[Results]- Beanie Exchange-4 Workshops- June 17, 2006

[Scoops666]

First off, massive apologies to everyone for getting this up so late. I've been working nights lately and it's simply slipped my mind. I swear, it won't happen again. Now, onto the resulst!

The Beanie Exchange Open 2! 4 Workshop Tournament!

Due in some part to the PTQ happenning on the same day, we had a slightly lower than expected tournout from what we expected. Only 54 players showed up. However, the store stuck to its guns and still handed out the full prize support! After 6 rounds of swiss, the final standings looked like:

1. Browne, Christopher
2. Gagooch
3. Ellsworth, Stefan
4. Kowal, Ben
5. Laplante, Travis
6. Pise, Mike
7. Robillard, Ray
8. Shay, Rich
9. Farias, Andrew
10. Brennan, Dave
11. Jiggly, Puff
12. Carpenter, Keith
13. Munch
14. Merriam, Ross
15. Tuttle, Marc
16. Shea, Matt
17. Yarrington, Dan
18. Lee, David
19. Grand Inquisitor
20. Rozwenc, Caleb
21. Moxmonkey
22. Null Rob
23. MacWilliam, Jacob
24. Lally, Tom
25. Fraser, Corey
26. McNally, Matt
27. Meyst, Rich
28. Roucoulet, Jeff
29. Yarrington, Sara
30. Bakes, Ryan
31. Jenson, Scott
32. Behre, Chad
33. Ward, Brenton
34. Lapage, Brandon
35. Ward, Ian
36. C, Joseph
37. Clair, William
38. Outlaw
39. Gainer, Michael
40. Krueger, Ryan
41. Bernier, Joseph
42. Rudolph, Jeremiah
43. Kitzmiller, Chris
44. Vitullo, Josh
45. Sciuda, Kevin
46. Cleveland, Jason
47. Shane, Jason
48. Geyer, Mark
49. Haney, Preston
50. Broderick, Pat
51. Malone, Patrick
52. Greene, Jeff
53. Sharp, Jonathan
54. Carpenter, Jeff

Here are the Top 8 Pairings, who all played it out:

Top 8

Demonic Attorney vs. Rich Shay
Travis Laplante vs. Ben Kowal
Stefan Ellsworth vs. Mike Pise
Ray Robillard vs. Gagooch

Top 4

Rich Shay vs. Ben Kowal
Ray Robillard vs. Mike Pise

Top 2
Rich Shay vs. Ray Robillard

Rich Shay defeated Ray Robillard, winning his second straight large Beanie Exchange tournament. Congratulations Rich Shay!

Top 8 Decklists:

Rich Shay, 1st Place
Dragon

4 Worldgorger Dragon
1 Eternal Witness
3 Necromancy
3 Animate Dead
1 Dance of the Dead
1 Sundering Titan
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Intuition
3 Read the Runes
1 Cunning Wish
3 Deep Analysis
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Time Walk
4 Force of Will
3 Duress
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Saphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
4 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
4 Underground Sea
1 Island
1 Swamp
1 Tropical Island

Sideboard:
1 Stroke of Genius
2 Echoing Truth
1 Tinker
2 Masticore
3 Xantid Swarm
3 Null Rod
2 Seal of Removal
1 Sundering Titan

Ray Robillard, 2nd Place
Staxless Stax

4 Goblin Welder
4 Tangle Wire
4 Chalice of the Void
3 Crucible of Worlds
2 Senseis Divining Top
2 Triskellion
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
2 Darksteel Ingot
1 Memory Jar
1 Ancestrall Recall
1 Time Walk
4 Mishras Workshop
4 Wasteland
4 City of Brass
2 Gemstone Mine
1 Strip Mine
1 Barbarian Ring
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Duplicant
1 Karn, Silver Golem
1 Gorilla Shaman
1 Sundering Titan
1 Tinker
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Crop Rotation
1 Balance
1 Trinisphere

Sideboard:
3 Choke
3 Eon Hub
3 Leyline of the Void
1 Darkblast
1 Rule of Law
1 Arcane Laboratory
1 In the Eye of Chaos
2 Fire/Ice

Ben Kowal, 3rd Place
Control Slaver

4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
4 Brainstorm
4 Thirst for KNowledge
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Echoing Truth
3 Nights Whisper
1 Yawgmoths Wil
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
3 Goblin Welder
1 Darksteel Collosus
2 Mindslaver
1 Triskelion
1 Memory Jar
3 Underground Sea
1 Tormods Crypt
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
2 Island
2 Volcanic Island

