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Zach Tartell
12-23-2008, 03:48 PM
This is the breakdown for the event found here (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11371).

Several decks (I'm too lazy to read my own handwriting):

7 Thresh variants

4 "tempo" Thresh builds (when I say this I mean with Wastes and Stifles. None of these plays any Tops or Counterbalances)

1 White build with a split of 2 Enforces between the maindeck and the sideboard, a split of 3/1 on Swords between the main and the side as well, 2 Krosan Grip main too.
2 Black versions

One build with 3 Standstills, 3 Factories, and 2 Tombstalkers in addition to normal Thresh builds.
One with 3 Counterspells, 3 each of Ponder and Spell Snare. Board included 1 Blessing and 3 "Sextirpate."

UG, with the standard 8 Thresh wincons (which is to say 'goose and 'goyf, no Werebears or anything weird like that), one Breeding Pool, 1 Wipe Away and 1 Rushing River. Boarding included 3 Submerge, and then a fairly standard 12 after that.

1 Intuition Thresh

Alix, sheild your eyes! (Exact list as far as I can tell from the thread in the Established forum. I'll editorialize a little and say that the player was an idiot for not playing Stronghold (opting for Genesis instead), actually running Wonder, only playing 3 Brainstorm, and boarding as poorly as possible (3 Leyline of the void, 3 Extirpate, 3 Tormod's Crypt (how much Ichorid was this guy expecting?))).

2 Counterbalance builds:

1 UGr with 4/3 Counterbalance/Top, 4 Lightning Bolt, 4 Spell Snare, 4 Magus of the Moon (with one Forest and 2 Wooded Foothills) and 1 Garruk Wildspeaker. Board: 3 Threads of Disloyality, 4 Stifle, and (my favorite) a single copy of Ehcengtth. (Worst Handriting Award)
1 UGwb build with 4 City of Brass, 3 Daze, 2 Portent, 3 or 4 each of CB/T (I left the list on my living room coffee table, and I don't feel like walking all the way back out there), 2 Enforcers main (with a third in the board), 4/4 Swords/Thoughtseize. Board had 3 Trygon Predator and 3 Dark Confidant.


2 Vial Fish (mono-U Merfolk)

Neither of the two builds played Counterbalance or Top, and both included 4 Aether Vials:

1 only played 2 Wake Thrashers, 4 Tidal Courier (that's the Merfolk Ringleader), 1 Mutavault, 3 Fetches, 14 Islands (and only 3 Brainstorms), 8 Lords, and 3 Back to Basics. Board had 2 Seasingers.
The other ran a full playset of Cursecatcher, a playset of Thrasher, 1 Counterspell, 2 Jitte, 4 Standstills, 0 Brainstorms ('cause no fetches, just 17 Islands and 4 Mutavault), 4 Daze, 4 Force. Unremarkable board. (Zero Seasingers through the list on this one)


2 Dreadstill

1 UGr

2 maindecked Grip, 4 Goyf, 3/3 Counterbalance/Top, 2/2 Daze/Spell Snare, 5 Stifles, 0 Trinket Mage, 2 Fire//Ice, only 3 Dreadnought. Boarding 2 Red and 3 Blue Blasts, 2 Gilded Drake, 2 Vexing Shusher, 1 Krosan Grip, and a couple needles and firespouts.

1 Ur

6 Stifle, 4 Trinket Mage, 1 Volcanic Island, 1 Steam Vents, 1 Academy Ruins. Board included 3 of each color blast, 3 Wipe Away, 1/2 Relic/Crypt, 2 Magus of the Moon.


1 Survival (Elves)

I'm not gonna discuss it, 'cause there's a whole thread for it here (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12227).

1 Faux Landstill (Kyle Humphrey's deck in the top 8)

I don't know how else to classify this. Feel free to dig through the tournament thread for it, but I don't know how to tactfully talk about it and I can't really link to a similar thread (I suppose it's kind of like UBg Landstill with a bunch of creatures).

1 Team America

Nothing spectacular about this list. Thread for discussion here (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11605).

3 Landstill

1 UWb

4 Vindicate, 0 "cool" lands (no Academy Ruins or Dust Bowl or anything) - just 3/3 Waste and Factory. 2/2/1 Island/Plains/Swamp, no Cunning Wishes. Sideboard stuff: 4 Duress, 4 Runed Halo, 4 Engineered Plague, 2 Lorwyn Ajani, 1 Pulse of the Fields.

