Team Serious Open Results - Berea - June 28

[GrandpaBelcher]

We had 10 players suit up to mash Vintage on Saturday. It was a small tournament, but we had several new players, and the store was excited to run more events. Thanks to KidForce Collectibles for hosting; it was great!

Metagame was (in approximate order of finish)
1 RUG Pyromancer
1 Merfolk
1 UB Agent of Bolas
1 Dredge
1 MUD (Nam Q. Tran)
1 Gush Control
1 Gitaxian Long
1 Keeper 2k14
1 Grixis Control
1 Espresso Stax

The top four split $200 in store credit.

I have three of the top four lists and am hoping to get the Merfolk list. Steven, if you see this, post your list!

1. Nat Moes - RUG Pyromancer
2 Volcanic Island
2 Tropical Island
2 Island
1 Mountain
1 Forest
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Misty Rainforest
4 Young Pyromancer
3 Tarmogoyf
2 Vendilion Clique
4 Force of Will
4 Gush
4 Preordain
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Regrowth
2 Jace, the Mindsculptor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Flusterstorm
1 Mental Misstep
1 Misdirection
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Spell Snare
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Merchant Scroll

Sideboard
2 Ravenous Trap
3 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Surgical Extraction
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Flusterstorm
2 Mindbreak Trap
3 Nature's Claim
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Red Elemental Blast

2. Dan Proulx - Blue Danube Waltz
2 Island
1 Swamp
4 Polluted Delta
3 Underground Sea
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Mishra’s Factory
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
2 Chalice of the Void
3 Sphere of Resistance
3 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Pithing Needle
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Null Rod
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Crucible of Worlds
4 Force of Will
2 Dimir Charm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Demonic Tutor
3 Trinket Mage
4 Baleful Strix
3 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
1 Tinker
1 Wurmcoil Engine
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Toxic Deluge

Sideboard
1 Tormod’s Crypt
3 Ghost Quarter
2 Llawan, Cephalid Empress
2 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Flusterstorm
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
1 Null Rod
1 Umezawa’s Jitte
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Engineered Plague

3. Charles Rolko - Labman Dredge
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Undiscovered Paradise
4 City of Brass
2 Gemstone Mine
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
4 Stinkweed Imp
4 Serum Powder
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Dread Return
4 Bloodghast
4 Narcomoeba
4 Ichorid
4 Bridge from Below
3 Griselbrand
3 Golgari Thug
2 Darkblast
2 Laboratory Maniac

Sideboard
3 Chain of Vapor
4 Ingot Chewer
4 Nature's Claim
4 Leyline of Sanctity

4. Steven Sasala - Merfolk
9 Islands
4 Cavern of souls
1 Strip mine
4 Wasteland
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Null Rod
4 Cursecatcher
8 lords
4 Silvergill Adept
2 Merrow Reejerey
3 Phantasmal Image
2 True Name Nemesis
1 Waterfront Bouncer
4 Force of Will
2 Daze
3 Mental misstep
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Flusterstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk

Sideboard
4 Graffdigger's Cage
3 Steel Sabotage
2 Swan Song
1 Misdirection
1 Tormod's Crypt
3 Dismember
1 Ghost Quarter

Thanks again to KidForce. We'll get another one of these scheduled soon!

The next scheduled Team Serious events are:
July 19 in Columbus: http://www.themanadrain.com/index.php?topic=46500.0
July 26 in Warren, MI: http://www.themanadrain.com/index.php?topic=46444.0

HYPE!

[wiley]

I like Dan's list!  How well did the dimir charms work out?

[xouman]

I tried dimir charm a couple of times and couldn't get the best from it :/ But it could be great in a heavy control deck.

[brianpk80]

Sideboard

2 Llawan, Cephalid Empress

*applauds*

[ssasala]

Hello everyone. I had a great time last weekend playing at Kidforce. Hopefully we can get more people to play on a consistent basis. I played a standard Merfolk list with a sideboard expecting MUD and Oath decks. I didn't see any Oath or at least I didn't play against any. Here is my decklist:

Lands
9 Islands
4 Cavern of souls
1 Strip mine
4 Wasteland

Spells
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Null Rod
4 Cursecatcher
8 lords
4 Silvergill Adept
2 Merrow Reejerey
3 Phantasmal Image
2 True Name Nemesis
1 Waterfront Bouncer
4 Force of Will
2 Daze
3 Mental misstep
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Flusterstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk

Sideboard
4 Graffdigger's Cage
3 Steel Sabotage
2 Swan Song
1 Misdirection
1 Tormod's Crypt
3 Dismember
1 Ghost Quarter

For next time I would add one TNN and cut a Reejerey. I used Ghost Quarter a couple of times but I might make that a Jitte in the sideboard. Thanks everyone

Steven

[Archae]

I like Dan's list!  How well did the dimir charms work out?

I like Dimir Charm a lot in my list, though it rarely came into play this tournament. I did pitch it to Force a few times, and killed one Bob if I recall correctly. I also had it up for Tinker/Yawgwill in game 3 of the 4th match with Force backup on top of that, which felt pretty nice. Those 2 slots were flex slots in the deck for a while, and I wanted both the potential to counter and have spot removal (which the deck lacks), and Dimir Charm ultimately fit that bill. I've also used the third mode as a pseudo-time walk before when games start to go long, which is the goal usually.

Sideboard

2 Llawan, Cephalid Empress

*applauds*

Llawan didn't come in for any matchups unfortunately, since I played Workshops, Keeper, Storm, Storm. However, with Merfolk on the rise and Delvers, Cliques, Mages (both Trinket and Snapcaster) almost everywhere, Llawan is a strong sideboard card in the current meta I think.