Sideboard:
4 Pyrostatic Pillar
3 Red Elemental Blast
1 Rack and Ruin
2 The Abyss
1 Rushing River
1 Lava Dart
2 Pyroclasm
1 Tormods Crypt

Mike Pise, 4th Place
Sullivan Solution

1 Rushing River
3 Repeal
4 Dimir Cutpurse
3 Erayo, Soratami Ascendant
4 Brainstorm
4 Dark Confidant
1 Time Walk
4 Duress
1 Chain of Vapor
4 Force of Will
1 Ancestrall Recall
4 Stifle
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Darkblast
1 Strip Mine
1 Flooded Strand
4 Polluted Delta
3 Wasteland
4 Underground Sea
1 Swamp
2 Islands
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal

Sideboard:
2 Blue Elemental Blast
3 Diabolic Edict
2 Energy Flux
1 Darkblast
2 Planar Void
1 Hurkyll's Recall
2 Null Rod
2 Shadow of Doubt

Demonic Attorney, 5th Place
Control Slaver

4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
4 Thirst for Knowledge
4 Brainstorm
3 Goblin Welder
3 Nights Whisper
2 Mindslaver
1 Sundering Titan
1 Triskelion
1 Memory Jar
1 Echoing Truth
1 Tormods Crypt
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoths Will
3 Volcanic Island
3 Underground Sea
4 Island
3 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Tolarian Academy

Sideboard:
3 Seal of Removal
1 Energy Flux
1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
3 Red Elemental Blast
3 Pyroclasm
3 Sphere of Resistance
1 The Abyss

Gagooch, 6th Place
Ritualistic Suicide

4 City of Brass
2 Underground Sea
3 Gemstone MIne
1 Forbidden Orchard
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Lotus Petal
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
4 Duress
4 Dark Ritual
3 Cabal Ritual
3 Grim Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Regrowth
1 Hurkyll's Recall
1 Mind's Desire
2 Infernal Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Burning Wish
1 Yawgmoths Will
1 Necropotence
1 Timetwister
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Memory Jar
1 Tinker
1 Lions Eye Diamond
2 Xantid Swarm
1 Elvish Spirit Guide
4 Brainstorm

Sideboard:
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Darksteel Colossus
1 Rebuild
1 Echoing Truth
2 Xantid Swarm
1 Massacre
1 Balance
1 Seal of Cleansing
1 Abeyance
3 Elvish Spirit Guide
2 Shattering Spree

Travis Laplante, 7th Place
Confidant Workshop

1 Trinisphere
2 Crucible of Worlds
4 Sphere of Resistance
1 Black Lotus
4 Gemstone Mine
3 Tendo Ice Bridge
4 Mishras Workshop
2 Null Rod
4 Smokestack
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Time Walk
1 Sol Ring
1 Mox Emerald
4 Dark Confidant
3 Wasteland
4 Chalice of the Void
1 Mox Pearl
1 Balance
1 Mox Ruby
1 Lotus Petal
1 Strip Mine
2 Pithing Needle
3 Tangle Wire
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Choke
1 Seal of Cleansing
1 Mishras Factory
1 Barbarian Ring
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Crop Rotation
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mox Jet

Sideboard:
3 Pyrostatic Pillar
3 Ground Seal
2 Juggernaut
2 Ray of Revelation
4 Swords to Plowshares
1 Triskelion

Stefan Ellswoth, 8th Place
Dragon

1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Sol Ring
1 Sundering Titan
1 Eternal Witness
4 Worldgorger Dragon
4 Animate Dead
3 Necromancy
1 Ancestrall Recall
1 Cunning Wish
1 Entomb
4 Force of Will
4 INtuition
3 Read the Runes
1 Vampiric Tutor
3 Deep Analysis
3 Duress
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Island
1 Swamp
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
1 Flooded Strand
4 Polluted Delta
4 Underground Sea
1 Tropical Island

Sideboard:
1 Verdant Force
2 Echoing Truth
2 Pithing Needle
1 Stifle
3 Chalice of the Void
2 Pernicious Deed
3 Xantid Swarm
1 Stroke of Genius


Have a good one!

[Smmenen]

Team reflection: what's the deal with Seal of Removal?  is that for Dragon? 

