[Report/Pics] Mox Madness

[Gekoratel]

A couple of my friends and I thought it would be fun to come down for the Mox Madness tourny in Blue Bell, PA.  I've been to type 1 tournies hosted by the same guy and they were all run well with good prize support.  Unfortunately for us 3/4ths of the group were in contention up to the last round but all scrubbed out.  Despite that the tournament was good times and I got a few pictures in that I thought I would share.

Before I get to the pictures here's the theme song for the trip:http://basshunter.m0o.eu/dota/index_en.php
You should check out this song if you like Techno, DOTA, LANing, hot women, or German music.


This gives a good idea of what the venue looks like.  There's plenty of space for matches and the only downside is the tables can be a little grimy.  Along with the main attraction of Type 1 there was Type 2, Two-Headed Giant, Legacy, 5-Color, and other formats.




Top 8 match of Oath vs. Salvagers




Top 4 match of Affinity vs. [Masticore] Control Slaver




Another shot of Affinity vs. [Masticore] Control Slaver




Evenpence playing in the Top 8 of the Type 1 event and first round of the Legacy tourny.  Unfortunately for Evenpence he lost both of these matches.  The Type 1 match was Affinity vs. Uba Stax and Legacy was Tog vs. Cruel Bargain/Infernal Contract Tendrils.  Both of which seem to favor his opponents.  I played a very tight match against him in the 4th round of the Type 1 event.




Per request here was another shot of the T1/Legacy 1 vs. 2 match.




255 card 5-Color decks need Pile Shuffle love too.




Lastly for those Legacy fans here's one shot.  UG Madness vs. Land.dec


Props: Fast T1 tourny with good prize support.
Slops: Legacy tourny that did not have the described prize support.

[Komatteru]

Oh man! Land.dec! Mark Biller and I once designed a deck like that back in 2004 after we got sick of mana screw and Crucible/Wasteland.





It was completely terrible.

[Phele]

Any top-8-lists avaible?

[desolutionist]

Oh baby!  There is me in the green shirt toward the right with the spectator watching.



I posted this on scg:

I went 0-2 drop.

My biggest mistake: Switching to Brassman from Meandeck literally the day before the tournament, effectively tossing all of my testing out of the window. (Or at least I'd like to blame it on this)

1st round was against my teammate, Allen. Needless to say, it is both of our strongest match up because we play each other in the mirror all the time. I held card advantage game 1 until he stacked his Ancestral on a 3-5 card counter-war. My counters were exhausted, so I had no choice but to respond with my own Recall. His play: Misdirection, Draw 6, counter your Gifts, resolve my Gifts, GG? 2nd game I made a huge error that costed me the game. It had something to do with me rushing due to time. I discarded a Mana Drain to thirst instead of an Island... I don't remember why I did it; all I know is that if I didn't, I would have been able to resolve a lethal tendrils ftw. So time ended and he already had a game win. Whatever... I lost to a teammate and a good friend. I'm not disapointed.

2nd round was just stupid. It was against Chris Trembley. It was game 3 and he played a proxied Shahrazard. I've never seen this card and I couldn't make out his hand writing, so I just went a long with it. I ended up getting a game loss for shuffling my rfg cards back into my library when the sub-game ended. The irony is that had I been familar with the card, I would have conceded the sub-game immediately to take 8 damage and proceed with winning with my Colossus.

For the rest of the day I watched Allen's matches until he lost in top 8 to a janky Slaver deck. Later I converted my deck back to Meandeck and raped in a few casual games. Then I concluded the day being entertained by Colby. I would have never thought that morphing a Duplicant could have been so funny.

I think top 8 was:

Gifts w/ Oath Conversion
Uba Stax
Meandeck Gifts
Jank Slaver
U/W Fish
Affinity
Bomberman
Oath

[MarkPharaoh]

There's me smashing FACE with Oath

[Gekoratel]

Any top-8-lists avaible?

