TO Report - BLACK GOLD PROXY EVENT on 4/11

[aosquirrels]

24 players battled it out this past Sunday.  After 5 rounds of swiss the standings in tie-break order are...

16 David Bleuer
15 Travis Spero
13 Zivvy Epstein
13 Daniel Bragg
12 Marcus Knox
11 Kyle Miller
10 Tucker Forest
9   Gabriel Willmon
9   John Parriott
9   Brian Grewe
9   Adam Ramsay
6   James Gaffney
6   Colin Moriary
6   David Schmidt
6   Ben Kegley
6   Tom Dale
6   Brian Campbell
6   Carl Van Laethem
6   Charles Flores
3   Steve Golenda
3   Corey Fineman
3   Daniel Bonner
3   Mathias Jensen
0   Brennen Cook

TOP 8 Playoffs are...
Bleuer def. Willmon
Spero def. Foster
Epstein def. Miller
Bragg def. Knox

T4 split the $208 prize fund.

For those who care the metagame breakdown is as follows.

4 TPS
3 Ichorid
2 Noble Fish
2 Oath
1 Steel City Vault
1 U/R Stax
1 Painter/Grindstone
1 Stifle Nought
1 MUD
1 5c Stax
1 Tezzeret
1 Goblins
1 Merfolk
1 Worldgorger Dragon
1 U/B/G something
1 U/B something
1 Pile O' Crap

Now for theT8 decklists

David Bleuer 1st - 4th
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Noble Hierarch
2 Cold-Eyed Selkie
4 Qasali Pridemage
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Trygon Predator
2 Vendilion Clique
4 Force of Will
2 Daze
4 Spell Pierce
2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Time Walk
1 Mystical Tutor
3 Null Rod
1 Striipmine
4 Wasteland
3 Tundra
3 Tropical Island
1 Plains
1 Island
1 Forest
2 Flooded Strand
2 Misty Rainforest

Sideboard
2 Meddling Mage
1 Swords to Plowshares
2 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Sower of Temptation
2 Pithing Needle
1 Energy Flux
1 Rebuild
2 Nature's Claim
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Wrath of God

Travis Spero 1st - 4th
1 Black Lotus
5 Moxes
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
4 Dark Ritual
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Imperial Seal
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Timetwister
1 Memory Jar
1 Necropotence
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Yawgmoth's Bargain
1 Mind's Desire
1 Darksteel Colossus
1 Tinker
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Thoughtseize
3 Duress
4 Force of Will
4 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Underground Sea
2 Island
2 Swamp

Sideboard
2 Yixlid Jailer
2 Engineered Explosives
2 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Back to Basics
1 Sadistic Sacrament
1 Ravenous Trap
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Echoing Truth
1 Island
1 Darkblast
1 Slaughter Pact
1 Pithing Needle


Zivvy Epstein 1st - 4th
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Noble Hierarch
2 Cold-Eyed Selkie
4 Qasali Pridemage
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Trygon Predator
4 Force of Will
2 Daze
4 Spell Pierce
3 Swords to Plowshares
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Mystical Tutor
3 Null Rod
1 Striipmine
4 Wasteland
2 Tundra
2 Tropical Island
1 Snow-Covered Island
1 Forest
4 Flooded Strand
4 Misty Rainforest

Sideboard
2 Ethersworn Canonist
1 Ravenous Trap
2 Umezawa's Jitte
2 Aven Mindsensor
2 Relic of Progenitus
1 Stone Forge Mystic
3 Nature's Claim
2 Tormod's Crypt


Daniel Bragg 1st - 4th
1 Black Lotus
5 Moxes
1 Lotus Petal
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Time Vault
2 Voltaic Key
1 Inkwell Leviathan
4 Force of Will
1 Misdirection
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Rebuild
1 Darkblast
2 Goblin Welder
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Regrowth
1 Tinker
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Intuition
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
2 Impulse
1 Time Walk
1 Memory Jar
1 Timetwister
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Merchant Scroll
3 City of Brass
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
1 Island
1 Tropical Island
2 Volcanic Island
2 Underground Sea

Sideboard
3 Leyline of the Void
1 Helm of Obediance
3 Nature's Claim
1 Pyroclasm
1 Perish
1 Pyroblast
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Tropical Island
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Bitter Ordeal


Marcus Knox 5th Place
1 Black Lotus
5 Moxes
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
2 Crucible of Worlds
3 Goblin Welder
2 Gorilla Shaman
4 Sphere of Resistance
3 Lodestone Golem
3 Smokestack
3 Tangle Wire
1 Inkwell Leviathan
1 Tinker
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Jace, The Mind Sculptor
1 Platinum Angel
1 Karn, Silver Golem
1 Trinisphere
1 Sundering Titan
1 Duplicant
1 Triskelion
1 Barbarian Ring
1 Pollluted Delta
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Mishra's Factory
4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Wasteland
4 Volcanic Island
2 Ancient Tomb

Sideboard
2 Pyroclasm
3 Powder Keg
1 Rack & Ruin
1 Viashino Heretic
2 Platinum Angel
2 Relic of Progenitus
2 Pithing Needle
1 Triskelion
1 Duplicant

