Superstars Mox Emerald Results! Lists! Pics!

[LotusHead]

11 people showed up but some suddenly bad weather MAY have had something to do with it (and I imagine some key Channel Fireballers are still hanging out down under.

Head Judge Erik had no Emerald, but still had $300 in store credit as the prize (which is more than 11x25)

5 rounds of swiss and a cut to top 4 produced:

Dylan J, Charles G, Eric C, and Ryan D split the top 4.

The meta was:

MUD
MUD
Night's Whisper/Gush.dec
Trygon Jace control
Jace control w/ETW
Goblins
Red Stax (Dylan)
Control Slaver (Ryan)
UBwr Bob Jace Control (Eric)
Bob Cobra Jace (Charles)
UR Riddler Stax.

Lists will be up later tonight And pics.

[potato]

I'm pretty sure this marks 8 top-4 finishes for me in a row. Quite the streak!

Admittedly, it's not hard to top-4 when only 11 people show up. The gloomy weather, unexpected rain, and associated car accidents on the freeways probably contributed to that, but it was disappointing, given that past events have drawn 30+ participants.

The fact that a PTQ was yesterday might also be part of that.

Anyways, I played a homebrew control slaver list with Frantic Search in the place of Thirst For Knowledge #2-4.

Overall, I liked the Frantic Searches. They came in handy many times when I drew way too many lands.

If I were to play my deck again, I would swap out my Spell Pierces for Thoughtsieze or possibly Lightning Bolt. I just found myself stuck with them waaaaaaaay too many times when my opponents had no shortage of lands. This was really a pretty slow deck, and so the tempo advantage from the spell pierce early probably isn't worth it anyways.

My list:

7 Fetchlands
3 Volcanic  Island
2 Underground Sea
1 Island
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Tolarian Academy
8 SoLoMoxCrypt
1 Sensei's Top
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Tinker
1 Inkwell Leviathan
1 Myr Battlesphere
1 Mindslaver
4 Goblin Welder
1 Thirst for Knowledge
3 Frantic Search
4 Mana Drain
2 Spell Pierce
4 Force of Will
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Rebuild
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
3 Jace, TMS

Side:
2 Rack and Ruin
1 REB
1 Pyroblast
1 Darkblast
4 Sower of Temptation
2 Yixlid Jailer
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Extirpate
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Ravenous Trap

I played Riddlesmith shop aggro, goblins, red stax, U/B/W Jace, and intentional draw, in that order. My deck served very well against the shop decks thanks to Goblin Welder and good sideboard cards, but faltered against the U/B/W Jace deck, partially due to his good draws, partially due to discarding the wrong cards to my frantic searches, and partially due to spell pierce being awful at countering Dark Confidant.

I do miss confidants, I've gotten so used to being able to go all-in on a random early game guy who will get there through the mid and late game thanks to card advantage. Perhaps I should do a hybrid goblin welder/confidant build for the future...

Anyways, thanks to the people who did come out, and thanks to Superstars for running an event at a loss in order to represent consistency and stick-to-it-iveness. I certainly plan on continuing to come out for each and every one of these tournaments, and I hope that future turnouts improve.

Props:
Myr Battlesphere (he attacks for 12! more than Darksteel Colossus! And he only costs 7!)
Darkblast
Mike, who drove our carpool to the event so I didn't have to drive myself for once
Everyone who came out, for making the event happen

Slops:
Spell Pierce for getting stuck in my hand
Me for fucking up my Frantic Searches
Everyone who didn't come out

[LotusHead]

Top 4

Eric Campusano

2 Island
3 Underground Sea
2 Tundra
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Flooded Strand
4 Polluted Delta
1 Volcanic Island
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Dark Confidant
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Brainstorm
1 Time Walk
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Inkwell Leviathon
1 Tinker
3 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
3 Swords to Plowshares
1 Misdirection
4 Spell Pierce
3 Jace, The Mindsculptor

Sideboard
3 Ethersworn Canonist
1 Pyroblast
2 Red Elemental Blast
1 Hurkyls Recall
1 Balance
1 DarkBlast
2 Yislid Jailer
4 Leyline of the Void

Top 4

Dylan Jolliffe

1 Trinisphere
1 Ancient Tomb
4 Tangle Wire
1 Strip Mine
3 Barbarian Ring
1 Tolarian Academy
]3 Mountain
4 Wasteland
4 Chalice of the Void
3 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Mishra's Workshop0
1 Mana Vault
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mana Vault
4 Smokestack
4 Crucible of Worlds
4 Goblin Welder
4 Lodestone Golem
4 SPhere of Resistance
2 Triskellion

Sideboard

3 Ensnaring Bridge
3 Lightning Bolt
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Viashino Heretic
4 Leyline of Sanctity
1 Ingot Chewer

Top 4 Charles Gordon

4 Lotus Cobra
4 Dark Confidant
1 Inkwell LEviathan
3 Jace, The Mind Sculpter
3 Nature's Claim
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Demonic Tutor
1 TIme Walk
1 Mystical TUtor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Tinker
1 Necropotence
4 Force of Will
4 Spell Pierce
3 Verdant Catacombs
3 Misty Rainforest
3 Polluted Delta
2 Tropical Island
2 Underground Sea
1 Bayou
1 Island
1 Swamp
1 Forest
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mox JEt
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Tezzeret the Seeker

Sideboard
1 Darkblast
2 Mindbreak Trap
3 Duress
2 Relic of Progenitus
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Nature's Claim
1 Doom Blade
1 Hurkyl's Recall

[Gambit]

Yea, shame about the turnout , hopefully next month will bring out a few more. I played red stax figuring that it is good against MUD and fine against gush. There wasn't much gush, but I played Mono Brown twice. Only interesting thing in my list was the lightning bolts in the board which came in quite a bit as they kill pretty much everything relavent in the format right now.

[Campee]

I wish LSV, Web, and Fob would play in these.

[Tobi]

Missing card report:

Eric - 3 crads missing in MD
Charles - 3 cards missing in MD

Finally a Frantic Search list! Cheers! 

[LotusHead]

Lists Fixed. Changes in bold.

Only 7 of my pictures uploaded correctly to photo bucket.  Not sure what happened, but here's what survived from my new cellphone cam.


I go first and bust out with first turn Vedalken Certarch and Goblin Welder.  Michael busts out with first turn Time Vault, Voltaic Key.  I manage to drop a Tangle Wire to make him go through the motions (and hope he somehow causes an artifact to end up in the graveyard, but alas, he's not a scrub.


Time Vault decks collide.  That's nationals champ Josh Utter-Leyton on the right.


Shops everywhere today!


Gambit vs Potato


If I recall, Campusano (right) had to use the restroom to get the busted nutsauce off his hands later.


GOBLINS!  In a field of Gush/Jace/Shops!


My deck workins awesomely game 1 vs Potato's Control Slaver.  Game 2 and Game 3 involved multiple Rack and Ruins that ruined my day. (and goddam Darkblast)

[sassfactor4]

In the fifth pic down, Eric (campee) played I believe: mox, sol ring, lotus, jace (he knew i was playing no force of will and kept his hand knowing nothing could be countered).  I proceeded to play a fetch land and pass (a slightly weaker opening hand), knowing next turn was likely inkwell or infinite turns.  It was infinite turns.  Whoosh!

[SilverRocket]

The MODO PTQ kept me and probably some others from showing up.