We had our second highest turnout ever, with 46 players! Thanks to everyone who made this tournament so insane! The prize pool was nearly $740, which was split by the top 8, for 95 bucks a piece.
I have Top 8 decklists and a Complete Metagame Breakdown for ya:
FIRST PLACE:
Matt Kranstuber (kojiro)
4 Burning Wish
2 Devastating Dreams
1 Countryside Crusher
3 Life From the Loam
4 Mox Diamond
3 Knight of the Reliquary
1 Qasali Pridemage
3 Dark Confidant
4 Tarmogoyf
1 Seismic Assault
1 Eternal Witness
2 Swords to Plowshares
2 Sensei's Divining Top
2 Thoughtseize
1 Duress
1 Tabernacle at the Pendral Vale
1 Mountain
1 Forest
3 Wasteland
1 Savannah
1 Plateau
2 Taiga
1 Bayou
1 Badlands
2 Bloodstained Mire
4 Forgotten Cave
2 Tranquil Thicket
1 Volrath's Stronghold
1 Maze of Ith
4 Wooded Foothills
1 Scrubland
Sideboard:
1 Reanimate
1 Reverent Silence
1 Devastating Dreams
1 Shattering Spree
1 Firespout
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Life From the Loam
3 Krosan Grip
1 Chainer's Edict
1 Solitary Confinement
2 Pernicious Deed
1 Thoughtseize
SECOND PLACE:
Bobby Kovacs (OneBigSquirrelGod)
3 Staff of Domination
2 Innocent Blood
4 Thoughtseize
4 Hymn to Tourach
3 Beseech the Queen
3 Damnation
1 Chainer's Edict
1 Slaughter Pact
1 Consume Spirit
1 Sorin Markov
1 Haunting Echoes
1 Helldozer
4 Pernicious Deed
1 Oona, Queen of the Fae
2 Maelstrom Pulse
2 Regrowth
1 Krosan Grip
4 Verdant Catacombs
1 Marsh Flats
4 Bayou
2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
3 Cabal Coffers
1 Forest
10 Swamp
Sideboard:
4 Engineered Plague
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Garruk Wildspeaker
1 Null Brooch
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Krosan Grip
1 Tsunami
1 Sorin Markov
THIRD PLACE:
Max Jacob
15 Island
4 Mutavault
3 Writ of Passage
3 Umezawa's Jitte
4 Mistblade Shinobi
4 Cloud of Faeries
4 Force of Will
4 Ninja of the Deep Hours
4 Zephyr Sprite
4 Daze
4 Spellstutter Sprite
4 Ornithopter
4 Standstill
Sideboard:
3 Pithing Needle
4 Tormod's Crypt
4 Blue Elemental Blast
4 Annul
FOURTH PLACE:
Gus Schade (Yawg07)
4 Samarai of the Pale Curtain
4 Silver Knight
4 Serra Avenger
4 Mother of Ruins
3 Jotun Grunt
3 Soltari Priest
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Harm's Way
3 Umezawa's Jitte
3 Aether Vial
2 Ravages of War
1 Armageddon
2 Oblivion Ring
4 Wasteland
3 Flagstones of Trokair
13 Plains
Sideboard:
4 Pithing Needle
2 Relic of Progenitus
3 Patrician's Scorn
3 True Believer
2 Cataclysm
1 Oblivion Ring
FIFTH PLACE:
Eric Blegen (Media314r8)
4 Sower of Temptation
4 Weatherseed Faeries
4 Sea Drake
4 Trinket Mage
4 Sword of Fire and Ice
3 Mulldrifter
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Force of Will
1 Engineered Explosives
13 Island
4 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Traitors
1 Vault of Whispers
1 Seat of Synod
1 Academy Ruins
4 Mox Diamond
Sideboard:
3 Misdirection
3 Pithing Needle
3 Silent Arbiter
2 Relic of Progenitus
1 Tormod's Crypt
2 Engineered Explosives
1 Shield Sphere
SIXTH PLACE:
Ben Wienburg (firstshot)
4 Nimble Mongoose
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Vendillion Clique
4 Ponder
4 Brainstorm
4 Stifle
4 Spell Snare
4 Force of Will
4 Daze
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Fire/Ice
4 Tropical Island
4 Volcanic Island
4 Wasteland
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
Sideboard:
2 Spell Pierce
2 Pyroclasm
3 Pyroblast
2 Pithing Needle
2 Trygon Predator
4 Submerge
SEVENTH PLACE
Nick Ratzel
1 Barbarian Ring
3 Bloodstained MIre
2 Wooded Foothills
11 Mountain
3 Rift Bolt
4 Chain Lightning
4 Lava Spike
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Smash to Smithereens
4 Incinerate
4 Fireblast
2 Fork
4 Price of Progress
2 Flame of the Blood Hand
4 Hellspark Elemental
4 Goblin Guide
Sideboard:
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Flames of the Blood Hand
1 Pyroclams
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Tormod's Crypt
2 Pyroblast
2 Red Elemental Blast
3 Sulferic Vortex
3 Flamebreak
EIGHTH PLACE
Mark Larson
4 Grim Lavamancer
4 Kird Ape
4 Wild Nacatl
4 Qasali Pridemage
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Knight of the Reliquary
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Chain Lightning
3 Path to Exile
2 Fireblast
1 Savannah
2 Plateau
3 Taiga
1 Mountain
1 Forest
1 Plains
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Arid Mesa
Sideboard:
2 Krosan Grip
4 Ethersworn Canonist
3 Pyroclasm
4 Tormod's Crypt
2 Wasteland
METAGAME BREAKDOWN:
6 Canadian Threshold
4 Stax
- 3 Mono-White
- 1 Mono Blue w/ Tez
3 Goblins
3 Merfolk
3 Zoo
3 Counter-Top Goyf
- 1 UWG w/ Natural Order
- 1 UBG
- 1 UBG w/ Dark Depths
2 UBW Landstill
2 Land Belcher
2 White Weenie
2 Enchatnress
2 Dredge
2 Burn
2 Dark Ritual Combo
- 1 Ad Nauseam
- 1 Doomsday
1 BWG Aggro-Control
1 Affinity
1 43 Land.dec
1 Bitterblossom Control
1 Counterslivers
1 Dreadstill
1 Ninjas
1 B/R Land Destruction
Despite the discussion in the tournament thread (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/s...t=14916&page=4 ) this metagame very closely resembles the larger metagame, with Thresh, Counterbalance, Merfolk, Zoo, Goblins, and the recent SCG winner, Stax, as the most popular archetypes.
