Scholar's Weekly Vintage Results Thread

[waywreth]

Another good showing with 14 players overall. 
Top four consisted of ELD playing his usual list (Time Vault and other such things), Chris playing Barry's Ichorid list, Micah playing his Painter/Bomberman mix, and another person I'm not sure (there were three 3-1s).

[ELD]

            Op-Match    PL-Duel    Op-Duel   Matches
Rank    Name    Points    Win%    Win%    Win%   P/W/D/B
  1   Eric Dupuis    10   60.4167   77.7778   56.3889   4/3/1/0
  2   Chris Roberts    10   54.1667   70.0000   53.0556   4/3/1/0
  3   Pat Broderick     9   56.2500   66.6667   52.7778   4/3/0/0
  4   Micah Greenbaum     9   52.0833   66.6667   50.0000   4/3/0/0
  5   Jesse Martin     9   41.6667   66.6667   38.5354   4/3/0/0
  6   Matt MacCauley     6   70.8333   44.4444   63.3333   4/2/0/0
  7   Barry Everson     6   60.4167   55.5556   57.7020   4/2/0/0
  8   Nick Vallas     6   56.2500   40.0000   51.5909   4/2/0/0
  9   Bill Rosa     6   41.6667   50.0000   41.6667   4/2/0/0
 10   Chris Reed     4   45.8333   50.0000   43.2576   4/1/1/0
 11   Duncan Devlin     3   60.4167   28.5714   56.9444   4/1/0/0
 12   Robbie Conolly     3   52.0833   36.3636   53.0556   4/1/0/0
 13   Heather Carpentier     1   52.0833   30.0000   51.6667   4/0/1/0
 14   Andy Farias     0   54.1667   0.0000   54.1667   4/0/0/0

Another excellent turn out!  We had several people who were unable to make it, so it was definitely possible for us to hit the 17+ needed this week.  A sincere thanks to everyone who has continued to support these events.  Here's hoping we hit 17+ next week!

[neverlookback]

            Op-Match    PL-Duel    Op-Duel   Matches
Rank    Name    Points    Win%    Win%    Win%   P/W/D/B
  1   Eric Dupuis    10   60.4167   77.7778   56.3889   4/3/1/0
  2   Chris Roberts    10   54.1667   70.0000   53.0556   4/3/1/0
  3   Pat Broderick     9   56.2500   66.6667   52.7778   4/3/0/0
  4   Micah Greenbaum     9   52.0833   66.6667   50.0000   4/3/0/0
  5   Jesse Martin     9   41.6667   66.6667   38.5354   4/3/0/0
  6   Matt MacCauley     6   70.8333   44.4444   63.3333   4/2/0/0
  7   Barry Everson     6   60.4167   55.5556   57.7020   4/2/0/0
  8   Nick Vallas     6   56.2500   40.0000   51.5909   4/2/0/0
  9   Bill Rosa     6   41.6667   50.0000   41.6667   4/2/0/0
 10   Chris Reed     4   45.8333   50.0000   43.2576   4/1/1/0
 11   Duncan Devlin     3   60.4167   28.5714   56.9444   4/1/0/0
 12   Robbie Conolly     3   52.0833   36.3636   53.0556   4/1/0/0
 13   Heather Carpentier     1   52.0833   30.0000   51.6667   4/0/1/0
 14   Andy Farias     0   54.1667   0.0000   54.1667   4/0/0/0

Another excellent turn out!  We had several people who were unable to make it, so it was definitely possible for us to hit the 17+ needed this week.  A sincere thanks to everyone who has continued to support these events.  Here's hoping we hit 17+ next week!

Ill most definitly be there for the next one!!

[MagicIsCardboardCrack]

Waywreth:

Your statement about my deck is incorrect. My list was actually taken from a different tourney report and then I tweaked a few things. Me and Barry actually compared at one point. As expected most of the deck IS the same like everywhere, but the only thing I directly took from Barry was Revielark, with his blessing. YOU were actually one of my matches so I'm surprised you of all people thought that.

