Meandeck Open Results! Top 8 Decklists/ Metagame Breakdown

[Smmenen]

First of all, thank you thank you thank you for attending. We had 45 player show up at the end of December, 2009 for an AWESOME tournament.

It's great to see that Eternal players can show up in great numbers, have a blast, and mix things up.

Metagame Breakdown

6 Canadian Threshold
6 Sligh/Burn
5 Zoo
4 Merfolk
3 Goblins
2 Enchantress
2 CounterTop w/ Progentius
2 Reanimator
2 White Stax
1 Survival + CounterTop
1 CounterTop Bant
1 WGB
1 White Weenie
1 Elves
1 Ad Nauseam
1 B/G
1 Mono-White Control
1 Mono Red Stax
1 BitterStandstill
1 Bant
1 Aggro Loam
1 Suicide Black

Top 8 Decklists!

The Top 8, like a bunch of pussies, split again :)

1st Place: Harrison Laws
4 Plains
4 Windswept Heath
4 Savannah
6 Forest
2 Serra's Sanctum
1 Tiaga
4 Argothian Enchantress
1 Sacred Mesa
1 Words of War
1 Sigil of the Empty Throne
2 Ghostly Prison
1 Karmic Justice
2 Replenish
2 Elephant Grass
2 Ground Seal
4 Enchnatresses Presence
4 Utopia Sprawl
2 Moat
4 Sterling Grove
2 Oblivionj Ring
4 Runed Halo
3 Solitary Confinement

Sideboard:
1 Karmic Justice
1 Replenish
2 Elephant Grass
1 Ground Seal
1 Seal of Primordium
2 City of Solitude
2 Aura of Silence
3 Warmth
2 Spiritual Focus

2nd Place: Lee Bower

18 Swamp
4 Wasteland
4 Dark Confidant
4 Vampire Nighthawk
3 Tombstalker
3 Nantuko Shade
2 Bloodghast
4 Hymn to Tourach
3 Duress
2 Thoughtseize
4 Sinkhole
3 Smother
2 Diabolic Edict
2 Slaughter Pact
2 Umezawa's Jitte

Sideboard:
4 Perish
4 Extirpate
4 Engineered Plague
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Umezawa's Jitte

3rd Place: Nathan Budney
1 Island
4 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea
2 Tundra
3 Polluted Delta
3 Flooded Strand
2 Misty Rainforest
4 Dark Confidant
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Trygon Predator
1 Progenitus
3 Noble Hierarch
1 Qasali Pridemage
2 Vedalkin Shackles
3 Daze
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Sensei's Divining Top
3 Counter Balance
3 Natural Order

sideboard:
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Serenity
2 Krosan Grip
2 Prithing Needle
1 COP: Red
4 Blue Elemental Blast
3 Duress

4th Eric Blegen
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Flooded Strand
1 Island
3 Tundra
1 Plains
1 Forest
4 Tropical Island
2 Savannah
1 Qasali Pridemage
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Rhox War Monk
1 Rafiq of the Many
4 Tarmogoyf
1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
1 Wonder
4 Counterbalance
4 Brainstorm
4 Survival of the Fittest
4 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Force of Will
4 Swords to PLowshares

sideboard:
1 Eternal Witness
1 Genesis
3 Faerie Macabre
3 Ghostly Prison
1 Trygon Predator
1 Llawan, Cephalid Empress
1 Gaddock Teeg
1 Sower of Temptation
1 Meddling Mage
1 Baneslayer Angel
1 Tivadar of Thorn

5th: Vince Diocedo

3 [TSP] Flagstones of Trokair
4 [REW] Wasteland
13 [ZEN] Plains (2)

// Creatures
4 [CHK] Samurai of the Pale Curtain
4 [FNM] Mother of Runes
3 [CS] Jotun Grunt
4 [TSP] Serra Avenger
3 [FNM] Soltari Priest
4 [FNM] Silver Knight

// Spells
3 [BOK] Umezawa's Jitte
2 [HOP] Oblivion Ring
3 [JGC] Armageddon
4 [M10] Harm's Way
4 [FNM] Swords to Plowshares
3 [DS] AEther Vial

6th Place: Eric Bettens

4 Chalice of the Void
4 Crucible of Worlds
4 Trinisphere
4 Smokestack
4 Ghostly Prison
4 ARmageddon
3 Magus of the Tabernacle
1 Moat
4 Mox Diamond
1 Exalted Angel
2 Baneslayer Angel
1 God's Eye, Gate of the Beika
4 Wasteland
4 City of Traitors
4 Ancient Tomb
3 Flagstones of Trokair
2 Mishra's Factory
6 Plains
1 Kor Haven
1 Gargoyle Castle

Sideboard:
3 Runed Halo
3 Dampin Matrix
3 Aura of Silence
1 Moat
1 The Tabernacle of Pendrell Vale
2 Oblivion Ring
2 Karmic Justice


7th PLace: Steven Salsgiver
Wbg

/Creatures/
4 Dark Confidant
2 Doran, the Siege Tower
4 Mother of Runes
4 Putrid Leech
4 Qasali Pridemage
4 Serra Avenger
4 Tarmogoyf

