BBGD #18 is in the books! Pictures, Metagame Breakdown, and Decklists!

[Iron_Chef]

Blue Bell Game Day #18 is in the books.  With 37 players this time, we saw a slight uptick in attendance from the last few.  Here's to hoping that everyone makes it out to the next BBGD (#19!), December 3rd, for an Ancestral Recall!  Thank you to everyone who continues to play Vintage and make these events a lot of fun.

Without further ado, here is what happened at Blue Bell on the 22nd!



The Top 8:
Josh Potucek (Landstill) defeated Jake Gans (Minus Six)
Tim Taylor (Stax) defeated Josh Butker (Stax)
JP Kohler (MUD) defeated Ryan Fisher (Snapcaster Control)
Jeff Folinus (Stax) defeated Jonathan Addesa (Dredge)

The Top 4:
Tim Taylor (Stax) defeated JP Kohler (MUD)
Josh Potucek (Landstill) defeated Jeff Folinus (Stax)

The Finals:
Josh Potucek (Landstill) defeated Tim Taylor (Stax)

Josh Potucek wins his 3rd Blue Bell tournament IN A ROW with Landstill, and took the lead in the Player of the Year Race!

The Top 8 Decklists:

1st Place for the 3rd time IN A ROW: Josh Potucek playing Landstill (read his report HERE)
Maindeck:
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
1 Red Elemental Blast
2 Mindbreak Trap
2 Misdirection
2 Mental Misstep
3 Fire/Ice
2 Crucible of Worlds
4 Null Rod
4 Standstill
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Echoing Truth
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
4 Volcanic Island
3 Island
1 Polluted Delta
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Flooded Strand
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
4 Mishra’s Factory
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire

Sideboard:
2 Underground Sea
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Yixlid Jailer
3 Energy Flux
1 Steel Sabotage
2 Ingot Chewer
1 Red Elemental Blast

2nd Place: Tim Taylor playing “The good version of Stax” (Stax)
Maindeck:
4 Mishra’s Workshop
4 Wasteland
3 Ancient Tomb
4 Mountain
1 Bazaar of Baghdad
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Strip Mine
1 Barbarian Ring
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
1 Black Lotus
5 Moxen
2 Expedition Map
3 Crucible of Worlds
4 Thorn of Amethyst
2 Sphere of Resistance
1 Trinisphere
3 Smokestack
4 Tangle Wire
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Goblin Welder
2 Karn, Silver Golem
3 Phyrexian Metamorph

Sideboard:
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
3 Mental Misstep
3 Razormane Masticore
1 Bojuka Bog
4 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Dismember
1 Tormod’s Crypt

Top 4: JP Kohler playing “Master of my domain” (MUD)
Maindeck:
4 Mishra’s Workshop
4 Wasteland
4 Ancient Tomb
3 City of Traitors
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Strip Mine
5 Moxen
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
1 Black Lotus
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Sphere of Resistance
3 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Tangle Wire
1 Trinisphere
4 Metalworker
4 Lodestone Golem
2 Phyrexian Metamorph
3 Kuldotha Forgemaster
1 Duplicant
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Sundering Titan
1 Myr Battlesphere
1 Blightsteel Colossus

Sideboard:
2 Duplicant
2 Phyrexian Metamorph
3 Relic of Progenitus
2 Nihil Spellbomb
3 Tormod’s Crypt
2 Crucible of Worlds
1 Wurmcoil Engine

Top 4: Jeff Folinus playing Stax
Maindeck:
4 Mishra’s Workshop
4 Wasteland
3 Ancient Tomb
4 Mountain
1 Bazaar of Baghdad
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Strip Mine
1 Barbarian Ring
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
1 Black Lotus
5 Moxen
2 Expedition Map
3 Crucible of Worlds
4 Thorn of Amethyst
2 Sphere of Resistance
1 Trinisphere
3 Smokestack
4 Tangle Wire
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Goblin Welder
2 Karn, Silver Golem
3 Phyrexian Metamorph