[waywreth]

Waywreth:
Your statement about my deck is incorrect. My list was actually taken from a different tourney report and then I tweaked a few things. Me and Barry actually compared at one point. As expected most of the deck IS the same like everywhere, but the only thing I directly took from Barry was Revielark, with his blessing. YOU were actually one of my matches so I'm surprised you of all people thought that.

I'll blame it on the fact that I zone out when playing Ichorid since it's entirely uninteractive if you don't have a hate piece on the board.  I do recall you have Chalice which I know Barry doesn't play.

[MagicIsCardboardCrack]

Ah ha! You proved me right, in the end! :-p You did see a notable difference. I just take offense to someone posting to everyone that I net decked someone, in the same weekly tournament no less.

Just to clarify further, what happened was: One day, as usual, Sundering Jerk was complaining about Dredge and how easy it is to play and how cheap it is to build. So that started me thinking; I should build it for playtesting amongst our team, for practice. So I went on the Scholars thread and saw the debate going on about dredge, and opted to check out the tourney report that someone said to check out. I read it for quite a while and there was actually 2 dredge decks in that tourney. I ended up liking the build of the person who didn't write the report better. Then from there I took that list and "made it my own". Then last week, Barry showed me how good revielark is and so I decided to make a cut for it. And that's my story of how I made my dredge build, which has close to nothing to do with "playing Barry's Ichorid list" Again not yelling at you, buddy, just kinda take offense at claiming I just swiped someones list. 

[ELD]

I'll blame it on the fact that I zone out when playing Ichorid since it's entirely uninteractive if you don't have a hate piece on the board.  I do recall you have Chalice which I know Barry doesn't play.

I dispute this one.  It's totally possible to FoW at Breakthrough, and assemble your combo.  I've also managed to buy time by running out Gorilla Shaman and keeping Ichorid at bay, forcing them to build up zombies slowly, which then can get wrecked by Echoing Truth.  One of the more important cards I've found vs Dredge is Sensei's Divining Top.  It keeps key cards away from Cabal Therapy, and the filtering is extremely important in a match up where there can be so many dead draws.  That said, Chalice is a must counter G1 on the draw, as you really need your acceleration to keep up with them.  Top isn't so how when you're dropping one mana source a turn, but when you've got multiple moxen and fetchlands, you're going to give yourself a good chance to hit your outs.  In the dredge match up, it's definitely all about card quality, not quantity. 

[waywreth]

just kinda take offense at claiming I just swiped someones list. 

You'll note that I took my list almost card for card from someone else, so I don't find it to be a negative.  It's much more how you pilot the list.  But my comment was more the fact that someone with Ichorid managed to top 4 at Scholars.  Impressive feat considering everyone who plays there knows at least one person will be playing it, and should be prepared via sideboard for it.
... unless you're ELD, then you just win game 1.

[sundering jerk]

Just to clarify further, what happened was: One day, as usual, Sundering Jerk was complaining about Dredge and how easy it is to play and how cheap it is to build. So that started me thinking; I should build it for playtesting amongst our team, for practice. So I went on the Scholars thread and saw the debate going on about dredge, and opted to check out the tourney report that someone said to check out. I read it for quite a while and there was actually 2 dredge decks in that tourney. I ended up liking the build of the person who didn't write the report better. Then from there I took that list and "made it my own". Then last week, Barry showed me how good revielark is and so I decided to make a cut for it. And that's my story of how I made my dredge build, which has close to nothing to do with "playing Barry's Ichorid list" Again not yelling at you, buddy, just kinda take offense at claiming I just swiped someones list. 

$250 dollars worth of foils does not mean you just threw it together.  I knew you were gunna play it this week, cause the foils were calling to you.

