Eudemonia Winter Vintage Results! Lists! Pics!

[LotusHead]

Well, results for now:

19 players, 5 rounds of swiss, cut to top 8

1 Blaine Christiansen (BC Stax)
2 John Rowe (UR Delver)
3 Stephen Menendian (RUG Delver)
4 Heiner Litz MUD Stax
5 Eliot Burk (Control Dredge/Dark Depths SB)
6 Sam Sherman (UR)
7 Brett Allen (Oath)
8 Michael Mekeel (Oath)


Top 4, Blaine lost to Elliot, Sam lost to Brett.
I heard Brett and Michael split the finals!

More pics, lists and such to come.  But of course, I will post dredge list now
1st/2nd
Elliot Burk.

4 Force of Will
4 Mental Mistep
4 Mindbreak Trap
4 Narcomeba
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Serum Powder
4 Chancellor of the Annex (not a typo)
4 Golgari Grave Troll
4 Bridge from Below
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Petrified Field
4 Stinkweed Imp
4 Ichorid
4 Golgari Thug
1 Urborg, tomb of yawgmoth
1 Flamekin Zealot
2 Dread Return
SB
4 Dark Depths
2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
2 Vampire Hexmage
4 Thespian's Stage
1 Riftstone Portal

1st/2nd
Brett Allen

1 blacklotus
1 mox emerald
1 mox jet
1 mox pearl
1 mox ruby
1 mox sapphire
1 sol ring
1 time vault
1 voltaic key
1 demonic tutor
2 greselbrand
2 thoughtseize
1 vampiric tutor
1 yawgmoth's will
1 ancestral recall
1 brainstorm
2 dig through time
1 flusterstorm
4 force of will
1 hurkyl's recall
1 jace, the mind sculptor
3 mental mistep
1 misdirection
1 mystical tutor
1 ponder
3 preordain
1 show and tell
1 time walk
1 memory's journey
1 abrupt decay
4 Oath of Druids
4 forbidden orchard
1 island
1 library of alexandria
4 misty rainforest
1 strip mine
2 tropical island
3 underground sea

Sideboard
2 abrupt decay
2 duress
1 forest
3 leyline of the void
3 nature's claim
2 nihil spellbomb
1 pyroblast
1 toxic deluge

3rd/4th
Blaine Christiansen

4 Mishra's Factory
4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Buried Ruin
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
4 Lodestone Golem
3 Phyrexian Revoker
2 Triskelion
2 Phyrexian Metamorph
4 Tangle Wire
4 Smokestack
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Sphere of Resistance
3 Crucible of Worlds
1 Trinisphere

Sideboard

4 grafdigger's Cage
2 Tormod's Crypt
2 Tabernacle at Pendral Vale
2 ratchet bomb
2 Wurmcoil Engine
1 Batterskull
2 Witchbane Orb

3rd/4th
Sam Sherman
1 Yawgmoth's Will
4 Mental Mistep
3 Volcanic Island
2 Island
2 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Polluted Delta
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Flooded Strand
3 Young Pyromancer
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
2 Dig Through TIme
4 Force of Will
1 Mana Drain
2 Jace, The Mind Sculptor
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Time Walk
1 Flusterstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Preordain
1 Ponder
4 Gush
2 Lightning Bolt
1 Empty the Warrens
1 Fire/Ice
1 Fastbond
1 Sol Ring

Sideboard
1 electricity
1 Dack Fayden
1 Nihil Spellbomb
3 Ingot Chewer
1 Yixlid Jailor
2 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Nature's Claim
1 Tormod's Crypt
2 Trygon Predator
1 Pyroblast
1 Mountain

5th-8th
Michael Mekeel

2 GriselBrand
4 Oath of Druids
1 Tezzeret, The Seeker
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
2 Dig Through Time
1 Flusterstorm
1 Misdirection
1 Ancestral Recall
4 Force of Will
4 Mental Mistep
1 Vampiric Tutor
2 Abrupt Decay
1 Brainstorm
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Show And Tell
1 Ponder
3 Preordain
2 Thoughtseize
1 Demonic Tutor
3 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
4 Forbidden Orchard
3 Misty Rainforest
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Strip Mine
1 Library at Alexandria
1 Island

