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« on: July 17, 2009, 01:35:14 pm »

I'm just putting this up for those of you who are interested.   I will try my hardest to update it.

I am heading out now to see my lady for an hour, and then I'm heading to Jamison Bryants house, and then we're picking up Jimmy McCarthy and heading out.  Sounds like we're meeting up with the Trogvan (Mark Trogdan, Twaun, Jerry Yang, Menenenenenenendian, and others), and then we're picking up Nat Moes from Midway Airport.  I'm excited as I haven't met Nat personally, yet.   I guess we might also be meeting up with Pierce from TMD, as well as DeMars, CJ and maybe even one Patrick Chapin.  I'm quite excited.  Oh, and we're meeting up with VorpalBunnyDuby and James King, as well.

Giordano's;  Table for 17, please!
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« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2009, 02:39:58 pm »

I'll be meeting you boners tonight at Giordano's. Is Demonic Tutor still the best card in Vintage? Check.
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« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2009, 03:31:04 pm »

This sounds like it is going to be an awesome time and I regret that I won't be able to make it. I'll be keeping tabs on what happens and appreciate the updates. Good luck to everyone.
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« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2009, 12:33:40 am »

I'm sitting in a room with CJ, Jimmy McCarthy, Pierce, and we're watching Steven Q. Menenennenenendian and Brian DeMars play their two decks.   In the next room, we have Mark Trogdan, Nam Q. Tran, Jerry Yang, and Nat Moes.  Down the hall is Jamison and James King with two others.    We also have Hazmat, Jaco, Brian Fisher, and Twaun floating around chicago.  Overall, it will be a grand time.


Those with byes round 1:

myself
Steve Menenenendian
Paul Mastriano
Tommy Kolowith
James King
Dan Carp
(any vintage champs who show up)
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« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2009, 12:03:22 pm »

95 people.  Lots of shops and small dudesweats.
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« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2009, 01:49:25 pm »

Incredibly diverse metagame so far.  Lots of:
Belcher
Oath
Stax
Tez obv
Fish
misc aggro
some Ichorid

I think 10 proxies is the correct number--at least 75% of folks had 10 or less, with only a dozen or so running over, the highest proxy count being 15 I think.

ICBM records thus far:
Owen 1-1
I@n 2-0
James King 1-1
Tommy 2-0
Dan 1-1
Jamison 0-2
Danny Friedman 1-1
Spooky 1-1


And a few others:
Menendian 2-0
Demars 1-1
Bryan Fisher 2-0
Vroman 0-2
Twaun 2-0
Trogdon 0-2
Jerry Yang 1-1
Mastriano 1-1
Soly 2-0
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« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2009, 02:29:27 pm »

I just lost to shops.  Turn 1 trinisphere.  I won't rant about how awful he was, but lets just say in game 2, he didn't play anything but a mountain on his turn 1.   

I'm 2-1
Smememememen is 3-0
McCarthy is 3-0
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« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2009, 02:35:12 pm »

Owen 1-1
I@n 2-0
James King 1-1
Tommy 2-0
Dan 1-1
Jamison 0-2
Danny Friedman 1-1
Spooky 1-1
Menendian 2-0
Demars 1-1
Bryan Fisher 2-0
Vroman 0-2
Twaun 2-0
Trogdon 0-2
Jerry Yang 1-1
Mastriano 1-1
Soly 2-0


So what are those people playing?
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« Reply #8 on: July 18, 2009, 04:28:13 pm »

Owen 5c tezz
I@n ?
James King oath-tezz
Tommy Ad Naseum
Dan Mono-U Tezz
Jamison RG
Danny Friedman Painter
Spooky RG Stax
Menendian Grow
Demars Tezz
Bryan Fisher Oath
Vroman Uba
Twaun GWS stax
Trogdon MonoR Shop Aggro
Jerry Yang Trogdon.dec
Mastriano Tezz
Soly Bob-Tezz



McCarthy just won round 5.  I won and am 4-1.  I assume McCarthy Draws in at 5-0.
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« Reply #9 on: July 18, 2009, 04:31:06 pm »

I just lost to shops.  Turn 1 trinisphere.  I won't rant about how awful he was, but lets just say in game 2, he didn't play anything but a mountain on his turn 1.   

