After 6 rounds, standings tell me that Stefan "spirit of the wretch" Czolk is sitting at 5-1, undoubtedly smashing face with cats and burn.Quote:
Originally Posted by flrn
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After 6 rounds, standings tell me that Stefan "spirit of the wretch" Czolk is sitting at 5-1, undoubtedly smashing face with cats and burn.Quote:
Originally Posted by flrn
He had 3 byes. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by VsTheWorld
Just Tweeted: (Tim) #gpmadrid LSV is out. Enchantress did not treat him kindly today. Now he's trying to find a Vintage deck to borrow for Sunday.
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And that's why Meddling Mage sucks (that and punting the game by using Cursecatcher at the wrong time, LOL!)
And of course the brilliant decision to FoW Brainstorm.
He did have 10 cards in hand, maybe all of them were good he felt better off Forcing something?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tao
So to find out, I reconstructed his hand:
Force x2
Daze x2
Silvergill (he discarded this)
Random Blue x2
Meddling Mage (potentially he drew this)
Two ??? (not cast, lol)
Ok, I shouldn't have given him the benefit of the doubt. It's not even a tough decision or like about forgetting something, it's like he didn't understand that he should try to counter Ad Nauseum.
Some pictures that I found in a spanish blog:
http://www.antoniotajuelo.com/grand-...drid-2010.html
Did Saito actually pass priority without breaking LED in game 1? Is his list safe enough to trust AN that much with a Catcher out?
Awesome pics (wow the hole sight looks incridble), and so does the bin ;).
My buddy Guus just texted he´s at 7-0 in the green bracket.. so he just made day 2 (without byes). Way to go!
Anyone have info on what's being played at the top tables?
Is it just me or does it feel like they're really pushing combo in the feature matches?
Good luck to all the Sourcers there!
I like how a bunch of the pros admitted they didn't practice and got pwned. Can't play Jund in Legacy and get lucky off of Cascades, I guess. :)
Boom! 8-0 for Guus!
It's actually 5 people:Quote:
Originally Posted by flrn
'Spirit of the Wretch' Stefan Czolk (8-2), 'Yulyn' Thomas Dörner (4-4 Drop), 'DerHeiler' Manuel Heiler (5-3), 'MSC' Martin Schreiber (4-4) and 'Chefkoch' Marius Laber (2-3-1 Drop).
I would be there too, but i have to take an important exam monday :(
I'll post a full report later, but today I went 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 3-1, 4-1, 4-1-1, 4-2-1 (out of day 2) and the last game I played for fun I lost too, so the total standing is 4-3-1. Not bad considering I piloted a deck I've never played before (New Horizons). I believe Skeggi also went 4-2-1 and dropped, but I might be wrong. Not sure about the rest of the Dutch group.
Tomorrow I'll go to play some EDH, maybe draft a little and trade some extra cards. Today was very long though ( I was at the site at 8am), so I'll go around 11 or something like that.
2220 players is a lot though and the room almost exploded when they announced we beat the formet record with over 10%. The fact they had not enough chairs and the tournament started a lot later (at 10am people were still in line to registrate) was a bummer, but the tournament went very smootly otherwise.
I'm off to sleep now, will keep you posted.
You did better than LSV if that makes you feel better.
Go sources, own those "Pros."
If you missed it, while the coverage page only links the Blue standings, the Green standings are also online. Just change the end of the URL from "blue" to "green".
On the Green side, Marius Hausmann is 8-0. Notable 7-1s: Matteo Orsini-Jones, Tomoharu Saito, and some names that ring a bell: Alejandro Pais, Jaime Climent (22), Jan Schmidt, Alessandro Scalia.
I'm curious to hear how more sourcers are doing? Any others out there in the tournament, even if they sucked it up?
Citanul (Shaun Pauwels) went 7-2 with his build of NLS to make it in.
Yeah that´s right, I faced Bant Aggro with Progenitus and/or 3 times in a row, went 1-1-1 there; finally met a friend of kikofrio who kicked my ass with Tempo Faeries, I had a bit of bad luck perhaps, but the matches sure were fun :smile:. Nice to meet some people from here IRL.Quote:
Originally Posted by Atwa
Oh, and I was playing Red Rock. Not posting any report or results on that because a teammate of mine is playing the same thing and is in day 2.
