Eudemonia Spring Vintage (23players) Results! Lists! Pics!

[LotusHead]

We had 23 players, half of who I didn't know, so thanks to probably the Vintage Super League for helping generate interest!

Standings after 5 rounds of swiss: Sorry for the incompleteness. My pic of top 8 standings was blurry
1 Eric Campusano (ecampee)
2 Richard Hayes Shops
3 Joe Barthall -UW Stoneblade
4 Tom Andrews - Shops
5 Michael Lynch - Monoblue Dark Depths/Standstill
6 Michael mekeel - Martello Shops
7 Michael Dungen- UB Rector Show/Tell Omniscience
8 Stephen Menendian - UWR Monestary Mentor

There were Show and Tell/Omiscience/Oath, Shops in top 8.
Hopefully people can feed me the correct names once pics/lists are up.
Now, off to see THe Walking Dead!

(Stephen was in the finals versus a Shop player when I left. Stephen should have deckslists)
Top 8 Decklists

1st Place: Stephen Menendian

"Mentor Control"

3 Monastery Mentor
3 Young Pyromancer
4 Mental Misstep
4 Force of Will
2 Flusterstorm
2 Pyroblast
1 Misdirection
2 Dack Fayden
4 Preordain
4 Gush
1 Treasure Cruise
4 Dig Through Time
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
3 Swords to Plowshares

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Lotus Petal
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Polluted Delta
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Flooded Strand
3 Tundra
3 Volcanic Island
1 Island

Sideboard:

1 Stony Silence
1 Mountain
4 Ingot Chewer
3 Shattering Spree
1 Pyroblast
4 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Wear/Tear

2nd Place: Richard Hayes

4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Wasteland
4 Ancient Tomb
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Strip Mine

4 Chalice of the Void
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Tangle Wire

4 Koldotha Forgemaster
3 Phyrexian Revoker
2 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 MOx Pearl
1 Black Lotus
1 Sundering Titan
1 Karn, Silver Golem
1 Trinisphere
1 Duplicant
1 Steel Hellkite

Sideboard:
3 Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
2 Dismember
1 Wurmcoil Engine
4 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Triskelion
3 Crucible of Worlds

3rd Place: Tom Andrews
4 Monastery Mentor

4 Force of Will
4 Mental Misstep
2 Flusterstorm
2 Pyroblast
2 Misdirection

4 Preordain
4 Gush
4 Dig Through Time

1 Treasure Cruise
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
1 Mystical
1 Time Walk

2 Dack Fayden

3 Swords to Plowshares

1 Stony Silence

1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
3 Tundra
3 Volcanic Island
1 Island
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Polluted Delta

SB:

1 Pyroblast
1 Containment Priest
4 Cage

2 Wear/Tear

4 Ingot Chewer
1 Hurkyl Recall's
1 Pulvarize
1 Mountain

4th Place: Joe Barthel

1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Sol Ring
1 Black Lotus
3 Tundra
2 Island
1 Plains
4 Flooded Strand
2 Scalding Tarn

4 Gitaxian Probe
3 Mental Misstep
3 Stoneforge Mystic
4 Monastery Mentor
2 Flusterstorm
4 Preordain
4 Dig Through Time
4 Force of Will
2 Sensei's Divining Top
2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Batterskull
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
1 Repeal
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Time Walk

Sideboard:

1 Disenchant
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Flusterstorm
1 Balance
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Back to Basics
3 Rest in Peace
4 Grafdigger's Cage

5th Place: Eric Campusano

1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Snapcaster Mage
3 Mana Drain
4 Mental Misstep
1 Ancestral Recall
2 Flusterstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
1 Time Walk
2 Dack Fayden
2 Lightning Bolt
1 Tinker
1 Dig Through Time
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Ponder

1 Tundra
1 Island
3 Volcanic Island
3 Underground Sea
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Polluted Delta
1 Tolarian Academy
5 Moxen
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Black Lotus

Sideboard:
1 Balance
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Containment Priest
1 Flusterstorm
1 Mountain
4 Grafdigger's Cage
4 Ingot Chewer

