[Results] ELD's Mox V

[ELD]

You can find the original announcement here.

This event was for a Mox Emerald.  Everyone who attended received a hand made Mox Emerald Proxy, which does not count as a proxy in any of my future events.



The Top 8 after 6 rounds of swiss was:

1 Rich Shay - Ichorid
2 Andy Probassco - Flash
3 Dan Cunningham - Bomberman
4 Dana Remfrew - UWB Fish
5 Donald Belcastro - Bomberman
6 Stefan Elsworth - Gifts
7 Ray Robillard - Staxless Stax
8 Bill Copes - BW Stax

Here's how things played out (winners in bold)

Quarterfinals
Rich Shay - Ichorid vs Bill Copes - BW Stax
Andy Probassco - Flash vs Ray Robillard - Staxless Stax
Dan Cunningham - Bomberman vs Stefan Elsworth - Gifts
Dana Remfrew - UWB Fish vs Donald Belcastro - Bomberman

Semifinals
Rich Shay - Ichorid vs Donald Belcastro - Bomberman
Ray Robillard - Staxless Stax vs Stefan Elsworth - Gifts

Finals
Donald Belcastro - Bomberman split with Stefan Elsworth - Gifts

Andy Probasco chose the Foil Darksteel Collosus
Dan Cunningham chose the Foil Extirpate
Dana Remfrew chose the FBB Korean Null Rod
Bill Coopes chose an Antiquities Mishra's Factory and a Mox Ruby Power Proxy
Rich Shay won the Alpha Demonic Tutor
Ray Robillard won the 4x Foil FNM Brainstorm
Stefan Elsworth and Donald Belcastro split the Mox Emerald and Playset of 4x Force of Will

Rich Shay won the pre-registration drawing for a Tropical Island. 

Congratulations to all the winners. 

You can find Rich's report here

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Here's the rest of the field:

Erik Anderson - Rector Flash
Kyle Leith - SS
Keith Carpenter - Stax
Kevin Goodrich - Grim Long
Chadd Kline - SS
Jon Amiravis - Control Slaver
Ryan Marek - Pitch Long
Adam Dodge - SS
Craig Dupre - TMWA
Dan Yarrington - TMWA
Mike Bergeron - Ichorid
Sara Yarrington - Belcher
Marc Tuttle - UWB Fish
Travis LaPlante - Workshop Slaver
Scott Hughes - Staxless Stax
Louis Gentile - Pitch Long
Kieth Johnson - Staxless Stax
Mike Lydon - Ichorid
Nick Rodrigues - Gifts
Jared Carter - Hulk Flash
Matt Moroff - Control Slaver
Sean ORcutt - Ichorid
Stephen Houdlette - Gifts

and the Top 8 Decklists

   Bill Copes - BW Workshop
4   Mishra's Workshop
4   Scrubland
3   Wasteland
1   Strip mine
1   Urborg, tomb of yawgmoth
1   Riftstone portal
1   Tolarian academy
1   Swamp
1   Plains
1   Flooded strand
1   Polluted delta
1   Mox jet
1   Mox ruby
1   Mox pearl
1   Mox sapphire
1   Mox emerald
1   Black lotus
1   Lotus petal
1   Sol ring
1   Trinisphere
4   Sphere of resistance
4   Chalice of the void
3   Smokestack
3   Crucible of worlds
2   Null rod
2   Juggernaut
4   Dark confidant
3   Aven mindcensor
2   Jotun grunt
1   Balance
1   Swords to plowshares
1   Demonic tutor
1   Vampiric tutor
1   Enlightened tutor
1   Darkblast
   
SB
1   Yixlid jailer
2   Defense grid
1   Tabernacle at pendrell vale
4   Leyline of the void
1   Extirpate
1   Swords to plowshares
2   Razormane masticore
1   darkblast
2   Jester's cap
   
   Dana Remfrew UWB Fish
3   Dimir cutpurse
3   Jotun grunt
4   Dark confidant
4   Meddling mage
3   Daze
4   Force of will
2   Stifle
3   Duress
3   Null rod
1   Echoing truth
1   Balance
1   darkblast
1   Ancestral recall
1   Time walk
4   Brainstorm
1   Strip mine
3   Wasteland
3   Polluted delta
2   Flooded strand
3   Tundra
4   Underground sea
1   Swamp
2   Island
1   Mox pearl
1   Mox sapphire
1   Mox jet
   
