TO Report: The Players Guild: 1/2/16

[Kameli0n]

Today we had 25 Vintage players arrive to participate in the first Vintage tournament of 2016 for the change to win store credit! For this event, first place was awarded 300 in store credit, second place was 150 in store credit, third and fourth were 75 in store credit, and fifth through eighth were 25 each in store credit.

Metagame Breakdown:

Forces:

The Answer:  1 – 4.00%
UW Landstill:  1 – 4.00%
Moat Control:  1 – 4.00%
4c Keeper:  1 – 4.00%
RUW Bomberman: 1 – 4.00%
RUW Mentor: 3 – 12.00%
RUW Delver:  1 – 4.00%
Grixis Thieves:  1 – 4.00%
Oathstill:  2 – 8.00%
Strixis Control:  1 – 4.00%
Painterstone:  1 – 4.00%
BUG Fish:  1 – 4.00%
Gorger Gro:  1 – 4.00%

Shops:

Aggro Shops:  1 – 4.00%
Smoking Nova:  2 – 8.00%
Uba Stax:  1 – 4.00%

Bazaars:
Dredge: 3 – 12.00%

Brian Kelly:

Eyes in the Sky: 1 – 4.00%

Rogue:

UR Burn: 1 – 4.00%

Event was run with 5 swiss rounds and cut to top 8.

Top 8 matches and results:

Brennan, Joseph vs. Geras, Jonathan – Brennan wins
Ottaway, Sean vs. Murray, Matthew – Ottaway wins
Koprowski, John vs. Davidoff, Nate – Davidoff wins
Seals, Keith vs. Dobbin, Zach – Dobbin wins

Top 4 matches and results:

Brennan, Joseph vs. Dobbin, Zach – wins
Ottaway, Sean vs. Davidoff, Nate – Davidoff wins

Finals and results:
Brennan, Joseph vs. Davidoff, Nate – Brennan wins

Top 8 decklists:

First – Joe Brennan
No deck name provided

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

SB:
1 Mountain
2 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Containment Priest
2 Rest in Peace
1 Supreme Verdict
1 Pyroblast
2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Wear/Tear
2 Stony Silence
1 Pithing Needle
1 Shattering Spree

Second – Nate Davidoff
Dredge w/Bloodghast

3 Mana Confluence
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
1 Dakmor Salvage
3 Petrified Field
4 Undiscovered Paradise
1 Strip Mine
1 Wasteland
1 Ancient Grudge
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
3 Ichorid
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Dread Return
1 Flame-kin Zealot
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
4 Serum Powder
4 Stinkweed Imp
4 Narcomoeba
4 Bridge from Below
4 Bloodghast
3 Golgari Thug

SB:
4 Barbarian Ring
4 Ingot Chewer
4 Serenity
3 Wispmare

Semi-Finalist – Zach Dobbin
No deck name provided

1 Buried Ruin
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
2  Bazaar of Baghdad
2 Mishra’s Factory
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Mishra’s Workshop
1 Strip Mine
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Wasteland
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Sol Ring
4 Tangle Wire
4 Sphere of Resistance
1 Trinisphere
1 Mana Crypt
4 Lodestone Golem
3 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
2 Thorn of Amethyst
2 Uba Mask
2 Smokestack
2 Null Rod
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
2 Ensnaring Bridge
3 Crucible of Worlds
1 Chalice of the Void
1 Black Lotus

SB:
4 Leyline of Sanctity
1 Ghost Quarter
2 Dismember
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
3 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Spine of Ish Sah
1 Phyrexian Metamorph

Semi-Finalist – Sean Ottaway
No deck name provided

4 force of will
4 mana drain
3 dack fayden
3 trinket mage
3 mental misstep
3 sudden shock
3 blood moon
2 Consecrated sphinx
2 batterskull
2 flusterstorm
2 jace, the mind sculptor
1 ancestral recall
1 dig through time
1 time walk
1 treasure cruise
1 engineered explosives
1 Sol ring
1 mana crypt
1 mox ruby
1 mox jet
1 mox sapphire
1 mox pearl
1 mox emerald
1 black lotus
5 island
4 scalding tarn
2 volcanic island
1 polluted delta
1 library of Alexandria
1 mountain
1 ancient tomb
1 tolarian academy

