[TO Report] 10.19.13 - $2,000 Vintage Event - The Prelude To Eternal Weekend!

[psyburat]

Hey Guys!

We had an outstanding tournament this past Saturday to set the stage for the upcoming World Championship!  With 38 players in attendance, we were proud to crown Tom Dixon as the big winner of the weekend.  We thank all of our players for attending, and we look forward to seeing everyone in two weeks!

Metagame Breakdown

All Names Are Final:

Espresso Stax: 5
BUG Fish: 3
Metalworker MUD: 3
UBR Jace-Vault: 3
Dredge: 2
Griselbrand Oath: 2
Human Fish: 2
RUG Delver: 2
Affinity: 1
Burning Oath: 1
Forgemaster Shops: 1
Golden Gun Oath: 1
Keeper: 1
Maniac Doomsday: 1
Merfolk: 1
Mill.dec: 1
Sneak & Show: 1
The Mountains Win Again: 1
The Plateaus Win Again: 1
UR Landstill: 1
UW Bomberman: 1
UWB Boberman: 1
Vintage Restoration: 1
Workshop Goodstuff: 1


Playoff Decklists


First Place
Tom Dixon
"I am my Brother's Keeper"

3 Deathrite Shaman
1 Gorilla Shaman
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Snapcaster Mage

1 Abrupt Decay
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Black Lotus
1 Brainstorm
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Force of Will
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Mana Crypt
2 Mana Drain
1 Mental Misstep
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
2 Spell Snare
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Time Vault
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Voltaic Key
1 Yawgmoth's Will

1 Island
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Misty Rainforest
2 Polluted Delta
2 Scalding Tarn
1 Strip Mine
2 Tropical Island
2 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
4 Wasteland

SB:
2 Abrupt Decay
1 Crucible of Worlds
4 Grafdigger's Cage
3 Ingot Chewer
1 Red Elemental Blast
3 Tormod's Crypt
1 Trinisphere


Second Place
Brad Jarman
"Send More Paramedics"

4 Bloodghast
2 Fatestitcher
1 Flame-Kin Zealot
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
3 Golgari Thug
3 Ichorid
3 Ingot Chewer
4 Narcomoeba
4 Stinkweed Imp
1 Sun Titan

4 Bridge from Below
4 Cabal Therapy
2 Dread Return
3 Mental Misstep
4 Serum Powder

4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 City of Brass
2 Dakmor Salvage
4 Undiscovered Paradise

SB:
3 Chain of Vapor
1 Darkblast
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
3 Firestorm
1 Ingot Chewer
4 Nature's Claim
2 Wispmare


Third Place
John Grudzina
"RUG Delver"

3 Delver of Secrets
3 Snapcaster Mage
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Vendilion Clique

1 Ancestral Recall
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Black Lotus
1 Brainstorm
1 Fire // Ice
2 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Gush
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Mental Misstep
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Preordain
2 Spell Pierce
2 Steel Sabotage
1 Time Walk

3 Flooded Strand
1 Island
4 Polluted Delta
3 Tropical Island
4 Volcanic Island

SB:
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Dismember
3 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Nature's Claim
2 Ravenous Trap
3 Red Elemental Blast
2 Trygon Predator


Fourth Place
Justin Kohler
"Red Deck Wins"

2 Auriok Salvagers
1 Aven Mindcensor
4 Trinket Mage
2 Vendilion Clique

1 Aether Spellbomb
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
1 Grafdigger's Cage
4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Mana Crypt
4 Mana Drain
3 Mental Misstep
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
2 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sol Ring
3 Spell Snare
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Time Walk

2 Cavern of Souls
4 Flooded Strand
3 Island
1 Plains
2 Polluted Delta
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Tundra

SB:
1 Devout Witness
2 Disenchant
1 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Path to Exile
1 Pithing Needle
2 Rest in Peace
2 Steel Sabotage
4 Swords to Plowshares
1 Tormod's Crypt


Fifth Place
Greg Fenton
"Nick Membrez is the Nintendo World Champion"

2 Griselbrand

1 Abrupt Decay
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Brainstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
2 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Mana Crypt
3 Mana Drain
1 Memory's Journey
4 Mental Misstep
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Misdirection
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Oath of Druids
2 Show and Tell
1 Sol Ring
1 Time Vault
1 Time Walk
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Voltaic Key
1 Yawgmoth's Will

2 Flooded Strand
4 Forbidden Orchard
3 Island
2 Polluted Delta
1 Strip Mine
2 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea

SB:
2 Abrupt Decay
4 Leyline of the Void
3 Nature's Claim
2 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Pithing Needle
1 Show and Tell
1 Steel Sabotage


Sixth Place
Michael Mahr
"Wind-Up Toys"

4 Lodestone Golem
2 Steel Hellkite
2 Triskelion

1 Black Lotus
4 Chalice of the Void
3 Crucible of Worlds
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
2 Ratchet Bomb
4 Smokestack
1 Sol Ring
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Tangle Wire
3 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Trinisphere

4 Ancient Tomb
1 Buried Ruin
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Mishra's Workshop
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Wasteland

SB:
3 Dismember
2 Duplicant
4 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Relic of Progenitus
2 Serrated Arrows
2 Tormod's Crypt


Seventh Place
Joel Lim
"Reel Fish"

