[Report/Results] Superstars Feb. 1K Vintage Tourney (2-21-09)

[jeffthefob]

Since Webster is busy testing for PT: Kyoto and Lotushead didn't attend the tourney, I will sneak in and start this.

There were 27 players, 5 rounds swiss cut to top 8. All prizes are cash, but the original payout was based on 40 attendance and they only got 27, so it was scaled down.

1st:              $300
2nd:             $140
3rd/4th:        $50
5th-8th:        $35

Top 8 in no particular order were:

Alex Alepin/ no TMD (AD Tendrils)
Luis Scott-Vargas/ LSV (Mystic Remora)
David Ochoa/ Webster (TPS)
Gambit/ Dylan (Uba Stax)
Hiryu/ Brett Allen (U/R/B/W Tezz)
Tomjoad/ Dave Petterson (U/B Fae Fish)
JEFFTHEFOB/ Jeff Huang (Tez, with no Tez)
Michael Klemic/ no TMD (Oath)

Quarterfinals
Jeff Huang > Alex Alepin (2-1)
Luis Scott-Vargas > Gambit (2-0)
Dave Petterson > David Ochoa (2-1?)
Brett Allen > Michale Klemic (2-0?)

Semis:
Jeff Huang > Luis Scott-Vargas (Family Dinner> Magic)
Dave Petterson > Brett Allen (2-1)

Finals:
Jeff Huang = Dave Petterson (Split)

Overall good tourney, but a lot of the rounds went to time -_-||| 27 for the tourney is a pretty good turn out around here and many decent NorCal players.  Major props to Superstars.

I will type up a report in the near future after grading papers and writing lesson plans to teach graphing quadratic equations ^_^ 

Deck lists "should" be up at superstar's site relatively soon, when I see it, I will copy and paste over.

[Gambit]

I played UBA Stax, If the lists don't get posted soon I'll throw mine up.

Fun Tournament, sooo many fish and Tez Decks as seems to be the usual. I'll throw up a quick report:

Round 1: Johnny W/ BUG Fish

Game 1: He beats and draws some cards with bob, eventually I drop a duplicant stealing a goyf, unfortunately I'm at low enough life that an E-truth on my dupe lets him swing back for the win.

Game 2: I get welder and 2x Duplicant on-line; this game ends pretty quick.

Game 3; He begins with 2 Leylines in play;  He resolves 2x Bob and I get out an ensnaring bridge with no cards in hand. This slows things down and on the turn where he would swing in for the win he reveals enough damage with the bobs to kill himself, whew,

Round 2: Josh S w/ Mana'd Ichorid
Game 1: I win the die roll  and know he's playing Ichorid, I have a turn 2 UBA mask followed by a smokestack to start eating things. At one point I activate a factory and sack it to smokestack to kill 2 bridges, He eventually runs out of deck and scoops.

game 2: He doesn't have the bazaar, but plays careful study. I have spheres and a crypt. This slows him down a bunch, eventually I get out an UBA mask and 2x bazaar which allows me to draw 5 a turn, I drop Platinum Angel and an Ensnaring bridge. Next turn I draw into another T-crypt and he concedes.

Uba Mask + Bazaar is awesome.

Round 3 Bearded James w/ BUG fish
Another SF player, we are both 2-0 and decide to draw as this is a very swingy match.

Round 4 Brett w/ Tez w/ welders
Game 1 I get a quick welder and unfortunately so does he. He ends up gifting for vault, key and some other goodies and can just weld in what he needs to go infy, bleh.

Game 2. I go turn 1 sphere of Res + welder. This is possible due to mana crypt. I figure I'll be able to get rid of it with a turn 1 welder, but I never get an artifact in my yard, Brett won't counter anything and I take 20 from the crypt. He echoing truth'd my welder once to slow me down a turn as my tangle wire was finally going to the bin, but It wasn't to be as all I could roll was 5's. I think I lost 7 of 9 rolls.

Round 5 Gailen w/ TPS?
Game 1: He leads with duress and sees: shop Spherex2, Uba Mask, Mox, Stack, Land. He takes a smokestack.
I drop a sphere, he duress's again taking my other sphere. I think I draw a tanglewire and it's pretty much over from there as I get an active welder and can keep him tapped down with the Mask in play.

