Current Vintage Teams

[Komatteru]

Ok, with all the wondering about what in the world GWS stands for, it's time for an update on the teams currently trying to make their claim to the format.  Who all is out there?  Try to collect your response as a team rather than have everyone on your team post.

Teams I'd specifically like to hear from:

GGs
Team Meandeck
Canada
Team Reflection
GWS
ICBM
Team Ogre
Vintage Avant-Garde
European friends I'm forgetting
Team Nuts and Staff
Whoever else I might have forgotten (or like not knew about)

Answer this stuff (I shamelessly jacked most of this from the last time Carl posted this):

Where does your team's name come from?

What is your current roster (list active and inactive members separately)?  A quick bio of each would be awesome as well.

Significant accomplishments in deckbuilding/contributions to the format?

What have you guys won lately? (don't count wins accumulated before that person joined the team) Amount of power/approximate dollar value of prizes won total or per person.  We could divide the total by the number of members to see who has the highest wins per capita (I think I already know who's got that though).

Testing procedure/schedule

Things that work for you?

Things that didn't?

Meandeck will have a collected response once our Cray supercomputer arrives so we can add up the dollar values of all the stuff we've won. 

Edit to make Kowal happy.

[Moxlotus]

Where does your team's name come from?  I must not spill the forbidden secret

What is your current roster (list active and inactive members separately)?  A quick bio of each would be awesome as well.

Philip Schmitt-7th at SCG Chicago #1.  3rd at GenCon Prelim.  Used to play MWS aggro, not plays Oath.  Doesn't test much due to school.  Fulton, IL/Dubuque IA
Mat Endress-3rd at GenCon.  5th at SCG Chicago-October.  Plays Oath.  Carries a purse.  Morrison IL
Brain Fisher-2nd at SCG Chicago#1, top 8 at $500.  Missed Top 8 Worlds last year due to draw in last round.  Plays decks with Shop in them.  Infatuated with Gilded Lotus.  Morrison IL
Eric Becker-top 8 $500 Gencon.  Plays Oath and Storm.  Also barely missed states/regionals/something for Type 2 last year.  Dixon/Champaign IL
Matt Morrison-2nd place SCG Chicago-July.  Plays decks that don't interact with the opponent like Long and Stax.  Chicago area.
Eddie-Team Mexican.  Hits on blondes because he is mexican.  Made top 8 at states/regionals/something last year.  Likes Workshop.  Chicago area
Manuel-on the team solely to keep Aaron Jarvis in his place.  Plays Control Slaver or Dragon.
Aaron Jarvis-gets pimpness for the team.  Plays variety of decks.  Kentucky
Ryan Mayrand-nice guy.  Doesn't make it to many tournaments due to wife and 2 daughters.  Plays variety of decks.  Milwaukee
Rhyno-I don't know his real name.  Milwaukee.  Plays CS and Dragon.
John Donovan.  9th at Worlds in '04.  Plays fish, slaver, Dragon.

Philip, Mat, Fisher, and Eric actually playtest a decent amount.  Matt Morrison does some.  Other guys don't that much.

Significant accomplishments in deckbuilding/contributions to the format?  Brought back Oath.  Beat the hell out of the midwest with 7/10 for a summer.

What have you guys won lately? (don't count wins accumulated before that person joined the team) Amount of power/approximate dollar value of prizes won total or per person.  We could divide the total by the number of members to see who has the highest wins per capita (I think I already know who's got that though).

Philip: Mox, 8 legends packs (sold for 120), Drain, foil Gemstone (sold for 100)
Mat: foil gemstone (100), Time Walk, 3 or 4 moxen.
Fisher: Ancestral, 4 Workshops, 3-4 Moxen.  Around $300 of store credit spent on D&D and Ravnica. $60 at gencon and a box of stuff from GenCon that had shit.
Eric Becker: 2 Mox, $60 gencon from the $500 split.
Matt Morrison: Lotus.

Testing procedure/schedule.  Mat and Fisher test when Fisher's not playing WOW.  Eric and Philip test when we are home from college.  Summer and breaks lots of testing done.  During school year not much.

Things that work for you?  Play series of 10 game 1s and 20 sided games.  Write down results.

