Niles, IL Pastimes Mox Pearl 10/18 Results and mini-report

[Tha Gunslinga]

Top 8 in no particular order:

Jamison Bryant (RWG beats)
Danny Friedman (Thirst Gifts-style Tezzeret)
Brian Fisher (Impulse Gifts-style Tezzeret)
Mike Solymossy (Thirst Gifts-style Tezzeret)
Josh Rayden (Gifts-style Tezzeret)
Tony Lyskawa (BUG Fish)
Benjamin Carp (DEEZ NOUGHTS)
Jesus Roxas (UWB Fish)

Top 8:
Benjamin beat Josh
Tony beat Danny
Brian beat Mike
Jamison beat Jesus

Top 4:
Jamison beat Benjamin
Brian beat Tony

Finals:
Jamison Bryant beat Brian Fisher.

Congratulations to Jamison Bryant for winning the Mox.

There were 17 people.  Metagame breakdown:
1 DEEZ NOUGHTS
1 Affinity
5 Gifts-style Tezzeret
2 RWG Beats
1 BUG Fish
2 MUD
1 MaskNought
1 UWB Fish
1 UB Storm (might have been Ad Nauseam, but I didn't see them)
1 UB PlatPact
1 RBU combo, might have been Ad Nauseam, but I didn't see them)

This is taken from my scouting after the round 1 bye.

Note that while 4 of the 5 Tezzeret decks made top 8, only one made top 4.  Random aggro was clearly a great metagame call.

My day was pretty fun.

Round 1 bye

Round 2 William Moran with UB MaskNought
basically he has my deck but slower.  I took it in 3.  Game one I opened with triple Thoughtseize, which was good times.

Round 3 I school Soly due to his deck's inability to find land in game 1 and due to triple Force in game 3.

Round 4 I scoop to Danny but crush him anyway just for fun.

Round 5 ID with Fisher.

Top 8 I beat Rayden in 2 despite not knowing how to attack a Planeswalker correctly.

Top 4 Jamison wrecks me with terrifying amounts of hate.  I cannot beat Plowshares, Mogg Fanatic on my Confidants, and Tin Streets on my Noughts.  I have no clue how to win this matchup, except by boarding into Long.

I picked up two Forces of Will for 3rd place.  Good times.

My list:
Benjamin Carp
Team ICBM
DEEZ NOUGHTS

Maindeck:
4 Stifle
4 Force of Will
1 Brainstorm
4 Thoughtseize
2 Illusionary Mask
2 Spell Snare
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Ponder
1 Time Walk
1 Echoing Truth
1 Engineered Explosives
4 Dark Confidant
4 Phyrexian Dreadnought
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Underground Sea
4 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
1 Island
1 Swamp
1 Tropical Island
1 Bayou
1 Strip Mine
3 Wasteland
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal

SB:
2 Reanimate
1 Slaughter Pact
2 Diabolic Edict
3 Threads of Disloyalty
2 Hurkyl's Recall
3 Trygon Predator
2 Pithing Needle

This deck is stupid good.  Play it.  It has no new cards in it but it still wrecks house.  Note the increase in mana sources to compensate for the lack of Brainstorms.  It does run only 15 blue cards, which is a bit low, but I didn't have too many issues.  I was also hardcasting Forces all day.  The SB was fine.  Pithing Needle won a game vs Tezzeret; I'd probably up them to 3 if I could.  Never needed Trygon or Hurk's.

[M.Solymossy]

17 showed up for the pearl.   17 however, is no lacking matter, as I counted nine maybe even ten people who have top8ed major events (SCG or worlds) in attendance, including 3 SCG Champions as well as a Worlds Finalist!



Top 8 played out as so

(8) Tony Lyskawa Beats (1) Danny Friedman
(5) Brian Fisher beats (4) Me
(3) Ben Carp Beats (6) Josh Rayden
(2) Jamison Bryant beats (7) Jesus Roxas


Top 4:
Brian Fisher beats Tony Lyskawa
Jamison Bryant beats Ben Carp

Finals:
Jamison Bryant Beats Brian Fisher



DECKLISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Jamison Bryant
"Whatever, Extended is a format too!".dec
3 Plateau
4 Tin Street Hooligan
3 Windsweapt Heath
3 Vexing Shusher
3 Savannah
1 Black Lotus
3 Wooded Foothills
3 Taiga
3 Skullclamp
4 Wild Nacatl
4 Ethersworn Cannonist
4 Aether Vial
4 Swords to plowshares
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mountainya
4 Mog Fanatic
4 Poke'Goofus
3 Kird Ape
2 Gaddock Teeg
1 Forest
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4 Orims Chanot
3 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pyroblast
3 Null Rod
2 Ancient Grudge
2 Ray of REvolation