I was just a person attending the tournament so the guy hosting it will have to put up the lists.  He usually does this a few weeks after the tourny.  Other decks that were in the Top 8 include at least two MDG and one UW fish.  One of the MDG had an Oath transformational sideboard.  The field itself seemed to be around 70% drain, 2 Bazaar decks, 2-3 Long decks, and 3-4 people playing fish.  As far as I know the only person playing Stax was Colby.

[seymourws]

I was the only one playing White Weenie    but yea there was more drain than everything else put together.

[Largent]

i think more people need to be clicking this link



http://basshunter.m0o.eu/dota/index_en.php

I think more people should stop spamming threads. Consider this an official warning.
- Bram

[desolutionist]

I was the only one playing White Weenie    but yea there was more drain than everything else put together.

You owe me a mox. 

Actually, I'm glad you won.  I wasn't prepared for you at all and severely underestimated you; the proxied Orim's Chants tend to do that.

[MarkPharaoh]

Didn't notice this until I looked at the pics again...but why did Simon and Carlos play their Top4 match?  We already did a Top4 split and had everything worked out...did something happen?  Since I just came down by myself I left shortly after we agreed to the split.

[seymourws]

@desolutionist:  I'm really sorry round 2 had to end the way it did. You were a really good opponent and like you said, had you conceded the sub-game you would have definitley won the round.  In game 2 I completely miscalled your deck thinking that you were CS because of TFK and LoA so my boarding strategy went out the window and you comboed me out pretty severely.  As to the proxied chants; I'm poor that is why I play WW in vintage  ( first list of the deck came in at just under $100 ), although I did get a signed Shahrazad just before the tournament.  For the future I will try and have my proxies more readable, so I will just have someone else write them I have terrible hand wrinting. 

[desolutionist]

@desolutionist:  I'm really sorry round 2 had to end the way it did. You were a really good opponent and like you said, had you conceded the sub-game you would have definitley won the round.  In game 2 I completely miscalled your deck thinking that you were CS because of TFK and LoA so my boarding strategy went out the window and you comboed me out pretty severely.  As to the proxied chants; I'm poor that is why I play WW in vintage  ( first list of the deck came in at just under $100 ), although I did get a signed Shahrazad just before the tournament.  For the future I will try and have my proxies more readable, so I will just have someone else write them I have terrible hand wrinting. 

Well...  I've only been playing Magic for 8-9 months and Vintage for 2 (This was my first Type 1 Tournament); I was almost destined to encounter an interaction that I didn't understand.  I understood the 'best' decks well, anything shy of that would have eventually caught me off guard.

I've probably gained more from that match than any other match I've played of Type 1. 

Hopefully I'll do better in Virginia next month.

[ashiXIII]

Didn't notice this until I looked at the pics again...but why did Simon and Carlos play their Top4 match?  We already did a Top4 split and had everything worked out...did something happen?  Since I just came down by myself I left shortly after we agreed to the split.

I guess it was just for fun. It obviously didn't count for anything. And Gekoratel, you didn't get any pictures of me or my pimped Gifts deck!

[Evenpence]

Evenpence playing in the Top 8 of the Type 1 event and first round of the Legacy tourny.  Unfortunately for Evenpence he lost both of these matches.  The Type 1 match was Affinity vs. Uba Stax and Legacy was Tog vs. Cruel Bargain/Infernal Contract Tendrils.  Both of which seem to favor his opponents.  I played a very tight match against him in the 4th round of the Type 1 event.

I went to game 3 in both though!  Btw, I will never do this again, not because I didn't thorougly enjoy it.  I liked playing TWO MATCHES AT ONE TIME, heh.  I won't do it again because I made sloppy play mistakes in my T1 game that cost me the match.  In game 3 against Simon, I didn't weld in multiple bridges which cost me the game.  I also made other sloppy play mistakes.  I figured I had the game because I would eventually bazaar into Uba Mask which would allow me to play a Chalice @ 1 to seal the deal in a turn or two (notice the two bazaars on the table).  I also didn't strip his academy.  I also didn't figure he had Oxidize in his deck because I was distracted with how to combo out with an Arcane Lab on the table (which I almost succeeded to do) in my Legacy match.