I know you didn't netdeck, but it's not like netdecking is a bad thing at a weekly tournament. It's a way to get experience before tweaking the list into your own, and it's a way to give other players a feel for the matchup, plus with ichorid it doesn't make a world of difference. (yup, still complaining)

[MagicIsCardboardCrack]

I agree 100% with everything the last 3 posts say. Like I mentioned from the beginning, I have no issues against net decking, I just felt that I had my own victory for my time spent tweaking, but it was posted as simply just running Barry's list.

$250 dollars worth of foils does not mean you just threw it together.

...plus with ichorid it doesn't make a world of difference. (yup, still complaining)

I don't get the first one, and the second one made me literally lol.

[ELD]

Someone misplaced an ELD Proxy at last Monday's event.  If someone is missing one, it is sleeved and numbered, so it should be easy to identify.  You can contact me to claim it. (PM, IM, Facebook, Email, Phone - I'm not hard to find)

[MagicIsCardboardCrack]

Someone misplaced an ELD Proxy at last Monday's event.  If someone is missing one, it is sleeved and numbered, so it should be easy to identify.  You can contact me to claim it. (PM, IM, Facebook, Email, Phone - I'm not hard to find)

Bill dropped a card, but he believes it was an underground sea. But if it's a purple sleeve it's his. But I think he only has a ELD Twist.

[Oath of Happy]

By Sundering Jerk: "This was fun, I'm thinking of holding a tourney myself to get rid of my power this summer"

Wow, to get this going I would be willing to donate a playset of 4th edition islands autographed by myself to the prizepool.  Mabey you can autograph a brainstorm and if were really lucky, Smmenen will autograph a swamp to go to the first place finisher.

[failtofind]

lol no way am i donating my smennen signed playmat, that thing is just too damn sweet...i would be interested in the longo signed islands,  as long as you write "I 10-0d the swiss, and all i got was this lousy playmat" on them lol

                                                                                                Jesse

[ELD]

Standings from 3-23-09

  1   Eric Dupuis    12
  2   Matt Macauley     9
  3   Andy Farias     9
  4   Nick Rodrigues     6
  5   Nick Vallas     6
  6   James Tamulevich     6
  7   Robbie Connolly     6
  8   Jesse Martin     6
  9   Bill Rosa     4
 10   Micah Greenbaum     4
 11   Chris Roberts     3
 12   Heather Carpentier     0

[ELD]

Standings from 3-30-09

  1   Andy Farias    10   66.6667
  2   Eric Dupuis    10   62.5000
  3   Robbie Connolly     9   61.1111
  4   Nick Vallas     9   54.1667
  5   Chris Roberts     9   50.0000
  6   Matt Macauley     6   56.2500
  7   Jesse Martin     6   56.2500
  8   Bill Rosa     6   54.1667
  9   Dave Henry     5   47.9167
 10   Pat Broderick     5   39.5833
 11   Chris Miller     4   55.5556
 12   Nick Rodrigues     4   50.0000
 13   Micah Greenbaum     3   83.3333
 14   Ryan Marek     3   43.7500
 15   Stephanie Sweetser     0   39.5833

[oneofchaos]

Standings from 3-30-09

  1   Andy Farias    10   66.6667
  2   Eric Dupuis    10   62.5000
  3   Robbie Connolly     9   61.1111
  4   Nick Vallas     9   54.1667
  5   Chris Roberts     9   50.0000
  6   Matt Macauley     6   56.2500
  7   Jesse Martin     6   56.2500
  8   Bill Rosa     6   54.1667
  9   Dave Henry     5   47.9167
 10   Pat Broderick     5   39.5833
 11   Chris Miller     4   55.5556
 12   Nick Rodrigues     4   50.0000
 13   Micah Greenbaum     3   83.3333
 14   Ryan Marek     3   43.7500
 15   Stephanie Sweetser     0   39.5833

Whoa Whoa does this mean Ryan Marek is back!?

