[BIG Tourney Resuslts] Game Empire Winterfest Top 8 w/ decklists

52 Players - 6 Rounds - Cut to Top 8
Dylan and I were the only 4-0 then draw twice into top 8.
match reports can be found here: http://www.gameempire.com/forum/inde...showtopic=1129

Here's a simplified list of the Top 8:

1. Reanimator UB
2. White Stax
3. Meathooks (CounterSliver)
4. Spanish Inquistion (Storm Combo)
5. GWB AggroControl
6. UWB Control
7. UBW Fish
8. GroAtog UBrg

-PR

Standings after Round 6 of the GE Winterfest:
(OMW to show who worked and who walked into the top 8)
Name Points OMW% rounded to nearest whole #
1. Sichen Sun 16 57%
2. Rodrigo Gonzalez 15 52%
3. Kyle Donovan 15 51%
4. Kevin Trombley 14 70%
5. Dylan Jolliffe 14 58%
6. John Harduvel 13 62%
7. Michael Scherer 13 61%
8. Ben Gustafson 13 61%

1 played 8, 2 played 7 and so on. All matches round 1 went to game 3.

Top 4
Dylan defeats Ben in 2
Rodrigo defeats Kyle in 2

Finals
Rodrigo defeats Dylan in 2, by Turn 4 both games.

DECKLISTS
#1 Rodrigo Gonzalez- B/u Reanimator
Deck Designer: Rodrigo Gonzalez
Spells:
4x Reanimate
4x Exhume
4x Careful Study
3x Intuition
2x Cabal Therapy
3x Brainstorm
3x Repeal

Enchantments
4x Animate Dead

Creatures:
3x Putrid Imp
2x Oona's Prowler
3x Bogardan Hellkite
1x Tidespout Tyrant
1x Garza Zol, Plague Queen
1x Simic Sky Swallower
1x Sundering Titan
1x Akroma, Angel of Wrath
1x Phantom Nishoba
1x Symbiotic Wurm

Lands:
3x Bloodstained Mire
3x Polluted Delta
4x Underground Sea
2x Watery Grave
6x Swamp
1x Island

Sideboard
2x Wipe Away
2x Hydroblast
1x Blue Elemental Blast
3x Defense Grid
3x Propaganda
3x Stifle
1x Repeal

#2 Dylan Joluffe- Krunk Stick (a.k.a Mono White Stax)
Deck Designer: Jimmy Ramirez
Artifacts
4x Trinisphere
4x Crucible of Worlds
4x Chalice of the Void
4x Smokestack
4x Mox Diamond

Enchantments
4x Ghostly Prison

Spells
4x Armageddon

Creatures
2x Exalted Angel
4x Magus of the Tabernacle

Lands
4x Flagsontes of Trokair
4x City of Traitors
4x Ancient Tomb
3x Mishra's Factory
2x Wasteland
1x The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
8x Plains

Sideboard
3x Pithing Needle
3x Tormod's Crypt
3x Supression Field
3x Oblivion Ring
2x Jotun Grunt
1x The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

#3 Kyle Donovan - Meathooks
Deck Desinger: Remus
Spells
4x Daze
4x Swords to Plowshares
4x Brainstorm
4x Portent
4x Force of Will
3x Counterspell

Creatures
4x Muscle Sliver
4x Sinew Sliver
4x Crystaline Sliver
4x Plated Sliver
3x Winged Sliver

Lands
4x Polluted Delta
2x Flooded Strand
1x Windswept Heath
3x Tundra
2x Tropical Island
1x Savannah
2x Yavimaya Coast
2x Island
1x Plains

Sideboard
3x Tormods Crypt
3x Chalice of the Void
3x Engineered Explosives
3x Jotun Grunt
3x Harmonic Sliver

#4- Ben Gustafson - Spanish Inquisition
Deck Designer: Emidln (of mtgsalvation)
Spells
4x Dark Ritual
4x Cabal Ritual
4x Culling the Weak
4x Land Grant
4x Duress
4x Infernal Contract
4x Cruel Bargain
4x Infernal Tutor
3x Tendrils of Agony

