TO Report: The Players Guild: 12/5/15

Today, 16 vintage participants came out to Bloomsburg in order to win store credit. Top 8 were awarded for the event. First was awarded 250 in store credit, second took 100 in store credit, third and fourth each received 50 in store credit, and fifth through eighth took 25 in store credit each. Thanks again to those who did come out to support the format and play vintage in Bloomsburg. We look forward to seeing you all for more events in the future!
The Metagame Breakdown:

Forces:
UW Landstill: 1 – 6.25%
BUG Landstill: 1 – 6.25%
Landstill Oath: 1 – 6.25%
UWR Delver: 1 – 6.25%
Bant Gro Gorger: 2 – 12.5%
Jace/Mentor Control: 1 – 6.25%
Painterstone: 1 – 6.25%
Petition Tendrils: 1 – 6.25%
Doomsday: 1 – 6.25%

Workshops:
Uba Stax: 1 – 6.25%

Bazaars:
Dredge: 0 – 0.00%

Brian Kelly Decks:
“JP Kohler made me do it”: 1 – 6.25%
“Allies in the Sky”: 2 – 12.5%

Rogue:
Homebrew Burn: 1 – 6.25%
Stiflenaught Fling: 1 – 6.25%

This event was run with 5 swiss rounds with the cut to top 8.

Top 8 Pairings and Results

Poutcek, Joshua vs. Dempsey, Brandon – wins
Murray, Matthew vs. Beaver, Jeremy – Beaver wins
Whitheead, Steven vs. Reitnauer, David – wins
Brennan, Joseph vs. Geras, Jonathan – Brennan Wins

Top 4 Pairing and Results

Finals

Please inform us of any suggestions you may have for us to improve our tournaments in the future. And again, thanks to everyone who did come out to the event. Congrats to the top 8!

Top 8 Deck lists:

First – Joshua Potucek
“Potucek Landstill Oath"

4 Oath of Druids
2 Griselbrand
1 Gaea’s B lessing
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Standstill
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
Time Walk
1 Dig Through Time
1 Toxic Deluge
4 Abrupt Decay
4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
3 Mental Misstep
2 Flusterstorm
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Strip Mine
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Treetop Village
1 Creeping Tar Pit
3 Mishra’s Factory
4 Forbidden Orchard
1 Polluted Delta
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Forest
3 Underground Sea
1 Tropical Island

SB:
1 Wasteland
1 Mindbreak Trap
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Pernicious Deed
1 Engineered Explosives
4 Nature’s Claim

Second – Jeremy Beaver
“The Blowout Gro Train"

2 Misty Rainforest
2 Windswept Heath
3 Tropical Island
3 Tundra
1 Savannah
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus
4 Meddling Mage
4 Werebear
3 Managorger Hydra
2 Snapcaster Mage
1 Elspeth, Knight’s Errant
4 Force of Will
4 Gush
4 Preordain
4 Mental Misstep
3 Gitaxian Probe
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Flusterstorm
1 Misdirection
3 Swords to Plowshares
2 Land Grant
2 Null Rod

SB:
1 Forest
1 Null Rod
2 Mindbreak Trap
2 Trygon Predator
3 Nature’s Claim
3 Containment Priest
3 Ravenous Trap

Semi-Finalist – Steven Whitheead
“5c Moat Aggro"

1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Dig Through Time
1 Dragonlord Dromoka
4 Force of Will
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Notion Thief
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Moat
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Toxic Deluge
2 Dack Fayden
1 Tinker
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Time Walk
3 Mana Drain
1 Time Vault
1 Sylvan Library
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Balance
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Sol Ring
1 Mental Misstep
2 Flusterstorm
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Voltaic Key
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mana Crypt
1 Black Lotus
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Flooded Strand
2 Volcanic Island
2 Tundra
2 Underground Sea
3 Mana Confluence
1 Tropical Island
1 Wasteland