Practically everything else was represented, from 2 land belcher to Enchantress. It was a very diverse and yet the same metagame as the major recent SCG tournaments, nothing aberrant except the unusual top 8.
Our next MEANDECK OPEN Will be Sunday, December 27th! Look for the announcement in the next few weeks! Mark your calendars now!!
Last edited by Smmenen; 10-29-2009 at 02:58 AM.
Oh, wow, didn't see that one coming.
Of the archetypes represented in 3+ numbers, I only saw Merfolk & CounterTop in the six rounds, which explains why I (among others) thought the meta was odd. Of course, hearing about 34landdestruction.dec after the first round along with Ninjas (Ninjas?!?) might have facilitated this.
Do you have the Decklist for the other UWb Landstill list? Would like to see it for comparison purposes. Oh, and Eric Blegen is Media314r8 on here.
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Originally Posted by Aleksandr
Similarly, I played against burn and white weenie in 2 of my 5 rounds so it definitely seemed like an odd meta when looked at on such a small scale.
Ninja Faeries, Death and Taxes, and Train Wreck in top 4. I haven't been this confused since insert witty remark here.
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Did the T8 actually play it out after they split? I get the impression that they just walked away afterward and didn't do a playoff, and I hope it was otherwise! And btw, wtf @ 8-way split? Play that sucka out!!!
The top 8 is in order of final standings after the swiss.
Top 8 split is the best. Instead of staying to all hours of the night you get to go eat dinner. On average you'll make the same prize, but you odn't have to take the risk. Most times you need to make top 2 to beat a top 8 split.
I agree. I hate splitting, I just usually hope someone else will be the dick and force a playoff.
Gratz' to Gus.
Honestly wanted to leave and get food so I split. Looking back Larson (zoo), Ratzel(Burn) and I (Tempo Thresh) should have battled because our matchups were favorable. and than looked into a top 4 split.
Thats one reason I'd like to start earlier so that top 8 could play out and still have time for food before restaurants close.
Ben Wienburg
There was plenty of time. I think I got to BDs well before 8pm and I think they close at 10, if not later. But we will be moving the tournament start time to 12:30.
They close at 9 on Sundays. My car left a little later because we had someone playing in the legacy side event. Unfortunately since we waited we didn't arrive till BD's until 855 and decided we didn't want to be those guys. So we went to max & erma's instead. But if they t8 had played out BD's wouldn't have been an option
Ben Wienburg
Max&Erma's!! Holy crap! That place is amazing!
That's another, great, close post-tournament restaurant.
We will move the start time to 12:30, and if that works well, we'll move it up to noon the following event.
Joel Ferris
Team Awesome
4 Tundra
1 Underground Sea
1 Scrubland
4 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta
1 Marsh Flats
3 Plains
3 Island
3 Mishra's Factory
1 Dust Bowl
1 Academy Ruins
4 Force of Will
4 Spell Snare
2 Counterspell
3 Standstill
3 Sensei's Divining Top
3 Brainstorm
2 Wrath of God
4 Swords to Plowshares
3 Engineered Explosives
1 Humility
2 Cunning Wish
1 Nev's Disk
1 Path to Exile
3 Decree of Justice
2 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
SB:
1 Ray of Distortion
1 Pulse of the Fields
1 Extirpate
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Blue Elemental Blast
1 Path to Exile
1 Crucible of Worlds
4 Counterbalance
4 Engineered Plague
Yeah, splitting is kinda :( But I understand, and it's legal, unfortunately. Maybe next time someone will be a man : )
Another consideration is that you can take the cash and then go play the playoffs at a restaurant : ) Soldiery isn't the greatest place to be chillin' out at dinner time, so that could be a cool option otherwise. With nearly $800 in the prize pool, there's little reason to just split - you're getting $40 instead of $100, which still covers expenses. I mean, for $60, I'd definitely play that out, even though if I won, I'd still be down $20 from the split. That said, making it to the finals is $240.
All I'm saying is, man up, Nancy!
Wow.. Soldiery too 180 of the prizepool.... that kinda terrible.....maybe he could take 10%... that would be a little better. Its not like he's not already raping us driving 1-2 hours out there..... and maybe if we won more money, we could pick up a card or two from the store....
And I would have been glad to play the top 8... but I had to play against RRRRRRATZEL!!!! and that is a very bad matchup for me... I feel I could have beat him.... If he was playing a deck without red in it.....
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