$300 1st Place at Batter Up Sportscards in Tewksbury, MA 6/21

[ELD]

NEMG is Happy to announce its first Vintage Tournament to be held on June 21

**The Details**

Batter Up Sportscards
1875 Main St
Tewksbury, MA 01876
Phone: (978) 640-1586

NEMG's Home Base Tons of Soda, Chips, Candy and more!!

When- Saturday June 21 2008

Reg 10:15am - 11:15  am Start time @ 11:30

Decklist's Required 15 Proxy Limit ELD Proxies do not count towards your proxy limit. 

These are the ELD Proxies:

Batter's Up will soon begin carrying ELD Proxies

Swiss rounds based on attendance
Entry Will Be 25$ With a Cut To Top 8 Prizes  Which Will Be

1st - $300.00 CASH!!
2nd - 4x Force Of Will
3rd-8th There will be a Selection Of Prizes to choose from (By Place Order) including but not limited to
Revised Taiga, RevisedTundra Cool Vintage Foils And More!
These Prizes Will be Given Away Regardless Of Attendance But Prizes Could Go Up To Top 16 Based On Attendance

I am working with Batter's Up to ensure this event is a success.  I'll have singles for sale, and the store will be buying any cards you're looking to sell.  They are stepping up to become another major supporter of New England Vintage.  Following a success with this event, they plan to have events in July and August, for even larger prizes!  I hope the community supports this new tournament series, as Batter Up is really showing a huge amount of faith by GUARANTEEING this massive prize pool.  See you guys  there!

I will be making a special proxy for this event, to be given away at random.  In order to be eligible, you need to have carpooled to the event. 

[ELD]

Edit to original post. 

ELD Proxies now do not count towards your proxy limit. 
Carpool Door Prize added.

[ELD]

2 weeks to go!  This will be the first Major Tournament of the New Age of Vintage.   With the support of the New England Vintage community, Batter's Up will be able to run monthly events with Huge Cash 1st place payouts. 

[Newenglandmagicgroup]

Im looking forward to this event and getting to see what new decks will be popping up with the recent changes cant wait to see you all there!

[Samite Healer]

If I didn't have a concert to go to, I would totally be there.  You guys should totally support this event because remember... this is the place with the awesome comfy couches upstairs!

[ELD]

With less than a week to go, I'm looking forward to seeing what the new Meta will be.  This Monday Night Vintage showed some interesting new decks succeeding.  While I don't agree with the choices the DCI made, they have certainly shaken stuff up.  I hope the community uses this event to show that the the rumors of Vintage's death have been greatly exaggerated.  See you guys on Saturday!

[T00L]

I'm gonna try to make it out if CVD decides to go. I can't get up there by myself because my car sucks and gas is expensive. Also any word on what people were playing on monday night? I'm curious to see what other people came up with.

[VsTheWorld]

Monday Night Vintage deck breakdown:

1 Mana'd Ichorid
1 Red Workshop Aggro w/ Bazaar/Uba
1 Control Slaver
1 4c Workshop Fish (homebrew that my brother and I have been working on, plays 3 Shops, rainbow lands, TfK, Welder, Gorilla Shaman, artifact fat, tutors, Chalice/Trini, Duress/Seize, StP. It's really weird.)
1 Mono Blue something (Drain, Meloku, Phid, but I think I saw Volcs too)
1 Stax
1 U/B Confidant Tendrils

I was playing Tendrils and went 3-0, pretty much running over the 3 Workshop players I faced. Rebuild is insane, letting me do stupid stuff like winning through quadruple Sphere or Trinisphere + Chalice at 0 and 1.

[ELD]

I'm really looking forward to tomorrow.  With the metagame completely shaken up, this results of this event will be the first step towards defining the new format.  I will be selling singles tomorrow for Vintage tomorrow, so if you need anything obscure, be sure to e-mail me tonight to make sure I bring it.  I will have typical Vintage cards, as well as my binders of Betas, Foils, ELD Proxies and Foreign goodness. 

