Deal Me In Games Feb 10 Results
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The second Sunday of the month has come and gone and we have another entry in the annals of Vintage paper Magic. 16 players came out on a coldish winter February Sunday to do battle. After 4 rounds we cut to top 8 who played out the quarter finals for top 4. The top 4 decided on a prize split, divvying up $400 evenly between them. Each of the top 4 earned 3 points for their 2 games split (semi finals had each player draw to earn 2 points. Finals had 4 points total to give out (3 for 1st, 1 for 2nd) so that divided evenly adding 3 total points for the top 4 rounds for each player in our year long invitational championship.
Now on to the important stuff - Top 8
Greg Hoover (ravager shops) defeats Nick DiJohn (PO)
Evan Hunterdmark (PO) defeats Chuck G (Esper Delver)
Zach Dobbin (Null Shops) defeats Dan Barkon (Ravager shops)
Ryan McKinney (Titan Oath) defeats Matt Buck (Niv-Mizzet Oath)Top 4 saw
Ryan McKinney split with Greg Hoover (we played game just for shits and giggles and Ryan led with mox, orchard oath. I took my turn with not much. He oathed up Inferno Titan on turn 2. On my turn 2 I metamorphed it. On his turn 3, he top decked black lotus, played the yawg will in his hand and won game 1 for the bragging rights from the match and a nice revenge match from January where we met in R1 of the top 8 )
Evan Hunterdmark split with Zach Dobbin - they didn't report anything as exciting as a bragging rights turn 1 oath of druids!Now for the meta breakdown:
Workshop decks 6 (37.5% of the meta)
5 ravager shops
1 null rod shopsOath of Druids 2 (12.5% of the meta)
titan oath running niv-mizzet, griselbrand and inferno titan as its creatures
Niv-mizzet, Gisela, Blade of goldnight and griselband were in the other deckDredge 1(6.25% of the meta)
bridgeless dredge variantPO 2 (12.5% of the meta)
Both pretty standard PO with tinker/blightsteel and vault/key. One ran white for mentor. The other had Sai, Master thopterist and mind twistCombo 2 (6.25%)
Single Card Monte (no, not two card). Focused more on helm/leyline. (probably based on emergence of dredge and other graveyard based decks we've seen more of lately at Deal Me In)
DPS - though only running a single dark petitionXerox 3 (18.75%)
We had u/w/r featuring 3x lavinia and a mentor main deck as win cons
2 featuring delvers
1 of the delver decks had fun running mutgenic growth, berserk, kiln fiends and vapor snag! -
And of course no Deal Me In Games report would be complete with an update to our year long tournament standings:
Gives us a top 8 of:
- Greg Hoover 32
- Dan Barkon 30
- Ryan McKinney 29
- Josh Barkon 28
- Zach Dobbin 27
- Chuck Grebe 22
- Evan Hunterdmark 22
- Nicholas DiJohn 21
Those point totals can change fast and drastically this early in the season. 1st or 2nd place one event may not even be in top 8 after the next. Speaking of the next - we will meet again to do battle on Sunday March 10!!!
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I got an update on the semi-finals from Zach:
Me and Evan actually played the whole match for fun I got him in 3. Game one I played inspector into turn 2 precursors then turn 3 double chief for the win. Game 2 he turn 1 tinker Blightsteeld. Game 3 a turn one inspector and chief went distance. He was able to play a mentor but no other spell thanks to a sphere and only had one blocker. I had witch bane in play to give hurkyl defense.
Of course its for fun and a split, but always nice to get a play by play.