Kyle Miller 6th Place
1 Black Lotus
5 Moxes
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
4 Painter's Servant
1 Grindstone
1 Pithing Needle
1 Inkwell Leviathan
2 Thada Adel, Aquisitar
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Ponder
3 Trinket Mage
1 Time Walk
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Tinker
2 Fire/Ice
3 Pyroblast
2 Red Elemental Blast
4 Magus of the Moon
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Mountain
2 Island
3 Scalding Tarn
1 Polluted Delta
4 Volcanic Island
2 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine

Sideboard
1 Gorilla Shaman
4 Shattering Spree
2 Grim Lavamancer
2 Threads of Disloyalty
1 Sower of Temptation
1 Relic of Progenitus
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Pithing Needle
1 Ravenous Trap


Tucker Foster 7th Place
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
4 Stinkweed Imp
4 Bloodghast
4 Bridge from Below
4 Narcomoeba
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Serum Powder
3 Dread Return
3 Golgari Thug
2 Fate Stitcher
2 Chain of Vapor
2 Ichorid
2 Darkblast
1 Sphinx of Lost Truths
1 Flame-Kin Zealot
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
3 Cepphalid Colliseum
4 City of Brass
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 undiscovered Paradise

Sideboard
4 Unmask
4 Nature's Claim
3 Ancient Grudge
2 Wispmare
2 Chain of Vapor

Gabriel Willmon 8th Place
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol RIng
1 Mana Crypt
4 Oath of Druids
1 Regrowth
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Time Walk
1 Brainstorm
1 Tinker
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
3 Mana Drain
1 Jace, The Mind Sculptor
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Thirst for Knowledge
4 Spell Pierce
4 Force of Will
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
1 Terastodon
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Island
1 Forest
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Forbidden Orchard
3 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
1 Library of Alexandria

Sideboard
2 Show and Tell
1 Bribery
2 Mindbreak Trap
2 Duress
1 Terastodon
3 Nature's Claim
1 Trapmaker's Snare
3 Ravenous Trap

This was our first large event in our new spacious play area.  Everyone seemed to have had a good time.  I really do appreciate the proper demeanor everyone showed during the event.  Even my restroom wast left in useable shape.  THANKS MUCH!

PROPS: To Team Warp for smaching Team Black Gold's face in.
            To Colin for a vast improvement over your last event.
           To everyone 's proxy cards.  They all conformed to my request very reasonably. (There was some really cool one's too!)
          
SLOPS: To Team Black Gold for letting Team Warp smash our faces in. (It still hurts even today)
            To Pierce and myself for biffing it quite BADLY
           Especially to myself for losing to Merfolk.  Yes, FUCKING MERFOLK!

Next event in late May.  Check the Tournament Announcement section in the coming days for details.
 

[pierce]

gratz all! but yes, I scrubbed hard on this one. 

for the record, is my deck listed as 1) tezz 2) u/b something or 3) pile o crap?

any of those titles would probably be correct

[aosquirrels]

gratz all! but yes, I scrubbed hard on this one. 

for the record, is my deck listed as 1) tezz 2) u/b something or 3) pile o crap?

any of those titles would probably be correct

I put your decklist under U/B something.  I didn't see Tezzeret on the list but then again I couldn't read any of the cards on your list.  The Pile O' Crap was actually a Legacy deck with Hypergenesis, Violent Outburst, Ardent Plea, and other cascade type cards.

[JewLightning]

I lost to the so called "Pile of Crap" and it's actually really pretty sick just misbuilt I am working on it 

[Cardboard Jesus]

The 6th place U/R Painter deck is missing its lands.

[bosoxdave]

I don't think that was what Carl called the Painter list.  I believe that the 6 place deck was the deck referred to as Tezz.  But I may be mistaken. 

I am relatively certain that the Painter list belonged to Colin Moriary.

[aosquirrels]

The 6th place U/R Painter deck is missing its lands.

Fixed - Thanks

There was no Tezzeret in the 6th place list so I called it Painter Grindstone.
Colin's deck had Painter/Grindstone WITH Tezzeret.  I therefore called it Tezzeret.

I do apologize for not naming decks with complete accuarcy.

[bosoxdave]

Gotchya.

Hey, Carl!

Will you let Colin know that I intend on returning that Selkie next time that I see him.  I did not intentionally keep it.

Thanks!

[Ramses]

You forgot a SLOPS:

Slops to Ramses for failing to take his time walk turn Game 1 Round 1 and not noticing until it was TOTALLY irreparable!

[aosquirrels]

You forgot a SLOPS:

Slops to Ramses for failing to take his time walk turn Game 1 Round 1 and not noticing until it was TOTALLY irreparable!

Oops, I did forget.  I was hoping what happened was just a bad dream or something I ate.  Your opponent deserves a little prop for conceding the game with a double game loss on the stack     Never a dull moment at Black Gold.

[MaximumCDawg]

Gotchya.

Hey, Carl!

Will you let Colin know that I intend on returning that Selkie next time that I see him.  I did not intentionally keep it.

Thanks!

Hah, no sweat man.  I gave out two Gargadons and a Selkie, and someone lent me a Yawgmoth's Will.  So I think I broke even.

In all seriousness, I'll be bringing the Yagwill along to Black Gold next time I'm there, potentially tonight, and get that returned.  You just get the Selkie back to me whenever you have a chance.  If you're interested, I've been talking to some people about organizing EDH/casual/vintage practice/whatever at a bar somewhere in Denver, so I could add you to my list for that if you like.  PM me your e-mail if you're interested.