Things that didn't?  Not playtesting.  Not updating decks.  Agreeing on sideboarding plans

[Kowal]

Team Nuts and Staff should be on that list.  While I haven't done jack shit since I started working with these guys, they've got a lot of t8s claimed between Nate Peas and Travis LaPlante.  With a t8 from Chris Hatcher in Waterbury, I'm the only one slacking off at this point.

[Clown of Tresserhorn]

Colorado Crew. We're not really a team, but it should count as something, as we dominate the fuck out everything in our area. Plus, we smoke. And drink. A lot. Anyone who's met us knows how we party.

[PacmanXSA]

By "Canada", I'm assuming you mean me and the boys, Mr. Droba. 

If you don't mean us, let me know asap

I'll have a summary up in a little bit.

Regards,

Pac

[vroman]

Team Ogre

name comes from my store Ogre's Cards, which in turn comes from our corporate frontman 'Ogre' himself, a friendly mountain of a man known across the country as a top card trader.

Roster
vroman - 3 SCG t8s, etc
jim erlinger - t4 SCG july
ben allen - 13th gencon worlds
josh smith - t8 legacy world champs
aaron hauptman - 10th SCG october
nick cantrel - t8 SCG july
jacob riehm
matt stevens
kevin bopp
caleb scherer
blaine christiansen

all of above have t8ed multiple midwest power tournies, and travelled to out of town events. sorry if I forgot anyones specfiic accomplishments

deck accomplishments: Ubastax. Jims control slaver list is fairly distinctive as well

testing procedure consists of me proxying up a deck variation every night and playing it against whomevers in the store. I usually play 6-10 games of each major match up. my gauntlet is in order, slaver, stax, gifts, oath, goblins

what works for me is owning a store and having nothing else to do but play vintage upwards of 6 hours a day.

[Smmenen]

what works for me is owning a store and having nothing else to do but play vintage upwards of 6 hours a day.

There was a point in college where I'd play a couple hours of Vintage cards every day.  That's totally ridiculous that you can do that.  that's a tremendous competitive advantage.

If I was able to do that - I would have developed so many more decks, its not even funny.  I don't understand how you can stick to one deck when you have that much time to test.  You should be SO far advanced over every single vintage player on the planet.  Like, the gap between you and us should be immense, given that simple fact. 

[M.Solymossy]

Where does your team's name come from?

Long story short.  Me and Jamison came up with it while working at the local Burger King back in the day.  It stands for InterContinental Balistic Missile but also has a meaning that shows respect/makes fun of meandeck =-)

What is your current roster (list active and inactive members separately)?  A quick bio of each would be awesome as well.

(Myself) Mike Solymossy:  at least 8 top8s, Split a workshop.  Won a Bazaar.  Won Cash.  No power. Played Control Titan and Slaver for a year. Played oath for a couple months.  plays long.  Grafton, WI    13nova
Jamison Bryant:  Plays TPS.  Many top 8s.  Missed Chicago-October when Vroman beat him.  No Power. Grafton WI
Tommy Kolowith:  3 Moxen. 2 Libraries. Cash at the first SCG-Chicago side event.  Plays workshops a lot. Grafton/Oshkosh WI TK
Ben Carp:  SCG Chicago Top 8.  1 other mox win. Several top8s.   Plays Keeper and oath Milwaukee WI Tha Gunslinga
Dan Carp: SCG april top 8.   6 moxen and a lotus.  Plays Gilded Claw, Nexus,and oath.  Milwaukee WI AngryPheldagrif
I@n Degraff:  Many top 8s. at least 5 pieces of power won. 4th Place at WI states (type 2).  Created Eminant Domain along with Adrianne Sullivan. Plays Control.  Madison WI I@n
Jeremy Seroogy:  A couple top 8s.  16th at SCG. (been on the team a short period of time).  Plays Stax/Gifts.  Appleton WI 
Significant accomplishments in deckbuilding/contributions to the format? The_Spo0ky_Kid

We're a relitively new team.


Testing:

we use Magic Workstation and apprentice a LOT.  We test in person a lot too.   Our Gauntlet includes practically every deck in the format, thanks to workshop and apprentice.