Game 2: He goes all in on tinker for DSC on turn 2, I play a smokestack and eat 11 damage. Next turn I drop tanglewire, followed by welder, this keeps him tapped down forever as Karn + Animated Uba Mask beat for the win.

3-1-1 Good enough for 6th going into the top 8.

Top 8: LSV w/ Meditate Remora:
I wasn't really looking forward to this match as I've never played against this deck before and meditates with me having an active smokestack seems pretty strong. I was hoping the Masks would slow down all his draw. I again play an early mana crypt, I take a bunch from it before I finally can sack it to smokestack. Late in the game I've got 3 sphere of resistances + 1 thorn of amethyst. He plays voltaic key and demonic tutor, but not a bunch else, I think a 3-sphere was drained at some point. However, I can't put on a clock and he pays 6 for the last card in his hand, time vault and takes infy turns. I make him play it out to see his deck, he kills me with a sower of temptation + my welder.
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Game 2 I bring in Jesters Caps and Pyroblasts. I develop a strong early board with a lot of permanents and an active smokestack that eats his board. I'm really hoping to sustain the stack, but eventually make probably the wrong decision to keep it alive with him not sacking anything and me drawing into cards I can't play (Pyroblasts, welders + no red mana) I sack too much of my board and when I do eventually sack the smokestack he's got a full grip and is able to cast Sower and beat in for the necessary turns. At some point I capped him to take time vault, key, and Tog. It's nice to see Tog being played.

I'm glad superstars is holding these and we continue to get good turnouts.

-Dylan

[LotusHead]

A week and a half's notice for the tourney wasn't enough for me to get day off work, but it wouldn't matter as I've been sick as a dog since Monday.  On Thursday I gave in and actually bought medicine (DayQuil) instead of just toughing it out.

27 in attendance sounds great! Do you think the increase in attendence was due to it being Saturday as opposed to the previous Sunday?

Top 8 seems to be 8 unique deck archetypes. Can't wait to see lists!

What was the overall meta like?

[hiryu]

I played URGb Tezz.  I basically wanted to test out the Inuition engine, which is really strong with Accumulated Knowledge, Goblin Welders, Regrowth, and Ancient Grudge.  Our meta is very Tezz- and Fish-heavy, so I figured this build would help in these matchups, while making me weaker only to TPS and Dredge.  The details of my list are kind of embarrassing (61 cards = definitely wrong), so I'll just wait for Superstars to post the lists.


@LotusHead, I think the cash prizes were the main thing that bumped attendance up.  Personally, I much prefer Sunday to Saturday and I didn't even think I could make it until the day before the tournament.  The metagame was a huge number of Fish and Tezzeret decks, with a smattering of everything else.


Here's my mini-report, from memory:


Round 1 vs Josh Silvestri (Dredge)

Game 1 he has a strong start but doesn't hit any Narcomoebas or Ichorids, giving me a couple of turns to breathe.  Unfortunately, my draw clunks out and I have to cast Yawgmoth's Will just for a land drop (and Ancestral).  This puts me one turn off from comboing, but it's one turn I don't get.

Game 2 I start with land, Mox, Mox, Pithing Needle on Bazaar and Tormod's Crypt.  Seems strong, except that he has the Ancient Grudge and the Chain of Vapor.  A Breakthrough for 0 seals it while my Tormod's Crypt is in my hand.

Matches: 0-1; Games: 0-2


Round 2 vs Marco (Stax)

We both start off with a bunch of Moxes and a Welder each, and I wonder if it's some kind of mirror match until he plays a basic Mountain on turn 3.  I cast Intuition for AKs, and then later draw another AK, so I'm up a lot of cards.  Eventually I combo off through his Welder by virtue of having no artifacts in my yard.

Again we start off with dueling Welders.  He has a Smokestack that is entering and leaving play quite often.  I get out a Goyf, but he comes over the top with a Duplicant.  He takes out my Welder, which means that I can drop the Pithing Needle that was in my opening hand and shut down his Welder.  Then we race my 3/4 Tarmogoyf vs his two 1/1s.  This is a race I win, especially with a Time Walk and an Echoing Truth.

