Team Serious Open Results - Sandusky - December 15

[GrandpaBelcher]

Fourteen hale and hardy souls braved the icy depths of winter to play for cash in slushy Sandusky, Ohio this weekend. We had lots of fun, hot Vintage action, and several Vintage Achievements prizes handed out. Here's the wrapup.

Top 4 Split

1. Erik Butler - UW Tezz Control
1 Strip Mine
2 Wasteland
4 Tundra
4 Flooded Strand
1 Marsh Flats
1 Polluted Delta
1 Plains
3 Island
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
2 Flusterstorm
2 Mental Misstep
2 Spell Snare
3 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
4 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Batterskull
1 Rest in Peace
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
3 Swords to Plowshares
1 Tinker
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Enlightened Tutor
2 Preordain
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Time Walk

Sideboard
4 Ravenous Trap
2 Rest in Peace
1 Batterskull
1 Path to Exile
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Devout Witness
1 Annul
2 Disenchant
2 Mindbreak Trap

2. Paul Blakeley - Noble Fish
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Deathrite Shaman
2 Noble Hierarch
4 Qasali Pridemage
3 Tarmogoyf
1 True-Name Nemesis
2 Trygon Predator
2 Vendilion Clique
3 Stony Silence
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
3 Daze
1 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
2 Swords to Plowshares
3 Flooded Strand
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Savannah
1 Strip Mine
3 Tropical Island
2 Tundra
1 Underground Sea
3 Wasteland
1 Time Walk

Sideboard
4 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Kataki, War's Wage
2 Trygon Predator
1 Yixlid Jailer
2 Flusterstorm
2 Ravenous Trap
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Swords to Plowshares

3. Mark Trogdon - Kuldotha Shops
1 Black Lotus
1 Blightsteel Colossus
4 Chalice of the Void
1 Grafdigger's Cage
4 Kuldotha Forgemaster
3 Lightning Greaves
4 Lodestone Golem
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
4 Metalworker
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Myr Battlesphere
1 Sol Ring
1 Staff of Domination
1 Steel Hellkite
4 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Triskelion
1 Trinisphere
2 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
1 Wurmcoil Engine
4 Ancient Tomb
3 City of Traitors
4 Mishra's Workshop
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Wasteland

Sideboard
3 Crucible of Worlds
2 Dismember
2 Duplicant
2 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Pithing Needle
1 Razormane Masticore
3 Surgical Extraction

4. Jacob Hilty - Actual Blue Cards (Not Hatebears, No Sir.)
2 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
3 Spell Pierce
3 Mental Misstep
2 Vendilion Clique
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
3 Tezzeret the Seeker
2 Sensei's Divining Top
2 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Repeal
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Rebuild
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Brainstorm
1 Tinker
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Grim Monolith
1 Mana Vault
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Island
1 Swamp
2 Underground Sea
3 Polluted Delta
3 Flooded Strand

Sideboard
1 Flusterstorm
1 Notion Thief
1 Massacre
1 Propaganda
2 Tormod's Crypt
2 Ravenous Trap
2 Yixlid Jailer
1 Magus of the Unseen
1 Rebuild
1 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Steel Sabotage

Vintage Achievements

Here's the list we used: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3cvjD3jX4wKUzNaODBHdFRUdVU/edit?usp=sharing

Round 1 - Greg Price, 16, including 5 points for "My Power Grows!" :: Have 10 or more mana in your mana pool at the same time.
Round 2 - Mark Trogdon, 31 (27 in game 1), including 5 points for "Are you still playing?" :: Win a game without your opponent resolving a spell.
Round 3 - Gilberto Rivera, 10, including 3 points for "Et tu, Bobby?" :: Lose a game to a permanent you control.
Round 4 - John Froelich, 14, including a 4 point Chain of Fools :: One point for each non-land permanent you control with a consecutive mana cost.

Average scores for the updated lists seemed to be between 7 and 10.
Average points for Stack Overflow was 2 (Workshop decks averaged 1)
Average points for Chain of Fools was 2
Average points for the top half of the sheet is 4 per match

Greg Price took a set (two each) of Rock Lobster, Paper Tiger, and Scissors Lizard and used them the rest of the day to determine play or draw. The treacle and the Dove Care for Men bodywash are still available!

[Twaun007]

Super fun tournament, went 1-3 so I got to hang out in the fun time bracket as always!  
  