I'm 2-1
Smememememen is 3-0
McCarthy is 3-0

LOVE THIS FORMAT
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« Reply #10 on: July 18, 2009, 05:06:51 pm »

Anyone know what McCarthy is playing?
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« Reply #11 on: July 18, 2009, 05:27:45 pm »

Best of luck to everyone
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« Reply #12 on: July 18, 2009, 06:14:25 pm »

Standings after round 6 (1 round to go):
1.  Derek Wochinski--16 pts
2.  Jimmy McCarthy--16 pts
3.  Mike Solymossy--15 pts
4.  Michael Mohring--15 pts
5.  Tim Bartlett--15 pts
6.  Jeff Rabovsky--15 pts
7.  Jerome Yanchick--15 pts
8.  Anthony Michaels--15 pts
9.  Ben Swartz--15 pts
10.  Jeremy Seroogy--13 pts
11.  Dan Carp--13 pts
12.  Jeff Levine--13 pts
13.  Tom Ostergaard--12 pts
14. Tommy Kolowith--12 pts
15.  Curt Roof--12 pts
16.  Brian Fisher--12 pts
17.  Stephen Menendian--12 pts
18.  Steve Golenda--12 pts
19.  James King--12 pts
20.  Sam Etzkin--12 pts
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« Reply #13 on: July 18, 2009, 06:14:54 pm »

McCarthy drew with Tezzeret in.  I just drew in with Derek Wochinski.  He's on Tezz, I'm on Confidant-Tezz
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« Reply #14 on: July 18, 2009, 06:23:45 pm »

Well its a good thing Wotc nipped that Tezz problem in the bud by restricting Thirst. Very Happy
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« Reply #15 on: July 18, 2009, 07:18:04 pm »

The Top 8.

(1) Anthony Michaels (GWS. Stax)
(8) Jeff Rabovsky (ICBM. BUG)

(5) Tim Bartlett (?. Tezz)
(4) Mike Solymossy (GWS.  Egyptian Tezzeret)

(3)  Jimmy McCarthy (Meandeck.  Tezz)
(6) Michael Mohring (MonoR Shop Aggro)

(7) Jeremy Seroogy (ICBM. RG Stax)
(2) Derek Wochinski (Icehole.  Tezz)
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« Reply #16 on: July 18, 2009, 08:10:58 pm »

Seroogy and Myself just Top4ed.  Seroogy plays McCarthy or the shop player, and I play Twaun or Rabovsky.
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« Reply #17 on: July 18, 2009, 08:12:18 pm »

lol shops and tezz. Ladies and gentlemen I present to you. Your format.
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« Reply #18 on: July 18, 2009, 09:51:56 pm »

I'm digging these round by round updates

Next time let's go for a podcast
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« Reply #19 on: July 18, 2009, 09:59:31 pm »

Jimmy McCarthy is playing against Jeff Ravbovsky right now. 

I took 3rd
Seroogy is 4th
Twaun is 5th
Derrek wochinski is 6th
Tim Bartlett is 7th
Michael Mohring is 8th.
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« Reply #20 on: July 18, 2009, 10:02:12 pm »

Jimmy McCarthy is playing against Jeff Ravbovsky right now. 

I took 3rd
Seroogy is 4th
Twaun is 5th
Derrek wochinski is 6th
Tim Bartlett is 7th
Michael Mohring is 8th.


Go Jimmy! That's what the fuck I'm talkin' about.
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« Reply #21 on: July 18, 2009, 10:06:30 pm »

Go soly! I can't wait to see your list as well as McCarthy's list...

Good luck!
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« Reply #22 on: July 18, 2009, 10:16:44 pm »

Well its a good thing Wotc nipped that Tezz problem in the bud by restricting Thirst. Very Happy

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« Reply #23 on: July 18, 2009, 10:30:39 pm »

(4) Mike Solymossy (GWS.  Egyptian Tezzeret)
What did you cut for Exodia?
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« Reply #24 on: July 18, 2009, 10:48:32 pm »

(4) Mike Solymossy (GWS.  Egyptian Tezzeret)
What did you cut for Exodia?

-5 Pieces of exodia.  +1 time vault + 1 tezzeret + 1 voltaic key + 2 trap cards.
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« Reply #25 on: July 19, 2009, 12:29:26 am »

I'm guessing that "Egyptian" comes from Sphinx of the Steel Wind
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« Reply #26 on: July 19, 2009, 12:38:59 am »

Sphinx is pretty ridic, except for when your stax opponent rips maindeck duplicant.  Soly convinced me to switch at the last minute.

So much stax and fish today.  Played Ubr Tezz with remora, night's whisper, 2 mox monkey and 2 goblin welders.