Tournament report coming up on the funnest tournament of all time!

Btw, I enjoyed entertaining those of you who were watching my many games against Alan.

Oh, and that's a really horrible picture of me.  I guess it shows my back muscle definition, but would it hurt you to show my face to the masses!? 

Any top-8-lists avaible?

I was just a person attending the tournament so the guy hosting it will have to put up the lists.  He usually does this a few weeks after the tourny.  Other decks that were in the Top 8 include at least two MDG and one UW fish.  One of the MDG had an Oath transformational sideboard.  The field itself seemed to be around 70% drain, 2 Bazaar decks, 2-3 Long decks, and 3-4 people playing fish.  As far as I know the only person playing Stax was Colby.

Oh yeah, a TON of people had dead sideboard cards.  I didn't though, 0 artifact hate in my sideboard.  And I get paired up against Affinity.  And would have won Games 2 and 3 thanks to Shard + Bridge pownage if I didn't make like 10 play mistakes.  Anyway, congrats Simon, you earned it, T4ing with Affinity and all. 

Oh, by the way, I scouted everyone and have everyone written down.  This is from memory though:

7 Gifts.
5 Long.
5-6 Fish.
1 Stax (me)
1 Oath
1 Affinity (Simon)
3 Bomberman (maybe more)
2-3 Slaver.

I forget what else, but I'll correct this when I find the scouting sheet I had.

I.E., perfect metagame for Stax.  I went 3-0-2 in the swiss.

EDIT:  THIS IS MY EXACT SCOUTING SHEET:

Flannel - Blue, Older - Slaver
Jet, Mask - Hetherington - Gifts (Jet Mask was when we were playing at Boston and he put a Jet into his hand off Mask, but I saw him and we caught it, and he was able to reveal it to Uba Mask and put it into play without issue).
Saiasian - Gifts (he was the only Asian dude there, and I accidentally wrote Sai in front of it, but the pencil I had didn't have an eraser.)
Red Hoodie Aero - Oath
Joe - Gifts (Oh, looks like I did write you down Joe).
Crazy Anime - Bomberman
White Shirt - Green Emblem - Bomberman
Blue Jersey Long Sleeves - Dragon
Jeff Folinus - Long (Pitch)
AJ - UR Fish
Head Games Beard Dan - Slaver
Brown Sutherland Head Games Alan - Gifts
Blue Florida - Gifts
Simon - Affinity
Mustache Flannel - Land Tax?  Wtf?
Joe Friend - Long  (He was the only friend of Joe's that I didn't know who his name was, so I wrote down Joe Friend, heh).
Red Mana - Long
Mono Black Jank T4 - Mono Black (This guy T4ed, beating Eves last Blue Bell, which is why the T4 is there).
I'm Leet - Fish
Green Miami - Gifts

This is in addition to:

Jason - Fish
Me - Stax
Dan - Fish
Mike - Fish
Matt - Dragon
Eves - Long

So, yeah, I have 26 people there, and there are probably others that I knew what they were playing, but didn't have to write them down.  I think there were 28 that attended, so I had everyone pegged.

[psu42]

sounds like a fun tourney, sadly i couldn't show up and represent with Dragon again, oh well, looking forward to next tournament

nice reports, keep up the pictures, they make them the best

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

You guys were lucky I couldn't make it to demolish you in the swiss then lose in the finals

[ashiXIII]

By the way, Colby, your Legacy opponent was getting pissed off because of the two match thing. There was a lot of time you were spending in the match with Simon and he was just waiting on you. It annoyed him, and it showed, but it was funny.

[ashiXIII]

You guys were lucky I couldn't make it to demolish you in the swiss then lose in the finals

That's what you get for being a dick and refusing to split, Ashok.

