[Metagame Breakdown] Syracuse Beta Trop Event, 30 August 2008

[Zach Tartell]

Edit:

LISTS NOT IN PLACING ORDER


Bear with me here- I think there are about 44 decks (count yourself). If there is an issue with a mis-registered list, PM me (or +1 in here).

Brian Finlayson-Schuler
Tombstone
Spells (40):
4 Brainstorm
4 Thoughtsieze
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Birds of Paradise
3 Snuff Out
4 Swords to Plowshares
3 Tombstalker
3 Eternal Witness
3 Doran, the Siege Tower
2 Crime// Punishment
4 Harmonize
2 Engineered Explosives
Lands (20):
3 Bayou
2 Forest
1 Plains
2 Swamp
1 Tundra
1 Underground Sea
1 Scrubland
1 Savannah
1 Tropical Island
3 Polluted Delta
4 Windswept Heath

Sideboard (15):
3 Cabal Therapy
4 Krosan Grip
4 Engineered Plague
4 Extirpate

James V. Moore
Goyf Sligh
Lands (20):
1 Badlands
2 Barbarian Ring
4 Taiga
4 Wooded Foothills
3 Bloodstained Mire
6 Mountain

Spells (43):
4 Fireblast
3 Price of Progress
2 Incinerate
3 Grim Lavamancer
3 Figure of Destiny
4 Mogg Fanatic
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Rift Bolt
4 Chain Lightning
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Krosan Grip
3 Fork

Sideboard (15):
4 Pithing Needle
2 Krosan Grip
3 Extirpate
3 Firespout
3 Shattering Spree

David Elrod
Stalingrad Stockholm Berlin Tel-Aviv the World Rotates to the Ultra Heavy Beat from the Gutter to the Top David Gearhart Will Never Stop (Naming His Decks Poorly)
Spells (37):
Intuition
3 Pernicious Deed
2 Engineered Explosives
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Brainstorm
2 Counterspell
1 Life from the Loam
1 Eternal Witness
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Force of Will
4 Counterbalance
3 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Wedalken Shackles

Lands (23):
3 Windswept Heath
4 Polluted Delta
1 Forest
2 Island
1 Plains
3 Tropical Island
2 Underground Sea
1 Bayou
1 Volrath’s Stronghold
1 Academy Ruins
1 Wasteland
1 City of Brass
2 Tundra

Sideboard (15):
2 Engineered Explosives
1 Pithing Needle
3 Extirpate
3 Tormod’s Crypt
2 Blue Elemental Blast
3 Hydroblast
1 Gigapede

Carl Dillahay
Nick Wowelko’s Super Pimp Canadian Thresh
Spells (42):
4 Nimble Mongoose
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Stifle
4 Daze
4 Spell Snare
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Counterspell
1 Force Spike
1 Wipe Away
1 Rushing River
4 Force of Will

Lands (18):
4 Volcanic Island
4 Tropical Island
4 Wasteland
3 Polluted Delta
3 Flooded Strand

Sideboard (15):
2 Pithing Needle
1 Red Elemental Blast
2 Pyroblast
3 Krosan Grip
3 Pyroclasm
4 Tormod’s Crypt

John Dankert
Goyf Sligh
Spells (41):
4 Keldon Marauders
4 Tarmogoyf
3 Figure of Destiny
4 Grim Lavamancer
3 Mogg Fanatic
3 Rift Bolt
3 Kird Ape
3 Magma Jet
4 Chain Lightning
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Fireblast
3 Price of Progress

Lands (19):
1 Windswept Heath
3 Wooded Foothils
2 Bloodstained Mire
8 Mountain
4 Taiga
1 Forest

Sideboard (15):
3 Krosan Grip
3 Sulfuric Vortex
3 Vexing Shusher
3 Shattering Spree
3 Tormod’s Crypt

Matt Pietarihen
Burning Tog
Spells (41):
4 Mogg Fanatic
3 Grim Lavamancer
3 Figure of Destiny
4 Tarmogoyf
3 Keldon Marauder
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Chain Lightning
4 Magma Jet
3 Fireblast
4 Rift Bolt
3 Price of Progress
2 Krosan Grip

Lands (19):
4 Wooded Foothills
2 Bloodstained Mire
4 Taiga
8 Mountain
1 Forest

Sideboard (15):
4 Pyroclasm
2 Krosan Grip
2 Shattering Spree
4 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Price of Progress
2 Vexing Shusher

