What is your favorite Type 1 memory (see inside for difference)

[Dante]

To differentiate vs Brian's thread, what I mean is:

beginning of Magic - 2001 = Type 1

2001+ = Vintage

with the 4 Fact or Fiction Mono-Blue being the dividing line between years of stagnation and what we have today.  Brian's thread seems to hit the current "era", while this one can be used for the old "good ole days".

Mine include top 8'ing at the Inquest Classic in Chicago, despite Rudy Edwards calling my deck "some fruitiness" in addition to going through multiple members of team ACD.  My first tournament win concluded with me winning a Guardian Beast, then trading said Beast for a Library, 5 duals, and some Arabian Kird Apes.     Also playing old school combo decks (pre Academy).

[Samite Healer]

Back in the day I played Keeper variants for years, and I always had fond memories of modifying my deck slightly each week to beat the usual top contenders at my local cardshop.  On one occasion my friend Brian built a really cool counter sliver deck and used Winged Sliver to get around my Moat and Crystalline to dodge The Abyss.  The week after that I maindecked two Void because Void for two wrecked his board and his hand.  Fun times...

[forests failed you]

Winning a Mox Emerald playing Keeper at Awesome comics in Wyandotte Michigan, playing 5cc Keeper in a top eight with me and 7 Gushatog lists.  That was a magical evening.  Go Go Go Mishra's Factory!

[TracerBullet]

Playing B/w Pox, Consulting for a Balance with 0 cards in hand, 22 cards in library, 3 The Racks in play, opponent at 9 life, me at 4 and him having 324769871234 little red dudes in play.  Balance was THE bottom card of my library.  GG

[BigMac]

Playing my mono green landdestruction Iff-Biff deck in a tournament way back and everybody was saying i would never be able to win. In the end i won and got some storecredit of which i bought then very much sought after set of 4 Acid Rain.

It was so good as it still could have 4 stripmines. Basically i would strip people of 1 colour, the colour that scared me the most in that game and beat down with Iff-Biffs and erhnam's, with wyuli wolfs, giant growth and berserk finishing people with the hurricane ability of the Iff-Biff. Was pretty fast as it could kill round turn 4. People should start to wonder about dying when they were around 17 life as that was a target i could get with ease.

Good times, good times.

[Kowal]

Conquering Waterbury in a roundabout, assbackwards way by bumbling through 4 gush GAT all day with UrPhid.

Blood Moon is sex.  Maindeck Control Magic for life.

[Dante]

Conquering Waterbury in a roundabout, assbackwards way by bumbling through 4 gush GAT all day with UrPhid.

Blood Moon is sex.  Maindeck Control Magic for life.

we all remember Summen Saugen (or however it was spelled) so fondly...

[Kowal]

You'd better...  *shakes fist*

[TracerBullet]

Dood... SUMMER SAUSAGE!

[Zherbus]

Pretty much anything before Mirrodin hit. It was a nessecary evil to make REALLY good Vintage cards, but it was easier to be top dog when Type 1 was a longer thinking game. You know, before the critical turn was turn 1 or 2.

Anything before other teams really took shape. In the earlier days, there wasn't so much teams. Just good players, the mediocre, and bad ones. Teams obscure that. It's all status and bullshit. There are members of TSB, Meandeck, or whatever-other-team-happens-to-be-popular-now that were crappy, but got around on the teams successes, not their own. While my own successes were small during the end of my magic career compared to Smmenen's, I wanted to be known for the tournaments that I did win, the advice that I gave, and solidness (and sometimes, I admit, retardedness) of my play. I always missed that.

My favorite specific Type 1 memory was fairly recent. I had made Top 8 with 4cControl and was facing what seemed to be my 700th Workshop deck matchup of the day. We went back and forth until he landed a Sundering Titan and blew up all my lands. I followed with a Balance (I drew a Wasteland and had a Pearl in play), then the following turn, I Wasted his only land and dropped a dual. I hit draw spells (4 Skeletal Scryings remember) and mana to fuel my way to a large Decree of Justice with finished him off after baiting him into a Mana Drain.