[MarkPharaoh]

I know I wouldn't be mad if I was Colbys opponent...his mind was split in two which gives you a better chance to beat him...I would actually be escatic in his position, but that's me.  Ashok, I would of bent you over the table and made you my Indian bitch if given the opportunity

[Evenpence]

By the way, Colby, your Legacy opponent was getting pissed off because of the two match thing. There was a lot of time you were spending in the match with Simon and he was just waiting on you. It annoyed him, and it showed, but it was funny.

Yeah, I could tell.  My thinking is the same as MarkPharoah's.

Understandably, though, I did more to my Legacy opponent then just ignore him.  After the first game, where I demolished him, I told him how to beat me, as if he had no idea how to do it (which was actually the wrong advice, I wanted him to expend counters on me, which he did in the second and third games).  I mulliganed down to five on game 2 where I had a first turn kill if I was able to topdeck ANY MANA AT ALL.  Any starting mana source, LED, ritual, or even tutor (I believe) would have won me the game, but instead I topdecked creatures and Draw 4's for a couple turns before he got an arcane lab down.

I made a 5/5 flyer, but he had the stinky to win him the game.  Game 3, he brainstorms during his own turn, attacks with Tog when he could have easily made it lethal, I take it because I know he won't see the play, he doesn't, makes me take one, then I naturalize his Arcane Lab during his EOT.  He tries to counter, but I inform him he already played a brainstorm.  I suppose you didn't see the instant speed enchantment removal IN MY HAND WHEN I CAST LAND GRANT AND YOU DIDN'T COUNTER TWO TURNS EARLIER.

Anyway, I would have won the following turn had I gotten virtually anything off multiple Draw 4's, because he countered my accelerants and not my buisness spells (which is completely hilarious, as I had like 4x rits and 2x buisness in my hand) but I didn't - fizzling like this happens maybe 1 out of 100 games, and it just so happened to me in game 3 of this match, so I lose to mana burn with like 9 floating and me at 2 life.  Oh well.

Per request here was another shot of the T1/Legacy 1 vs. 2 match.

Sick!  My shirt says "I know Jesus Loves Me."  My grandfather gave it to me.  Those are also his glasses hanging from my shirt.  !  Insane  !

[TD]

By the way, Colby, your Legacy opponent was getting pissed off because of the two match thing. There was a lot of time you were spending in the match with Simon and he was just waiting on you. It annoyed him, and it showed, but it was funny.

The legacy guy screwed me out of T8. Colby you should have beaten him for me!

[Largent]

Yeah, I could tell.  My thinking is the same as MarkPharoah's.

Understandably, though, I did more to my Legacy opponent then just ignore him.  After the first game, where I demolished him, I told him how to beat me, as if he had no idea how to do it (which was actually the wrong advice, I wanted him to expend counters on me, which he did in the second and third games).  I mulliganed down to five on game 2 where I had a first turn kill if I was able to topdeck ANY MANA AT ALL.  Any starting mana source, LED, ritual, or even tutor (I believe) would have won me the game, but instead I topdecked creatures and Draw 4's for a couple turns before he got an arcane lab down.

1) jeff and myself decided that i should play legacy since we were already there, we literally took cards out of my binder and made the crappiest tog deck of all time, i did not expect to do well with it at all. not only that, that was like my second time playing legacy, t1 and t2 are where i am most of the time so i literally had no idea what the deck was trying to do

I made a 5/5 flyer, but he had the stinky to win him the game.  Game 3, he brainstorms during his own turn, attacks with Tog when he could have easily made it lethal, I take it because I know he won't see the play, he doesn't, makes me take one, then I naturalize his Arcane Lab during his EOT.  He tries to counter, but I inform him he already played a brainstorm.  I suppose you didn't see the instant speed enchantment removal IN MY HAND WHEN I CAST LAND GRANT AND YOU DIDN'T COUNTER TWO TURNS EARLIER.

