Lists and feature match coverage is alway availiable at
www.eudemonia.com/p9 so check that out. (give em a day or two). I'll edit lists into this post later.
22 or so people showed up for the chance to win a Jet, and the local Meta was abuzz with New Decks (Flash, post Future Sight Ichorid) and more new decks (Grim Simian Long, many Ichorid/Flash Hate decks!)
The top 8 in no order was:
Michael Klemic with Rogue UB Fish/Ichorid Hate Deck with Ebon Hands Jailer and Leyline MD
vs
Sam Sherman with Post FS Ichorid
Eric Campusano with UWB Fish with 3 Serum Powders SB to mull into Null Rod or Leyline games 2 and 3! Savage Tech!
vs
Aardshark (Galen Lemei) with Hulk Flash
Webster with Grim Simian Long ("it's a hybrid deck")
vs
Pyromasta with UBw Fish Ichorid Hate deck (Withered Wretches and maybe Jailers. SB Mindcensors I think.
Eirik Aune with Web's Grim Simian Long
vs
Vincent Stevenson with Pimp Doomsday.dec!
Meta Breakdown:
Webster's Grim Build
Leyline MD Oath
Oldschool Oath
?
UWB Fish
UW Fish
Webster's Grim Build
Flash
Ichorid
UB Fish
Flash
Badlands Luna Storm.dec
Oath
The Gilded Claw with no Intuitions and now maindeck Sphere of Resistance
Webster's Grim Build
Turboland!
Webster's Grim Build
Ichorid
Doomsday
UB Fish
?
?
My munchkin teammates made me take them home before the tourney was over, so I don't know the end results, but what I do know is
Top 4
Pyromasta
Klemic (I think...)
Aardshark
Eirik Aune (I am pretty sure).
Now, PICS!
Alex's year old sideboard tech of Woodripper shines in the TurboLand matchup! GG!
Eirik's Pimp Proxies...
I piloted this: The Gilded Pile
With this sideboard. 3 Sphere's maindeck left three BIG holes in my SB. Can you guess what filled them in?
Webster now blatently steals Team Vacaville Tech: Proxy Islands!
His are cooler than ours, and we are honored.
Pyromasta's Savage Graveyard in top 8 vs Webster!
More facetime for Pyromasta. He's leaving the meta soon so he gets some more face time.
Webster's pimp deck.
Yep. Pithing Needle naming Order of the Ebon Hand. Ebon.dec made top 8!
Vincent's Pimp Doomsday Deck! Top 8!
Oath on Oath action....
Ichorid's Stinkweed Imp hardcasted is tech vs Oath. Suck on that Razia!!! (at least they look hardcasted. I could be wrong...)
Ichorid vs Storm.
Hit 'im! Hit 'im, NOW you little beatstick! GET IN THERE!!!
Ichorid vs Flash. JUDGE! Yes? Um, how do I play my deck? My head hurts. No joke.
Eric vs Eirik
This is the game I won vs Magic National Team Member Paul Cheon. I lost the other two.
This is a game I won vs Magic National Team Member Luis Scott-Vargas. I was Lucky McLucksack by winning the die roll, and having mad broken hate games 1 and 2. WHEW!
When all else goes wrong, Aarshark's BodySnatcher turns sideways, gets in there, and delivers the beats when neccessary!
My mini report:
Gilded Claw. Fired 3 Intuitions and Memnarch, hired 3 Sphere's of Resistance and 1 Bazaar of Baghdad. SB gains THOUGHT PRISON, Aura Facture and Copy Artifact.
Round 1: I get very lucky vs Luis games 1 and 2.
Round 2: Paired up against Austin for 3rd time in 4 tournies. I destroy him savagely. I get first turn Welder, he gets first turn Oath, I get Memory Jar soon afterwords, DT for Dupe, pass turn, and weld out crap for Dupe FTW!
Game 2: It only take 4 or 5 Memory Jar activations to make Oath of Noobs finally scoop.
I see Tolarian Academy 4 games out of 4, and feel great.
Round 3: Sam w/Ichorid. He kills me game 1.
Game 2: I start with Leyline. He starts with Bayou Sorcery that destroys
leyline and lets me gain life.
I have Mana Vault, Lotus and Shop in play, Demonic Tutor, Time Walk, Titan in hand. I seriously think about DT'ing for Leyline, but am not sure. He might just kill it with Emerald Charm or another of those weird sorceries.
I sac Lotus for DT and examine my options. Then I realize that I used BB from Lotus for DT instead of B and 1 from Mana Vault (which was still untapped).
I realized this during my search. Anyone watching the game realized this. My opponent realized this. I went for Gilded Lotus to bust out with a Titan as he had no Bridge in his grave (and possibly only 1 dredger).
Sam managed to keep 1 chump blocker availiable long enough to race me with Ichorids. Boo me.
Round 4: Eric Campusano with UWB Fish
Round 1 he won. I remember Black Lotus being involved on his turn one on the play, letting him pretend he is on turn, say, 3. I die.
Round 2 I won riding off strength of Trinisphere. I finally play Thought Prison which gets many WTF?'s from onlookers.
I rape his hand every other turn and he never gets to resolve anything. Go me!
Round 3 He starts with Black Lotus, Null Rod, Confidant. Turn 2 Ancestral, beats.
I kept hand that was decent except against turn 1 Null Rod.
I am still in contention.
Round 5: Paul Cheon Magic National Teammember playing Web's deck
Game 1 I destroy him (I won roll probably), but Chalice Sphere etc was too much. See pic above.
Game 2 I play Turn 0 Leyline, he plays Turn 1 Tinker Jar Tendrils for 20
Game 3 I think I am doing alright, but he kills me with 12 goblin tokens. I had my own goblin, but his TimeWalk gave him plenty of setup time.
I had Bazaar, Sensei's Diving Top and Jug in grave. My desparate Topping showed Time Walk, DT and Leyline. I had 2 mana availiable.
I tried to do the top, timewalk, swing, top, top, DT, Bazaar thing, but I sided out my Trike, and failed to side in Ghostly Prison for the Goblin Tokens matchup cuz I suck sometimes.
Paul wins, but fails to make top 8. Dho!
Props: Lots!
Memory Jar!
Slops: None!
