
3 standstill
---
sb
---
2 Waterfront Bouncer
3 Red Elemental Blast
2 Maze of ith
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Stifle
2 Rack and Ruin
1 Null Rod
1 Energy Flux
2 Blue Elemental Blast



Some Interesting events at the tournament:


"Rhyno" Ryan Spindlar Only lost 1 game in his way to the top 8, getting
1-0'ed by belcher before he even got a turn.

In the 6th round, ICBM's Mike Solymossy (Myself, 13NoVa), was able to Hardcast a sundering titan on GWS's Philip Schmidt (MoxLotus), Destroying his only Mountain.  Mike then fallowed up By Cunning Wish for Rushing River, to bounce Phil's Only Mana producers, Sol Ring and Mox Pearl, Locking him under his own trinisphere while Beats for 7.

Somewhere in the 2nd or 3rd round, Ryan Mayrand faced off versus Tommy Kolowith in the most unrealistic of events at this tournament, a RIDDLER MIRROR MATCH.  The game went down to time, With Ryan Mayrand having a Dreadnaught in play.  Tommy Regrowth a Tinker on turn 3 of Time, and Duped his dreadnaught.   Somewhere a juggernaught was played, but ryan played it outright, so it had to attack, allowing tommy to swing for JUST ENOUGH to go lethal on turn 5.


In the top 4, manuel had to mulligan to 5, and Ben Opened up with Land Lotus, Isochrom Scepter, Imprinting ANCESTRAL RECALL.

In the Finals, Rhyno had Memnarck and Sundering Titan in play.  Ben Swords memnarch, and then Swords Sundering Titan.  One of the two was forced, So Ben Plays Yawgmoths will, plays the tundra that was previously slagged by the titan, and sends it farming.



there you have it


I Personally want to give props to Hi-Val for creating TurboTitan.  I also want to thank I@n DeGraff for Discovering the power of Pulse of The Grid.

[bedafile]

Looks like it was a good tournament. I miss these tournaments out here in lonely old New York.

It's good to see Ryan playing well in T1, tell him John says hello. And a shout goes out to all of my Milwaukee peeps! Ryan, James, Craig, and Pete are you still playing there?
John

[nether__void]

Thanks for the posting and commentary Mike!

While it was covered in the original post, I have to highlight the Riddler-on-Riddler mirror match from the second round. It was funny that the mirror occurred at the last table and both of us went on to win every match and T8. I thought it was a fun deck to play - I hope Tommy would agree.

Overall, I think that a good time was had by all - and the (friendly) GWS vs. ICBM rivalry made it a bit more interesting. I must concede that two teams are much healthier for the metagame than just one. Both teams each landed 3 players in the T8, so I'd say that things were pretty evenly matched.

@ Ben - Congrats for winning with Keeper - I missed the entire match, so I didn't get a chance to see the lucksack StP-StP-Will-StP play - how lucky!

@ John - We miss you man. You'll have to plan a trip back out West one of these days for an upcoming tournament.

[M.Solymossy]

Yeah it's good to know that the GWS guy's are accepting the formation of ICBM in the area. =-)

[TK]

It ended up being a great tournament and everyone in attendance seemed to have a good time.

The highlight of the tournament for me was the riddler mirror match round 2 and lonely table 15. The game started with me going ancient tomb into illusionary mask go. This was followed by a somewhat odd look by rian. he preceeded to drop 2 moxen a land to play fabricate to search for a mask of his own. i then said what!!! this is one match i did not expect to play all day. they were close games the thing that one it for me was my 2 additions the mb of the deck duplicant and regrowth. rian was a geeat opponent and i was happy to see he fought his way back to make top 8. also i wish i would have traded him my foil 3spheres he asked for several times.

i was happy with how my deck performed throughout the tourny. the only rounds i lost all day were to my friend and fellow teammate dan firstround and to my other teammate 13nova in the top 8, the loss to him however was because of my own play error.

I look foward to going to the next tourny down in milwaukee. And congrats to ben fellow teammate for taking home the mox jet.

[Rhyno]

Well there is no doubt in my mind it must have just been Ben Carp's day, congrats again. It was the first type 1 finals for both of us, were i had to mulligan for the first time all day and led to my first loss to a ICBM member in six matches. His day ended better but i cant complain with 150 in store credit. I never expected to have such a dominating day and even with the loss in the finals 6-1-2 on the day 12-3 in games. So now i can say pulse of the grid is the nuts. Props to everyone that came out for this one. Also to my team GWS and ICBM for holding down a combined 13 top 8 slots out of 16 the last 2 weeks.

@bedafile: Good to hear from you john and like ryan said you need to make it out hear for a tourney one of these days. Drop me a line if you can.

[M.Solymossy]

yeah ICBM has done fairely well in the area for the two tournaments we've been a team, wining one tournament and putting three members in the top 8 of the PSA Q...


I can't wait till Star city.

[moxblingbling]

congrats to all GWS and ICBM for making top8...
great report soly....

[nether__void]

It was interesting that a Keeper deck went the distance in a field full of 7/10 men that destroy lands.



Ben - would you care to comment on your matchups throughout the day? Did you see many Titans prior to the finals, and what impact did they have upon your games/matches?

I know that you customized your deck to include Masticore for Welder control, but why the Scepter? It seems as though a lot of folks tried it out when Mirrodin came out, but for some reason moved away from it. Drain or Ancestral on a stick is pretty strong, but I have to imagine that there's a reason it hasn't become a regular inclusion in the mainstream metagame.

[pecis]

nice report soly this is adam who won the 2 tournys in graton...


it is nice to see that i am not the only person that can still top eight with fish.
i wish i could have made it to this one have you guys heard anything about the march one? is that tourny still planned

[M.Solymossy]

Pecis It's not in march i don't believe I think it's April 10th or 11th or something like htat.

check it at game-universe.com



And adam if you ever need to reach me man, don't be afraid to call my cell and leave me a message since Friewald gave you my cell number.