SB
1   Stifle
3   yixlid jailer
3   Chalice of the void
1   Chain of vapor
1   Rebuild
2   Seal of cleansing
2   Ensnaring bridge
2   Engineered plague
   
   Donald Belcastro Bomberman
4   Trinket mage
3   Auriok salvagers
3   aven mindcensor
4   Brainstorm
4   Force of will
4   Mana drain
2   Misdirection
2   Thirst for knowledge
2   Merchant scroll
1   Gift's ungiven
1   Echoing truth
1   Ancestral recall
1   Time walk
1   Aether spellbomb
1   Engineered explosives
1   Tormod's crypt
1   Pithing needle
1   Black lotus
1   Mox pearl
1   Mox sapphire
1   Mox ruby
1   Mox emerald
1   Mox jet
1   Sol ring
4   Flooded strand
4   Tundra
4   Island
1   Snow-covered island
1   Library of alexandria
1   Strip mine
2   Plains
   
SB
2   Serra avenger
4   Honor the fallen
3   Energy flux
2   tormod's crypt
1   Rebuild
3   Exalted angel
   
   Rich Shay Ichorid
4   Dryad arbor
4   Bridge from below
4   Street wraith
4   Dread return
4   leyline of the void
4   Cabal therapy
4   Chalice of the void
4   Narcomoeba
4   Ichorid
2   Cephalid sage
2   Flame-kin zealot
4   Golgari gravetroll
4   Stinkweed imp
4   Bazaar of baghdad
4   Serum powder
4   Golagri thug
   
SB
4   Reverant silence
3   Emerald charm
2   Tropical island
2   Wooded foothills
4   Contagion
   
   Andy Probasco - Hulk Flash
2   Island
2   Underground sea
4   Polluted delta
2   Flooded strand
1   mox emerald
1   Mox sapphire
1   Mox ruby
1   Mox jet
1   Mox pearl
1   Lotus petal
1   Black lotus
1   Elvish spirit guide
4   Protean hulk
1   Karmic guide
1   Body snatcher
1   Kiki-jiki, Mirror breaker
1   Carrion feeder
2   Chain of vapor
4   Flash
4   Force of will
3   Summoner's pact
4   Brainstorm
1   vampiric tutor
1   Demonic tutor
1   Mystical tutor
4   Merchant scroll
3   Misdirection
2   Pact of negation
1   Ancestral recall
4   Street wraith
   
SB
2   Elvish spirit guide
1   Heart sliver
4   Virulent sliver
4   leyline of the void
1   Rebuild
1   Benevolent bodyguard
1   Massacre
1   Pearled unicorn
1   Sylvan safekeeper
   
   Ray Robillard Staxless Stax
4   City of brass
4   Goblin welder
4   Tangle wire
4   Street wraith
3   Crucible of worlds
2   Gorilla shaman
2   Sensei's diving top
2   Coalition relic
2   Chalice of the Void?????
2   Gemstone mine
1   Sundering titan
1   Triskelion
1   Balance
1   trinisphere
1   vampiric tutor
1   Tinker
1   Memory jar
1   Demonic tutor
1   Crop rotation
4   Wasteland
4   mishra's Workshop
1   Mox jet
1   Mox emerald
1   Mox pearl
1   Mox ruby
1   Mox sapphire
1   Black lotus
1   Sol ring
1   Mana vault
1   tolarian academy
1   Barbarian ring
1   Strip mine
1   Mana crypt
1   Ancestral recall
1   Time walk
   
SB
2   Red elemental blast
1   Shattering spree
2   Choke
2   Chalice of the void
1   triskelion
1   Darkblast
2   Eon hub
4   leyline of the void
   
   Stefan Ellsworth Gifts
2   Flooded strand
3   Polluted delta
2   Volcanic island
2   Underground sea
1   tolarian academy
2   Snow-covered island
1   library of alexandria
2   Island
1   Darksteel collosus
4   Street wraith
4   Force of will
3   gift's ungiven
4   Mana drain
4   Brainstorm
1   Recoup
1   Lotus petal
1   Black lotus
1   mox emerald
1   Mox jet
1   Mox pearl
1   Mox sapphire
1   Mox ruby
1       Sol Ring
1   Demonic tutor
1   Ancestral recall
1   Time walk
1   Yawgmoth's will
3   Merchant scroll
1   Mana crypt
1   Tendrils of agony
1   vampiric tutor
1   Mystical tutor
1   tormod's crypt
1   Hurkyl's Recall
1   Timetwister
1   Tinker
1   Chain of vapor
   