Things that work for you?   (Ben) Getting sleep

Things that didn't?   (myself, I@n, and Dan)  Staying up until 1 before SCG to discuss stratagies for sideboarding with oath of druids (Ben went to bed at 9)

Conttributions to Vintage:

Redid oath of druids

Stomped face with Workshop Aggro (circa Dan Carp)

[Dante]

John Donovan.  9th at Worlds in '04.  Plays fish, slaver, Dragon.

This is incorrect - I came in 9th at Worlds in 2004, did you mean 2005?  I won that booby prize as the top 6-2 seed.

Bill

[Smmenen]

Ian DeGraff was top 8 at Gencon in 2003. 

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

was he the one with the cowboy hat?

[Moxlotus]

John Donovan.  9th at Worlds in '04.  Plays fish, slaver, Dragon.

This is incorrect - I came in 9th at Worlds in 2004, did you mean 2005?  I won that booby prize as the top 6-2 seed.

Bill

Yes.  I'm pretty sure I meant 2005.  Or maybe it was 10th or something.  I don't know exactly.

EDIT:  Hah!  It was 2003.  I knew it was the first year, just couldn't remember what the first year of the Champs was.

[M.Solymossy]

Yes but I@n wasn't a member of the team, or rather the team wasn't a team before April of 2005.  We officially came out at a Chicago (CCNC) tournament, where Tommy, tony, and dan all top 8ed, and officially at a big tournament when Dan took 8th in Chicago with ICBM Gilded Claw, and I took a bazaar away from endress with my own modded CTitan, along with tommy winning 2 libraries with dragon in the sides.  (but yes, we did scrub out of the main event lol.. but to my credit, i played against fully powered [aka at least a semi-serious player] CS in the side, as well as Methalusian's Rebuild Combo, and Endress with 7/10 split)

[Clown of Tresserhorn]

Nope, I came in 9th. 0.02%.

Also, I can't believe I@n is ICBM. I always thought he hung out w/ wasp and the Hudson, WI crew...

[M.Solymossy]

I used to travel to Eau Claire every month and I@n went there for school.  He travelled to Chicago on some occasions and We had always talked.  next thing you know he was travelling with us and joined our team.

[arj]

what works for me is owning a store and having nothing else to do but play vintage upwards of 6 hours a day.

If I was able to do that - I would have developed so many more decks, its not even funny.  I don't understand how you can stick to one deck when you have that much time to test.  You should be SO far advanced over every single vintage player on the planet.  Like, the gap between you and us should be immense, given that simple fact. 

Being a store owner, as Vroman is, it makes sense to create the by far most expensive deck and then win lots of tournaments with it

Just kidding Ubastax is a great deck and a great innovation to stax.

[AbouTreeFiddy]

Team nuts and staff won waterbury team championship and a bunch of tournaments, but since the entire team is pretty much banned from TMD, I wouldn't bother putting them in this thread.  Oh, and since we will win the next waterbury team championship also, maybe they can make a forum where all the banned people who win stuff can post.

[untap/win]

as for the ggs....
the team is currently.....

Jdawg 13
thebrassman
Outlaw
cross
Nullrob
and mysef ....



Team nuts and staff is a team? who are they?
They must be really good....

[forests failed you]

The Vintage Avant-Garde

Is an Art History Joke; if the 'Vintage' is taken literally to mean the Vintage format it means, at the cutting edge of Vintage;  however, to be the Avant-Garde of Vintage was somethig I found amusing.

I founded the team a while back with Windfall as a two man juggernaut.  Eventually, as you all know Windfall left the game and I began recruiting new players.  It is also significant that The Vintage Avant-Garde is completely sponsered now by RIW Hobbies in Livonia, Michigan.  So, we are basically the Vintage segment of the prestegious Team RIW.  (I'm also a noted player on RIW's Standard and Limited teams.)

OUR KEY GUYS

JOSH "ONELOVEMACHINE" FRANKLIN-  Top eight at Vintage Worlds.  Numberous Top 16's at SCG events.  Banned from some states.  Probably, the leading Tog player in the world right now.  Multiple pieces of power won in random events this year.

