7/26 Workshop Tournament - 1st Place @ Comic Book Depot

[DaveKap]

I ran RUG to 1st place at the 23 player Workshop tournament yesterday on Long Island. This is my 2nd Vintage tournament in 10 years. I created and established Vintage Burn to overrun Keeper back at Neutral Ground in the early 2000s. Traded in my Jackal Pups for Delvers.

Tournament info: http://www.themanadrain.com/index.php?topic=46605.0

I took Steve's NYSE list with the following edits:

-2nd Spell Pierce, +1 Spell Snare
This slot exists to counter Oath. Snare does a better job and gets Snapcaster, Confidant, Pyromancer, Goyf, Revoker, merfolk and Stoneforge.

-1 Fire/Ice, +4th Lightning Bolt
I almost always wanted a bolt over Fire/Ice.

-2nd Misdirection, +1 Nature's Claim
Claim maindeck was very valuable. I may want the 2nd MisD back in though.

SB
-4 Leyline of the Void, +4th Grafdigger's Cage, +2 Ravenous Trap, +1 Strip Mine
Trap is tutorable. The Strip Mine was mediocre.

Other 15th SB card options:
Dack Fayden
Skullclamp
Vendilion Clique
Grim Lavamancer
Umezawa's Jitte


Play Notes:

In the Swiss, I lost to Shops and beat Oath, Welder and Trinkets. The T8 was Shops, BUG and Welder.
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Darksteel Juggernaut destroyed me in the Swiss. Dack would be good here.

Triple Serrated Arrows and a Triskelion forced me to slow down and hardcast multiple Ingot Chewers for value.

Learning to sequence Misdirections and Flusterstorms on multiple spell stacks will determine at least 1 game in a large tournament.

Pyroblasted a Goblin Welder for an extra Pyromancer token. Don't play REB.


Thanks to:

Alan, put on a great tournament. GP Boston cut into attendance a bit, but Alan still paid out as if 32 players had arrived.

Greg and Nick, good seeing you guys after quite a while.

All my opponents. Everyone played very well and it was a nice blend of professional and friendly.

DECK
4 Delver of Secrets
2 Snapcaster Mage
2 Trygon Predator
4 Young Pyromancer

2 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
1 Misdirection
1 Spell Pierce
1 Spell Snare

1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
4 Gush
1 Ponder
4 Preordain

1 Ancient Grudge
4 Lightning Bolt
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Nature's Claim
1 Time Walk

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
2 Island
3 Misty Rainforest
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Tropical Island
3 Volcanic Island

SIDEBOARD
4 Grafdigger's Cage
4 Ingot Chewer
1 Mountain
1 Nature's Claim
2 Pyroblast
2 Ravenous Trap
1 Strip Mine


Dave
david.h.kaplan@gmail.com

[Samoht]

Dave slayed me in round 1. My deck helped him in g1 by not providing colored sources for three straight hands but the match up is unfavorable so I was likely to be behind anyway. Was great to have another new strong player come out to the event.

[kurtkeoki]

Any changes you'd make to the deck for playing it on MTGO? I've played a lot of UR delver both online and in a live tourney this week, but I'd be interested in trying out this version.

[KanaKaishou]

Dave Kaplan playing 4 lightning bolts? Inconceivable!

NJ, I hope to see you at more vintage events!

[Smmenen]

Congratulations!  nice to see you back in action

I wish my NYSE report had been posted, since I wrote it several weeks ago, but I think you'll find my detailed analysis and design considerations helpful to thinking through some of your own refinements.  

The only thing I'll mention now is that I tried Ravenous Traps in a local tournament, and ended up losing to Dredge, which never happens to me.  I didn't think they were adequate to defeat a top notch Dredge pilot consistently.  

[Prospero]

Congrats on the win, Dave.  It was good to see you battling Vintage again.  It has been too long.

[DaveKap]

Bringing in Chewers to blow up Bridges and possible Chalices hasn't been sufficient? Would Surgical Extraction on Ichorid be stronger than Ravenous Trap?

+2 Trap, +4 Cage, +4 Chewer
-2 Predator, -1 Misdirection, -1 Pierce, -1 Snare, -1 Grudge, -1 Claim, -3 Bolt