SB
3   Aven mindcensor
1   Tundra
3   Duress
1   Rebuild
2   Empty the warrens
3   Yixlid jailer
2   Flametongue kavu
   
   Dan Cunnigham Bomberman
4   trinket mage
3   auriok salvagers
3   aven mindcensor
4   Brainstorm
4   Force of will
4   Mana drain
2   Misdirection
2   Thirst for knowledge
2   Merchant scroll
1   gift's ungiven
1   Echoing truth
1   Ancestral recall
1   Time walk
1   aether spellbomb
1   Engineered explosives
1   tormod's crypt
1   Pithing needle
1   Black lotus
1   Mox emerald
1   Mox pearl
1   Mox jet
1   Mox sapphire
1   Mox ruby
1   Black lotus
1   Sol ring
4   Flooded strand
4   Tundra
4   Island
1   Snow-covered island
1   library of alexandria
1   Strip mine
2   Plains
   
SB
4   serra avenger
4   Honor the fallen
3   Energy flux
2   tormod's crypt
1   Rebuild
1   Exalted angel


Thanks again to everyone who attended the event.  My next event is June 30th in Bridgewater, MA.   

[Dxfiler]

 

Andy Probasco - Hulk Flash
   
SB
2   Elvish spirit guide
1   Heart sliver
4   Virulent sliver
4   leyline of the void
1   Rebuild
1   Benevolent bodyguard
1   Massacre
1   Pearled unicorn
1   Sylvan safekeeper

That sideboard can only come from the mind of a madman. 

Funny how the fish hate drops from 3 massacre and an abyss to just one massacre for this tourney.  I wonder if that had anything to do with me not being there. :p

Other random thoughts:

I wish I went to this instead of bombing out at ptq.  The list I would've played is pretty much Dana's card for card.  We worked on it for a while and it was pretty solid.  Terrible Bomberman match though.  Now they have serra avenger and exalted angel.
Damn you Dan Cunningham... straight to hell!

Rich has a very detailed and tweaked ichorid list it looks like.  Not bad for someone who had "no idea" what he was playing the night before.  :p 

Aven Mindcensor in gifts sideboard is very interesting.

Stax still looks solid in this metagame, which is very surprising to me.

Every single deck in the top 8 had a very detailed plan for Ichorid even though only 3 showed up. That shows the effect the deck has on this format.  I suspect the hate not to drop anytime soon.  I think 4-7 sideboard slots should be devoted to the deck completely. 

Very interesting results.  Thanks for posting them Eric.  Hopefully I can make it to the next one.

- Dave Feinstein

[Phele]

Sorry for asking, but what makes Serra Avenger so much better than Old Man, which also works pretty good against Bomberman. I ' ve tried out Exalted Angel as well and found it just so so with all these Echoing Truthes around. Without these both you could easily cut the second Plains and exchange it with another fetchland which seem to fit the Mana Drain route better. Or you could try out Tolaria West which can be an interesting option with Strip Mine and Library around. Thanks for the info!

[Tobi]

Stefan's Gifts list misses a card.

[Sextiger]

Old Man is often just slower and weaker than Serra Avenger a lot of times.  He is one mana more, is blue (REB), his ability can be hit with pithing needle (very important for the mirror) and a lot of times he will just sit on the board as a 2/3 waiting for a creature to steal instead of just winning. 

Grats to the Bomberman players, those lists are pretty similar to what I've been testing.  Mindcensor shores up the combo/gifts matches pretty nicely. 

[Tobi]

Another question related to the decklists:

Ray Robillard Staxless Stax
...
3   Crucible of worlds
...
2   Crucible of worlds
...

5 Crucible? 

[TopSecret]

 

Andy Probasco - Hulk Flash
   
SB
2   Elvish spirit guide
1   Heart sliver
4   Virulent sliver
4   leyline of the void
1   Rebuild
1   Benevolent bodyguard
1   Massacre
1   Pearled unicorn
1   Sylvan safekeeper

That sideboard can only come from the mind of a madman. 

OMG
F34R T3H P0IS0N

Thanks for posting the lists, ELD.
I always enjoy a diverse metagame. 

[Myriad Games]

Another question related to the decklists:

Ray Robillard Staxless Stax
...
3   Crucible of worlds
...
2   Crucible of worlds
...

