[TO Report] Pandemonium NYSE II Qualifier April 19, 2014

[ErtaiAdept]

Ok folks here it is at long last!

Once more I'd like to give a great thank you to pandemonium for hosting again, and our amazing judge for handling this event with flying colours.

We had 43 people come out with 6 rounds of Swiss and a cut to Top 8.  The meta was incredibly diverse with a lot of people picking up new decks and trying out new archetypes.  The format is certainly wide open right now and it seems to get more diverse by the day.

Everyone I encountered all day was very friendly and respectful, and it is this friendly atmosphere that I love running these events.  So thank you to everyone who came out to play and I hope that you will all consider coming back for the next one!

As I am getting married in June, this will likely be the last event I run until after the NYSE Open, but keep your eyes peeled for another event coming up in the July/early august time frame.

And as always stay awesome!


Meta Breakdown
6   BUG Fish Control
4   TPS
4   Stax
4   Grixis Control
4   Dredge
3   Merfolk
2   UR Delver
2   U/W Salvagers
2   U/B Control
1   Cobra Gush
1   Esper Tezz Control
1   UR Magus Control
1   Dark Times
1   2 Card Monty
1   4C Humans
1   Landstill
1   Delver Still
1   Grixis Superfriends
1   Applejacks (Orchish Survival)
1   U/W Stoneforge
1   Welder Strix

Standings at Cut to Top 8

1. Ben Feingersh(BUG Fish)                    (15pts)
2  Paul Ewenstein(UW Stoneforge)          (14pts)
3. Jamie 'Flez' Syed (Delver-Still)             (14 pts)
4. Mike Mcgeachie (Grixis Superfreinds)    (14 pts)
5. Issac Foote (TPS)                             (13 pts)
6. David Nunez (UR Delver)                    (13 pts)
7. Adrian Becker(Applejacks)                  (13 pts)
8. Andrew Farias (Welder Strix)               (13 pts)



Top 8 Matches
Ben Feingersh (BUG) vs Adrew Farias (Welder) -> Andrew Wins
Mike Mcgeachie(Superfriends) vs Issac Foote (TPS) -> Issac Wins
Paul Ewenstein (Stoneforge) vs Adrian Becker (Applejacks) -> Paul Wins
Jamie Syed (Delver-Still) vs David Nunez (UR Delver) -> Jamie Wins



Top 4 Matches
Andrew Farias (Welder) vs Issac Foote (TPS) -> Andrew Wins
Paul Ewenstein (Stoneforge) vs Jamie Syed (Delver-Still) Paul Wins


Finals!
Andrew Farias (Welder) vs Paul Ewenstein (Stoneforge) -> Andrew Wins


Top 8 Deck Lists

Ben Feingersh - BIG BUG   
4   Deathrite Shaman
2   Tarmogoyf
3   Snapcaster Mage
2   True Name Nemesis
4   Dark Confidant
1   Timewalk
1   Demonic Tutor
4   Force of Will
4   Abrupt Decay
2   Dismember
1   Steel Sabotage
1   Brainstorm
3   Mental Misstep
2   Spell Pierce
1   Flusterstorm
1   Ancestrall Recall
1   Vampiric Tutor
1   Mox Jet
1   Mox Emerald
1   Mox Sapphire
1   Black Lotus
1   Null Rod
1   Strip Mine
4   Wasteland
3   Misty Rainforest
4   Polluted Delta
3   Underground Sea
2   Tropical Island
1   Bayou
SB   
1   Steel Sabotage
3   Surgical Extraction
2   Graffdiggers Cage
2   Nature's Claim
1   Trygon Predator
1   Energy Flux
1   Hurkyls Recall
1   True Name Nemesis
1   Thoughtseize
1   Snuff OUt
1   Seeds of Innocence
   