JEFF "SAMITE HEALER" ANAND - The Samite Dealer, need I actually say more?

PAUL "LIEK" NICOLO, AKA FISHALO -  Designer of the deck NICOLO'S FISHALOS.  Placed Third at SCG Chicago.  Perhaps the most Savage player I have ever seen play Meddling Mage in Vintage ever. 

MARK "WINDFALL" BILLER - Won Worlds last year, doesn't play any more, but is a useful source of insight and tech.  He's Michigan's Phil Stanton I suppose.

STEPHEN "MOXMONKEY" PADINIA -  25th at Waterbury, Slaver tech artist, and almost as hated a poster as that  newb FFY.

BRIAN "FORCEFIELDYOU" DEMARS - MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS:  2 SCG top Eights, Vintage Worlds Top Eight.   Voted in the TMD IRC Channel Vintage's "Douchebag of the year"   

Cheers,FFY

[ghad999]

so why are my accomplishments not on here...

won 500 at gp chicago against jason stindt (hope i spelled that right)

should have won the psa invitational but we 4 way split 3 gws and jason again.

2 psa qualifiers in chicago bringing home mox and a split with fisher since i alrady had the invite.

won a mox at games universe tourney

and possibly 1-2 other pieces of power or library

yes i also remember losing another tourney due to not putting my men back in....but if they were there id have won that match

that split we had with 4 gws in top 4 in iowa for the psa ruby.

i remember me morrison and 2 others cant remmeber who possibly eric and fisher

[orgcandman]

Ball and Chain
=========

The name comes from the fact that almost all of us are either married, or getting married (there's one man who is an exception).

We were all basically a team for the better part of 6 months, but only made it official at the end of november.

Decks with which we have proficiency
=======================
3/4 cc
TFK-Gifts
Oath in various forms
Salvagers.dec
TMWA

What we've won since officially forming
========================
1x Mox Pearl
1x Mana Drain

Who's on the team
===============
Jared Carter (nataz)
Chad Behre ()
Tyler Huff (tchuff)
Oliver Beaumont (Englishman_in_NH)
Aaron Conole (orgcandman)
Dan Yarrington (myriadgames)

Our top8s
===============
Just locally, we've multiple top8's at Double Midnight and Myriad, with everyone on the team having top8'd at least
once.

We've also conceived TMWA, a metagame hate deck, which recently took 2 top8 spots at myriad (1/15/06), as well as having multiple top8, top4, finals, and even victory appearances.

[Cross]

GGs

The official response

Roster of Active Players:


thebrassman – After leaving the gangster rap industry due to a torn ACL,  joined GGs because we needed some phat vocals.
Outlaw – On the run since he crossed the border, and wanted in every state, joined the GGs because he’s quick on the draw.
Cross  - With the sweetest name in magic, Crossman Lyons Wilkins joined the GGs because we needed someone who’s name sounded like their own law firm.
Nullrob – In lieu of being an emo rock star, joined the GGs because Jets to Brazil lyrics have so much meaning to us, and they make us cry.
JDawg13 -  A newish addition to GGs, joined us because even though we all know RPI is better than WPI, it’s okay he’s still cool.
Untap / Win – Our newest addition, joined the GGs because we needed more second places, and someone who’s willing to weld in Mycosynth Lattice with a Null Rod in play and go welder beats. 

Inactive Player:
Mixing Mike – he likey the W.O.W., what a lamer.

Accomplishments in Deckbuilding:

UWB Sensei’s top – a sweet deck, gave us many top 8’s.
Gifts – The good kind, originally with belcher, now with vault.
Bunch of other random tweaks to decks.

