Team Serious Open Results - Sandusky, OH - June 22

[GrandpaBelcher]

Fourteen players came to game at the Hero Zone in Sandusky, Ohio. Special thanks go out to the car led by Kevin Cron that made the drive down from Michigan as well as to the three players who made the drive up from Columbus. We also had a couple of new players from Sandusky itself--a welcome addition from the local crowd!

Important details follow, and I expect to add videos and pictures later this week.

Vintage Achievements

Achievement prizes were won by:
Round 1 - Greg Price (MMA pack, donated by the Hero Zone)
Round 2 - Nat Moes ("Magic: the Gathering Official Encyclopedia")
Round 3 - Tony Rogers (Lizard Warrior playmat)
Round 4 - Jake Hilty ("Weatherlight Revealed" book)

In round 3, Nat got the highest total of achievements from the day with eight, since Mark Trogdon let him play out a Metalworker-Staff combo turn. In that turn, Nat cast a permanent that cost eight or more, had no lands in play after turn three, controlled three copies of the same non-land permanent, played spells of the same name four times, discarded down to his max hand size, and achieved a storm count of 10 before passing the turn. He also attacked for exactly one damage and traded creatures in combat that round.

Top 4

After four rounds of Swiss, the top four stood as follows:

#1 Kevin Cron (BUG Control) versus #4 Mark Trogdon (Workshop Aggro)
#2 Charles Rolko (Grixis Control) versus #3 Jake Hilty (BUG Control)

Kevin beat Mark
Charles beat Jake

Charles beat Kevin (though both agreed to split)

1. Charles Rolko - Grixis Control

1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
4 Dark Confidant
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
2 Mana Drain
1 Tinker
1 Blightsteel Colossus
2 Lightning Bolt
1 Merchant Scroll
4 Force of Will
1 Sensei's Divining Top
3 Snapcaster Mage
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Mental Misstep
2 Flusterstorm
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Thirst for Knowledge
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Island
1 Snow-Covered Island
3 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Hurkyl's Recall

Sideboard
4 Mindbreak Trap
4 Grafdigger's Cage
4 Ingot Chewer
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Mountain
1 Lightning Bolt

2. Kevin Cron - BUG Control

4 Deathrite Shaman
3 Scavenging Ooze
3 Dark Confidant
3 Trygon Predator
2 Snapcaster Mage
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
3 Cabal Therapy
4 Force of Will
2 Mental Misstep
1 Spell Pierce
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Snuff Out
3 Abrupt Decay
1 Surgical Extraction
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Time Walk
4 Polluted Delta
2 Verdant Catacombs
2 Underground Sea
2 Bayou
2 Tropical Island
1 Swamp
3 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Lotus Petal

Sideboard
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Steel Sabotage
1 Wasteland
1 Null Rod
3 Snuff Out
2 Flusterstorm

3. Jacob Hilty - BUG Control

2 Trygon Predator
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Dark Confidant
4 Snapcaster Mage
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Black Lotus
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Force of Will
4 Abrupt Decay
1 Brainstorm
3 Mental Misstep
3 Spell Pierce
2 Steel Sabotage
1 Flusterstorm
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Snuff Out
1 Null Rod
1 Swamp
1 Island
1 Tropical Island
2 Underground Sea
1 Bayou
4 Polluted Delta
2 Verdant Catacombs
3 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine

Sideboard
3 Dismember
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Flusterstorm
2 Yixlid Jailer
2 Ravenous Trap
1 Wasteland
1 Island
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Trygon Predator
2 Vendilion Clique

4. Mark Trogdon - Workshop Aggro

2 Arcbound Ravager
4 Triskelion
4 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Phyrexian Metamorph
2 Wurmcoil Engine
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Metalworker
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
4 Tangle Wire
3 Staff of Domination
2 Sword of Fire and Ice
3 Ghost Quarter
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Ancient Tomb
4 Wasteland
4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Mishra's Factory
1 Strip Mine

