Thank you to everyone who made this event a success. Events at Over the Edge have improved each time, and I'm certain that
ELD's Mox XX will follow that trend. Being the first tournament to have Shards of Alara legal made for an uncertain field. Would Tezzeret be as good as he looks on paper? Would Ad Naseum break the format? Would anyone figure out how to use Ethersworn Cannonist? After 5 rounds of swiss, and a Top 8 that left only one man standing, we had our answers.
Tezzeret was as good as he looked, maybe better. Steve Houdlette made the best use of a Tezzeret for this tournament. Also known as Grand Inquisitor, Steve's list allowed him to break through a pattern of making Top 8 nearly every event, but not ultimately hitting the big payday. His innovation combined with his always solid play may have been the difference this time around.
Ad Naseum didn't impact things in terms of making a Top 8, but many people were prepared to face Tendrils strategies. In the control heavy New England meta, the deck may not show up in enough numbers to have a great chance at Top 8ing. With Drains and Shops both being played by some of the stronger players, and being so omnipresent, it may be a while before we see a deck based on this plan break out and show its raw power.
Ethersworn Cannonist was joined by several new artifacts in Jeff Carpenter's second place list. His only loss on the day was to Steve's 1st place Tezzeret deck. Bookending his tournament with a first round loss, he swept right up to the finals, where he found the match up to be no less favorable. A quick combo Game 1, and artifact destruction en masse Game 3 ended his day, but not discussion of his deck. Many players are drawn to his idea of artifact beats coupled with actual counters. The deck has the ferocity of Mono Red Shops, but can actually play a game with the stack via Force of Will. Cannonist, Counterbalance and Thorn can lock up the board as effectively a most Shop locks, and creature beats close the door quickly. I'm certain the deck will stick around as people tinker with the design.
Congratulations to Jeff Carpenter, winner of the pre-registration door prize. Pre-registering really does help a great deal, and I ask that anyone planning on coming just contact me if possible. This will enter you into the drawing, and makes setting up so much easier. For his IM, Jeff received this Foil ELD Proxy Ancestral Recall:
Standings after 5 rounds of Swiss:
Op-Match PL-Duel Op-Duel Matches
Rank No. Name Points Win% Win% Win% P/W/D/B
1 16 Jeff Carpenter
UW Artifact Fish 12 50.0000 64.2857 49.3803 5/4/0/0
2 19 Jason Ford
BUG Fish 11 61.3333 61.5385 53.0769 5/3/2/0
3 3 Matt Macauley
BUG Fish 11 58.6667 61.5385 52.0696 5/3/2/0
4 12 John Longo
UBr Control 11 57.3333 66.6667 53.9635 5/3/2/0
5 25 Demonic Attorney
Hellkite Oath 11 56.0000 57.1429 53.6064 5/3/2/0
6 23 Stephen Houdlette
Tezzeret 10 64.0000 58.3333 58.5331 5/3/1/0
7 11 Matthew LeBlanc
Tezzeret 10 51.3333 63.6364 49.1111 5/3/1/0
8 15 Bryan Camdige
RG Beats 10 50.6667 63.6364 48.0836 5/3/1/0
9 8 Dan Cunningham
UW Fish 10 50.6667 50.0000 51.1705 5/3/1/0
10 22 Paul Glantz
RG Beats 9 56.0000 53.8462 52.7106 5/3/0/0
11 18 Rich Shay
Hellkite Oath 9 50.0000 61.5385 47.6581 5/3/0/0
12 26 David Lawrence
Tezzeret 6 57.3333 41.6667 54.1392 5/2/0/0
13 7 Nischal Nadig
Mana'd Ichorid 6 56.0000 41.6667 51.0653 5/2/0/0
14 1 Kevin Peterson
Burn 6 54.1667 55.5556 53.7067 4/2/0/0
15 4 Arik Pogrebinsky
UBW Fish/Dreadnought 6 49.1667 50.0000 46.5278 4/1/0/1
16 9 Bill Copes
5c Stax 6 48.0000 46.1538 45.9848 5/2/0/0
17 17 Jer Rudolf
Control Slaver 6 46.0000 45.4545 45.8469 5/2/0/0
18 27 Louis Gentile
Tendrils 6 43.3333 44.4444 47.5816 4/2/0/0
19 5 Pat Hereford
Tendrils 3 83.3333 42.8571 70.8333 2/0/0/1
20 2 Blaine Christiansen
BWG Bazaar Aggro 3 66.6667 37.5000 68.9815 3/1/0/0
21 6 Tim Landale
Tezzeret 3 55.5556 42.8571 46.8254 3/1/0/0
22 24 Tom MacDonald
Mana'd Ichorid 3 54.0000 30.7692 49.2918 5/1/0/0
23 14 Allan Autino
RG Beats 3 52.0833 40.0000 53.2197 4/1/0/0
24 13 Clark Van Vliet
Tendrils 0 52.0833 11.1111 53.2197 4/0/0/0
25 10 Joe Morgan
WUG Exalted 0 50.0000 20.0000 55.0000 2/0/0/0
26 21 Vladimir Stukanob
4c Stax 0 50.0000 20.0000 45.0000 2/0/0/0
27 20 Shane Bruke
4c Stax 0 50.0000 0.0000 55.0000 2/0/0/0
Top 8 Bracket -
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1 ( 16) Jeff Carpenter
8 ( 15) Bryan Camdige
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5 ( 25) Demonic Attorney
4 ( 12) John Longo
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3 ( 3) Matt Macauley
6 ( 23) Stephen Houdlette
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7 ( 11) Matthew LeBlanc
2 ( 19) Jason Ford
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The Top 8 was playing for a wide selection of prizes. In all my events, I try and give people options, so everyone goes home with cards they really want. Everyone who Top 8's at a ELD Mox event gets a Custom Proxy. These Custom Proxies are gold numbered 1st-8th and dated for the tournament. The Custom Proxies are voted on in the Community Forum on TMD. For this event the Custom Proxy was Strategic Planning. For
ELD's Mox XX, it is Time Vault.