/Sorceries/
1 Life from the Loam
2 Vindicate

/Instants/
4 Swords to Plowshares

/Artifacts/
4 Aether Vial
3 Umezawa's Jitte

/Lands/
2 Savannah
2 Scrubland
4 Marsh Flats
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wasteland
2 Plains
1 Forest
1 Swamp

/Sideboard/
4 Absolute Law
4 Engineered Plague
3 Krosan Grip
4 Yixlid Jailer

8th Place: Gus Schade
4 [ON] Polluted Delta
4 [ZEN] Scalding Tarn
2 [b] Underground Sea
2 [b] Volcanic Island
1 [b] Tropical Island
1 [b] Badlands
1 [ARE] Island (2)

// Spells
4 [FNM] Brainstorm
4 [V09] Sensei's Divining Top
1 [M10] Ponder
1 [TE] Meditate

4 [HOP] Dark Ritual
2 [TO] Cabal Ritual
4 [MI] Lion's Eye Diamond
4 [V09] Lotus Petal
2 [MR] Chrome Mox

4 [ARE] Duress
1 [LRW] Thoughtseize

4 [JU] Burning Wish
4 [V09] Mystical Tutor
1 [DIS] Infernal Tutor

2 [ALA] Ad Nauseam
1 [6E] Doomsday
1 [US] Ill-Gotten Gains
1 [SC] Tendrils of Agony

// Sideboard
SB: 4 [IA] Pyroblast
SB: 3 [SC] Xantid Swarm
SB: 1 [ON] Chain of Vapor
SB: 1 [AQ] Hurkyl's Recall
SB: 1 [TSP] Krosan Grip
SB: 1 [WL] Doomsday
SB: 1 [10E] Deathmark
SB: 1 [US] Ill-Gotten Gains
SB: 1 [SC] Tendrils of Agony
SB: 1 [TSP] Empty the Warrens


There you go!!!! It's a little bit late, but the new year created all sorts of delays. Enjoy!

[Illissius]

Thanks for the lists. Interesting that there was one combo deck in the entire tournament and it made T8. The 5th place list is missing a sideboard.

[Smmenen]

Vince's decklist is untranscribable because he didn't post a normal decklist. He wrote it up a card at a time. Literally a card at a time.

It reads like

Plains
Mother of Ruins
Plains
Armegeddon
Plains

Etc.

I'll ask him to post it.

In the future Vince, don't do that again. Thanks :)

[Tarsir]

Looks like this was (most of) his board. (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showpost.php?p=413390&postcount=58) Looking at a later post, someone said he ran 3/3 Relic/Needle instead of 2/4.

Anyway, even though I punted hardcore-with my friend's zoo deck, no less-event was still super legit, as all the ones I've attended have been. Hoping the trend doesn't break any time soon :P

[Zay]

When is the next meandeck open going to be held?

-Zay

[Smmenen]

Haven't decided yet.

We'd like to map out a schedule leading up to GP Columbus (don't worry, we'll continue events after the Grand Prix), but we want people to be able to plan.

Hopefully we'll have it all hammered out in the next few weeks, and we will be looking at a mid-February date, perhaps? Perhaps February 14th? How would that work for folks?

[Ozymandias]

I can't help but notice that the top 8 Counterbalance lists have only 4 Swords to Plowshares. Perhaps Sti was right?

[arcboundravager2]

i love seeing the diversity of the field for these events. i <3 legacy tournies

[CroSS.24]

i wish i could have made the last 2 of these but i've been busy and i really hope you dont have the next one on february 14th because i want to attend the next one... any other day in february is fine but valentines day really!!! well i hope to see everyone at the next one and i guess i'm just gonna have to show everyone how to beat gus... combo not that good :wink:

[arcboundravager2]

wait the next one is valentines day. unacceptable. every1 knows that i have put off a great many things to play magic but this is too much. FEMALE FLAK. THERE WILL BE LOTS. THERE WILL BE LIVES LOST AND BLOOD SPILLED. please not valentines day steve

Please try to use capitalization at the beginning of words too. Thanks. - zilla

[hi-val]

wait the next one is valentines day. unacceptable. every1 knows that i have put off a great many things to play magic but this is too much. FEMALE FLAK. THERE WILL BE LOTS. THERE WILL BE LIVES LOST AND BLOOD SPILLED. please not valentines day steve

This, unfortunately : (

[Media314r8]

I would like to both play in the next Meandeck event and not have my girlfriend tear my balls off. Please don't make me chose.

[yawg07]

Yeah the whole vday thing, can't do that.

[Smmenen]

Whoops. Yeah V-Day is definitely out.

The alternative, I beileve, is Feb. 7th.

[We dont rent pigs]

Worldwake Launch Parties run February 5-8 so that might cause some conflicts. What about the weekend after V-day?

[Smmenen]

Unfortunately, I don't think those weekends are available. I'll try to figure something out.

[Smmenen]

FEb 21st it is!! I'll post a full formal announcement next week. Mark your calendars!!