[Results: CVQ#10, Québec City, Sept 22

[Chiz]

I usually don't post the CVQ's Results here, but... I'll post them this time!

57 players played last Saturday to earn an invitation for this year CVQ's Final. The tournament was a 5+proxies, 6 rounds + top8. Here is the top8:

Lany Chabot Laroche won against Simon Guérette
Jean-Philippe Keable won against Sylvain Larochelle
Martin Bonneville won against Jean-Michel Allard
Patrick Chabot won against Mathieu Bourque

Top4:
Jean-Philippe Keable won against Martin Bonneville
Patrick Chabot won against Lany Chabot Laroche

Final:
Patrick Chabot and Jean-Philippe Keable prize split the final.


Here are the top8 decklists:


1st- Prize SPlit- Jean-Philippe Keable

2 Opt
4 Gush
1 Cunning Wish
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Fast Bond
1 Psychatog
4 Quirion Dryad
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yagw. Will
4 Merchant Scroll
4 Duress
4 Force of Will
1 Misdirection
1 Reb Elemental Blast
2 Mana Drain
2 Disrupt
3 Polluted Delta
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Island
3 Underground Sea
1 Volcanic Island
2 Tropical Island
3 Flooded Strand

Sideboard
1 Rushing River
1 Red Elemental Blast
2 Pyroblast
1 Rack and Ruin
1 Smother
1 Fire/Ice
1 Berserk
1 Ancient grudge
2 Pithing Needle
3 Yaxlid Jailer
1 Violcanic Island


1st- Prize Split - Patrick Chabot

1 Seat of the Synod
2 Flooded Strand
3 Island
3 Polluted Delta
3 Volcanic Island
2 Underground Sea
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Triskelion
1 Platinium Angel
1 Gorilla Shaman
3 Goblin Welder
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Sol Ring
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mana Crypt
4 Thirst for Knowledge
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
1 Ancestrall Recall
1 Mindslaver
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawg. Will
1 Tinker
1 Time Walk
1 Mystical Tutor
2 Merchant Scroll
2 Mana Leak
4 Brainstorm
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Echoing Truth
1 Mana Vault
1 Vampiric Tutor

Sideboard
2 Blood Moon
1 Jester's Cap
1 Lava Dart
2 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pyroblast
2 Pyroclasm
1 Duplicant
1 Wipe Away
4 Leyline of the Void


3rd - Martin Bonneville

4 Volcanic Island
4 Wasteland
4 Mishra's Factory
3 Faerie Conclave
2 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
2 Island
2 Steam Vents
1 Strip Mine
1 Library of Alexandria
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
4 Stifle
3 Misdirection
4 Standstill
3 Fire // Ice
2 Chain of Vapor
4 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Pyroblast
1 Red Elemental Blast

Sideboard

4 Chalice of the Void
2 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pyroblast
3 Rack and Ruin
3 Threads of Disloyalty
1 Fire/Ice
1 Chain of Vapor

4th - Lany Chabot Laroche

1 Strip Mine
4 Badlands
2 Plateau
1 Scrubland
1 Swamp
4 Bloodstained Mire
2 Polluted Delta
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Snuff Out
2 Simian Spirit Guide
2 Jothun Grunt
2 Red Elemental Blast
3 Magnus of the Moon
2 Chains of Mephistopheles
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
4 Dark Confidant
4 Grim lavamancer
4 Aven Mindcensor
3 Swords to Plowshares
4 Pyroblast
4 Duress
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor

Sideboard
4 Hide/Seek
3 Orim's Chant
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Yixid Yailer
1 Swords to Plowshares
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Shattering Spree

5th - Simon Guérette

4 Merchant Scroll
4 Force of Will
4 Gush
4 Brainstorm
4 Duress
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mystical tutor
2 Mana Drain
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pyroblast
1 Time Walk
1 Fire/Ice
1 Ancestral recall
1 Empty the Warrens
1 Echoing Truth
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Fastbond
1 Regrowth
1 Tinker
1 Darkstell Colossus
1 Misdirection
1 Yawg, Will
1 Nmeloku the Clouded Mirror
1 Island
1 Snow-Covered island
2 Underground Sea
4 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
1 Tropical Island
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Library of Alexandria
2 Volcanic Island

Sideboard
1 Dominate
3 Submerge
2 Pyroclasm
2 Red Elemental Blast
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Rack and Ruin
1 Rebuild


6th - Jean-Michel Allard

2 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
2 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
4 Polluted Delta
4 Forbidden Orchard
2 Island
2 Mishra's factory
1 Razia, Boros Archangel
1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
4 Brainstorm
3 Chalice of the Void
4 Oath of Druids
4 force of Will
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral recall
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Mox Emerald
4 Mana Drain
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
3 Thirst for knowledge
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Echoing Truth
2 Null Rod
1 Mystical tutor
1 Duress
1 Rushing River

Sideboard
2 Massacre
4 Leyline of the Void
3 Pithign Needle
1 Simic Sky Swallower
1 Blazing Aechon
2 Mishra's factory
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Engineered Plague