Paul Ewenstein - UW Stoneforge   
2   Trinket Mage
2   Vendillion Clique
1   True Name Nemesis
4   Stoneforge Mystic
1   Tolarian Academy
3   Island
2   Plains
3   Tundra
1   Tibrary of Alexandria
3   Flooded Strand
3   Polluted Delta
1   Marsh Flats
3   Jace, The Mind Sculptor
2   spell Snare
2   Mana Drain
1   Time Walk
1   Thirst for Knowledge
1   Ancestral Recall
1   Brainstorm
4   Force of Will
2   Swords to Plowshares
3   Mental Misstep
1   Ponder
1   Sensei's Divining Top
1   Batterskull
1   Engineered Explosives
1   Sol Ring
1   Mana Crypt
1   Umezawa's Jitte
1   Graffdigger's Cage
1   Black Lotus
1   Mox Pearl
1   Mox Emerald
1   Mox Sapphire
1   Mox Ruby
1   Mox Jet
SB   
2   Meddling Mage
2   Graffdigger's Cage
2   Rest in Peace
2   Mindbreak Trap
1   Swords to Plowshares
2   Disenchant
1   Detention Spere
2   True Name Nemesis
1   Pithing Needle
   
Jamie 'Flez' Syed - Delver-Still   
4   Scalding Tarn
4   Volcanic Island
2   Wasteleand
1   Stripmine
3   Mishra's Factory
1   Mountain
5   Island
1   Library of Alexandria
1   Black Lotus
1   Time Walk
1   Mox Ruby
1   Mox Sapphire
3   Jace, The Mind Sculptor
4   Delver of Secrets
3   Snapcaster Mage
4   Standstill
1   Noxious Revival
1   Bonfire of the Damned
1   Turn//Burn
1   Ral Zarek
1   Fact or Fiction
1   Counterflux
1   Sol Ring
1   Ancestral Recal
1   Ponder
1   Brainstorm
1   Mystical Tutor
4   Force of Will
3   Mental Misstep
3   Flusterstorm
SB   
3   Ingot Chewer
3   Red Elemental Blast
2   Steel Sabotage
1   Rack and Ruin
1   Aetherize
1   Bonfire of the Damned
1   Turn//Burn
1   Fact or Fiction
1   Ral Zarek
1   Counterflux
   
Mike Mcgeachie - Grixis Superfriends   
3   Underground Sea
1   Volcanic Island
1   Swamp
4   Polluted Delta
3   Scalding Tarn
2   Island
1   Tolarian Academy
1   Ancient Tomb
1   Black Lotus
1   Mox Jet
1   Mox Sapphire
1   Mox Pearl
1   Mox Emerald
1   Mox Ruby
1   Sol Ring
1   Mana Crypt
4   Force of Will
2   Spell Snare
3   Mental Misstep
1   Demonic Tutor
1   Vampiric Tutor
3   Baleful Strix
4   Trinket Mage
1   Tezzeret, The Seeker
1   Tazzeret Agent of Bolas
2   Lilliana of the Veil
1   Ral Zarek
3   Jace, The Mind Sculptor
1   Time Vault
1   Voltaic Key
1   Sensei's Divining Top
1   Yawgmoth's Will
1   Ancestral Recall
1   Time Walk
1   Brainstorm
1   Pithing Needle
1   Tinker
1   Myr Battlesphere
SB   
2   Grafdigger's Cage
1   Tormod's Crypt
1   Yixlid Jailer
2   Ingot Chewer
2   Hurkyll's Recall
1   Missdirection
1   Mountain
2   Toxic Deluge
1   Swamp
1   Flusterstorm
1   Mindbreak Trap
   
