Over the Queen’s birthday long weekend, Next Level Games, Dandenong was host to a bounty of Magic Events. The Eternal MASTERS series of events has been a mainstay of Australian Magic since 2010 with Eternal LEDGENDS. Sanctioned Vintage, Legacy, and Australian 7 Point Highlander being the main attractions along with a small streamed 93/94 tournament. All tournaments were streamed via twitch.tv and can be found under past broadcasts related to Sneak and Show who were kind enough to provide the equipment and expertise. Sneak and Show’s profile can be found here:
http://www.twitch.tv/sneakandshow You can expect these to stick around and will no doubt be added to the YouTube archives sometime soon.
However, this is TMD. You are all here for the Vintage results.
We had 50 players for Sanctioned Vintage on Saturday 6th June 2015. 50 is a huge number beating our previous record (set last year at the same event found here:
http://www.themanadrain.com/index.php?topic=46891.0 ). Vintage in Australia keeps getting bigger and better with many experienced players finding their way out to the suburban Melbourne store for a host of prizes. With Moxen, Jaces, and various other prizes going out, everyone knew that this was going to be big. In addition to many of our well experienced Vintage pilots, there were a number of fresh faces, those whose interest had only been ignited in the last 12 months or so, or those whose fire for the eternal formats had been rekindled after laying dormant.
At the end of the day however, it was Former National Highlander Champion Jacob Dunn who added the title of Current Vintage MASTER to his resume piloting his version of Espresso Stax to victory over the field defeating the very consistent Graham King (previous Vintage Champion) with his tried and true Bomberman build.
There were few suprises in the field with the expected and prepared for Mentor decks being mostly beaten into the ground in the early rounds left a number of decks that many were not expecting to do well doing so. Adam Amy cruised into top 8 with a flash from the past Golden Gun Oath list featuring Emrakul and Blighsteel over the more expected Griselbrand version. With only Espresso Stax putting more than a single copy into our top 8, we had plenty of action in our final tables.
At the end of the day, our field looked like this:
1) Jacob Dunn – Espresso Stax
2) Graham King – Bomberman
3) Leroy Martin – Dredge
4) Jitesh Raniga – BUG Fish
5) Adam Amy – Golden Gun Oath
6) Andy Horne – Walking (4C) Fish
7) Tomas Daniel – Espresso Stax
8) Josh Archer – Dirty MUD
9) Lachlan Ward-Smith – White Trash
10) Isaac Egan – Gifts Doomsday
11) David Brotchie – UR Landstill
12) Tom Sullivan – Tezzeret’s Picnic
13) Socrates Stavropoulos – Grixis Delver
14) Yuksel Yunus – Martello Shops
15) Luke McCandless – “Go Hard or Go Home Shops” Metalworker
16) Laura Ellis – Quick Dredge
17) Thomas Ribet – UR Landstill
18) Jeffrey Chan – Grixis Storm
19) Mills Moolman - Dredge
20) Thomas Nurse – Bg Dark Times
21) James Arthur – UR Delver
22) Tim Dolphin – Griselbrand Oath
23) Robert Lark – UR Delver
24) Robert Bartlet – Grixis Control
25) Luke McCoy - Dredge
26) Ben McCoy – Xmas Beatings
27) Jared Mallet – “Scrublord Delver” UR Delver
28) Shaun Tjong – Mentor
29) Christopher Turner - Rector
30) Phillippe Vincent – Jeskai Midrange
31) Brett Hughes – Aggro Shops
32) Joshua Butler – The Perfect Storm
33) Matthew Larcombe – Martello Shops
34) James ‘Jimbo’ Dowling – UR landstill
35) William Wong – Grixis Control
36) Lachlan Saunders – RUG Delver
37) Rob Gascard – RUG Delver
38) Lee Greaves – “Drop ma Dacks” Moon Control
39) Jacob Phillips – Aggro Shops
40) Jenan Kopic – White Trash
41) Jeremy Kajfes - Dredge
42) Tod Thomson – Terra Nova
43) Luke Payne – “Bear’d Again” The bear deck
44) Jacob Vanyai - Merfolk
45) Jacen bishop – Jeskai Delver
46) Dougal Warby – “Miracles” Dark Times
47) Nicholas Chmielewski – Remora Control
48) Jin Kiat Poon - Merfolk
49) Dean Joseph – “Shops Closed” Unpowered Shop Aggro
50) Tim Hughes – Dredge
Pictures and Graphs TBA:
1) Jacob Dunn – Espresso
4 Mishra’s Workshop
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Mishra’s Factory
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
1 City of Traitors
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crupt
4 Serum Powder
4 Lodestone Golem
3 Karn, Silver Golem
2 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Tangle Wire
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Smokestack
4 Chalice of the Void
3 Crucible of Worlds
2 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Trinisphere
1 Staff of Nin
Sideboard:
2 Wurmcoil Engine
2 Tormod’s Crypt
2 Karakas
3 Null Rod
3 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 The Tabernacle at Pendral Vale
2 Ensnaring Bridge
2) Graham King – Bomberman
4 Flooded Strand
4 Island
2 Tundra
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Strip Mine
1 Plains
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Karakas
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
4 Mana Drain
3 Spell Pierce
3 Mental Misstep
2 Misdirection
4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Dig Through Time
3 Trinket Mage
2 Vendillion Clique
2 Auriok Salvagers
1 Monastery Mentor
1 Restoration Angel