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Top 4 Split
Evan Hundermark
Paradoxical Storm1 Flooded Strand
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Snow-Covered Island
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Tundra
2 Island
2 Polluted Delta
2 Underground Sea1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Brainstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Dig Through Time
1 Flusterstorm
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Hurkyll's Recall
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Ponder
1 Sol Ring
1 Tendril's of Agony
1 Time Vault
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Voltaic Key
1 Yawgmoth's Will
2 Mystic Remora
2 Preordain
2 Rebuild
2 Sensei's Divinging Top
3 Mox Opal
4 Force of Will
4 Paradoxical Outcome1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Monestary Mentor
1 Snapcaster MageSideboard
1 Defense Grid
1 Flusterstorm
1 Karakas
1 Karn Scion of Urza
2 Disenchant
2 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
2 Mystic Remora
2 Tormod's Crypt
3 Hurkyll's RecallGreg Hoover
Ravager Shops1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Wasteland1 Black Lotus
1 Chalice of the Void
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
1 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Trinisphere
4 Sphere of Resistance1 Chief of the Foundry
1 Hangarback Walker
1 Lodestone Golem
1 Precursor Golem
3 Phyrexian Metamorph
4 Arcbound Ravager
4 Foundry Inspector
4 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Steel Overseer
4 Walking BallistaSideboard
1 Duplicant
1 Chief of the Foundry
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Memory Jar
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Triskelion
1 Wurmcoil Engine
2 Ratchet Bomb
2 Relic of Progenitus
3 Grafdigger's CageRyan McKinney
Oath1 Island
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Underground Sea
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Polluted Dealta
2 Scalding Tarn
2 Tropical Island
2 Volcanic Island
4 Forbidden Orchard1 Abrade
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Black Lotus
1 Brainstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Dig Throught Time
1 Mana Drain
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Ponder
1 Pyroblast
1 Sylvan Library
1 Time Walk
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Yawgmoth's Will
2 Dack Fayden
2 Flusterstorm
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
3 Mental Misstep
4 Force of Will
4 Oath of Druids
4 Preordain1 Griselbrand
1 Inferno Titan
1 Niv-Mizzet, ParunSideboard
1 Abrade
1 Archon of Valor's Reach
1 Blazing Archon
1 Null Rod
1 Pithing Needle
1 Strip Mine
2 Ancient Grudge
2 Nature's Claim
2 Pyroblast
3 Tormod's CryptZach Dobbin
Do Nothing Shops1 Ghost Quarter
1 Inventors' Fair
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Wasteland1 Black Lotus
1 Chalice of the Void
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
1 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Trinisphere
2 Sorcerous Spyglass
4 Sphere of Resistance
3 Null Rod1 Lodestone Golem
1 Traxos, Scourge of Kroog
2 Phyrexian Metamorph
4 Chief of the Foundry
4 Foundry Inspector
4 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Precursor GolemSideboard
1 Coercive Portal
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Dismember
1 Null Rod
1 Razormane Masticore
1 Witchbane Orb
2 Wurmcoil Engine
3 Tormod's Crypt
4 Grafdigger's Cage -
5th - 8th
Chuck Greb
Esper Delver1 Cavern of Souls
1 Island
1 Marsh Flats
1 Polluted Delta
1 Strip Mine
2 Underground Sea
3 Tundra
3 Wasteland
4 Flooded Strand1 Ancestral Recall
1 Balance
1 Black Lotus
1 Brainstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Dig Through Time
1 Dovin, Grand Arbiter
1 Energy Flux
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Merchant Scrll
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Ponder
1 Spell Pierce
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Time Walk
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Vampiric Tutor
2 Fragmentize
3 Force of Will
4 Mental Misstep
4 Preordain1 Monestary Mentor
2 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
3 Snapcaster Mage
4 Delver of SecretsSideboard
1 Disrupt
1 Divert
1 Flusterstorm
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Pithing Needle
1 Plains
1 Yixlid Jailer
2 Containment Priest
2 Energy Flux
2 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Story CircleDaniel Barkon
Ravager Shops1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Mishra's Factory
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Wasteland1 Black Lotus
1 Chalice of the Void
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
1 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Trinisphere
4 Sphere of Resistance1 Lodestone Golem
2 Chief of the Foundry
3 Hangarback Walker
3 Phyrexian Metamorph
3 Precursor Golem
4 Arcbound Ravager
4 Foundry Inspector
4 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Walking BallistaSideboard
1 Ratchet Bomb
1 Tormod's Crypt
2 Dismember
2 Null Rod
2 Relic of Progenitus
2 Steel Hellkite
2 Wurmcoil Engine
3 Grafdigger's CageMatt Buck
Oath1 Island
1 Flooded Strand
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Underground Sea
1 Polluted Dealta
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Scalding Tarn
2 Tropical Island
3 Volcanic Island
4 Forbidden Orchard1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Brainstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Dig Throught Time
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Gush
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Null Rod
1 Repeal
1 Sylvan Library
1 Time Walk
1 Yawgmoth's Will
2 Ancient Grudge
2 Dack Fayden
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Preordain
3 Flusterstorm
3 Mental Misstep
4 Force of Will
4 Oath of Druids1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
1 Griselbrand
1 Niv-Mizzet, ParunSideboard
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Pithing Needle
1 Pyroblast
1 Ravenous Trap
1 Stormtide Leviathan
2 Energy Flux
2 Mindbreak Trap
2 Nature's Claim
4 Tormod's CryptNick DiJohn
Paradoxical1 Library of Alexandria
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Volcanic Island
2 Polluted Delta
2 Underground Sea
3 Island
3 Scalding Tarn1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Brainstorm
1 Defense Grid
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Dig Through Time
1 Flusterstorm
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Hurkyll's Recall
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Mind Twist
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Ponder
1 Repeal
1 Sol Ring
1 Tinker
1 Time Vault
1 Time Walk
1 Voltaic Key
1 Yawgmoth's Will
2 Dack Fayden
2 Sensei's Divining Top
3 Mox Opal
3 Preordain
4 Force of Will
4 Paradoxical Outcome1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Sai, Naster Thopterist
1 Snapcaster MageSideboard
1 Defense Grid
1 Flusterstorm
1 Karakas
1 Pyroblast
2 Karn, Scion of Urza
2 Propaganda
2 Sudden Shock
2 Tormod's Crypt
3 Hurkyll's Recall