Eternal MASTERS 2014

On Saturday 25th October 2014, the eve of Vintage Champs loomed and Next Level Games, Dandenong once again held the annual Vintage MASTERS tournament. Eternal MASTERS is an annual pilgrimage for many Australian players and has consistently been one of the largest eternal Magic events since LEGENDS held in 2010. Sporting Legacy, Vintage, and even Australian Highlander there is a full weekend and then some for those wanting to play in all our events.

Once again we had the largest Vintage event in the southern hemisphere, narrowly beating the record set by GP Melbourne earlier this year. A total of 45 players made their way out to sling some of Magic’s most iconic cards. Faces old and new were to be seen slinging some of the best cardboard crack Magic has to offer. With 27 different archetypes through the room there was always something fascinating to watch.

The biggest thank you goes to everybody who came out and supported us at Eternal MASTERS. Without you, there would be no Magic. It was an absolute pleasure seeing all of you make the trip from all over Australia to play Vintage. A huge thank you to Next Level Games for hosting this event and really making the weekend an absolute blast. I am sure that for the foreseeable future, this event will just keep getting bigger and better.

But at the end of the day there could only ever be one winner.

Congratulation to Luke McCandless who brought his signature “Go Hard or Go Home” Shops to the event and stomped his way through to the finals and defeated Melbourne’s newest store owner Andy Horne’s Bant Fish deck in two games.

Metagame Breakdown

Deck Name   # of Pilots   Top 8
Grixis Control   5   *
U/R Delver   4   *
Dredge   4   *
Metalworker   3   **
Dark Times   3
Bant Fish   2   *
Dirty MUD   2
U/R Landstill   2
GB Oath   2
Steel City Vault   1   *
Turbo Tezzeret   1   *
BUG Gush Control   1
Blue Angels   1
Mono R Stax   1
RSD Oath   1
Manaless Dredge   1
BUG Fish   1
High Tide   1
Golden Gun Oath   1
Atrificer Shops   1
U/W Standstill   1
RUG Delver   1
Mono U Landstill   1
White Trash   1
Aggro Shops   1
Burning Oath   1
BUG Mask-Naught   1

Our standings once the dust had cleared was:

1) Luke McCandless – Go Hard or Go Home Shops
2) Andy Horne – “Walking” Junk Fish
3) Jacob Dunn – Grixis Control
4) Robert Lark – U/R Delver
5) Jacob Phillips – Metalworker Shops
6) Scott Reynolds – Dredge
7) Lachlan Saunders – Steel City Vault
8) Nick Chmielewski – Turbo Tezzeret

9) Socrates Stavropoulos – Grixis Control
10) Isaac Egan – Dredge
11) Tod Thomson – Dirty MUD
12) Sarven McLinton – “BUG Allstars” 3c Gush Control
13) Graham King – U/W Angels
14) Dan Dowse – “Scoop Already” Mono R Shops
15) Dan King – RSD Oath
16) James ‘Jimbo’ Dowling – U/R Standstill
17) Tristan Lewis – Manaless Dredge
18) Boyd Fernicola – BUG Fish
19) Cyril Terroy – Metalworker Shops
20) Tim Dolphin – Griselbrand Oath
21) Josh Archer – Dirty MUD
22) Matthew Larcombe – High Tide
23) Adam Amy – Golden Gun Oath
24) Ben McCoy – U/R Standstill
25) Charlie Donaldson – Bg Dark Times
26) Ben Hawke – Cagebreaker Dredge
27) Lee Greaves – Artificer Shops
28) David Brotchie – U/W Landstill
29) George Foo – U/R Delver
30) Julian Oyston – Bg Dark Times
31) Stephen Meade – RUG Delver
32) Jeffrey Chan – Griselbrand Oath
33) Thomas Ribet – M ono U Landstill
34)Cameron Mills – White Trash
35) Damian Faulkner – Dark Times
36) Joshua Butler – Aggro Shops
37) Ben Yap – U/R Delver
38) Shane Svoboda – “Tom Ribet’s Tooty Fruity Summer Lovin” Bant Fish
39) Christopher Turner – Burning Oath
40) Timothy Tai – BUG Mask-Naught
41) Aloysius Landriagan – Grixis Control
42) Brett Hughes – U/R Delver
43) Zac Crowley – Dredge
44) William Wong – Grixis Control
45) Dan Unwin – Grixis Control

Decklists:

1)   Luke McCandless
Lands (17)
4 Mishra’s Workshop
4 Ancient Tomb
3 City of Traitors
3 Wasteland
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Strip Mine
1 Buried Ruin

Spells (43)
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring

4 Lodestone Golem
4 Metalworker
3 Phyrexian Revoker
2 Phyrexian Metamorph
2 Karn, Silver Golem
1 Myr Battlesphere

4 Chalice of the Void
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Tanglewire
3 Staff of Nin
2 Karn Liberated
1 Expedition Map
1 Trinisphere

Sideboard (15)
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Batterskull
2 Tormod’s Crypt
2 Razormane Masticore
2 Wurmcoil Engine
2 Defence Grid
1 Crucible of Worlds

2)   Andy Horne – Junk Fish
Lands (20)
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wasteland
3 Cavern of Souls
2 Horizon Canopy
2 Savannah
1 Strip Mine
1 Scrubland
1 Bayou
1 Tropical Island
1 Karakas