Brian Fisher
"Who Needs A Draw engine" AKA GWS Tezzeret

4 Duress
4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic " "
1 Mystical " "
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Tinker
1 Yawgmoths Will
1 gifts ungiven
1 Fact or fiction
1 ponder
1 brainstorm
1 echoing truth
1 regrowth
4 impulse
3 tezzeret, the goddamned nuts.
1 Time Vault, Which Stephen Menendian Single-handedly rescued from Oblivion,
1 Darksteel Colossus
2 Flooded strand
 3Polluted Dleta
3 Volcanic Island
3 Underground sea
2 Tropical Island
2 island
1 Tolarian academy
5 Moxen
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Sol Ring
----
2 Red elemental blast
1 pyroblast
3 flametongue kavu
2 ancient grudge
2 trygon predator
2 pithing needle
2 thoughtseize
1 Platinum Angel

Ben Carp
"Would I play anything else?".dec


4 Stifle
4 Force of Will
1 Brainstorm
4 Thoughtseize
2 Illusionary Mask
2 Spell Snare
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Ponder
1 Time Walk
1 Echoing Truth
1 Engineered Explosives
4 Dark Confidant
4 Phyrexian Doughnut
4 Poke'Goofus
4 Underground Sea
4 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
1 Island
1 Swamp
1 Tropical Island
1 Bayou
1 Strip Mine
3 Wasteland
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
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2 Reanimate
1 Slaughter Pact
2 Diabolic Edict
3 Threads of Disloyalty
2 Hurkyl's Recall
3 Trygon Predator
2 Pithing Needle


Tony Lyskawa
"When Don't I turn Dudes sideways?".dec

4 Dark Confidant
4 Poke'Goofus
4 THE CURSE!!!
2 TrygonPredator
3 Stifle
3  Null Rod
4 Force of Will
2 Negate
3 Thoughtseize
1 Demonic Tutor
2 Duress
1 Vampiric tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time  Walk
1 Echoing Truth
1 Brainstorm
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
3 Tropical  Island
3 Underground Sea
1 Bayou
4 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
4 Moxen (No pearl)
1 Black Lotus
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3 Relic of Progenitus
2 Extirpate
1Trygon Predator
1 Stifle
3 Krosan Grip
2 oxidisie
3 Sower ofTemptation


Mike Solymossy
Drain Tendrils Literally Laughing Outloud!

1 Darksteel Colossus
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Time Vault, Which Stephen Menendian Single-handedly rescued from Oblivion,
1 Voltaic Key
1 Demonic Tutor
3 Duress
1 Vampiric tutor
1 Yawgmoths Will
1 VIASHINO HERETIC (I must thank an Atog for the Maindeck Technology)
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Fact or Fiction
4 Force of Will
1 Gifts  Ungiven
1Echoing Truth
4 Mana Drain
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Mystical Tutor
2 Repeal
2 Tezzeret, The Goddamned Nuts
4 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Time  Walk
1 Tinker
9 Artifact  Mana (no petal)
2 Flooded Strand
3 Island
4 Polluted Delta
1  TolarianAcademy
2 Volcanic Island
3 Underground Sea
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1 Flametongue  Kavu
1 Ingot  Chewer
2 Pyroblast
1 Rack  And/Or  Ruin
1 Red Elemental Blast
2 Thoughtseize
3 Sower of Temptation
1 Crucible of Worlds
2 Pithing Needle
1 Tormods Crypt

Danny Friedman
Tizzle-Wizzle  (His name, not mine!)
9Artifacts (no petal)
1 Tolarian Acaemy
3 Flooded Strand
3 Polluted Delta
2 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
3Island
3  Tezzeret, The Goddamned Nuts!
1  Darksteel Colossus
1 Time Vault, Which Stephen Menendian Single-handedly rescued from Oblivion,
1 Voltaic Key
1 Sensei's Diving Top
4 Force of Will
1 Misdirection
4 ManaDrain
3 Thoughtseize
2 Fire/Ice
4 Thirst for Knowledge
1Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Dark Ritual (WTF?)
1Vampiric tutor
1 Mystical tutor
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Tinker
1 Yawgmoths Will
1 Echoing Truth
1Time Walk
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2 Tropical Island
4 Poke'Goofus
2 Anceint Grudge
2 Viashino Heretic
1 Spawning Pit
2 Goblin Bombardment
2Tormods Crypt

