{The Source} TOP 8 Playoff Match

[Dan Turner]

This is my Final list I had to give elof 3 points manually that why on the last list I showed each of the 12 pointers and there % so that there was no argument on what 12 pointer made it in.

I may sound a little bitchy but all the complaining I have been getting from a few people over how come I didn't make it in and my opponent was only on 1 day this week no fair I am sorry but I had a set of rules in the beginning that was too lenient on letting people just post on Monday and never even come back online to play their match and I am sorry but I could not change the rules half way during the tournament. this problem will be fixed. And people if you have no time to play just post that you drop, I had way too many no shows that I had to just drop. Honestly if there was anything at stack in the way of prizes I would have been on a lot more on people about it but this is all just for fun something to do to piss away an hour a week out of our miserable god forsaken lives that we live in the real world (well not really I enjoy my life but some of the complaints I have gotten seems like this is all some people have to live for is this tournament)

1 16 0016, Maveric78f 14
2 18 0018, spirit of the wretch 14
3 27 0027, lavafrogg 14
4 40 0040, pi4meterftw 13
5 9 0009, Hollywood 13
6 45 0045, Deviruchi 13
7 10 0010, Elof 13
8 21 0021, RoddyVR 12


Table 1

1 16 0016, Maveric78f 14
vs
8 21 0021, RoddyVR 12

Table 2
2 18 0018, spirit of the wretch 14
vs
7 10 0010, Elof 13

Table 3
3 27 0027, lavafrogg 14
vs
6 45 0045, Deviruchi 13

Table
4 40 0040, pi4meterftw 13
vs
5 9 0009, Hollywood 13


Decklist


Maveric78f: Big Fish

Deck security code for current deck: 252f63ab

// Lands
3 [ON] Flooded Strand
1 [b] Island (2)
4 [ON] Polluted Delta
4 [MM] Rishadan Port
3 [A] Underground Sea
4 [TE] Wasteland
2 [u] Tundra

// Creatures
4 [RAV] Dark Confidant
4 [MI] Phyrexian Dreadnought
4 [CS] Jotun Grunt
1 [RAV] Stinkweed Imp
3 [US] Gilded Drake

// Spells
4 [DS] AEther Vial
4 [MM] Brainstorm
4 [NE] Daze
4 [AL] Force of Will
4 [SC] Stifle
3 [TSP] Trickbind

// Sideboard
SB: 1 [OV] Hydroblast
SB: 2 [u] Blue Elemental Blast
SB: 3 [PLC] Extirpate
SB: 4 [JGC] Meddling Mage
SB: 3 [PS] Rushing River
SB: 2 [MI] Mind Harness


Spirit of the Wrench

I'm in for the Source Tournament.

// Lands
4 [ON] Wooded Foothills
4 [ON] Bloodstained Mire
2 [ON] Windswept Heath
1 [PT] Forest (2)
2 [PT] Mountain (1)
3 [A] Plateau
3 [A] Taiga
1 [R] Savannah

// Creatures
4 [ALA] Wild Nacatl
4 [TO] Grim Lavamancer
4 [ARB] Qasali Pridemage
4 [FUT] Tarmogoyf
2 [EVE] Figure of Destiny

// Spells
4 [LG] Chain Lightning
4 [A] Lightning Bolt
4 [EX] Price of Progress
4 [TSP] Rift Bolt
3 [VI] Fireblast
3 [RAV] Lightning Helix

// Sideboard
SB: 4 [IA] Pyroclasm
SB: 4 [GP] Tin Street Hooligan
SB: 3 [SC] Sulfuric Vortex
SB: 3 [TSP] Krosan Grip
SB: 1 [TSB] Gaea's Blessing

Deck Code:

aa04314d

Lavafrog

// Lands
4 [ON] Barren Moor
3 [R] Bayou
1 [LRW] Forest (2)
3 [ON] Polluted Delta
2 [R] Savannah
1 [b] Scrubland
1 [8E] Swamp (4)
4 [ON] Tranquil Thicket
3 [TE] Wasteland
3 [ON] Wooded Foothills

// Creatures
3 [RAV] Dark Confidant
4 [FUT] Tarmogoyf
2 [OD] Terravore
3 [FUT] Tombstalker

// Spells
3 [FD] Engineered Explosives
4 [FE] Hymn to Tourach (4)
4 [RAV] Life from the Loam
4 [SH] Mox Diamond
4 [b] Swords to Plowshares
4 [LRW] Thoughtseize

