My Mini-Report. I own 2 Shops and 1 Bazaar now, and Travis LaPlante made top 2 somewhere with a Trinket Mage Aven Mindcenser SmokeStack Goblin Welder deck, so I'm in.
My list:
My hastily thrown to gether Generic Stax Sideboard. Travis' had 4 Tarmogyf SB, but I was stretched to 10 Proxies, as Austin and Junior sucked up all the power (and they forgot where my Tolarian Academy was) Now it's down to a crisp 5 proxies so I have some room...
Round 1 : Daniel with Bomberman!
Game 1: He beats down with Mindsensor and Dudes. there is coverage of this match at
www.eudemonia.com/p9Game 2: We go almost to time, both of us low on points. I have a flier, he doesn't but his Energy Flux is sucking up a LOT of my time and Energy (imagine that), but my Tolarian Academy makes things easy. Because I don't always take that 20 seconds to think out important plays like the good players here do (Say, Web, Sam Smith, Aardshark, etc), I punt and instead of a draw, it's off to table 19 for me.
Round 2: ?Billy? with ???
Game 1: Game loss because my list had 56 cards in it (forgot to write down 3 Chalice and 1 Urborg. That'll learn me to not come with maindeck pre-written out)
Game 2: I start with Wasteland, Pithing Needle naming, say, Polluted Delta
He plays Flagstones of Trokair, Isamaru Hound of Konda, go.
I play Welder just to gain the 1 life from his Swords and eventuall Sundering Titan pulls blocking duty for a turn until Trike shows to seal the deal.
Game 3: He does something, or not. My hand has Sapphire, Mana Crypt, Land, Welder, SHop, Tinker, etc. I just Tinker in Trinisphere, get 2 SmokeStacks and Welder on line and hide behind lock pieces. He scoops and I work my way up to table 10!
Round 3: Uh, Kevin maybe? GAT
Game 1 Slide a Welder under the radar turn 1, and a few turns later, topdeck a Bazaar, which sends a Titan to the graveyard to whipe out his whole field (lucky me!)
Game 2: He scoops to SmokeStack abuse while I had but a Mindsensor on the field (and he at say, 10 life). I think he should have stuck it out. Interesting thing though, as I was beating down with Mindsensor, He sat on two Polluted Deltas. At some point, he popped them both and forgot about just searching the top 4. I stopped him in time, and hit a land on one fetch, but...Off to table...10 again
Round 4: Richard? Goblins!
I win the roll, have no idea what he's playing (he may have been one of the Belcher Budget players of the past), so I start with land/mox or something, go.
Barbarian Ring,Aether Vial comes out
I drop Shop and SmokeStack
He forgets to charge Vial, but gets a dude out.
I ramp up stack and drop permanents.
He sacs Aether Vial or something.
I wipe out his field with a lucky Stripmine Topdeck to take out that last permanent, and Win with Trinket Mage/Mindcensor Beatdown (or Trike Beatdown, I don't remember which)
Game 2: I have Lotus, Balance, Mox, Mox, Tolarian, other stuff in hand. He leads with Lackey, and makes three land drops over three turns, dropping dudes while I chill with Moxen, Lotus in play, letting him overextend into my Balance.
He just can't recover. I even asplode his Vial set to 4.
I beat me a Goblins Deck! (Yeah, I had great draws. I am good at this game). I move up to Table 3!
Round 5: Christiaan Royer GAT
He's at 3-0-1. I am at 3-1-0 We must play
Game 1: I go mad broken, perhaps with Smokestack Cruciable. Who knows. I win. I tell him at least I get to go first on game 3.
Game 2: He has early Forces for my scary cards, and he goes aggro and wipes me out after a long hard battle.
Game 3: He has 3 Early Forces for my scary cards, and on Turn 3/4ish of extra turns, I am able to Balance for the Draw! Whoot!
Round 6: Kevin from Vegas with Stax
I get paired down. Keving has 9 points, and there are 3 10 pointers vying for that last top 8 spot. I convince him to scoop to me, eventually, but we play for fun anyways.
He Gets me game 1 (I had a SB card maindeck. Damn Trike!) Game Loss
We play Game 2 He kills me (This is when I make my last plea for him to scoop. It works)
We continue playing afterwards, pretending game 2 was Game 1, and I get him on the new Game 2, and game 3 ends with neither the winner, so we "drew".
I make 9th, I get nothing, but Klemic convinces Web to gimme his own cool Eudemonia Top 8 Playmat, as Web is quite happy with his own.
Whoot!
Props
Travis for making such a cool deck. Wish I coulda actually playtested it, got the Proxy thing under control, etc.
Junior and Austin for being more or less in Top 8 contention going into the later rounds.
Eudemonia for having these things
The Tahoe Crew, L.A. Crew for making it out here (and Kevin from Vegas)
Kevin for scooping to me.
Gosh, everything, but...
Slops: Me for making 9th for 2nd year in a row at the Lotus Tourney.