2) had i been serious during this side legacy event and was actually playing a real deck with intention to do well i would have written down the cards in your hand, but i in fact did not where as i didnt care, and i believe i actually said that during the game, you were wasting both my time and simon's

3) tog was not lethal during that turn, i counted it thanks though, i was setting up for lethal next turn so i BS'd during my turn to get  the cards i needed then so during your turn i could run the counter magic at you and definatly have the win the following turn

4) oh yeah who won that match by the way? just curious?

The legacy guy screwed me out of T8. Colby you should have beaten him for me! Sad

how did i screw you out of t8? by completely destroying you games 2 and 3 after scooping up game 1 cause i kept a hand that i wouldnt have if i knew what you were playing, and then not reporting to the judge that i lost to you so that you could get in over simon, who people on my team knew? i dont think so buddy.

[desolutionist]

By the way, Colby, your Legacy opponent was getting pissed off because of the two match thing. There was a lot of time you were spending in the match with Simon and he was just waiting on you. It annoyed him, and it showed, but it was funny.

It is also disrespectful.  I'd be offended if my opponent implied that he only needed half of his concentration to beat me.

[yespuhyren]

Trust me, if I had to either play in 2 tournaments or one, I'd play two.  Thats what you call love of the game

[TD]

The legacy guy screwed me out of T8. Colby you should have beaten him for me! Sad

how did i screw you out of t8? by completely destroying you games 2 and 3 after scooping up game 1 cause i kept a hand that i wouldnt have if i knew what you were playing, and then not reporting to the judge that i lost to you so that you could get in over simon, who people on my team knew? i dont think so buddy.

Going into the final round you only had 6 points and I had 7. I offered you prize to scoop to me but for what ever reason you decided to take the win anyway. From what I understand Simon didn't offer you anything and you just did it to be a dick. Don't go there. - Bram. Don't get me wrong Simon is a standup guy and my team is also close friends with him, but I can't see why you would turn down the option to perhapse get free prize by scooping your cards and guaranteeing me a spot in the T8 over denying yourself any possability of prize by selfishly taking the win.

And by the way Game 3 went down to the wire untill you simply top decked better than me.

Offering someone something to scoop to you is illegal. Scooping to someone in exchange for a prize is illegal. That is reason enough to reject such an offer. Please do not call someone selfish for failing to cheat with you.
--TAL

[Largent]

The legacy guy screwed me out of T8. Colby you should have beaten him for me! Sad

how did i screw you out of t8? by completely destroying you games 2 and 3 after scooping up game 1 cause i kept a hand that i wouldnt have if i knew what you were playing, and then not reporting to the judge that i lost to you so that you could get in over simon, who people on my team knew? i dont think so buddy.

Going into the final round you only had 6 points and I had 7. I offered you prize to scoop to me but for what ever reason you decided to take the win anyway. From what I understand Simon didn't offer you anything and you just did it to be a dick. Don't get me wrong Simon is a standup guy and my team is also close friends with him, but I can't see why you would turn down the option to perhapse get free prize by scooping your cards and guaranteeing me a spot in the T8 over denying yourself any possability of prize by selfishly taking the win.

And by the way Game 3 went down to the wire untill you simply top decked better than me.

hmm i seem to recall killing your hand darkblasting your dorks and winning in under 5 minutes i guess thats what you call 'down to the wire'

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

These Will Degenerate Into So Take It To PM's If You Really Want To Continue This.

And I'd never play 2 opponents at the same time because i'd handicap myself and its disrespectful to both opponents.

[Bram]

These Will Degenerate Into So Take It To PM's If You Really Want To Continue This.

I have nothing to add to that other than to say that if you guys don't follow up on that suggestion, there'll be warnings.

[EDIT] That, and the word 'Flamewars', obviously ^^

[Largent]

yes i agree, fighting online is just about the lamest thing one can do, it just felt like i was catching a lot hate for no particular reason hopefully we can avoid further off topic degenerate posting


-Erik

[Disburden]

I love vintage pics. Thanks a lot for these results. Whenever there's a report with pics in the tournament forum I go directly there before anything else. I'm amazed everytime I see a Ravager in Vintage reports. Seriously, standard was so much fun when you could play that dude.