Matches: 1-1; Games: 2-2


Round 3 vs Matt Nass (Affinity)

Apparently Matt was promised a "good" deck, but was left stuck playing Affinity, old-type-2 style with Cranial Plating, Ravagers, Aether Vial, etc.  In game 1 he gets double Disciple, but I can just Intution for the combo and play Yawgmoth's Will.

In game 2 I Ancient Grudge his first two lands.  He has more lands, but he's never really in it.

Matches: 2-1; Games: 4-2


Round 4 vs Dylan (Stax)

Dylan covered this match, above.  Go Mana Crypt!

Matches: 3-1; Games: 6-2


Round 5 vs Brent (Tezz)

I have terrible tiebreakers, and so I have to play this round.  Game 1 is a very back and forth until I have the lucky Misdirection for his Ancestral Recall.  Then it's mostly me.

In game 2, I cast Intuition for AK and try to draw three.  He Forces.  Then I cast AK for four, which he also forces.  That's seven cards I failed to draw, but on the up side his hand is now empty.  This gives me several turns to set up Vault + Tezz + Drain for his Ancient Grudge in the yard.

Matches: 4-1; Games: 8-2


Top 8 vs Michael Klemic (Oath)

In game 1 on the play I can cast turn 1 Tinker, turn 2 Time Walk.  Sadly, I'm playing Sundering Titan instead of Colossus, so against Oath it's just not worth it.  I counter an Oath or two, but Michael finally sticks one with no cards left in his hand, and no Orchard in play.  I play out Time Vault and Tinker for Voltaic Key, but I don't have any mana left to untap.  I think he'd have to hit a draw spell plus several runners to pull this one out, and he doesn't.

In game 2 This time he has Oath plus Orchard, but I have Drain plus REB.  My Orchard token attacks for twelve turns, while Michael proceeds to draw pretty much every card an Oath deck doesn't want to draw.  Finally I combo and put him out of his misery.

Matches: 5-1; Games: 10-2


Top 4 vs Dave Petterson (BUG Faeries)

In game 1 Dave mulliganed and basically played only a Tarmogoyf, giving me a few turns to get things together.  I played a Welder and followed it up with a Fact or Fiction, which whiffed into five mana sources.  The next turn I cast Regrowth on my Fact or Fiction and it's a little better, giving me a Mana Drain and two mana sources.  Finally I drew Intution, which let me search for the combo and weld it in.

Game 2 I have replayed in my mind several times, trying to figure out how I lost.  Dave had a sick start with turn 1 Dark Confidant and Null Rod off Lotus.  I played a Mana Vault and passed.  On turn 2 I played a Merchant Scroll for Ancestral.  However, Dave's Dark Confidant revealed a Force of Will so that plan was on hold.   On turn 3 I drew Brainstorm and cast it, finding a Tinker but no fourth land.  I figure that I can bait with Ancestral and then cast Tinker, so I leave Tinker on top of my library so that it can't be Duressed.  Unfortunately, Dave draws a Wasteland, keeping me off Tinker mana.  My backup plan is to protect Ancestral, so I cast Mystical Tutor to put a Misdirection on top of my library.  During my upkeep, Dave casts his own Ancestral, and with Misdirection awkwardly on top of my library, I'm forced to let it resolve.  On my main phase I cast my own Ancestral, drawing out his Force of Will and defending with my Misdirection.  I draw three cards and get a third land.  I'm actually holding Flametongue Kavu (!), so I figure at this point my best bet is to use my last two mana to Demonic Tutor for a fourth land.  This works out well because Dave draws a Duress and can't take anything relevant (note that if I had kept Tinker in my hand, I would have lost it here).  On my turn, onlookers are blown away to see FtK take down his dude like it's the year 2000.  I relish the moment and then comment that my 4/2 will soon be outclassed by a stupid two-mana 5/6 from the future.  Right on cue, Dave's Tarmogoyf comes down.  I draw several blanks in a row and die.