Spells (40)
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Lotus Petal
1 Black Lotus

4 Dark Confidant
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4 Swords to Plowshares
3 Mental Misstep
3 Qasali Pridemage
3 Knight of the Reliquary
2 Gaddock Teeg
2 Abrupt Decay
2 Aven Mindcensor
1 Kataki, Wars Wage
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk

Sideboard (15)
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Trygon Predator
2 Yixlid Jailer
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Stoney Silence
1 Ethersworn Cannonist
1 Path to Exile
1 Zealous Persecution
1 Kataki, Wars Wage

3)   Jacob Dunn – Grixis Control
Lands (16)
4 Polluted Delta
3 Scalding Tarn
3 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
1 Island
1 Swamp
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Library of Alexandria

Spells (44)
4 Dark Confidant
2 Snapcaster Mage
1 Myr Battlesphere

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt

4 Force of Will
3 Lightning Bolt
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Spell Pierce
2 Mana Drain
2 Mental Misstep
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Brainstorm
1 Tinker

Sideboard (15)
4 Ingot Chewer
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
3 Yixlid Jailer
1 Strip Mine
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Mountain
1 Toxic Deluge

4)   Robert Lark – Blue Red Delver
Lands (14)
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Volcanic Island
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Island
1 Polluted Delta
1 Tropical Island
1 Strip Mine

Spells (46)
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire

4 Delver of Secrets
4 Young Pyromancer
2 Snapcaster Mage

4 Mental Misstep
4 Treasure Cruise
4 Force of Will
4 Preordain
3 Lightning Bolt
2 Gitaxian Probe
2 Gush
1 Spell Pierce
1 Fire//Ice
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Ponder
1 Time Walk
1 Misdirection
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall

Sideboard (15)
4 Ravenous Trap
4 Ingot Chewer
3 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Pyroblast
1 Mountain

5)   Jacob Phillips – Metalworker MUD
Lands (17)
4 Mishra’s Workshop
4 Mishra’s Factory
4 Wasteland
2 Ancient Tomb
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy

Spells (46)
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring

4 Lodestone Golem
4 Metalworker
3 Kuldotha Forgemaster
2 Wurmcoil Engine
2 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Duplicant
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Karn, Silver Golem

4 Chalice of the Void
4 Thorn of Amethyst
3 Lightning Greaves
3 Sphere of Resistance
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Trinisphere
1 Staff of Nin

Sideboard (15)
3 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Tormod’s Crypt
2 Witchbane Orb
2 Dismember
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Sundering Titan
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Pithing Needle
1 Phyrexian Revoker
1 The Tabernacle at Pendral Vale

6)   Scott Reynolds – Dredge
Lands (10)
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Undiscovered Paradise
2 Petrified Field

Spells (50)
4 Mental Misstep
3 Darkblast
3 Leyline of the Void
4 Unmask
2 Dread Return
4 Serum Powder
4 Stinkweed Imp
3 Bloodghast
4 Bridge From Below
1 Griselbrand
1 Flame-kin Zealot
4 Narcomoeba
4 Ichorid
4 Golgari-Grave Troll
1 Golgari Thug
4 Cabal Therapy

Sideboard (15)
2 Mana Confluence
4 Ingot Chewer
4 Nature’s Claim
3 Wispmare
2 Firestorm

7)   Lachlan Saunders – “Tom Ribet’s Tiny Weeny Stony Bikini” Steel City Vault
Lands (11)
4 Mana Confluence
4 Seat of the Synod
2 City of Brass
1 Tolarian Academy

Spell (49)
4 Mox Opal
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Peal
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Cypt

1 Time Vault
1 Memory Jar
2 Voltaic Key
1 Nihil Spellbomb

2 Goblin Welder

1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Regrowth
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Gift’s Ungiven
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Fire//Ice
1 Brainstorm
1 Imperial Seal
1 Tinker
1 Ponder
2 Burning Wish
3 Thoughtcast
4 Force of Will
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Timetwister
2 Dack Fayden

Sideboard (15)
2 Misdirection
3 Nature’s Claim
1 Inkwell Leviathan
1 Ancient Grudge
1 balance
1 Mind Twist
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Transmute Artefact
1 Vandalblast
1 Void Snare
1 Windfall

8)   Nicholas Chmielewski – “The Nick C Special” Turbo Tezzeret
Lands (15)
4 Polluted Delta
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Flooded Strand
2 Underground Sea
1 Tolarian Academy
5 Island

Spells (45)
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Black Lotus

4 Force of Will
4 Tezzeret the Seeker
4 Voltaic Key
3 Grim Monolith
2 Mana Drain
3 Sensei’s Divining Top
2 Thoughtseize
2 Misdirection
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Imperial Seal
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Gift’s Ungiven
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Tinker
1 Brainstorm
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Time Vault

Sideboard (15)
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
3 Yaxlid Jailer
2 Hurkyl’s Recall
2 Toxic Deluge
2 Thoughtseize
1 Misdirection
1 Trinisphere

Once again congratulations to everybody who made the way out to eternal MASTERS 2014. It was a fantastic event and I can’t wait to see you all here next year.

Maybe we can get some of those pesky Kiwi’s to come over next year 