The Top 8 Prize Pool
1st Place
2nd Place
3rd & 4th Place
5th-8th
1st Stephen Houdlette
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Ponder
1 Cunning Wish
1 Mystical Tutor
4 Force of Will
1 Time Walk
1 Brainstorm
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Echoing Truth
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Pithing Needle
1 Tormod's Crypt
2 Tezzeret the Seeker
3 Mana Drain
1 Tinker
1 Fire/Ice
2 Trinket Mage
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Time Vault
1 Demonic Tutor
2 Intuition
4 Accumulated Knowledge
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Sundering Titan
1 Tropical Island
2 Volcanic Island
2 Underground Sea
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Mana Crypt
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Sol Ring
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Black Lotus
2 Island
3 Polluted Delta
3 Flooded Strand
2 Tarmogoyf
1 Krosan Grip
1 Massacre
1 Pithing Needle
2 Viashino Heretic
2 Thoughtseize
1 Tropical Island
1 Extirpate
1 Darkblast
1 Red Elemental Blast
2 Ancient Grudge
2nd Jeff Carpenter 3 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
1 Island
4 Tundra
3 Mishra's Factory
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Tolaria West
4 Etherium Sculptor
4 Master of Etherium
4 Ethersworn Cannonist
2 Ninja of the Deep Hours
4 Force of Will
4 Thorn of Amethyst
3 Counterbalance
3 Sensei's Divining Top
2 Sword of Fire and Ice
2 Relic of Progenitus
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Forcefield
3 Magus of the Unseen
2 Relic of Progenitus
3 Waterfront Bouncer
2 Umezawa's Jitte
3 Seal of Cleansing
2 Dispeller's Capsule
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3rd Demonic Attorney 4 Oath of Druids
4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
2 Thoughtseize
3 Thirst for Knowledge
2 Impulse
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
1 Hellkite Overlord
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Echoing Truth
1 Scroll Rack
1 Gaea's Blessing
4 Forbidden Orchard
3 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
3 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
2 Island
1 Snow-Covered Island
2 Empyrial Archangel
3 Relic of Progenitus
2 Extirpate
3 Duress
1 Bitter Ordeal
1 Massacre
3 Oxidize
4th Jason Ford 3 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea
1 Bayou
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
2 Flooded Strand
4 Polluted Delta
4 Cursecatcher
4 Dark Confidant
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Null Rod
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Force of Will
2 Stifle
3 Negate
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Brainstorm
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
3 Thoughtseize
2 Duress
1 Echoing Truth
1 Darkblast
1 Krosan Grip
4 Leyline of the Void
3 Yixlid Jailer
2 Pithing Needle
2 Threads of Disloyalty
2 Trygon Predator
5th Matt Macauley 1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
3 Underground Sea
3 Tropical Island
1 Bayou
4 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
4 Force of Will
4 Null Rod
2 Annul
3 Negate
2 Thoughtseize
3 Duress
1 Echoing Truth
4 Dark Confidant
4 Cursecatcher
4 Tarmogoyf
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Time Walk
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Pithing Needle
2 Threads of Disloyalty
3 Yixlid Jailer
1 Darkblast
2 Trygon Predator
1 Krosan Grip
1 Gaea's Blessing
6th John Longo 1 Tinker
1 Darksteel Colossus
1 Empty the Warrens
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Time Walk
4 Street Wraith
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Impulse
1 Night's Whisper
1 Gush
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Ancestral Recall
4 Thirst for Knowledge
4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
2 Negate
2 Thoughtseize
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Pyrite Spellbomb
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
3 Island
3 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
3 Polluted Delta
3 Flooded Strand
1 Volcanic Island
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Echoing Truth
3 Yixlid Jailer
2 Pithing Needle
3 Ingot Chewer
1 Pyroclasm
1 Firespout
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Duress
7th Matthew LeBlanc 4 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
4 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
3 Island
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Timetwister
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
4 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Brainstorm
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Imperial Seal
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Fact or Fiction
2 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Tinker
1 Darksteel Colossus
3 Thoughtseize
1 Fire/Ice
1 Echoing Truth
2 Gorilla Shaman
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Stifle
2 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Energy Flux
1 Pyroblast
2 Red Elemental Blast
8th Bryan Camidge 4 Tarmogoyf
4 Magus of the Moon
3 Gorilla Shaman
4 Null Rod
4 Root Maze
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Chalice of the Void
4 Simian Spirit Guide
4 Mogg Fanatic
3 Stingscourger
4 Tin-Street Hooligan
1 Elvish Spirit Guide
4 Taiga
2 Wooded Foothills
3 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
6 Forest
3 Mountain
4 Tormod's Crypt
2 Ancient Grudge
4 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pyroblast
1 Gaea's Blessing
3 Pyrokinesis