It's all good though, because I think this is a fine matchup and now I'm on the play.  Unfortunately, my first hand is unkeepable, and my 6-card hand has no mana sources.  My 5-card hand is poor but I keep it.  My hand fails to improve, while Dave starts off with some sick Bitterblossom and Tarmogoyf beats, and I lose.  Probably I should have gone to 4 cards.

Matches: 5-2, Games: 11-4

I think my main mistake was in sideboarding.  First of all, in deck construction I clearly should have had Sower of Temptation in my board instead of FtK.  For some reason I was worried about Pyroblast, but no fish decks around here play red.  Secondly, I boarded out the Intuition/AK package in order to have some creatures of my own, which was a big mistake.  I should have kept my starting configuration and just drawn lots of cards and ignored his creatures.  A lot of my mistakes came from not knowing the exact configuration of Dave's deck (did he have Daze? Trygon Predator?), so props to him for a rogue strategy.


Big ups to Superstars for a well-run event!

[tomjoad]

As most people who know me know, I had my cards stolen in mid-January. This included all my Vintage stuff, power (well, the 5 I had, anyway) and all. Now, the better part of this loss is being covered by home owner's insurance, so all is not lost. Still, until the check comes from the insurance company, I've been uninterested in actually getting new cards and playing Magic. I've been missing all the regular Thursday night T1, and I even missed the January 1k.

I really wanted to play in this one, though. I called my friend Jose on Friday and asked him if he had a deck I could borrow. He agreed to lend me Sullivan Solution. Now, I am usually not a fan of this sort of strategy. In a format this fast and powerful I don't really feel that choosing weaker yet more "hateful" strategies is worth it. The trade off is just too great. Still, I wanted to play and beggars can't be choosers. I recognize that Fish decks are competitive and probably quite good in this metagame. Plus, it is fun to play different decks from time to time.

In the vain of trying something new out, I remembered a new thread I had seen in the Open Forum about BUG Faeries. Reasoning that Tarmogoyf is better than Phyrexian Dreadnought and that Spellstutter Sprite is probably better than Cursecatcher (I am no longer so sure on this one, by the way), I asked Jose if he could help me build this instead. Between him and our friend Wilson I got everything together and played my first games with the deck Saturday morning before registration. Jose kept getting first turn 3Sphere, so I had basically zero practice going into the actual tournament.

I won't bother posting the whole list, since I just played the exact deck from the first post in the "Fish meets Faeries" thread. I opted for Stifles over Dazes. My sideboard was:
4 x Seal of Primordium (Krosan Grip was selling for $2 on site, so I improvised)
3 x Umezawa's Jitte
3 x Extripate
3 x Relic of Progenitus
2 x Sower of Temptation

A few notes on the board...Relic makes no sense in this deck. It's fine against Ichorid, but this is a Null Rod deck. I happened not to get screwed by it, but I was, I think, lucky. Also, there was only one Oath deck in the whole field. I didn't play him. The Seals only came in in the semi-finals, and they didn't end up being relevant (I had Null Rods to do what the Seals were trying to do). Sower is insane against other creature decks, obviously, and I wished I had 3 of them.

So here's the actual tournament. I don't keep good notes, and what I do keep I lost half of around round 4. If I mess anything up, please correct me.

Round 1 - Bryan - BUG Fish

He beats me handily in game 1. His Stifles and Wastelands keep me from developing my board, and I succumb (probably) to Tarmogoyfs. However, I have Jittes and Sower's in my board. He tells me later that he wasn't able to find his own Jittes before the tourney, and his proxy count was such that he couldn't proxy them. Jitte and Sower make this match tilt heavily in my favor.

In game 2 I stabilize with a Clique holding a stick. In game 3 I get my fourth mana source so I can Sower his Goyf and attack for the win.

I found Sprite to be quite ineffective in this match-up. Most of the spells I want to counter cost more than one, and the Faerie count isn't high enough that you can rely on Spellstutter to counter what you need it to. Still, I feel Faeries should be advantaged against more typical Fish decks. Also, Jitte is an insanely powerful card in this match-up, and if you get as few as 4 counters on it over a game, I suspect you are something like 99% likely to win.