1 UW

More traditional build; Stifles, 2 Humility, 2 Crucible of Worlds, 1 Eternal Dragon, 4 Wastes, 4 Factories, 1 Tolaria West, 1 Academy Ruins, 1 Tropical Island (to set Engineered Explosives at 3). Sideboard had 4 Relic of pwning graveyards, 2 Pulse, Meddling Magi, 3 Blue Blasts, some copies of Runed Halo... kind of a traditonal board too.

4c

4 Goyf maindecked, 2 Nantuko Monastaies, 4 Mishra's Factories. Oh! 3 Sensei's Diving Top main (in addition to three Fact or Fictions, which I thought was a weird number). Alix boarded 4 Counterbalance, 4 Blue blasts, 4 Engineered Plague, 2 Krosan Grip and 1 Vindicate (in addition to the singelton Vindicate main).


1 Meathooks

UWg, normal build. Find the thread yourselves.

3 Affinity (All three with 4 Springleaf drums, 0 Aether Vials)

2 UB

1 with Glimmervoids, the fairly standard thousands of affinity creatures and 3x Hurkyl's Recall for weird stuff in the board.
1 with Forces, Stifles, 15 blue cards, wasteland, and boarded removal spells (like a couple Smother and a pair of Executioner's Capsuel)

1 4c

Forces (with a scant 11 blue cards main and only six more in the board), no copies of Master of Etherium. The maindeck is UB, boarding for 4 Krosan Grips, 3 Stifle, 3 Gilded Light, 3 Mana leak, 2 Extirpate. 4 Additional Lotus Petals for mana-fixing.


1 Not-TES Ad Nauseam deck

2 Swamp, 2 Island, 8 cinq lands (to support Orim's Chant as the only not Blue or Black cards). It looks a lot like a normal Fetchland Tenrdils deck, except for the manabase. Mystical tutor and such.

1 Legacy-updated LSV Extended elves

Go read about it somewhere else.

1 Epic Painter

Swap the single maindecked Excutioner's Capsuel for an Engineered Explosives, and then you have the standard, accepted 75-card normal list.

1 TES

Only nine lands, but I didn't notice what the extra card was. Board was standard. Thread for discussion is here (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8046).

1 Trainwreck

Mostly mono-black Cabal Coffers control with Bayous for Pernicious Deeds. Oona was the main wincon. I'm too lazy to dig past the first page of Established Decks, so I'm not linking.

1 BW aggro

I'm typing this one up.

1 GRWb Zoo

4 Wild Nactal, 4 Watchwolf, 3 Quasil Ambusher (yeah. Look that one up), black for discard and Confidant, zero Tarmogoyfs (but, since it wasn't built to abuse that, I'm guessing it was a budget concern).

1 Eva Green

You know what this is. It was a normal list.

1 MUC

Standard three wincons main (2 Morphilng one Rainbow Efreet), 4 Back to Basics, 4 Propaganda. Boarding a couple weird 2-ofs, among them Sower of Temptation and Chalice of the Void.

1 3c Aggro Control

Tariq White, a Syracuse local, continues to play decks with the most terrible manabases you've ever seen (although he doesn't get the worst manabase award). Win conditions include 1 Eternal Dragon, 4 Augury Adept, 4 Shadowmage Infeltrator, and... manlands? It's a weird list, and written on college-ruled paper. Which makes me a sad panda, 'cause it didn't fit well into the grid I made on my floor for laying out the decklists.

1 Enchantress

3 Chrome Moxen, 2 Blood Moon main. Living Wish package included an Eternal Witness, one sort of Enchantress (whose brand I forgot. Which wouldn't be an issue if my cat (who can be seen in the pimp deck thread) weren't laying on top of the list), Squee, and maybe another creature or something.

3 Goblins

1 Rg

1-of Chrome Mox, 3 Prospector and 3 Sparksmith, 3 Ancient Tomb, only 3 Matrons, 1-of each Pyromancer and Sharpshooter (with another shooter in the board). Green was only for 4 Naturalize (lolwut?) and 3 Tsunami in the board.

2 RBg

The two were pretty standard. One ran 3 Port and 3 Waste, the other just 4 Wasteland. After that they were almost identical (save for a couple odd numbers on Piledrivers and Mogg Fanatics).


1 Intruder Alarm Combo

You guys gotta see this one. It's awesome.

1 Permanent Waves

There was just an article written with this list. Go read it.

1 Tombstone

Standard list, but it's not on the first page of Established Decks, so I'm not gonna be linking it again.

1 KOBOLDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm writing down this list.

1 Mighty Quinn

Standard list. Thread for discussion is here (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6188).

1 Extended Tezzeret Deck

I think it's what extended players would call "Tezzerator," except that it included a single copy of Ensnaring Bridge (to make it not Extended legal).