I'm donating a custom Proxy Library of Alexandria to this event, and it will be given out at random to one lucky player who carpooled to the event. 

See you guys tomorrow! 

[Mdizzle4life85]

Im looking forward to this event! not only have i been promoting it for about a month and a half but as ELD said this is the stepping block for the new vintage! This is where innovation can grow and i am sure someone is definatly going to set the pace! hopefully someone from team Street Wraith!

[Mdizzle4life85]

Hey guys just got back from the tournement! I top 4'ed today and my teammate eli top 8'ed all in all it was a great event and we had a good time! I think control slaver is the deck to beat now for this is what the top 8 consited of:

Rich Shay: control slaver
Mike Daly(me): control slaver
Nick Rodriguez: Control slaver
James Tamulevich:control slaver
Stefan(TOOL) Ellsworth:control slaver
BLaine: control slaver
Eli Hannon (Teammate): Belcher technology
ELD: dredge

This tournament was a success and i am ready to try and break this control slaver meta we have!
A full tournament report shall be posted shortly on my behalf!

[Dante]

ugh 6 out of 8 CS.  How much of the field was CS?

[The Atog Lord]

ugh 6 out of 8 CS.  How much of the field was CS?

There was a lot of Control Slaver. Welcome back to 2005 in New England.
T00L and Nick split the win. Congratulations. The event was well run and fun.

[ErkBek]

ugh 6 out of 8 CS.  How much of the field was CS?

Should have played Grim Long. I've never understood that about the NE, why does no one play Long and smash all of you?

[Morphling420]

post a report for me too mdizzle since i hate writting tourny reports they seem like they take way to much time. Time i could be using to figure out what to crush slaver with next time.

[ELD]

ugh 6 out of 8 CS.  How much of the field was CS?

I'm not going to lie, I only played Dredge because I didn't have the time to build CS.  I did, however, have the time to finish the Library of Alexandria Proxy that was given out, as well as getting set up to sell cards like crazy.  I tried to have everything that people could be looking for, and at great prices.  I look forward to working with Batter's Up again in August!

[JanValentine00]

How many people attended this?

[T00L]

Should have played Grim Long. I've never understood that about the NE, why does no one play Long and smash all of you?

Everyone that knew how to play long correctly moved away

[The Atog Lord]

Should have played Grim Long. I've never understood that about the NE, why does no one play Long and smash all of you?

I have no idea how to play the deck. Eric, if you send me to a primer on how to pilot it, I'll study it. It would wreck our metagame and almost no one here can play it well.

[Samite Healer]

We don't play Long because none of us own Grim Tutors, and several of us don't like to play with proxies.  Maybe if ELD made some nice looking ones, I'd consider playing it....hint hint.

[ELD]

We don't play Long because none of us own Grim Tutors, and several of us don't like to play with proxies.  Maybe if ELD made some nice looking ones, I'd consider playing it....hint hint.

I've got the



pulled for them already.  At my event on the 19th, we will take a vote for the next proxy.  No matter what the vote determines, I'll be making 10 proxies total.  2 in silver - for door prizes at ELD's Mox XVI and Batter's Up $400 event in August and 8 in gold for the Top 8 at ELD's Mox XVI. 

[LordHomerCat]

I'm rather curious what the Slaver lists look like.  Anything like duress main or other anti-combo cards, or just in the board?  6/8 CS in a top8 does seem like it is begging for even an average GrimLong pilot to just clean house.