Significant Tournies Won/Placed in:

40 Dual Lands
June 26th, 2005 (Founding Date)
Cross (Top 8)
Rob (Top 4)
Justin (2nd)

Gen-Cony Indy
Aug 20th, 2005
Andy (2nd)

SCG: Richmond
Sept 24th, 2005
Justin (2nd)
Andy (3rd)

Waterbury VII
Crossman (2nd)
Nate (3rd)
Andy (Type IV split)
Vintage Raffle Champion: Rob

Rhode Island State Championships 2005 (standard)
Andy (1st)

SCG: Rochester
 Dec.
Justin (Top 8)
Andy (Top 16)

[Komatteru]

Ok, here's Meandeck's response:

Current roster:
Kevin Cron (CHA1N5)
Rian Litchard (kirdape3)
Ted Dickinson (binary)
Stephen Menendian (Smmenen)
Paul Mastriano (Mr. Type 4)
Jacob Orlove
Doug Linn (Hi-Val)
Willie Milton (WildWillieWonderboy)
Toad
Liz! (lizzish)
Ashok Chitturi (Cap'n Slappy.)
Roland Chang (Changster)
Justin Droba (JDizzle)
Bob Yu (Clown of Tresserhorn)
Jim Gaffney (Godot)

Inactive/Hiatus/Around but not playing Magic:
JP Meyer
Justin Walters (Saucemaster)
Carl Winter (CrazyCarl)
Jason Stinnet (The Capn)
Z

The last 5 names on the active list are in order of joining, with the most recent at the bottom.  After that, it’s pretty random.  We’re all famous.  We don’t need biographies.

What we’ve won as of late.  This is just what we’ve won since like May of last year, plus our major T8s:
2003 Vintage Championship 1st Place - Carl Winter
2003 Vintage Championship T8 - Kevin Cron
SCG July 2004 Richmond T8 – Doug Linn
2004 Vintage Championship T8 – Kevin Cron
2004 Vintage Championship T8 – Stephen Menendian
Waterbury Sept 2004 2nd Place - Carl Winter
SCG Sep 2004 Richmond 1st place - Jacob Orlove
SCG Sep 2004 Richmond 3rd place – Justin Walters
SCG Sep 2004 Richmond 5th place – Jason Stinnet
SCG Sep 2004 Richmond 7th place – Stephen Menendian
SCG Oct 2004 Chicago 3rd place – Stephen Menendian
Waterbury Jan 2005 T4 - Justin Walters
SCG Feb 2005 Syracuse 1st place – Kevin Cron
SCG April 2005 Chicago 9th place – Kevin Cron
PSA Invitational April 2005 (Chicago) 1st place (split) - Jason Stinnet
Waterbury April or May 2005 T8 - Ashok
SCG May 2005 Richmond 7th place – Jacob Orlove
SCG May 2005 Richmond 9th place – Stephen Menendian
SCG May 2005 Richmond 11th place – Kevin Cron
SCG June 2005 Syracuse 9th place – Kevin Cron
SCG July 2005 Chicago 3rd place – Roland Chang
Gencon Thursday Event, 1st place – Justin Droba
2005 Vintage Championship Prelim 3rd place – Kevin Cron
2005 Vintage Championship Prelim 5th place – Roland Chang
2005 Vintage Championship Prelim 6th place – Justin Droba
2005 Vintage Championship 1st place – Roland Chang
2005 Vintage Championship 8th place – Ashok Chitturi
2 1st Finishes at NJ Mox Tournaments (beats me when) – Ashok Chitturi
Springfield, IL Timetwister 1st (split) – Justin Droba
SCG Sep 2005 Richmond 4th place - Jacob Orlove
Ogre's Cards Mishra's Workshop 1st (split) – Justin Droba
SCG Oct 2005 Chicago 4th place – Stephen Menendian
SCG Oct 2005 Chicago 7th place – Justin Droba
SCG Dec 2005 Syracuse 10th place – Rian Litchard
Bloomington, IN Mox Ruby 1st (split) – Justin Droba
Plus there’s even more victories/T8s from before Jim, Bob, and Roland (and me too I guess) joined the team.  I didn’t even count those.  Bob won the Prelim this year, Jim’s got 2 SCG T8s, Roland has another SCG T8, etc.

Ashok has like a million high finishes at non-Vintage events, including a T4 finish at States and multiple T8s at PTQs.  Jacob also T8ed at that Legacy duals thing.  Rian has a PTQ T8 finish as well.  I'm sure others have stuff too (well, not me, I'm a scrub in formats that don't involve DARK RITUAL or um...Arc Slogger).

There’s even more than that we didn’t list.  So as a team, we’ve won over like 25 pieces of power, 9 foil Gemstone Mines, and like a million other things.  That’s just in the last year or so as well.

