[Results] Castricum 04/12/05

[Eddie]

Top 8 Castricum 04/12/05

33 players attending.
6 rounds of swiss.
No T8 played afterwards.

The Top 8:

1 Frits Brun, TDC Oath (16 points)
2) Hugo van Dijke, TDC Staxx (16 points)
3) Koen van der Hulst, Confidant-Combo (15 points)
4) Duncan Keijzer, Food Chain Goblins (12 Points)
5) Merrin Hondius, Oath (12 Points)
6) Steffen van de Veen, Voedselketen Aardmannen (12 points)
7) Pim Wilgenburg, Duress-Staxx (12 points)
8) Bram Colijn, Goblins (12 points)

The decklists:

1) Frits Brun, TDC Oath

4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
4 Thirst for Knowledge
4 Intuition
4 Oath of Druids
4 Brainstorm
3 Pithing Needle
2 Null Rod
2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Balance
1 Gaea’s Blessing
1 Time Walk
1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
1 Razia, Boros Archangel
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Diamond
1 Mox Ruby
3 Tropical Island
2 Tundra
4 Forbidden Orchard
1 Strip Mine
2 Wasteland
3 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
3 Island

Sideboard

1 Blazing Archon
1 Darksteel Kolossus
1 Tinker
3 Energy Flux
2 Null Rod
2 Swords to Plowshares
3 Sacred Ground
2 Tormod’s Crypt

2) Hugo van Dijke, TDC Staxx

3 Crucible Of Worlds
4 Smokestack
4 Sphere Of Resistance
3 Tangle Wire
1 Trinisphere
1 Razormane Masticore
1 Triskelion
3 Goblin Welder
1 Gorilla Shaman
1 Duplicant
1 Karn, Silver Golem
2 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Crop Rotation
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Balance
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Tinker
1 Imperial Seal
1 Fastbond
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
4 City Of Brass
4 Gemstone Mine
4 Mishra's Workshop
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
1 Tolarian Academy

Sideboard

3 Seal of Cleansing
1 Jester's Jap
1 Viashino Heretic
2 Choke
3 Pyroblast
2 Tormod's Crypt
3 Chalice of the Void

3) Koen van der Hulst, Confidant-Combo

3 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
4 Underground Sea
2 Tundra
3 Island
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Lotus Petal
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Black Lotus
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Memory Jar
1 Darksteel Colossus
4 Brainstorm
4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
2 Rebuild
2 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Tinker
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Mind’s Desire
2 Duress
3 Dark Confidant
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Yawgmoth’s Bargain
2 Tendrils of Agony

Sideboard

1 Darkblast
1 Engineered Plague
2 Shadow of Doubt
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Sundering Titan
2 Sacred Ground
1 Balance
2 Seal of Cleansing
2 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Echoing Truth
1 Blue Elemental Blast

4) Duncan Keijzer, Food Chain Goblins

3 Food Chain
4 Goblin Ringleader
4 Goblin Recruiter
4 Goblin Piledriver
4 Goblin Warchief
2 Goblin Matron
4 Gempalm Incinerator
4 Goblin Lackey
1 Goblin Sharpshooter
2 Siege-Gang Commander
2 Pyroblast
2 Red Elemental Blast
1 Skirk Prospector
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mox Emerald
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Taiga
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
6 Mountain

Sideboard

1 Goblin Sharpshooter
4 Chalice of the Void
2 Goblin Bombardement
4 Naturalize
3 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Rack and Ruin

5) Merrin Hondius, Oath

4 Intuition
4 Accumulated Knowledge
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Leak
3 Counterspell
2 Misdirection
4 Oath of Druids
4 Brainstorm
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Gaea’s Blessing
2 Impulse
1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
1 Razia, Boros Archangel
1 Bayou
1 Snow-Covered Island
1 Strip Mine
1 Mox Diamond
1 Sol Ring
1 Underground Sea
3 Island
1 Tropical Island
4 Flooded Island
2 Wasteland
4 Forbidden Orchard
1 Lotus Petal
2 Darksteel Citadel

Sideboard

2 Arcane Laboratory
2 Back to Basics
2 Control Magic
3 Energy Flux
2 Ground Seal
1 Iridescent Angel
1 Platinum Angel
1 Pristine Angel
1 Sacred Ground

6) Steffen van de Veen, Voedselketen Aardmannen

4 Food Chain
4 Goblin Ringleader
4 Goblin Recruiter
4 Goblin Piledriver
4 Goblin Warchief
2 Goblin Matron
3 Gempalm Incinerator
4 Goblin Lackey
2 Goblin Sharpshooter
2 Siege-Gang Commander
2 Skirk Prospector
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Black Lotus
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Taiga
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
6 Mountain
1 Forest

Sideboard

4 Tormod’s Crypt
3 Blood Moon
4 Artifact Mutation
4 Red Elemental Blast

7) Pim Wilgenburg, Duress-Staxx

1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
4 City Of Brass
3 Gemstone Mine
4 Mishra's Workshop
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Barbarian Ring
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Smokestack
3 Sphere of Resistance
1 Trinisphere
3 Crucible of Worlds
1 Jester’s Cap
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Tinker
1 Rushing River
4 Duress
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Crap Rotation
1 Sundering Titan
1 Karn, Silver Golem
1 Triskelion
3 Goblin Welder
1 Gorilla Shaman

Sideboard

2 Viashino Heretic
2 Tormod’s Crypt
3 Pyroblast
2 Ghostly Prison
2 Choke
2 Spawning Pit
1 Platinum Angel
1 Maze of Ith

8) Bram Colijn, Goblins

4 Goblin Ringleader
4 Mogg Fanatic
4 Goblin Piledriver
4 Goblin Warchief
4 Goblin Matron
4 Goblin Lackey
1 Goblin Sharpshooter
2 Siege-Gang Commander
2 Umezawa’s Jitte
2 Blood Moon
2 Goblin King
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Goblin Welder
4 Aether Vial
4 Wooded Foothills
10 Mountain
1 Lotus Petal
1 Chrome Mox

Sideboard

2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Pyroblast
2 Goblin Bombardement
3 Goblin Vandal
2 Goblin Tinkerer
2 Shrieking Mogg
1 Goblin Sharpshooter
1 Goblin King

[49 Cents]

Thx for posting.. For some vague reason I couldn't post my own typed T8 :/

Too bad it was the last Castricum.. It was a GREAT tournament!