6th Place: Michael Lynch

4 Scalding Tarn
1 Flooded Strand
4 Thespian's Stage
4 Dark Depths
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
1 Island
2 Ingot Chewer
2 Crucible of Worlds
2 Engineered Explosives
1 Black Lotus
1 Snow-Covered Island
1 Misdirection
1 Mindbreak Trap
4 Force of Will
1 Karakas
2 Gitaxian Probe
2 Expedition Map
3 Tolaria West
3 Mental MIsstep
3 Mana Drain
1 Mana Leak
3 Jace, TMS
1 Ancestral Recall
3 Standstill
2 Volcanic Island
1 Tropical Island
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Izzet Charm

Sideboard:
4 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Mountain
1 Mental Misstep
3 Ancient Grudge
2 Ingot Chewer
1 Cruciblle of Worlds
1 Null Rod


7th Place:  Michael Mekeel

Creatures (18)
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Kuldotha Forgemaster
3 Phyrexian Revoker
2 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Duplicant
1 Sundering Titan
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Batterskull
1 Triskelion

Mana (18 land, 8 fast mana)
7 SoLoMoxen
1 Mana Crypt
4 Mishra's Workshop
2 Mishra's Factory
2 Cavern of Souls
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
4 Ancient Tomb

Hate (16)
3 Sphere of Resistance
4 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Trinisphere
4 Tangle Wire
4 Chalice of the Void

SB:
1 Triskelion
1 Wurmcoil Engine
3 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Witchbane Orb
1 Pithing Needle
1 Precursor Golem
3 Crucible of Worlds
1 Duplicant
1 Ghost Quarter

8th Place: Michael Dugan

4 Force of Will
3 Cabal Therapy
1 Rebuild
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Flash
4 Show and Tell
3 Academy Rector
4 Gifts Ungiven
1 Omniscience
1 Yawgmoth's Bargain
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Ancient Tomb
4 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
1 Scalding Tarn
3 Underground Sea
2 Tundra
1 Island
1 Swamp
1 Ponder
1 Griselbrand
3 Gitaxian Probe
1 Preordain

1 Rebuild
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Energy Flux
1 Serenity
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Mental Misstep
2 Defense Grid
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Ravenous Trap
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite


Game 1 vs Rachael in her first Magic Tourney:She plays her fat dudes, but myt 12/12 is fatter!


Control mirrors have boring boardstates.


Galen (aardshark) has his turn 1 Emrakul. Will it be good enough vs Storm?


Stoneforge Mystic still doing work.


BC and I chose not to play shops today, But shops still appeared!


I Think he was new to playing Dredge, hence the nice neat GY pile.


I think that's a Webster token.  So Ochoa did kinda make an appearance.


Batterskulling through the hate.


Well, I won all the games that I resolved first turn Monastery Mentor.  I didn't know how to side vs the Beta Dual Lands matchup.  Dustin corrected me: They are Alpha Duals.  Sheesh!


Witchbade Orb meant go for the Simian Spirit Guide beatdown plan.


Hey! Kinda reminds me of redhead guy on The Walking Dead Batterskulling in all those walkers!


Omniscience is dangerous.


Brainz! 6 Monks try to hold off the hoard...


Omniscience is still dangerous. But I almost beat the first turn omniscience.  ALmost...


Smennen puts his plainswalkers to WORK!


Top eight:
Eric vs Stephen


Top 8: Michael vs Joe


Top 8 ?? vs Michael


TOp 8: ??shops vs ?? Mentor


Michael faces down brutal topdeck after topdeck by Shop player


Shop player has to solve the puzzle and not make mistakes under BC's watchful eye.





Shop player trying to guess Blue player's card in hand: Force or Hurkyl's?


Stephen: I blocked Batterskull with 4 tokens. I Kill Batterskull, yes? (or so I heard...)


Casts preordain, Pyroblast's it, and Mental Misteps the Pyroblast after Gushing, Digging and so forth. My seven tokens are like 8/8 badasses now!


Finals: Stephen in no mood to split. He wants to test his uber shophate for VSL!




Michael's made several top 8's at Eudo. His deck looks pretty cool. Can't wait to see list.

[GalacticHitchHiker]

#4 would be Tom Andrews. It was super exciting to play my first paper Vintage tournament, and I had a great time discussing my deck throughout with Steve Menendian. (A 74 card copy of Steve's deck from VSL with one sideboard change.)

