Twenty-four players met at a secret compound in Ohio to battle in Vintage. When the smoke had cleared, one man stood atop a heap of broken bodies, twirling his moustache and laughing like a madman.
Congrats to Ben Perry, and thanks as always to Geoff and Sarah Moes for hosting these crazy shindigs (hootenannies?). Everything was great. Top four divided up an Underground Sea, Tundra, EMA Box, and Tropical Island; 5th–8th got Wastelands. Jimmy McCarthy in 9th place got a ceramic eggplant:
Top Eight Decklists in order of finish:
1st: Ben Perry – Two-Card Monte
4 Mishra’s Workshop
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Mana Confluence
4 Gemstone Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Helm of Obedience
4 Painter’s Servant
4 Grindstone
4 Goblin Welder
2 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pyroblast
1 Ancient Grudge
2 Defense Grid
1 Memory Jar
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Tinker
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Demonic Consultation
1 Vampiric Tutor
Sideboard:
1 Trinisphere
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Balance
2 Ensnaring Bridge
2 Abrupt Decay
2 Nature’s Claim
2 Containment Priest
4 Leyline of Sanctity
2nd: Brian Fisher – Burning Omniscience Oath
1 Griselbrand
1 Emrakul, the Eons Torn
3 Show and Tell
4 Preordain
1 Time Walk
1 Demonic Tutor
3 Burning Wish
1 Brainstorm
2 Flusterstorm
2 Impulse
4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
4 Oath of Druids
3 Omniscience
2 Jace, The Mind Sculptor
4 Forbidden Orchard
2 Tropical Island
1 Misty Rainforest
2 Underground Sea
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Ancestral Recall
2 Flooded Strand
1 Island
1 Volcanic Island
2 Polluted Delta
Sideboard
1 Show and Tell
1 Enter the Infinite
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
1 Toxic Deluge
3 Abrupt Decay
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
1 Tendrils of Agony
2 Ancient Grudge
3rd: Jake Hilty – Thalia Tribal
4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4 Thalia, Heretic Cathar
4 Thorn of Amethyst
3 Containment Priest
4 Eldrazi Displacer
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Lotus Petal
3 Thought-Knot Seer
4 Wasteland
1 Karakas
1 Strip Mine
4 Ancient Tomb
5 Plains
4 Cavern of Souls
1 Batterskull
1 Umezawa's Jitte
2 Stoneforge Mystic
4 Phyrexian Revoker
2 Caves of Koilos
Sideboard
4 Rest in Peace
2 Kataki, War's Wage
2 Aegis of the Gods
2 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Spirit of the Labyrinth
2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Crucible of Worlds
4th: Nat Moes – Bant Mentor
4 Monastery Mentor
3 Tarmogoyf
2 Vendilion Clique
2 Snapcaster Mage
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Force of Will
2 Mental Misstep
2 Flusterstorm
2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Echoing Truth
4 Preordain
3 Gush
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Time Walk
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Dig Through Time
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Merchant Scroll
4 Flooded Strand
2 Misty Rainforest
3 Tundra
3 Tropical Island
2 Island
1 Plains
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Lotus Petal
Sideboard
2 Swords to Plowshares
2 Disenchant
2 Pithing Needle
2 Containment Priest
2 Hurkyl’s Recall
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Surgical Extraction
5th: Matt Hazard – Depths-Still
4 Dark Depths
4 Thespian's Stage
4 Polluted Delta
2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
2 Island
3 Underground Sea
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Force of Will
4 Mental Misstep
1 Flusterstorm
1 Mindbreak Trap
4 Standstill
1 Ponder
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Brainstorm
1 Time Walk
4 Vampire Hexmage
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Consultation
4 Thoughtseize
3 Preordain
1 Spell Snare
Sideboard
1 Steel Sabotage
3 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Pithing Needle
1 Flusterstorm
2 Teferi's Response
1 Spell Snare
2 Illness in the Ranks
1 Innocent Blood
6th: Kevin Cron – Tamiyo’s Angels
3 Stoneforge Mystic
2 Snapcaster Mage
3 Spell Queller
1 Consecrated Sphinx
1 Moat
2 Tamiyo, Field Researcher
1 Umezawa’s Jitte
1 Batterskull
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Ponder
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
2 Fact or Fiction
1 Dig Through Time
1 Brainstorm
3 Swords to Plowshares
4 Force of Will
2 Mana Drain
3 Mental Misstep
2 Flusterstorm
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Karakas
1 Library of Alexandria
4 Flooded Strand
3 Misty Rainforest
3 Tundra
2 Tropical Island
2 Island
1 Plains
Sideboard
2 Path to Exile
2 Nature’s Claim
2 Steel Sabotage
1 Forest
1 Containment Priest
2 Rest in peace
1 Flusterstorm
1 Balance
1 Supreme Verdict
7th: C.J. Moritz – Moonunit Zappa
4 Magus of the Moon
4 Painters Servants
1 Blightsteel Collossus
2 Gorilla Shaman
2 Goblin Welder
4 Force of Will
3 Red Elemental Blast
2 Pyroblast
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Dig Through Time
1 Tinker
1 Brainstorm
3 Thirst for Knowledge
2 Grindstone
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Jace, The Mind Sculpter
1 Tezzeret
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Black Lotus
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
4 Volcanic Island
3 Scalding Tarn
3 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
4 Island
Sideboard
4 Surgical Extraction
3 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Energy Flux
1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
3 Grim Lavamancer
2 Rattata
8th: Nam Q. Tran – Ravager Stax
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Thorn of Amethyst
4 Tangle Wire
4 Smokestack
2 Crucible of Worlds
4 Arcbound Ravager
4 Phyrexian Revoker
3 Triskelion
1 Karn, Silver Golem
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Lodestone Golem
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Pearl
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Crypt
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Strip Mine
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Wasteland
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Mishra's Workshop
1 Buried Ruin
1 Ghost Quarter
Sideboard
4 Grafdigger's Cage
3 Ghost Quarter
2 Wurmcoil Engine
2 Tormod's Crypt
2 Relic of Progenitus
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
Metagame Breakdown
8 Mentor
-- 4 Esper Mentor
-- 1 Four-Color Mentor Gro
-- 1 Sylvan Mentor
-- 1 Bant Mentor
-- 1 Jeskai Mentor
6 Other
-- 1 Two-Card Monte
-- 1 Depths-Still
-- 1 Tamiyo's Angels
-- 1 Moonunit Zappa
-- 2 Dragon
3 Eldrazi
-- 1 Thalia Tribal
-- 1 White Eldrazi
-- 1 Tribal Eldrazi
2 Dredge
2 Shops
-- 1 Aggro Stax
-- 1 MUD Aggro
2 Dark Petition Storm
1 Burning Omniscience Oath