TDG April Vintage Top 8 Decklists

[Iron_Chef]

Hey everyone,

Thanks to the 29 players who came to Top Deck Games to battle Vintage a few weeks ago.  Sorry for the delay in getting this report up, as many of you know I've recently spent more time away than home.  I'll be adding some details as I'm able to (like Top 8 playoff, metagame breakdown, etc) but for now, I give you the Top 8 Decklists!

Lance Ballester 5th-8th

4 Dig Through Time

1 Tinker

1 Myr Battlesphere

1 Zuran Orb

1 Crucible of Worlds

1 Fastbond

4 Trinket Mage

1 Sensei's Divining Top

1 Engineered Explosives

1 Time Walk

1 Ancestral Recall

1 Ponder

1 Preordain

1 Brainstorm

1 Repeal

1 Jace, the Mind Sculpter

1 Dack Fayden

4 Force of Will

2 Mental Misstep

1 Mana Crypt

1 Sol Ring

1 Black Lotus

1 Mox Pearl

1 Mox Emerald

1 Mox Jet

1 Mox Sapphire

1 Mox Ruby

3 Eternal Witness

3 Gush

1 Ghostly Flicker

1 Grapeshot

3 Polluted Delta

4 Scalding Tarn

1 Strip Mine

1 Tolarian Academy

2 Volcanic Island

3 Tropical Island

SB:

1 Engineered Explosives

1 Pithing Needle

1 Tormod's Crypt

4 Grafdiggers Cage

2 Red Elemental Blast

1 Crucible of Worlds

1 Ancient Grudge

2 Ingot Chewer

1 Wasteland

1 Mountain



Sean Ottaway 5th-8th

4 Force of Will

3 Dig Through Time

3 Gush

3 Young Pyromancer

3 Mental Misstep

2 Notion Thief

2 Dack Fayden

2 Preordain

1 Demonic Tutor

1 Time Walk

1 Merchant Scroll

1 Voltaic Key

1 Sol Ring

1 Pyroblast

1 Vampiric Tutor

1 Ponder

1 Flusterstorm

1 Brainstorm

1 Ancestral Recall

1 Blightsteel Colossus

1 Jace, the Mind Sculpter

1 Yawgmoth's Will

1 Tinker

1 Time Vault

1 Mox Sapphire

1 Mox Jet

1 Mox Emerald

1 Mox Pearl

1 Black Lotus

1 Mana Crypt

1 Mox Ruby

4 Scalding Tarn

3 Underground Sea

3 Volcanic Island

2 Polluted Delta

1 Tolarian Academy

1 Cavern of Souls

1 Island

SB:

4 Ingot Chewer

4 Grafdiggers Cage

2 Ravenous Trap

2 Annul

1 Flusterstorm

1 Hurkyl's Recall

1 Mountain



JD Nir 5th-8th

4 Scalding Tarn

3 Volcanic Island

2 Island

2 Underground Sea

1 Black Lotus

1 Flooded Strand

1 Library of Alexandria

1 Mana Crypt

1 Misty Rainforest

1 Mox Jet

1 Mox Ruby

1 Mox Sapphire

1 Polluted Delta

1 Sol Ring

1 Blightsteel Colossus

1 Time Vault

1 Tinker

1 Voltaic Key

4 Force of WIll

3 Mental Misstep

2 Flusterstorm

1 Fire//Ice

1 Lightning Bolt

1 Repeal

4 Preordain

3 Dack Fayden

3 Dig Through Time

3 Gush

2 Jace, the Mind Sculpter

1 Ancestral Recall

1 Brainstorm

1 Demonic Tutor

1 Notion Thief

1 Ponder

1 Time Walk

1 Vampiric Tutor

1 Yawgmoth's Will

SB:

4 Ingot Chewer

3 Grafdigger's Cage

2 Pyroblast

2 Engineered Explosives

1 Engineered Plague

1 Viashino Heretic

1 Pithing Needle

1 Mountain



Joel Lim 5th-8th

4 Monastery Mentor

4 Delver of Secrets

1 Snapcaster Mage

2 Dack Fayden

3 Lightning Bolt

1 Swords to Plowshares

1 Ponder

2 Gush

2 Gitaxian Probe

1 Ancestral Recall

1 Time Walk

3 Preordain

1 Treasure Cruise

2 Dig Through Time

1 Brainstorm

4 Force of Will

3 Mental Misstep

1 Flusterstorm

1 Misdirection

1 Spell Pierce

1 Mindbreak Trap

1 Island

2 Misty Rainforest

1 Polluted Delta

4 Scalding Tarn

2 Cavern of Souls

2 Tundra

3 Volcanic Island

1 Black Lotus

1 Mox Sapphire

1 Mox Ruby

1 Mox Pearl

1 Mana Crypt

SB:

2 Grafdigger's Cage

4 Containment Priest

1 Wear//Tear

4 Ingot Chewer

1 Hurkyl's Recall

1 Mountain

2 Pyroblast



Josh Potuceck 3rd-4th

3 Mother of Runes

4 Swords to Plowshares

3 Sudden Shock

1 Lightning Bolt

1 Grim Lavamancer

4 Simian Spirit Guide

4 Containment Priest

3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

3 Prophetic Flamespeaker

4 Spirit of the Labyrinth

4 Leonin Relic-Warder

3 Phyrexian Revoker

4 Plateau

2 Plains

1 Mountain

4 Arid Mesa

1 Flooded Strand

4 Cavern of Souls

1 Keldon Megaliths

2 Wasteland

1 Strip Mine

1 Mox Pearl

1 Mox Ruby

1 Black Lotus

SB:

4 Ingot Chewer

1 Wasteland

4 Grafdiggers cage

2 Path to Exile

2 Umezawa’s Jitte

1 Phyrexian Revoker

1 Shattering Spree



Thomas DIxon 3-4th

4 Gush

4 Stasis

2 Garruk Wildspeaker

2 Sarkhan Unbroken

3 Tropical Island

4 Polluted Delta

1 Tolarian Academy

3 Volcanic Island

1 Island

4 Scalding Tarn

3 Jace, the Mind Sculpter

4 Mana Drain

3 Ral Zarek

3 Dack Fayden

1 Time Walk

1 Ancestral Recall

4 Force of Will

2 Freyalise, Llanowar’s Fury

1 Lotus Petal

1 Mana Crypt

1 Sol Ring

1 Mana Vault

1 Black Lotus

1 Mox Emerald

1 Mox Jet

1 Mox Pearl

1 Mox Ruby

1 Mox Sapphire

1 Time Vault

SB:

4 Grafdiggers Cage

1 Mountain

4 Ingot Chewer

2 Ancient Grudge

1 Pithing Needle

1 Tormod’s Crypt

2 Nature's Claim



Joe Jenkins 1st-2nd

4 Preordain

4 Mental Misstep

4 Force of Will

4 Polluted Delta

4 Scalding Tarn

3 Dack Fayden

3 Gush

2 Pyroblast

2 Monastary Mentor

2 Tundra

2 Volcanic Island

2 Island

2 Dig Through Time

1 Misdirection

1 Mox Sapphire

1 Strip Mine

1 Jace, the Mind Sculpter

1 Brainstorm

1 Mox Emerald

1 Swords to Plowshares

1 Ancestral Recall

1 Mox Pearl

1 Gitaxian Probe

1 Time Walk

1 Flusterstorm

1 Mana Crypt

1 Sensei's Divining Top

1 Fire//Ice

1 Ponder

1 Treasure Cruise

1 Mox Jet

1 Repeal

1 Library of Alexandria

1 Mox Ruby

1 Black Lotus

SB:

4 Ingot Chewer

2 Grafdiggers Cage

2 Containment Priest

1 Rest in Peace

1 Spell Pierce

1 Wear//Tear

1 Mountain

1 Supreme Verdict

1 Kataki, War's Wage

1 Sudden Shock



Michael Savage 1st-2nd

1 Black Lotus

1 Mox Sapphire

1 Mox Ruby

1 Mox Emerald

1 Mox Pearl

1 Mox Jet

1 Mana Crypt

1 Sol Ring

1 Pyrite Spellbomb

1 Sensei's Divining Top

1 Ancestral Recall

2 Spell Snare

2 Swords to Plowshares

3 Mountain

4 Force of Will

3 Mental Misstep

4 Trinket Mage

3 Auriok Salvagers

1 Magus of the Future

2 Dig Through Time

1 Time Walk

1 Flusterstorm

1 Thirst for Knowledge

2 Jace, the Mind Sculpter

2 Dack Fayden

1 Engineered Explosives

4 Scalding Tarn

2 Flusterstorm

3 Tundra

2 Volcanic Island

2 Island

2 Cavern of Souls

1 Tolarian Academy

1 Pithing Needle

SB:

1 Mountain

4 Ingot chewer

1 Pyroblast

3 Containment Priest

1 Devout Witness

2 Grafdiggers Cage

1 Engineered Explosives

2 Swords to Plowshares

[wiley]

I can't remember the last time I had to look up more than 1 card from a deck list.  Way to go Tom Dixon for making me work   Now sideboarding aether snap in case I ever run into that deck...

[StrongSide]

Tom your deck is insane haha congrats to all

[Katzby]

Sean Ottaway

Woah.  That's a name I haven't seen in a while- close to 20 years, as a matter of fact.

Does anybody have contact information for Sean?  I'd very much like to know if that's the same SeanOtter I used to know.

Thanks.


Abe

[CHA1N5]

Tom Dixon:

[JACO]

A. Tom Dixon, WTF.
B. The 3 mountains in 1st/2nd place list - typo?

[Space_Stormy]

Tom Dixon is my hero! I kinda had that idea in Modern with Garruk and Savor the Moment but this is a million times more exciting!

[SeanOhh]

Katzby, I'm Sean Ottaway.

Also, Tom, this deck is sweet, it was fun watching your opponents going "wtf..."

[Savage]

Yeah the Mountains are Mana Drains

[vaughnbros]

This was a pretty sweet tournament.  Especially in terms of people unveiling new brews.  Not top 8ing was also the first appearance of Roland's 5 color shops deck, and some sweet storm deck playing Abeyance.  Also getting the chance to kill multiple people with Ghostly Flicker + Eternal Witness Combo was excellent.

Congrats to Tom for top 4ing with the pile of 55 random mana sources, planeswalkers + 4 stasis + 1 time vault that I gave him.  To Josh for making another top 4 with a non blue non brown deck.  And to the rest of the top 8. 

[xouman]

Lance, your list is insane too. Ghostly Flicker is the strangest card among the full top. Amazing metagame!