Eudemonia 1 Pearl Results Lists and Pics!

[LotusHead]

32 players in a field of Dark Rituals, Dredgers, Oath, Shop Aggro, Gifts and Fish!
Full lists, more pictures and feature match coverage can be found at www.Eudemonia.com/p9 soon.

Top 8 in no particular order:

David Ochoa: Dark Rituals and Merchant Scrolls (Control combo, anyways)
Richard Luna: UB Grim Long with Badlands maindeck
Jeff Huang with Fish (if I recall correctly)
Zac Cabot with Mono-U Ophidian/Morphling.
Eric Campusano with old school UW Fish (with Curious Flying Men)
Luis Scott-Vargas with Control Combo
Eirik Aune with Gifts/Tendrils/Warrens
Austin Martinez with Oath of Druids

Matchups: David versus Richard
Jeff vs Zac
Luis vs Eric
Austin vs Eirik

Top 4 was David, Jeff, Luis and Eirik who split the goods.
Prize Structure was
1st Pearl or $300 cash
2nd $100 Cash
3-4 $60 store credit
5-8 $40 store credit Webster's reply has this info accurate.

Test Feature: 20 second interviews: (If links don't work, just copy paste into address bar...)
First Up: Pyromasta                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_ZskqYxm2Q
Second up: Veggeta2711          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JObH_FGNT-Q
Third: Luis Scott-Vargas             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWZEmGHkgNQ
Fourth: NateDizzle                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HsknQX8wlo
Fifth: Victor Andersen                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxC0SSAso9U
Sixth: Andy G                               http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSmV8Cijzw0
Seventh: Brett Allen                       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxSomowB-d8



Before the games... Eudemonia gives us 2 free hours on computer with entry fee!!! Whoot! WoW!


That's Mono Blue Ophidian on the left, and a worthless Wasteland on the right.


Team Vacaville's Patrick Holds the highest standards for his proxies.
His Force of Will is signed AND Altared by CHRIS RUSH for a card called Force of Will from L5R! Rockin!


Austin built his Oath deck with just 3 proxies originally (Lotus, Recall Walk). 
That was too few, so Team Vacaville insisted he proxy his 1 maindeck Island with a Finkel Island from the Tinker World's deck to up his count to 4. The stupid things we do to entertain ourselves.


This is what reported Meandecker Zhalfirin does to dirty Ichorid Players.


This is the "You can run, but you can't hide from my Akroma" intimidation stare by Andy G. Andy cast Ancestral 4 times in one game (not this one) using his secret Regrowth and Reclaim Tech.


Nate wont take no crap from powered Drain and Tendrils players. Underdog for the win!


Webster doing what he does best: Planning, calculating the demise of his opponent.


What's wrong with this field?


Chris Poff is thinking "You all thought I was playing STAX, didn't you? Heh. Look at that basic Island!"


The victors stand around, trying to divvy up the top 4 prizes. Fob can now see himself more on screen


The Lists!

1-4
Luis Scott-Vargas/David "Web" Ochoa (Gifts)

Maindeck:
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Merchant Scroll
3 Gifts Univen
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Rebuild
1 Time Walk

4 Dark Ritual
4 Duress
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Necropotence
1 Tendril's of Agony
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Bargain
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Empty the Warrens
1 Recoup

1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring

1 Tolarian Academy
2 Flooded Strand
4 Polluted Delta
2 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
1 Island
1 Snow-covered Island
1 Swamp

Sideboard:

1 Fire/Ice
1 Echoing Truth
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Rebuild
2 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pyroblast
3 Pithing Needle
3 Massacre
1 Empty the Warrens
1 Island

Eric Aune (Gifts)

Maindeck:
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Merchant Scroll
3 Gifts Univen
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Rebuild
1 Fact or Fiction
4 Mana Drain
1 Skeletal Scrying

1 Dark Ritual
2 Duress
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Tendril's of Agony
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Empty the Warrens
1 Recoup

1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring

1 Tolarian Academy
2 Flooded Strand
3 Polluted Delta
2 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
3 Island
1 Snow-covered Island
1 Swamp

Sideboard:

1 Fire/Ice
1 Echoing Truth
1 Red Elemental Blast
2 Pyroblast
3 Pithing Needle
3 Massacre
1 Empty the Warrens
2 Duress
1 Rebuild


