[TO REPORT] Vintage Manila Philippines August 28 2011

[chingpaq]

Andrew Chan is the last man standing in the Manila's DCI sanctioned Vintage Royal Rumble. He is our Vintage Champion for August

Congrats to the rest of top 8, thanks to those who participated and visited. Our thanks to Resley for judging the event.

After 24 players and 5 rounds of swiss our top 8 and their matches

Top 8
Jay Pangasinan(Stax) vs Shaun Lim (BBS) -> Jay advances
Marco Deligos (Cat Stax) vs Dennis Dabbay (Turbo Tezzeret) -> Marco advances
Ching Parungao (Gush Storm) vs Jay Rodriguez (Pitch Storm) -> Ching advances
Andrew Chan (Trygon Jacerrator) vs Vincent Kongsun Ching (Oath) -> Andrew advances

Semis
Jay vs Marco -> Marco advances
Andrew vs Ching -> Andrew advances

Finals
Andrew vs Marco -> Andrew wins in 3 games

Decklists (Partial)
1st Place: Andrew Chan
"Trygon Jazerator"

4 Force of Will
4 Spell Pierce
3 Mana Drain
4 Dark Confidant
3 Trygon Predator
3 Jace the Mind Sculptor
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Inkwell Leviathan
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Brainstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Tinker
1 Darkblast


1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
4 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
1 Volcanic Island
1 Island
1 City of Brass
4 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Tolarian Academy

SB (15):
3 Pyroblast
1 Yixilid Jailer
4 Leyline of the Void
3 Energy Fkux
2 Nature's Claim
2 Pyroclasm

2nd Place: Marco Deligos
"Ruthless Panther - Cat Stax"

4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Ancient Tomb
2 City of Traitors
2 Mishra's Factory
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mana Cyrpt
1 Sol Ring

4 Phyrexian Metamorph
4 Slash Panther
4 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Lodestone Golem


4 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Tanglewire
3 Null Rod
2 Crucible of Worlds
1 Trinisphere
SB/
3 Chalice of the Void
4 Percursor Golem
3 Smokestack
3 Jester's Cap
2 Razormane Masticore
=15

3rd Place: Jay Pangasinan
"Ruthless Power - No Cat $tax"

4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Ancient Tomb
3 City of Traitors
4 Wasteland
1 Ghost Quarters
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mana Cyrpt
1 Sol Ring
=26
1 Karn, Silver Golem
3 Phyrexian Metamorph
3 Triskelion
4 Steel Hellkite
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Metalworker
=19
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Tanglewire
=16

SB/
2 Ghost Quarters
2 Crucible of Worlds
2 Pithing Needle
3 Duplicant
3 Razormane Masticore
3 Jester's Cap
=15

4th Place: Ching Parungao
"Team Six - Storm Bin Laden's Camp TX N3LD"

Win con - Team 6
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Jace the Mindsculptor
1 Blightsteel Colossus
3 Street Wraith
=6

Black
1 Doomsday
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Necropotence
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
4 Dark Ritual
1 Duress
=10

Blue
4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
3 Spell Pierce
1 Tinker
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Timetwister
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Hurkyll's Recall
1 Merchant Scroll
4 Gush

1 Fastbond
=24

Artifacts
2 Chrome Mox
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
=6

Lands
4 Polluted Delta
3 Misty Rainforest
2 Island
4 Underground Sea
1 Tropical Island
=14

Sideboard:

4 Leyline of the Void
1 Yixlid Jailer
1 Pithing Needle
1 Dismember
1 Energy Flux
2 Steel Sabotage
2 Nature's Claim
2 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Praetor's Grasp

5th Place: Dennis Dabbay
Turbo Funky Tezzeret (TF Tezzeret)

3 Spell Pierce
4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
3 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Tinker
1 Brainstorm
1 Echoing Truth
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Mystical Tutor
3 Dark Confidant
3 Sensei’s Divining Top
2 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Black Lotus
1 Grim Monolith
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
2 Mox Opal
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
2 Volcanic Island
2 Underground Sea
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Island
3 Polluted Delta
2 Scalding Tarn

Sideboard:
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pyroblast
2 Lightning Bolt
2 Mindbreak Trap
3 Ingot Chewer
1 Pyroclasm
1 Pithing Needle

6th Place: Jay Rodriguez
"Ruthless Pitch Storm"