[MvdB]

It always was a very nice tournament in Castricum, too bad Teun (the judge) chooses to stop organizing it.. At least for now, maybe he keeps organizing Vintage tournaments in Amsterdam 

I played a Workshop aggro deck and didn't go so well, sadly.. 
It was extremely funny (although it was also somewhat tragic) to play against Koen. I actually died in game one due to several beats I received from a frickin' Confidant (yes, beatdown to the max  ) combined with a small Tendrils.. None of my big fat critters ever saw the table, because he just kept throwing FoW's and Drains around  :shock:

Greetz,

Menno

[Limbo]

Too bad it was the last Castricum.. It was a GREAT tournament!

Crap, I didn't know that. Too bad, it was always fun to go to Castricum. Teun 4 president!

[49 Cents]

Teun 4 president!

Quoted for Truthery

[Duncan]

It was a great tournament as it always is in Castricum. I also think it's too bad it was the last. But Teun did a great job giving the Limited Edition Castricum T-Shirts! I got one for being the most faithful player at castricum-tourney's 
it said.

"Castricum conceived of nothing without me, 4-12-2005" (but it was in Dutch, and i'm not very good at translating )

[Thug]

It was extremely funny (although it was also somewhat tragic) to play against Koen. I actually died in game one due to several beats I received from a frickin' Confidant (yes, beatdown to the max  ) combined with a small Tendrils.. None of my big fat critters ever saw the table, because he just kept throwing FoW's and Drains around 

Glad you enjoyed our match, I sure did 
The fun part was that I was able to counter about 5 of your spells after throwing away 2 drains to a Thirst.
And the fact that confidant deals more damage to your opponent than to yourself makes this card better than most people think.
For those interested in my deck I will post some more information about it later, when I got some more time.

I enjoyed all Castricum tournaments, when Castricum was the only place that held competitive vintage tournaments in the Netherlands, but also when I turned more into a funny tournaments to try out new decks and odd creations.

Koen

[Rapalaman1]

@ Koen:
Your deck did look very intiresting. I would be intirested to know how "combo" pieces such as Bargain and Desire did in what seems like a control deck.
Also, was it worth running 2 Tundras just for the white spells in the sideboard? They just seem out of place and could be unnecessary wasteland targets.

[Blitzbold]

When I saw Koen's deck on Morphling.de my first thought was 'He did it.' This of course refers to his anouncement to be willing to test TPS with a combined number of both Rituals and Drains. It seems to me that he tried to merge Gifts.dec and TPS, cut Rituals at some point and generates Storm through Rebuilds.

[Dr Evil]

A very nice day indeed it was, to bad me (steffen, fcg) had to play against oath so much (had like 5 times turn 1 or 2 oath againts me) and ofcourse against koen's super build damn you engineerd plague for being so nasty to me for the first time since... EVER
and damn me for not playing naturalize instead of artifact mutation, didn't do me any good a single time.

To bad it had to be the last castri.

[Smmenen]

When I saw Koen's deck on Morphling.de my first thought was 'He did it.' This of course refers to his anouncement to be willing to test TPS with a combined number of both Rituals and Drains. It seems to me that he tried to merge Gifts.dec and TPS, cut Rituals at some point and generates Storm through Rebuilds.

That was my thought as well, but good job Koen, either way.  Confident is really powerful

[Disburden]

When I saw Koen's deck on Morphling.de my first thought was 'He did it.' This of course refers to his anouncement to be willing to test TPS with a combined number of both Rituals and Drains. It seems to me that he tried to merge Gifts.dec and TPS, cut Rituals at some point and generates Storm through Rebuilds.

That was my thought as well, but good job Koen, either way.  Confident is really powerful

I agree, Confidant is an amazing tool. What is most exciting, however, is that this proves that what used to be thought of as nearly impossible, is indeed, possible. Drain and Ritual combo can be made into a hybrid of destruction. I, myself, have been waiting for this for a while now. I'm very excited. I never liked putting my Drains away to play "true combo".

[BigMac]

As always Teun did a great job at organising this tournament. As always i brought a fun deck (well to a point, as intended to bore my opponents to death, which only succeeded partially).

It was nice to be there for the last Castricum. All cudos to Teun for running it for so long.

I dropped with stasis after going 1 1 2. It was my stasis/staxx hybrid that did its job well enough but lost to topdecking and manaflood/manascrew in one game. So it still is worth trying again but only for fun as it just is to slow. The draw was after i did not have enough time to capitalise on his tapped manavault. Btw, staxx really is a bad matchup, always struggling to stay close.

We did stay for the prizes although we were all out of contention for them. But this was a tribute to one of the better judges our little country knows. It was always fun with Teun and he always knew we would be playing something funny. So now we need to find another tournament to try out funny things.

[MvdB]

So now we need to find another tournament to try out funny things.

Teun said he probably was continuing organizing vintage tournaments, but instead of Castricum he wants to settle in Amsterdam.. So hopefully he succeeds and we'll still be playing against your fun decks in the future 

Greetz,

Menno