Fall Vintage @ Eudemonia (Berkeley, CA) - October 27, 2013

[Smmenen]

http://www.eudemonia.net/

http://www.eudogames.com/magic/eternal



WHAT: VINTAGE! Tournament

Swiss + Top 8.

Entry is $25

PRIZES:

17 or more players:
1st Place: 40% of Prize Pool
2nd Place: 20% of Prize Pool
3rd Place: 10% of Prize Pool
4th Place: 10% of Prize Pool
5th-8th: 5% of prize pool each

Under 17 players:
1st place: 40%
2nd Place: 30%
3rd Place: 15%
4th Place: 15%

93% of entry will go to prize pool.  Prize is store credit.

WHERE:

Eudemonia
2154 University Ave, Berkeley CA 94704
510-883-0814 • info@eudemonia.com

If you need to car pool to Berkeley, post your needs and we'll find someone whom you can travel with. I'll start a signup if necessary.

PROXIES: 15 Proxies will be permitted

How to make proxies:
http://www.eudogames.com/magic/proxy-cards

WHEN: Sunday, October 27, 2013

Registration starts at 12:00. Registration will close and the tournament begins at 1PM. To save time, consider typing or writing up your decklist ahead of time.

Results from the last event are posted here: http://www.themanadrain.com/index.php?topic=45217.0

PUT THIS DATE ON YOUR CALENDARS NOW!!!

As this event is only week before the Vintage Champs, it will be a great way to test final technology before Eternal Weekend!


SEE YOU ALL THERE!!!!

[potato]

Sweet, you put it on a day I can make it! I'll definitely be there!

[Smmenen]

This is the weekend before Eternal Weekend, so I'm really looking forward to getting in a final tournament going into the Eternal Weekend! 

Hope this date worked for folks!

[liberalbias]

I'll be there.

[Smmenen]

Cool! Should be a good time! 

Support Vintage in the Bay Area, and let's turn out in force!

[LotusHead]

Please let me know if you need decks and/or nice proxies.

Frankie Mach might even be back from Afghanistan for it!

[aahz]

I'm going to try to make it, but I'm still not sure if I'll be able to. 

[heiner]

Anybody driving up from the peninsula?

[Smmenen]

See everyone tomorrow!

Come support Vintage in the Bay!

[LotusHead]

Frankie Mach (fresh from Afganistan), my self and Alex Bloch will be there.

Alex is part of the ORIGINAL Team Vacaville, coming out of retirement.

[LotusHead]

25 people showed up, lots of newer faces!

Stephen may having the honor of doing tourney report (since he has decklists).

[jjflipped]

Steve, gonna share those lists?

[Samoht]

Steve, gonna share those lists?

Probably next week

[Webster]

This is what I played, going 3-1-1, lost in t8:

1 Inkwell Leviathan
3 Snapcaster Mage
4 Dark Confidant

1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Fire/Ice
1 Vampiric Tutor
2 Flusterstorm
2 Mana Drain
2 Mental Misstep
2 Lightning Bolt
2 Spell Pierce
4 Force of Will

1 Demonic Tutor
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Yawgmoth's Will

3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key

1 Library of Alexandria
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Poluted Delta
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Mountain
1 Island
1 Snow-Covered Island
3 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island

Sideboard
4 Ingot Chewer
2 Viashino Heretic
1 Pithing Needle
2 Grafdigger's Cage
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Red Elemental Blast

[hiryu]

I finished first with the list below. Normally I'm not a fan of Oath, but I decided to try it for this event since Pyromancer decks have been popular lately. My one loss in the Swiss was to a Pyromancer deck.

I used a list by Kevin McKee (http://morphling.de/top8decks.php?id=1810) with a few changes. Rune-Scarred Demon was sweet... you pretty much never lose after an Oath trigger. In the top 4 I just hard cast it off Lotus on turn 4 as a Demonic Tutor with a 6/6 attached and it was great. I think the deck needs more Duress and Flusterstorm, and I'd definitely cut Gifts. Jace and Orchard seems like a non-bo, but hey, it's still Jace. I also won a surprising number of games with Tezzeret.

