[Glen Burnie, MD] Vintage for TIME WALK! 5/17/14 - GAMES AND STUFF - DECKLISTS

[mike.wayne]

Hey everyone! Thanks for coming out to Baltimore for Games and Stuff's Vintage Event! I know we had some folks from Pennsylvania and New York make it to the event, so many thanks for taking the time to hang out with us. We had 27 players for this event and it was ran with 5 rounds and a cut to Top 8 which led to Ryan Glackin taking home the Time Walk.

Here are the Top 8 Decklists for this event, if there are any errors please let me know! Also if you have any input, critique, criticism or encouragement about the event or our store please let us know!

Last but not least, we look forward to July when we will be hosting another Vintage Tournament and hope to see everyone there.

1st Place - Ryan Glackin
Junk Hatebears

3 Aegis of the Gods
4 Spirit of the Labyrinth
2 Voice of Resurgence
4 Deathrite Shaman
3 Qasali Pridemage
2 Gaddock Teg
2 Aven Mindcensor
4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
2 Swords to Plowshares
2 Phyrexian Revoker
2 Abrupt Decay
4 Elvish Spirit Guide
4 Dark Confidant
2 Wasteland
1 Savannah
1 Bayou
1 Scrubland
1 Swamp
1 Forest
1 Plains
1 Strip Mine
4 Cavern of Souls
2 Marsh Flats
2 Windswept Heath
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
Sideboard
4 Grafdigger's Cage
3 Rest in Peace
2 Kataki, War's Wage
2 Swords to Plowshares
2 Pithing Needle
1 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Wing Shards

2nd - Lloyd Frias
BUG Control

1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sol Ring
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Blightsteel Colossus
3 Dark Confidant
3 Trygon Predator
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
1 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Mana Drain
2 Mental Misstep
1 Mystical Tutor
2 Spell Pierce
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Vampiric Tutor
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Ponder
2 Thoughtseize
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Yawgmoth's Will
2 Island
1 Library of Alexandria
4 Misty Rainforest
2 Polluted Delta
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea
Sideboard
1 Forest
2 Flusterstorm
4 Nature's Claim
1 Toxic Deluge
3 Nihil Spellbomb
4 Leyline of the Void

3rd Place - Jeremy Herod
MUD

2 Karn, Silver Golem
2 Phyrexian Metamorph
2 Wurmcoil Engine
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Metalworker
1 Steel Hellkite
3 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
3 Staff of Nin
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Tangle Wire
4 Chalice of the Void
1 Trinisphere
2 Crucible of Worlds
4 Ancient Tomb
1 Strip Mine
4 Mishra's Workshop
1 Buried Ruin
1 City of Traitors
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Wasteland
Sideboard
2 Karn Liberated
1 Arena
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Jester's Cap
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Razormane Masticore
2 Duplicant
1 Pithing Needle
1 Wurmcoil Engine
3 Grafdigger's Cage

4th - Vasu Balakrishnan
Esper Stoneblade

4 Dark Confidant
3 Stoneforge Mystic
3 Snapcaster Mage
2 Vendilion Clique
2 Swords to Plowshares
2 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
1 Disenchant
2 Mental Misstep
1 Brainstorm
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
1 Batterskull
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
2 Spell Snare
2 Preordain
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Tolarian Acaemy
1 Karakas
1 Island
3 Flooded Strand
3 Polluted Delta
3 Tundra
3 Underground Sea
1 Mana Crypt
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
Sideboard
1 Toxic Deluge
2 Flusterstorm
3 Rest in Peace
3 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Disenchant
1 Steel Sabatoge
1 Swords to Plowshares
2 True-Name Nemesis

