TO Report: The Players Guild 07/05/14

[Kameli0n]

26 vintage participants ventured to Bloomsburg for the chance to win credit on a beautiful July 4th weekend afternoon. Top 8 were awarded for the event.  First took home $300 in store credit, second took $150 in store credit, third and fourth each earned $75 in store credit, and fifth through eighth took home $25 in store credit. Thanks again to those who came out to support the format and play vintage in Bloomsburg, and we look forward to seeing you all for more events in the future!

The Metagame Breakdown:

Forces:
UW Wizards: 1 – 3.85%
UW Control: 1 - 3.85%
UW Angels: 1 – 3.85%
Oath Control: 1 – 3.85%
BUG Control: 1 – 3.85%
Grixis Control: 1 – 3.85%
Grixis Welder-Dack Control: 3 – 11.54%
4c Welder-Dack Control: 1 – 3.85%

Workshops:
Metalworker/Forgemaster MUD: 5 – 19.23%
Martello: 1 – 3.85%
5c Stax: 1 – 3.85%

Bazaars:
Dredge: 1 – 3.85%

Combo:
Doomsday Gush: 1 - 3.85%

Brian Kelly Decks:
Esper Vault Caverns: 1 – 3.85%

Fish:
UR Delver: 1 – 3.85%
RUG Delver: 1 – 3.85%
BUG Fish: 1 – 3.85%
Merfolk: 1 – 3.85%
RW Death and Taxes: 1 – 3.85%
Junk Hate Bears: 1 – 3.85%

This event was run with 5 swiss rounds with the cut to top 8.

Top 8 Pairings and Results

Mercer, Matt vs. Geras, Jon – Geras wins
Difebo, Dominic vs. Swindell, Thomas – Difebo wins
Kohler, Justin vs. Dempsey, Brandon – Dempsey wins
Potucek, Joshua vs. Edwards, Rob – Edwards wins

Top 4 Pairings and Results

Difebo, Dominic vs. Dempsey, Brandon – Difebo wins
Edwards, Rob vs. Geras, Jon – Edwards wins

Finals

Difebo, Dominic vs. Edwards, Rob – Edwards wins


Please inform us of any suggestions you may have for us to improve our tournaments in the future. And again, thanks to everyone who did come out to the event. Congrats to Rob for winning!

Top 8 Deck lists:

First – Rob Edwards
“Oath"

4 Forbidden Orchard
3 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
2 Island
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta
1 Strip Mine
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Oath of Druids
2 Griselbrand
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
2 Show and Tell
1 Memory’s Journey
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
4 Mental Misstep
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Misdirection
2 Abrupt Decay
2 Flusterstorm

SB:
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Pithing Needle
2 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Wasteland
1 Show and Tell
3 Nature’s Claim
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Progenitus

Second – Dominic Difebo
“No deck name provided"

4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
2 Mental Misstep
2 Lightning Bolt
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Misdirection
1 Flusterstorm
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Spell Snare
1 Split Decision
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Tinker
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Echoing Truth
1 Time Walk
1 Noxious Revival
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
4 Island
3 Polluted Delta
2 Scalding Tarn
2 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault

SB:
3 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Extirpate
2 Ingot Chewer
2 Dismember
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Fire/Ice
1 Viashino Heretic
1 Pithing Needle
1 Tormod’s Crypt

Semi-Finalist – Jon Geras
“Ramrod Gottshall’s Baby"

4 Cursecatcher
4 Silvergill Adept
4 Lord of Atlantis
4 Master of Pearl Trident
2 Merrow Reejerey
3 True-name Nemesis
2 Phantasmal Image
1 Waterfront Bouncer
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
2 Daze
3 Null Rod
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
4 Cavern of Souls
10 Island
1 Hurkyl’s Recall

SB:
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
4 Dismember
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
2 Steel Sabotage
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Echoing Truth
2 Flusterstorm

Semi-Finalist – Brandon Dempsey
“Dack Welder"

4 Scalding Tarn
3 Underground Sea
2 Polluted Delta
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Island
1 Library of Alexandria
2 Goblin Welder
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Myr Battlesphere
4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
3 Mana Drain
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Brainstorm
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Tinker
1 Toxic Deluge
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Dack Fayden
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Mindslaver
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
 1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus
1 Tezzeret the Seeker

SB:
1 Lightning Bolt
2 Flusterstorm
1 Trinisphere
3 Grafdigger’s Cage
4 Ingot Chewer
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Yixlid Jailer
1 Mountain

Quarter-Finalist – Justin Kohler
“Red Deck Wins"

2 Batterskull
2 Magus of the Future
4 Trinket Mage
4 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Flusterstorm
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Spell Snare
3 Mental Misstep
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
3 Swords to Plowshares
1 Time Walk
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
2 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Plains
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Cavern of Souls
2 Polluted Delta
3 Island
3 Tundra
4 Flooded Strand