// Sideboard
SB: 2 [TE] Choke
SB: 2 [7E] Engineered Plague
SB: 1 [6E] Enlightened Tutor
SB: 4 [AP] Gerrard's Verdict
SB: 2 [CHK] Ghostly Prison
SB: 4 [TSP] Krosan Grip

Pi4meterftw

// Lands
4 [ON] Windswept Heath
4 [ON] Flooded Strand
4 [A] Tundra
3 [TE] Wasteland
1 [10E] Island (3)
2 [4E] Plains (1)

// Creatures
4 [9E] Weathered Wayfarer
4 [PS] Meddling Mage
4 [CHP] Serra Avenger
4 [TSP] Fathom Seer
2 [CS] Jotun Grunt

// Spells
4 [FNM] Brainstorm
4 [AT] Swords to Plowshares
3 [TSP] Ancestral Vision
4 [AL] Force of Will
3 [NE] Daze
3 [BOK] Umezawa's Jitte
2 [DS] AEther Vial
1 [DS] Sword of Light and Shadow

// Sideboard
SB: 4 [FNM] Aura of Silence
SB: 3 [LRW] Burrenton Forge-Tender
SB: 2 [ALA] Relic of Progenitus
SB: 3 [LRW] Thorn of Amethyst
SB: 2 [MI] Enlightened Tutor
SB: 1 [DS] Sword of Fire and Ice

corresponds to 493B1421.

Hollywood

No decklist

Deviruchi's Security Code: 9358CD73 [Type 1.5]

// Lands
1 [ON] Polluted Delta
2 [ON] Bloodstained Mire
4 [ON] Windswept Heath
4 [TE] Wasteland
4 [b] Bayou
4 [b] Scrubland
1 [UNH] Plains
2 [UNH] Swamp

// Creatures
4 [FUT] Tarmogoyf
4 [RAV] Dark Confidant
3 [FUT] Tombstalker
4 [b] Hypnotic Specter

// Spells
4 [b] Swords to Plowshares
4 [LRW] Thoughtseize
1 [FE] Hymn to Tourach (1)
1 [FE] Hymn to Tourach (2)
1 [FE] Hymn to Tourach (4)
1 [FE] Hymn to Tourach (3)
4 [AP] Vindicate
3 [CHK] Sensei's Divining Top
4 [b] Dark Ritual

// Sideboard
SB: 4 [GP] Leyline of the Void
SB: 3 [UL] Engineered Plague
SB: 3 [TE] Choke
SB: 2 [AP] Pernicious Deed
SB: 3 [US] Duress


Elof

Decklist:

2DFC19A3 [Type 1.5]

4 Mishra's Factory
1 Mutavault
2 Riptide Laboratory
3 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
8 Island
4 Cloud of Faeries
4 Spellstutter Sprite
3 Ninja of the Deep Hours
2 Vendilion Clique
2 Sower of Temptation
1 Venser, Shaper Savant
3 Standstill
4 Brainstorm
3 Ponder
3 Spell Snare
3 Daze
2 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Echoing Truth
4 Force of Will

SB:
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Echoing Truth
3 Submerge
3 Relic of Progenitus
1 Vedalken Shackles
2 Hydroblast
1 Vendilion Clique
3 Stifle


Roddyvr

Land (20):
4 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
2 Windswept Heath
4 Tundra
2 Tropical Island
1 Island
1 Plains
4 Mutavault

Non Creature Spells (22):
4 Aether Vial
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Daze
2 Spell Snare

Creatures (18):
4 Plated Sliver
4 Sinew Sliver
4 Muscle Sliver
4 Crystalline Sliver
2 Winged Sliver

Sideboard:
1 Talon Sliver
2 Harmonic Sliver
1 Eladamri's Call
3 Burrenton Forge-Tenders
4 Anull
4 Relic of Progenitus

[The Wes]

Hey, you can only do so much running a no prize tourney for fun. Next time we should see if people will donate, I'll definately put some stuff in for prize support.

[lavafrogg]

Not to be bitchy but are decklists going up before we play?

[Dan Turner]

yea I will get them up tommorow I just am about to hit the sack i been up since 0600 and it 0029 right now

[elof]

I say well done so far! Really liked this tournament so far, to bad alot of players has dropped and another few has dropped without saying so.

