Monster Den Vintage- Dec. 1- Top 4 Decklists and Metagame Breakdown

[sfielder001]

Monster Den held a Vintage tournament on December 1st in St. Paul, MN, there were 20 participants (great turnout, unlimited proxies) with five rounds of swiss and a cut to the Top 8 and prizes for Top 4.  3rd and 4th place got packs while first place got a Revised Underground Sea and 2nd place got their choice of either a revised Taiga or a revised Badlands.  The Top 2 split prizes.  Even though there were a lot of Workshop decks there was a good mix among the other decks and many of the decks in the format were represented.  

Metagame Breakdown
5 Martello Shops
1 Cat Stax Fever
2 Dredge (1 Sun Titan, 1 Ingot chewer)
1 Turbo Tezz
1 Griselbrand Oath
1 Tidespout Oath
1 Golden Gun Oath
1 G/W hatebears
1 Lotus Cobra Gush
2 Grixis Control
3 Bob/Jace Control
1 Gush Storm

Top 8 Decks
4 Martello Shops
2 Dredge
1 Lotus Cobra Gush
1 Bob/Jace Control

Top 4 Decklists
Joe Kaufmann
Martello Shops
1st/2nd

Maindeck (60 cards):
1 Black Lotus
4 Chalice of the Void
1 Duplicant
4 Kuldotha Forgemaster
4 Lodestone Golem
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Sol Ring
3 Sphere of Resistance
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Sundering Titan
4 Tangle Wire
4 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Trinisphere
3 Phyrexian Metamorph
Lands (19):
4 Ancient Tomb
1 City of Traitors
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Mishra's Workshop
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Wasteland

Sideboard: (15 cards)
2 Crucible of Worlds
2 Ghost Quarter
3 Relic of Progenitus
4 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Duplicant
1 Tormod's Crypt
2 Wurmcoil Engine

Scott Fielder
Dredge
1st/2nd

Maindeck (60 cards)
4 Golgari-Grave Troll
4 Stinkweek Imp
2 Golgari Thug
2 Darkblast
2 Ichorid
4 Bloodghast
4 Ingot Chewer
4 Narcomeoba
4 Bridge from Below
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Serum Powder
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Dread Return
1 Flame-kin Zealot
1 Black Lotus
Lands (15)
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 City of Brass
4 Undiscovered Paradise
3 Petrified Field
SB (15 cards)
4 Nature’s Claim
4 Mental Misstep
3 Unmask
3 Whispmare
1 Firestorm

Matthew Tickal
3rd
Sun Titan Dredge

Maindeck (60 cards)
   4 Bloodghast
   3 Fatestitcher
   1 Flame-Kin Zealot
   4 Golgari Grave-Troll
   2 Golgari Thug
   2 Ichorid
   4 Narcomoeba
   4 Stinkweed Imp
   3 Sun Titan
   1 Black Lotus
   1 Lion's Eye Diamond
   1 Lotus Petal
   1 Mox Sapphire
   4 Serum Powder
   4 Bridge from Below
   1 Ancestral Recall
   4 Cabal Therapy
   3 Dread Return
   Lands (13)
   4 Bazaar of Baghdad
   3 City of Brass
   2 Dakmor Salvage
   4 Undiscovered Paradise
   SB (15 cards)
   4 Mental Misstep
   2 Darkblast
   1 Unmask
   3 Thoughtsieze
   4 Nature's Claim
  1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Ethan Heilicher
4th
Martello Shops

Maindeck (60 cards):
1 Black Lotus
4 Chalice of the Void
1 Duplicant
4 Kuldotha Forgemaster
4 Lodestone Golem
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Sol Ring
3 Sphere of Resistance
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Sundering Titan
4 Tangle Wire
4 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Trinisphere
3 Phyrexian Metamorph
Lands (19):
4 Ancient Tomb
1 City of Traitors
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Mishra's Workshop
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Wasteland

Sideboard: (15 cards)
2 Crucible of Worlds
2 Ghost Quarter
3 Relic of Progenitus
4 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Ratchet Bomb
2 Wurmcoil Engine

[Methuselahn]

Hey Scott.

Thanks for posting some lists.

I went to this event.  It was a lot of fun.  I was happy to see that it was unlimited proxy.   It looked like most of the people there took advantage of this, and the event probably wasn't  possible without unlimited proxy.  During my first round with Eric, store employee (iirc), I asked him if Jason was going to do more Vintage tournaments and he said that we might do monthly events again.  That would be just swell.

Totally blind to the metagame, I played a pretty typical Martello list.  I forced my brother to do the same.  My friend Doug, who had never been to a Vintage tournament before played Tyrant Oath (was actually 1 tyrant, 1 griselbrand, 1 BSC) and had a blast.  The three of us all went 3-2. 

My brother made top 8 on tiebreakers, which was nice.  My parting words as we got to the store were "side out chalice versus Dredge."   Sure enough, game 2 of the top 8 he drops Chalice for 1 then proceeds to draw Grafdiggers on the next turn.  >.<  Oh well.

Jeff

[sfielder001]

Hey Scott.

Thanks for posting some lists.

I went to this event.  It was a lot of fun.  I was happy to see that it was unlimited proxy.   It looked like most of the people there took advantage of this, and the event probably wasn't  possible without unlimited proxy.  During my first round with Eric, store employee (iirc), I asked him if Jason was going to do more Vintage tournaments and he said that we might do monthly events again.  That would be just swell.

Totally blind to the metagame, I played a pretty typical Martello list.  I forced my brother to do the same.  My friend Doug, who had never been to a Vintage tournament before played Tyrant Oath (was actually 1 tyrant, 1 griselbrand, 1 BSC) and had a blast.  The three of us all went 3-2. 

My brother made top 8 on tiebreakers, which was nice.  My parting words as we got to the store were "side out chalice versus Dredge."   Sure enough, game 2 of the top 8 he drops Chalice for 1 then proceeds to draw Grafdiggers on the next turn.  >.<  Oh well.

Jeff

Jeff,
     Thank you so much for replying and helping correct the metagame breakdown.  I was trying to remember the decks from memory so I am not surprised a missed one.    I had a ton of fun at the event and it was great to see so many people from out of town and hopefully with such a great turnout, Jason will decide to do this monthly because I love vintage and it is always a good time for sure.  I also think that the difference was that the event was posted on TMD, whereas the last couple of vintage events were not, so hopefully lesson learned.