Thanks to everyone who stopped out to The Players Guild for our monthly vintage event!

We had 19 players today. First place was $300 in store credit, second was $150, third and fourth were $50 in store credit, and fifth through eighth were $25 in store credit.

Top 8 matchups:
Eberhart, Ryan vs. Materewicz, Chris – Eberhart wins
Brennan, Joe vs. Kelly, Brian – Kelly wins
Dayton, Sam vs. Dayton, Will – Dayton (Sam) wins
Sees, Bill vs. Miller, Dan – Miller wins

Top 4 matchups:
Eberhart, Ryan vs. Miller, Dan – Eberhart wins
Dayton, Sam vs. Kelly, Brian – Kelly wins

Finals:
Eberhart, Ryan vs. Kelly, Brian – no match

Congratulations to the finalists!

Finalist – Ryan Eberhart (Mentor Paradoxical)

4 Flooded Strand
1 Island
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Plains
3 Scalding Tarn
1 Strip Mine
3 Tundra
2 Volcanic Island
3 Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy
4 Monastery Mentor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Dig Through Time
4 Force of Will
1 Fragmentize
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Gush
4 Mental Misstep
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Ponder
4 Preordain
2 Pyroblast
3 Swords to Plowshares
1 Time Walk
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Black Lotus
2 Dack Fayden
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire

SB:
1 Balance
2 By Force
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Fragmentize
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Pyroblast
1 Rest in Peace
1 Stony Silence
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Wasteland

Finalist – Brian Kelly (Mentor Paradoxical)

1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Time Walk
2 Monastery Mentor
2 Telling Time
1 Merchant Scroll
3 Flooded Strand
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Ponder
3 Island
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Engineered Explosives
3 Mental Misstep
1 Magus of the Future
2 Snapcaster Mage
4 Force of Will
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Sol Ring
2 Flusterstorm
1 Mox Jet
1 Mana Crypt
4 Paradoxical Outcome
2 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Mana Vault
1 Thirst for Knowledge
3 Trinket Mage
1 Repeal
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
2 Mana Drain
1 Mox Opal
1 Mystic Remora
2 Tundra

SB:
2 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Steel Sabotage
2 Chain of Vapor
1 Karakas
1 Pithing Needle
2 Hurkyl’s Recall
2 Ancient Tomb
1 Mindbreak Trap
3 Containment Priest

Quarter-Finalist: Samantha Dayton (New Mentor on the Block)

4 Delver of Secrets
4 Harsh Mentor
2 Scab-Clan Berserker
1 Ponder
4 Preordain
1 Time Walk
1 Treasure Cruise
4 Force of Will
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Mental Misstep
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Dig Through Time
1 Pyroblast
1 Sudden Shock
1 Spell Pierce
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Gush
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Dack Fayden
4 Flooded Strand
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Island
1 Mountain
4 Volcanic Island
3 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine

SB:
1 Pyroblast
1 Sulfur Elemental
1 Steel Sabotage
2 Flusterstorm
3 Grafdigger's Cage
4 Ingot Chewer
3 Tormod's Crypt

Quarter-Finalist: Daniel Miller (Steaming Pile)

1 Alhammarret’s Archive
1 Black Lotus
1 Defense Grid
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Grim Monolith
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Memory Jar
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Mox Opal
2 Paradox Engine
2 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Sol Ring
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Torrential Gearhulk
2 Island
1 Library of Alexandria
3 Mishra’s Workshop
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Polluted Delta
1 Scalding Tarn
2 Underground Sea
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Ancestral Recall
3 Force of Will
4 Paradoxical Outcome
1 Rebuild
2 Repeal
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Thoughtcast
1 Time Walk
1 Timetwister
1 Tinker
1 Yawgmoth’s Will

SB:
2 Defense Grid
1 Echoing Truth
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Flusterstorm
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Lodestone Golem
2 Pithing Needle
1 Razormane Masticore
1 Rebuild
1 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Wurmcoil Engine

Semi-Finalist – Chris Materewicz (no deck name provided)

3 Containment Priest
4 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Eldrazi Displacer
4 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Lodestone Golem
1 Chalice of the Void
3 Thalia, Heretic Cathar
4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4 Thought Knot Seer
4 Reality Smasher
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Plains
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
4 Eldrazi Temple
4 Cavern of Souls
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mana Crypt
1 Black Lotus
1 Karakas

SB:
2 Dismember
2 Kataki, War’s Wage
2 Seal of Cleansing
1 Anger of the Gods
1 Containment Priest
2 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Rest in Peace
2 Null Rod
1 Trinisphere
1 Gisela, the Broken Blade

Semi-Finalist: Joe Brennan (Who needs Gush?!)