Went 2-3 drop...losing to stax, winning against stax, winning against stax, losing to oath, losing to aggro shop.  Fun.  Times.

Sweet event though!  Wish I could've stayed for day 2.
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« Reply #27 on: July 19, 2009, 12:50:23 am »

Top 4.  other 4 to come.

(1) Jeff Rabowsky
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(BUG fish)

 4 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
1 bayou
4 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
1 Island
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 BLack Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
4 Dark Confidant
3 Trygun Preditor
3 Vendilion Clique
4 Tarmgoyf
4 Force of Will
4 Daze
3 Null Rod
4 duressc Tutor
1 mystical Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Diabolic Edict
life From The Loam
1 Braisntorm
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4 Energy Flux
3 Yixlid Jailer
4 Tormods Crypt
3 Sower of Temptation
1 Darkblast


(2) Jimmy McCarthy
[Meandeck]
(MeanDeck Tezzeret)
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Mystucal Tutor
1 Brainstorm
1 Hurkyls Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Echoing Truth
1 Merchant Scrol
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Tinker
1 Jace Baleren
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
2 Duress
2 Thoughtseize
2 Nights Whisper
1 Skeletal Scrying
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Fire/Ice
1 SPHINX OF THE STEEL WIND
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Sensei's Divining Top
5 Mox
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
1 black Lotus
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Island
2 Volcanic Island
3 Underground Sea
2 Flooded STrand
3 Polluted Delta
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1 Pyroblast
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pyroclast
3 Ingot Chewer
1 Meloku, The Clouded Mirror
1 Darkblast
1 Pithing Needle
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Tormods Crypt
1 Rebuild

(3) Mike Solymossy
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1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Crypt
5 Mox
2 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sol Ring
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
4 Dark Confidant
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Duress
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Ancesetral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Echoing Truth
4 Force of Will
1 Gifts Ungiven
4 Mana Drain
1 Mechart Scroll
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Ponder
1 Rebuild
1 SPHINX OF THE STEEL WIND
1 Tezzeret, the Seeker
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
2 Flooded Strand
2 Island
4 Polluted Delta
1 Snow-Covered Island
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Volcanic Island
3 Underground Sea
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1 Pithing Needle
1 Relic of Progenitus
2 Tormods Crypt
1 Hurkyls Recall
1 Meloku, The Clouded Mirror
1 Darkblast
2 Smother
2 Yixlid Jailer
1 Rack And Ruin
3 Red Elemental Blast

(4)  Jeremy Seroogy
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(TKSTAX)

4 Mishra's Workshop
1 Mishra's Factory
4 Taiga
1 Stomping Ground
3 Wooded Foothills
1 Barbarian ring
2 Bazaar of Baghdad
1 The  Tabernacle at Pendrel Vale
2 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
5 Mox
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
4 Smokestack
4 Sphere of REsistance
4 Crucible of worlds
4 Tangle Wire
3 Null Rod
1 Trinisphere
4 Goblin WElder
4 Crop Rotation
1 Anceint  Gridge
1 Platinum Angel
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4 Red Elemental Blast
4 Tormods Crypt
4 Seal of Primordium
3 Ensaring Bridge




AND as a Side bonus, here is my deck I have sleeved for day 2!


1 time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
4 mana Drain
4 Force of Will
3 Fire/Ice
2 Meloku, The Clouded Mirror
1 Ingot Chewer
1 Tormods Crypt
1 Fastbond
1 Regrowth
1 Zuran Orb
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Time Walk
1 Brainstorm
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Rebuild
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Gush
1 Skeletal Scrying
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Ancient Grudge
2 Flooded Strand
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Flooded Strand
4 polluted Delta
2 tropical Island
2 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic island
3 Island
1 Strip Mine
1 Mana Vault
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus
5 Mox
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1 Engineered Explosives
2 Tormods Crypt
1 Pithing needle
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 darkblast
3 Red Elemental Blast
2 Yixlid Jailer
2 Seal of Primordium
1 Sower of Temptation
1 Threads of Disloyalty
1 Hurkyl's Recall
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« Reply #28 on: July 19, 2009, 02:35:50 am »

SICK!!!! This top eight is awesome.  I would love to hear how Jace played in Tez.  Seems pretty sick as a one of I think. 
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« Reply #29 on: July 19, 2009, 03:29:08 am »

Man its a good thing you guys had that Sphinx to beat fish.
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