Xtreme Games Top 8 Results 7/18/10

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We wanted to thank you all for coming to our monthly Vintage event for a Mox Jet!!

Good luck to everyone at Vintage Worlds!

We had 27 people at this event

-here are the top  8 deck lists-
 
 James King- 1st Place @ Xtreme Games

4 Bazaar of Baghdad
1 Dakmor Salvage
2 Petrified Field
4 Undiscovered Paradise
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11 lands

4 Bloodghast
1 Flame-Kin Zealot
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
2 Golgari Thug
3 Ichorid
4 Narcomoeba
4 Stinkweed Imp
1 Woodfall Primus
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23 creatures

4 Chalice of the Void
4 Serum Powder
4 Bridge from Below
1 Darkblast
1 Nature's Claim
4 Cabal Therapy
2 Dread Return
2 Unmask
4 leyline of sanctity
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26 other spells

4 Leyline of the Void
4 Chain of Vapor
3 Nature's Claim
4 City of Brass
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15 sideboard cards

 

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60 maindeck cards, 15 sideboard cards 
 




 John Beste-Biker Gang!-- 2nd Place @ Xtreme Games

4 Misty Rainforest
1 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea
2 Island
1 Forest
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Forbidden Orchard
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17 lands

1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
1 Tidespout Tyrant
1 Terastodon
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3 creatures

1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
1 Black Lotus
4 Oath of Druids
4 Force of Will
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
4 Spell Pierce
3 Mana Drain
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Duress
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Brainstorm
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Nature's Claim
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Tinker
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
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40 other spells

3 Nature's Claim
1 Terastodon
1 Echoing Truth
2 Yixlid Jailer
2 Pithing Needle
2 Leyline of the Void
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
1 Massacre
1 Duress
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15 sideboard cards

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60 maindeck cards, 15 sideboard cards 
 




   
 Mike Fredericks- MOD-3rd Place @ Xtreme Games

4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
4 Ancient Tomb
1 Tolarian Academy
2 City of Traitors
1 Mishra's Factory
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17 lands

3 Juggernaut
2 Duplicant
4 Lodestone Golem
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9 creatures

1 Mana Crypt
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
2 Smokestack
4 Tangle Wire
3 Null Rod
2 Sculpting Steel
2 Crucible of Worlds
4 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Sphere of Resistance
1 Trinisphere
4 Chalice of the Void
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34 other spells

3 Tormod's Crypt
2 Relic of Progenitus
3 Razormane Masticore
3 Blasting Station
1 Duplicant
3 Pithing Needle

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15 sideboard cards

 

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60 maindeck cards, 15 sideboard cards 
 
 



Mike Solymossy- 4th Place @ Xtreme Games

(My deck name will never be as bad as the names in legacy.dec)

2 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Strip Mine
1 Wasteland
4 Island
2 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
1 Tolarian Academy
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17 lands

1 Trygon Predator
2 Glen Elendra Archmage
1 Inkwell Leviathan
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4 creatures

1 Mana Crypt
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Time Vault
1 Echoing Truth
1 Nature's Claim
1 Time Walk
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Tinker
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Lotus Petal
4 preordain
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39 other spells

1 Seal of Primordium
1 Darkblast
1 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Extirpate
2 Pithing Needle
2 Mindbreak Trap
2 Old Man of the Sea
1 Nature's Claim
1 Massacre
2 Yixlid Jailer

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15 sideboard cards

 

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60 maindeck cards, 15 sideboard cards




Caleb Scherer- 5th Place @ Xtreme Games

3 Underground Sea
2 Island
2 Swamp
4 Polluted Delta
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Verdant Catacombs

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13 lands
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0 creatures

1 Timetwister
3 Tendrils of Agony
4 Dark Ritual
3 Cabal Ritual
4 Duress
4 Thoughtseize
3 Chain of Vapor
4 Ad Nauseam
4 Chrome Mox
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Lotus Petal
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Sol Ring
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
1 Necropotence
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Demonic Consultation
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47 other spells

3 Trygon Predator
3 Xantid Swarm
3 Sadistic Sacrament
1 Tropical Island
1 Bayou
1 Slaughter Pact
1 Brain Freeze
2 Hurkyl's Recall
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15 sideboard cards