Josh Rayden
"Gifts Oath 2008"

1 Library of Alexandria
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
1 Snow-covered Island
3 Island
2 Flooded Strand
3 Polluted Delta
10 artifacts (HE PLAYS PETAL!!!)
1 Echoing Truth
1 Fact or Fiction
 1 Merchant Scroll
1 Brainstorm
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
2 Tezzeret, The Goddamned Nuts
4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
4 Thirst for knowledge
1 Vampiric tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 YawgmothsWill
2 Duress
2 Thoughtseize
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault, Which Stephen Menendian Single-handedly rescued from Oblivion,
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sundering titan
1 Ponder
1 Misdirection
1 Tinker
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4 Chalice ofThe Void
1 Trinisphere
1 Platinum Angel
3 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pyroblast
2 Pyroclasm
2 hurkyl's Recall
1 Island

Jesus  Roxas
"Jesus Christ,vampire hunter".dec

4 Ethersworn  Cannonist
4  Dark Confidant
4 THE CURSE!!!
4  Meddling Mage
3 Aven Mindscensor
4 Force of Will
3 Daze
3 Swords to Plowshares
2 STifle
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Time Walk
4  Null Rod
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
4 Tundra
2 Underground Sea
4 Polluted Delta
3 Flooded Strand
3 Wasteland
2 Mishra's Factory
1 Strip Mine
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2 Ronom Unicorn
2 Kami of the ancient Law
4 Kataki, War's Rage
3 Duress
3 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Swords to plowshares



Disclaimer:  You probably won't understand some card names, unless you're on the GWS boards, because our word filter is the best thing EVAR!   Also, All deck names unless otherwise Stated, were created by me




My personal Tournament Report to follow!

[LordHomerCat]

Damnit Soly, I got like half way through the lists before I thought "He needs to not copy and paste from the GWS forums anymore."

I'd like to make sure everyone notices that Fisher was running THE GREEDIEST MANABASE IN THE HISTORY OF MAGIC.  JACO would be shedding a tear of pride for sure.

[Tha Gunslinga]

Can I just state for the record that Tezzeret is awful, and putting Tezzeret in a Gifts shell just makes it worse?  Please learn to play real decks.  Especially ones that bust out 12/12s.

[policehq]

Disclaimer:  You probably won't understand some card names, unless you're on the GWS boards, because our word filter is the best thing EVAR!   Also, All deck names unless otherwise Stated, were created by me

....at least it was sooo funny to read.

For the Noughts vs. R/x/x hate, would a Kira, Great Glass Spinner help?

[chief]

I got to the tournament late, and came up with a sideboard on the way down.  Then i had to scramble to make legit proxies, and I hadn't been able to locate my sharpie the night before and bought one on the way down.  After a lil scramblin', I was ready to shuffle up just in time.

Round 1 vs Tony Lyskawa with BUG fish

This is already a pretty bad match for tony, as my dudes come in larger numbers and are just as fat as his.  This comes on top of him having negates, which are not too useful in the match.  Game one he mulled to five and I kept a one land aether vial hand.  He has a null rod and a waste, but by the time they both land i've got a couple of fanatics in play.  Over the next few turns I found a couple of lands and got the aggro on the board to put him under before he can really get anywhere.  Game two I had some beats, he sower'd a goyf at one point, but I had the reb. 1-0

Round 2 vs a guy with some combo deck

He gets a game loss game one for having a 59 card deck list. They let him keep the unregistered card (mind twist), and we shuffle up with him on the play.  I got some quick beats going, including an ethersworn canonist.  The turn before I'm lethal, he eot's a gifts for chain of vapor, lotus, rebuild, hurkyls.  I have a vial at two, so I give him chain and lotus.  He untaps, chains my canonist, which i let go.  Then he played a mox, and I responded by activating vial and putting cannonist back on the board to end our only game. 2-0