About the Dutch group; there are 55 Dutch players and 17 made day 2. Honorable mention: Bart Boudewijn went 9-0 without any byes. Awesome! :smile:
Tomorrow I´m off to explore Madrid, I won´t participate in any side-events, but I´ll show up later in the day to cheer a bit. And have some beers. All who´s up for beers, come and see me :wink:
P.S. Spanish keyboards suck.
http://wizards.com/magic/magazine/ar...ad10/welcome#5
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Originally Posted by Tim Willoughby
Props to Tim Willoughby for a great event coverage. However, I hate to be the one to correct his Conflux article. It was in fact Brian Selden, 1998 World Champion who first showed how Dream Halls can be broken during the 1999 Duelist Invitational. He used Dream Halls to play Mind Over Matter and Time Spiral to draw enough cards to pitch to MoMa and untap a Mana Vault, generating 3 colorless mana per card in order to Stroke of Genius himself before finally pitching the drawn cards again to untap Mana Vault and kill his opponent Randy Buehler (now a Hall of famer, Developer, and commentator :tongue:) with a massive Stroke (library death).
edit: when it comes to historically significant mtg decks, Enthusiasts of this game deserve to get their facts straight. know your history folkS!
You might want to get yours straight also. Zvi's deck was during Mirage/Tempest/5th Edition Standard, almost a year before Selden's. The decklist:Quote:
Originally Posted by Fatestitcher
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Crystal Vein
9 Island
4 Svyelunite Temple
4 Ancestral Memories
1 Counterspell
4 Dream Halls
3 Gaea's Blessing
1 Impulse
1 Inspiration
4 Intuition
1 Lobotomy
4 Lotus Petal
4 Mana Severance
4 Meditate
4 Memory Lapse
4 Sift
Again, this was before any Urza Block set was released, so Zvi's deck most definitely predates Selden's.
Enjoy.
You can play Aggro Loam and get lucky off the Bobs. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tychoides
Go Sourcers! Kind of sad to see LSV scrubbed, I'd been rooting for him. He's a really nice guy, if rather busy.
Yeah, I'm not really sure what's with all the love for LSV. I guess I don't follow the Pro-Tour so I don't know. I just know him from ChannelFireball videos. :smile: Is he the Pro-Tour favourite that everyone usually likes? The new Finkel, as it were?Quote:
Originally Posted by Aggro_zombies
I know him, though not very well. He used to play at Eudemonia for the Vintage tournaments and would sometimes show up to draft, so I would occassionally see him around. He's really nice, but it's kind of hard to talk to him because people tend to crowd around him a lot (and he doesn't really like being mobbed and then grilled about Magic by people he doesn't know well).Quote:
Originally Posted by MMogg
Also last weekend, he had that amazing 17-0 run at PT San Diego, so I think people were hoping for more of that this weekend.Quote:
Originally Posted by MMogg
He made it to day 2 with a record of 7-2. I think he needs to win now all of his games to have a chance to get to the top8.Quote:
Originally Posted by VsTheWorld
Seems this one is comborific. I was kind of hoping combo would keep a low profile until after the Star city 5k in Columbus. A friend of mine is taking my deck down there to play and I figured it would do well with all the Lands decks, Aggro Loam, and Zoo that have been dominating lately. He's a good enough player to do well anyway, but that deck is a monster right now.
Day 2 Metagame Breakdown is up. 20% Zoo lol...
Does anyone know what "Junk" is? 11th most successful archetype, just like Aggro Loam.
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# sunday, 11:00 a.m. – day 2 metagame breakdown
by tim willoughby
here in day two of grand prix madrid, we have a whopping 237 players, and a whole host of decks. At the top of the pile is naya zoo, which represents nearly 20% of the day 2 field. Following that are various shades of blue/green/white control. These include variations on counterbalance and sensei’s divining top, natural order for progenitus, stoneforger mystic and equipment, survival of the fittest, and even a life from the loam lands engine with cenn’s enlistment. The most popular combo deck in the field is ad nauseam tendrils, with 22 players, while merfolk have beaten out goblins and elves to be the most popular tribal deck, with 17 players.
Here’s the full breakdown.