5th - Paul Mastriano
Oath

1 Tolarian Academy
2 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
4 Misty Rainforest
2 Island
4 Forbidden Orchard
2 Show and Tell
2 Mental Misstep
2 Mana Drain
2 Griselbrand
4 Force of Will
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Oath of Druids
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Imperial Seal
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Ponder
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Brainstorm
1 Flusterstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Misdirection
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Mana Crypt
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
2 Abrupt Decay
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Sol Ring
1 Sensei's Divining Top
Sideboard
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Thoughtseize
2 Ravenous Trap
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Forest
2 Nature's Claim
4 Leyline of the Void

6th Place - Thomas Dixon
WelderStrix

2 Scalding Tarn
2 Misty Rainforest
3 Underground Sea
3 Volcanic Island
2 Tropical Island
1 Island
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Nihil Spellbomb
3 Goblin Welder
3 Baleful Strix
1 Myr Battlesphere
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Tinker
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Lightning Bolt
3 Gush
1 Gifts Ungiven
4 Force of Will
2 Mana Drain
2 Mental Misstep
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancient Grudge
2 Izzet Charm
1 Thirst for Knowledge
Sideboard
4 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Ancient Grudge
2 Ingot Chewer
1 Mountain
1 Lightning Bolt
2 Abrupt Decay
1 Nature's Claim
1 Flusterstorm

7th - Seth Roncoroni
Grixis

1 Repeal
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Ancestral Reall
1 Time Walk
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Misdirection
2 Snapcaster Mage
2 Mental Misstep
1 Flusterstorm
2 Lightning Bolt
4 Force of Will
1 Brainstorm
4 Dark Confidant
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Tinker
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Blightsteel Colossus
3 Mana Drain
1 Strip Mine
4 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
1 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Island
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
Sideboard
2 Steel Sabatoge
2 Yixlid Jailer
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Pyroclasm
1 Mountain
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Flusterstorm
4 Ingot Chewer
1 Library of Alexandria

8th Place - JP Kohler
Welder Control

3 Scalding Tarn
1 Polluted Delta
3 Underground Sea
3 Volcanic Island
2 Tropical Island
1 Island
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Vault
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Mindslaver
1 Myr Battlesphere
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
1 Nihil Spellbomb
3 Goblin Welder
2 Baleful Strix
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
4 Force of Will
2 Mana Drain
1 Brainstorm
1 Time Walk
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Fact of Fiction
1 Gifts Ungiven
2 Izzet Charm
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Tinker
2 Mental Misstep
Sideboard
1 Mountain
1 Flusterstorm
4 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Lightning Bolt
2 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Abrupt Decay
1 Trinisphere
2 Ingot Chewer
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Engineered Explosives

[Grand Inquisitor]

5th - Paul Mastriano
4 Oath of Druids
0 Creatures

I think Steve tried this and it's sub-optimal.

[KingSquee]

5th - Paul Mastriano
4 Oath of Druids
0 Creatures

I think Steve tried this and it's sub-optimal.

+1000. You win the Internet today, sir!

I plan to write a report within the next couple of days. A quick preview: I cannot confirm or deny the veracity of GI's statement re: Paul's deck. Our Top 8 match was that quick and that dirty.

[brianpk80]

Congrats, Ryan!  How were the maindeck Aegis of the Gods?

[mike.wayne]

5th - Paul Mastriano
4 Oath of Druids
0 Creatures

I think Steve tried this and it's sub-optimal.

Ahaha, fixed 

[A.-1.]

JP, did you have any crazy Mindslaver plays? I miss that card.

[Samoht]

5th - Paul Mastriano
4 Oath of Druids
0 Creatures

I think Steve tried this and it's sub-optimal.

You are my new favorite person on TMD. GI for President!

@Rob - JP never once saw Slaver throughout the entire tournament.

[Bibendum]

Yea it was pretty much inconclusive, only had it in hand once all day and at that point, I had a shop player locked under his own tangle wire with welder and jace. I'll probably keep it in the next iteration of the deck but I have no opinion atm since whatever else was in that slot would not have done much work. In testing it was better then I expected. One turn in most cases can be a mini mind twist on your opponent depending on what they are holding and can usually mess with there board enough that you get 2 turns to cast freely since there second turn will usually be spent attempting to rebuild in some way. Fun aside, in testing I managed to take a tendrils deck, storm out and then fizzle leaving him with no yard, no Will and a Tendrils in hand.