Jeff Huang (White Fish)

Maindeck:

4 Meddling Lage
3 Isamaru, Hound of Konda
4 Savannah Lions
3 Jotun Grunts
3 Kataki, War's Wage
4 Brainstorm
4 Daze
4 Force of WIll
3 Null Rod
3 Echoing Truth
2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Flooded Strand
4 Tundra
1 Windswept Heath
1 Polluted Delta
1 Stripmine
4 Wasteland
2 Island
1 Plains

Sideboard
3 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Trickbind
2 Old Man of the Sea
3 Orim's Chant
2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Kataki, War's Wage
3 Seal of Removal

5-8
Eric Campusano (White Fish)

Maindeck:
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Time Walk
2 Island
1 Strip Mine
1 Plains
4 Flooded Strand
4 Tundra
4 Wasteland
3 Mishra's Factory
3 Daze
4 Force of WIll
4 Curiosity
1 Mystical Tutor
2 Crucible of Worlds
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Meddling Mage
3 Ninja of the Deep Hours
4 Null Rod
4 Icatian Javelineers
4 Flying Men

Sideboard:
3 Blue Elemental Blast
3 Stifle
1 Seal of Cleansing
4 Energy Flux
1 Disenchant
4 Seasinger


Zac Carlow (BBS Throwback)

Maindeck:
2 Flooded Strand
3 Ploouted Delta
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Library of Alexandria
8 Island
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Timewalk
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Mana Drain
4 Back to Basics
4 Force of Will
4 Ophidian
2 Powder Keg
1 Sol Ring
4 Impulse
2 Morpling
4 Rune Snag

Sideboard:
3 Tormod's Crypt
3 Arcane Laboratory
3 Pithing Needle
3 Energy Flux
3 Control Magic


Richard Luna (Thug Long)

Maindeck:
1 Bloodstained Mire
4 Polluted Delta
4 Force of Will
1 Tendrils of Agon
3 Cabal Ritual
1 Sol Ring
1 Vampiric Tutor
4 Dark Ritual
1 Timetwister
4 Brainstorm
3 Grim Tutor
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
3 Misdirection
1 Mox Jet
2 Underground Sea
1 Time Walk
1 Necropotence
1 Memory Jar
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Ruby
1 Island
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Swamp
1 Tinker
1 Yawgmoth's Bargain
1 Mox Diamond
1 Chrome Mox
1 Badlands
1 Mind's Desire
1 Lion's Eye Diamond
1 Mana Crypt
1 Lotus Petal
1 Rebuild
1 Windfall
1 Wheel of Fortune

Sideboard:
3 Duress
2 Thrashing Wumpus
2 Massacre
1 Visara, the Dreadful
2 Hurkyl's Recall
3 Xantid Swarm
1 Bayou
1 Tropical Island


Austin Martinez (Oath)

Maindeck
1 Mishra's Factory
1 Stripmine
2 Wasteland
3 Forbidden Orchard
1 Island
4 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
3 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Black Lotus
1 Razia, Boros Archangel
1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
3 Duress
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Mind Twist
4 Force of Will
4 Remand
4 Mana Leak
4 Brainstorm
2 Echoing Truth
1 Timewalk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Repeal
1 Mystical Tutor
4 Oath of Druids
1 Regrowth
1 Reclaim
1 Gaea's Blessing

Sideboard:
3 Arcane Laoratory
3 Stifle
3 Tormod's Crypt
3 Energy Flux
2 Pithing Needle
1 Rebuild

[yespuhyren]

The only question is why Silvestri calls it IchorOID   :lol:

[Odd mutation]

Yeah, noticed that too! 

Robrecht.

