BattleGrounds June 24 Mox Top 8

[MoxMonkey]

The tournament was a hit.  We got 35ish people and the store is thinking about doing another one in the future.  I'd like to thank everyone who came and heres the Top 8

1 Rich Shay with Dragon
2 Pat Broderck with Control Slaver
3 Charles Scourbys with Meandeck Gifts
4 Dan Cunningham with  Bomberman U/W Salvagers
5-8 Ray Robillard with Staxless Stax
5-8 Dan Yarrington  The Mountain Wins Again
5-8 Matt Shea with Nazis Riding Dinosaurs (Staxless Stax)
5-8 Corey Fraser with Repeal Gifts

The Top 8 Decklist

Rich Shay    Dragon
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
1 Flooded Strand
1 Island
4 Polluted Delta
1 Tropical Island
4 Underground Sea
1 Bayou
1 Eternal Witness
4 Worldgorger Dragon
1 Ancestral Recall
3 Animate Dead
1 Black lotus
2 Cunning Wish
1 Dance of the dead
3 Deep Analysis
1 Demonic Tutor
3 Duress
1 Time Walk
4 Force of Will
4 Intution
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Necromany
3 Read the Runes
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Vampiric Tutor

SB
1 Pernicious Deed
1 Stroke of Genius
3 Xantid Swarm
2 Chain of Vapor
1 Misdirection
3 Zombie Infestetion
4 Basking Rootwalla

Pat Broderck   Control Slaver
4 force of Will
4 Mana Drain
4 Brainstorm
4 Goblin Welder
4 Thirst for Knowledge
2 Mindslaver
1 Triskelion
1 Jesters Cap
1 Mystical tutor
1 Crucible of worlds
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Darksteel colossus
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's will
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Echoing Truth
4 Volcanic Island
3 Underground Sea
3 Island
2 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Mox sapphire
1 Mox jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 strip Mine
1 Wasteland
1 Black lotus

SB
2 Flametongue Kavu
3 Duress
2 Mox Monkey
1 Tormod's Crypt
3 Rack and Ruin
1 Rushing River
1 Sundering titan
1 Pyrocalsm
1 Darkblast

Charles Scourbys Meandeck Gifts
4 Brainstorm
4 Gifts Ungiven
4 Mana Drain
4 Force of will
4 Merchant Scroll
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Mystical tutor
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Rebuild
1 Time Walk
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Tinker
1 Yawgmoth's will
1 Recoup
1 Burning Wish
1 Demonic tutor
3 Duress
1 Darksteel Colossus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol ring
1 Mana vault
3 Flooded Strand
2 Poilluted Delta
3 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
3 Island
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy

SB
1 Tendril of Agony
2 Pithing needle
2 Tormod's Crypt
2 Rushing River
1 Eye of Nowhere
2 Massacre
2 Engineered Plague
3 Rack and Ruin

Dan Cunningham   Bomberman
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Thirst for knowledge
4 Mana Drain
3 Mana leak
4 Triket Mage
4 Auriok Salvagers
2 Disenchant
3 Aether Spellbomb
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black lotus
1 Pithing Needle
1 Sol ring
1 Library of Alexandia
1 Strip Mine
4 Tundra
4 FLooded Strand
4 Island
2 Plains

SB
2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Disenchant
1 Seal of Cleansing
1 Tormod's Crypt
2 Kami of Ancient Law
2 Vedalken Shackles
4 Chailce of void
2 Energy Flux

Ray Robillard   Staxless Stax
4 Mishras Workshop
4 Wasteland
4 City of Brass
2 Gemstone Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Barbarian Ring
1 Strip Mine
1 Crop Rotation
1 Tinker
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Karn Silver Golem
1 Sundering Titan
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Gorilla Shaman
1 Balance
1 Memory Jar
1 Trinisphere
1 Duplicant
4 Goblin welder
4 Chailce of the Void
4 Tangle Wire
3 Crucible of Worlds
2 Sensei's Divining top
2 Triskelion
1 Black lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana vault
2 Darksteel Ignot
1 Sol ring

SB
3 Choke
3 Eon Hub
1 Leyline of the Void
2 Tormod's Crypt
2 Fire/Ice
1 Darkblast
1 In the eye of Chaos
1 Arcane Laboratory
1 Rule of Law