[mmmekeel]

Amazingly fun as always, thank you to everyone who attended. I would strongly support doing these more than 4 times per year.

Michael Mekeel on Martello Shops (Michael Lynch was on Landstill, other Michael was on UB Rector Gifts, apologies if I switched you two as well)

My list:

Creatures (18)
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Kuldotha Forgemaster
3 Phyrexian Revoker
2 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Duplicant
1 Sundering Titan
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Batterskull
1 Triskelion

Mana (18 land, 8 fast mana)
7 SoLoMoxen
1 Mana Crypt
4 Mishra's Workshop
2 Mishra's Factory
2 Cavern of Souls
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
4 Ancient Tomb

Hate (16)
3 Sphere of Resistance
4 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Trinisphere
4 Tangle Wire
4 Chalice of the Void

SB:
1 Triskelion
1 Wurmcoil Engine
3 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Witchbane Orb
1 Pithing Needle
1 Precursor Golem
3 Crucible of Worlds
1 Duplicant
1 Ghost Quarter

[mpd]

I'm the Michael that was on Rector Omnigifts (my last name is Dungan).

My list:

4 Force of Will
3 Cabal Therapy
1 Rebuild
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Flash
4 Show and Tell
3 Academy Rector
4 Gifts Ungiven
1 Omniscience
1 Yawgmoth's Bargain
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Ancient Tomb
4 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
1 Scalding Tarn
3 Underground Sea
2 Tundra
1 Island
1 Swamp
1 Ponder
1 Griselbrand
3 Gitaxian Probe
1 Preordain

1 Rebuild
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Energy Flux
1 Serenity
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Mental Misstep
2 Defense Grid
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Ravenous Trap
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

[grandpa_MTG]

can't believe I missed this I live a few miles away from Eudemonia. dang!

[NosferatuStuff]

Sadly I confused the dates, and thought it was Saturday.  Hold another one next month so I can go looks awesome!

[Shadowuni]

Michael Mekeel, your list looks familiar How did your games go?

[mmmekeel]

Michael Mekeel, your list looks familiar How did your games go?

First time playing shops, actually, so I netdecked your Black Magic Invitational list for sure and it felt great. I went with the 2/2 Cavern/Factory split given I was not qualified to make the hard decisions and Factory actually did more work for me than Cavern did, but it's a very small sample size. I never saw Batterskull. MVP Triskelion killed 4 Mentors and 4 Tokens throughout the day, which was the nuts.

Beat UWR Mentor – 1 classic Shops blowout win and 1 good grindy win
Lost to UW Stoneforge 2-1 – 1 bad keep, 1 mull to 5 loss, and one classic shops blowout win
Beat FoW Dredge – 1 classic Dredge mull to oblivion win with a Wasteland for when he actually drew the Bazaar on turn 5, then game 2 Forgemaster -> Metamorphed a Marit Lage token for the block, swing back win.
Beat UBR Welder/Dack/Notion Thief – 1 blowout win and 1 grindy win (Revoker on Dack, Needle on Welder, otherwise that would have devolved quickly).
ID with Rector Gifts – 1 grindy win, 1 turn 1 Trinisphere into no lands for the rest of the game and a hand full of Lodestones and Tangle Wires loss, and 1 blowout loss

Heartbreaker loss in top 8 to the same UWR Mentor. Again, 1 Shops blowout win, 1 grindy loss to 5 8/8 monks and a 9/9 mentor or something. Final play of a grindfest game 3 (enshrined above) was the choice between the "safe" play of Sphere of Resistance vs. the win or lose play of jamming Sundering Titan. Went with Sphere since I assumed 2 DTTs would have gotten him a Force, and got blown out with Hurkyl's -> Ingot Chewer -> Wear/Tear -> attack for 8 with 2 Monk tokens. Turns out he didn't have the Force and Titan would have gotten there with a Lodestone Golem, Sphere, and Chalice for 1 out. Still trying to decide whether it was the right expected value play, or a total bonehead play (likely the latter, as BC disapproved of my decision), but that's what I get for playing a new deck every tournament.