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60 maindeck cards, 15 sideboard cards





Josh Lalo- Pirhana Marsh Deck Wins- 6th Place @ Xtreme Games

7 Island
1 Snow-Covered Island
2 Underground Sea
1 Tropical Island
1 Flooded Strand
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Polluted Delta
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Library of Alexandria
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17 land

1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
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1 creature

1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Mana Crypt
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
2 Nature's Claim
1 Rebuild
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
4 Spell Pierce
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Brainstorm
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Ponder
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Tinker
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42 other spells

1 Trygon Predator
1 Nature's Claim
1 Perish
1 Ravenous Trap
1 Extirpate
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Helm of Obedience
1 Pernicious Deed
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Sower of Temptation
2 Annul
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15 sideboard cards

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60 maindeck cards, 15 sideboard cards





Jake Kempfer-Hummer Douche 7th Place @ Xtreme Games

4 Polluted Delta
3 Underground Sea
2 Swamp
2 Island
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11 lands

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0 creatures

4 Ad Nauseam
4 Pact of Negation
4 Dark Ritual
3 Chain of Vapor
3 Tendrils of Agony
4 Duress
3 Cabal Ritual
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Necropotence
4 Chrome Mox
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
4 Preordain
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49 other spells

4 Dark Confidant
2 Hymn to Tourach
1 Tormod's Crypt
2 Yixlid Jailer
1 Extirpate
2 Hurkyl's Recall
3 Phylacty Lich
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15 sideboard cards

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60 maindeck cards, 15 sideboard cards

 
 


Peter Tragos-Empire Fish- 8th Place @ Xtreme Games

4 Misty Rainforest
1 Scalding Tarn
3 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
3 Tropical Island
3 Tundra
1 Island
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17 lands

4 Qasali Pridemage
4 Noble Hierarch
3 Meddling Mage
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Aven Mindcensor
3 Trygon Predator
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20 creatures

1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
3 Spell Pierce
2 Swords to Plowshares
3 Daze
1 Time Walk
4 Force of Will
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Null Rod
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23 other spells

4 Leyline of the Void
3 Nature's Claim
2 Energy Flux
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Rebuild
4 Leyline of Sanctity
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15 sideboard cards

 

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60 maindeck cards, 15 sideboard cards

[Suicideking]

Today I played the stickiest of the ichy and this shit is the bomb!  Actually I just took Matt Elias' list and it was pretty good.

The white leyline was almost never relevant, and ad naus turn 2'd me right through it. It really suck at stopping combo now that they can preordain to find chain.

I'll post more later.

[voltron00x]

That first place deck looks terrifyingly good!  If only someone had warned us all!

[A_mazz_ing]

Thanks for another great tourney Eric and Shannon!  It was a blast (even though I won one game!)

James, congrats again.  That build looked like a pain in the ass to face. 

[MVPetey63]

Congrats James, made me realize that double Leyline doesn't equal a guaranteed win against Dredge.

Aj, his build certainly was a pain to play against, it handed me my only losses. Eight answers to LotV after board while having white leylines to stop targeted graveyard removal is difficult to overcome.

[A_mazz_ing]

Congrats James, made me realize that double Leyline doesn't equal a guaranteed win against Dredge.

Aj, his build certainly was a pain to play against, it handed me my only losses. Eight answers to LotV after board while having white leylines to stop targeted graveyard removal is difficult to overcome.

Yup.  Dredge has gotten really good.  Scary to say the least.

[M.Solymossy]

It was so frustrating making the mistake I did to lose to James.  Either way, it was a good tournament and I finally broke my slide of missing top8s. 

The format is still garbage though.

[swawagon]

I was 3-2 with Bob Tendrils, missing top 8.

Split Tendril's mirrors, lost to Danny F's U-control, beat GW aggro and UR Shops.


Resolving Timetwister was a coin flip for the win - horrendous or amazing.

[Suicideking]

Alright here is my mini report on the tourney.  I didnt take notes and the stick ichy has left my short term memory...well a little short. 

Anyways I chose to play Matt Elias' dredge list.  Mainly because I wanted to play Ichorid and Leyline of Sanctity but am too fucking lazy to make my own deck list.  Conveniently his newest article had a list that looked fine so i net-decked that shit. 