Sideboard:
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
3 Mental Misstep
1 Bojuka Bog
4 Nihil Spellbomb
3 Dismember
2 Tormod’s Crypt
1 the Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

Top 8: Josh Butker playing Stax
Maindeck:
4 Mishra’s Workshop
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
2 Rishadan Port
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
5 Moxen
1 Sol Ring
1 Buried Ruin
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Serum Powder
4 Smokestack
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Tangle Wire
3 Curicble of Worlds
1 Trinisphere
2 Karn, Silver Golem
3 Phyrexian Metamorph
2 Expedition Map

Sideboard:
4 Surgical Extraction
4 Nihil Spellbomb
4 Porcelain Legionnaire
1 Pithing Needle
2 Precursor Golem

Top 8: Jonathan Addessa playing “I ran out of clever names” (Dredge)
Maindeck:
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
4 Stinkweed Imp
4 Bridge from Below
4 Cabal Therapy
3 Dread Return
2 Golgari Thug
1 Flame-Kin Zealot
2 Sun Titan
3 Fatestitcher
1 Lotus petal
1 Lion’s Eye Diamond
1 Black Lotus
3 City of Brass
4 Undiscovered Paradise
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
1 Ancestral Recall
4 Bloodghast
3 Ichorid
1 Dakmar Salvage
4 Narcomoeba
4 Serum Powder
2 Ancient Grudge

Sideboard:
4 Nature’s Claim
3 Chain of Vapor
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Firestorm
1 Elesh-Norn, Grand Cenobite
1 Darkblast

Top 8: Jake Gans playing Minus Six
Maindeck:
4 Underground Sea
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Polluted Delta
3 Misty Rainforest
2 Island
1 Swamp
2 Animate Dead
2 Dance of the Dead
1 Necromancy
3 Worldgorger Dragon
1 Oona, Queen of the Fae
1 Black Lotus
5 Moxen
1 Brainstorm
4 Duress
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Mystical Tutor
4 Force of Will
4 Dark Confidant
1 Echoing Truth
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
2 Read the Runes
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
2 Intuition

Sideboard:
4 Mana Drain
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Tinker
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Snow-Covered Island
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Yawgmoth’s Will

Top 8: Ryan Fisher playing “WONDERstruck” (Snapcaster Control)
Maindeck:
2 City of Brass
2 Underground Sea
4 Island
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Volcanic Island
2 Tropical Island
1 Tolarian Academy
5 Moxen
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
2 Mental Misstep
1 Flusterstorm
3 Mana Drain
1 Time Walk
1 Fire/Ice
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Tinker
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Fact or Fiction
4 Force of Will
1 Vampiric Tutor
4 Dark Confidant
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
2 Snapcaster mage
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Red Elemental Blast
2 Sensei’s Divining Top

Sideboard:
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pyroblast
1 Fire/Ice
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Yixlid Jailer
2 Ancient Grudge
2 Nature’s Claim
1 Perish
1 Forest

[Bibendum]

I dunno what nicks talking about, i played fruity pebbles to the top 4, goblin bombardment, phyrexian walker and enduring renewal bitches!

[rpf5029]

Nick,

A great event, as always!  I gotta Top 4 next time to keep my collection of shiny Bobs going. 

Not to quibble too much, but I don't think I would consider my deck to be "Snapcaster Control."  Snappy is cute, I guess, but the real star of that deck is still Dark Confidant.  That guy is just too nuts in the early game. 

Also, thanks for keeping my screwy throw-away name.  I would've nixed it.  :-p

[A.-1.]

/facepalm

Who names their deck after a perfume? TOs need to ban you from naming your deck.

[rpf5029]

/facepalm

Who names their deck after a perfume? TOs need to ban you from naming your deck.

"Like"

[Iron_Chef]

thanks for keeping my screwy throw-away name.  I would've nixed it.  :-p

I always have fun sharing what people write on their decklists.  Why the hell not?  As long as I include an archetype with it, what's the harm?  On that note, I decided to include all 5 decks that ran Snapcaster Mage together, since they were all very similar.  Yours was the only one that ran 2x, one ran 3x, and three ran 4x copies.  That little guy is pretty awesome.

