[Results] Monster Den, Lotus, 7-15-06 results

[Methuselahn]

July 15 2006 Black Lotus tournament at the Monster Den in Moneyapolis, Minnesota

57 people.  105 degrees. Congrats to everyone who placed and props to all who traveled to play.

Top8:
Luke Kubat - U/G Madness
Jake Hustad  - R/G Madness

Dan Carp - ICBM Oath
Jeremy Seroogy - 5cStax

Chris Nighbor - The SS
I@n Degraff - The SS

Xue Vang - B/W Bob Mask
Tommy Kolowith - The SS

Top 4:
Jake Hustad
Dan Carp

I@n Degraff
Xue Vang

Jake and I@n decide to split.


Metagame Breakdown

8 The SS
7 5c stax
5 Control Slaver
5 ICBM Oath
3 Bomberman
3 Meandeck Gifts
3 Madness
2 Combos!.dec
2 UB aggro control
2 Goblins
2 UBW aggro control
1 Ichorid
1 WTF
1 Black Aggro 
1 WGDX
1 Squees Dragon
1 UB Morphling.dec
1 Stompy
1 Parfait Belcher
1 A.K. Tendrils
1 BW Bob Mask
1 Grim Long
1 Gro A Tog
1 Ravagers
1 WW
1 Rector/Eye of the Storm

Decklists of the Top 8 and more stuff to come shortly.  Congrats to the winners!

Edit: The lists! (in no specific order)

Jake Hustad RGu Madness
1 Darksteel Colossus
1 Tinker
1 Time Walk
1 Crop Rotation
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Timetwister
1 Windfall
1 Ancestral Recall
2 Deep Analysis
3 Fiery  Temper
2 Wonder
2 Anger
3 Roar of the Wurm
4 Wild Mongrel
4 Basking Rootwalla
4 Arrogant Wurm
1 Strip Mine
2 Rifstone Portal
2 Tropical Island
2 Volcanic Island
3 Taiga
3 Wooded Foothils
5 Power Moxes
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mox Diamond
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Lion’s Eye Diamond
1 Black Lotus
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
 SB
1 Red Elemental Blast
4 Artifact Mutation
2 Violent Eruption
3 Ray of Revelation
3 Chalice of the Void
2 Pyrostatic Pillar

I@n Degraff  The SS
4 Duress
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Dark Confidant
4 Dimir Cutpurse
3 Erayo, Soratami Acendant
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
3 Stifle
1 Diabolic Edict
1 Darkblast
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Shadow of Doubt
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Rushing River
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Misdirection
5 Power Moxes
1 Lotus Petal
1 Black Lotus
4 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
4 Underground Sea
1 Watery Grave
1 Island
1 Swamp
1 Strip Mine
3 Wasteland
SB
3 Energy Flux
3 Diabolic Edict
2 Skullclamp
1 Darkblast
3 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Old Man of the Sea
1 Hymn to Tourach
1 Shadow of Doubt


Xue Vang BWr Mask
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus
5 Power Moxes
4 Badlands
4 Scrubland
4 Bloodstained Mire
2 Swamp
1 Strip Mine
4 Chains of Mephistopheles
4 Withered Wretch
4 Duress
4 Dark Confidant
4 Dark Ritual
4 Illusionary Mask
4 Phyrexian Dreadnought
2 Swords to Plowshares
4 Vindicate
1 Balance
1 Darkblast
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Mind Twist
1 Vampiric Tutor
SB
2 Maze of Ith
4 Rack and Ruin
3 Seal of Cleansing
4 Pyrostatic Pillar
2 Tormod’s Crypt


Dan Carp  Chuck Norris Oath v6.66
4 Forbidden Orchard
1 Strip Mine
2 Wasteland
3 Underground sea
2 Tropical Island
4 Flooded Strand
1 Island
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Crop Rotation
1 Rushing River
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
5 Power Moxes
2 Darkblast
1 Null Rod
3 Thirst for Knowledge
4 Brainstorm
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
2 Duress
1 Razia, Boros Archangel
1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
4 Oath of Druids
1 Gaea’s Blessing
SB
2 Oxidize
2 Simic Sky Swallower
2 Pithing Needle
1 Darkblast
1 Null Rod
3 Energy Flux
3 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Balance

Kuke Kubat  UG aggro
2 Mystic Remora
3 Intuition
3 Pithing Needle
4 Wild Mongrel
2 Waterfront Bouncer
1 mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
2 Echoing Truth
2 Basking Rootwalla
2 Daze
2 Living Wish
4 Force of Will
2 Umezawa’s Jitte
2 Arrogant Wurm
2 Gilded Drake
1 Mana Crypt
1 Fastbond
1 Black Lotus
1 Life from the Loam
2 Island
1 Maze of Ith
2 Forest
3 Flooded Strand
1 Strip Mine
1 Wasteland
1 Lonely Sandbar
1 Tranquil Thicket
3 Windswept Heath
2 Mishra’s Factory
1 Tundra
1 Tropical Island
1 Savannah
SB
1 Gilded Drake
1 Eternal Witness
1 Maze of Ith
1 Kataki, War’s Wage
1 Meddling Mage
3 Naturalize
3 Chalice of the Void
2 Energy Flux
2 Tormod’s Crypt



