Adventures Lotus Tourney Results! Lists! Pics!

[LotusHead]

19 people show, which is less than the 24 we needed, but the owners were nice enough to give the Lotus as the prize anyways, with nothing for 2-8.  We were all fine with that.

Top 8
Junior Cervantes - Grim Long
Galen Lamei (Aardshark) - DrainforIntuitionAK Tendrils
Michael Klemic - Bob Storm with Gifts/Recoup/Intuition and Warrens
Aaron West - Manaless-full Ichorid
Luis Scott-Vargas (LSV) - Grim Long w/SB Negators
David Ochoa (Webster) - Grim Long w/SB Negators
Cory Redmond (Credmond) - U/R Landstill
Ryan Reynolds - Tyrant Oath w/Chalice and Null Rods

During Top 4, as both matches were going to game 3, talk of an alternate prize structure took place.  Instead of winner take all for the Lotus, a Mox Jet, playset of Force of Wills, and 2 other prizes (Blue Dual Land and Tarmogoyf) was settle on for the prizes.
 
Top 4:
Cory vs Galen
Ryan vs Aaron

Finals:
Galen vs Aaron

Galen wins the Mox Jet in the Lotus Tourney! Whoot!
Aaron gets a much coveted playset of Force of Wills as (I heard) Ichorid was the only deck he could manage to put together.
Ryan gets a Goyf.
Cory gets an Underground Sea.

More content later, plus I have llists here and pics soon.


1st
Galen Lamei – IT
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
4 Thirst for Knowledge
4 Accumulated Knowledge
2 Intuition
1 Hurkyls Recal
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Rebuild
1 Ponder
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Brainstorm
1 Time Walk
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Skeletal Scrying
2 Tendrils of Agony
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Vault
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Lotus Petal
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
3 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
4 Island
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Underground Sea
1 Dark Ritual
 
SB
4 Thoughtseise
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Darkblast
1 Hurkyls Recall
2 Pithing Needle
1 Yixlid Jailor
1 Tinker
1 Darksteel Colossus

Aaron West – Ichorid
4 City of Brass
3 Gemstone Mine
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Serum Powder
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Unmask
1 Darkblast
2 Dread Return
4 Bridge from Below
4 Ichroid
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
4 Golgari Thug
4 Stinkweed Imp
4 Marcomoeba
1 Flame-kin Zealot
1 Angel of Despair

SB
1 Gemstone Mine
3 Breakthrough
4 Chain of Vapor
2 Darkblast
3 Whispmare
2 Emerald Charm


Ryan Reynolds – Tyrant Oath
1 Strip Mine
3 Wasteland
4 Forbidden Orchard
2 Underground Sea
1 Tropical Island
1 Snow-covered Island
1 Island
2 Flooded Strand
3 Polluted Delta
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
2 Sensei’s Diving Top
4 Chalice of the void
1 Null Rod
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
2 Thoughtsiese
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recal
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
4 Thirst for Knowledge
4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
2 Tidespout Tyrant
4 Oath of Druinds
1 Gaea’s Blessing

SB
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Extirpate
1 Pithing Needle
2 Mishras Factory
1 Life From the Loam
3 Oxidize
2 Duress


Cory Redmond – UR Landstill
3 Faire Conclave
2 Island
1 Library at Alexandria
4 Mishra’s Factory
3 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
1 Strip Mine
4 Volcanic Island
4 Wasteland
4 Standstill
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
1 Ancestral Recall
3 Null Rod
1 pyroblast
1 crucible of worlds
2 chalice of the void
1 Black Lotus
1 Chain of Vapor
4 Fire/Ice
1 Misdirection
1 Mox Sapphire
1 MOx Ruby
4 Stifle
2 Echoing Truth
1 Time Walk

SB
1 Curicble of Worlds
2 Chalice of the Void
1 PyroBlast
1 Rack and Ruin
2 Red Elemental Blast
3 Threads of Disloyalty
2 Ingot Chewer
3 Pyroclasm

List 5-8 later...

[Dr_Tongue]

 Ochoa was playing Pitchlong perhaps? I thought I remembered him Forcing some stuff of mine (like my Negator , sigh). Grim Long has more black and no Forces I think, but I'm no expert as we all can tell.

 Reserving this spot for a few pics I had as well, bummer about your camera Jeff. I scrubbed pretty badly. Went to time w/ Galen rd. 1 1-1 apiece with me removing 2/3 of his win conditions game 3 (he had DSC in hand). I drew crap off Twisters twice in the tourney. Both times I drew 6 mana sources (lands,moxen,rits) of off my Timetwisters, and to add insult to injury I drew my DSC for card 7 each time. I drew my lone DSC more times than I did my FoW's...sheesh.

 Me and Jeff finally got to play a game IRL, I've played him 25 times at least but it's usually online. Same with Galen (Aardshark). Good job on the strong finish btw.

Peace out. Sorry there wasn't more pictures, maybe next time.

D. Ochoa (heavily favored) and

R. Reynolds (Eudo T1 judge) playing round 1.


Lotushead pretending to SB vs. Eirik round 1.


Blurry ass picture of top tables (round 2). Corey Redmond playing vs. Ryan Reynolds in foreground.


Table 6-9 round 2. The only absent spot is where I soundly beat my opponent (Erika-her first tourney) in 2 quick games. Sorry, my deck just went off on you quickly without much disruption facing it.

[Moxlotus]

Galen Lamei (Aardshark) - Intuition Tendrils

Hell yeah.