7th- Mathieu Bourque

1 Mox Emerald
4 Chromatic Star
4 Chromatic Sphere
4 Street Wraith
4 Land Grant
1 Bayou
1 Tropical Island
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
4 Dark Ritual
4 Cabal Ritual
3 tendrils of Agony
1 Ancestral recall
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Campiric Tutor
1 Mana Vault
1 Lotus Petal
4 Night Whisper
4 Brainstorm
1 Necropotence
1 Yawg. Bargain
1 Yawg. Will
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Sleight of Hand
1 Chain of Vapor
3 Duress

Sideboard
4 Oath of Druids
4 Forbidden Orchard
1 Akroma Angel of Wrath
1 Razia, Boros Archangel
1 Duress
3 Xantid Swarm
1 Chain of Vapor


8th - Sylvain Larochelle

4 Plateau
4 Wasteland
3 Flooded Strand
2 Snow-Covered Plains
2 Snow-Covered Mountain
2 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Strip Mine
3 Magnus of the Moon
3 Kataki, war's Wage
3 Jotun Grunt
2 Isamaru of Konda
2 Gorilla Shaman
1 Kami of Ancient Law
1 Ronom Unicorn
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Swords to Plowshares
3 Magma Jet
2 Red Elemental Blast
1 Balance
1 Enlightened Tutor
2 Pyrostatic Pillar
2 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl

Sideboard
2 Ronom Unicorn
1 Kami of the Ancient Law
1 Kataki, war's Wage
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Pyrostatic Pillar
4 Tormod's Crypt
3 Pithing Needle

[LotusHead]

Your top 8 had like 8 different archetypes! Sweet!

Are there no Shops in Canada?

[zeus-online]

Am i blind or did Patrick Chabot leave his force of wills at home?

/Zeus

[Serin]

8 diferent archetyoes but almost all of them had pyro/REB in the MAINDECK...

[Chiz]

Your top 8 had like 8 different archetypes! Sweet!

Yeah! Here it happens more often than in the US… The metagame is more much diversified, so the top8 is more diversified too!

With the last SCG P9 tournament, I feared that Gush decks were near un stoppable, but that’s clearly not the case… In that tournament (for exemple), 11 players (19% of the field) played Gush in their deck, and only 2 made top8… I played Landstill (3rd place), I lost only to Jean-Philippe Keable (1st) and Simon Guérette (5th), but I won against 2 other Gush decks before top8. 2 wins and 2 looses against Gush.

Are there no Shops in Canada?

There is very little Workshop and even less workshop players in the province of Québec (I can't awnser for the other provinces! Canada is big you know, bigger than USA ). There was only 2 decks of Workshop out of 57 players, so that's not an important portion of the metagame here...

Am i blind or did Patrick Chabot leave his force of wills at home?

The decklist I post here had 56 cards, the missing 4 is obviously 4 FoW. I'll fix it.

[apocalyp]

With the last SCG P9 tournament, I feared that Gush decks were near un stoppable, but that’s clearly not the case… In that tournament (for exemple), 11 players (19% of the field) played Gush in their deck, and only 2 made top8… I played Landstill (3rd place), I lost only to Jean-Philippe Keable (1st) and Simon Guérette (5th), but I won against 2 other Gush decks before top8. 2 wins and 2 looses against Gush.

I've found the same thing in Ottawa.   The last couple of tournaments I've been too has had about 50% of the field as Gush base deck and the Top4 being no gush (they've been small samples of 12 players only)   I know the tournament sizes make the results a little less meaningful but it's still important to note.

The first tournament had a finals of MBC and Bomberman (I believe Stax was the 3rd of the 4 decks that one and I forget the 4th)

2 weeks ago the tournament featured 2 stax, goblines and SS (me) in the top4.   In this one I walk over GAT twice in a row.  5th and 6th here were the same MC and bomberman decks that won the first one.

[TopSecret]

Did the 8th place deck really have 2 Snow-covered Islands maindeck?
It doesn't play any blue cards.

This is a sweet top 8;
congratulations to the winners!

[Myriad Games]

Did the 8th place deck really have 2 Snow-covered Islands maindeck?
It doesn't play any blue cards.

This is a sweet top 8;
congratulations to the winners!

My guess is that those are supposed to be 2x Snow-Covered Plains.

Congratulations to Lany and Sylvain for winning 4th and 8th place respectively with versions of The Mountains Win Again!

Please PM me to claim your bonus TMWA prize for Top 8!

[arik124]

If 20% of the field was gush, and 25% of the top8 was gush, then how is that a case for it not being good, im so confused by that comment....anyone care to explain?

[Chiz]

If 20% of the field was gush, and 25% of the top8 was gush, then how is that a case for it not being good, im so confused by that comment....anyone care to explain?

I'm not saying it's not good, just that, it's not "too good". That's all. Gush is not near unbeatable. The metagame can switch to face it. Some thought that would be impossible, but it don't seem to be the case.