Like a million T8s/victories/high finishes at Origins this year (Steve won the byes, we had like 5 people in T8 at that $500 tournament, etc.) and in years past.

Significant Contributions:
We’ve pioneered about 75% of the decks in the format.  Kevin Cron was perhaps the biggest factor in development of Stax theory, both before and after the restriction of Trinisphere, helping turn the deck into the tournament winner it is today.  And then there was Oath, which put 4 members in T8 at one SCG.  We introduced Meandeck Gifts last June and brought combo back with two T8s at the most recent Chicago.  Rochester featured the introduction of Rian’s Meandeck Wins.

However, perhaps the most significant accomplishment to the game of Magic is the creation of Type 4.  Everyone can thank Paul Mastriano for that. The world is a better place because of it.

Testing Procedure:
Since we’re geographically divided, a lot of our testing is online.  Those close to each other (Columbus, Miami) get together whenever they can for IRL testing.  Our goal is that each member tests something weekly and posts about it.

Things that Work: Team message board, metagame analysis, creating new decks.

Things that Didn’t: Bickering among ourselves

[M.Solymossy]

So what teams are the most well known and/or successful in Vintage

Obviously Meandeck.  But who else?

[forests failed you]

I'm a big fan of the work Team Ogre has been doing in the past year.  There have been a lot of great innovations and discoveries made in the past year; but in my opinion Robert really did a lot in the past year.  In my opinion Uba Stax was to 2005, what Slaver was to 2004.  I expect that deck to continue to develop and dominate in 2006 as the decklists continue to become even more refined and specialized.  Also, I would predict that Vroman will be at the helm of this decks continued evolution over time. 

Obviously, it also goes without saying that Meandeck was fairly active in the past year.  Steve's development of the Gifts archetype was format defining. 

Those are really the two whose work impress me most at the moment.

[BigMac]

It is not really my place to answer here but as nobody else does it here it goes.

I am a member of team ISP (insane scrub posse) Do not ask where the name comes from as i have no idea.

members include:
Bram Verhees (Bram)
Steven Buckems (currently very busy with study)
Leon Custers (Limbo) (currently very busy with study)
Rudy van Soest (rvs) designer of thetinker.dec
Hero 't Mannetje (pyromaniac) plays ravager.dec to perfection
Nice Verhoeven (not to sure if he has account here)
Marco Kiewit (BigMac) player and honing of the tinker and TPoath. Transformational is my trademark
Mike van Rooien (hasn't played in over a year but will probably start again soon)

I may have forgotten a few so do not attack me on that.

We have won multiple power among ourselves as well as multiple top 8 on big tournaments. (at least 2 moxes, 2 twisters (of which 1 beta), 3 libraries of alexandria, top 8 open national dutch championship winning foil gemstone mine)

In Holland we are amongst the leading groups of players. When we attend as a group we mostly put at least one, but mostly more, players in a top 8. We try to talk on out own boards about decks and deck ideas. We also try to test once a week at Rudy's. But for most with a very busy scedule this becomes harder every week.

Everybody in our group has power as far as i know. We could build every deck we want to not in the last place due to my extensive collection. We have multiple sets of workshops (4 minimum) as well as multiple sets of drains (4 minimum, probably more though). I have no idea how many bazaars we have amongst our group but we have at least 1 set.

We all have our own specialities when you look at decks and playstyles. This actually helps us when testing and playing in tournaments as we will have played against most decktypes.

[Joblin Velder]

Where does your team's name come from?

Some would say that the earth is our moon. But that would belittle the name of our moon...which is "The Moon".

What is your current roster (list active and inactive members separately)? A quick bio of each would be awesome as well.

Our god is an indian that turns into a wolf.

Significant accomplishments in deckbuilding/contributions to the format?

Our vertical leap is beyond all measure. We're excellent spellers.

What have you guys won lately? (don't count wins accumulated before that person joined the team) Amount of power/approximate dollar value of prizes won total or per person. We could divide the total by the number of members to see who has the highest wins per capita (I think I already know who's got that though).

Getting a ten speed is easy; filling it with illegal substances and crossing the border is not.