Here is my decklist if anybody wants to see it before fanatic posts it:

2DFC19A3 [Type 1.5]

4 Mishra's Factory
1 Mutavault
2 Riptide Laboratory
3 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
8 Island
4 Cloud of Faeries
4 Spellstutter Sprite
3 Ninja of the Deep Hours
2 Vendilion Clique
2 Sower of Temptation
1 Venser, Shaper Savant
3 Standstill
4 Brainstorm
3 Ponder
3 Spell Snare
3 Daze
2 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Echoing Truth
4 Force of Will

SB:
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Echoing Truth
3 Submerge
3 Relic of Progenitus
1 Vedalken Shackles
2 Hydroblast
1 Vendilion Clique
3 Stifle

[Maveric78f]

My list too :


Maveric78f: Big Fish

Deck security code for the deck: 252f63ab

// Lands
3 [ON] Flooded Strand
1 [b] Island (2)
4 [ON] Polluted Delta
4 [MM] Rishadan Port
3 [A] Underground Sea
4 [TE] Wasteland
2 [u] Tundra

// Creatures
4 [RAV] Dark Confidant
4 [MI] Phyrexian Dreadnought
4 [CS] Jotun Grunt
1 [RAV] Stinkweed Imp
3 [US] Gilded Drake

// Spells
4 [DS] AEther Vial
4 [MM] Brainstorm
4 [NE] Daze
4 [AL] Force of Will
4 [SC] Stifle
3 [TSP] Trickbind

// Sideboard
SB: 1 [OV] Hydroblast
SB: 2 [u] Blue Elemental Blast
SB: 3 [PLC] Extirpate
SB: 4 [JGC] Meddling Mage
SB: 3 [PS] Rushing River
SB: 2 [MI] Mind Harness

I played this deck 3 times in tourney and I've done once 1st/39 (http://www.deckcheck.net/deck.php?id=20578) and once 5th/45 (http://www.deckcheck.net/deck.php?id=20914) (the last one, I was something like 15/45 players).

The idea being the tuning of the deck for that tournament is that the {the source} metagame would not be that much tribal. Usually, I rather run Serendib Efreet*4 instead of Gilded Drake and Imp MD and propaganda*3 (if I expect non-elves tribal) or Plague*4 (if I expect Elves) in SB. I see that I'm all wrong with Sliver and Faeries being in top8, where plague would just be a beating.

Even if I did not play it in tourney since 2009 (because I've not done any tourney since 2009, except last sunday and I played another deck), dreadnought is not dead.

I hate being paired for the second time against Sliver (even if RoddyVR is a nice player). I'm not sure I'll be as lucky as during rounds...

[lavafrogg]

Maveric- as much as I enjoy reading your posts, there is nothing about your deck I want to play...very nice list:)

4 tarmogoyf
3 dark confidant
3 tombstalker
2 terravore

4 life from the loam
4 mox diamond

4 swords to plowshares
3 engineered explosives

4 thoughtsieze
4 hymn to tourach

4 tranquil thicket
4 barren moor
3 bayou
2 savannah
1 scrubland
1 swamp
1 forest
3 bloodstained mire
3 wooded foothills
3 wasteland

Sb
4 gerrards verdict
2 engineered plauge
2 choke
2 ghostly prison
1 enlightened tutor
4 krosan grip

that's off the top of my head as I sit in a waiting room for advisement. I am really happy with the deck in all matches and will make a thread about it soon.

Edit: wow, no counterbalance in the top eight:)

[Michael Keller]

Here is my list (the Plateaus were intended to be Mountains due to a last-minute change, but were left in unintentionally. Apparently, it didn't matter enough):

Code: 4eadad84

// Lands
6 [TSP] Mountain
4 [EX] City of Traitors
4 [TE] Ancient Tomb
4 [B] Plateau

// Creatures
2 [TSP] Jaya Ballard, Task Mage
4 [P3] Imperial Recruiter
4 [FUT] Magus of the Moon
4 [PLC] Simian Spirit Guide
4 [SHM] Painter's Servant
1 [UL] Viashino Heretic
4 [EVE] Figure of Destiny

// Spells
4 [B] Lightning Bolt
3 [MR] Chrome Mox
4 [IA] Pyroblast
4 [TE] Grindstone
4 [A] Red Elemental Blast

// Sideboard
SB: 3 [AL] Pyrokinesis
SB: 4 [DS] Trinisphere
SB: 4 [LG] Active Volcano
SB: 4 [SHM] Faerie Macabre

[lavafrogg]

Messages opp yesterday.

[elof]

Will pm my op today, won't be able to play until weeken thou.

[pi4meterftw]

Hollywood and I have been trying, via PM, to get a mutually agreeable time. We should be able to play in the next few days, though not immediately; he serves in the military.

[Dan Turner]

well just like IRL top 8 have no time limit (within reason)

[elof]

I got no word from op so far but hopefully he will contact me soon.