[A.-1.]

You're feeding a sick man's addiction.

[StanleyAugust]

thanks for keeping my screwy throw-away name.  I would've nixed it.  :-p

I always have fun sharing what people write on their decklists.  Why the hell not?  As long as I include an archetype with it, what's the harm?  On that note, I decided to include all 5 decks that ran Snapcaster Mage together, since they were all very similar.  Yours was the only one that ran 2x, one ran 3x, and three ran 4x copies.  That little guy is pretty awesome.

Well, I we can make anything of this even, wouldn't that be that he's not so awesome, seing that only 1/5 top 8'd, making Snapcaster one of the worst archtypes?

[minusblindfold]

Well, I we can make anything of this even, wouldn't that be that he's not so awesome, seing that only 1/5 top 8'd, making Snapcaster one of the worst archtypes?

I landed in 9th on breakers playing 4x snapcasters. I just wanted to test the guy out. My take right now is that hes good, but not as good as bob.

[Ravager Sam]

Pictures from the event:

Was just used to needing spoiler tags on MTGS, but I guess it's fair game here.

Chris Pikula vs. Joe Brown's Stack


Man's Doing Business!!


Trading in an Xbox


My Dredge Noob's Elesh Norn Blowout vs. Shops


Scalzo Losing to Elves


JP Hardcasting Blightsteel


Josh mushroom stamping the SHIT out of people...AGAIN!

[A.-1.]

Chris: hardcast Rune Demon off Drain
Joe: Drain
Chris: Pierce
Joe: Spellstutter
Chris: Pierce
Joe: FoW
Chris: contemplating FoWing back

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[JACO]

Chris: hardcast Rune Demon off Drain
Joe: Drain
Chris: Pierce
Joe: Spellstutter
Chris: Pierce
Joe: FoW
Chris: contemplating FoWing back

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Excellent camera work and description!

Nick, or someone else, can you explain Expedition Map to me in the Stax deck in second place? Is this mainly used to find Strip Mine, or what exactly is the purpose?

[A.-1.]

All credit goes to Sam Berse on the camerawork. Sam and I were playing next to Chris and Joe.

Sped Map truly shines games two and three versus Dredge. Finding Waste, Bojuka Bog, or Tabernacle (when you're running it). It has a slew of other applications. Strip like you mention, Bazaar with an active Welder, Mountain to play Welder, and to a lesser extent it's used for ramp with Shop or direct damage with B Ring.

[Teps]

Nice pictures Sam! I'm even in two pics! And about that elves player while I did just watch him durdle until he beat me game 1, I won game 2 with an Elesh Norn and Game 3 he punted.

[LotusHead]

Nick, or someone else, can you explain Expedition Map to me in the Stax deck in second place? Is this mainly used to find Strip Mine, or what exactly is the purpose?

Expedition Map gets Strip Mine to lock out their plan, Tolarian Academy to kill their academy or to simply advance your plan. Or gets a Workshop. or Bazaar of Baghdad. or gets the SB Bojuka Bog.

Also, PICS! Thanks for putting them up. I have a Vintage tourney next week, so hopefully a pic filled metareport will go up!

[saspook]

Chris: hardcast Rune Demon off Drain
Joe: Drain
Chris: Pierce
Joe: Spellstutter
Chris: Pierce
Joe: FoW
Chris: contemplating FoWing back

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This stack makes no sense.  Why didn't Joe just pay 2 for the first Pierce?  (Did he wanted a 1/1 in play that badly?)  And the way the cards are layed out, the second Pierce is targeting SSP, which is a creature.

[Ravager Sam]

Joe did give me an explanation that I think related to the creature, but perhaps he can re-explain it at some point.

The pierce must have targeted the drain, but they just put it in order "top-down" in order to begin resolving things.

[Tobi]

Awesome top 8. Thanks for that!

One missing card in Ryan's maindeck.
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