1-0, 2-1

Round 2 - Galen - TPS

Game 1 is long and drawn out. Galen is a fairly deliberate player, and evaluating a hand with his deck can be time consuming. There was no point at which I felt his was playing slower than was acceptable, but when you have so many decisions to make (Necro, I'm looking at you), it can add up. All of this leads to him casting Mind's Desire for 12. The first 10 cards revealed show a Mystical Tutor and an Ancestral Recall. However, he won't have enough mana to cast the Tendrils based on what he's flipped so far. The 11th card was Black Lotus, giving him the BB that he needed. The 12th was Tendrils of Agony, so none of the other stuff mattered.

Game 2 started with about 20 minutes on the clock, so I knew it would be tough to get a win out of this round. His opener was fairly weak (he mulliganed, I believe, to 6), and his situation was made worse by my Null Rod. Still, it took me a while to get any pressure going. Eventually I had Bob, Bitterblossom, Spellstutter Sprite (which had strategically countered a Rebuild)  and Vendilion Clique going. I had lethal damage on the board, and time was called. Galen took his turn and went into the tank.

Cabal Ritual...Some irrelevant artifact...Mind's Desire for 3. Now, I tried to punt here. I could have flashed in a second Clique in response to the Ritual, taking the Desire. Unless he rips Will off the Clique draw, he pretty much cannot win. Still, Desire for 3 was not nearly enough (I think he hit two lands).

1-0-1, 3-2

Round 3 - Josh - Mana Ichorid

Josh is a friend and we feel like I have a better chance against the field than he does, match-up-wise. He scoops and we play for fun. I get demolished in game 1. I win a tight one in game 2. He had intentionally cut me to two Relics, and it was still a tight one. We don't bother with game three.

2-0-1, 4-3

Round 4 - James - BUG Fish

This is nearly the same deck as I played against in the first round. James had a more complete sideboard, though, as we will see. Also, this is a win and in, since the victor will be able to draw round 5 and be assured a top 8 berth.

We are both quickly out of cards in the first game. Some Wastelands and Edicts have been thrown around. Some Recalls have been countered. I get Bob to start drawing me extra cards, though. Then I get another. Double Bob and Clique take it down for me.

Game two features him more or less mana screwed. He has a Jitte, but is without creatures. When he makes a Trygon Predator, I steal it with a Sower. He bounces his Predator and replays it a turn later. While this is going on, I am serving with a Confidant and Clique. He gets the Jitte on the Predator and blocks my Sower. The attacks send him to 1 life, and I have a Stifle to keep counters off the Jitte. He attacks and uses the Jitte counters to kill my only creatures. As close to stabilizing as he was, I had a Sprite to flash in on his end step. He was out of counters and blockers, so I win.

I was in control for most of this game, and it never seemed like I could lose. However, if I hadn't had the Sprite at the end there he would certainly have been able to send it to game 3. Jitte is too insane.

3-0-1, 6-3

Round 5 - Jeff - Tezzeret-less Tezz

ID

Quarters - Webster - TPS

I have never won a match against Web. I think I had only won two games against him prior to this match. I believe he is the most intimidating player in Northern California.

He started, predictably, with a win. I was in a very good situation, but I got greedy. I flipped a Recall to my Confidant, and then attacked with Bob and Goyf. I have lethal damage the next turn. I cast Recall. He Misdirects it onto himself. He was able to Tendrils me for exactly my life total the next turn. I suspect he would not have been able to do that had I just kept the Recall safe in my hand.

Game 2 was much better for me. I honestly don't remember what happened in this game at all, but it must have been good for me.

Game 3...oh game 3...better lucky than good, right? He played a Tarmogoyf off a Basic Swamp and a Lotus Petal. I played a Relic and used it to manage his Graveyard. I took 3 or so points off the Goyf before I Diabolic Edicted it away. He had the Force, but figured that he would be able to better use it to counter something more important later. I ended up amassing some creatures and they attacked him to death. He never drew a Blue source. Even the best need to be able to cast their spells, and random mana screw can kick anybody in the teeth at the least opportune times.