[lavafrogg]

Been waiting all day...

[Maveric78f]

I just PMed RoddyVR. I'm afraid he did not expect to be in top8 and he's not looking the site anymore...

[spirit of the wretch]

Just got back from a week of hillwalking. Ready to play.

[elof]

Nice, ready to play here to :)

[spirit of the wretch]

elof takes me down in an EPIC third game! Mindblowing!

[elof]

elof wins with 2-1 after a amazing last game where I mulligan to 4 on the play! Very nice games and very nice opponent! GG:s!

[pi4meterftw]

Hollywood has graciously conceded the match.

[lavafrogg]

We were supposed to play last Saturday and communication has gone black since last Friday...

[RoddyVR]

Just won 2-0 vs Maveric. I need to remember to read the lists of my opponents before playing them. attacked with a 3/3 crystalilne when he had a vial at 2, i was thinking "what could he possibly have at 2cc that can kill a 3/3..." so he vials in one of his four Grunts...
He sais its a bad matchup for him, but i think it was prety much pure luck this time. game one his hand sucked.
And game two i lucked out. first him picking the wrong color prety much each time with his ports (there were some turns i would have been able to do nothing at all if he'd picked a different land. I had only one green source so he picked it most of the time, but that was aftr i cast the muscle sliver, the only green card i drew all game.) And then end game, i had a timely FoW on his stifle for the 12/12. He had a MM in play naming the STP in my hand, so if that dread hit, i'd have had been dead.

[elof]

So, 3 out of 4 matches done. How will top 4 be played? Highest ranked vs lowest? Or is there any other logic way?

[lavafrogg]

Does anyone know the declbreakdown of this tourney?
And in specific, how many counterbalance decks were in the field?

[Dan Turner]

Is anyone else going to play or even post or is it done.

[lavafrogg]

We have been trying to play! Dont drop us!

[lavafrogg]

Double post, sorry. I lost 2-1, mulled into crap game 1 and then had to fight through many leyline of the voids in games two and three, Good games but game 1 was huge!

[Deviruchi]

Confirmed. I won 2-1 vs Lavafrogg. Good games :) Game 1 he started and mulliganed into turn 1 & 2 nothing. Than we had some good magic and I won. Game 2 was crushed so we had to play it again. I mulliganed passive hand into better one which get pwned by discard and I was also manascrewed. I was defending as hard as I could wanting his D. Confidant to help me (he was hit once by Stalker and dodged 2 others. He finished at 2, hehe). Game 3 we've kept 7's. We had great openings, exchanged removal, my creatures shrinked his and Tombstalker went to top4 :)

[pi4meterftw]

Confirmed. I won 2-1 vs Lavafrogg. Good games :) Game 1 he started and mulliganed into turn 1 & 2 nothing. Than we had some good magic and I won. Game 2 was crushed so we had to play it again. I mulliganed passive hand into better one which get pwned by discard and I was also manascrewed. I was defending as hard as I could wanting his D. Confidant to help me (he was hit once by Stalker and dodged 2 others. He finished at 2, hehe). Game 3 we've kept 7's. We had great openings, exchanged removal, my creatures shrinked his and Tombstalker went to top4 :)

I must say just empirically I have observed that my mulligan rate is higher than predicted as are many others. But MWS is pretty "fair" so if this empirical evidence suggests anything at all, it'd just be that maybe we have a tendency to make too many approximations that favor ourselves when we figure stuff out.

[lavafrogg]

I would like it to be noted that I had no graveyard the entirety of the second and third games:) the game one mulligan hurt the most in that I really need to win game one against him. I kept a removal heavy hand and paid the price.

[pi4meterftw]

How are the pairings for the next round being done?

[elof]

Well I think that either:
A: Repair, random select.
B: Highest vs lowest, in that case Pi4 vs Rod, Del vs elo
C: Predetermined. Perhaps Fanatic already made a tree.
D: Other?

[Hightower]

What's normal procedure, in say a DCI sanctioned tournament?

[pi4meterftw]

Normally, I would play against the winner from 1st vs. 8th place.

[Dan Turner]

Ok This is over tonight in 7 hours from the time of this post I have a camping trip in 3 weeks I want to be able to make LOL


It will be highest ranked vs lowest ranked.

anyone who does not post by then will get a drop and any non played games I will figure something out.

[RoddyVR]

Ok This is over tonight in 7 hours from the time of this post I have a camping trip in 3 weeks I want to be able to make LOL


It will be highest ranked vs lowest ranked.

anyone who does not post by then will get a drop and any non played games I will figure something out.

did we just go from "about a week or more" to 7 HOURS for a round? lol. nice.

