Meandeck Open Results!! Top 8 Decklists / Metagame Breakdown

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We had our second highest turnout ever, with 46 players! Thanks to everyone who made this tournament so insane! The prize pool was nearly $740, which was split by the top 8, for 95 bucks a piece.

I have Top 8 decklists and a Complete Metagame Breakdown for ya:

FIRST PLACE:

Matt Kranstuber (kojiro)

4 Burning Wish
2 Devastating Dreams
1 Countryside Crusher
3 Life From the Loam
4 Mox Diamond
3 Knight of the Reliquary
1 Qasali Pridemage
3 Dark Confidant
4 Tarmogoyf
1 Seismic Assault
1 Eternal Witness
2 Swords to Plowshares
2 Sensei's Divining Top
2 Thoughtseize
1 Duress
1 Tabernacle at the Pendral Vale
1 Mountain
1 Forest
3 Wasteland
1 Savannah
1 Plateau
2 Taiga
1 Bayou
1 Badlands
2 Bloodstained Mire
4 Forgotten Cave
2 Tranquil Thicket
1 Volrath's Stronghold
1 Maze of Ith
4 Wooded Foothills
1 Scrubland

Sideboard:
1 Reanimate
1 Reverent Silence
1 Devastating Dreams
1 Shattering Spree
1 Firespout
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Life From the Loam
3 Krosan Grip
1 Chainer's Edict
1 Solitary Confinement
2 Pernicious Deed
1 Thoughtseize

SECOND PLACE:

Bobby Kovacs (OneBigSquirrelGod)

3 Staff of Domination
2 Innocent Blood
4 Thoughtseize
4 Hymn to Tourach
3 Beseech the Queen
3 Damnation
1 Chainer's Edict
1 Slaughter Pact
1 Consume Spirit
1 Sorin Markov
1 Haunting Echoes
1 Helldozer
4 Pernicious Deed
1 Oona, Queen of the Fae
2 Maelstrom Pulse
2 Regrowth
1 Krosan Grip
4 Verdant Catacombs
1 Marsh Flats
4 Bayou
2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
3 Cabal Coffers
1 Forest
10 Swamp

Sideboard:
4 Engineered Plague
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Garruk Wildspeaker
1 Null Brooch
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Krosan Grip
1 Tsunami
1 Sorin Markov

THIRD PLACE:
Max Jacob

15 Island
4 Mutavault
3 Writ of Passage
3 Umezawa's Jitte
4 Mistblade Shinobi
4 Cloud of Faeries
4 Force of Will
4 Ninja of the Deep Hours
4 Zephyr Sprite
4 Daze
4 Spellstutter Sprite
4 Ornithopter
4 Standstill

Sideboard:
3 Pithing Needle
4 Tormod's Crypt
4 Blue Elemental Blast
4 Annul

FOURTH PLACE:

Gus Schade (Yawg07)
4 Samarai of the Pale Curtain
4 Silver Knight
4 Serra Avenger
4 Mother of Ruins
3 Jotun Grunt
3 Soltari Priest
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Harm's Way
3 Umezawa's Jitte
3 Aether Vial
2 Ravages of War
1 Armageddon
2 Oblivion Ring
4 Wasteland
3 Flagstones of Trokair
13 Plains

Sideboard:
4 Pithing Needle
2 Relic of Progenitus
3 Patrician's Scorn
3 True Believer
2 Cataclysm
1 Oblivion Ring

FIFTH PLACE:
Eric Blegen (Media314r8)

4 Sower of Temptation
4 Weatherseed Faeries
4 Sea Drake
4 Trinket Mage
4 Sword of Fire and Ice
3 Mulldrifter
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Force of Will
1 Engineered Explosives
13 Island
4 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Traitors
1 Vault of Whispers
1 Seat of Synod
1 Academy Ruins
4 Mox Diamond

Sideboard:
3 Misdirection
3 Pithing Needle
3 Silent Arbiter
2 Relic of Progenitus
1 Tormod's Crypt
2 Engineered Explosives
1 Shield Sphere

SIXTH PLACE:

Ben Wienburg (firstshot)
4 Nimble Mongoose
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Vendillion Clique
4 Ponder
4 Brainstorm
4 Stifle
4 Spell Snare
4 Force of Will
4 Daze
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Fire/Ice
4 Tropical Island
4 Volcanic Island
4 Wasteland
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta

Sideboard:
2 Spell Pierce
2 Pyroclasm
3 Pyroblast
2 Pithing Needle
2 Trygon Predator
4 Submerge

SEVENTH PLACE

Nick Ratzel
1 Barbarian Ring
3 Bloodstained MIre
2 Wooded Foothills
11 Mountain
3 Rift Bolt
4 Chain Lightning
4 Lava Spike
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Smash to Smithereens
4 Incinerate
4 Fireblast
2 Fork
4 Price of Progress
2 Flame of the Blood Hand
4 Hellspark Elemental
4 Goblin Guide

Sideboard:
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Flames of the Blood Hand
1 Pyroclams
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Tormod's Crypt
2 Pyroblast
2 Red Elemental Blast
3 Sulferic Vortex
3 Flamebreak

EIGHTH PLACE

Mark Larson
4 Grim Lavamancer
4 Kird Ape
4 Wild Nacatl
4 Qasali Pridemage
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Knight of the Reliquary
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Chain Lightning
3 Path to Exile
2 Fireblast
1 Savannah
2 Plateau
3 Taiga
1 Mountain
1 Forest
1 Plains
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Arid Mesa

Sideboard:
2 Krosan Grip
4 Ethersworn Canonist
3 Pyroclasm
4 Tormod's Crypt
2 Wasteland

METAGAME BREAKDOWN:

6 Canadian Threshold
4 Stax
- 3 Mono-White
- 1 Mono Blue w/ Tez

3 Goblins
3 Merfolk
3 Zoo

3 Counter-Top Goyf
- 1 UWG w/ Natural Order
- 1 UBG
- 1 UBG w/ Dark Depths

2 UBW Landstill
2 Land Belcher
2 White Weenie
2 Enchatnress
2 Dredge
2 Burn
2 Dark Ritual Combo
- 1 Ad Nauseam
- 1 Doomsday

1 BWG Aggro-Control
1 Affinity
1 43 Land.dec
1 Bitterblossom Control
1 Counterslivers
1 Dreadstill
1 Ninjas
1 B/R Land Destruction

Despite the discussion in the tournament thread (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/s...t=14916&page=4 ) this metagame very closely resembles the larger metagame, with Thresh, Counterbalance, Merfolk, Zoo, Goblins, and the recent SCG winner, Stax, as the most popular archetypes.

Practically everything else was represented, from 2 land belcher to Enchantress. It was a very diverse and yet the same metagame as the major recent SCG tournaments, nothing aberrant except the unusual top 8.

Our next MEANDECK OPEN Will be Sunday, December 27th! Look for the announcement in the next few weeks! Mark your calendars now!!