4-0-2, 8-4

Semifinals - Brett - Counter Slaver, I think

I am trying to beat down with a Goyf, but I don't draw a lot of gas in game one. A 3/4 Goyf takes a pretty long time to win a game. He, however, has a Welder in play, plus the ability to go ahead and FoF, Regrowth, FoF. He takes infinite turns, and I scoop. I comment that I should have kept playing, just so I can see what exactly he wins with. He reminds me that he could have attacked 20 times with the Welder.

As I was typing this, Brett posted his own report. He covered games 2 and 3 much better than I could have, so I recommend reading his version if you haven't yet.

5-0-2, 10-5

Finals - Jeff again

Split

So, I made my triumphant return to playing Magic, I played the kind of deck that I would never consider under normal circumstances, I defeated Webster...Over all, it was quite a successful Saturday.

Big thanks go out to Eric, Mashi, everybody else at Superstars, all the people who loaned me cards, and the NorCal Vintage community.

[LotusHead]

Quarters - Webster - TPS
. I believe he is the most intimidating player in Northern California.

The trick is to win your first 5 or six matches against Web before realizing just how scary of an opponent he really is.

Oh, and make the first two Oath VS Slaver in your favor and the next few Hate.SHop.Dec vs Storm. And get hella luckyl

Don't get me wrong, I was hella scared those first 6 matches, he was amonst the first few opponnents who seriously outclassed me in meta-knowledge, gameplay, pokerskills, etc. I just got hella lucky much of those times.

and it took my scrub teammates forever (at least 10 matches) to finally scratch a win vs Web.

Kudos to you.

[jeffthefob]

I thought Superstars will have the decklists posted after 4 days… I was wrong obviously… I was hoping to do one big edit to update the decklists and the tourney report, talk about laziness or efficiency to max.

I played Carp’s U/R Painter list for the last 2 local vintage weekly tourneys.  Went 4-0 and 1-1-1.  But painter just took too much slots… 1/3 Lumerous Warden just sucks if it is only by himself.  Stone/Painter takes more mana compared to Key/Vault.  And the thing is, of the 5 matches I won with the deck, I didn’t combo anyone out.  Rawr? >< After a tiresome day of yelling at freshman, I went home and tinkered a Tez list without Tez but with… ^_^

After losing to Fish last month I decided to have DI shits against Fish.  This means GOYFS maindeck!!!111one with Threads and Sowers in the board.  I didn’t play red because I don’t want to fuck up my manabase against Wastelands.  With Goyfs main and more Thoughtseizes on the board was my plan against mirror.  Kind of weak, but I am fond of dorks in the Sb against mirror.

27 people for some cash, 5 rounds, cut to top 8.

First round I played Mike Klemic with Oath.  Mike mulled to 5 on the draw while I led off with a Top.  He Negated by TfK…. And soon he resolved a Scroll Rack.  Then we sat around for like 7 turns, no joke.  Despite he mulling to 5, my Top didn’t give me anything, all lands.  His Scroll Rack + Fetchlands kept on finding him the same cards according to him.  I have like 2 goyfs in my hand, but afraid to play them because of Oath.  Kind of ironic, because if the Goyf was a Tez, I’d had won a long time ago.  The game get to a point where I set up for 2x Gofy.  Counter his Oath, bash, find Time Walk, bash again. 

Game 2 was one of those hands where I had Key + Vault in opener.  I FoW his Duress, and if he didn’t “Mis-fetch” for a non-black producing land; the turn where he Duress me he could had also cast Yawgwill and Duress me again. 

Round 2 was against Alex, def. one of the best players in the area.  He may not be that decent in type 1, but Alex is monster.  He won the die roll, which is like so bad for me since he was playing AD Nau.  I mulled to 5, finding no FoW in first hand, and no land & FoW on my 2nd.  The 5 had a mister Mis-D, hoping I’d get there.  But he went, Mox, imprint black, duress, Lotus, Ritual, AD Nau, holding a Tendril in hand….

