[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.