[Webster]

This is what I ran:

4 brainstorm
4 force of will
4 merchant scroll
3 gifts ungiven
1 ancestral recall
1 chain of vapor
1 mystical tutor
1 rebuild
1 time walk

4 dark ritual
4 duress
1 demonic tutor
1 necropotence
1 tendrils of agony
1 vampiric tutor
1 yawgmoth's bargain
1 yawgmoth's will

1 empty the warrens
1 recoup

1 black lotus
1 lotus petal
1 mana crypt
1 mana vault
1 mox emerald
1 mox jet
1 mox pearl
1 mox ruby
1 mox sapphire
1 sol ring

1 tolarian academy
2 flooded strand
4 polluted delta
2 underground sea
2 volcanic island
1 island
1 snow-covered island
1 swamp

SB:
1 island
1 fire/ice
1 echoing truth
1 hurkyl's recall
1 rebuild
1 pyroblast
2 red elemental blast
3 pithing needle
3 massacre
1 empty the warrens

The list is basically a modified list of Scott Limoges's version of ritual gifts. The thread discussing the deck can be found here.


The prize structure was actually:

1st: choice of unlimited pearl (ex+), $200 cash, $300 credit
2nd: choice of $100 cash, $150 credit
3rd-4th: $60 credit
5th-8th: $40 credit

$25 entry, 32 participants.


Not playing t1 for 8 months sucks. The gears needed some oil.


Web

[Nantuko]

Great deck,Im going to play the same next weekend,why dont you play LED??

[Webster]

Great deck,Im going to play the same next weekend,why dont you play LED??

I needed a slot for a maindeck empty the warrens and didn't want to run 61 cards. Despite what's been discussed about LED I felt it was one of the weaker cards in the deck. LED requires you to already have mana to go off which isn't necessarily the case a lot of the time. If you happen to have the prerequisite mana and LED, then it leads to more explosive turns but I didn't feel that it was worth it. I wanted a second win condition in the main. The warrens was good when I needed it.


Web

[forests failed you]

I like the pictures.  Great thread.  It sounds like it was a fantastic tournament.  Congratulations to all who made top eight!

Cheers

[Nantuko]

Thanks for the comments,I dont know what to play

[Lunar]

Hey jeff, nice report...

several of your links are broken for the you tube stuff, however people can still get to them if they want cause youtube links them for you on their site...

Wish I could have been there, but babysitting issues make card playing rough...ill try my best to show up eventually to one or two this year...beware!

[Akuma]

Congratulations on the finish Webster. That is a great list.

[LotusHead]

I played The Guilded Claw.

Round 1: Junior in Mirror Match.

Game 1: I see Triskelions and he doesn't
Game 2: I see Triskelions and he doesn't

Sure I made some plays in there, but that is what it came down to.

Round 2: Austin Martinez with Oath
ID as he is on Team Vacaville and we are both winning so far.

Round 3: Richard Luna with UB GrimLong with maindeck Badlands.
Game 1: I lose die roll and fail to get a mainphase (my hand  had 2 Chalices and a Shop in it.)
Game 2: I tinker for Titan turn 2, taking out his Island.  3 turns later I win.
Game 3: He plays land, Mox, Mana Crypt,  Lotus. I play Shop Sphere of Resistance, burn for 1. He plays EOT Rebuild, replays everything, Tinker's for Jar and wins off Jar. Sigh.

Round 4: Marco with Staxless Stax (more or less a mirror match).
I win 2-1, but always felt like I was losing, until I somehow got rid of his first turn Welders.  Game 1 I think he had Ruby Welder Shop Crucible, followed by topdeck Strip Mine. Ugly, but I won overall, and they were tense games.  I had to put on my best game face.  Brett Allen sat beside my (Hiryu) and saw just how close/swingy those games were.  I don't know how I pulled them off.

Round 5: Eirik Aune Gifts w/Warrens and Tendrils and Scrolls
Game 1 takes about 35 fminutes.  He Willed up a non-lethal tendrils when I was still at 20 (putting me to 8 and him to 29) and the countered everything I did.  When I finally got some beaters on line, he got reduced to 1.  He had 4 cards in his deck left before finally getting 8 Goblin tokens.  I actually don't know if he was toying with me all game, just to force a draw during game 2, but I can't belive gifts can't beat a topdecking shop deck with no lock peices and no threats on board any earlier that 56 cards into game.  I also can't belive I survived Yawgmoth's Will and Tendrils.
We have 15 minutes for game 2.
Game 2: I beat him down with Mishra's Factory and Goblin Welder.  I THINK I was able to Tutor for a Trinisphere, play Shop/Trinisphere to strand him with freshly scrolled Ancestral Recall and 2 lands in play.  I drop lock peices and swing for 3 for enough turns.
Game 3: This game goes to time, but I manage to get Goblin Welder, Sphere of Resistance, Chalice for 1, Chalice for 2, Sphere of Resistance (countered by Chalice, Welded back in thankyouverymuch) and beat for 1 a turn.  Eventually I see crucible and on Turn 4 of extra turns, he has no field worth speaking of, hopelessly locked under the might of The Gilded Claw.
He had more points than me, and a draw would make him "maybe top 8"  "probably top 8" and me "probably not top 8".  He was shocked when I conceeded to him on turn 4 while he was locked out of the game.  Someone did that for me once and I went the distance (Thanks again Andrej!)
Eirik and all who were watching knows who really won though