[Smmenen]

Since Lotushead started this thread before me, as soon as I have a free 20 minutes, I'll type up the lists and have Lotushead edit his and post and include them in the OP.  

I had a great time, and fought through the entire top 8 despite being the 8th seed, winning all three matches.  

Decks are in the original post now!

[JarofFortune]

This was a very fun event, as always. I have a couple of disclaimers about my list:

I procrastinated on buying cards in my deck for too long. I was able to get some at the store, but I was at the proxy limit. This meant that I was unable to play Mox Sapphire or Time Walk. I desperately tried to find a fourth standstill at the event, but could not, so I replaced it with an Izzet Charm. The Charm disappointed me somewhat, mainly because my manabase is not like those of other landstill decks; It is slightly harder to get UR when it matters.  Despite these glaring issues, I'm happy with how the deck performed. Most of the games that I lost were very close.

I would strongly support doing these more than 4 times per year.

 
I second this. Blaine was supportive of doing these 6 times a year, and I think that seems reasonable.

[brianpk80]

I think you guys should have Vintage 12 times a year.  Congrats to Stephen and to Michael for that rockin' Landstill brew. 

[LotusHead]

top 8 lists and Top 8 player names have now been sorted out and in original post.

Quote from: mmmekeel on March 16, 2015, 01:35:18 PM
I would strongly support doing these more than 4 times per year.
 
I second this. Blaine was supportive of doing these 6 times a year, and I think that seems reasonable.

With the hugely popular VSL thing happening, maybe now is the time to get back to bi-monthly Eudo Vintage tournies (and kickstart Vacaville's as well)

[GalacticHitchHiker]

Minor correction, I (#4) was on UWR Mentor, not Shops.

Here are the few photos I took at the event:



This was my board at the end of Game 2 in the Quarterfinals vs. Shops. Not too bad.



The final turn of a game in the semifinal match with Menendian vs Stone Blade.

"Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to put three spells on the stack without passing priority. Preordain, Misstep, Pyroblast my Preordain." - Menendian



Game 3 of the finals, in which Menendian came back from a dangerous situation facing down a Chalice on 2 with Young Pyromancer + Wear//Tear in hand by managing to hard cast 3 Ingot Chewers in one game.

[Smmenen]

top 8 lists and Top 8 player names have now been sorted out and in original post.

Quote from: mmmekeel on March 16, 2015, 01:35:18 PM
I would strongly support doing these more than 4 times per year.
 
I second this. Blaine was supportive of doing these 6 times a year, and I think that seems reasonable.

With the hugely popular VSL thing happening, maybe now is the time to get back to bi-monthly Eudo Vintage tournies (and kickstart Vacaville's as well)

We talked about that, and I think we are going to try to keep maximum interest by keeping these quarterly.  We tried to space them closer last year, and it didn't work out. 

[luudes]

So if I remember correctly the last conversation about vintage tournament numbers, the total number tournaments was conflated with old school magic. I would be quite happy with bimonthly vintage instead of trimonthly. The second to last was around xmas, which I missed because of xmas travel, and I missed the last because of work travel so I won't have a chance to play for 3/4 of the year on the current schedule. Given that 23 showed up (a record since restarting eudo vintage), perhaps it is time to open this conversation up again.

[Smmenen]

So if I remember correctly the last conversation about vintage tournament numbers, the total number tournaments was conflated with old school magic.

That is not the case.  http://www.themanadrain.com/index.php?topic=46702.0

[luudes]

ah so i did remember correctly, the conversation began as I remembered it and was rerouted to properly separate the two... by me.
anyway, are you actually trying to present a counterpoint to my "more vintage is good" argument? That seems like an odd position for you to take. 23 people is a record turnout so the logical next step is clearly to just ignore the new players calling for more vintage.

[Smmenen]

ah so i did remember correctly, the conversation began as I remembered it and was rerouted to properly separate the two... by me.
anyway, are you actually trying to present a counterpoint to my "more vintage is good" argument? That seems like an odd position for you to take. 23 people is a record turnout so the logical next step is clearly to just ignore the new players calling for more vintage.

No I'm saying we aren't conflating those numbers. That tournanrnt had 9 players bc it was spaced 1.5 months after the previous.  Everyone in that thread said the reason was because we had too many events.