Tommy Kolowith  The SS
4 Duress
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Dark Confidant
4 Dimir Cutpurse
3 Erayo, Soratami Acendant
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
3 Stifle
1 Diabolic Edict
1 Darkblast
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Shadow of Doubt
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Rushing River
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Misdirection
5 Power Moxes
1 Lotus Petal
1 Black Lotus
4 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
4 Underground Sea
1 Watery Grave
1 Island
1 Swamp
1 Strip Mine
3 Wasteland
SB
3 Energy Flux
3 Diabolic Edict
2 Skullclamp
3 Sword of Fire and Ice
2 Old Man of the Sea
1 Hymn to Tourach
1 Shadow of Doubt


Jeremy Seroogy 5cSpooky Stax
4 Mishras’s Workshop
4 City of Brass
3 Gemstone Mine
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Barbarian Ring
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Bazzaar of Baghdad
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Sol Ring
5 Power Moxes
1 Trinisphere
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Crop Rotation
1 Tinker
1 In the Eye of Chaos
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Balance
1 Razormane Masticore
1 Triskelion
1 Karn, Silver Golem
1 Sundering Titan
4 Smokestack
3 Crucible of Worlds
4 Chalice of the Void
3 Sphere of Resistance
2 Seal of Cleansing
2 Goblin Welder
2 Gorilla Shaman
SB
2 Tormod’s Crypt
2 Pyroclasm
1 Triskelion
4 Juggernaut
2 Ray of Revelation
1 Jester’s Cap
1 In the Eye of Chaos
2 Rack and Ruin


Chris Nighbor  The SS
4 Duress
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Dark Confidant
4 Dimir Cutpurse
3 Erayo, Soratami Acendant
2 Remand
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
4 Stifle
1 Darkblast
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Rushing River
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
5 Power Moxes
1 Lotus Petal
1 Black Lotus
4 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
4 Underground Sea
1 Watery Grave
1 Island
1 Swamp
1 Strip Mine
3 Wasteland
SB
2 Sword of Fire and Ice
4 Energy Flux
4 Diabolic Edict
2 Skullclamp
1 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Engineered Explosives

If you see any typos, feel free to PM me.

[gustoh]

Congradulations to Jake and I@n for the split. Also props to you Jeff for staying to collect the data. Xue by far had the craziest deck choice and no one really expected such a "janky" deck to do so well.

Lenny

[M.Solymossy]

Funny story of the day.

Some Kid sits across from Tommy Kolowith round 1.  Tommy asks "are these just for decklists or our pairing?  Cuz they did it alphabetically at Star City" so the kid asks him if he went to star city.  Tommy responds "well, I went to Rochester and Charlotte".   The kid asks how he did... "Well I won rochester.." in the least cocky arrogant tone ever, which made it even MORE arrogant.  Then t ommy crushes him in the SS mirror.

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AK Bob Tendrils was a BAD call, but I forgot my 2nd deck in Milwaukee, and couldn't Audible to Workshop Aggro in time.

[RThomas]

I'm sorry that I couldn't make it, because I've heard that it was a great day from many of you.  I'll return to Minnesota soon.

[The_spooky_kid]

it was a great time.  Id say that 5 ICBM'rs in top 8 means we represented well...  congrats to I@n and Jake in the split.  Next stop is Waterbury...

[VegasJake]

Pardon my ignorance, but what is "The SS"?

[lotus2133]

Pardon my ignorance, but what is "The SS"?

Sullivan Solution

[VegasJake]

Pardon my ignorance, but what is "The SS"?

Sullivan Solution

Thanks.

[TK]

The tournament ended up being a great success with more people showing up than at star city Charlotte. Its rather funny to walk into a tourney though and realize that SS seems to be everywhere, but that seems to be the case at a lot of places recently. Four members of ICBM decided to run the SS at this event and 3 of us took the deck into the top 8 which once again just showed how strong the deck truly is.

I was 4-1-1 on the day going into top 8 and then lost to the b/w/r mask naught played by sue. My only loss in the swiss was to my friend Chris in the SS mirror. and the one draw i had was because i was 4 dmg short of finishing off Jake (who split for first) on turn 5.

The tournament was a lot of fun and was relatively well run except for one thing. This tournament may have had the worst prize support of any tourney Ive ever seen. 5-8 only got 10 dollars in store credit, 3rd only got $25, I'm not sure what 4th got, and second got $100. Which if you look there was 57 people playing multiplied by the $20 is cost each person to get in that equals $1140. assuming that the lotus which was nice is worth $700 tops and the other prizes that were given away comes to a total of $890 this is assuming that 4th also got $25. So looking at the fact that the store I'm sure didn't pay anywhere near $700 for the lotus they still pocketed $250 of pear profit which i think would have better spent on prizes. I know most people walked out of there very disgusted with the $10 they won in a tourney that cost them $20 to enter.

