I don't know if anybody is interested in very small tournaments? Yesterday, we had our local playtest group Vintage Championship 3. 14 Players showed up, which is a new high. Our playtest group doesn't even have that much members, but a couple of outsiders joined the fun. We played 5 rounds of swiss. 4 would have been enough I guess, but it was for fun anyway. Unlimited Proxies, but we live in Europe, so most of us didn't need proxies anyway
Price support
1) Exalted Angel
2) Wrath of God
3) Decree of Justice
4) Forbidden Orchard
Seems someone had a lot of white stuff collecting dust in his binder.
T8:
1) Pieters, Yorick 15 (Control Slaver)
2) Dhondt, Wouter 12 (Probasco Gifts with Tendrils kill instead of belcher)
3) Talpe, Mitchell 12 (Gobbos with a blue splash for broken stuff)
4) De Clerq, Stijn 9 (Gifted TPS)
5) Matthys, Baptist 9 (4CC)
6) Thysebaert, Pieter 9 (5/3)
7) Billet, Lesly 6 (3cc)
8) Vanderberghe, Tom 6 (Mono-U)
A lot of people with 6, but Tie-breakers where calculated with DCI-reporter...
Rest of the field (in no particular order): UbaStacks, 5c Stacks, 2 more Gobbo, 1 Dragon and 1 Oath. So a rather strong field with a lot of great players
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I played Andy's Gifts deck, but I used the Tendrils kill instead of the Belcher kill. I just put a rebuild main instead of the belcher (and the obvious change in the side). Reason for doing this is that rebuild is never a dead card, and I managed the tendrils kill through counter hate before, which is a lot harder with belcher. Also, in Control vs Control, I tend to have less than 20 cards in library sometimes, which leaves a small window if you're not careful. I KNOW that both kills are the same when you resolve will, but I feel more confident with tendrils without will. It's probably just me though. But everyone should kill with what they feel like in this deck. Although I wouldn't change the colossus into Frogmite just yet...
The Thirsts are great. I only had a problem with them when I was playing against TPS. I removed the 2 needles and the explosives to the side and had to move a thirst too because I felt I wouldn't be running enough artifacts. Also, I didn't expect TPS, so I didn't have anything spectacular to side in (3 rebs to counter the occasional brainstorm to piss him off).
The main was changed a little and my sideboard was adjusted for the meta. E.g. I included a Sundering Titan in the side which was nice in control mirrors.
