We had 29 people come out for the Team Serious Invitational to battle some vintage to celebrate Hazard’s birthday for the 4th year in a row!

The drinks:

We messaged Land Grant Brewing in Columbus, Ohio who graciously gave us some free beer! They have employees that play Magic but have never heard of the card Land Grant, so we gave them a foil Land Grant as a Thank You! Thanks Jackie!

The donated prizes:

Pre-tournament Middle School action!

Some tournament action shots:

15 pizzas for the post Round 2 lunch break!

After 6 rounds of Swiss (it should have been 5 rounds but was announced as 6), the top 8 played out as follows:

Quarterfinals:

Bob Agra – Humans - (1) vs Jacob Hilty – Paradoxical Outcome Oath - (8) – Jacob wins!
Jason Jaco – 4C Outcome - (2) vs Alex – Oath - (7) – Jaco wins!
David Lance – Survival - (3) vs Kevin Cron – Grixis Xerox - (6) – David wins!
Nam Tran – Ravager Shops - (4) vs Andy Probasco – Ravager Shops - (5) – Nam wins!

Semifinals:

Jason Jaco – 4C Outcome - (2) vs Nam Tran – Ravager Shops - (4) – Jaco wins!
David Lance – Survival - (3) vs Jacob Hilty – Paradoxical Outcome Oath - (8) – David wins!

Finals:

Jason Jaco – 4C Outcome - (2) vs David Lance – Survival - (3) - Jaco wins!

Congrats to Jason Jaco for his second TSI win!

Decklists:

Thanks to everyone that came to celebrate and play some Vintage! It was a blast! The over 12 hour Twitch VOD can be found here: Twitch

We're also working on uploading the content on the SeriousVintage youtube channel, which can be found here: Youtube

Looking forward to TSI Hazard's Birthday 5.0 next year!

Metagame breakdown:

Blue decks: 9

U/R Delver
RUG
Jeskai
BUG
(2) Grixis Xerox
Turbo Tezz
(2) Oath

Combo: 6

SX Tendrils!
3C PO
4C PO
(2) Paradoxical Outcome Oath
2 Card Monte

Shops: 3

(2) Ravager Shops
BrassCity Vault

Dredge: 4

(3) Dredge
Dredge and Dragons

Misc: 7

Mono Red Blood Moon Beatz
Tribal Predators
Lands
Survival
Hatebears
Humans
Colorless Eldrazi

SX Tendrils list available?

@ten-ten I played it! It's fun to goldfish. I went 2-4 overall and probably could have done better if my opening hands had looked better and I'd played as aggressively as necessary.

Lands (4)
1 Tropical Island
1 Bayou
1 Polluted Delta
1 Tolarian Academy
Spells (57)
4 Land Grant
4 Dark Ritual
4 Tendrils of Agony
4 Spoils of the Vault
4 Cabal Ritual
1 Gitaxian Probe
4 Repeal
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Black Lotus
1 Lion's Eye Diamond
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mana Crypt
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
1 Brainstorm
1 Lotus Petal
4 Preordain
4 Chromatic Sphere
4 Mox Opal
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Yawgmoth's Will
1 Timetwister
1 Ponder

Sideboard
4 Force of Will
4 Leyline of Anticipation
1 Tinker
1 Memory Jar
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Necropotence
1 Tropical Island
2 Hurkyl's Recall

60th card is Tolarian Academy. I think there are some other options there including maindeck Hurkyl's, Street Wraith, Darkwater Egg, Windfall. Whatever.

Pictures of opened Shaman box pls

@grandpabelcher thank you!

@matori I'm trying to hunt down pictures from people that took them but haven't gotten any responses.

Ben's box had:

• Animate Dead print

• Foil Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver

• Miscut Revised Rocket Launcher

• Alpha Mountain

• 2 fbb Chinese Llanowar Elves

• An envelope that could be traded for 2 deck boxes.

• The envelope had a Tundra in it.

• The 2 deck boxes had Middle School staples.

There was also a suitcase provided as a prize. It had a bunch of random stuff in it! Nat tweeted a few of the pictures I took after I opened it:

https://twitter.com/GrandpaBelcher/status/1103043968537907205

It had:

• The Junior Classics 2 Stories of Wonder and Magic book by Collier

• Helm of Obedience

• 1000 piece puzzle

• Nikolai Vodka

• Clown nose

• Sun glasses

• Stickers

• Deck Box

• Toothbrush

• 2 pieces of Mox Chocolate chocolate

• a No one can beat my Dad mug

• a Rick Astley Whenever You Need Somebody cassette tape

• Tylenol

• Shower cap

• Pojo's Unofficial Total Magic the gathering Special Magic 10th anniversary book

Apparently the Tylenol and Shower Cap were already in the suitcase when it was acquired.

Every time I read what was in those, they get better.

This is the greatest happening that I've ever seen or comprehended

It should be noted that the Predator poster had nearly every Magic card with 'predator' in the name as well.