Ouch… Ouch…. >_<

Game 2 I boarded in Canonists and more Thoughtseizes.  And it turns out my multiple bears with Thoughtseize + FoW got me there.  Not exactly sure what happened game 3, but it also had the white bear.  That white bear had not disappointed me since when I started playing with it in Nov.

Eric Campusano, aka: Campee was up next.  Not wielding Fish this time he was playing 5cc Tez.  He won the die roll, started with: Sapphire, Emerald, Academy, Ancestral Recall, Time Walk.  Untap, Fact or Fiction.  Then after I took my turn, he Regrowth FoF.  His hand was the sickest nuts.  The sad thing was, my hand was also very sick.  I had a turn 3 win, but he just drew too much cards that I didn’t quite get there. 

Game 2 both of us mull to 6.  Sad times, esp. when my hand wasn’t good at all and he went turn 1 Gifts.  My luck then turned around, I drew into Ancestral and hit a Thoughtseize off ^_^  Then I slowly took the game from here. 

Game 3 I went turn 1 Thoughtseize on him, taking his only action: FoF.  He then ripped Ancestral.  But my hand was still pretty decent and I just outdrew him and got there.  Throughout these 3 games both of our hands/draw were very busted, and my Goyfs didn’t even make a presence…

2 intentional draws was nice.  Esp. a huge burrito during round 5 to refuel me.

Quarters was pretty damn rough.  The only player I didn’t really want to play against, Alex… >_<

Thank god I won the die roll.  Thank god he mulled to 6.  Thank god he doesn’t have an explosive hand.  I didn’t draw my 2 main Thoughtseizes, but my multiple Drains and FoW held up ultimately and he was surprised I played 2x Goyfs, pass, bash for 8, Time Walk, bash for the K.O.

Game 2 I mulled to 6.  Didn’t put a lot of pressure on him, and I got bashed.  Like, got bashed.

Game 3 was the final match I played for the day.  Unfortunately I do not have much of a recollection of it… I know I resolved a Yawgmoth’s Will and that usually does it… ^_^

LSV had to go home, so yeehaw, a ‘free trip’ to the finals XD.  During the other semifinals, I did some math, and it turns out playing and winning net gain isn’t all that impressive.   

Despite Fish was running rampant still, my Goyf main wasn’t impressive at all… in fact, it was pretty terrible, I wish it was something else.  My Sowers and Thread just sat in the board.  I ended up SBing more Thoughtseizes… Make me wonder why I don’t play with 4 main… Well, to be honest, I was expecting more Wastelands/Fish match ups.

There was DI Workshops, about 4 that showed up… it was awkward, at the last moment I took out my artifact hate for Ichorids because I knew there were 2 Ichorid players.  Despite Lotushead not showing up, his presence was sure felt :-p

Even though I didn’t play against any Fish till the finals, I was pretty happy with 4 goyfs main still.  It is definitely the right call, but just didn’t get match up.  Every round that I played there were at least 2 Fish deck around, so w/e.  I really wish U/B/G/r really has good answer against mirror…

Props:
Superstars for holding the tourney.
Ritual, Necro, with FoW.  Must.  Wait.  Is. ^_^
Cheap and efficient combo and the bear.

Slops:
Going to time every round, somehow…

[Ufactor]

*cough* ...decklists *cough*

[LotusHead]

*cough* ...decklists *cough*

Superstars has been pretty frikkin weak getting decklists up. They should at least pass them off to someone who cares (Web, FOB, me if I'm there).

[vassago]

*cough* ...decklists *cough*

Superstars has been pretty frikkin weak getting decklists up. They should at least pass them off to someone who cares (Web, FOB, me if I'm there).

I would do them for you guys if i could. I work over night here at Gamer's Inn and sometimes begging for stuff to do. 

[neverlookback]

If someone could please post lists soon that would awesome I need a list for waterbury! Lol

[SuperstarsGameCenter]

Unfortuanlly head judge Eric Levine left home early sick after the tourney that day.  The decklist was gone when he came back the next day and therefore unable to post the lists.  My sincere apologies, this won't happen again.

By the way, the March results are up @ http://www.themanadrain.com/index.php?topic=37626.0