We had 11 people meet up in Colorado for this Team Serious Invitational.
The prizes:
After 4 rounds of swiss, the elimination rounds played out as follows:
• Jon Hammack (4 Color Control) lost to Nam Tran (2 Card Monte)
• Steve McGrew (Mentor Paradoxical Outcome) lost to Duane Haddix (Jazza Shops)
• Duane Haddix (Jazza Shops) beat Nam Tran (2 Card Monte)
Duane Haddix – Jazza Shops
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Mishra's Workshop
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Wasteland
4 Arcbound Ravager
4 Foundry Inspector
1 Lodestone Golem
4 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Precursor Golem
4 Walking Ballista
2 Wurmcoil Engine
1 Black Lotus
1 Chalice of the Void
1 Steel Overseer
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Trinisphere
Sideboard:
2 Crucible of Worlds
4 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Karakas
4 Relic of Progenitus
2 Dismember
1 Wurmcoil Engine
Nam Tran – 2 Card Monte
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Helm of Obedience
4 Grindstone
4 Painter’s Servant
3 Defense Grid
3 Red Elemental Blast
1 Trinisphere
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Tinker
1 Timetwister
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Memory Jar
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
4 Mana Confluence
4 Gemstone Mine
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Mishra’s Workshop
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Sideboard:
4 Leyline of Sanctity
4 Nature’s Claim
1 City of Brass
1 Ancient Grudge
2 Ensnaring Bridge
2 Containment Priest
1 Balance
Jon Hammack – Vintage - 4CC
4 Deathrite Shaman
2 Snapcaster Mage
2 Baleful Strix
2 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Fatal Push
1 Dismember
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Thoughtseize
4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
1 Mindbreak Trap
3 Painful Truths
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Dig Through Time
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Time Walk
2 Jace, the Mindsculptor
1 Dack Fayden
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Polluted Delta
2 Scalding Tarn
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Strip Mine
1 Mana Confluence
3 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
1 Volcanic Island
1 Badlands
1 Island
1 Swamp
Sideboard:
2 Nature's Claim
1 By Force
2 Flusterstorm
4 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Ravenous Trap
2 Pyroblast
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Murderous Cut
Steve McGrew – Mentor Paradoxical Outcome
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mana Vault
1 Mana Crypt
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
2 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Mox Opal
1 Snapcaster Mage
2 Monastery Mentor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Gush
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Repeal
2 Flusterstorm
1 Mana Drain
4 Paradoxical Outcome
3 Mental Misstep
4 Force of Will
1 Brain Freeze
1 Brainstorm
1 Echoing Truth
1 Tinker
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Library of Alexandria
2 Polluted Delta
2 Tundra
3 Flooded Strand
4 Island
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Ponder
1 Time Walk
2 Preordain
Sideboard:
2 Containment Priest
3 Mystic Remora
2 Rest in Peace
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Steel Sabotage
2 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Karakas
1 Balance
Metagame Breakdown:
- Belcher
- 4 Color Leovold Control
- BUG Death’s Shadow
- Mono blue Braids (fulfilling an old promise)
- Mentor Paradoxical Outcome
- Paradoxical Outcome Oath
- (2) 2 Card Monte
- Dredge
- Vintage Miracles
- Jazza Shops
Prize distribution:
- Duane Haddix – Vintage Playable Tokens
- Nam Tran – Mirror Universe
- Jon Hammack – 6 Modern Masters 2017 packs
- Steve McGrew – Both Commander precon decks
- Randal Witherell – 4 Mishra’s Factories
- Jerry Yang – Arabian Nights Mountain
- Justin Waller – 1 Leovold
- Jimmy McCarthy – Hakim Loreweaver and CE Time Vault
- Josh Chapple – GP foil Crome Mox and unlimited Cyclopean Tomb
- Lucas – Jace Binder
- JR Goldberg – Plateau