[elof]

Hey, can't we finish the thing ourselfs? It's not like it would be very hard? I'll meet Del and Rod vs pi4. Winner in both against each other in the finals?

Otherwise, I won't be able to play, got to go to bed now for work early early in the morning.

[pi4meterftw]

Roddyvr and I have just played. I won 2-0, in 2 close games.

[Dan Turner]

sure if you all want to finish yourselves no problem I just will be busy the rest of this week and next finishing up some projects at the last moment so I can scrap as much cash together for this trip.

[RoddyVR]

Roddyvr and I have just played. I won 2-0, in 2 close games.

Confirmed. Realy close, realy fun games. Battle of the Vials prety much. His equipment just proved too much to deal with (jitte is hard to beat, but i tried for a while i think)

[elof]

Message sent to Del.

[elof]

Del was suppose to come back with how his weekend looked, but havn't heard anything yet. Hopefully we will be able to play soon thou.

[elof]

Still no word. How long do I/we wait?

[Dan Turner]

elof if you go back and look at the first page you already won ????

[lavafrogg]

It took us like two weeks to play and he was just randomly on one morning as I was woken up by my phone going off... I think it's part of his strategy;)

[elof]

@Fanatic: I don't see it, the only win on first page was against spirit_of_the_wretched and now I'm playing against Deviruchi. Havn't heard from him in a week :/

@Lavafrogg: I'm afarid of that, perhaps he plans to trip me and play against me drunk or something :P

@The game: How long shall I wait?

[elof]

Another message sent, still waiting for reply.

[elof]

Still no word... :(

[elof]

Still nothing, what happens now? Shall I wait more or shall me and pi4meter play the finals?

[Dan Turner]

screw it you win..hell you all win I don't care lol. :tongue:

[elof]

Haha, that sounds awesome :P But I think that me and Pi4meter should play first ;)

When will the next source tourney start?

[Dan Turner]

Haha, that sounds awesome :P But I think that me and Pi4meter should play first ;)

When will the next source tourney start?

not until i get back from vacation (after the 20th of this month)

[elof]

Sounds awesome! I really like the work you put down on this!

EDIT: Message sent to pi4meterftw.

[pi4meterftw]

Sounds awesome! I really like the work you put down on this!

EDIT: Message sent to pi4meterftw.

No response from elof after I responded to this message.

[elof]

Didn't I reply? Sorry, it most have gotten lost. Anyway, how does your weekend look? I have been trying to get online late at night but I have just been to tierd at night. Will message you know about times and such.

[pi4meterftw]

Didn't I reply? Sorry, it most have gotten lost. Anyway, how does your weekend look? I have been trying to get online late at night but I have just been to tierd at night. Will message you know about times and such.

We have played the match and I won 2-0. Nice games.

[DrJones]

I hope next tournament doesn't play the Top 8 with no time limit.

[pi4meterftw]

Is the prize structure still 4-3-2-1 byes?

[elof]

Good games altough I played horribly. Proceeded to go undefeated in my irl tourney, but somehow I wanted to win this more :P Congrats to pi4meterftw, 2 straight top 8s and well played!

[pi4meterftw]

Thanks, GJ at your IRL tourney. What were your matchups? BTW I proceeded to lose 0-2 to NLU right after winning this tournament haha. It was for the MTGS tourney. Game 1 he drew 4 swords in less than half his deck to steal my winning position, but game 2 wasn't really that unusual... he just got CB lock plus the juice to end the game before I could outrun the lock. Man I hope CB gets banned!

[elof]

I played a evoled version of this deck, I like to call it R-U-Faerie? and I played and won against Merfolk, GW-creature deck, Zoo, BW-Bitterblossom+Tutor "good stuff" and then again against the GW deck in the semifinals. I then splitt the final with the zoo deck I played against earlier.

In this tournament I played against can-thres (lost 0-2), can-thres (won 2-0), opponent couldn't play (2-0 won), and another opponent couldn't play (2-0), UWB landstill (2-0), Imperial Painter (2-1), Zoo (2-1) and then semifinals against del that didn't show up and lastly against you. So it was pretty okey, I found out a few things about the list that I have changed now. It looks pretty desent.

NLU doesn't see much play here in sweden for some reason. At the RL tourney they where like 4-5 zoo/burn and at least 4 merfolks. 3 (or 4) of them got to top 8 so really strange meta. I drew with 2 of them but I think I would have won if we had played.