1 black lotus
1 mox sapphire
1 mox emerald
1 mox pearl
1 mox ruby
1 mox jet
1 mana crypt
1 sol ring
1 mana vault
1 memory jar
1 blightsteel colossus
1 necropotence
1 yawgmoth's bargain
1 ancestral recall
1 vampiric tutor
1 mystical tutor
1 chain of vapor
1 brainstorm
4 dark ritual
2 cabal ritual
1 rebuild
1 thirst for knowledge
1 fact or fiction
1 gifts ungiven
2 misdirection
4 force of will
1 demonic tutor
1 merchant scroll
1 time walk
1 timetwister
1 wheel of fortune
1 yawgmoth's will
1 tinker
1 windfall
2 grim tutor
1 tendrils of agony
1 mind's desire
1 tolarian academy
1 island
1 swamp
1 blood stained mire
4 polluted delta
1 bayou
1 tropical island
1 badlands
1 volcanic island
2 underground sea

side board:
3 xantid swarm
1 ancient grudge
2 hurkyl's recall
2 empty the warrens
1 pyroclasm
1 infest
1 echoing truth
1 relic of progenitus
3 yixlid jailer


7th Place: Vincent Kongsun Ching
"Shin Shun Goku Satsu- Aftermath's Oath"
60 Main Deck
4 City of Brass
4 Gemstone Mine
4 Forbidden Orchard
2 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
4 Force of Will
3 Misdirection
1 TInker
4 Oath of Druids
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Balance
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Dragon's Breath
4 Preordain
3 Duress
3 Spell Pierce
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
1 Jace the Mind Sculptor
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Sol Ring
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Saphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Blightsteel Colossus

15 Sideboard
4 Leyline of the Void
3 Energy Flux
1 Pyroclasm
3 Red Elemental Blast
3 Pithing Needle
1 Inkwell Leviathan

8th Place: Shaun Lim
Jaderyl's BBS (Upgraded with TMS)

Lands (16)

9 Island
3 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Tolarian Academy

Spells (15)

4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
3 Spell Pierce
2 Jace, TMS
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Tinker

Creatures (15)

4 Spellstutter Sprite
4 Trinket Mage
2 Vendilion Clique
2 Painter's Servant
1 Sower of Temptation
1 Gilded Drake
1 Blightsteel Colosus

Artifacts (15)

3 Skullclamp
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
1 Grindstone

Sideboards (15)

3 Relic of Progenitus
2 Pithing Needle
2 Rebuild
1 Hurkyll's Recall
1 Echoing Truth
1 Tormod's Crypt
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Wasteland
1 Claws of Gix
1 Sower of Temptation

Manila's Vintage Forums: http://thesphere.freeforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2658

[BlackLotusIsPurple]

8 metamorphs in 2nd place list.  Talk about extra Blightsteel hate...

Guessing should be revokers.

[chingpaq]

@BlackLotusIsPurple: Thanks for pointing that out. Made the correction


Anyway, im in the mood for a tourney report, so here it is

Using Next Level Doomsday Gush Storm

Round 1 vs Jesper(Ichorid)
Game 1: Insane 1st turn- opening of Street Wraith into Demonic Tutor, USea, Lotus Petal(1), Dark Ritual(2), Dark Ritual(3), Tutor(4) for Yawgmoth's Will(5), Petal(6), Ritual(7), Ritual(8), Tutor(9) for Tendrils of Agony(10)
Game 2: 1st turn Narcomeba for the zombie player, while having a turn 2 Tinker for BSC. He blocked BSC with Nacromeba while firing a Darkblast. The dredge card met a Mental Misstep. Jesper- "Eeeew Legacy card!"

1-0-0

Round 2 vs Vince (Oath)
Game 1: Two early Oath of Druids hit the board but without a Forbidden Orchard to force out a fatty. I won a counter war for Ancestral Recall. He resolved a Balance in the hopes getting back the advantage from the AR earlier resolved. A timely Chain of Vapor for one of the Oath of Druids forced the discard to 2 hands. Left in my hand were Tinker and Yawgmoth's Will. My turn saw me draw a Lotus then Tinker for BSC and Will for Time Walk
Game 2: An early Tinker for Inkwell Leviathan with counter protection afterwards proved too much to handle.
Game 3: A long game 3 as time is called. On the turn 1, I Praetor's Grasp his Tinker. Turn 3 saw me using his Tinker for BSC. Turn 5 saw BSC turning sideways for the match win    