SB:
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Tormod’s Crypt
2 Containment Priest
1 Yixlid Jailer
1 Disenchant
1 Island
1 Plains
2 Rest in Peace
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Slaughter Pact
1 Supreme Verdict
1 Hurkyl’s Recall

Semi-Finalist – Joe Brennan
“ No deck name provided"

4 Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy
4 Monastery Mentor
2 Dack Fayden
3 Gush
3 Preordain
4 Mental Misstep
2 Flusterstorm
2 Gitaxian Probe
4 Force of Will
3 Volcanic Island
3 Tundra
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Strip Mine
1 Flooded Strand
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Brainstorm
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Mox Emerald
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Time Walk
1 Island
1 Ponder
1 Dig Through Time
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Pyroblast
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Karakas

SB:
1 Steel Sabotage
2 Ingot Chewer
1 Wear//Tear
1 Shattering Spree
1 Mountain
2 Grafdigger’s Cage
3 Rest in Peace
2 Containment Priest
2 Pyroblast

Quarter-Finalist – David Reitnauer
“RUW Delver"

3 Lightning Bolt
2 Dack Fayden
4 Force of Will
4 Preordain
2 Path to Exile
4 Gush
4 Young Pyromancer
4 Delver of Secrets
2 Pyroblast
2 Flusterstorm
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Time Walk
1 Dig Through Time
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
3 Flooded Strand
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Volcanic Island
2 Tundra
1 Strip Mine
1 Island

SB:
4 Ingot Chewer
1 Sudden Shock
2 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Containment Priest
2 Rest in Peace
1 Mountain
1 Wear//Tear
1 Shattering Spree

Quarter-Finalist – Brandon Dempsey
“Lotus Petal Control"

1 Merchant Scroll
4 Gush
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
2 Flusterstorm
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Fastbond
1 Ponder
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Brainstorm
1 Time Walk
1 Imperial Seal
3 Mental Misstep
4 Doomsday
4 Preordain
1 Thoughtseize
1 Duress
2 Dark Ritual
1 Necropotence
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Lotus Petal
1 Laboratory Maniac
4 Force of Will
1 Island
4 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
3 Polluted Delta
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Black Lotus
SB:
1 Forest
2 Hurkyl’s Recall
2 Nature’s Claim
2 Xantid Swarm
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Ravenous Trap
1 Duress
1 Illness in the Ranks

Quarter-Finalist – Matthew Murray
“JP Kohler made me do it"

1 Palinchron
2 Notion Thief
3 Dack Fayden
1 Ancestral Recall
2 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
4 Expedition Map
3 Mox Opal
1 Mana Vault
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
4 Mana Confluence
1 Timetwister
1 Wheel of Fortune
4 Thoughtcast
1 Time Walk
3 Thirst for Knowledge
4 Seat of the Synod
1 Minamo, School at Water’s Edge
1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
2 City of Brass
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Tinker
1 Alhammaret’s Archive
1 Memory Jar
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault

SB:
1 Containment Priest
1 Ravenous Trap
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Aegis of the Gods
1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
2 Ancient Grudge
4 Nature’s Claim
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Nihil Spellbomb

Quarter-Finalist – Jonathan Geras
“Blowout Train Bant Swole"

4 Preordain
4 Mental Misstep
4 Gush
4 Force of Will
3 Gitaxian Probe
3 Swords to Plowshares
4 Managorger Hydra
4 Wearbear
1 Snapcaster Mage
2 Land Grant
4 Misty Rainforest
3 Tropical Island
3 Tundra
1 Savannah
1 Strip Mine
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Brainstorm
4 Meddling Mage
2 Null Rod
1 Flusterstorm
1 Misdirection

SB:
1 Forest
2 Flusterstorm
4 Rest in Peace
2 Grafdigger’s Cage
4 Nature’s Claim
1 Null Rod
1 Swords to Plowshares

Again, thanks for the support. The date of the next Bloomsburg event is not set as of yet. Thanks again everyone!!!!! Congratulations to the top 8!!!