Xtreme Games March 2015 Decklists & Metagame Breakdown

[JACO]

Xtreme Games hosted their monthly Vintage tournament, and below you can find the Top 8 decklists, as well as a brief metagame breakdown of all decks played. Thanks to the 16 peeps who came out!

Top 8 Decklists, by Final Standing
Tasigur Gifts Bomberman, by Mike Solymossy – 1st Place
Business
4 Force of Will
1 Misdirection
3 Mental Misstep
2 Flusterstorm
2 Mana Drain
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
2 Gitaxian Probe
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Thirst for Knowledge
3 Dig Through Time
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
3 Gifts Ungiven
2 Monastery Mentor
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Auriok Salvagers
1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
1 Unburial Rites

Mana Sources
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
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Cavern of Souls
4 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
2 Tundra
2 Underground Sea
2 Island
1 Strip Mine

Sideboard
2 Stony Silence
1 Notion Thief
1 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Pithing Needle
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Dismember
1 Annul
1 Disenchant
1 Kataki, War’s Wage
1 Serenity
1 Energy Flux
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Plains

Grixis Painter, by Derek Apfel - 2nd Place
Business
4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
2 Pyroblast
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Mana Drain
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Thirst for Knowledge
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Tinker
1 Blightsteel Colossus
4 Dark Confidant
2 Snapcaster Mage
3 Painter's Servant
2 Grindstone
1 Yawgmoth's Will

Mana Sources
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mana Crypt
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Library of Alexandria
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Flooded Strand
3 Underground Sea
3 Volcanic Island
2 Island

Sideboard
3 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Ravenous Trap
2 Lightning Bolt
3 Ingot Chewer
2 Pyroclasm
1 Nihil Spellbomb
3 Hurkyl's Recall

Remora Mentor URW, by Danny Friedman – 3rd Place
Business
4 Force of Will
1 Misdirection
3 Mental Misstep
1 Pyroblast
2 Flusterstorm
1 Mana Drain
2 Repeal
1 Echoing Truth
1 Fire // Ice
1 Swords to Plowshares
3 Mystic Remora
2 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Thirst for Knowledge
2 Dack Fayden
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Dig Through Time
1 Tinker
1 Blightsteel Colossus
2 Monastery Mentor
2 Snapcaster Mage

Mana Sources
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
1 Library of Alexandria
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Flooded Strand
3 Tundra
3 Volcanic Island
1 Island
1 Snow-Covered Island

Sideboard
4 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Rest in Peace
1 Pyroblast
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Wear // Tear
3 Ingot Chewer
1 Serenity
1 Shattering Spree
1 Hurkyl's Recall

Dragon, by Jimmy McCarthy – 4th Place
Business
2 Mental Misstep
3 Duress
2 Thoughtseize
1 Echoing Truth
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Treasure Cruise
2 Dig Through Time
1 Entomb
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
2 Intuition
4 Dark Confidant
3 Worldgorger Dragon
1 Oona, Queen of the Fae
3 Animate Dead
1 Dance of the Dead
2 Necromancy

Mana Sources
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
4 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
4 Underground Sea
2 Island
2 Swamp

Sideboard
4 Dark Ritual
2 Cabal Ritual
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Windfall
1 Timetwister
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Rebuild
1 Necropotence
3 Tendrils of Agony

Workshops Terranova Hybrid, by Shane Semmens – 5th Place
Business
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Thorn of Amethyst
3 Sphere of Resistance
4 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Trinisphere
4 Tangle Wire
3 Phyrexian Metamorph
4 Lodestone Golem
2 Steel Hellkite
1 Wurmcoil Engine

Mana Sources
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
4 Mishra’s Workshop
3 Ancient Tomb
4 Mishra’s Factory
2 Mutavault
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
3 Rishadan Port

Sideboard
1 Witchbane Orb
4 Grafdigger's Cage
2 City in a Bottle
2 Crucible of Worlds
1 Triskelion
1 Duplicant
2 Precursor Golem
2 Dismember

Delver URB, by Eric Vanden Dever – 6th Place
Business
4 Force of Will
2 Mental Misstep
3 Thoughtseize
4 Lightning Bolt
1 Preordain
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Dack Fayden
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Tinker
1 Blightsteel Colossus
4 Delver of Secrets
3 Snapcaster Mage
2 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault

Mana Sources
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mana Crypt
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Library of Alexandria
4 Polluted Delta
3 Scalding Tarn
2 Underground Sea
3 Volcanic Island
2 Island
1 Swamp

Sideboard
3 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Ravenous Trap
2 Lightning Bolt
3 Ingot Chewer
2 Pyroclasm
1 Nihil Spellbomb
3 Hurkyl's Recall

Doomsday, by Kael Williams – 7th Place
Business
4 Force of Will
1 Misdirection
3 Mental Misstep
1 Spell Pierce
3 Duress
1 Rebuild
4 Gush
2 Gitaxian Probe
4 Preordain
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Imperial Seal
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Merchant Scroll
4 Doomsday
1 Laboratory Maniac
1 Fastbond
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Yawgmoth’s Will

Mana Sources
2 Dark Ritual
1 Lion’s Eye Diamond
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Polluted Delta
3 Flooded Strand
3 Underground Sea
1 Tropical Island
1 Volcanic Island
1 Island
1 Swamp

Sideboard
2 Mystic Remora
2 Drown in Sorrow
2 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Yixlid Jailer
1 Mountain
1 Crystal Vein
1 Ancient Grudge
4 Ingot Chewer

Mono Blue Charbelcher, by Alex Franson – 8th Place
Business
4 Force of Will
3 Pact of Negation
4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Preordain
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Windfall
1 Timetwister
3 Diminishing Returns
4 Expedition Map
1 Tinker
2 Tezzeret, the Seeker
4 Goblin Charbelcher
3 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault

Mana Sources
4 Mox Opal
3 Chrome Mox
1 Lotus Petal
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 Mana Vault
4 Grim Monolith
1 Tolarian Academy

Sideboard
3 Mental Misstep
1 Mindbreak Trap
2 Void Snare
2 Defense Grid
4 Leyline of Anticipation
1 Rebuild
2 Hurkyl’s Recall


Metagame Breakdown
Grouped by Deck
Bant Mentor Gush – 1
Delver URB – 1
Delver URG – 1
Doomsday – 1
Dragon – 1
Grixis Painter – 1
Mono Blue Charbelcher – 2
Remora Mentor URW – 1
Oath – 1
Tasigur Bomberman Gifts – 1
TurboTezz UBR – 1
TurboTezz UBRG – 1
Workshop 5C – 1
Workshop Forgemaster Stax Hybrid – 1
Workshop Terranova Hybrid – 1

http://www.eternalcentral.com/xtreme-games-march-2015-decklists-metagame-breakdown/

[tito del monte]

Wow - pretty cool to see more copies of Tasigur in a Top 8 than Monastery Mentor. Not sure many people would have predicted that when the cards were spoiled. With one list playing him primarily as an infinite combo piece, the other as an undercosted beater, you can certainly get a sense of his flexibility compared to Mentor. Be interesting to see how the two cards' fortunes pan out from here onwards.

EDIT: Sorry, forget that - didn't see them in the Bomberman list as well!

[strip miner]

This tournament was really fun and it was great to get 16 to come battle. I played a similar Remora/Mentor build to my last one that I won last month's tournament with.

I went down 1 Mentor, 1 Jace, 1 Mana Drain, 1 Flooded Strand in favor of Echoing Truth, Mana Crypt, Thirst for Knowledge, and an additional Dack. TFK, Dack, and ET were relevant all day. Having STP, 2 Repeal, Fire//Ice, and Echoing Truth gave me so many ways to deal with permanents. I was pretty worried for most of the day that ET was going to be terrible and get stuck in my hand constantly. Surprisingly, there were so many points where it was the card I wanted to draw.

Mana Crypt on the other hand was very unfortunate. Despite having Tinker, Echoing Truth, and 2 Repeal in the deck, in game 2 of the semifinals (after winning game 1 against Soly), I lost 5/6 Mana Crypt rolls and never found a way to remove it from play (I suppose rolls that followed the 50/50 probability would have been acceptable as well). I had a controlling position and would have won the game if I could have lived for one more turn. This was pretty disappointing, as the only other thing I did with Mana Crypt all day was pitch it TFK once.

There were some hilarious highlights to the tournament though:
Round 1 - Against Derek Wochinski playing an unknown deck (5C Stax), I mulled to 5, keeping Mox Ruby, Tolarian, Misdirection, and some other cards I can't recall (at least 1 was blue). Derek went land (either COB or Gemstone Mine) into Ancestral Recall which I Misdirected back to myself. I think that is the first time I have ever Misdirected Ancestral against 5C Stax. It was pretty incredible and very lucky. Also in this match during G2, I resolved a turn 1 Dack on the draw, stole my opponent's Mana Crypt, and during my turn off land Sol Ring and Mana Crypt, hardcasted an Ingot Chewer. During my next Turn, I +1'd Dack and found another Ingot Chewer and hardcasted that one too. The next turn I +1'd Dack again, and found Tinker and got BSC while having the 2 Ingot Chewers still in play. It was pretty savage.

Against Soly with his winning Tasigur/Mentor/Bomberman deck, Soly went infinite on me while I had only a Mox Pearl open. I also had a Mentor and a Mystic Remora in play. Because Soly had to keep on playing Lotus into Remora, we actually had to play the game out, because if I drew into my STP quickly enough, he would have been out of luck. After drawing 20+ cards, I never saw STP. The situation was pretty ridiculous, and Soly ended up beating me in the swiss.

I also ended up playing against Mono Blue Belcher piloted by Alex Franson in the swiss and in the quarter finals. This must be one of the least favorable matches for Mono Blue Belcher. Mystic Remora is just unbeatable for them. Between Remora, and post-board artifact destruction, I don't see Belcher winning easily. In the 3 times I have played this matchup between the last 2 tournaments at Xtreme, I have won every round.

Game 3 against Soly's Bomberman deck in the semifinals was also pretty crazy. I was in a commanding position with Remora in play and Jace. I didn't have any counters in hand, and Soly responded to my Jace +0 activation with his 1-of Notion Thief. This invalidated both Jace and Remora and put me in a terrible spot. Soly ended up going infinite the next turn with Lotus and Nihil Spellbomb, eventually landing Tasigur, but couldn't deck me because of his Notion Thief (infinite combo with Tasigur and Ancestral Recall recursion). Fortunately, he decided to make 1000 tokens with Monastery Mentor and he put me out of my misery with a Time Walk.

It was a real fun tournament and a great turnout, considering that Xtreme Games monthly Vintage tournaments haven't fired in months due to low turnout. We got 11 last month, and 16 this month (after a lot of hounding on Facebook). There were still more that I know of who didn't show up, so hopefully we can get even more next time.

Thanks to everyone who came. I had a great time, and congrats to Soly on the win!

[LordHomerCat]

I animated the dragon, like, a dozen times. Pretty much the most fun you can have playing vintage.

[Samoht]

You should explore Tasigur over Oona as your Dragon kill.. He's won me many games

[JACO]

You should explore Tasigur over Oona as your Dragon kill.. He's won me many games

It was suggestsd to him. He'll get there.