Testing procedure/schedule

We don't listen to people who don't like us.

We do whatever we want to whomever we want....at all times.

Things that work for you?

Everything we say and do is right.

Using a key to gouge expletives on another's vehicle is a sign of trust and friendship.

On the moon, nerds get their pants pulled down and they are spanked with moon rocks.

Things that didn't?

We're here to steal your pornograpy and sodomize our vast imaginations.

[Eddie]

Where does your team's name come from?

MCG stands for Magic Club Gent. It sounds rather lame, but it was created to piss of our closest competitors: MCM. We are thinking of changing the name.

What is your current roster (list active and inactive members separately)?

Steven Deboever
Stijn De Clerq (plays anything, also Legacy player)
Gwen De Schamphelaere
Wouter Dhondt (Eddie)
Bjorn Lefevere (Bob the builder)
Baptist Matthys (plays control and Legacy)
Yorick Pieters (Pinky, player from Oostende) (*)
Mitchell Talpe (plays anything but drains. Also plays Legacy)
Pieter Thysebaert
Tom Vandenberghe
Sean Van den Bril (player from Oostende) (*)

Legacy only:
Emile Carels
Kris Lauwaert
Timo Robyn

(*): we only see these IRL at tournaments due to distance.

Some are more active than others of course. All vintage members have power, with most being full powered.

Significant accomplishments in deckbuilding/contributions to the format?

Mostly, we tune existing decks to the metagame. Most people have very little time to develop any new stuff. We tried several stuff (e.g. Shared Fate deck), but we never brought them in a serious tournament. We are happy to see that some of our deck tunings are followed by non team members .

What have you guys won lately?

We are in the progress of putting Belgium on the vintage map. Before we started, there was only Carl Devos as a big player. Each year, we get more and more T8 results and prizes. We play Vintage and Legacy, though a few members do play other formats as well. I have no idea how much we won over the past years. I do know that we have yet to win something big (meaning value > $300). Winnings include stuff like alpha sinkholes, abysses, the dark boosters, ...

Testing procedure/schedule

We try to test once a week with 2-6 people showing up. Results are posted on the team boards. Testing usually plays out as swiss rounds against everyone attending, but with taking back and playing open hand sometimes so everyone can chime in.

Things that work for you?

We have a team board where we post testing results and tournament results. This helps us overcome some of the few testing sessions. We also have a team tournament, which is basically a 12 person big testing sessions in a tournament setting for fame and glory.

[49 Cents]

Where does your team's name come from?

TDC stands for The Dutch Connection. That says about all.

What is your current roster (list active and inactive members separately)?  A quick bio of each would be awesome as well.

Menno vd Bergh
Matijn Janssen
Henk van Dijke (my dad)
Frits Brun
Hugo van Dijke, that's me.

We all play with powered decks, exept Frits who doesn't own any. Only some Drains..
We own 20 Drains, 4 Shops, 4 Bazaar and 4 complete sets of power.

Significant accomplishments in deckbuilding/contributions to the format?

Mostly, we simply tune decks and play with them. That's what works for us. I guess I could say I put Leviat on the map because I've played it for so long..

What have you guys won lately? (don't count wins accumulated before that person joined the team) Amount of power/approximate dollar value of prizes won total or per person.  We could divide the total by the number of members to see who has the highest wins per capita (I think I already know who's got that though).

I splitted a Mox a while ago, we won countless of Boosters (main price here in Holland) and playable cards.. It's not I kept track or anything, sorry.

Testing procedure/schedule

We _try_ to test once a week. This doesn't always work though. Me and my dad can of course, because we live in the same house. Matijn, Frits and Menno are currently very busy with school, so they don't always make it.

Things that work for you?

Not sleeping before a tourney. Don't ask me why, or how.. :/

Things that didn't?

Team boards. We have email.

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Significant accomplishments in deckbuilding/contributions to the format?

Mostly, we simply tune decks and play with them. That's what works for us. I guess I could say I put Leviat on the map because I've played it for so long..

No offense, but especially Roy and Hero, alongside myself, have been playing that ever since Leviat posted it, and were winning tournaments with it before you probably even tried it - I would hardly say you put it on the map ^^