Thanks for typing this up Jon. This event was super fun, makes me look forward to EW even more.

This is really exciting. I think that this will bring more players into vintage on MTGO. I have several friends who can't make the dailies, but can do random times.
And there are a lot of names I see playing Vintage but they never join the dailies.

Nice. Glad to see someone else coming from OK to battle. I am pretty damn excited about this.

Starts at 1:00.

Anyone else going to this?

I considered it, but chose to try it this way. I think next time I may run them main & see what happens.

@CwaM I was expecting a field of Stoney Silence Mentor and Paradox Storm.

The 4 Phyrexian Metamorphs were there so that I could copy a Fleetwheel Cruiser and get the trigger to be able to craash into my opponent.

The Metalwork Colossus was just a test replacement for Arcbound Ravager since I was running Null Rods in the sideboard. It didn't really do much during the day, but mostly because the game was over before it could be cast. I was able to cast it once but I think it died in short order that game.

Null Rod was a choice that everyone was surprised by. It won me game 2 against Belcher; helped slow down Blue Moon, and shut off my round 1 opponent's Arcbound Ravagers and Walking Ballistas.

I do plan on tweaking the list some more and will hopefully have some more insight soon.

On January 21st I joined 9 other brave souls for our quarterly post-set release Vintage tournament at Madness Comics in Denton, Texas.

My psuedo-report is all from memory (though the decklists are not) I piloted what I was calling Suicide Shops, the decklist will be below.

Round 1 was Darryl on Shops. He was running Walking Ballista (I am still undecided on this card) [1-0]
Game 1 I got an early Fleetwheel Cruisre down and gleefully made "Vroom" noises while running Darryl down with my cars.
Game 2 was more of the same (although the sound effects may have gotten louder)

Round 2 was a pair down to Richard on Blue Belcher. [2-0]
Game 1 Belcher did what Belcher does and I died.
Game 2 and 3 I brought in Null Rods. Between those and the Phyrexian Revokers I managed to overrun Richard with robots.

Round 3 was Larry on Oath. [3-0]
Unfortunately Larry had some mulligan issues. Sadly he never even got to Oath up a Griselbrand.

Round 4 was my only loss to Nick on Blue Moon [3-1]
Nick and I could have drawn this to get us both into the top 4, but after doing the math we realized we were both in the top 4 regardless. Plus I came to play Vintage so off to battle we went!
I don't recall if I took Game 1 or 2, Nick took the other.
Game 3 I had a Needle Beetle that managed to get Nick down to 3 life. Then I made an egregious error by casting something (a Fleetwheel maybe?) which Nick promptly Mana Drained. Thus giving him the mana to promptly cast a Consecrated Sphinx. This allowed Nick to take Game 3 and top seed going into the top 4.

The top 4 then decied to split the $244 in store credit and go our seperate ways.

After the Swiss here are the top 4 decks and archetypes for 5-10

First: Nick Rainer - Blue Moon
3 Dack Fayden
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Chandra, Flamecaller
3 Blood Moon
4 Trinket Mage
2 Consecrated Sphinx
3 Sudden Shock
3 Flusterstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Dig Through Time
4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Chalice of the Void
1 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Volcanic Island
1 Mountain
5 Island
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Ancient Tomb

SIDEBOARD
1 Arcane Laboratory
2 Grafdigger's Cage
4 Ravenous Trap
1 Tormod's Crypt
2 Energy Flux
2 Shattering Spree
1 Ingot Chewer
2 Rolling Earthquake

Second: Josh McCurley (that's me!) - Suicide Shops
4 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Phyrexian Metamorph
2 Metalwork Colossus
1 Lodestone Golem
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Sol Ring
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Tangle Wire
1 Trinisphere
3 Ancient Tomb
3 Mishra's Factory
4 Mishra's Workshop
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Fleetwheel Cruiser
4 Foundry Inspector
2 Inventors' Fair
2 Slash Panther

SIDEBOARD
4 Null Rod
4 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Wurmcoil Engine
3 Dismember
1 Karakas
2 Crucible of Worlds

Third: Larry Ballard - Oath
4 Oath of Druids
4 Force of Will
1 Sol Ring
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Time Walk
4 Preordain
1 Brainstorm
4 Mental Misstep
1 Time Vault
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Voltaic key
2 Thoughtseize
3 Show and Tell
1 Misdirection
3 Griselbrand
1 Dragonlord Dromoka
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Dig Throught Time
2 Flusterstorm
1 Maelstrom Pulse
2 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
4 Forbidden Orchard
4 Misty Rainforest

SIDEBORD
1 Path to Exile
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Balance
1 Golgari Charm
1 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Leyline of the Void
1 Leyline of Sanctity
2 Null Rod
1 Darkness

Fourth: Tanner Sorenson - Oath (interesting note, round 1 was when Tanner played his first Vintage game)
3 Griselbrand
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
4 Oath of Druids
4 Preordain
4 Force of w\Will
3 Mental Misstep
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Thoughtseize
1 Flusterstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Emrald
1 mox Pearl
1 Lotus Petal
1 yawgmoth's Will
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Show and Tell
1 Dig Through Time
3 Tropical Island
3 underground Sea
4 Forbidden Orchard
2 Polluted Delta
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Flooded Strand
1 Strip Mine
1 Island

SIDEBOARD
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Ravenous Trap
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Pithing needle
2 nature's Claim
1 Flusterstorm
4 Tormod's Crypt
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

5: Andy - 3 Card Monte
6: Richard - Blue Belcher
7: Darryl - Shops
8: Emma - Dark Petition/Paradoxical Storm
9: Will - Master Transmuter/Goblin Welder Big Dumb Robots
10: Tom - Bazaar Stax

Hopefully release weekend of Ammonket we get a few more than 10 and I can run it back.

@Topical_Island No worries man, I am going to assume it was all because of the 10 item limit on the poll. :)

@spook I'm not sure how to take that. ;)

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