[Results] Eudemonia Mox Ruby (5/4), now with pictures.

[Webster]

Nineteen people showed up to duel for the unlimited mox ruby. Five rounds of swiss plus cut to top 8.

The metagame breakdown was:
4 Flash
3 Ichorid
3 UWB fish
2 Doomsday
1 SS
1 TTS
1 Deez Noughts
1 Remora Blue
1 Bomberman
1 RG Beatz
1 UR Landstill


Top 8:
Luis Scott-Vargas (Doomsday) 3-0-2
Dan Messiano (SS) 3-0-2
Eric Campusano (UWB Fish) 3-1-1
Mike Klemic (Deez Noughts) 3-1-1
Christiaan Royer (Flash) 3-1-1
David Ochoa (Doomsday) 3-1-1
Lucas Siow (Remora Blue) 3-2
David Peterson (TTS) 3-2

Quarterfinals:
David Ochoa (Doomsday) defeats Eric Campusano (UWB Fish)
Luis Scott-Vargas (Doomsday) defeats David Peterson (TTS)
Lucas Siow (Remora Blue) defeats Christiaan Royer (Flash)
Mike Klemic (Deez Noughts) defeats Dan Messiano (SS)

Semifinals:
David Ochoa (Doomsday) defeats Mike Klemic (Deez Noughts)
Luis Scott-Vargas (Doomsday) defeats Lucas Siow (Remora Blue)

Finals:
David Ochoa (Doomsday) splits with Luis Scott-Vargas (Doomsday)

Top 8 lists should be posted on Eudemonia's Web Site (I hope) soon. JefftheFob swore to god that he will post pictures with commentaries in the near future.


Here is the list that I used:

Doomsday:
4 Brainstorm
3 Ponder
4 Gush

4 Force of Will
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Hurkyl's Recall
4 Duress
1 Thoughtseize

4 Merchant Scroll
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor

2 Doomsday
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Fastbond
1 Necropotence
1 Time Walk
1 Yawgmoth's Will

1 Research/Development
1 Tendrils of Agony

4 Dark Ritual
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire

2 Flooded Strand
4 Polluted Delta
2 Island
2 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea

Sideboard:
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Dark Confidant
3 Quirion Dryad
1 Research/Development
1 Thoughtseize
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Massacre

Discuss.

[Zieby]

First of all;
Nice Job to split in the Finals.

Seccondly;
WOW 2x D-Day in the Final. That is something i really like to see after all the Flash and Oath decks.

Sideboard:
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Dark Confidant
3 Quirion Dryad
1 Research/Development
1 Thoughtseize
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Massacre

What i think is interesting is your choise for Quirion Dryad. Can you eleborate on how you used him and can you explane your overall sideboarding strategie. What would you change in your main and/or Sideboard if you would play the deck again.

Just a player from Holland

Greetz Arjan

[Webster]

Sideboard:
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Dark Confidant
3 Quirion Dryad
1 Research/Development
1 Thoughtseize
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Massacre

What i think is interesting is your choise for Quirion Dryad. Can you eleborate on how you used him and can you explane your overall sideboarding strategie. What would you change in your main and/or Sideboard if you would play the deck again.

Quirion dryad was included in the sideboard for the aggro/aggro-control matchups. Quirion dryad is a big problem for decks like fish/deez noughts when they board out their creature removal for more anti-combo cards like stifle, trickbind, orim's chant, duress, thoughtseize, et. al. There was a choice between empty the warrens, quirion dryad, and tarmogoyf. In the end, quirion dryad seemed like the best since it beats tarmogoyf and jotun grunt as well as us predicting that there would probably not be many workshops where goyf would be better.

Dark confidant is included for the same reasons as quirion dryad as well as serving a better roll in the control/combo matchups where multiple duress effects and forces exhaust Doomsday's hand.

As far as changing the deck, there are 1-2 maindeck slots and up to 7 sideboard slots that can be changed to a person's preference. Those choices are for each person to taylor to their metagame.

[The Acidic Hasidic]

this was pretty fun.

nice seeing everybody again.

I scrubbed out thought

[jeffthefob]

As promised, here it is: pictures with CAPTIONS.  Web please change the thread title ^^ thanks.


Pair of Quirion Dryads beating in giving fish the business


Lucas Siow is starting off with a turn 1 Remora.  (Both g1 and g3)


Webster vs. his Rd. 9 opponent, his plate of padthai


Klemic w/o his ponytail~~


Landstill represent~~


Marco & Lucas preparing for the tourney.


LSV changing his 8 month old Vintage sleeves -_-|||


Christiaan (Zhalfirin) telling the world that he is playing Flash


Webster torturing the clerk with 100 different cards to sell.


Veggie


Some rd. 1 actions in the top table... ^^ top tables~~


More rd. 1 actions.  Ichorid goes on to lose to the hard cast Mogg Fanatic ><


For Feinstein ^^ Actually there were 3 u/b/w Fish decks, 1 DeezNaught and 1 SS ^^


Webster vs. Rd 2.5 opponent.  The curry lost ^^


Rd 3.  Table 1 DeezNaught vs. Doomsday.  Table 2. Ichorid vs. SS.


G3 of Ichorid vs. SS.  The leyline was hardcasted btw~~


Top 8.  Doomsday mirror!


Web is 1-0 against Fish- siding in the Man-Plan.


Top 8 at the other side.  Fish-is-tic match up of SS vs DeezNaught


Mono U appears to be deep in the tank against Flash


Eric Campusano's priceless expression as Web drops a Quirion Dryad.

[Lou]

@Webster - Can you give some explanation as to your choice of 4 Duress and 1 Thoughtseize main?

I would think the added benefits of Thoughtseize negate the loss of life. Do you feel the life loss is too much because of Gush/Bond?

[Webster]

@Webster - Can you give some explanation as to your choice of 4 Duress and 1 Thoughtseize main?

I would think the added benefits of Thoughtseize negate the loss of life. Do you feel the life loss is too much because of Gush/Bond?

Gush-based decks use life as a resource. I don't feel that the benefit of being able to take protean hulk, meddling mage, dark confidant, and various workshop men outweigh the disadvantages: being misdirected, the lifeloss from various sources (dark confidant, fastbond, necropotence) in the deck, and that I have a playset of foil signed 7th edition duress whereas my thoughtseize are just normal and boring.

[islanderboi10]

Wow, zero shop decks.

Good job on the split though

[LotusHead]

Wow, zero shop decks.

Good job on the split though

I got June 1st off (the Jet tourney). Shops will be back.  Props to Fob for picking up the slack with pics. I miss you guys!

[pierce]

i would like to see the fish list that made t8. pm me, if need be.

thnx.

[The Acidic Hasidic]

jeff please take down pictures with me in them.

Thanx.

[patlam]

congrats. did mike cut his hair?

[Campee]

My Fish list is top secret and can't be shared.

Well, maybe I'll post it when I get home if I remember to.

[toor]

This is the monoblue player. First off I would like to thank Marco and Scott for lend me the cards needed to complete the deck.

I played the version that was posted here with the small changes of 1 Ophidian instead of 1 Meloku main and Threads of Disloyalty over 1 brainfreeze. I had never played a game with the deck prior to this tournament and it certainly caught up to me.

I really punted the semis and round 2 and hopefully next time I wont suck so bad. Lots of fun though and looking forward to the next one.