[Juggernaut GO]

holy shit kowal is a colossal lucksack.  the 1 rack and ruin in his entire deck and board he found game 2.  He deserves the garbage can on his head.

[Kowal]

I tutored for it, dummie.  :p

[Smmenen]

Team reflection: what's the deal with Seal of Removal?  is that for Dragon? 

[Scoops666]

I'd assume for Dragon, Oath, and Colossus.

[Smmenen]

why would slaver care about colossus?

[Clown of Tresserhorn]

Why seal over Aether spellbomb? Is the 1 mana cost that important? Spellbomb atleast pitches to thirst, is reusable with welder, and cantrips at worst. I guess seal pitches to FoW.

I must say, I popped a boner when I saw THE ABYSS in Kowal's board...

[Vegeta2711]

Seal is for Dragon and was mainly chosen because it costs U. I can't see when I'd even be cantripping Spellbomb in the Dragon match unless I had like 3 in play.

We don't need Seal to beat Oath. Never have.

[Kowal]

Seal is also better than Spellbomb against Dragon because Dragon has a tendency to run Null Rod from the board.  Personally, I was more comfortable with Tormod's Crypts anyway, but that's neither here nor there.


Re:  The Abyss
I was actually really happy with it.  I realized after SCG Rochester that if I had drained Erayo in to Abyss instead of Old Man, I would have won that game handily.  When you run Old Man, you run in to these problems:
1) Creatures with higher power than 2 (Wild Mongrel, Basking Rootwalla, stuff wearing equipment, what have you)
2) You don't earn yourself a clock.  While on paper stealing your opponent's critter and smacking them with it is good, in actuality you're generating a very crappy clock and not permanently answering anything.
3) You open yourself up to red blast/smother/edict/whatever, which you shouldn't need to do.
On top of these three things, Abyss is actually easier to protect when you play it, given its ability to play nicely with off color mana and drain fueling.  It's also a hate card in black against decks running strip effects, which is nice given my manabase is better at generating black than red.

This particular tournament only gave me one chance to try it out, and while it worked great there too, the real testing came from running our gauntlet over and over again and watching how badly it crippled SS and other aggro control decks, especially in conjunction with removal in the form of Pyroclasm or Lava Dart.

[Gaagooch]

Glad the lists got posted, mad props Scoops. As being the only cripple there and providing a wheelchair for the masses entertainment i have to say it was a great tournament.  I lost to Ray twice that day, thus accumulating my two losses on the day.  In my defense i did have horrible hands four of the five games we had.  The only good hand i had was a mull to four into land, ritual, lotus, grim tutor, so i did get an opening seven cards as i played twister and won a long drawn out game.  Congrats to Rich Shay, and Ray for making finals, Rich winning after a split had already been decided.  To dave and Hatch another top notch tournament, you guys know how to run them.

[TopSecret]

     Thanks, Scoops666, for typing up these lists.

More than one Dragon Top 8'd. I have much fear.

Also, Ray Robillard must be stopped. He has taken far too many top 8's, 4's, 2's, and 1's.
He can't even use the Round 1 Waterbury byes he has won!

[Demonic Attorney]

Seal was my idea.  I included it because preliminary testing showed that Dragon seemed like an unfavorable matchup for the build of Slaver I was running, and I knew at least two people would be running Dragon.  I ran Seal over Spellbomb because Dragon boards Null Rod, which does enough damage as it is without also shutting off all my hate.

The fact that Seal also hits Oath decently hard is a nice plus, but its main role was anti-Dragon tech.  With Seal on the board, it becomes extremely difficult for Dragon to win.  That said, if I had it to do over again I'd have included Lava Dart or Darkblast in my sideboard; Xantid Swarm is hugely problematic.

[oneofchaos]

Seal was my idea.  I included it because preliminary testing showed that Dragon seemed like an unfavorable matchup for the build of Slaver I was running, and I knew at least two people would be running Dragon.  I ran Seal over Spellbomb because Dragon boards Null Rod, which does enough damage as it is without also shutting off all my hate.

The fact that Seal also hits Oath decently hard is a nice plus, but its main role was anti-Dragon tech.  With Seal on the board, it becomes extremely difficult for Dragon to win.  That said, if I had it to do over again I'd have included Lava Dart or Darkblast in my sideboard; Xantid Swarm is hugely problematic.

We found that one out, huh?

My awesome oath into akroma runs into seal?

Damn you team reflection!