[Prkchpsndwiches]

Oh man.  You mis-played my deck title!  It was NObLE FISH.  I didn't miss a caps, it was meant to highlight bant with a splash of black.  What I get for trying to be fancy!

The sets of Rock Lobster, Paper Tiger, and Scissors Lizard were awesome btw.  Definitely need to replenish that stock.  I'll find some things to add to the pool as well.

[Twaun007]

Oh man.  You mis-played my deck title!  It was NObLE FISH.  I didn't miss a caps, it was meant to highlight bant with a splash of black.  What I get for trying to be fancy!

The sets of Rock Lobster, Paper Tiger, and Scissors Lizard were awesome btw.  Definitely need to replenish that stock.  I'll find some things to add to the pool as well.

lol, My favorite still is the Monoblue deck with a splash for Kataki... aka Blukaki 

[Prkchpsndwiches]

Oh man.  You mis-played my deck title!  It was NObLE FISH.  I didn't miss a caps, it was meant to highlight bant with a splash of black.  What I get for trying to be fancy!

The sets of Rock Lobster, Paper Tiger, and Scissors Lizard were awesome btw.  Definitely need to replenish that stock.  I'll find some things to add to the pool as well.

lol, My favorite still is the Monoblue deck with a splash for Kataki... aka Blukaki 

Blukake with Kataki. It may happen!

[Smmenen]

Super fun tournament, went 1-3 so I got to hang out in the fun time bracket as always!  
  

Twuan, what did you play to such an illustrious record?

[Bill Copes]

Oh man.  You mis-played my deck title!  It was NObLE FISH.  I didn't miss a caps, it was meant to highlight bant with a splash of black.  What I get for trying to be fancy!

The sets of Rock Lobster, Paper Tiger, and Scissors Lizard were awesome btw.  Definitely need to replenish that stock.  I'll find some things to add to the pool as well.

lol, My favorite still is the Monoblue deck with a splash for Kataki... aka Blukaki 

The fact that it's a white splash makes this joke twice as meta.

Blukake with Kataki. It may happen!

[Twaun007]

Super fun tournament, went 1-3 so I got to hang out in the fun time bracket as always!  
  

Twuan, what did you play to such an illustrious record?

It was a weird tourney for me, but the experience totally reinforced my "Workshop Dilemma" theory.

Here's a quick rundown of my experience  

Rd1 vs Garbageaggro on Turbo tezz.

g1 He's on the play and wins on his 2nd turn through my Sphere's
g2 He turn one's me

Rd2 vs Mark Trogdon on Kuldotha Shops

g1 I'm on the play and lead with Lodestone and CotV @ 0. He cringes at the Chalice so I wonder what he is playing... He drops an Ancient Tomb followed by Lightning Greaves. I play a thorn, swing with the Golem, and pass. He misses a land drop and I realize why he cringed at the CotV. I get the read his hand has Lotus and Metal Worker so I'm out of this one as soon as he gets a land. I play something irrelevant and he gets Workshop to power out the 1/2 snow globe maker for the holidays.
g2 I play the hate and he turn two vault key's me.

Rd3 vs Charles Rolko in Terranova shops.
g1 I'm on the play and drop a Stack turn 1 followed by a Dark Confidant on turn two. He can't keep up so a few turns later his board is cleared.
g2 I have Welder, Bobby and a Viashino Heretic.

Rd4 vs Affinity Shops
g1 I get dominated in the permanent race by 1/1 duderino's.
g2 I board in Heretic, Leyline/Helm, and Ensnaring Bridges. I still get swarmed by the little robots.


EDIT: This is what I played

BRTwaunstax
A Vintage deck, by Anthony Michaels
Zero Place, Team Serious Open, Sandusky 12/15/2013


Maindeck:60
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Chalice of the Void
2 Crucible of Worlds
3 Lodestone Golem
3 TangleWire
4 Smokestack
1 Sol Ring
4 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Dark Confidant
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Imperial Seal
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
4 Goblin Welder


Lands:21
4 Badlands
1 Barbarian Ring
1 Cabal Pit
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Mishra's Workshop
1 Marsh Flats
1 Strip Mine
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 Wasteland

Sideboard:15
1 Platinum Angel
3 Ensnaring Bridge
2 Grafdigger's cage
1 Helm of Obedience
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Viashino Heretic
2 Red Elemental Blast