Lists I thought were cool:
Some sort of "Mighty Quinn" with black, and creatures:

1 Ethersworn Canonist
1 Tidehollow Sculler
4 Fulminator Mage
4 Kitchen Finks
4 Cabal Therapy
3 Enlightened Tutor
4 Bitterblossom
1 Runed Halo
1 Ghostly Prison
2 Oblivion Ring
1 Aura of Silence
1 Mind Slash
3 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Sword of Light and Shadow
1 Engineered Explosives
3 Chrome Mox
4 Plains
2 Swamp
4 BLoodstained Mire
2 Windswept Heath
4 Scrubland
3 Horizon Canopy
4 Wasteland
Sideboard:
3 Abolish
3 Ethersworn Canonist
2 Oblivion Ring
2 Engineered Explosives
1 Engineered Plague
1 Pithing Needle
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Warmth
1 Wheel of Sun and Moon

KOBOLDS!!
4 Wild Cantor
4 Ornithopter
4 Glimpse of Nature
4 Phyrexian Marauder
12 Kobolds (no match loss noted for this)(it was written like that on the list)
4 Summoner's Pact
2 Gaea's Cradel
4 Elvish Spirit Guide
4 Street Wraith
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Eternal Witness
4 Phyrexian Walker
2 Mystical Tutor
3 Lotus Petal
1 Grapeshot
1 Shape Shifting Wall
1 Tinder Wall
Sideboard:
1 Windswept Heath
1 Gaea's Cradel
1 Crop Rotation
4 Skullmuncher
3 Natural Order
3 Xantid Swarm
2 Tropical Island

"Infinitap"
3 Darting Merfolk (http://magiccards.info/mm/en/72.html)
4 Intruder Alarm (http://magiccards.info/8e/en/86.html)
4 Prodigal Sorcerer (http://magiccards.info/4e/en/94.html)
1 Braingeyser (http://magiccards.info/al/en/51.html)
2 Peacekeeper (http://magiccards.info/wl/en/138.html)
2 Archivist (http://magiccards.info/7e/en/61.html)
1 Bant Charm (http://magiccards.info/ala/en/155.html)
2 Spiritual Asylum (http://magiccards.info/ne/en/23.html)
4 Soul Warden (http://magiccards.info/10e/en/44.html)
4 Quirion Elves (http://magiccards.info/bd/en/60.html)
1 Eternal Witness
2 Sunscape Familiar (http://magiccards.info/ps/en/17.html)
4 Impulse
4 Birds of Paradise
1 Worship
2 Seeker of Skybreak (http://magiccards.info/7e/en/268.html)
1 Vedalken Mastermind (http://magiccards.info/10e/en/123.html)
1 Dream Fracture (http://magiccards.info/eve/en/19.html)
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Disenchant
1 Psychic Vortex (http://magiccards.info/wl/en/50.html) (which, for the record, is "Gedankenstrudel" in German)
8 Forest
4 Seaside Citadel (http://magiccards.info/ala/en/229.html)
1 Pendelhaven
1 Savannah
Sideboard:
1 Darting Merfolk (http://magiccards.info/mm/en/72.html)
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Castle (http://magiccards.info/4e/en/262.html)
2 Disenchant
1 Calming Verse (http://magiccards.info/pr/en/110.html)
1 Hindering Light (http://magiccards.info/ala/en/173.html)
2 Dream Fracture (http://magiccards.info/eve/en/19.html)
2 Merfolk Looter (http://magiccards.info/10e/en/92.html)
1 Ivory Mask
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Trade Secrets (http://magiccards.info/on/en/118.html)
1 Witch Hunter (http://magiccards.info/ch/en/70.html)

Props:

Affinity players, for having the best handwriting of any archtype.
Jim, for keeping the dream alive (and not Colin, 'cause he didn't go).
Doug McKay, for typing his list out.


Slops:

Children. For their terrible handwriting.
Most of you are children.

Blackened
12-23-2008, 10:00 PM
I thought my handwriting was pretty good. =/

rsaunder
12-23-2008, 10:23 PM
rsaunder: tradition.dec

Pinder
12-23-2008, 10:53 PM
Is Summoner's Pact -> ESG really the only mana source that Kobolds deck has other than 3 Lotus Petals?

awesome.

Sims
12-23-2008, 10:59 PM
Is Summoner's Pact -> ESG really the only mana source that Kobolds deck has other than 3 Lotus Petals?

awesome.

You missed the two Cradles.

Zach Tartell
12-27-2008, 05:49 PM
So, I just went through the decks again, and there were a total of 7 blood moon effects in the whole tournament.

2 in Enchantress, 4 in that weird URg thresh, and one in the elf survival.


D'you think that means anything?