Dan Yarrington  The Mountain Win Again
1 Mountain
4 plauteu
1 plains
2 Wooded foothills
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Windswept Hearth
2 Flooded Strand
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
4 Mishra's Factory
1 Genju of the Spires
3 Goblin Vandel
2 Gorilla Shaman
3 Goblin Welder
2 Hearth Kami
4 Grim Lavamancer
3 Lighting Bolt
3 Swords to plowshares
1 Disenchant
2 Seal of Cleansing
1 Enlightened Tutor
4 Magma Jet
2 Pyrostatic Pillar
3 Pyroblast
3 Tormod's Crypt

SB
4 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pyrostatic Pillar
1 Goblin Welder
1 Goblin Vandel
3 Disenchant
1 Seal of CLeansing
1 Swords ot plowshares
1 Sacred Ground
1 Null rod
1 Tormod's Crypt

Matt Shea  Nazis Riding Dinosaurs
3 Goblin Welder
1 Gorilla Shaman
3 Juggernaut
2 Triskelion
1 Duplicant
1 Razormane Masticore
1 Sundering Titan
3 Tangle Wire
2 Crucible of Worlds
1 Memory Jar
1 Mindslaver
1 Trinisphere
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Tinker
1 Balance
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Imperial Seal
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Crop Rotation
1 Darkblast
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Seal of Cleansing
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mana Vault
1 Sol ring
1 MAna Crypt
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black lotus
4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Gemstone Mine
3 Wasteland
2 Tendo Ice Bridge
2 City of Brass
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Mishra's factory

SB
3 Eon Hub
3 sphere of Resistance
3 Tormod's Crypt
2 Choke
1 Cruicble of Worlds
1 Swords to plowshares
1 Seal of Cleansing
1 Juggernaut

Corey Fraser  Repeal Gifts 
Decklist withheld by Coreys Request

Hopefully He holds another tournament soon and Thanks again for everyone who showed up.

[tehmajickguy]

Congrats to Rich for taking down another tourney with Dragon. The ZIs in the board look like a great idea, but are the Rootwallas actually any good though? Its obvious what they're there for, but they seem kinda random. Also, the Dragon list is only 57 cards.

[Moxlotus]

1 Flooded Strand
1 Island
4 Polluted Delta
1 Tropical Island
1 Underground Sea
1 Bayou

Is this right or has Dragon adopted the Becker manabase of infinite fetch and a handful of actual land?

[iamfishman]

That other staxless stax deck is so far from staxless stax, I don't thing it should be compared.

Juggernaut IMHO would make Shop Aggro a better clasification.

[MoxMonkey]

No its not Let me fix that.  Rich Inked out a few things and it got me confused when looking at it
 its 4 underground Sea

[The Atog Lord]

The tournament was fun and well-run. Thanks to the TO.

I had four Underground Seas.

The ZI/Rootwalla sideboard didn't work out too well in practice. The deck is set up to do one thing well, and even against hate, the aggro plan is much weaker than just pushing through hate to win. Even against a deck brimming with hate, they proved to be too slow and not potent enough. However, Dragon really impressed me with its ability to win despite hate cards.

[dicemanx]

Congrats Rich on yet another victory! I like your attempt at a "transformational" SB, even if it didn't turn out that well for this event. Keeping opponents guessing can take a lot of pressure off post SB, even if they are aware of your SB possibilities. And as you've observed, WGD is much more resilient to hate than most people think. Perhaps what they need to understand is that hate cards in the library don't translate into sufficient hate cards in hand, and you still have to engage in and win attrition/card advantage wars or tempo wars for the hate to be meaningful. When I have lost matches in the past with various WGD builds, the reason for the losses had typically more to do with my opponent succeeding with his game plan ahead of mine instead of hating me out.

[Myriad Games]

Thanks to Derek & Battleground for hosting and running a smooth tournament in a clean, friendly environment. Thanks to Mox Monkey for helping get the word out and for typing up the Top 8 Deck Lists. I had a great time with some excellent matches and a ton of fun both during and in between rounds.

[Kieranwolf]

That event rocked pretty hard, except for the fact that one of the Gifts players was able to sneak away without getting owned by yours truly.  I blame it on those silly Aurioks.

Thanks to all the players, as well as Derek and Moxy for helping to make it a success. Let's make the next one just as awesome.