[gustoh]

The tournament ended up being a great success with more people showing up than at star city Charlotte. Its rather funny to walk into a tourney though and realize that SS seems to be everywhere, but that seems to be the case at a lot of places recently. Four members of ICBM decided to run the SS at this event and 3 of us took the deck into the top 8 which once again just showed how strong the deck truly is.

I was 4-1-1 on the day going into top 8 and then lost to the b/w/r mask naught played by sue. My only loss in the swiss was to my friend Chris in the SS mirror. and the one draw i had was because i was 4 dmg short of finishing off Jake (who split for first) on turn 5.

The tournament was a lot of fun and was relatively well run except for one thing. This tournament may have had the worst prize support of any tourney Ive ever seen. 5-8 only got 10 dollars in store credit, 3rd only got $25, I'm not sure what 4th got, and second got $100. Which if you look there was 57 people playing multiplied by the $20 is cost each person to get in that equals $1140. assuming that the lotus which was nice is worth $700 tops and the other prizes that were given away comes to a total of $890 this is assuming that 4th also got $25. So looking at the fact that the store I'm sure didn't pay anywhere near $700 for the lotus they still pocketed $250 of pear profit which i think would have better spent on prizes. I know most people walked out of there very disgusted with the $10 they won in a tourney that cost them $20 to enter.

Xue walked out with $25 as well... I'm glad all you guys came up to play. Hopefully we'll be able to make it out to more WI Vintage tournaments as well.

LT...

[mr_x]

Hey there yallz. It was great seeing such a big number of peeps at the tourney. Yeah, i only got 25, but I enjoyed the tournament. I don't get to play too often so it's fun when i get to play against so many good players. Yeah, the deck I played was a b/r/w masknaugt deck... but what i call it is "the hater". I almost didnt' play it this past weekend, but my friend "gustoh" told me to play it, and i was like "I guess". It's just a deck constructed around terrible duals and extra cards I had left over. I tried the deck with blue for control and draw, but thought it was more consistant and fun as a deck that played "bad" cards. I'll post the deck later, but it was fun to play with all yallz ICBMers. It's always a good time. Kind to think of it, that's who I played against all day except for my first game.

[The_spooky_kid]

Yeah I agree this lotus tourney was a great time.  I also agree the prize support wasn't the greatest, but the tournament ran very smoothly and was a lot of fun.  If Monster's Den decides to have another one of these I'm sure ICBM will make the trip again. 

[M.Solymossy]

This is the list I played at the Den.  it was wrong for the meta, but i couldn't audible in time.

1 ancestral recall
1 time walk
4 Dark Confidants
1 Tendrils
1 rebuild
1 chain of vapor
5 mox
1 sol ring
1 black lotus
3 intuition
4 AK
2 merchant scroll
4 brainstorm
2 duress
1 mind twist
4 force of will
4 mana drain
1 vampiric tutor
1 demonic tutor
1 mystical tutor
4 island
1 swamp
4 delta
2 strand
3 underground sea
1 library of alexandria
1 tolarian academy
1 yawgmoths will

Sb
2 duress
2 old men
2 pithing needle
2 Tormods Crypt
2 engineered plague
1 tinker
1 Darksteel colossus
2 Darkblast
1 Massacre

[SonataOfTheCathedral]

It puts a HUGE smile on my face to see someone pwn ass with Madness, when half the people on these boards dismissed it. Rock on.

On a more related subject, to Jake: Why did you not maindeck Pyrostatic Pillar? Would you in the future, or would you just accept combo as a loss?

[Jake]

It puts a HUGE smile on my face to see someone pwn ass with Madness, when half the people on these boards dismissed it. Rock on.

On a more related subject, to Jake: Why did you not maindeck Pyrostatic Pillar? Would you in the future, or would you just accept combo as a loss?

Now that I think about it, I never did play any combo decks. I suppose that was a large contributing factor for making it as far as I did. About Pyrostatic Pillar though, that card was the bomb every time I played it. I sided both of them in for more than half of my rounds and I kept asking myself why it wasn't maindecked.

It was definitely my MVP out of the board, even if I only had two of them. I always seemed to draw them.

Fun deck.

[MooCow]

Hey there yallz. It was great seeing such a big number of peeps at the tourney. Yeah, i only got 25, but I enjoyed the tournament. I don't get to play too often so it's fun when i get to play against so many good players. Yeah, the deck I played was a b/r/w masknaugt deck... but what i call it is "the hater". I almost didnt' play it this past weekend, but my friend "gustoh" told me to play it, and i was like "I guess". It's just a deck constructed around terrible duals and extra cards I had left over. I tried the deck with blue for control and draw, but thought it was more consistant and fun as a deck that played "bad" cards. I'll post the deck later, but it was fun to play with all yallz ICBMers. It's always a good time. Kind to think of it, that's who I played against all day except for my first game.

i hate you xue, lol cant believe I had to play you in the first round, but I guess ichorid was a bad choice for this tournament... /sadface ... stupid 1-2 drops.

-mike