3CB Tournament #67 Results and Discussion

[combo_dude]

I'd like to congratulate (yawn) ReAnimator as the winner of 3CB Tournament #67!
3 in a row - what can I say? Especially with a 1-2, although it annoys me a little that you've done it with a deck that I pioneered - congratulations anyway! In addition, the coveted Mise-Prize has made a comeback - congratulations Gimbles, although I'm sure you weren't trying to get it!

EDIT: No more mise-prize, no more 1-2...what a difference a few changes can make!

Banned list:
Portal (all)
Unglued
Unhinged
[card]Black Lotus[/card]
[card]Mesmeric Fiend[/card]
[card]Nezumi Shortfang[/card]
[card]Blackmail[/card]
[card]Chain of Smog[/card]
[card]Cabal Therapy[/card]
[card]Encroach[/card]
[card]Mind Swords[/card]
[card]Anvil of Bogardan[/card]
[card]Strip Mine[/card]
[card]Wasteland[/card]
[card]The Rack[/card]
[card]Balance[/card]
[card]Meddling Mage[/card]
[card]Isochron Scepter[/card]
[card]Glacial Chasm[/card]

1.   combo_dude    -    The Great White Hope    -    Mox Pearl,   Mishra's Factory,   Kataki, War's Wage
2.   wonkey_donkey    -    (no name)    -    Hollow Trees,   Platinum Angel,   Channel
3.   Machinus    -    Polly Prissy Pants    -    Mana Crypt,   Phyrexian Dreadnought,   Illusionary Mask
4.   Gimbles    -    Wheels on the Bus    -    Mishra's Workshop,   Wheel of Torture,   Ensnaring Bridge
5.   xthexpunisherx    -    Why Aren't I Banned?    -    Mishra's Workshop,   Spectral Searchlight,   Trinisphere
6.   ReAnimator    -    3rd time's a charm?    -    Mishra's Workshop,   Steel Golem,   Trinisphere
7.   Scrappy Kid    -    Suicide Black    -    Peat Bog,   Hunted Horror,   Powder Keg
8.   combo_dude    -    The Brick    -    Hickory Woodlot,   Tempting Wurm,   Tempting Wurm
9.   wonkey_donkey    -    (no name)    -    Bayou   Thallid,   Ostracize
10.   ReAnimator    -    Da Bears    -    Mox Emerald,   Words of Wilding,   City of Traitors
11.   Scrappy Kid    -    Appiness is playing 1/1s    -    Undiscovered Paradise,   Stormscape Apprentice,   Elvish Scrapper

Results:

      1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   0   1   Total   Position
1|   x   6   6   6   3   3   0   0   3   0   0     27      (8)
2|   0   x   3   2   6   6   6   2   0   6   0     31      (4)
3|   0   3   x   2   3   3   1   6   0   6   0     24      (9)
4|   0   2   2   x   2   2   2   2   2   2   0     16      (11)
5|   3   0   3   2   x   0   6   6   3   3   3     29      (5)
6|   3   0   3   2   6   x   6   6   4   3   4     37      (1)
7|   6   0   4   2   0   0   x   0   2   6   0     20      (10)
8|   6   2   0   2   0   0   6   x   6   0   6     28      (7)
9|   3   6   6   2   3   1   2   0   x   0   6     29      (5)
0|   6   0   0   2   3   3   0   6   6   x   6     32      (3)
1|   6   6   6   6   3   1   6   0   0   0   x     34      (2)


To me, the Hunted Horror deck looks like it could be really strong - it's unfortunate that it came up against a sea of Workshop decks, which tend to have too high a CMC to be affected by Keg.

Also, since the mise-prize has been won by this deck, the following decks are now BANNED (as in, the cards are legal, but the deck as a whole isn't):

1) Mishra's Workshop, Wheel of Torture, Ensnaring Bridge
2) Saprazzan Cove, Energy Field, Force of Will

and, although it never won said prize, deck 2 substituting Sand Silos is also illegal.

(EDIT: I'm still banning the deck, despite the lack of a mise-prize, just to save people the bother of entering this; it looks really strong until you realise it can't win, so this way you'll play better decks by default!)