Geoff Smelski
UWbg Landstill
Lands (23):
3 Wasteland
2 Island
3 Plains
3 Mishra’s Factory
3 Tundra
2 Underground Sea
4 Flooded Strand
1 Scrubland
1 Savannah
1 Tropical Island

Spells (37):
2 Eternal Dragon
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Krosan Grip
3 Decree of Justice
3 Wrath of God
2 Humility
3 Engineered Explosives
4 Counterspells
4 Force of Will
4 Brainstorm
4 Standstill
2 Fact or Fiction

Sideboard (15):
3 Runed Halo
3 Meddling Mage
4 Extirpate
3 Mortify
2 Ajani Goldmane

Damon Whitby
Ichorid
Spells (47):
4 Golgari Grave Troll
4 Stinkweed Imp
3 Golgari Thug
4 Putrid Imp
4 Ichoird
4 Narcomoeba
1 Eternal Witness
1 Flamekin Zealot
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Breakthrough
3 Unmask
3 Dread Return
4 Bridge from Below
4 Lion’s Eye Diamond
2 Deep Analysis

Lands (11):
3 Cephalid Coliseum
4 City of Brass
4 Gemstone Mine

Sideboard (15):
3 Firestorm
3 Wax//Wane
1 Ancestor’s Chosen
4 Pithing Needle
4 Chain of Vapor

• 1 Tombstone
• 1 GBR Affinity
• 5 Goyf Sligh
  
  • 4 with main deck Krosan Grip
  • 1 with a single Badlands for 3 Extirpate in board
• 2 straight-up Burn decks (one with Ball Lightning)
• 1 old-school (like wicked old school – around 2000) Aluren
• 2 Green Stompy deck
  
  • 1 Elephant (green Chalice) Stompy
  • 1 Berserk Stompy (like from Umbowta’s tournament report, exactly)
• 1 43 Land
• 2 Painter decks
  
  • 1 Imperial Painter
  • 1 EPIC Painter
• 1 Dragon Stompy
• 3 Ichorid
  
  • 2 Parcher’s List
  • 1 Zach’s Ichorid deck
• A deck whose first card is Izzet Guildmage (UR control, sort of. Very scrubby)
• UB reanimator
• 4 Sui-Black incarnations
  
  • 2 Eva Green
  • 1 Red Death
  • 1 with Ghastlord of the Fuge
• 3 Thresh
  
  • 2 Canadian Thresh
  • 1 Black Tempo Thresh
  • 4 Survival
• 2 RGBSA
• 1 4c (no blue) Colin’s Survival
• 1 GWURB Painter Combo

[*]4 Faeries

• 1 Block constructed (like, no legacy cards or anything outside of Block)
• 3 UB Faeries that seem a little like Faerie Stompy

[*]1 GR Big Mana (With Breaking Point, Troll Ascetic, and some weird other cards that seem out of place)[*]B/R Land destruction[*]5 UW based board control

• 2 Landstill
  
  • 1 UWbg Geoff Smelski Still
  • 1 UWg with Ruins and a little tool box
• 1 UWgb Control, reminiscent of BHWC Landstill, sans-Standstill
• 2 It’s the Fear

[*]1 Wg Wombat with Life from the Loam and cycling lands[/list][/list]


It turns out that I used the list function wrong. But I'm way too lazy. Dear mods/admins: Fix this. Love, Zach.


Enjoy, folks.

[Di]

Dear Zach,

Thanks for typing that.

P.S. Fix it yourself.

Love,
Caulyn.

[raharu]

If there is an issue with a mis-registered list, PM me (or +1 in here).
Matt Pietarihen
Burning Tog
Spells (41):
4 Mogg Fanatic
3 Grim Lavamancer
3 Figure of Destiny
4 Tarmogoyf
3 Keldon Marauder
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Chain Lightning
4 Magma Jet
3 Fireblast
4 Rift Bolt
3 Price of Progress
2 Krosan Grip

Lands (19):
4 Wooded Foothills
2 Bloodstained Mire
4 Taiga
8 Mountain
1 Forest

Sideboard (15):
4 Pyroclasm
2 Krosan Grip
2 Shattering Spree
4 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Price of Progress
2 Vexing Shusher

Burning 'Tog?

[J.V.]

Burning 'Tog?

All of team Albany's decks are always registered "Burning Tog"
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Also Zach, are these list in order of Top 8?

[Sims]

Burning Tog represent, ROAR!

Way to be, Matt P.

[raharu]

All of team Albany's decks are always registered "Burning Tog"
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Also Zach, are these list in order of Top 8?

That is hilarious.