I piloted this beast:
The Gilded Claw

The Locks:
4 Chalice
4 Crucible
1 Trinisphere
1 Cap
1 Slaver

The Dudes:
4 Juggernaughts (I had 2 for forever, but if the Carps go up to 4, so do I)
1 Memnarch
1 Titan
1 Trike
1 Razormane Masticore
1 Dupe
1 Karn
4 Welders

The Borken:
3 Intuition
1 Jar
1 Tinker
1 Walk
1 Ancestral
1 Demonic
1 Vampiric

The Base
4 Shops
1 Academy
2 Cities
2 Gemstone Mines
4 Wastes
1 Strip
1 Factory
9 SoLoMoxCryptVault
2 Gilded Lotus
1 Darksteel Ingot

The Board:
4 Spheres of Resistance
1 Jester's Cap
1 Dupe
1 Trike
2 Seal of Cleansing
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Ghostly Prisons

props to Austin for making first Eudemonia Top 8 with his own Oath Deck (well, a tweaked Erik Brown deck)
Eudemonia for having tournies again
Ryan Reynolds for judging again and again
All 32 players for being there

Slops
None, except not having 2 minutes of real game time to finish off Eirik properly 

Feature Matches are up on www.eudemonia.com/p9 for more picks and results.  I'll put lists on original thread when they are availiable.

[Webster]

Round 5: Eirik Aune Gifts w/Warrens and Tendrils and Scrolls
I actually don't know if he was toying with me all game, just to force a draw during game 2, but I can't belive gifts can't beat a topdecking shop deck with no lock peices and no threats on board any earlier that 56 cards into game.

He actually wasn't drawing anything except permission spells which is why he countered everything you did. He played gifts the turn he drew it.

He had more points than me, and a draw would make him "maybe top 8" and me "probably not top 8".  He was shocked when I conceeded to him on turn 4 while he was locked out of the game.

He was guaranteed top 8 with anything except for a loss since there were nine people with 9+ points and then you, Jeff, with 7; three of the tables drew, the 3-1 with low breakers played and lost, and then there was your table which would have been the last spot.

I do have to concede that he was actually dead on the board; no permanents versus chalice on zero and one, sphere of resistance, crucible + strip, and goblin welder. The only foil to your clock of goblin welder was the round clock itself. Such is life.


Web

[LotusHead]

Thanks for the lowdown on Eirik's side. I assumed he wasn't stalling, but I couldn't image a Gifts deck with 4 cards left in library, but there it was.  I didn't conceed game 1 because he could very well die from Drain Mana Burn or a lucky Mishra's Factory.

[pyr0ma5ta]

Holy crap I see myself!

Nice work, LotusHead.

[jeffthefob]

Nice pictures! Thanks Jeff.  Wish I can see myself more in it ^^ jkjk

I posted a small mini report: http://www.themanadrain.com/index.php?topic=30089.150 My decklist can also be found there.