Sideboard

4 Leyline of the Void
1 Nihil Spellbomb
2 ravenous trap
4 nature's claim
1 abrupt decay
2 duress
1 toxic deluge

5th-8th
Heiner Litz
1 Black Lotus
4 Chalice of the Void
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
2 Smokestack
1 Sol Ring
3 Sphere of Resistance
4 Tangle Wire
4 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Trinisphere
1 Mana Vault
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Phyrexian Metamorph
4 Phyrexian Revoker
2 Triskelion
4 Ancient Tomb
1 City of Traitors
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Mishra's Workshop
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
1 4 Wasteland

Sideboard
3 Crucible of Worlds
4 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Relic of Progenitus
1 Duplicant
1 Steel Hellkite
2 Wurmcoild Engine
2 Ratchet Bomb

5th-8th
Stephen Menendian

3 Delver of Secrets
4 young pyromancer
2 trygon predator
4 force of will
2 pyroblast
2 flusterstorm
1 misdirection
4 preordain
4 gush
3 treasure cruise
1 ancient grudge
1 ancestral recall
1 time walk
1 ponder
1 brainstorm
1 mystical tutor
3 lightning bolt
1 fire/ice
1 dack fayden
4 scalding tarn
1 polluted delta
1 flooded strand
1 strip mine
1 misty rainforest
3 volcanic island
2 tropical island
1 black lotus
1 mox sapphire
1 mox ruby
1 island

sideboard
3 tabernacle of pendral vale
1 null rod
3 grafdigger's cage
1 pyroblast
1 mountain
4 ingot chewer
1 nature's claim
1 ancient grudge

5th-8th
John Rowe

4 Delver of Secrets
4 Young Pyromancer
2 Dack Fayden
1 ancestral recall
1 brainstorm
4 force of will
3 gitaxian probe
2 gush
3 lightning bolt
4 mental mistep
1 ponder
4 preordain
3 pyroblast
1 time walk
3 treasure cruise
1 black lotus
3 grafdigger's cage
1 mox ruby
1 mox sapphire
2 island
3 polluted delta
4 scalding tarn
1 strip mine
1 tropical island
3 volcanic island

Sideboard

4 ingot chewer
2 ancient grudge
1 electrickery
2 fluster storm
4 ravenous trap
1 goblin bombardment
1 mountain



EDIT: During the tourney, I got paired up against THE David Ochoa, he crushed me. I has super awesome draws, but his were more awesome. I then got paired up vs Dustin (a semi-regular who sometimes travelled 80 miles to Vacaville for his Vintage fix (if I recall),and we battled. G3 I somehow won an improbable game, but the Judge noticed that I had a cellphone out taking pictures of gamestates, etc. As you may or may not know, Electronic Devices are a no-no at competetive REL nowadays. Also, this judge didn't know me, or what I do for the NorCal vintage scene. He asked me to put away my cellphone (understandable), and after explaining what I use it for, he was hesitant, but after prodding from David Ochoa "just let him take his pics, it's really ok...", the judge asked that I asked for permission (and probably not take pics of games I was playing in).  So later in the tourney, I observed games, and when something interesting happened, I was like "say guys, mind if I take a pic of the gamestate?" answer was always yes.  Later I reflected on the community/peer aspect of our Vintage scene and how we always treat each other with respect, listen to stories of bad beats/and/or awesome plays, and we all accept that crazy things happen in Vintage. "I lost to Vampiric Tutor, doh!"  I really appreciate the respect that we treat each other, and don't hate on unconventional deck choices, and appreciate the feedback we give each other about bad plays, misunderstood rules mechanics, and ultimately respect for the judge to keep things as real as possible (even though our judge made some incorrect calls due to this being his first Vintage tourney gig).

In short, I hadn't played Vintage tourneys for about 6 months, and even though I went 1-4, I had a blast!

[Hrishi]

Your story about the judge ruling is one of the best parts of playing Vintage. I've found sometimes the judge rulings are quite.. amusing in that they're not wrong, just it's not something many of us care about. I can't remember the names or the details off-hand, but I remember a time when somebody's opponent was late to a match by some minutes and got ruled a game loss. His opponent appealed the game loss to get it overturned so that they could play 3 full games instead. I don't believe the appeal was unsuccessful, but it's still an amusing anecdote!

[JarofFortune]

It's awesome to see us get a high turnout again. I would've loved to be there, but sometimes life gets in the way. Looking forward to the pics .