Artifacts
4x Lotus Petal
4x Chrome Mox
4x Lion's Eye Diamond
1x Goblin Charbelcher
4x Phyrexian Walker
4x Shield Sphere
2x Ornithopter

Lands
2x Overgrown Tomb

Sideboard:
4x Xantid Swarm
4x Tomb of Urami
3x Naturalize
2x Massacre
2x Phyrexian Negator

#5 Michael Scherer- Infi Removal
Deck Designer: Michael Scherer
Spells
4x Duress
2x Cabal Therapy
1x Darkblast
2x Chainer's Edict
2x Putrefy
2x Swords to Plowshares
3x Extirpate

Artifacts
2x Engineered Explosives
2x Sensei's Divining Top
2x Umezawa's Jitte

Creatures
4x Dark Confidant
4x Tarmogoyf
3x Eternal Witness
3x Troll Ascetic
2x Mystic Enforcer

Lands
4x Windswept Heath
3x Polluted Delta
4x Bayou
1x Savannah
1x Scrubland
2x Overgrown Tomb
1x Forest
1x Swamp
1x Plains
3x Wasteland
1x Volrath's Stronghold

Sideboard
4x Pernicious Deed
4x Unmask
3x Krosan Grip
3x Leyline of the Void
1x Darkblast

#6 Kevin Trombley(me)- Angel
Deck Designer: Kevin Trombley (Based on Invasion block deck "No-Mar")
Spells
4x Brainstorm
4x Swords to Plowshares
4x Wing Shards
3x Fact or Fiction
4x Gerrard's Verdict
4x Vindicate
4x Probe
3x Wrath of God

Enchantments
2x Yawgmoth's Agenda

Creatures
1x Morphling
2x Teferi, Mage of Zhalifir
2x Desolation Angel

Lands
3x Flooded Strand
3x Polluted Delta
4x Underground Sea
3x Tundra
1x Scrubland
4x Island
4x Plains
2x Swamp

Sideboard
4x Extirpate
4x Orim's Chant
4x Intervention Pact
3x Chalice of the Void

#7 John Harduvel- U/B/W Fish
Deck Designer: None stated
Spells
4x Brainstorm
4x Ponder
4x Force of Will
4x Swords to Plowshares
3x Daze
3x Duress
3x Stifle

Artifacts
2x Umezawa's Jitte

Creatures
4x Dark Confidant
4x Meddling Mage
3x Jotun Grunt
3x Stormscape Apprentice
2x Serra Avenger

Lands
4x Flooded Strand
2x Polluted Delta
4x Underground Sea
4x Tundra
1x Godless Shrine
1x Plains
1x Island

Sideboard
4x Engineered Plague
3x Threads of Disloyalty
2x Engineered Explosives
2x Pithing Needle
2x Kataki, War's Wage
1x Umezawa's Jitte
1x Duress

#8 Shichen Sun- U/B/r/g Gro-A-tog
Deck Designer: Shichen Sun
Spells
4x Brainstorm
4x Counterspell
4x Accumulated Knowledge
4x Force of Will
3x Smother
3x Impulse
3x Fact or Fiction
3x Cunning Wish
2x Intuition

Enchantments
1x Pernicious Deed

Artifacts
2x Powder Keg

Creatures
3x Psychatog
2x Quirion Dryad

Sideboard
3x Hypnotic Specter
2x Duress
2x Pernicious Deed
1x Cabal Therapy
1x Natualize
1x Coffin Purge
1x Hurkyl's Recall
1x Misdirection
1x Smother
1x Diabolic Edict
1x Berserk

I may have made some errors because I'm tired and will fix them tomorrow as well as post the Top 8 match reports on the Game Empire magic forums and add the link to there.

Props:
A great crowd that kept the environment friendly and fun.
Shawna for conceding to me Round 3 after admitting luck would be her only out.
"Probe with kicker targeting you" for being amazing in a field of very little card advantage AND fun to say.