SB:
3 Rest in Peace
2 Disenchant
3 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Pithing Needle
1 Flusterstorm
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Aven Mindcensor
1 Ethersworn Canonist
1 Magus of the Unseen

Quarter-Finalist – Joshua Potucek
“Simian’s Mom aka RW Death & Taxes"

3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4 Aegis of the Gods
4 Spirit of the Labyrinth
4 Prophetic Flamespeaker
4 Simian Spirit Guide
4 Leonin Relic-Warder
2 Mother of Runes
2 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Batterskull
3 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Swords to Plowshares
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Lotus Petal
4 Arid Mesa
3 Plains
2 Mountain
3 Plateau
4 Cavern of Souls
1 Strip Mine
2 Wasteland

SB:
3 Rest in Peace
1 Brimaz, King of Oreskos
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Stony Silence
4 Ingot Chewer
1 Wasteland
2 Path to Exile
1 Umezawa’s Jitte

Quarter-Finalist – Matt Mercer
“ The Fayden Voyage"

1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Dack Fayden
4 Notion Thief
3 Snapcaster Mage
4 Deathrite Shaman
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
2 Mental Misstep
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Flusterstorm
1 Timetwister
1 Wheel of Fortune
4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Fire/Ice
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Brainstorm
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Black Lotus
3 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Tropical Island
2 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Cephalid Coliseum
3 Misty Rainforest
2 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand

SB:
2 Nature’s Claim
2 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Darkblast
1 Red Elemental Blast
4 Ingot Chewer
3 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Abrupt Decay

Quarter-Finalist – Tom Swindell
“Crazy MUD"

4 Mishra’s Workshops
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Wasteland
4 Cavern of Souls
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Tangle Wire
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Metalworker
4 Steel Hellkite
1 Sundering Titan
1 Blightsteel Colossus
2 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Sol Ring
4 Lightning Greaves

SB:
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
3 Thorn of Amethyst
2 Crucible of Worlds
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Sundering Titan
1 Duplicant
1 Pithing Needle
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Witchbane Orb

Again, thanks for the support. The date of the next Bloomsburg event has not been set yet. Thanks again everyone!!!!! And once again, Congratulations to Rob!!!

[rbtabris]

Jon wins the tournament on account of deck name.

Congrats to Rob and the rest of the top 8!

[oshkoshhaitsyosh]

Great event and nice seeing all the familiar faces! I enjoyed playing my RW list even if Rob had some blowout hands to beat my anti oath hands haha. Fun times

Huge props to Shawn Griffiths for ALWAYS posting these reports like a boss...take notes other TO's

[msg67183]

Congrats to Rob and the rest of the Top!

Jon, nice deck name!

Shawn, thanks for hosting another great event

Went 3-2 getting 10th is alittle annoying but oh well...

[Samoht]

Went 3-2 getting 10th is alittle annoying but oh well...

X-2 almost never t8's. It's the way of math.

Awesome decks, congratulations to Rob for taking it down. The scene has missed you for awhile, glad to see you making your presence felt!

Jon Geras is a goddamn champion.

[ramrodjon]

Thanks, Tom, my results are improving, but champion status may be a ways away yet.  I'm glad I'm getting to play more with the Full of Win and Team Ramrod guys and playtest and attend more events lately.  Shawn runs a great tourney and it's always nice to see the crowd and I extend my congratulations to Rob, Dom, and the rest of the top 8 and competitors who came to game. 

[Samoht]

Thanks, Tom, my results are improving, but champion status may be a ways away yet.  I'm glad I'm getting to play more with the Full of Win and Team Ramrod guys and playtest and attend more events lately.  Shawn runs a great tourney and it's always nice to see the crowd and I extend my congratulations to Rob, Dom, and the rest of the top 8 and competitors who came to game. 

The belt gets awarded for deck name status too! You get that.

[mr.grim]

Props to Rob , Dom , Jon and the rest of the top.
After a long week of sun , rum , asking permission to get engaged and a long ass car ride , playing some vintage may of not been the best idea. Still, I was happy as hell to play and chill with some good friends . The only bad part of the day was seeing Gottshell. 

[ramrodjon]

Lol, Tom.  It was late when I saw and realized that.  I'll give Bill Sees credit, it was his FFB name.  I just admire it.

[Changster]

Great tournament and good times guys!    Congrats to the top 8!

[brianpk80]

Great event Shawn. 

Congrats, to Rob and Dominic, Josh P, Justin, Jon (scandalous Merfolk), and the rest of the T8.  I love the maindeck Split Decision.  Great list, Josh P and of course Justin who is now down to 2 Jace in favor of the venerable Magus of the Future.  Also was glad to see the local debut of Consecrated Sphinx.  Hopefully next time I won't have to play Shops four times in one day, three times on the draw, but at least I dispatched that monster deck twice despite losing die rolls left and right.  I'm glad the August event is rescheduled to the 9th so it doesn't conflict with a wedding I have to go to on the 2nd.  See you next month!