4 Cursecatcher
4 Lord of Atlantis
4 Master of the Pearl Trident
1 Master of Waves
3 Merrow Reejerey
3 Phantasmal Image
4 Silvergill Adept
1 Waterfront Bouncer
 
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Hurkyl's Recall
4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
2 Daze
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Time Walk
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Null Rod
 
4 Cavern of Souls
9 Island
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland

SB:
3 Dismember
2 Ghost Quarter
3 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Pithing Needle
3 Steel Sabotage
2 Tormod's Crypt


Eighth Place
Vasa Balakrishnan
"BUG Fish"

4 Dark Confidant
4 Deathrite Shaman
1 Scavenging Ooze
3 Snapcaster Mage
1 Trygon Predator
1 Vendilion Clique

3 Abrupt Decay
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Brainstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Force of Will
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
3 Mental Misstep
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Null Rod
2 Spell Pierce
2 Spell Snare
1 Steel Sabotage
3 Thoughtseize
1 Time Walk
1 Vampiric Tutor

1 Bayou
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Strip Mine
2 Tropical Island
2 Underground Sea
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Wasteland

SB:
2 Flusterstorm
3 Nature's Claim
2 Snuff Out
4 Tarmogoyf
1 Trygon Predator
2 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Vendilion Clique

[jyuj]

Thank you TDG for another great event! My list is slightly off. As baller as it would have been, I did not play 2 Steel Sabotage in a Workshop shell. Those 2 were Steel Hellkites. ^_^

I wanted to see how some other pilots would have handled a line of play that occurred during one of my matches. See Vintage Deck Discussion/Workshop-Based Prison thread for the question.  

[mr.grim]

Thanks to Nick and company for a good day of cardboard slinging.  I ended up 2 and 4 after a 2 and 0 start. I had some great games with Nick D and Raf , So I can't complain much.

@ Nick D and Raf thanks for the education.  PRICELESS!

PROPS to Tom on the victory.  Beep, boop, beep. Props to the rest of the top.

[ramrodjon]

Any day that I am able to play Vintage at Nick Coss's with this fine community is a great day.  I did poorly, but am very happy for the top 8 and Tom Dixon.  Thanks to my opponents for taking the time to discuss some play and card choices and for Raf sharing his NY Giants woes with me.  As a Steeler fan, it almost felt as if we were sharing a good cry! 

[Samoht]

Thanks to Nick and company for a good day of cardboard slinging.  I ended up 2 and 4 after a 2 and 0 start. I had some great games with Nick D and Raf , So I can't complain much.

@ Nick D and Raf thanks for the education.  PRICELESS!

PROPS to Tom on the victory.  Beep, boop, beep. Props to the rest of the top.

Haha Fenton definitely Beep Beep Booped me for my only loss on the day, but that's what FentonBot 9000's do.

Any day that I am able to play Vintage at Nick Coss's with this fine community is a great day.  I did poorly, but am very happy for the top 8 and Tom Dixon.  Thanks to my opponents for taking the time to discuss some play and card choices and for Raf sharing his NY Giants woes with me.  As a Steeler fan, it almost felt as if we were sharing a good cry! 

Thanks John. Our round 1 match was pretty interesting as both of us played cards similar to the others normal wheelhouse.

Congrats to everyone who showed up to this Nick Coss party. Was awesome to have a big event again full of the awesome people that this community is known for.

[korosu762]

On Tom Dixon's Keeper list he is running Tinker but no big robot target.  Aside from assembling Vault / Key would it just used as a situational support tutor?  What are the typical win cons for the deck?

[Samoht]

On Tom Dixon's Keeper list he is running Tinker but no big robot target.  Aside from assembling Vault / Key would it just used as a situational support tutor?  What are the typical win cons for the deck?

Metamorph was my "Robot" target. I also frequently Tinker for Crucible of Worlds. I even used Tezz to -3 for Crucible putting my opponent on Abrupt Decay. After taking away his ability to cast said spell and rebuilding Tezz's loyalty I acquired said Vault. In our metagame Tinker Robot became a liability because of how powerful the play was. Everyone was geared to fight BSC or even Battlesphere that we eschewed the plan. I don't think that this will be the case for champs because the masses seem to refuse to adapt to the obvious and thus would suggest anyone looking to play this deck to replace the Metamorph with BSC.

Commonly I win the game with my opponents having little to no permanents on the board and cursing my resource denial plan. My personal favorite is Gorilla Shaman attacking 20 times without TV K. Deathrite Shaman adds a new winning element, as it is essentially a one mana Planeswalker. It gives you reach, sustainability, and resource advantage/denial. It's pretty much everything Keeper could want. AND it makes rainbow mana.

[korosu762]

Sounds reasonable, thank you for the quick response!  How did Mindbreak Trap work out for you?

[Samoht]

Sounds reasonable, thank you for the quick response!  How did Mindbreak Trap work out for you?

It beats Cavern of Souls, Long, Counter wars(lol @ flusterstorm), and is a great way to stop Mishra from having busted turn 1's. I've always played this card in keeper to great success.

[jyuj]

Sounds reasonable, thank you for the quick response!  How did Mindbreak Trap work out for you?

It beats Cavern of Souls, Long, Counter wars(lol @ flusterstorm), and is a great way to stop Mishra from having busted turn 1's. I've always played this card in keeper to great success.

It turns out, that MIndbreak Trap can also be hard cast for 4!