5 Crucible? 

So that's how Ray beats me so consistently! 

[T00L]

Stefan's Gifts list misses a card.

I believe its missing a sol ring

[ELD]

Ray's list was indeed written down as having 5 crucible.  Perhaps 2 of them were Smokestacks :-p 

[FTKzak]

Ray's list was indeed written down as having 5 crucible.  Perhaps 2 of them were Smokestacks :-p 

My guess is 2x CotV. He only has two in his sideboard and none maindeck.

[Smmenen]

Ray:

I'm more and more mystified by your deck:

1) No maindeck Chalice

2) no maindeck Sphere of Resistence

Without those cards, I have no idea how you beat Gifts/Long.

Do you expect them to care about Tangle Wire/Wasteland/and Shaman or do you just always draw Trinisphere or Balance?

You don't even have In The Eye.   You have no way to force interaction on turn one except for Balance, Strip Mine, and Trinisphere.   

[Implacable]

Ray:

I'm more and more mystified by your deck:

1) No maindeck Chalice

2) no maindeck Sphere of Resistence

Without those cards, I have no idea how you beat Gifts/Long.

Do you expect them to care about Tangle Wire/Wasteland/and Shaman or do you just always draw Trinisphere or Balance?

You don't even have In The Eye.   You have no way to force interaction on turn one except for Balance, Strip Mine, and Trinisphere.   

Heck, I'm flummoxed as to how he beat HulkFlash.  It's not like Tangle Wire is very hot against fast combo...

[iamfishman]

I actually had 2 chalices main and brought in the other two along with choke, REB, etc against gifts/long.

The other comment in this thread about me writing down 2 crucibles instead of 2 chalice is clearly what happened.

Ray:

I'm more and more mystified by your deck:

1) No maindeck Chalice

2) no maindeck Sphere of Resistence

Without those cards, I have no idea how you beat Gifts/Long.

Do you expect them to care about Tangle Wire/Wasteland/and Shaman or do you just always draw Trinisphere or Balance?

You don't even have In The Eye.   You have no way to force interaction on turn one except for Balance, Strip Mine, and Trinisphere.   

Heck, I'm flummoxed as to how he beat HulkFlash.  It's not like Tangle Wire is very hot against fast combo...

[LotusHead]

[   
   Rich Shay Ichorid
4   Street wraith
   
   Andy Probasco - Hulk Flash
4   Street wraith
   
   Ray Robillard Staxless Stax
4   Street wraith
   
   Stefan Ellsworth Gifts
4   Street wraith

Street Wraith in Ichorid/Dredge is a given, but I am curious as to how all the other Street Wraiths panned out? Was it worth it? 

[T00L]

I can say the street wraiths weren't bad but since the benefits of running a 56 card deck are purely statistical I can't really say yes gifts was better with them. I liked them and i'll run them again. The most redic street wraith play i made though was first turn drawing like 5 or 6 cards off double street wraith into ancestral.

[iamfishman]

[   
   Rich Shay Ichorid
4   Street wraith
   
   Andy Probasco - Hulk Flash
4   Street wraith
   
   Ray Robillard Staxless Stax
4   Street wraith
   
   Stefan Ellsworth Gifts
4   Street wraith

Street Wraith in Ichorid/Dredge is a given, but I am curious as to how all the other Street Wraiths panned out? Was it worth it? 

I kept a hand of Street Wraith x4, Ancestral, Goblin Welder, Time Walk.

One of the four cards was City of Brass.

Another time, I kept a similar 3 Wraith no land hand...that time things didn't pan out.

I guess I'm still on the fence about them.

[yespuhyren]

The odds of having 4x Street Wraith in hand is like virtually nothing.  The odds are 1% to have all 4 in hand by Turn 11.  I wouldn't use that as a good judging tool.

[ELD]

It is hard to argue against Street Wraith given those results.  With Rich and Andy sweeping the swiss and Stefan spitting in the finals, it does indicate that the effects of Street Wraith is worth it.  I know there were a few games won during the event from Street Wraith beats, which cannot be overlooked.  It would seem to me that the speed of the format makes the 2 life from cycling even less of an issue.   

[yespuhyren]

Ray what was the last card in your deck as currently listed you are running 59 MD

[nataz]

Tangle wire is better then you think considering those lists were 5 color and using scroll as a crutch to find flash + bounce.

I know the games I lost were as direct results of tangle wire keeping me off mana durring my mainphase.