[Webster]

Galen Lamei (Aardshark) - Intuition Tendrils

Hell yeah.

Galen was actually playing drain tendrils.

Luis and I played pitch long.


Needless to say my draws were obviously lacking in this tournament since I didn't win, etc.

[toor]

He had drains and intuition and Thirst for Knowledge. He said he wasn't standard drain tendrils (when I characterized him as that).

[RaleighNCTourneys]

That is a very standard DT list (post-restriction). He just opted for the 2x Tendrils kills instead of ETW or Tinker/Colossus. Anyway, congrats on 1st and thanks for the report.

[credmond]

My deck had 1 crucible, 1 pyroblast, and 2 chalices maindeck in addition to the 56 cards posted.

[NicolaeAlmighty]

That is a very standard DT list (post-restriction). He just opted for the 2x Tendrils kills instead of ETW or Tinker/Colossus. Anyway, congrats on 1st and thanks for the report.

Which is ofcourse a very standard T1T list... So why bother arguing over the name?

Grats on the finish. Nothing better than seeing four different decks with four different strategies topping off a tourney. Despite what "top names" talk about, this is diversity. Beats the shit out of "Gushbond with this kill @ first, Gushbond with this kill @ second,.." etc.

[RaleighNCTourneys]

Because it's clearly not Intuition Tendrils as is currently listed. I agree there is no point in arguing over the name, but the archetype is important for record keeping. You can call it T1T, Drain TPS or Drain Tendrils. It's just not IT. Also, the pilot named his deck Drain (for Intuition AK) Tendrils... so I see no point in calling it anything other than DT.

[Demonic Attorney]

So why bother arguing over the name?

agree there is no point in arguing over the name

Then let's leave it at that, at least in terms further posts to the boards.  Thanks.

[Dr_Tongue]

I believe Galens list is missing a DSC in the board as well (14 cards listed with Tinker listed in the SB). I swore during our 3rd match he told me he had DSC in hand and that was his last "win condition" left after the round was called to time.

I'll post 2/3 random photos later tonight when my camera to cpu cord comes home. I didn't take many pics as my first match went to time and sometimes I gather people don't want their pics taken sometimes (witness relocation program? JK). If there's another one (@Adventure's), I'll try to gather some "match" photo's but I don't like to interfere with anyone's game playing/thought process.

[Aardshark]

FYI, my list is missing a Darksteel Colossus in the side. I'll try to piece together a report from my sketchy notes when I get the chance.

He had drains and intuition and Thirst for Knowledge. He said he wasn't standard drain tendrils (when I characterized him as that).

With your permission DA, I'd like to clarify that I definitely consider my deck to be a slight variant of Codi's DT deck.  I may have mispoken or misunderstood the question at the tourney -- what I meant to say was that I consider this to be less a combo and more of a control deck, although I did play a ritual in an attempt to speed up the deck slightly. I think Codi ran this as well back in grim heavy meta circa 2006.  (Please also note while Lotushead dubbed it drainforintutionAKtendrils in his post above, I did not indicate any name for this deck on my decklist.)

I'm no expert on IT, but I usually think of it as more combo oriented, with more ritual effects, etc. I could be wrong about this.

[LotusHead]

Time for pics finally

If I recall, Dr. Tongue throws fat bomb after fat bomb at Aardshark's Forces and Drains.
Yawgwill in grave, sad site.


Webster ponders "post brainstorm/ponder/gush/scroll restrictions aside, having an Oath on the field is still bad."


Chistiaan sees just how awesome Mindsensor's are vs UR Landstill.


Goblin Welder let me chump DSC with Karn turn after turn, but Luis still got there. (damn time walk)


Null Rods. at least 4 decks played them. I though we movied past this hater card? (shopdeck player weeps)


Team Vacaville's Alex finally put the crack pipe down and slung magical cards again.. Galen threw his hand into a Rebuild combo fit that ended with TRICKBIND from Alex.  Alex plays land, go (or something equally weak), and had Trickbind #2 ready to go.  Aardshark topdecks YawgWill, casts at LEAST 3 Thirst For Knowledges, in addition to other spells, and the VERY last card he hit was the 1 Thoughtseize he left in the deck. Lucksack, I mean Good play Galen.

more edited into this post later...

[Mdizzle4life85]

4 decks will null rods? wow take that slaver and shops!!!

[Ufactor]

So why bother arguing over the name?

agree there is no point in arguing over the name

Then let's leave it at that, at least in terms further posts to the boards.  Thanks.

I would argue that this is a productive correction.  Waaay too many times (and not just in this format), TO's and other non-combatants will get the deck names wrong, which spreads disinformation about the meta game.  Goblins is not the same as RDW, and Shop-Aggro is not the same as Stax, but will often get mis-noted as such.  This makes things utter dog crap for analysis purposes.

[LotusHead]

So why bother arguing over the name?

agree there is no point in arguing over the name

Then let's leave it at that, at least in terms further posts to the boards.  Thanks.

I would argue that this is a productive correction.  Waaay too many times (and not just in this format), TO's and other non-combatants will get the deck names wrong, which spreads disinformation about the meta game.  Goblins is not the same as RDW, and Shop-Aggro is not the same as Stax, but will often get mis-noted as such.  This makes things utter dog crap for analysis purposes.

its all good, people that pay attention read/study the decklists.  I didn't know the details of galen's list (the historical details that would llead me to nameing it right. I'm a shop player, formerly a Salvabers pleyer)