Round 3 vs Danny Freidman with tezzeret

Game one I had an early shusher, and shusher put more beats through for the victory.  Game two he was on his way down, but then played a goyf and put a dsc on the board to stabilize at 4.  I wound up having to swords the dsc, but the extra life bought him the time he needed to take about a zillion turns after a yawg will that put vault and key into play.  Game three started out with me getting ahead before getting a little hairy.  He led with land, mox, mana vault, tfk and then burned for one.  At that point I wasn't scared. Then he played a couple of goyfs, and things got worse.  Eventually I got rid of all the goyfs and the tinkered dsc via a barrage of swords to plowshares and trading a clamped goyf of mine for a regular one of his,  I was at  6 and he was at 28.  I'm pretty sure I would have won this match, as I had  a few cards to keep him from getting his infinite combo rolling and about ten points of damage on the board...unfortunately we were already in turns at this point so I didn't have time to get there. 2-0-1

Round 4 vs Jesus Roxas with UBW fish

I'm pretty sure that I'm his worst match in the room, but we shuffle up and his game one against me involved a never ending stream of dudes and a bunch of swords, and my draw was pretty mediocre.  I got my vial forced on turn one, my goyf dazed on turn two, and it was all bad from there.  Game two I beat him down for a while, he cast a swords on a goyf somewhere in there, and then with him at two with a bob and a factory on the board at two life, I decide to play a dude (putting me up to one dude more than his blockers) and let his bob have at him.  His bob shows him a mindcensor, and that's the game.  game 3 he has land go, and I have taiga emerald double nacatl.  he wastes my taiga, and I untap and fetch a plateu to beat for 6 and say go with no threats in hand but redblast online.  He tries to play a med mage, but I blast it.  I rip skull clamp, and play and equip to swing for 7, putting him to 7.  He draws nothing relevant and dies. 3-0-1  Also, he showed me that he brought in 3 jitte out of the board.

Round 5 vs Soly- ID

TOP 8

I went to get food during round 5, figuring I'd have plenty of time.  Brian Fisher, Matt Endress and I walked across the road to a subway, ate our food, and were walking back when soly called to say they were seating the top 8.  Apparently round 5 was only a 25 minute round.  All we had to do was get back across the street, but that is nowhere near as easy as it sounds.  The street in question is incredibly bust all the time, and you have to get lucky to be able to get across even when the light is red.  We got back in time though, and I found out I was paired with Jesus again- great for me, but not for him, the poor guy.

Quarter Finals, Vs Jesus

Game 1- I won the die roll, which makes things even worse for Mr. Roxas.  I open with fetch, mox, goyf and it resolves.  He managed to put a bob and a canonist on the board at one point to tag team the goyf, but my other dudes just kept on going.

Game two- If I recall, he never played much of anything relevant...I had brought in answers to those jittes, because they're scary, but he never saw them or anything else.  I had a shusher in there and at the end of the game he shows me a hand of triple force of will and nothing else. 

Semi Finals Vs Ben Carp with Deez Naughts

Game one he's on the play, and plays land go.   I play a land and pass as well.  He plays a naught and stifles it in.  I play a tin street to blow it up.  He played a bob, and I fanatic'd it.  He stifled in another naught, and I plowed it.  Fanatic'd another bob or so, and then let the beats team run clean up.  Game 2, I played a mountain and a lotus...he forced lotus, so I passed turn without a further turn one play.  He played a goyf right away, and I didn't get into much to compete.  I had a nacatl that eventually had to block his goyf.  Then I got a goyf, and bought some time.  I think I killed off another bob in there too.  I found a second goyf, and he EOT'd a vamp for threads.  He took one goyf and passed.  My deck decided to love me at that point, and handed me one of my 4 red blasts off the top to get my dude back.  From there I was able to put it away.

Finals vs Brian Fisher

I had strong hands for the matchup in both of our games, and Brian seemed to be having a rough time in both of them.  I won the die roll, and led off game one with land, mox, shusher.  Shusher put in a canonist, and then I played  a goyf on the following turn with one mana up.  Brian forced it, I shushed it, then he drained in response.  I was about to let that go like a horrible magic player, when Brian saved the day and pointed out that my canonist said he couldn't make that play.  Good thing my opponents know my cards.  Brian never did much else, and the game was over soon enough.  Game two my draw was pretty insano.  He played land go, and I opened with Land, emerald, lotus into shusher goyf I believe.  He played a land and passed, I played a nacatl and swung for 4.  He tried to EOT an impulse, which I blasted.  He played land go again, and I swung, played another one drop, which he drained and I shushed, but he drew his card and couldn't make any plays even with the extra mana.