Naya zoo 42 17.70%
ad nauseam tendrils 22 9.30%
merfolk 17 7.20%
dredge 13 5.50%
countertop progenitus 12 5.10%
countertop 12 5.10%
canadian threshold 11 4.60%
goblins 11 4.60%
survival bant 9 3.80%
reanimator 9 3.80%
junk 6 2.50%
aggro loam 6 2.50%
urb faeries 5 2.10%
burn 5 2.10%
lands 4 1.70%
landstill 4 1.70%
enchantress 4 1.70%
eva green 3 1.30%
bant equipment 3 1.30%
elves 3 1.30%
painter/grindstone 3 1.30%
bant with planeswalkers 2 0.80%
bant lands 2 0.80%
progenitus rock 2 0.80%
ur faeries 2 0.80%
white stax 2 0.80%
dreadstill 2 0.80%
thopter foundry 2 0.80%
belcher 1 0.40%
dream halls 1 0.40%
imperial painter 1 0.40%
jace/elspeth four colour control 1 0.40%
uw control grindstone 1 0.40%
dragon stompy 1 0.40%
sea stompy 1 0.40%
lightning angel control 1 0.40%
painters dreadnought 1 0.40%
b/g dark depths 1 0.40%
rock 1 0.40%
affinity 1 0.40%
mono black hymns & hippies 1 0.40%
ur goblins 1 0.40%
energy field control 1 0.40%
other 4 1.70
ho. Ly. Shit. !!!
Not surprised with Zoo, Merfolk, Countertops. I am urprised tough at the amount of ANTs, but zoo's near 20% also made me laugh. Kind rooting for that lone Affinity player and those playing Enchantress.
One Dreamhalls combo remaining :D.
Also I'm gonna cheer for the remaining Landstill players.
Energy field control...now you're playing with power!
I'm so exhausted... I just woke up. It was a blast to have participate in the biggest tournament ever. It was simply crazy with +1000 people on Friday registering and more players registering on saturday way after 10 am. It makes me ignore all the little trouble, I didn't mind having to wait till more than 11am to start playing, I didn't mind to have to wait some minutes till we got some chairs, I didn't mind having to fight with hundreds of nerds just to be able to see the standings. It was awesome, I think european players demostrated a great level, at least enough to beat most of pro players (ok, they didn't tested a shit).
It was great when we finally found a kid from Madrid and told us, I'm 5-0 and... I just beat LSV 2-0... the kid eventually made a 7-2 record with no byes and running a Ugr Tempo Faeries homebrew list with Jace The Mindsculputor as the great tech (a very powerful deck). Some guys from my crew made it to day two, and I guess I'll go and cheer them up. In fact, one of my pals, after finishing 7-2 yesterday, has won all his rounds today and he's sitting on 33 points now.
The metagame was freaking open so luck and mental strength seemed to be major factors when several hundreds of opponents really know their decks. Most of people I know coming wih 3 byes just ended dropping, and I know many people with no byes that made it to day 2 with great records.
Me? I lost round 2 (I couldn't do anything) and sucked in round 4, so I was 2-2 by then. I decided to keep on playing until I lost the third one. I finally lost to Reanimator, which isn't a good matchup at all for Bant Survival. So I ended 4-3 and started watching feature matchs and catching up with people, mostly spaniards, but I get to know Skeggi who happens to be an awesome guy who was giving beer to everyone. I'm sorry I was so exhausted and not very talkative.
Then we all get out at 00 am, rushed to find a place to dinner (I love how you can find real restaurants in Madrid that let you eat that late) and then went out to get some fresh air, so, even though we just got a couple of drinks, I got home at 5 am after waking up at 7 am.
Lovely day and totally awesome tournament.
I may show up today and see what's going on.
BTW: Isn't Dennis Baauw Waikiki? Great!
Da Rosa, Paulo Vitor D [BRA] 33 vs. Sudmann, Jan [DEU] 33
Holy crap, a buddy of mine (who appears to be one of the best sourcers that are still in the tournament) is up against the Pro.
I expect Jan to run Dredge but I'm not very sure. Da Rosa is piloting something CounterTopish, right? That's good news, then. Jan's Source name is "NQN" by the way.
//Edit: Yep, he won that round. :)
I predict Canadian Thresh will emerge as the winner.
Here is a link to the unbeaten Day 1 decks (thanks to Blitzbold)
http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazin...day1undefeated
Two things
- Interesting convergence between Fae and Merfolk in the Blue Fish deck. Gives Merfolk a lategame draw and Counter/Disruption engine.
- From my point of view the two most exciting decks here are the Fae variants and the Thopter//Balance deck; the Thopter//Balance in particular. I've been waiting for a variant of the Extended deck to port itself to Legacy and always thought the Counterbalance shell was a perfect fit, particularly with Enlightened Tutor being so much better than just a Tutor!
Hopefully it makes Top 8 and gets some converts.
Federico Bonadè (ITA) is 4th with ANT. Italians do it better XD
Any update on whether there will be a Live-Stream coverage at least for the Top 8?
I mean this is the biggest event ever.