Please enter the special format, it should be a lot of fun.

Adam

[Godder]

Edit: Decks that draw are really that bad?

[Scrappy Kid]

I think a couple of my results are wrong, though one is complicated:

1.   combo_dude    -    The Great White Hope    -    Mox Pearl,   Mishra's Factory,   Kataki, War's Wage
11.   Scrappy Kid    -    Appiness is playing 1/1s    -    Undiscovered Paradise,   Stormscape Apprentice,   Elvish Scrapper

I drop both my 1/1s. Now if combo_dude doesn't play Kataki, I win by destroying the Factory if he ever animates it. If he doesn't animate the Factory and try to attack me, I can just ping him twenty times. Therefore he has to play Kataki. The upkeep cost prevents him from ever animating the Factory (or if he does he has to tap it), and I can just tap Kataki every turn and attack with the Scrapper twenty times. Result: 6-0 to me.

4.   Gimbles    -    Wheels on the Bus    -    Mishra's Workshop,   Wheel of Torture,   Ensnaring Bridge

What is to stop me destroying the Wheel of Torture with my Scrapper and then pinging him twenty times with the Apprentice? Result : 6-0 to me.

If I'm correct thats enough points to send my valiant 1/1s up to second!

And by having artifact removal I deny Gimble the Mise Prize. Sorry Gimble 

[combo_dude]

Yeah, that's fair enough. Tempted though I am to ignore your protests at Gimbles' matchups, just so I can ban that deck!

I don't know if you know my philosophy on drawing decks, but they essentially randomize the tournament by granting a few extra points here and there if they don't draw everything; if they do draw everything, then they have contributed no differences to the tournament at all. They don't improve the tournament by their presence.

[ReAnimator]

Awwwwwwww Yeah!

I can't belive I won again!

So when do we start playing for prizes 

the new format looks cool, It will take a lot longer to research this one.

-Andrew

[Scrappy Kid]

To me, the Hunted Horror deck looks like it could be really strong - it's unfortunate that it came up against a sea of Workshop decks, which tend to have too high a CMC to be affected by Keg.

The problem with the Horror deck is that you have to use your Keg to destroy the free tokens you've given them, so that in  all the deck does is make a 7/7 trampler. In effect it's just a bad version of Masknaught (unless everybody is running artifact removal). It really needs an Energy Field style card that hold off the tokens and the opponents stuff at the same time.

To reciprocate your kind praise, I like the idea of playing Kataki (apologies if somebody else thought of this first, I don't remember seeing Kataki played before). It's just a shame that our innovative decks finished 8th & 10th

[r_x_]

I think a couple of my results are wrong, though one is complicated:

1.   combo_dude    -    The Great White Hope    -    Mox Pearl,   Mishra's Factory,   Kataki, War's Wage
11.   Scrappy Kid    -    Appiness is playing 1/1s    -    Undiscovered Paradise,   Stormscape Apprentice,   Elvish Scrapper

I drop both my 1/1s. Now if combo_dude doesn't play Kataki, I win by destroying the Factory if he ever animates it. If he doesn't animate the Factory and try to attack me, I can just ping him twenty times. Therefore he has to play Kataki. The upkeep cost prevents him from ever animating the Factory (or if he does he has to tap it), and I can just tap Kataki every turn and attack with the Scrapper twenty times. Result: 6-0 to me.

If I'm correct thats enough points to send my valiant 1/1s up to second!

And by having artifact removal I deny Gimble the Mise Prize. Sorry Gimble 

Or you can do it easy way, just destroy the Mox with Scrapper when he plays it. Still, same result.


I can't belive I forgot to enter.

[Scrappy Kid]

1.   combo_dude    -    The Great White Hope    -    Mox Pearl,   Mishra's Factory,   Kataki, War's Wage
11.   Scrappy Kid    -    Appiness is playing 1/1s    -    Undiscovered Paradise,   Stormscape Apprentice,   Elvish Scrapper

Or you can do it easy way, just destroy the Mox with Scrapper when he plays it. Still, same result.

???
If I destroy the Mox that leaves my 1/1 against a 2/1, and I have nothing better to do than tap it every turn and draw.