Sorry for the lack of detail in the report, but my notes were a little vague and my memory is worse.  The orims chants in my board never got to come in, thanks to my one combo pairing of the day lasting only one game, but they still need to be there...I just got lucky that I didn't have to stare down ad naus.  I think that the null rods are probably better off as needles- playing rods was just a sloppy last minute decision on my part trying to scrape the deck together in time to play.  This was the list I played.

3 Plateau
4 Tin Street Hooligan
3 Windsweapt Heath
3 Vexing Shusher
3 Savannah
1 Black Lotus
3 Wooded Foothills
3 Taiga
3 Skullclamp
4 Wild Nacatl
4 Ethersworn Canonist
4 Aether Vial
4 Swords to plowshares
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mountain
4 Mog Fanatic
4 Tarmogoyf
3 Kird Ape
2 Gaddock Teeg
1 Forest
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4 Orims Chant
3 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pyroblast
3 Null Rod
2 Ancient Grudge
2 Ray of Revelation

total counts-
dudes- 28
other spells- 11
mana- 21

I'm very happy with this mainboard right now.  The sideboard is still in a state of flux.

[chief]

PS- I won wearing my pajamas all day.  It was great.

[M.Solymossy]

PS- I won wearing my pajamas all day.  It was great.

And then Charmander, Chief and I partied on the UWM campus, and I went through about 12 cups of beer in an hour, which made up for losing to fisher in top8.

[Tha Gunslinga]

Disclaimer:  You probably won't understand some card names, unless you're on the GWS boards, because our word filter is the best thing EVAR!   Also, All deck names unless otherwise Stated, were created by me

....at least it was sooo funny to read.

For the Noughts vs. R/x/x hate, would a Kira, Great Glass Spinner help?

In theory, but in reality I think it's too slow, and would probably just get REBbed on its way in.

[VorpalBunnyDuby]

@ben: I'm just curious about those reanimates in your sideboard. Are they there just to return goyfs and bobs against aggro or is there more than meets the eye?
Also love the list, did E.E in the main help out against aggro, since that seemed to be your worst matchup?

[DameonHv]

Josh Rayden
"Gifts Oath 2008"

1 Library of Alexandria
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
1 Snow-covered Island
3 Island
2 Flooded Strand
3 Polluted Delta
10 artifacts (HE PLAYS PETAL!!!)
1 Echoing Truth
1 Fact or Fiction
 1 Merchant Scroll
1 Brainstorm
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
2 Tezzeret, The Goddamned Nuts
4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
4 Thirst for knowledge
1 Vampiric tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 YawgmothsWill
2 Duress
2 Thoughtseize
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault, Which Stephen Menendian Single-handedly rescued from Oblivion,
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sundering titan
1 Ponder
1 Misdirection
1 Tinker
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4 Chalice ofThe Void
1 Trinisphere
1 Platinum Angel
3 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pyroblast
2 Pyroclasm
2 hurkyl's Recall
1 Island

Tezzeret sucked.  He was the worst card in my deck all day.  The one time I played him I lost.  Every game I won was Sundering Titan or Key/Vault after Yawg Will. 

@ Gunslinga: The assertion that your deck is a "real deck" makes me sad in the pants.  Tezzeret is awful, but putting him in a Gifts Shell doesn't change his value.

[Tabasco]

I had a rather rough start to my day, as I lost to Jamison round 1, J. Roxas in round 2 and got the bye round 3.  Soly was looking to make top 8 so I played it out per his request.  I play shitter aggro decks all day all 4 of 5 rounds my only sane period was the bye I got.

R1-Jamison Zoo
R2-Roxas UBW Fish
R3- Bye
R4 Endress Shop Aggro
R5 MaskNaughts player

Top 8: I finally got the chance to play one of the 5 Tezzeret control decks that were there.  This is a favorable matchup for me so I had hoped to see it over aggro decks, which are rather unfavorable.

I play against Danny Freidmann playing UBr//g Tezzeret control (Green out of the board only).  I win in 3 after he combos early game 1, I land null rod turn one in game 2 to shut off half of his hand, followed up by wasting every land he plays, leaving him with only a Tarmogoyf on turn 4.  Game 3 I beat him with Goyfs, both mine and his.

Top 4: I play the winner of a Tezzeret mirror between teammates Mike Solymossy and Brian Fisher.  Either way my matchup should be favorable.

