Eudemonia, Berkeley, Top 8 Results, November 15, 2015

[Smmenen]

We had another good turnout for Vintage in the Bay Area in November with a top 8 playoff.

The Top 8 declined to split at any point, resulting in a playoff.

Here are the final results:

1) Michael Lynch

4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
1 Pyroblast
1 Flusterstorm
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Izzet Charm
4 Gush
1 Fire/Ice
1 Dig Through Time
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Time Walk
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Ponder
3 Preordain
2 Gitaxian Probe
2 Sylvan Library
1 Vendillion Clique
1 Dragonlord Dromoka
2 Monastery Mentor
1 Seeker of the Way
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Dack Fayden
1 Jace, The Mind Sculptor
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus
1 Library of Alexandria
4 Polluted Delta
3 Flooded Strand
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Island
2 Tundra
2 Volcanic Island
2 Tropical Island

Sideboard:
1 Strip Mine
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Stony Silence
3 Nature's Claim
2 Sudden Shock
3 Containment Priest
4 Rest in Peace

2nd Place: Stephen Menendian

3 Monastery Mentor
4 Gush
4 Preordain
4 Force of Will
3 Regrowth
1 Fastbond
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
2 Flusterstorm
4 Mental Misstep
2 Jace, The Mind Sculptor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
2 Gitaxian Probe
1 Merchant Scroll

2 Tundra
2 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
1 Island
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald

Sideboard:

4 Leyline of the Void
1 Yixlid Jailer
1 Forest
4 Nature's Claim
1 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Swords to Plowshares
2 Cabal Therapy

3rd Place: Eric Campusano

4 Force of Will
4 Mental Misstep
2 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy
2 Mana Drain
1 Tinker
1 Time Walk
1 Dig Through Time
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
2 Flusterstorm
2 Jace, The Mind Sculptor
1 Mystical Tutor
2 Dack Fayden
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
1 Sensei's Divining Top
2 Lightning Bolt
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Ponder
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
2 Island
2 Volcanic Island
3 Underground Sea
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Polluted Delta
1 Tolarian Academy

Sideboard:
1 Toxic Deluge
4 Grafdigger's Cage
4 Ingot Chewer
2 Illness in the Ranks
1 Mountain
2 Red Elemental Blast
1 Lightning Bolt

4th Place: Eliot Burke

4 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Serum Powder
4 Bridge From Below
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
4 Stinkweed Imp
4 Golgari Thug
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Mental Misstep
4 Unmask
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Petrified Field
4 Narcomoeba
4 Chancelor of the Annex
3 Ichorid
2 Dread Return
1 Flame-Kin Zealot
1 Urbog, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Dakmor Salvage

Sideboard:
4 Dark Depths
4 Thespian's Stage
3 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
2 Vampire Hexmage
1 Riftstone Portal
1 Black Lotus

5th Place: Tim Wells
4 Mishra's Factory
1 Black Lotus
4 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Chalice of the Void
1 Batterskull
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Tangle Wire
3 Arcbound Ravager
2 Porcelain Legionaire
4 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Lodestone Golem
2 Triskelion
4 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Ancient Tomb
2 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Wurmcoil Engine
1 Trinisphere

Sideboard:
2 Grafdigger's Cage
3 Pithing Needle
4 Tormod's Crypt
1 Null Rod
1 Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1 Ghost Quarter
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Emrakul

6th Place: Lin Hua Cheng

4 Wasteland
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Mishra's Workshop
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Homeward Path
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus

1 Chalice of the Void
2 Crucible of Worlds
1 Trinisphere
1 Coercive Portal
4 Tangle Wire
4 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Sphere of Resistance
3 Null Rod
4 Lodestone Golem
2 Wurmcoil Engine
3 Smokestack

Sideboard:

1 Crucible of Worlds
4 Grafdigger's Cage
3 Tormod's Crypt
2 Witchbane Orb
2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
2 Triskelion
1 Pithing Needle

7th Place: David Ochoa (webster)

1 Blightsteel Colossu
1 Tinker
3 Painter's Servant
2 Grindstone
2 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy
1 Dack Fayden
4 Force of Will
2 Pyroblast
3 Red Elemental Blast
3 Mental Misstep
1 Mana Drain
4 Thirst For Knowledge
2 Gush
1 Time Walk
1 Brainstorm
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Dig Through Time
1 Ponder
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will

1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
4 Volcanic Island
2 Undeground Sea
2 Polluted Delta
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Island
1 Tolarian Academy

Sideboard:
2 Thoughtseize
2 Shattering Spree
3 Ingot Chewer
1 Illness in the Ranks
1 Mountain
2 Nihil Spellbomb
4 Grafdigger's Cage