[heiner]

That dredge list looks horrible. At least the chancellors are definitely crap which made it even more embarrassing to loose 2:0.
In T8 I mull to 6 and keep a SNIP hand of wasteland, land, mox, thorn, golem, mishra. I drop the thorn, draw a Workshop to play t2 Golem and waste his BoB. Looks pretty good, but he has the 2nd Bazaar..
2nd game I keep wasteland, workshop, mana crypt, Golem, Golem, Golem, sphere. He has 2 BoBs again!

Besides the tournament was fun and I had a great time, thanks for organizing Steve.

[wiley]

That dredge list looks horrible. At least the chancellors are definitely crap which made it even more embarrassing to loose 2:0.
In T8 I mull to 6 and keep a SNIP hand of wasteland, land, mox, thorn, golem, mishra. I drop the thorn, draw a Workshop to play t2 Golem and waste his BoB. Looks pretty good, but he has the 2nd Bazaar..
2nd game I keep wasteland, workshop, mana crypt, Golem, Golem, Golem, sphere. He has 2 BoBs again!

Besides the tournament was fun and I had a great time, thanks for organizing Steve.

I don't get it.  In game 1 you both had lucky hands, him with 2 BoBs and you drawing the shop off the top to be able to put up a quicker than 10 turn clock.  In game 2 you had 3 of a sick 4 of in your hand and he had 2 of a sick 4 of in his...  These games seem far more fair than the average dredge or workshop match.

Glad to see you guys getting good turn outs.  Were the oath decks Fenton style with show and tells or something else?

[heiner]

These games seem far more fair than the average dredge or workshop match.

Exactly, this matchup isn't supposed to be a fair one. With 4 cages, 4 wasteland, 2 ratched bomb, 2 Relics (+12 spheres) Ichorid in general doesn't stand a chance. Do the math, the probability for having 2 BoBs is much smaller then me having 2 hate cards.

[Smmenen]

There were at least two players playing Dredge, and the person who made top 8 was Eliot.  Lotushead, I think you may have posted the wrong decklists, but I'm not sure.

I played Eliot in round 3 to a draw, and he had the Dark Depths combo. 

I'm looking forward to seeing the top 8 decklists

[LotusHead]

Lists are up, let me know if anything doesn't add up. Pics later.

[eliotd]

In order to make things as confusing as possible, there were actually two players playing Dredge, both named Eliot.

The one in the top 8 was Eliot Burk. I imagine he put Adam Pierce in the "Desk Designer" spot on the deck list sheet to give credit for the Dark Depths idea (http://www.eternalcentral.com/the-dredge-of-glory-an-introduction-to-manaless-dredge-in-vintage).

Great time even though I didn't know how to play my deck -- will probably go back to Shops next time (I am the other Eliot who was playing Dredge). Thanks to Sam and Heiner for tolerating my ineptitude. I learned a lot, which was the goal, and actually had some really interactive, close and interesting games with Ibrahim in the last round.

Looking forward to the next Vintage and/or Old School event!

[Smmenen]

That dredge list looks horrible. At least the chancellors are definitely crap which made it even more embarrassing to loose 2:0.
In T8 I mull to 6 and keep a SNIP hand of wasteland, land, mox, thorn, golem, mishra. I drop the thorn, draw a Workshop to play t2 Golem and waste his BoB. Looks pretty good, but he has the 2nd Bazaar..
2nd game I keep wasteland, workshop, mana crypt, Golem, Golem, Golem, sphere. He has 2 BoBs again!

Besides the tournament was fun and I had a great time, thanks for organizing Steve.

my pleasure.

i don't think you can expect to beat Dredge, however, with Wastelands and Spheres alone.  If you had a Cage or Tabernacle, then I would have been surprised.  

@lotushead, thanks for putting up all of the decklists

[tribet]

@ LotusHead, you went through all this trouble taking pics during the event. Maybe this is a good forum to share.

@ Steve, 2 Acall is your list and only 58 cards I think (I counted 3 times looking at my phone with different results each time!). Tabernacle alone, can't stop hasty Ichorids, Bloodghast or a Zealoted army. If you have chumpblockers its already better. Did you test them with other matchups in mind? Like the mirror?

[tribet]

3 Misstep it must be!

[Smmenen]

3 Misstep it must be!

Indeed it is!

No, Tabernacle is strictly there for Dredge.