[The Atog Lord]

Here's mine:

// Lands
    4  Volcanic Island
    2  Underground Sea
    2  Polluted Delta
    1  Tolarian Academy
    3  Island
    3  Flooded Strand
    1  Library of Alexandria

// Creatures
    4  Goblin Welder
    1  Vexing Shusher
    1  Triskelion
    1  Pentavus
    1  Trinket Mage

// Spells
    1  Brainstorm
    1  Sensei's Divining Top
    1  Tormod's Crypt
    1  Demonic Tutor
    1  Yawgmoth's Will
    1  Shattering Spree
    1  Ancestral Recall
    1  Time Walk
    1  Tinker
    4  Mana Drain
    4  Force of Will
    4  Thirst for Knowledge
    1  Mox Ruby
    1  Mox Emerald
    1  Mox Jet
    1  Mox Pearl
    2  Mindslaver
    1  Mox Sapphire
    1  Mana Crypt
    1  Sol Ring
    1  Black Lotus
    1  Gifts Ungiven
    1  Mana Vault
    1  Mystical Tutor
    1  Merchant Scroll
    1  Cryptic Command

// Sideboard
SB: 1  Vexing Shusher
SB: 2  Tormod's Crypt
SB: 2  Shattering Spree
SB: 2  Pyroblast
SB: 1  Red Elemental Blast
SB: 1  Platinum Angel
SB: 1  Fire/Ice
SB: 2  Ingot Chewer
SB: 3  Mogg Fanatic

[zeus-online]

Cryptic command and vexing shusher?

Any reason for not just going:

-1 Triskellion
-1 Pentavus
+1 Triskelavus
+1 Something relevant ?

Oh and whats the 3x mogg fanatic in the SB for? Removing bridge from below?

I'm puzzled.

/Zeus

[ErkBek]

We don't play Long because none of us own Grim Tutors, and several of us don't like to play with proxies.  Maybe if ELD made some nice looking ones, I'd consider playing it....hint hint.

You should consider selling 1 of your Foil Jap Welders to buy a playset of Grims.

[T00L]

I'm rather curious what the Slaver lists look like.  Anything like duress main or other anti-combo cards, or just in the board?  6/8 CS in a top8 does seem like it is begging for even an average GrimLong pilot to just clean house.

// Lands
    3  Volcanic Island
    2  Underground Sea
    3  Polluted Delta
    1  Tolarian Academy
    3  Flooded Strand
    3  Island
    1  Library of Alexandria

// Creatures
    1  Triskelavus
    1  Sundering Titan
    4  Goblin Welder

// Spells
    1  Tormod's Crypt
    1  Demonic Tutor
    1  Yawgmoth's Will
    1  Ancestral Recall
    1  Time Walk
    1  Tinker
    4  Mana Drain
    4  Force of Will
    4  Thirst for Knowledge
    1  Mox Ruby
    1  Mox Emerald
    1  Mox Jet
    1  Mox Pearl
    2  Mindslaver
    1  Mox Sapphire
    1  Sol Ring
    1  Black Lotus
    1  Mana Crypt
    1  Brainstorm
    1  Vampiric Tutor
    1  Rack and Ruin
    1  Repeal
    1  Mystical Tutor
    1  Ponder
    1  Merchant Scroll
    1  Echoing Truth
    1  Gifts Ungiven
    1  Fact or Fiction

// Sideboard
SB: 2  Rack and Ruin
SB: 1  Tormod's Crypt
SB: 1  Lava Dart
SB: 4  Leyline of the Void
SB: 1  The Abyss
SB: 3  Thoughtseize
SB: 3  Firespout

[Mdizzle4life85]

I would post my top 4 slaver list but the truth is you guys probably do not want it! Just ask tool I built it @ mcdonalds! Slaver just happens to be such a good deck that any decent play can pilot it to a top 8. I actually like rich shays shusher/cryptic technology!

[desolutionist]

I would post my top 4 slaver list but the truth is you guys probably do not want it! Just ask tool I built it @ mcdonalds!

sticky sleeves!

[Morphling420]

i would post my belcher list but i think either ELD or ben will probly post the top 8 list and i dont feel like typing all the one of's. Also there are deffinitly some changes i would make and i would want to post a unperfected list.

[LordHomerCat]

Thanks Rich and Stefan.  Man Rich, there are some weird cards in that thing.  I hope vintage hasn't gotten to the point where Cryptic Command is good enough =[