TO Report: The Council Open #7 - TPG - Bloomsburg, PA - 7/23/11

[Kameli0n]

Big thanks goes out to all that made the trek down here to The Players Guild in Bloomsburg, PA to play some vintage magic. Great to see some new faces, along with all the faithful vintage players that have been coming to these events regularly now. We had 19 players in attendance today despite all the other great events taking place today. Top 4 were awarded for this event. 1st was the Unlimited Mox Ruby Signed, 2nd was $75 in credit, and 3rd and 4th were $25 in credit. Big thanks to everyone who came out to support the Council Open.

The Metagame Breakdown:

Forces:
East Coast Wins: 2 – 10.53%
Turbo Tezz: 1 – 5.26%
Jace Vault: 2 – 10.53%
Gush Control: 2 – 10.53%

Workshops:
Espresso Stax: 1 – 5.26%
Aggro MUD:  5 - 9.52%

Bazaars:
Dredge: 1- 5.26%

Null Rods:
Dark Times: 1 – 5.26%
Noble Fish: 1 – 5.26%
Other:
WW: 2 – 10.53%
ETW Belcher: 1 – 5.26%


This event was run with 5 swiss rounds with the cut to top 8.

Top 8 Pairings and Results

Anthony, Shawn vs. Ball, Bela -   Anthony wins
Jones, John vs. =Gottshall, Matt -  Gottshall wins
Hundertmark, Evan vs. Sees, Bill -   Sees wins
Richards, Jon vs. Ballester, Lance -  Ballester wins

Top 4 Pairings and Results

Anthony, Shawn vs. Sees, Bill – Sees wins
Gottshall, Matt vs. Ballester, Lance – Ballester wins

Finals
Ballester, Lance vs. Sees, Bill – Ballester wins

     Please inform us of any suggestions you may have for us to improve our tournaments in the future! And again, thanks to everyone for coming out to help support the game! Congrats to Lance for winning it all!

Top 8 Decklists:
First Place – Lance Ballester
“Dreadless Dredge”

4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Serum Powder
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
4 Stinkweed Imp
4 Narcomoeba
4 Bridge from Below
4 Bloodghast
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Undiscovered Paradise
2 Petrified Field
4 Ichorid
2 Golgari Thug
1 Dakmor Salvage
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Unmask
1 Nature’s Claim
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Imperial Seal
1 Ancient Grudge
2 Firestorm

SB:
3 Chain of Vapor
3 Nature’s Claim
4 City of Brass
1 Ancestral Recall
3 Leyline of Sanctity
1 Darkblast

Second Place – Bill Sees
“Noble Fish”

3 Null Rod
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Gaddock Teeg
1 True Believer
4 Noble Hierarch
2 Trygon Predator
2 Green Sun’s Zenith
3 Swords to Plowshares
3 Tarmogoyf
4 Qasali Pridemage
2 Cold-eyed Selkie
2 Spell Pierce
1 Time Walk
4 Daze
4 Force of Will
1 Strip Mine
1 Forest
1 Island
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
2 Tundra
1 Savannah
3 Tropical Island
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Flooded Strand
4 Wasteland

SB:
1 Sower of Temptation
1 Kataki, War’s Wage
1 Rule of Law
2 Energy Flux
3 Tormod’s Crypt
3 Ravenous Trap
2 Nature’s Claim
2 Hurkyl’s Recall

Semi Finalist – Shawn Anthony
“East Coast Wins”

2 Island
2 Misty Rainforest
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Polluted Delta
2 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
2 Volcanic Island
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
3 Mental Misstep
1 Steel Sabatoge
4 Gush
1 Fastbond
1 Ancient Grudge
2 Preordain
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Imperial Seal
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Ponder

SB:
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Ingot Chewer
2 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pithing Needle
2 Nature’s Claim
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Pyroclasm
1 Mountain
1 Island

Semi Finalist – Matt Gottshall
“White Trash”

1 Karakas
9 Plains
4 Wasteland
4 Ghost Quarter
1 Strip Mine
4 Stoneforge Mystic
4 Aven Mindcensor
4 Glowrider
4 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Leonin Relic Warder
4 Ethersworn Canonist
2 Kataki, War’s Wage
1 Batterskull
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
4 Chalice of the Void

SB:
4 Phyrexian Metamorph
4 Preacher
4 Abolish
2 Path to Exile
1 Jotun Grunt

Quarter-Finalist – Bela Ball
“Aggro MUD”

4 Mishra’s Workshop
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Wasteland
2 City of Traitors
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Strip Mine
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Precursor Golem
3 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Slash Panther
4 Phyrexian Metamorph
3 Juggernaut
1 Trinisphere

SB:
2 Steel Hellkite
2 Relic of Progenitus
2 Nihil Spellbomb
3 Crucible of Worlds
3 Duplicant
3 Jester’s Cap

Quarter Finalist – Evan Hundertmark
“Aggro MUD”[/b]

4 Mishra’s Workshop
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Wasteland
2 City of Traitors
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Phyrexian Metamorph
4 Precursor Golem
4 Slash Panther
3 Null Rod
1 Trinisphere