Round 1  Peter Tragos-Empire Fish
Game 1
I do my thing and win pretty easily. 
Game 2
He starts with leyline of the void and spell pierces my natures claim.  Then he runs me down with Goyf.
Game 3   
Not much to say here.  He mulls to three and only has wasteland.  Luckily for me I have 2 bazaars and I crush.

Round 2.  I think his name is Jason playing W/R/B hate cards and burn
Game 1
This is pretty easy and I kill him on like turn 3 or 4.
Game 2
He lands a turn 2 magus and shuts me down pretty hard.  I soon die.
Game 3
I have a bazaar and he doesnt do much of anything.  He eventually finds Magus when I have around 20 cards left in my deck so it doesnt matter.

Round 3  Jake Kempfer Ad Naus Tendrils.
Game 1
I therapy away his business early and he can't recover.
Game 2
This match was longer but he gets a necro and rides it to a kill 2 turns later
Game 3
I have an opening leyline of sanctity, but Jake doesnt care and kills me on turn 2.

Round 4 Larry Griswald playing U/R Shops
Game 1
Larry has a turn 1 ancestral recall but doesnt get a chance to do much more before I win.
Game 2
He plays some duplicants and suspends a greater garg. but can't stop me from dredging at will and dies. 

Round 5 ID with John Lalo

Top 8 Peter again
Game 1
I roll with the dredges and win.
Game 2
he mulls to 5 and has a double leyline opener.  My 6 card hand is 2 natures claim, undiscovered paradise, bazaar, troll, something else.
Peter plays a emerald and passes.  I play bazaar.  He draws and plays strip mine, then cast a goyf.  I play undiscovered paradise.  He plays another goyf.  I Claim a leyline then replay the undiscovered paradise on my turn and nail the other one.  I begin bazaaring well getting beat down to 7.  He eventually gets a trygon predator down.  I can't find a bridge and am dying, so i have to play a golgari thug to chump with and return a narcomeaba every turn until bridge shows up in multiples and I win.

Top4 Soly
These games are interesting and Im going to do my best to give play by play.  Even though I got the win it wasnt a shining moment.
Game 1
Soly plays Lotus, Mox, Land, Fact or fiction, mox, and time walk on his turn 1.  Turn 2 he tinkers and gets Inkwell and has strip mine.  I lose when my dreging is irrelevant.

Game 2.
This is slow after my bridges get extirpated.  I have 3 narcos that are on the beat down and an ichorid without another black creature in my yard.  soly E truths my narcos so i can discard.  I pitch a bloodghast.  Soly go and talks to a judge for quite a bit of time.  They look shit up and soly comes back and pithing needles my ichorid.  At this point Im pretty tired and figure soly wouldn't try to go bush league on me so I don't bring back Ichorid on my turn.  I have a fair number of lands so I play the percentages and draw one and landfall bloodghast and haste kills him.

game 3. 
Soly mulls and opens with mana crypt, mox ruby, time vault.  On my turn I play a City of Brass so I can Chain of vapor his time vault in an emergency.  I then play chalice@0 and ship the turn.  Soly fetches a Underground sea and plays demonic tutor.  He then plays Voltaic Key with a colorless mana floating.  I respond by chaining his time vault.  He sacs his underground sea to copy chain to his mana crypt.  He then attempts to replay mana crypt so he can cast his time vault.  I inform his that crypt is countered by chalice and Soly goes on tilt.  His board is now mox ruby and Voltaic key.  My next turn I play bazaar and natures claim his key.  I then ride bloodghast beat downs to the win. 

Finals John Beste Oath
John declines my offer to split and I'm actually happy to play it out.  I'm reasonably sure that John has never beat me in a tournament and as an oath player I was never looking forward to playing against dredge.  The fact ichorid can sac orchard tokens to do cool shit makes it a bit harder to get oath active before they kill you. 