1 Balance
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Strip Mine
1 Karakas
2 Island
2 Scalding Tarn
2 Polluted Delta
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Flooded Strand
3 Tundra
3 Volcanic Island
2 Monastery Mentor
3 Swords to Plowshares
3 Mental Misstep
4 Force of Will
4 Mana Drain
2 Snapcaster Mage
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Narset Transcendant
1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
2 Dack Fayden
1 Consecrated Mother F*cking Sphinx
1 Dig Through Time
1 Gush
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Brainstorm
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Ponder
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Mystical Tutor

SB:
2 Wear/Tear
2 Containment Priest
2 Pithing Needle
3 Pyroblast
1 Supreme Verdict
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Rest in Peace
1 Path to Exile

Semi-Finalist: Will Dayton (Optimus Prime)

4 Ancient Tomb
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Inventor’s Fair
4 Mishra’s Factory
4 Mishra’s Workshop
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Wasteland
4 Foundry Inspector
1 Lodestone Golem
3 Metalwork Colossus
4 Phyrexian Metamorph
4 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Chalice of the Void
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Null Rod
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Tangle Wire
4 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Trinisphere

SB:
2 Crucible of Worlds
1 Dismember
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Karakas
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Null Rod
2 Tormod’s Crypt
2 Wurmcoil Engine

Semi-Finalist – Bill Sees (no deck name provided)

1 Brainstorm
1 Dack Fayden
1 Emrakul, the Promised End
1 Crucible of Worlds
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Time Walk
1 Ancestral Recall
4 Standstill
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Treasure Cruise
3 Swords to Plowshares
1 Supreme Verdict
2 Snapcaster Mage
1 Moat
1 Dig Through Time
2 Pyroblast
1 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
3 Mana Drain
2 Volcanic Island
4 Tundra
4 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Island
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Pearl
3 Mishra’s Factory
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Library of Alexandria

SB:
1 Fragmentize
1 Pyroblast
1 Stony Silence
1 Kataki, War’s Wage
1 Energy Flux
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
2 Containment Priest
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Rest in Peace
1 Arcane Laboratory
1 Supreme Verdict
1 Swords to Plowshares

See everyone for the next vintage event!

Love seeing Magus of the Future back on the scene!!!!

This meta is sooo much better. @brianpk80 How was telling time? And is 13 lands the correct amount in your deck? Since your not a combo deck per se, is chain of vapor as good as say Fragmentize, since I assume its mainly used to bounce a stony/rod, moat or sphere most times? Has chain ever lead to wins, saccing lands to bounce moxen etc etc with such a low land count? Just curious as you have no disenchant efx. Good job.

@joshuabrooks said in TPG - Vintage Event - Bloomsburg, PA - 05/06/17:

Love seeing Magus of the Future back on the scene!!!!

@Serracollector said in TPG - Vintage Event - Bloomsburg, PA - 05/06/17:

This meta is sooo much better. @brianpk80 How was telling time? And is 13 lands the correct amount in your deck? Since your not a combo deck per se, is chain of vapor as good as say Fragmentize, since I assume its mainly used to bounce a stony/rod, moat or sphere most times? Has chain ever lead to wins, saccing lands to bounce moxen etc etc with such a low land count? Just curious as you have no disenchant efx. Good job.

Good questions.

Telling Time is nice. It's like having Preordains that can't be Misstepped which let you keep Drain up or use them in Flusterstorm battles on the opponent's turn. People asked about the comparison to Impulse and my thoughts on the contrast are that Impulse shines more when you are looking for one specific card; Oath of Druids is the premiere example. In these Paradoxical lists, you usually want certain conjugations of pieces, not simply one. For instance, you may have a lonely Ruby on the table and no Paradox in hand, play Impulse and find Mana Crypt, Strand, Mental Misstep, Paradox. If you take the Mana Crypt, you're left waiting for the next Paradox. If you take the Paradox, it's still rather unimpressive at 1 target, so you just Impulsed for Force fodder. With Telling time, you tend more towards seeing the artifact (or Trinket Mage) + the Paradox and can keep both. Also, when using as land-finders, you get to choose a business spell to going along with it. It's an early game comprehensive set up card more than a "find this one particular bomb" function. Given Impulse's role in finding one particular bomb, it would seem pretty unimpressive to "Impulse for 4 and pick Polluted Delta." That's why the TT's function is better suited to what Paradox decks like to do (assemble the dual prongs of critical mass + Outcome).

13 land feels like the right amount. 14 floods a bit too often. I go up to 16 land when need be post-sb.

As for CoV, the 75 is on a 3x Hurkyl's, Ancient Tomb, & Steel Sab plan so Chain of Vapor is certainly not for Rods and Spheres. This list is not the kind that wants to Fragmentize a Foundry Inspector or single lock piece and buy another turn under 2 more Spheres/Rod. Bounce it all to hell and go over the top. It's more for non-artifact nuisances that come up like Kambal, Scab Clan Berserker, Consecrated Sphinx, Arcane Lab, Thalia, etc. V. Stony Silence Mentor, I might board one in, but I also board out Opal, Explosives, and 1 Paradox so while they overprepare for Outcome, instead of fighting Stony tooth and nail, I lean on it and other artifacts less.

Samantha's list is missing Lotus, Ruby, Sapphire, and Dack Fayden.

They were really great cards since I played against Shops 4/5 matches. I would hate to exclude them.

Update: We played the finals on MTGO where Brian crushed me. Congrats Brian. Also my deck is just boring Jeskai Mentor, not Paradoxical Mentor.

Thanks for hosting Shawn!

@diophan any chance it was recorded?

@Topical_Island https://www.twitch.tv/videos/140892339?t=80m35s

@diophan said in TPG - Vintage Event - Bloomsburg, PA - 05/06/17:

Update: We played the finals on MTGO where Brian crushed me. Congrats Brian. Also my deck is just boring Jeskai Mentor, not Paradoxical Mentor.

Thanks for hosting Shawn!

Just curious: played just for fun, or for stakes?

@BazaarOfBaghdad

For the title, no stakes involved.