SB:
3 Jester’s Cap
3 Crucible of Worlds
2 Relic of Progenitus
2 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Tormod’s Crypt
3 Duplicant

Quarter-Finalist  – John Richards
“Aggro MUD”

4 Mishra’s Workshop
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Wasteland
2 City of Traitors
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Phyrexian Metamorph
4 Precursor Golem
4 Slash Panther
3 Null Rod
1 Trinisphere

SB:
3 Jester’s Cap
3 Crucible of Worlds
3 Relic of Progenitus
2 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Ratchet Bomb
2 Duplicant

Quarter Finalist – John Jones
“Turbo Tezz”-
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
2 Grim Monolith
1 Time Vault
1 Lotus Petal
2 Voltaic Key
1 Echoing Truth
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Rebuild
1 Ponder
1 Preordain
1 Brainstorm
1 Imperial Seal
1 Time Walk
1 Fire/Ice
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Tinker
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Thirst for Knowledge
3 Tezzeret the Seeker
3 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Snow-Covered Island
2 Island
1 Swamp
2 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Hurkyl’s Recall

SB:
2 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Rack and Ruin
3 Ravenous Trap
2 Dismember
1 Pyroclasm
1 Echoing Truth
1 Pithing Needle
3 Red Elemental Blast
1 Mindbreak Trap



Again, thanks for all the support. The date of the next Bloomsburg Council Vintage event is not set. If you would have any suggestions on when a plausible date may be, please do not hesitate to comment. Thanks again everyone!!!!! And once again, Congratulations to the top 8!!!

[voltron00x]

Can't believe this TO report is up already, you're a damn champion! 

[desolutionist]

I guess this means I should put Pernicious Deed and Perish in my sideboard.  (Or Vinelasher Kudzu)

[XxtSundaybxX]

I agree Shawn Anthony

[metalhead666]

Can't believe this TO report is up already, you're a damn champion! 

He started it before round 5 was over!  Now thats a good TO!

[Mr. Type 4]

NO DREAD RETURN! WTF!

Wow man, that's pretty radical. Congratulations.

My head explodes.

[voltron00x]

NO DREAD RETURN! WTF!

Wow man, that's pretty radical. Congratulations.

My head explodes.

I think its just indicative of Dredge being a strong choice right now.  That was the only Dredge deck in the field!  0 Dread Return decks have won stuff before, but I think they're really sub optimal, personally.

[desolutionist]

NO DREAD RETURN! WTF!

Wow man, that's pretty radical. Congratulations.

My head explodes.

I think its just indicative of Dredge being a strong choice right now.  That was the only Dredge deck in the field!  0 Dread Return decks have won stuff before, but I think they're really sub optimal, personally.

come on now...

[Kameli0n]

Ok everyone, leave the little dredgers alone...

Side note: The next Bloomsburg event is scheduled for 8/20/11. Everyone get down/up/over here for it!!!

[KingSquee]

I had a great time despite the sweltering heat and the fact that no food places were open. In a mall. On a Saturday.

I won my first match with my revamped Cat Stax Fever, then lost the next four. Back to the drawing board for NYSE next week. Seeing as though there was only one Dredge player out of 19 one might have been OK with leaving dedicated Dredge hate out. Naturally I get paired against him round 3. Such is the dilemma with the current Vintage metagame.

Also, anybody who has not road-tripped with one John Jones is missing out. Just a sampling of things we were talking about:

"How can something so complex be so simple?"
(While driving through the mountains on I-80) "Wow, look at all those trees! Imagine if we chopped them all down!"
(While driving over a particularly rough stretch of the PA Turnpike) "You know, we should just forget about road maintenance altogether. Every car should just have really big tires."

And speaking of John Jones, game 3 of Top 8 against Matt was epic. It was probably the best game of Vintage I've seen in a while. Matt had lethal damage on the board and was ready to swing for the win on his next turn. However John went all-in to reassemble Vault/Key, Dismembering the Leonin Relic-Warder the Vault was tucked under. So he activates his Key targeting the Vault, when all of a sudden, BAM! Matt discards a Plains and Abolishes the Time Vault!

[Mr. Type 4]

Seeing as though there was only one Dredge player out of 19 one might have been OK with leaving dedicated Dredge hate out.

In my experience running without Dredge hate is just too dangerous.

BAM! Matt discards a Plains and Abolishes the Time Vault!

Looks like Matt may have finally found a playable card in the Prophesy set.  I had to look it up, lol.

0 Dread Return decks have won stuff before, but I think they're really sub optimal, personally.

I understand where he's going with this deck - the Dredge engine is good enough to just win game one 85% of the time or better so he moved some sideboard stuff into the main presumably so he could run even more solutions to hate cards post-board.  It's not a bad plan.  I dont understand what Ancestral is doing in the SB, but beyond that it seems like a solid idea.

[desolutionist]

In my experience running without Dredge hate is just too dangerous.

Only if you need to see upkeeps in order to draw cards

[Tobi]

John Jone's deck is missing 4 cards, Polluted Deltas obv.