Meandeck Open (12/28/08) - TOP EIGHT LISTS!

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Top 4: Prize Split

Top 4 placement based on swiss standings.

1) Brian DeMars - The Deck (UW Control)

1 Polluted Delta
4 Flooded Strand
9 Island
3 Tundra
3 Plains
3 Wasteland
2 Chrome Mox
2 Isochron Scepter
1 Crucible of Worlds
2 Engineered Explosives
4 Force of Will
4 Brainstorm
2 Back to Basics
2 Fact or Fiction
3 Spell Snare
1 Meloku, The Clouded Mirror
2 Counterspell
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Wrath of God
1 Moat
1 Eternal Dragon
2 Mulldrifter
2 Cunning Wish

Sideboard:
2 Disenchant
1 Fact or Fiction
2 Magus of the Tabernacle
2 Stifle
1 Counterspell
1 Wing Shards
1 Hydroblast
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Orim's Chant
2 Kataki War's Wage
1 Energy Flux

2) John Pyror - 43 Land.dec

4 Exploration
4 Manabond
3 Gamble
3 Mulch
4 Life From the Loam
2 Barbarian Ring
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Wasteland
1 Forest
4 Rishadan Port
4 Tiaga
2 Horizon Canopy
4 Nantuko Monastary
3 Wooded Foothills
4 Treetop Village
4 Maze of Ith
2 Tranquil Thicket
1 The Tabernacle of Pendral Vall
1 Riftstone Portal
2 Savannah

Sideboard:
4 Chalice of the Void
2 Zuran Orb
3 Ray of Revelation
2 Ancient Grudge
2 Firebold
2 Krosan Grip

3) Stephen Menendian - Ubgw Counterbalance-Goyf

4 Force of Will
4 Ponder
4 Brainstorm
3 Counterbalance
3 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Dark Confidant
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Nimble Mongoose
3 Daze
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Thoughtseize
1 Serum Visions
1 Stifle
1 Engineered Explosives

4 Polluted Delta
4 Flooded Strand
4 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea
2 Tundra
1 Island

Sideboard:
4 Engineered Plague
3 Leyline of the Void
3 Threads of Disloyalty
2 Krosan Grip
2 Stifle
1 Engineered Explosives

4) Michael Smith - Goyf/Tombstalker Aggro Control

4 Tombstalker
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Force of Will
4 Daze
4 Stifle
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Thoughtseize
3 Hymn to Tourach
4 Snuff Out
1 Rushing River
4 Wasteland
4 Polluted Delta
4 Flooded Strand
4 Underground Sea
1 Tropical Island
1 Bayou
1 Swamp

Sideboard:
3 Krosan Grip
3 Extirpate
3 Divert
3 Diabolic Edict
3 Blue Elemental Blast

5) Rich Stachurski - Counter-Slivers

4 Aether Vial
2 Swords to Plowshares
3 Counterspell
4 Daze
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
3 Ponder
4 Plated Sliver
4 Sinew Sliver
4 Crystaline Sliver
4 Muscle Sliver
3 Winged Sliver

4 Flooded Strand
2 Windswept Heath
2 Polluted Delta
2 Island
1 Plains
4 Tundra
2 Tropical Island

Sideboard:
3 Blue Elemental Blast
3 Harmonic Sliver
3 Tormod's Crypt
3 Stifle
3 Echoing Truth

6) Adam Yurchick -- DreadStill

4 Brainstorm
4 Daze
4 Force of Will
3 Spell Snare
3 Counterbalance
2 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Standstill
4 Stifle
2 Trickbind
4 Phyrexian Dreadnaught
3 Trinket Mage
2 Engineered Explosives
6 Snow-Covered Island
4 Mishra's Factory
3 Wasteland
2 Volcanic Island
3 Polluted Delta
3 Flooded Strand

Sideboard:
3 Blue Elemental Blast
2 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pyroblast
3 Pyroclasm
2 Echoing Truth
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Pithing Needle
1 Relic of Prognetus

7) Cedric Phillips - The Rock

4 Dark Confidant
4 Tarmagoyf
4 Mesmeric Fiend
3 Tombstalker

4 Dark Ritual
4 Thoughtseize
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Vindicate
3 Sensei's Divining Top

4 Bayou
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Scrubland
4 Wasteland
4 Windswept Heath
1 Plains
1 Swamp

Sidebaord:
4 Duress
3 Extirpate
4 Pernicious Deed
4 Infest

8) Mark Trogdon - Mono Blue Fish

4 Aether Vial
4 Standstill
4 Lord of Atlantis
4 Wakethrasher
4 Spell Snare
4 Force of Will
4 Cursecatcher
4 Merrow Reejerry
4 Silvergil Adept
3 Stifle
2 Tidal Warrior
4 Wasteland
3 Mutavault
1 Rishadan Port
12 Island

Sideboard:
2 Umezawa's Jitte
2 Tormod's Crypt
3 Back to Basics
4 Relic of Progentus
4 Blue Elemental Blast

The Full Metagame Breakdown!:

2 UBr DreadStill
UBg Dreadstill (w/goyf)
3 R/G Beatz
4 Mono Blue Fish
Mono Blue Fish with Stifle-Naught Combo
UBGW Slivers w/o Force of Will
2 UBGR Counterbalance-Goyf/Swan Combo
Sea Stompy
Mono White Aggro
WRGU Zoo
Mono Black Nether Void
3 43 Land.dec
4 Mono White Prison (1 is Angel-Stax, 3 are Helm combo)
4 Ad Nauseam Combo
Affinity w/ Stifle-Naught combo
Mono Red Artifact Aggro
CounterSlivers
Manland Stompy
BRG Aggro Loam
Grw Survival
UBg Tomb/Goyf Aggro Control (Dream Team)
UBg Tomb/Goyf aggro conrol with bob
Affinity w/ Goyf
UB PolyMorph/Bitterblossom/Standstill
3 Ubgw Counterbalance-Goyf
Goblins
UGw Threshold
UBG Threshold
2 Affinity
UG Madness
Bw Aggro-Control
Mono Red Prison
The Rock
UW Control (The Deck)
Dredge
UBG Counterbalance-Goyf Control


Top 8 Playoff:

1) Rich Stachurski (Counterslivers)
8) Michael Smith Winner: Michael Smith

5) Mark Trogdon (Fish)
4) Brian DeMars (UW Control Winner: Brian DeMars

3) Cedric Phillips (The Rock)
6) John Pyror (Land.dec) Winner: John Pryor

7) Stephen Menendian
2) Adam Yurichick (Dreadstill) Winner: Stephen Menendian