8th Place: Michael Lewis

4 Flooded Strand
3 Island
1 Library of Alexandria
3 Tundra
2 Underground Sea

3 Monastery Mentor
2 Jace, The Mind Sculptor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Dig Through Time
1 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Gush
1 Mana Crypt
2 Mana Drain
3 Mental Misstep
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Mystic Remora
3 Preordain
2 Repeal
1 Sol Ring
1 Time Walk
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will

Sideboard:
1 Plains
2 Containment Priest
2 Rest in Peace
1 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Stony Silence
1 Devout Witness
2 Serenity
2 Steel Sabotage
3 Swords to Plowshares


In the quarter-finals, Eric Campusano (the first seed) defeated Michael Lewis, Eliot Burke (2nd seed) lost to David Ochoa, Stephen Menendian (6th seed) defeated Tim Wells, and Lin Hua Cheng (4th seed) lost to Michael Lynch.  

In the semi-finals, Stephen Menendian defeated Eliot Burke and Mychal Lynch defeated Eric Campusano.

In the finals, Michael Lynch defeated Stephen Menendian

Thanks for coming!

[diopter]

Smmenen's list is missing Fastbond I think?

Otherwise it looks like a Mentor version of the list from Champs. I have my own thoughts as to why someone might go this way but would be interested to hear thoughts.

[Bips]

Is just the next iteration of the new Grow list.
Tokens, counters and the possibility to combo out. I've played the old list (pre-champs, so without the Probe-Therapy pack) and liked it a lot.
This has Mentor and Swords to Plowshares in stead of Pyromancer and Ancient Grudge, plus a few tweaks.
I like it, though Mentor being +1 cmc and cutting the off-colour Mox seems counterintuitive.
Quite interested to hear thoughts and experiences!

[Smmenen]

Smmenen's list is missing Fastbond I think?

Otherwise it looks like a Mentor version of the list from Champs. I have my own thoughts as to why someone might go this way but would be interested to hear thoughts.

Restriction of Chalice allowed me to cut red, and therefore Pyromancer for Mentor. 

[mr.grim]

How many people were in the event?

[Smmenen]

i don't remember exactly - but I think around 23.  

Correction: David Ochoa lost to Eliot Burke in the Top 4.  My OP was wrong on that. 

Congrats to David on the VSL!

[Holden1669]

How often does Eudemonia run Vintage events? Might possibly move back to the Bay Area.

[Smmenen]

Roughly once a quarter.

[Holden1669]

Cool. Thanks.

[p3temangus]

Smmenen's list is missing Fastbond I think?

Otherwise it looks like a Mentor version of the list from Champs. I have my own thoughts as to why someone might go this way but would be interested to hear thoughts.

Restriction of Chalice allowed me to cut red, and therefore Pyromancer for Mentor. 

Steve,

Curious as to why you don't run abrupt decay?  I notice in this list, and the 4C list you ran at Champs you chose not to run any despite being on B/G.  Just not enough room or has it not tested well for you?   

[Smmenen]

I played 1 in my sb in the MTGO P9 challenge. It was alright.

[Smmenen]

Official announcement hasn't been posted yet, but it looks like our next Vintage event will be 1/24/16.  Mark your calendars!

[LandDestroyer]

I wish the guys who own/run this shop would breath some life back into MOTL:
http://forums.magictraders.com/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro&BypassCookie=true

Anyway, thanks for the post. Pre last b/r I was on omni oath and UR the answer..both hurt by b/r losing 3 dtt and losing 3 chalice respectively.  dunno what to build. i want to run time vault but doesn't seem to be doing well in a sea of mentor   I built grixis therapy but not excited about it currently.

[H]

I wish the guys who own/run this shop would breath some life back into MOTL:
http://forums.magictraders.com/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro&BypassCookie=true

Anyway, thanks for the post. Pre last b/r I was on omni oath and UR the answer..both hurt by b/r losing 3 dtt and losing 3 chalice respectively.  dunno what to build. i want to run time vault but doesn't seem to be doing well in a sea of mentor   I built grixis therapy but not excited about it currently.

Since I live on the other side of nowhere, I don't really get to play often or really test, but I still think that Time Vault is fine in the current meta, it's just that no one wants to play it.  My personal feeling though is that playing fair versus Mentor is just asking to lose.

Then again, I am a person who thinks Dark Confidant is still playable.  If you want my list, just message me (no sense muddying up this thread).  I think it has legs (and I've had limited success with it versus the post-DDT meta), but YRMV.

[rbartlet]

Official announcement hasn't been posted yet, but it looks like our next Vintage event will be 1/24/16.  Mark your calendars!

Oh no! I will not arrive in SF until mid-Feb. Alas.

[tribet]

Deserter!