[The M.E.T.H.O.D]

Learning magic the monday before the scourge preleases and 3 days later building suicide black..... cutting the "bad" cards to run stuff like brink of madness and headgames.    THEN i went to the scourge prelease and winning 3 events for like 2.5 boxes with product. lol

[CF]

Pretty much anything before Mirrodin hit. It was a nessecary evil to make REALLY good Vintage cards, but it was easier to be top dog when Type 1 was a longer thinking game. You know, before the critical turn was turn 1 or 2.

Anything before other teams really took shape. In the earlier days, there wasn't so much teams. Just good players, the mediocre, and bad ones. Teams obscure that. It's all status and bullshit. There are members of TSB, Meandeck, or whatever-other-team-happens-to-be-popular-now that were crappy, but got around on the teams successes, not their own. While my own successes were small during the end of my magic career compared to Smmenen's, I wanted to be known for the tournaments that I did win, the advice that I gave, and solidness (and sometimes, I admit, retardedness) of my play. I always missed that.

Amen!

--
CF

[Changster]

#1 When I went undefeated (not losing one single game) through 6 Swiss Rounds en route to my second Chicago SCGP9 Top 8.

And

#2 Winning Worlds while wearing a t-shirt, which I thought to be quite optimistic, with "World Champion" across my chest.

Booyah, this was a great year  :lol:


 

[bomholmm]

At Origins this year I was playing fish in a tournament for a three round bye in vintage worlds.  I'm playing against  Gifts piloted by Kevin Cron in the first round of top 8.  Time gets called in game three the judge tells us that we have five turns with no time limit, then the match will be decided by life totals.  On turn two Kevin casts Gifts and proceeds to think for around 45 minutes.  I literally sat there and twiddled my thumbs for almost an hour while Kevin tried to force his deck into beating me that turn.  It comes down to him not being able to kill me that turn and simply going tinker collosus pass the turn with timewalk in hand.  now if I draw any kind of removal I should win the match because I have the higher life total.  On my final turn I flip over the top card and stare at the removal I drew SWORDS TO PLOWSHARES any other time this would have been huge but because the game was decided on life total swords went from the best creature removal in the game to the last thing I wanted to draw ever and I lose.  That was definately the craziest match I've had in a while.

[TJ-Whoopy]

I've been playing this game for what seems like a really long time (9ish years) and I have lots of great memories

getting pwned by Grand Inquisitor with 4 gush gat at one of Zherb's really early tourneys.

meeting all the really cool dudes from Meandeck (and Jared Carter in the 1-3 bracket) at Andystok's infamous 2xlotus 2x round 2 tourney

My first waterbury this past january playing SX and losing all day to myself, then driving bak to NH with zherbus talking about all kinds of great shitty decks that will never be all that good

being on Meandeck, being on Savage New England, and being on Meandeck again

Starting Ball and Chain with four of the greatest guys playing the game

I think that the most satisfying memory to date has been watching Double midnight and Myriad games become a large part of Type one Magic in New England

Finally T8'ing this past weekend kinda kicked ass for me too.

more than anyone I really have Zherbus to thank for introducing me to this great community

[Zherbus]

more than anyone I really have Zherbus to thank for introducing me to this great community

If I could ever catch up with you, I'd introduce you to my friends and we'd suck you into our whole other world. Email me a convenient time to call you!

[BurningIce]

I think my favorite memory was playing in one of Carta Magica's huge tournaments (when Montreal was a major player in Type 1)...

I was playing my pet deck, Academy, and I ran into a suicide black deck... He had the power on the table to kill me either on his next turn or the one after that, so I tried my best to go off, wheel of fortuned, and got to the point where the only card left in my hand was Abeyance, and I'd already resolved one... but I cast it anyways, figuring I had something going that I couldn't stop.  So I cast the spell, and what do I top deck, but Timetwister.  He just looked at me in total shock, as I cast the spell, drew a new hand of 7 cards and perceded to stroke of genius him for enough to win.

Ah, silly combo decks.