Slops:
Watching two other decks in the top 8 that probably should have won
lose 1st round in 3 games. (tog looses to combo / Infi-removal with mainboard extirpates looses to reanimator with 9 targetable fatties)

Going 4-0 then IDing twice only to lose 1st round in the Top 8 to amazing draws on my opponent's part, multiple big errors on my opponent's part, and "bad luck" / "statiscial improbablilities occuring" on my part. Playing against stax that runs 6 creature cards and saw at least 1 angel very early every game. I lost to 2x Angels game 2. Game 3 I saw Turn 1 City of Traitors, mox, morph followed by turn 2 crucible after I Verdicted a plains and ancient tomb out of his hand. Only saw 1 smokestack the entire match game 2 when I was already dead.

Cool. Well done to all.

Is it time for Countersliver to join the DTBF as an ATW? Three top 8 finishes since September 22:

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EDIT: Never mind. Looking at the Historical top 8 threads, it looks like there were 10 qualifying events in November alone (big month!), so anything from before November isn't going to count.

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Watching two other decks in the top 8 that probably should have won
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kevin correction... theres 10 creatures to get extirpated. hahaha and extirpate is so easy to play around. hahaha. thats a very good matchup for me, i dont think ive ever lost to it. If necessary the imps and faeries could always beat for the win! its was a good night. ill enjoy the goyfs. i called it in the other thread huh? i only wish my name was in that dudes list of people that will probably take the tourney... well... thats 2 for 2 for me ait it. hahahaha.

great times, great people, great store.

thanks all for coming, hopefully it wont be too long for the next.


( oh... nd for all those people that might think it was luck... remember this: simple decks win games. remember that.)

Wow, I didn't know people still used the transformational sideboard in Bg SI. Duress over Therapy is kinda interesting too. No Ill-Gotten Gains as a 1-of or two-of? I guess it worked :). Congrats.

Also, I don't believe SI should lose to that GAT list. SI only cares about Force of Will, Stifle, and Daze turn 1. GAT has 1 of those. Seems like SI just runs by it.

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Originally Posted by emidln

Wow, I didn't know people still used the transformational sideboard in Bg SI. Duress over Therapy is kinda interesting too. No Ill-Gotten Gains as a 1-of or two-of? I guess it worked :). Congrats.

Also, I don't believe SI should lose to that GAT list. SI only cares about Force of Will, Stifle, and Daze turn 1. GAT has 1 of those. Seems like SI just runs by it.

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Post-SB he has Duress (and one random Therapy) too.

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Originally Posted by MattH

Post-SB he has Duress (and one random Therapy) too.

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2 Duress, 1 Therapy, and 4 Brainstorm on the play with 4 Force all the time against 4 Xantid Swarm, 4 Duress and the possibility of ignoring hate altogether from SI's side. I really like those odds if I'm playing fast combo.

I can't wait for the next one... I went and did pretty awefully through with bad draws and all... oh, well.

I will never play threshold again! What a terrible deck... lol

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Originally Posted by thefreakaccident

I can't wait for the next one... I went and did pretty awefully through with bad draws and all... oh, well.

I will never play threshold again! What a terrible deck... lol

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Yeah I wouldve played with your uwr landstill since you seem to do quite well in your local tournaments with it.

Can someone provide date and location for this tournament? I would like to use it to update Historical T8 thread.

Cty, State
Month Day, Year

Thank you,

I am intrigued that Reanimator is still viable now that Animate Dead no longer works on Akroma et al (aka they fixed the ruling) Obviously there are plenty of other reanimation cards in the deck, but I am glad to see that this archetype is still playable.

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Originally Posted by AnwarA101

Can someone provide date and location for this tournament? I would like to use it to update Historical T8 thread.

Cty, State
Month Day, Year

Thank you,

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This Tournament was December 1st 2007 in San Diego at GAME EMPIRE

yep reanimator is definitely viable. its fun people should try it.

simple decks win games. hahahaha