TO Report - Team Serious Open

First off, I'd like to thank all the great guys that came out to play Vintage on Saturday. It was great seeing friends I haven't seen in a long time. We'll be holding the Team Serious Opens bi-monthly so key an eye out in the next week or two for the next announcement. I look forward to seeing everyone next time. We'll have a better selection of cards in the cases since it will be after Gencon. Much of our higher end stock had already been set aside since we're setting up as a vendor at Gencon again this year. If you're around the Eternal Games tables, stop by and say hi.

On to the metagame breakdown. We had 23 great players show up with a variety of archetypes. There were:

Aggro Control [10] = 43.5%
Workshops [4] = 17.4%
Mana Drain [4] = 17.4%
Misc Combo [4] = 17.4%
Gush [1] = 4.3%

The following was the top 8 after 5 rounds of swiss. The top 8 split $57.50 in store credit.

1st place - Charlie Krug - U/W StoneBlade
4 Flooded Strand
3 Tundra
3 Island
3 Polluted Delta
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Plains
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault

4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
2 Flusterstorm
1 Misdirection
3 Swords to Plowshares
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Brainstorm
4 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Batterskull
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
2 Snapcaster Mage
2 Consecrated Sphinx
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

SB:
1 Misdirection
1 Surgical Extraction
1 Hurkyl's Recall
3 Rest in Peace
1 Swords to Plowshares
2 Steel Sabotage
1 Disenchant
1 Seal of Cleansing
4 Leyline of the Void

2nd place - Randall Witherell - Doom Blast!!!
4 Mishra's Workshop
3 Ancient Tomb
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
6 Mountain
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire

4 Goblin Welder
2 Grafted Wargear
4 Scuttling Doom Engine
4 Shrapnel Blast
4 Squee, Goblin Nabob
4 Solemn Simulacrum
4 Magus of the Moon
4 Tangle Wire

SB:
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Thorn of Amethyst
3 Blasting Station
1 Trinisphere
3 Pithing Needle

3rd place - Michael Danielson - BUG Swing for Two
3 Underground Sea
2 Bayou
1 Tropical Island
4 Misty Rainforest
2 Verdant Catacomb
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Forest
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald

4 Force of Will
2 Spell Pierce
2 Mental Misstep
4 Abrupt Decay
1 Time Walk
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Tinker
1 Blightsteel Colossus
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Dark Confidant
3 Snapcaster Mage
1 Scavenging Ooze
2 True-Name Nemesis
2 Trygon Predator
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

SB:
1 Energy Flux
2 Snuff Out
2 Yixlid Jailer
1 Umezawa's Jitte
2 Ratchet Bomb
3 Nature's Claim
1 Jace, the Mind Scupltor
2 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Flusterstorm

4th place - Jon Johnson - U/W StoneBlade
4 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta
1 ? Blue Fetchland ?
3 Tundra
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Cavern of Souls
1 Plains
3 Island
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald

3 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Magus of the Future
4 Trinket Mage
3 Swords to Plowshares
1 Batterskull
3 Mana Drain
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Disenchant
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Thirst for Knowledge
4 Force of Will
1 Spell Snare
2 Mental Misstep
1 Flusterstorm

SB:
1 Ethersworn Canonist
1 Disenchant
1 Aven Mindcensor
1 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Flusterstorm
1 Pithing Needle
1 Batterskull
1 Swords to Plowshares
3 Grafdigger's Cage
3 Rest in Peace

5th place - Dave Wainwright - Fenton Oath
1 Strip Mine
2 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea
4 Forbidden Orchard
2 Island
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl

4 Oath of Druids
2 Griselbrand
2 Show and Tell
4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
2 Flusterstorm
4 Mental Misstep
1 Mindbreak Trap
2 Abrupt Decay
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Brainstorm
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Memory's Journey

SB:
1 Emrakul, the AEons Torn
1 Show and Tell
1 Abrupt Decay
2 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Pithing Needle
3 Nature's Claim
1 Wasteland
4 Leyline of the Void

6th place - Aaron Hamilton - Forgemaster MUD
4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Ancient Tomb
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl

4 Chalice of the Void
4 Thorn of Amethyst
2 Sphere of Resistance
3 Tangle Wire
1 Trinisphere
4 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Kuldotha Forgemaster
1 Duplicant
1 Wurmcoil Engine
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Sundering Titan
1 Steel Hellkite
2 Phyrexian Metamorph

SB:
1 Sphere of Resistance
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Wurmcoil Engine
2 Crucible of Worlds
4 Relic of Progenitus
3 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
3 Witchbane Orb

7th place - Phil Hillman - Vault Control
1 Tundra
4 Polluted Delta
3 Underground Sea
1 Strip Mine
2 Bayou
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Island
1 Volcanic Island
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl

1 Vampiric Tutor
2 Abrupt Decay
1 Time Walk
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Time Vault
2 Voltaic Key
1 Tinker
4 Force of Will
1 Flusterstorm
1 Swords to Plowshares
3 Mental Misstep
1 Timetwister
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Ponder
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Blightsteel Colossus
2 Deathrite Shaman
2 Snapcaster Mage
2 Dark Confidant
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

SB:
1 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Leyline of Sanctity
1 Trygon Predator
1 Deathrite Shaman
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Flusterstorm
2 Hurkly's Recall
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Mental Misstep
2 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Pithing Needle

8th place - Kurt Fruth - U/R Delver
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Mountain
3 Island
3 Volcanic Island
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby

4 Mental Misstep
4 Preordain
4 Gush
4 Force of Will
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
3 Lightning Bolt
2 Spell Pierce
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Flusterstorm
1 Fire // Ice
1 Misdirection
1 Time Walk
4 Young Pyromancer
4 Delver of Secrets
2 Snapcaster Mage
2 Vendilion Clique

SB:
4 Ingot Chewer
1 Hurkyl's Recall
4 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Grim Lavamancer
1 Dismember
1 Pyroblast
2 Ravenous Trap

Combo appears to have been the biggest loser at this event [0% in the top 8], followed by Aggro Control [30% in the top 8]. The big winner was Mana Drain [75% in the top 8] and Workshops [50% in the top 8].