Isaac Foote - TPS   
4   Duress
4   Dark Ritual
4   Gitaxian Probe
1   Imperial Seal
1   Grim Tutor
1   Mox Jet
1   Black Lotus
1   Necropotence
1   Mind's Desire
1   Cabal Ritual
1   Yawgmoth's Bargain
1   Windfall
1   Mox Sapphire
1   Mana Crypt
1   Swamp
1   Tendrils of Agony
2   Underground Sea
1   Empty the Warrens
1   Sensei's Divining Top
1   Timewalk
1   Volcanic Island
4   Polluted Delta
1   Ancestral Recal
1   Brainstorm
1   Mox Opal
1   Mystical Tutor
1   Memory Jar
1   Tinker
1   Lotus Petal
2   Repeal
1   Wheel of Fortune
1   Chain of Vapor
1   Vampiric Tutor
1   Yawgmoth's Will
1   Sol Ring
1   Mox Pearl
2   Scalding Tarn
1   Demonic Tutor
1   Mana Vault
1   Mox Ruby
1   Mox Emerald
1   Hurkyl's Recall
1   Tolarian Academy
1   Lion's Eye Diamond
1   Timetwister
SB   
2   Ravenous Trap
1   Blightsteel Colossus
2   Flusterstorm
2   Extirpate
1   Pithing Needle
2   Island
1   Swamp
2   Rebuild
2   Hurkyl's Recall
   
David Nunez - UR Delver   
3   Volcanic Island
4   Scalding Tarn
4   Misty Rainforest
3   Island
1   Black Lotus
1   Mox Ruby
1   Mox Sapphire
4   Delver of Secrets
4   Snapcaster Mage
4   Young Pyromancer
1   Ponder
4   Preordane
1   timewalk
1   Merchant Scroll
3   Lightning Bolt
1   Ancestral Recall
1   Fire//Ice
1   Brainstorm
2   Steel Sabotage
3   Flusterstorm
4   Mental Misstep
4   Force of Will
4   Gush
1   Misdirection
SB   
1   Mountain
2   Pyroblast
4   Ingot Chewer
4   Grafdiggers Cage
4   Leyline of the Void
   
Adrian Becker - Applejacks   
4   Orchish Lumberjack
3   Birds of Paradise
2   Noble Heirarch
1   Mox Sapphire
1   Mox Ruby
1   Mox Emerald
1   Mana Crypt
1   Sol Ring
1   Black Lotus
1   Ancestral Recall
4   Magus of the Moon
4   Survival of the Fittest
3   Null Rod
2   Scavenging Ooze
1   Hammer Mage
1   Sqee Goblin Nabob
1   Phyrexian Revoker
1   Trygon Predator
1   Brainstorm
1   Stormbreath Dragon
2   Kalonian Hyra
1   Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
1   Mistcutter Hydra
1   Anger
1   Time Walk
1   Phantasmal Image
1   Dryad Arbor
3   Forest
1   Tropical Island
4   Taiga
3   Misty Rainforest
2   Wooded Foothills
2   Windswept Heath
2   Verdant Catacombs
SB   
2   Ingot Chewer
4   Grafdigger Cage
1   Trygon Predator
1   Gilded Drake
1   Glen Elendra Archmage
1   Scavenging Ooze
1   Grim Lavamancer
1   Stormbreath Dragon
1   Phyrexian Revoker
1   Caldera Hellion
1   Null Rod
   
Andrew Farias - Welder Strix   
3   Goblin Welder
2   Baleful Strix
1   Myr Battlesphere
1   Nihil Spellbomb
1   Mindslaver
1   voltaic key
1   Time Vault
1   Fact or Fiction
1   Jace, The Mind Sculptor
1   Demonic Tutor
1   Vampiric Tutor
1   Mystical Tutor
1   Ancestral Recall
1   Time Walk
1   tinker
1   Brainstorm
1   Yawgmoth's Will
1   Gifts UNgiven
1   Merchant Scroll
1   Thirst for Knowledge
1   Hurkyll's Recall
3   Izzet Charm
2   Mental Misstep
3   Mana Drain
4   Force of Will
1   Black Lotus
1   Mox Emerald
1   Mox Jet
1   Mox Pearl
1   Mox Ruby
1   Mox Sapphire
1   Sol Ring
1   Mana Crypt
1   Mana Vault
3   Volcanic ISland
3   Underground Seal
1   Island
4   Scalding Tarn
1   Polluted Delta
1   Flooded Strand
1   Library of Alexandria
1   Tolarian Academy
SB   
1   Mindbreak Trap
3   Ingot Chewer
1   Hurkyl's Recall
1   Mountain
1   Thorn of Amethyst
1   Grafdigger's Cage
1   Tormod's Crypt
3   Ravenous Trap
1   Engineerd Explosives
1   Lightning Bolt
1   Red Elemental Blast

[Demagoguery]

I had a great time, and I'll miss your events for the time being, but congratulations . Also thanks for the lists, and I don't know why but I honestly thought Fact or Fiction was restricted still.