I play Brian Fisher (4 color Tez control) and start off game 1 with a turn one null rod. I proceed to waste several of his lands and he never really has much mana the whole game. I win with dudes turns later. Brian's sideboard is pretty strong with Flametongue Kavus and Trygon Predators coming in.  I boarded 2 Sowers Extirpates and artifact hate He beats me game 2 with 2 FTKs and a Trygon. Game 3 I forgot to board in my 3rd Sower and board the Trygons in over the K. Grips He has a DSC and a trygon to my empty board and hand of Goyf, Bob, Sower.  I have Bayou, 2 Wastes, and a Tropical Island for mana.  I play the Goyf to chump and pass at 13 life I can buy myself a turn to rip the blue source to steal his DSC, I should have played the bob to give me one more card, because I was dead either way.  I block the DSC with a 4/5 goyf and begin my turn with 6 life. I rip....a wasteland.  GGs

Jamison beats Fisher to win the pearl

[JACO]

I was pretty sick when I woke up yesterday morning, and was thus unable to attend. It was Pastimes though, so I don't feel bad.

Damnit Soly, I got like half way through the lists before I thought "He needs to not copy and paste from the GWS forums anymore."

I'd like to make sure everyone notices that Fisher was running THE GREEDIEST MANABASE IN THE HISTORY OF MAGIC.  JACO would be shedding a tear of pride for sure.

My manabases are always trump tight, sucka. Actually I think Fischer's manabase is terrible:
2 Flooded strand
3 Polluted Dleta
3 Volcanic Island
3 Underground sea
2 Tropical Island
2 island
1 Tolarian academy
5 Moxen
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Sol Ring

It should be this instead (if I was playing it):
4 Polluted Dleta
1 Flooded Strand
2 Volcanic Island
2 Underground sea
1 Tropical Island
1 Bayou
3 Island
1 Swamp
5 Moxen
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Sol Ring

Tolarian Academy sucks in deck that aren't Slaver, Stax, or combo. It's too often a liability.

[LordHomerCat]

Bayou and Swamp in a deck full of Mana Drains and Tezzerets?  There's no way that's correct.

[Tha Gunslinga]

@ben: I'm just curious about those reanimates in your sideboard. Are they there just to return goyfs and bobs against aggro or is there more than meets the eye?
Also love the list, did E.E in the main help out against aggro, since that seemed to be your worst matchup?

I can Thoughtseize stuff and then Reanimate it, counter it and Reanimate it, and bring my guys back from the dead.  Seriously, though, they're mostly there for fun. 

EE was basically a piece of removal for Time Vault; the problem with it against aggro is that setting it at 1 or 2 typically kills as many of my guys as theirs.

[DameonHv]

I was pretty sick when I woke up yesterday morning, and was thus unable to attend. It was Pastimes though, so I don't feel bad.

Do you want me to be able to host more tournaments or not?

[M.Solymossy]

It was Pastimes though, so I don't feel bad.

Do you want me to be able to host more tournaments or not?

To Jaco: Yes it's pastimes.  I understand that many players are unhappy with their 400 dollar beat prizes, but This tournament was insanely well ran, and the prizes they gave out were really good.  The pearl was a little beaten, but it wasn't bad and I definitely would still accept it as a prize, and the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place prizes were all very good as well.   

Tony ended up getting 2 Tezzerets, a voltaic key (which IS actually worth a buck or two), and an Ethersworn Cannonist for taking 3rd/4th at a 17 man event.  Brian Fisher ended up getting a Beta Demonic tutor (which was insanely nice), a Chameleon Collossus, and 2 Cryptic commands. for taking 2nd.  That's not too shabby at all.


@ Josh:  YES we do.

[DameonHv]

Come check out my post about our upcoming Legacy event as well.  Tell me what would get people to come

[OwenTheEnchanter]

Someone willing to write actual card names should do the decklists next time. Nobody thinks its funny or clever.

[LordHomerCat]

Fisher's list doesn't have a Voltaic Key, but I'm sure I saw him cast it multiple times?  What's the deal Soly, did you mistype or what?

[M.Solymossy]

OH well Owen.   Deal with it.


As for Jimmy:  I sure did.

[Roxas]

I'd write a report, but Jamison already said pretty much everything meaningful I would have to say. If I could do the tournament again, I'd run something like 4 Threads, 4 Spectral Lynx over the Kataki, Kami, and Unicorns. As others have said, all things considered, it was a pretty good tournament.