Game 1
John mulls to 5.  I open with a bazaar, chalice@0, and unmask.  The unmask revealed 2 lands, mana crypt, tinker, and mana drain.  I take tinker and then take him to the woodshed. 
Game 2
John opens with a land.  I play bazaar and activate it.  I discard three dredgers and pass.  He EoT vamps.  On his next turn he plays a Jailer.  I play land go.  He attacks and does nothing else.  I play another land and hardcast narco.  he plays land go.  On my turn I play a bloodghast, and pass.  John plays land go.  I attack with bloodghast and play another narco.  John plays a land.  I play stinkweed imp. and all this leads to me attacking with hardcasted guys for the win, and the Mox Jet.  John gets a grim tutor.

Overall the deck is a beast but I think the list could be better.  Both leyline and chalice were a little underwhelming in this event.  I played really poorly in this event because I was tired, and dont really play vintage ever, and the deck still got me there.  That should tell you how good dredge is. 

If i fucked up any of the details forgive me and feel free to correct me below.

[hvndr3d y34r h3x]

I'm reasonably sure that John has never beat me in a tournament

NOT TRUE!     it was 2 oath mirrors even! But your record against me is definitely pretty positive.

But yeah, my sb plan was not nearly as well thought out as I thought it was, and you deserved to win that matchup.
Also, tidespout tyrant sucked all day

[Suicideking]

I'm reasonably sure that John has never beat me in a tournament

NOT TRUE!     it was 2 oath mirrors even! But your record against me is definitely pretty positive.

But yeah, my sb plan was not nearly as well thought out as I thought it was, and you deserved to win that matchup.
Also, tidespout tyrant sucked all day

Fair enough.  I was curious about that guy because Soly was talking him up.  I'd be interested to see him in action if you ran preordain for extra cheap spells to fuel the bounce.

[hvndr3d y34r h3x]

Obviously, you need a very different build then what I was playing. I sometimes found my self is odd spots where i could cast something to bounce some stuff, but it would take me off pierce or drain. Obviously pair with pre ordain and thoughtsieze.

[M.Solymossy]

About the Pithing Needle play.  It might be very shitty, but is very much so legal.   I know you know that, but I need to clarify because I don't want everyone thinking I tried to cheat...

I can legally Pithing Needle Ichorid.  Then James said "I assume that is Legal", and went on with his turn.  If he had asked "is that legal" i could have answered Yes, because I can legally name Ichorid with Ichorid.   However,   if James had asked if it stopped Ichorid, I would have answered No. 

[Suicideking]

About the Pithing Needle play.  It might be very shitty, but is very much so legal.   I know you know that, but I need to clarify because I don't want everyone thinking I tried to cheat...

I can legally Pithing Needle Ichorid.  Then James said "I assume that is Legal", and went on with his turn.  If he had asked "is that legal" i could have answered Yes, because I can legally name Ichorid with Ichorid.   However,   if James had asked if it stopped Ichorid, I would have answered No. 

Oh it was definetly legal to do. Had I actually thought about it I wouldve figured it out. That wasn't even close to my only misplay of the day though.

[M.Solymossy]

Oh it was definetly legal to do. Had I actually thought about it I wouldve figured it out. That wasn't even close to my only misplay of the day though.

It's okay James.  I watched some of your games, and you watched some of mine.  We also played each other, so you know this is true.

We both played fucking miserably.

[A_mazz_ing]

Yeah but none of your misplays cost a pen it's life. 

Everyone does it.  Some of us tinker with Sphinx in hand (I know Soly that you had the echoing truth after all of that but it still would have made me feel better than grabbing a damn top).

But like James said.  Dredge is just that good right now.  It seems like the best way to attack it is with dudes that hate it out to cut their sb hate from 8 cards to 4 (making claim irrelevant).  Petrified Field in the main is just dumb.  It really takes the edge off killing a Bazaar.  But congrats again to everyone who top 8'd. 

[Tobi]

Peter's list misses a card. Probably a land.

[MVPetey63]

My list isn't missing anything, 17 lands + 20 creatures + 23 non creature spells = 60 cards

[Tobi]

My list isn't missing anything, 17 lands + 20 creatures + 23 non creature spells = 60 cards

4 Misty Rainforest
1 Scalding Tarn
3 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
3 Tropical Island
3 Tundra
1 Island
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17 lands


I may be miscounting, but to me this looks like 16 cards. One is missing obv.

[MVPetey63]

I was only looking at the numbers, yes, my basic forest is not listed.