Comic Book Deopt 1k event - 2/21/16

[Jostin123]

11 Players made it out on this weekend jam packed with legacy and vintage events, so there was a cut to top 4.  Those players were

Mason Hoffman
Matthew Moss
Nick Detwiler
Scott Conway

Here are the lists (I didn't attend this event, but got most of the top 4 lists)

Mason Hoffman - 4C Mentor

4 Polluted Delta
4 Flooded Strand
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Strip Mine
1 Library of Alexandria
2 Volcanic Island
2 Tundra
1 Tropical Island
1 Island
4 Monastery Mentor
4 Force of Will
2 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy
3 Gush
3 Gitaxian Probe
3 Mental Misstep
2 Lightning Bolt
2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Sol Ring
1 Fastbond
1 Repeal
1 Sylvan Library
1 Brainstorm
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Black Lotus
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Ponder
1 Preordain
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Pyroblast
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Dig through time
1 Spell Pierce

Sideboard
3 Rest in Peace
1 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Containment Priest
1 Dack Fayden
1 Leyline of Sanctity
1 Trygon Predator
1 Hurkyll's Recall
1 Red Elemental Blast
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Stifle


Matthew Moss - Oath

1 Tolarian Academy
4 Misty Rainforest
2 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea
1 Island
4 Forbidden Orchard
4 Oath of Druids
1 Gristelbrand
1 Rune-Scarred Demon
1 Sphinx of the Final Word
1 Void Winnower
4 Force of Will
2 Mana Drain
2 Flusterstorm
3 Mental Misstep
2 Show and Tell
4 Abrupt Decay
1 Ponder
1 Time Walk
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Treasure cruise
1 Dig Through Time
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
2 Jace, the mind Sculptor
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mana Crupt
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring

Sideboard
2 Hurkyll's Recall
4 Nature's Claim
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
2 Mindbreak Trap
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Nihil Spellbiomb


Scott Conway - Oath

4 Oath of Druids
1 Pernicioous Deed
1 Dack Fayden
2 Jace, The Mind Sculptor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Time Walk
2 Thoughtseize
1 Ponder
3 Gitaxian Probe
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Dig Through Time
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Ancient Grudge
4 Force of Will
1 Flusterstorm
1 Mindbreak Trap
3 Mental Misstep
1 Griselbrand
1 Inferno titan
1 Void Winnower
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
2 Flooded Strand
4 Forbidden Orchard
1 Island
3 Mana Confluence
2 Polluted Delta
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Underground Sea
1 Volcanic Island
1 tropical Island

Sideboard
2 Mindbreak trap
2 Ancient Grudge
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
1 Abrupt Decay
2 Nature's Claim
2 Nihil Spellbomb


Nick Detwiler - list witheld

[MirariKnight]

Interesting, does Matthew Moss's deck really play Sphinx without Tinker or is that missing from the list?

[MattInTheHat83]

Hey, this is Matt Moss. Think you're getting Sphinx of the Final Word confused with Sphinx of the Steel Wind.

[MirariKnight]

Ha, yep, just saw "sphinx of the" and the last word starting with a W. One day I'll learn to read haha.

How was the sphinx? I was thinking of trying him out, seems pretty good against blue playing opponents.

[MattInTheHat83]

I have found him to be very useful. You can't counter him if you do wind up having to hard cast him. He has Hexproof so REB and swords and the like can't touch him and Jace can't bounce him. Also, making sure that you win very counter spell war and you don't have to worry about protecting your own spells is a big help. Heavily swings the control in your favor. Need more reps to really be sure but, based on the amount of games I've gotten in with him, he won't be going anywhere for a while.