2-0-0

Round 3 vs Jay Pang (No Cat $tax)
Game 1: It was a no contest as i saw a turn 1 Resistor followed up by a Metamorphed Resistor. Steel Hellkite followed suit and pounded me into oblivion
Game 2: Another no contest as a Thorn managed to sneak through. Made a mistake of using Hurkyl's for FOW. A golem soon was beating me up with a wire keeping my resources locked up. A COTV for 2 finished me up. I was holding 2 Hurkyl's Recall  

2-1-0

Round 4 vs Marcelle (Steel City Vault)
Game 1: Almost an error as i mistakenly kept a 1 land hand and lotus petal with Jace, Vampiric, FOW and Merchant Scroll. My 2nd turn saw me Vamp a Black Lotus and into a Jace TMS. I stabilized, a Tinker for Memory Jar got thru for him but minimal harm was done. Allowed a Time Vault to land. But Voltaic Key via Demonic Tutor met my Mental Misstep. Proceded to win via the Tendrils route
Game 2: Managed to land an early Necropotence into Doomsday-Gush. Standard pile of AR, Lotus, Petal, Yawgmoth's Will then Tendrils of Agony.

3-1-0

Round 5 vs Andrew (Trygon Jazerator)
ID to Top 8

3-1-1

Round 6 (Top 8) vs Jay (Pitch Storm)
Game 1: Recovered from a disastrous opening hand again. The black Skull landed, netting me a huge number of cards, eventually setting me up for a nasty Tendrils for 20. A Mental Misstep stoped a Dark Ritual that could have done significant damage on me.
Game 2: Necropotence strikes again. But almost a miss... after setting up Doomsday and a Gush for AR and Black Lotus, my AR got Misdirected. But luck was on my side as my AR produced 3 lands for Jay. Timetwister was on my hand which allowed me to recover and return back key cards in my hand. Mental Misstep was again key as it stopped a Brainstorm which would have netted him a FOW for a key spell of mine. Proceeded to Tendrils for a lot.

Round 7 (Semis) vs Andrew (Trygon Jace)
Game 1: Error after error after error. As mentioned in Andrew's tourney report, I lacked one mana to fire up a Tendrils. This happened after a Necro and when i threw away Vampiric Tutor, Mana Crypt and Sol Ring in favor of Fastbond and FOW. On my hand were Timetwister, Ancestral Recall, Dark Ritual, FOW, FOW, Fastbond, Yawgmoth's Will. I then allowed a Jace TMS to sneak through even though i have several FOWs (thinking i will win the next turn). I missed the storm, tried to Walk another turn but refilling my hand through Necro. He recovered nicely with Jace and won using Trygon.
Game 2: Silly me. Another match given away. I made the mistake of Forcing a Demonic Tutor that was backed up by Mana Drain, instead of allowing DT to resolve and using FOW on the card he will tutor up(Andrew wouldn't have been able to use Mana Drain). When DT resolved he tutored for Voltaic Key(with Drain mana waiting) with Time Vault already waiting in the floor. BUT... before all this happened, i failed to notice that i was already capable of using Gush, Doomsday and Yawgmoth's Will with a yard full of goodies (Black Lotus, Gush, AR, etc). I was too busy using Jace's fateseal (at 9 already) and playing control(I was holding 1 FOW, 2 Mental Missteps, Chain of Vapor, DD, YW). Hmph

Anyway, ended up a good 4th. Mental Misstep is a Vintage Bomb IMHO!

[A.-1.]

Congrats on the top 4 Ching.

How was Street Wraith? Was it better than Gitaxian Probe? Was the argument being un-counterable and avoiding CotV versus extra information or were their other reasons?

Mental Misstep is a Vintage Bomb IMHO!

I must agree with you on this one.

[chingpaq]

Congrats on the top 4 Ching.

How was Street Wraith? Was it better than Gitaxian Probe? Was the argument being un-counterable and avoiding CotV versus extra information or were their other reasons?

Mental Misstep is a Vintage Bomb IMHO!

I must agree with you on this one.

Thanks A-1

My previous built had Probe instead of Wraith and it actually served me well. Better info, additional storm. This time around, the tournament had several workshops running with multiple Jester Caps(sad sacs are also aplenty) and i would not want to be caught flat footed with only a few outs. Also i wanted 6 win conditions as tribute to Navy Seal's Team 6. The Wraiths could have been Confidants but i was only running 14 lands (not to mention no Moxen) and the DC's still on transit (shipping)

[Tobi]

Thanks for the lists!

Some missing cards:
Marco: 1 card MD missing
Dennis: 1 card MD missing

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