-Jeff

[JACO]

This is what I ran:
4 brainstorm
4 force of will
4 merchant scroll
3 gifts ungiven
1 ancestral recall
1 chain of vapor
1 mystical tutor
1 rebuild
1 time walk

4 dark ritual
4 duress
1 demonic tutor
1 necropotence
1 tendrils of agony
1 vampiric tutor
1 yawgmoth's bargain
1 yawgmoth's will

1 empty the warrens
1 recoup

1 black lotus
1 lotus petal
1 mana crypt
1 mana vault
1 mox emerald
1 mox jet
1 mox pearl
1 mox ruby
1 mox sapphire
1 sol ring

1 tolarian academy
2 flooded strand
4 polluted delta
2 underground sea
2 volcanic island
1 island
1 snow-covered island
1 swamp

SB:
1 island
1 fire/ice
1 echoing truth
1 hurkyl's recall
1 rebuild
1 pyroblast
2 red elemental blast
3 pithing needle
3 massacre
1 empty the warrens

You know what's very interesting about the Ritual Gifts decks? While people are talking about how this is the next step in Gifts development, I look at it a different way. It's actually the next evolution of TPS. Look at my TPS list from over a year ago (which was similar to a lot of other people's lists at the time, but with more bounce), and you'll notice it's strikingly similar, with the main differences being:
[minus sometimes inconsistent bombs]
-1 Timetwister
-1 Cunning Wish
-1 Tinker
-1 Memory Jar

[plus more tutoring power]
+1 Gifts Ungiven
+4 Merchant Scroll

and then with the printing of Empty the Warrens it makes tons of sense to split the win conditions to 1 Tendrils/1 EtW (whereas I was playing 2 Tendrils at the time), and being able to splash for Recoup (some TPS were splashing for Recoup and Wheel of Fortune already anyway).

In my testing of the deck I noted:

I’ve always thought TPS was a great deck, but the addition of Gifts Ungiven to this deck really pushes it over the top, in my opinion. The build we finalize runs 2 copies, as testing shows that Windfall, Fact or Fiction, and Frantic Search are all terrible, and Time Spiral is a nice card, if you can cast it. Time Spiral, however, is NOT worth a spot over Gifts, which is amazing pretty much any time in the game.

Ritual Gifts is truly the logical extension of TPS.

[Disburden]

Best reports every, all the time. Thanks a lot for the awesome youtube stuff too. Maybe we can see INSANE PLAYS in the future. Nice job.

[diopter]

Ritual Gifts is truly the logical extension of TPS.

Agreed. The TPS concept was basically "stable combo". IT was a TPS variant, and you can say that Pitch Long leans slightly more towards TPS than Grim Long. I think Ritual Gifts is awesome because it maintains the stability of TPS while improving its consistency - instead of crossing your fingers with a Desire or Twister, you're winning every game with a Gifts for everything you need. Meanwhile, if you so choose, you can use Necro and Bargain, which unlike Desire or Draw7s, are almost guaranteed wins.

[LotusHead]

More updates to the YouTube interviews and pics section.

My camera only has 11 minutes of film time, so I can't always be there for those insane plays.

That and hovering over someone's board for 2+ minutes will probably not be welcome by the players. (or maybe they wouldn't mind. Who knows.). I try to be as unobtrusive with my pics as possible.  Actually, I just try to get crowd scenes and gamestates that lend themselves to funny captions 

Eudemonia say they still have lists, but it will still take a few days to get em up.  Staff issues, etc.

[Lunar]

pointing out that Wu is there might not be the best way to gain buddies here, heh....maybe if they dont know wu by his online name we are safe.

[LotusHead]

Lists are up on original post.  Check out www.eudemonia.com/p9 for their feature match coverage and lots of pics!

[Lunar]

It should be noted that its Zac Carlow not Vac Carlow in the top 8...

it should also be noted how old that list is and the fact that he won a tourney with it almost exactly a year ago as well, heh..

[Tobi]

Eric Campusano's list has 59 cards while his sideboard has 16...

Louis and David played exactly the same list?

[LotusHead]

I just copy and pasted from Eudemonia's site. I'll look into it.

It is quite possible that Luis and David played identical  lists.

[Webster]

Eric Campusano's list has 59 cards while his sideboard has 16...

Louis and David played exactly the same list?

Luis and I did, in fact, play the same 75 cards.


Web

[Scott_Limoges]

Awesome list and congrats Webster. 

I like LED and won't cut it again.  Think gifts and crack LED inresponse - Blotus, Ywill, YBargin, Necro!

[LotusHead]

Last of new pics are up on main post.  Last spam by LotusHead on this thread.  See you all April 1st!

[KiL0]

Nice report, LotusHead. The pictures are wonderful.

Congrats, Luis and Web.

[Yare]

Excellent report here.  Nice work on the pictures.