SB:
4 grafdigger's cage
 2 ravenous trap
2 rolling earthquake
2 energy flux
2 pulverize
1 tormod's crypt
1 mindbreak trap
1 arcane laboratory

Quarter-Finalist – John Koprowski
No deck name provided

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Flusterstorm
1 Brainstorm
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Ponder
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Dack Fayden
1 Time Walk
1 Dig Through Time
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Tinker
4 Thirst for Knowledge
3 Mental Misstep
3 Painter’s Servant
2 Gush
4 Force of Will
4 Pyroblast
2 Grindstone
2 Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy
2 Underground Sea
4 Volcanic Island
2 Flooded Strand
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Island
4 Scalding Tarn

SB:
1 Mountain
1 Shattering Spree
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
3 Ingot Chewer
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Illness in the Ranks
2 Thoughtseize
2 Nihil Spellbomb


Quarter-Finalist – Keith Seals
Smoking Nova

4 Mutavault
4 Mishra’s Factory
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Mishra’s Workshop
4 Wasteland
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Strip Mine
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Sol Ring
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Chalice of the Void
3 Null Rod
1 Trinisphere
4 Tangle Wire
3 Smokestack
4 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Lodestone Golem
2 Wurmcoil Engine
2 Crucible of Worlds

SB:
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
3 Tormod’s Crypt
3 Dismember
3 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
2 Ensnaring Bridge

Quarter-Finalist – Matt Murray
Meer-ah-cleez

1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Sol Ring
3 Tundra
3 Volcanic Island
1 Island
1 Plains
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Flooded Strand
2 Scalding Tarn
1 Arid Mesa
1 Karakas
1 Library of Alexandria
4 Force of Will
3 Mana Drain
2 Mental Misstep
1 Remand
2 Dragonlord Ojutai
2 Vendilion Clique
1 Keranos, God of Storms
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Dack Fayden
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Brainstorm
3 Swords to Plowshares
2 Lightning Bolt
2 Terminus
1 Entreat the Angels
1 Moat
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Ponder
1 Dig Through Time

SB:
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
2 Counterbalance
3 Ingot Chewer
3 Rest in Peace
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Flusterstorm
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key

Quarter-Finalist – Jonathan Geras
Blowout Train USA Mentor

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

SB:
3 Containment Priest
3 Rest in Peace
2 Ravenous Trap
2 Ingot Chewer
2 Shattering Spree
1 Island
1 Mountain
1 Hurkyl’s Recall

[msg67183]

Great event Shawn, as always. Congrats to the Top 8. I started getting a migraine in my match against Nate and that probably caused my loss of focus to lose that match and then my following match against Sam on Delver. Good games guys. Maybe next time I play ill have better luck. Mulliganing to one twice in game ones doesn't help. Maybe it was Elesh Norns wrath for not being included...

[Cunningbeaver]

Was great to see so many other familiar
faces make to TPG!

Playing against miracles was the most interesting thing
in quite awhile even though after game 1 I was a little
on tilt.

Again great to see some faces make it even if for
one event shows how great our community is
for support. 

[Calvin240sx]

The list for MEER-AH-CLEEZ is missing 2x v-cliqs.

had a blast coming out and actually playing for a change. even if i subpar'd my way thru the day by never winning a game 2. ever. all damned day.
look forward to my next wknd off with no kids and no overtime.

cheers,
cal

[Chubby Rain]

The list for MEER-AH-CLEEZ is missing 2x v-cliqs.

I can confirm that these were in the list.

Congrats to Joe for taking it down and the rest of the top 8. Props to Shawn for hosting and Cal for letting me take his deck for a spin. Slops to Keranos - not the card you ever want to see when your opponent has an Uba Mask in play.