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Aether Spelbomb
1 Time Walk
1 Swords to Plwshares
1 Grafdiggers Cage
Sideboard:
2 Disenchant
1 Pithing Needle
3 Swords to Plowshares
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Grafdiggers Cage
3 Mindbreak Trap
3 Containment Priest
1 Devout Witness
3) Leroy Martin – Dredge
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Mana Confluence
4 Undiscovered Paradise
2 Petrified Field
1 Dakmoor Salvage
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Nature’s Claim
3 Dread Return
4 Bridge from Below
4 Serum Powder
3 Ichorid
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
1 Sun Titan
4 Bloodghast
1 Fatestitcher
4 Stinkweed Imp
3 Golgari Thug
1 Flame-kin Zealot
4 Narcomoeba
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
Sideboard:
1 Gemstone Mine
1 Ichorid
2 Firestorm
4 Ingot Chewer
4 Chain of Vapour
2 Wispmare
1 Darkblast
4) Jitesh Raniga – BUG Fish
4 Misty Rainforest
3 Polluted Delta
1 Verdant Catacombs
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
3 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
1 Bayou
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Dark Confidant
4 Abrupt Decay
3 Mental Misstep
3 Spell Pierce
3 Snapcaster Mage
4 Force of Will
2 Trygon Predator
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Dismember
1 True Name Nemesis
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Life from the Loam
1 Null Rod
Sideboard:
2 Illness in the Ranks
2 Energy Flux
2 Grafdiggers Cage
3 Yixlid Jailer
2 Nature’s Claim
2 Dismember
2 Flusterstorm
5) Adam Amy – F N Oath (Golden Gun Oath)
4 Forbidden Orchard
1 Volcanic Island
1 Polluted Delta
2 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea
1 Strip Mine
1 Wasteland
1 Island
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Sol Ring
4 Oath of Druids
2 Dragon’s Breath
1 Erakul, the Aeons Torn
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Time Walk
1 Brainstorm
1 Time Vault
1 Mystical Tutor
4 Force of Will
1 Voltaic Key
1 Ancestral Recall
2 Spell Snare
1 Ponder
3 Thoughtseize
1 Tinker
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
2 Preordain
1 Mental Misstep
1 Abrupt Decay
Sideboard:
3 Red Elemental Blast
1 Helm of Obedience
3 Leyline of the Void
2 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
3 Nature’s Claim
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Toxic Deluge
6)Andy Horne – Walking Fish
4 Windswept Heath
2 Horizon Canopy
1 Karakas
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
3 Cavern of Souls
2 Savannah
1 Bayou
1 Tropical Island
1 Scrubland
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Lotus Petal
2 Aven Mindcensor
1 Containment Prienst
4 Dark Confidant
3 Qasali Pridemage
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
3 Knight of the Reliquary
1 Gaddock Teeg
1 Path to Exile
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Abrupt Decay
3 Mental Misstep
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
Sideboard:
2 Mindbreak Trap
2 Kataki, War’s Wage
1 Containment Priest
1 Ethersworn Cannonist
1 Gaddock Teeg
1 Zealous Persecution
2 Yixlid Jailer
3 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Trygon Predator
7) Tomas Daniel – Espresso Stax
4 Mishra’s Worshop
4 Mishra’s Factory
4 Wasteland
4 Ancient Tomb
1 Rishadan Port
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Strip Mine
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Sphere of Resistance
2 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Serum Powder
4 Tangle Wire
1 Trinisphere
3 Crucible of Worlds
4 Lodestone Golem
3 Karn, Silver Golem
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
Sideboard:
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
4 Tormod’s Crypt
3 Dismember
1 Duplicant
1 Wurmcoil Engine
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Crucible of Worlds
8) Josh Archer – Dirty MUD
4 Mishra’s Workshop
4 Ancient Tomb
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Dark Depths
1 Buried Ruin
1 Wasteland
3 Thespian Stage
1 Strip Mine
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
3 Expedition Map
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Tangle Wire
4 Sphere of Resistance
2 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Trinisphere
2 Crucible of Worlds
2 Coercive Portal
3 Staff of Nin
1 Batterskull
4 Lodestone Golem
2 Karn, Silver Golem
Sideboard:
2 Defence Grid
1 Batterskull
1 The Tabernacle at Pendral Vale
2 Dismember
2 Portcullis
1 Karakas1 Bojuka Bog
1 Tormod’s Crypt
4 Grafdiggers Cage
9-16 TBA
It was a great event and a huge turnout, the largest sanctioned vintage event in the southern hemisphere for many years. I hope to see you all again next year.
Once again, a huge thank you to Next Level Games for their tireless effort at supporting the eternal formats in Melbourne. This annual event has become a pilgrimage for many interstate players and its continued growth shows no signs of slowing. A big thank you also to the folks from Sneak and Show who streamed the entire event (Vintage, 93/94, Legacy, Highlander, as well as pickup games). These games can be found under past broadcasts but I am sure will be uploaded to youtube etc in the future (Note: the Vintage events are labelled –TEST in the past broadcast section of their profile (
www.twitch.tv/sneakandshow/profile/past_broadcasts).