[ELD]

Ryan was indeed slinging some cardboard once again.  They were actually Pokemon cards, turned into Magic Proxies :p  We had several new faces this week, and we were only 1 person away from the 17+ mark needed to qualify for the Vintage Rankings!  That person could be you!  We've been getting so close to the mark every week, and we've already hit it once.  If you're in the area, the best way to spend a Monday night is at Scholar's!

[MagicIsCardboardCrack]

...we were only 1 person away from the 17+ mark needed to qualify for the Vintage Rankings!

OK. So I scoped out that link. I thought we made it 1 week, but don't see any of those people on there. Also, does TMDO not count as well?

[ELD]

We had another good turn out!
   
Rank   Name
  1   Bill Rosa
  2   Ryan Marek
  3   Micah Greenbaum
  4   Eric Dupuis
  5   Nick Rodrigues
  6   James Tamulevich
  7   Scott Bluementhal
  8   Jesse Martin
  9   Nick Vallas
 10   Jason Bourque
 11   Heather Carpentier
 12   Robbie Connolly
 13   Chris Roberts
 14   Matt Macauley

Thanks to everyone who has been supporting these events.  We had some players from back in the day walked in during the tournament, and they'll be back during the summer. 

[sundering jerk]

We had another good turn out!
   
Rank   Name
  1   Bill Rosa

This makes me want to play again. Congratulations Bill. You are growing strong in the force.

[Marske]

@everybody
I'll be at one of these next month, (probably the one on May the 4th ) so if anybody would like to face me and get their ass kicked by this dutchie or just meet up and chat be sure to come to that event !

@ELD,
Very good to see you doing these events and that you're getting a nice turnout every week, these types of events are great for introducing new players to the format and I've been thinking about starting something like this up myself.

[waywreth]

Look forward to playing you Marske, I enjoy your tournament reports!
I can guarantee I won't be attempting to play RG No land Belcher again after this week.

[never]

I'm thinking of attending one of these weeks coming up.

What time do you guys start, is it 7pm?

[ELD]

Yes, we start at 7.  If you're running late, give me a call at 774.644.4822. 

[ELD]

       
Rank    Name   Points
  1   Nick Vallas    12 GW Aggro
  2   Dave Henry     9 Stax
  3   Ryan Marek     9 Time Vault
  4   James Tamulevich     9 Tezzeret
  5   Eric Dupuis     9 Tezzeret
  6   Jason Bourque     6 UR Goblins
  7   Robbie Connolley     6 BGR Goblins
  8   Micah Greenbaum     6 ?
  9   Matt Macauley     3 UBAstax
 10   Chris Roberts     3 TPS
 11   Bill Rosa     3 Tezzeret
 12   Brandon Jones     3 Tezzeret
 13   Heather Carpentier     0 Tezzeret

There was an ELD proxy Black Lotus found at this event - I'm pretty sure it's Bill Rosa's. 

[XxValkyrxX]

Micah is calling his deck Bomb's away or something to that effect

[Justice]

U/R Goblins totally got 3rd.

[TopSecret]

       
Rank    Name   Points
  1   Nick Vallas    12 GW Aggro
  2   Dave Henry     9 Stax
  3   Ryan Marek     9 Time Vault
  4   James Tamulevich     9 Tezzeret
  5   Eric Dupuis     9 Tezzeret
  6   Jason Bourque     6 UR Goblins
  7   Robbie Connolley     6 BGR Goblins
  8   Micah Greenbaum     6 ?
  9   Matt Macauley     3 UBAstax
 10   Chris Roberts     3 TPS
 11   Bill Rosa     3 Tezzeret
 12   Brandon Jones     3 Tezzeret
 13   Heather Carpentier     0 Tezzeret

My curiosity is peaked.

[Mith]

Nick has been working on his GW deck for a while now.

He played it at the TMD open...I'm pretty sure Steve posted his decklist.

Knight of the Reliquary is a serious beating