[BC]

I might try to put together a Vacaville tournament within the next 6-8 weeks to see how it goes. If we get a good turnout and the next Eudemonia tournament doesn't suffer, it will be an indication that the current interest in Vintage is enough to support more than quarterly tournaments.

[GalacticHitchHiker]

You could count me down for a Vacaville tournament. I'm looking to play as much Vintage as I can before I move out of the state in July.

[lizardking1545]

This may not be the place for this question but why don't more shops players run Metalworker?

[strip miner]

Great turnout everyone, and congrats on the win, Steve. Wish I could have been there!

[potato]

23 players?! That's awesome, I need to start showing up again!

[grandpa_MTG]

I'm in for Vacaville

[LotusHead]

So I played a shitty Monestary Mentor deck without really researching recent tech. I got a job now, so I bought 4 mentors, sleeved them up and ran with it.
Against one of the Mike's, I cast Swords to Plowshares against his Ingot Chewer, and he misdirected it to one of my dudes.  It had been so long since I played blue, that stories of fucking this situation up got me paranoid, so I called over a judge to clear up how misdirecting his misdirection worked. I finally figured out that the correct play was to let his MisD resolve, then Misd the Swords again.

Days later, I remembered that Misdirection (I think) functions like Force of Will in this case. or does it? Damn, I'm now more paranoid!

[H]

So I played a shitty Monestary Mentor deck without really researching recent tech. I got a job now, so I bought 4 mentors, sleeved them up and ran with it.
Against one of the Mike's, I cast Swords to Plowshares against his Ingot Chewer, and he misdirected it to one of my dudes.  It had been so long since I played blue, that stories of fucking this situation up got me paranoid, so I called over a judge to clear up how misdirecting his misdirection worked. I finally figured out that the correct play was to let his MisD resolve, then Misd the Swords again.

Days later, I remembered that Misdirection (I think) functions like Force of Will in this case. or does it? Damn, I'm now more paranoid!

Misdirection can function almost as a Force of Will when it targets a counterspell of some sort.  This is because Misdirection can change the target of the counterspell to Misdirection (it is a legal target while resolving, because it is still a spell on the stack) and so when the counterspell resolves it does nothing (Misdirection has already resolved).

In the case you presented, doesn't seem like Misdirecting the Misdirection would do anything, so it seems like you found the right play to save your dude.  Obviously Misdirection can't change the target of Swords to itself, since it isn't a creature.

[eliotd]

I would definitely support bi-monthly events. Bummed that I missed this one.

Have folks considered putting together a mailing list that people would sign up for at the events, so that interested players would get notification/reminder of upcoming events without having to proactively check here?

[diophan]

So I played a shitty Monestary Mentor deck without really researching recent tech. I got a job now, so I bought 4 mentors, sleeved them up and ran with it.
Against one of the Mike's, I cast Swords to Plowshares against his Ingot Chewer, and he misdirected it to one of my dudes.  It had been so long since I played blue, that stories of fucking this situation up got me paranoid, so I called over a judge to clear up how misdirecting his misdirection worked. I finally figured out that the correct play was to let his MisD resolve, then Misd the Swords again.

Days later, I remembered that Misdirection (I think) functions like Force of Will in this case. or does it? Damn, I'm now more paranoid!

In the case you presented, doesn't seem like Misdirecting the Misdirection would do anything, so it seems like you found the right play to save your dude.  Obviously Misdirection can't change the target of Swords to itself, since it isn't a creature.

Unless I'm being silly, you can misdirect the misdirection onto your misdirection. I don't see why this would be better than misdirecting the STP after the first misdirection resolves, but it should still work.

[Space_Stormy]

Awesome! Glad to see your reports again, LotusHead!

[LotusHead]

I would definitely support bi-monthly events. Bummed that I missed this one.

Have folks considered putting together a mailing list that people would sign up for at the events, so that interested players would get notification/reminder of upcoming events without having to proactively check here?

We have a Facebook page called NorCal Vintage Scene that we post announcements on.  But if you want an email notification (ie if you don't do the facebook thing), then PM me your email, and I'd be happy to email you personally. Same for anyone else, but really, our Facebook Page  and TMD is the two main ways we advertize.