Sideboard
4 Mindbreak Trap
3 Ravenous Trap
4 Sphere of Resistance
3 Crucible of Worlds
1 Ghost Quarter

Metagame Breakdown

Out of 14 Decks:

4 "Null Rod"
- 2 BUG Control (Deathrite, Bob, Trygon)
- 2 Esper Control (Bob, Stoneforge)
-- 1 with Deathrite
-- 1 with Standstill

3 Workshop Decks
- 1 Workshop Aggro-Combo (Ravager, Trike, Metalworker-Staff)
- 1 Forgemaster-Metalworker-Staff Combo
- 1 Smokestack MUD (NO Metalworker or Forgemaster)

7 Big Blue
- 2 Grixis Control
- 1 Tidespout Tyrant Oath
- 1 Twaun's Favorite Cards (Intuition AK, Snapcasters, Bobs)
- 1 UW Landstill
- 1 Talrand Combo-Control (Talrand, Snapcaster, Repeal, AK)
- 1 Hazard's Favorite Cards (lots of singletons control)

[Smmenen]

Kevin's deck is sick tech   He told me he beat Chalres in the swiss, but lost in the finals.  Final game count against Charles was 3-2.

[CHA1N5]

Kevin's deck is sick tech   He told me he beat Chalres in the swiss, but lost in the finals.  Final game count against Charles was 3-2.

My deck wasn't well-positioned for the metagame, but it was good against the Shops players I faced (Charlie and Mark).  Without facing Dredge, this list is not appropriate.

Really fun event!

[GrandpaBelcher]

Kevin's deck is sick tech  He told me he beat Chalres in the swiss, but lost in the finals.  Final game count against Charles was 3-2.

My deck wasn't well-positioned for the metagame, but it was good against the Shops players I faced (Charlie and Mark).  Without facing Dredge, this list is not appropriate.

Really fun event!

Yeah, no Dredge and no heavy combo element, a big change from the Columbus event and the Twaun Serious Open.

Edit: Also, I'm pretty sure the next of these events will be September 1, Labor Day Sunday.

Edit Edit: Here is the prize pool for the Vintage Achievements. I'm going to keep them in a box and take them to tournaments if anyone wants to add more.

[Twaun007]

Kevin's deck is sick tech  He told me he beat Chalres in the swiss, but lost in the finals.  Final game count against Charles was 3-2.

My deck wasn't well-positioned for the metagame, but it was good against the Shops players I faced (Charlie and Mark).  Without facing Dredge, this list is not appropriate.

Really fun event!

Yeah, no Dredge and no heavy combo element, a big change from the Columbus event and the Twaun Serious Open.

Edit: Also, I'm pretty sure the next of these events will be September 1, Labor Day Sunday.

Edit Edit: Here is the prize pool for the Vintage Achievements. I'm going to keep them in a box and take them to tournaments if anyone wants to add more.

I remember that Dove Men + Care, Aqua Impact causing quite the ruckus.


The tourney was a blast as always. I played fun.dec to a 2-2 finish and got to BS with a lot of friends I haven't seen for awhile. Good times and I can't wait to hit up the next one!

[GrandpaBelcher]

I also got some Videos of games. I'm still working on the technique. The camera I have has limited capacity and battery life. And it's surprisingly difficult to determine what games are going to be exciting. (I had a single-game, 30-minute video of Kevin Cron vs. Mark Trogdon where both players spent a lot of time in the tank. Eventually the camera ran out of room.) Anyway:

Kevin Cron, BUG Control vs. Charles Rolko, Grixis Control, G1 finals: http://t.co/aaIXZg0Tmu
Greg Price, Grixis Control vs. Juan Rodriguez, Tyrant Oath, G3 R2: http://t.co/4mhLoHrf1k (the match ended in a draw)
Eric Butler, Esper Control vs. Twaun P. Pwnertown, Twaun'sFavoriteCards.dec, G3 R1: http://t.co/WapOUNRsun