[KillemallCFH]

That is like, super-mega-ultra cool that Figure of Destiny is seeing play in Goyf Sligh. I was really hoping it would find a place in Legacy, which apparently it has.

[raharu]

That is like, super-mega-ultra cool that Figure of Destiny is seeing play in Goyf Sligh. I was really hoping it would find a place in Legacy, which apparently it has.

Seconded, but I'd think that it's better in BDW. Of course, that's not a deck anymore.

[Brushwagg]

Figure of Destiny is seeing play in Goyf Sligh.

God damn Bryant for suggesting it to Matt!!!!!

Any way all in all the tournament was great, and for the lack of activity in the thread for I was surprised that we got 44!!

[Ramptoniin]

Fun Tourney....can't believe i lost to threshold after 2nd turn extirpate of his Tropicals, 3rd turn choke....fucking weak.

Fun tourney, surprised i placed 11th(ties for points at 9th) with Eva Green with White in it...Vindicate rules..and props to Reanimate being TECH as hell

[Zach Tartell]

Not in top 8 order. Carl took the tournament down, and Smelski beat Matt to make top 4 (I have no idea past this).

[Zach Tartell]

I tried, but I just fucked it up more.

Deal with it.

[freakish777]

Top 8

Goyf Sligh (Dankert) vs. Tombstone (Finlayson-Schuler)
Landstill (Smelski) vs. Goyf Sligh (Pietarihen)
Canadian Thresh (Dillahay) vs. SSBTTWRTTUHBFTGTTTDGWNS(NHDP), (Elrod)
Goyf Sligh (Moore) vs. Ichorid (Whitby)

Top 4

Goyf Sligh (Dankert) vs. Landstill (Smelski)
Canadian Thresh (Dillahay) vs. Goyf Sligh (Moore)

Finals

Canadian Thresh (Dillahay) vs Goyf Sligh (Dankert)

[Nihil Credo]

• 1 Tombstone
• 1 GBR Affinity
• 5 Goyf Sligh
  • 4 with main deck Krosan Grip
  • 1 with a single Badlands for 3 Extirpate in board
• 2 straight-up Burn decks (one with Ball Lightning)
• 1 old-school (like wicked old school – around 2000) Aluren
• 2 Green Stompy deck
  • 1 Elephant (green Chalice) Stompy
  • 1 Berserk Stompy (like from Umbowta’s tournament report, exactly)
• 1 43 Land
• 2 Painter decks
  • 1 Imperial Painter
  • 1 EPIC Painter
• 1 Dragon Stompy
• 3 Ichorid
  • 2 Parcher’s List
  • 1 Zach’s Ichorid deck
• A deck whose first card is Izzet Guildmage (UR control, sort of. Very scrubby)
• UB reanimator
• 4 Sui-Black incarnations
  • 2 Eva Green
  • 1 Red Death
  • 1 with Ghastlord of the Fuge
• 3 Thresh
  • 2 Canadian Thresh
  • 1 Black Tempo Thresh
  • 4 Survival
• 2 RGBSA
• 1 4c (no blue) Colin’s Survival
• 1 GWURB Painter Combo

[*]4 Faeries

• 1 Block constructed (like, no legacy cards or anything outside of Block)
• 3 UB Faeries that seem a little like Faerie Stompy

[*]1 GR Big Mana (With Breaking Point, Troll Ascetic, and some weird other cards that seem out of place)[*]B/R Land destruction[*]5 UW based board control

• 2 Landstill
  • 1 UWbg Geoff Smelski Still
  • 1 UWg with Ruins and a little tool box
• 1 UWgb Control, reminiscent of BHWC Landstill, sans-Standstill
• 2 It’s the Fear

[*]1 Wg Wombat with Life from the Loam and cycling lands[/list][/list]

I take it Syracuse is no longer the Reign of OMG Tier 1 Netdeckers and has become the Aggro Realm instead?

[Deep6er]

... I'm boggled. What the hell?


"Stalingrad Stockholm Berlin Tel-Aviv the World Rotates to the Ultra Heavy Beat from the Gutter to the Top David Gearhart Will Never Stop (Naming His Decks Poorly)"

Why the fuck does everyone have a fucking problem with what I name my own goddamn decks? How about this, start ACTUALLY FUCKING BEATING ME and nobody will see what I name the decks when I lose with them? HOW ABOUT THAT, ASSHOLES? Goddamn sons of bitches how about a little fucking respect?

Sorry, but it's getting to be extremely repetitive. It was funny the first time and now it's fucking stupid.