Tabernacle can't alone stop Hasty Ichorids, etc, but I have found that Tabernacle slows down the rate of creature production, makes it much more difficult for them to strip away my hand and combo out.  This allows my countermagic to become relevant, which means that I can actually counter Dread Return by the time they can actually cast it.  Also, The rate of creature production is slower such that Pyromancer tokens, etc can actually block them up.  Finally, Tabernacle means that they have to rely more on Bridges, which Ingot Chewer and Cage both stop.  So, rather than trying to find silver bullets, I have a set of answers that work very well together (except for the disynergy between Cage and Chewer, which is fine).  Also, it means that I can keep hands that I wouldn't be able to keep before.  I really like this anti-Dredge configuration.

[LotusHead]

@ LotusHead, you went through all this trouble taking pics during the event. Maybe this is a good forum to share.

When I got home, I immediately went out to tutor two different students. After Job #1 I typed up decklists. Now I'm home from Job #2 and will get to pics. Then go tutor another student. Patience!


Round 1 paired up against David Ochoa. He redblasts my turn 1 time walk because what else is he gonna redblast vs 5c shops?


my Trike tries and tries to hold off the David Ochoa Token army.


Blaine and his chessboard of nasty artifacts...


Dustin Shows me a Gristlebrand, I Show him a Duplicant!


Brett Allen (Hiryu) clearly not worried about any of my silly artifacts. He's a tutor away from the win!


Grislebrand vs the Revokers, I think.


Heiner Litz rocking with the Workshops today!


I got to admit, Elliot's dredge deck DID have so many insane plays! Like lots and lots of Bazaars!


This isn't laying out a deck for fine tuning. This is dredge's gamestate.


Aahz coulda put in Ancient Tombs to lose ALL the life from lands!


Dustin looking for gas...


Ocho Overload!


Memnarch Picks Aahz's pockets and nabs a beta Mox Ruby, greaves up and kicks him in the nuts!


The turn before, I had Trinisphere in play and Aahz on 2 land. I get fancy, then lose.


Sam Sherman's Jailor locking up all the dredgers in the grave.


New faces that showed up because of TMD threads and our NorCal Vintage Scene FB group (and Ocho's twitter feed)


Gushbond during YawgWill turn. Empty the Warrens happens...


Patrick and ye ol' Turn 1 Oath of Druids play.


Top 8 Elliot vs Heiner


and 2nd Bazaar...


Smennen and his Trygon Beast.


G2, waste your bazaar, triple Lodestone beats, gg?


Elliot's at five, I guess...


Blaine's Smokestack did WORK vs Michael


Like eating his own Mana Crypt.


I don't know what Sam does vs 1st turn Oath


He sure don't scoop, that's for sure. Brett got to play it out,taking his infy turns until hardcasting gristlebrand 10 turns later...


Blaine's Trinisphere Mindbreak Trapped by the dredge player. (aww...)


Sam trying to play Magic...


A fight is brewing...


Blaine has front row seats to watch Elliot play Magic!


Elliot still won't just die!

[APriestOfGix]

Not sure why I am John (mike) Rowe, as I have no idea who mike is. 

Was a please meeting all of you.  Had a great time at my first NorCal Vintage event.  Just as welcoming and fun as the SoCal scene!

[thecrav]

Round 1 paired up against David Ochoa. He redblasts my turn 1 time walk because what else is he gonna redblast vs 5c shops?

I'm sad this picture is blurry because I'm a huge fan of 5c shops and I'd love to see what it looked like!

[keys]

Smmenen's list:

2 ancestral recall

Pro!

[LotusHead]

Smmenen's list:

2 ancestral recall

Pro!

Fixed

[Smmenen]

Thanks to Jeff for taking great photos.  I loaded my deck for the Workshop matchup, since we have so many good Workshop pilots, but unfortunately didn't get to play against one  

[Samoht]

Thanks to Jeff for taking great photos.  I loaded my deck for the Workshop mirror, since we have so many good Workshop pilots, but unfortunately didn't get to play against one  

Workshop Mirror? It says you were on URg Delver? I'm confused.

[LotusHead]

My accomplishments at this tourney were A) Having and awesome time B) Winning the game against the first turn Jace 2.0 somehow, and C) Getting a kill with Memnarch.

[aahz]

C) Getting a kill with Memnarch.

Despite being on the wrong end of that (not to mention my terrible deck), this was a really fun event. I had almost forgotten how awesome grinding a bunch of Vintage is.

My losing horribly was all worth it though since I twice managed to pull off Burning Wish --> Slaughter Games to conveniently rid my Oath opponents' decks/hands/etc. of that pesky Captain Hooks.