Main deck:
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Duress
3 Rune-Scarred Demon
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
1 Gifts Ungiven
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Mana Drain
2 Mental Misstep
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Ponder
1 Repeal
1 Spell Pierce
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Swan Song
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Time Walk
1 Gaea's Blessing
4 Oath of Druids
1 Noxious Revival
1 Ancient Grudge

1 Flooded Strand
4 Forbidden Orchard
1 Island
4 Misty Rainforest
2 Tropical Island
2 Underground Sea
1 Volcanic Island

Sideboard:
1 Abrupt Decay
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Dragon Breath
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
1 Forest
1 Hellkite Tyrant
2 Nature's Claim
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Pyroblast
1 Pyroclasm
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Tormod's Crypt

[JarofFortune]

I went 3-0-2 in the swiss with this list. I lost in the top 8 to Heiner (Not a very good matchup for me). I wanted to build something with Young Pyromancer, and this is what I got after 2 months of testing.

Main deck:

1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Black Lotus
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Island
1 Mountain
3 Volcanic Island
2 Tropical Island
3 Delver of Secrets
3 Young Pyromancer
3 Vendilion Clique
2 Tarmogoyf
1 Snapcaster Mage
4 Force of will
3 flusterstorm
2 Mental misstep
2 Spell snare
2 Steel Sabotage
3 Gush
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Lightning bolt
1 Fire // Ice
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Price of Progress
1 Ponder
2 Preordain
1 Time Walk

Sideboard:
3 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Null rod
2 Izzet Staticaster
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Pyroblast
1 Red Elemental Blast
2 Ravenous trap
2 Steel Sabotage

As you can probably see by my sideboard, I was not prepared to fight Oath (I should have come to the conclusion that Oath would be well positioned in our metagame right now). Vendilion clique was my MVP all day, just as I thought he would be. Thanks to everyone who was there, it was a great day.

[Smmenen]

This was a great tournament.  We had 25 players, which I believe made this the largest Vintage tournament in the US that day (the east coast tournament had only 17 players). 
Hiryu and I split the prizes in the finals, but wanted to play it out for experience and glory.  He finally broke his streak and won one of these

[LotusHead]

By request, pics from the tourney.



This looks like I drop a Karn like it's hot, and have all sorts of Shopsy fun vs ecampee. He SB's the shit out of the next two games and totally dominated the last two games.



Dude I'm playing against is totally down for Vintage, as long as someone hands him a deck. So he plays new decks each tourney.  Provided by me.  This time, he dies with his Emrakul AND BSC in play.


That's Sam Sherman attacking vintage folk from some angle we don't see.  He top 8's most events he goes to.


There were at least 3 teens at the event, slugging out with the old'uns.  Truly a special feeling that seriously, our local scene can grow.

I've observed them talking themselves through the steps, playing properly, and doing their homework.  Yes, many new faces at the tourney.



There were two Doomsday Gush decks fucking up our metagame, and at least one made top 8 I think.


Um, is this that Molly thing I keep hearing about on the internet?


Frankie Mach slinging Vintage about 12 hours after getting back from Afghanistan.  He had to play whatever deck I had built cuz his newly fully powered deck was in storage.


When Webster wants to take time off from his full time job of living and breathing Magic: The Gathering, he plays Magic: The Gathering with Sol Ring and no Commander Zone.


Kidz can play Vintage too!  I think one made top 8 (again)


Fresh new faces mean fresh new Rogue Decks!


Choose your path!


Proxy vs No Proxy!


Vacaville local Matt Salts realized a few years ago that Vintage Cards are Investments and Stick Around Forever and standard cards are for suckers, so has been slowling building his own Vintage pool.  I think he's down to 2 or 3 proxies.  He got his ass handed to him at this tourney, if I recall.


Frankie does not have a 1000 yard stare from his tour of duty in a war zone.  It's Frankie looking deep into your sexy soul, you TMD lurker you...


Alex Bloch (original Team Vacaville member) has finally gone legit, got a J.O.B., and still has the cards to make Crushing Chamber or Oath of Druids. 


Top 8 shot, most likely. Brett Allen (Hiryu) vs Sam Sherman and Unknown vs David Ochoa (Webster)


Other top 8 shot. Stephen Menendian (Smennen) vs Unknown and Heiner Litz (Heiner) vs unknown.


It's crazy, but Heiner's graveyard could put this kid through college.


Vintage Magic is like Chess for Ninjas.

[Phele]

Hey Lotus! Nice pics. Any chance to see the whole top 8 lists? Thx for the info.

[Smmenen]

I posted the top 8 decklists.  They are all available in the Tournament Results forum, for this and the next Eudo tournament.