Anyway, congratulations to everybody who Top 8'd, although I really don't like the manabase in that It's the Fear list. Wasteland? Four basic lands? Gigapede in the board? Random one-of Pithing Needle? Lack of Etched Oracle?

But hey, congratulations on the top 8 Dave.

[Zach Tartell]

I take it Syracuse is no longer the Reign of OMG Tier 1 Netdeckers and has become the Aggro Realm instead?

I wouldn't say that we're netdeckers, persay, but just people who usually play good decks. The lack of outside people (to my knowledge only 3 out-of-state folks showed) brought the numbers of good players down significantly. Let me breakdown the significant players and their decks, briefly:

• Geoff Smelski - Landstill
• Adam Barnello - terrible painter pile
• Colin Chilbert (Di) - 4c Survival
• Two Baskets - Ichorid
• Bryant Cook - too busy not getting laid to come to the event
• Raider Bob (scourge of Hadley) - no show
• Mike "A_Legend" Kellar - Red terrible painter pile (Imperial Painter)
• Damon "Parcher" Whitby - Ichorid
• Dave "Freakish777" Elrod - Dave Gearhart Deck WIns
• Carl "I top 8'd Worlds" Dilly-dally - Canadian Thresh
• Dave "Quicksilver" Price - RGBSA
• Nick "nickrit2000" Wowelko - worst metagame choice ever (goblins)
• "Friendly" Phil Stolze - UWg Landstill

Most people who have made a name for themselves on yon interweb played respectable decks. Trevor "Getsickanddie" Brown played the affinity list, and like every other noteworthy player played a "normal" deck (Tariq "Spiderfreak" White a landstill-y build, Nat "Brushwagg" Howland a Survival with painter combo). It's just that locals came out of the freaking wood work for this one.

RAWR MY DECK'S NAME IS "IT'S THE FEAR!!!"

When I was typing out the lists, I was just about as flabbergasted as you, Dave. But the list's name, which started at the proper area on the registration sheet, continued down the right margin about six inches, scrawled in perfect Parkinson's-having-third-grader penmanship. After I deciphered several words (several vowel-less words, and I thought "stop" was "strip" originally- imagine that image, folks) it made sense, and I was rolling with laughter.

As for the list, I was a little confused by the Bayou and City of Brass, but I've thought a 1-of Wasteland was worth it (against annoying shit like Glacial Chasm or Maze of Ith or just randomly screwing over today's terrible manabases). Congrats to Dave for the top 8.

[freakish777]

Goddamn sons of bitches how about a little fucking respect?

It's a joke. Don't take it too seriously.

although I really don't like the manabase in that It's the Fear list. Wasteland? Four basic lands? Gigapede in the board? Random one-of Pithing Needle? Lack of Etched Oracle?

But hey, congratulations on the top 8 Dave.

So, ready for this?

Here's the list of cards from the deck I actually own and didn't borrow from people:

Spells (9)

4 Brainstorm
2 Counterspell
1 Eternal Witness
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Wedalken Shackles

Lands (7):
1 Forest
2 Island
1 Plains
1 Volrath’s Stronghold
1 Academy Ruins
1 City of Brass


Sideboard (6):
2 Blue Elemental Blast
3 Hydroblast
1 Gigapede

[raharu]

It's a joke. Don't take it too seriously.



So, ready for this?

Here's the list of cards from the deck I actually own and didn't borrow from people:

Spells (9)

4 Brainstorm
2 Counterspell
1 Eternal Witness
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Wedalken Shackles

Lands (7):
1 Forest
2 Island
1 Plains
1 Volrath’s Stronghold
1 Academy Ruins
1 City of Brass


Sideboard (6):
2 Blue Elemental Blast
3 Hydroblast
1 Gigapede

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... ahahahaha... haha... wow.

[Deep6er]

OK, fair enough. I didn't realize that you owned only sixteen cards out of that maindeck. Beating.

Yeah, won't lie though, I get a lot of shit for my deck names and sooner or later it just gets the better of me.

Thanks to Zach for the metagame breakdown and congratulations to Dave for a job well done.

[legacyplayer0]

It's a joke. Don't take it too seriously.



So, ready for this?

Here's the list of cards from the deck I actually own and didn't borrow from people:

Spells (9)

4 Brainstorm
2 Counterspell
1 Eternal Witness
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Wedalken Shackles

Lands (7):
1 Forest
2 Island
1 Plains
1 Volrath’s Stronghold
1 Academy Ruins
1 City of Brass


Sideboard (6):
2 Blue Elemental Blast
3 Hydroblast
1 Gigapede

That was actually my forest.