I was also the Tezsper player and came in 10th, going 4-2 during the course of the day.  Here's how my matches went:

Round 1: Merfolk (Win)
Round 2: UR Delver Still from top 8 (loss, who plays Aetherize!?)
Round 3: BUG Fish (loss)
Round 4: Dredge (Win)
Round 5: No Show, played a game for fun with the guy running Two Card Monte (Win)
Round 6: Grixis Tezz (Win)

[The Atog Lord]

Congratulations, Farias! Seeing this list win a tournament makes me very happy.

[msg67183]

Bonfire of the Damned?!?!?
Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs?!?!?
Aetherize?!?!?


So many True Name Nemesis lol

[ErtaiAdept]

Bonfire of the Damned?!?!?
Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs?!?!?
Aetherize?!?!?


So many True Name Nemesis lol

Don't forget the Seeds of Innocence...also yes TNN is a pain.  It seems the only way to beat it is to play your own.

[Bill Copes]

I had a great time, it being my first time every piloting dredge.  I went 2-2-drop.  I would have done better if I had bothered to play a version that can answer a game one graffdigger's cage.  Trinket mage owns us, and it was a pleasure to lose to blue 2/2 beats all day.

[Prospero]

Becker's list is insane. 

This is the second year in a row that he has surprised me with a list.  I'm looking forward to seeing what this list is like in testing.

[ErtaiAdept]

Becker's list is insane. 

This is the second year in a row that he has surprised me with a list.  I'm looking forward to seeing what this list is like in testing.

There is no doubt that Adrian is a high caliber deck builder.  The amount of theory crafting he does is amazing.  And watching him pilot this list is no less impressive.

[mr.grim]

Props to the top!

[JACO]

Just wait until you guys see my new version of TnT. I tested it for the first time yesterday against combo, and won. It may have a future in Vintage once again.

[MisterFoote]

Post it!  We like stuff!

[brianpk80]

So this is what happens when we remove Oath of Druids from the equation entirely...

I like it. 

[ErtaiAdept]

So this is what happens when we remove Oath of Druids from the equation entirely...

I like it. 

I've been a long advocate of Oath, and played it a lot in this past year, but the meta around Panda has been horrifying to play oath in lately.  Trinket mages have been far to prevalent and have meant G1 cages are much more likely.

[Samoht]

So this is what happens when we remove Oath of Druids from the equation entirely...

I like it. 

I've been a long advocate of Oath, and played it a lot in this past year, but the meta around Panda has been horrifying to play oath in lately.  Trinket mages have been far to prevalent and have meant G1 cages are much more likely.

Cage is a crutch. Play Abrupt Decay's and laugh at it.

[mmcgeach]

Top decks at pandemonium include BUG fish and Dredge.  So on the one hand, every deck has cages/needles to fight dredge, and just splashes those in against oath.  On the other hand, BUG is a nightmare for Oath.  So, it's like picking a deck that is a serious underdog to the top deck, while at the same time getting pretty well hated out by basically everyone else's deck.

[ErtaiAdept]

Top decks at pandemonium include BUG fish and Dredge.  So on the one hand, every deck has cages/needles to fight dredge, and just splashes those in against oath.  On the other hand, BUG is a nightmare for Oath.  So, it's like picking a deck that is a serious underdog to the top deck, while at the same time getting pretty well hated out by basically everyone else's deck.

In addition to mmcheachs point, boston is a notoriously blue meta-game.  Which means that not only do I have to worry about decay, cage etc, but most of the time I'm slogging through 100 counterspells.   Now I'm not saying Oath is unplayable in this meta...I just found that it was no longer a fun battle, it was more a well....if I get the nuts I might win otherwise I have to hope people play poorly.