[mr.grim]

PROPS to Glackin and the rest of the top , again !
@Paul . Nice list , I will still keep Tezz in the main.lol.

[Smmenen]

5th - Paul Mastriano
4 Oath of Druids
0 Creatures

I think Steve tried this and it's sub-optimal.

Yes, not advisable.  

For those who lack context, in Round 6 of the Vintage Championship, I was on the verge of winning game 3 when I go to activate Oath for Lab Maniac with a hand of Dark Ritual, Time Walk, and Lotus Petal, and my opponent's hand is empty with Grafdigger's Cage in play (thus, I was going to be able to Ritual and Time Walk off my two lands and Petal, and win the game on my Time Walk turned Draw step).  I emptied my library and realized that I had failed to sideboard in 2 cards (including Lab Man) for my 2 Griselbrands.   Suffice to say I tilted out of that tournament.

Pretty stupid.

That said, I doubt Paul made that mistake  I suspect he was playing a pair of Oath creatures, as the updated OP shows.

I love the first place deck.  Nicely designed!  You can tell alot of thought has been put into the ratios. 

[Mr. Type 4]

I definitely played 2 Griselbrand. 

Glackin's deck beat me up pretty hard.  I saw his list and knew he only played 2 wasteland so I felt ok keeping on a hand with 2 dual lands.  He stripped both of my lands and played uncounterable Thalia - dead.  I thought he just had a good hand there, but I lost game 2 in almost the exact same way. 

As usual, the person who takes me out of the tournament wins it all.  Congratulations to Ryan and the rest of the top 8. 

Side note - After the previous tournament with all of the complaints about how the tournament was run (cutting to top 4 instead of top 8 etc.), i felt that this time everything was handled very professionally. 

[psu42]

How do you like Gaea's Blessing as opposed to Memory's Journey Paul?

I've played Oath to the last 3 or 4 top 8's in Bloomsberg with Journey as it becomes a more combo deck then IMO.

[KingSquee]

As usual, the person who takes me out of the tournament wins it all.  Congratulations to Ryan and the rest of the top 8.

Thanks, Paul. I forgot about that little nugget about the player eliminating you winning the tournament! And to think I sweated through the Top 4 and the finals!

[ramrodjon]

Congratulations, Ryan, and the rest of the top 8!

[Samoht]

As usual, the person who takes me out of the tournament wins it all.  Congratulations to Ryan and the rest of the top 8.

Thanks, Paul. I forgot about that little nugget about the player eliminating you winning the tournament! And to think I sweated through the Top 4 and the finals!

I'd have been sweating too, as they seemed close from where I was sitting.

How do you like Gaea's Blessing as opposed to Memory's Journey Paul?

I've played Oath to the last 3 or 4 top 8's in Bloomsberg with Journey as it becomes a more combo deck then IMO.

My two cents as a part-time Oath player is that I prefer Journey. It ensures that you can Oath with impunity and rebuys the critical cards to your library before activating GB, greatly increasing your chances of drawing them as opposed to Blessing. It's also blue and thus pitches to FoW. Add in the fact that it is a counter to cards like Vampiric Tutor, Mystical Tutor, and Imperial Seal and it gets to generate a lot of hidden value. The trade off is that Cage turns it off if you Oath over it and it doesn't cantrip when you cast it.

[mr.grim]

Journey wins games , imo.

[mike.wayne]

Brian Demars mentioned this tournament in todays Vintage article on Starcitygames.com right here.

[Samoht]

Brian Demars mentioned this tournament in todays Vintage article on Starcitygames.com right here.

Was a great recap of the event! I enjoyed the article.