Deal Me In Games 2018 point totals

Welcome to Fall 2018 everybody. Its time to announce the eith event in our 2018 VINTAGE INVITATIONAL series.

Deal Me In Games next event will be SUNDAY September 9, 2018 starting at noon.
And get ready for this one as every event from August thru December will have major implications in our invitational standings. And why should you care about the invitational standings? Well Jason announced prize support for 1st and 2nd place for our top 8 invitational. We had a great prize structure last year with multiple blue duals given away. This year however, an Underground Sea is only good enough for 2nd place. The winner of this year's invitational event will receive a MISHRAS WORKSHOP.

And its not too late. With up to 4 events left, there is 60-100 points on the table for people who can top 8 those events. That is potentially enough to get you an invite still. So set aside Sept 9 and come on out to Deal Me in Games and continue to support this series!!!

Who:
Jason at Deal Me In Games

What:
15 playtest T1 tournament

Where:
127 East Philadelphia Ave
Boyertown, PA 19512
ph#: 484-415-0058

When:
Sunday, Sept 9th at 12 Noon

Why:
So we can get together and have fun playing Magic the Gathering in its best format ever for some kickass prizes. ***

Entry Fee: $35 at the door with 100% going to prize support.
$30 per person will go towards the prize structure for that day's event. $5 per person will go towards prizes for our annual top 8 point totals. That's right, we are bringing back the Deal Me In Standings for 2018. At the end of 2018 the 8 players who have accrued the most points will get an invite to special closed event with a MISHRA'S WORKSHOP AND UNDERGROUND SEA for 1st and 2nd. 3rd-8th prizes yet to be announced. If you want an example of whats in store for 2018 just take a look at the prize support for 2017's top 8 championships that included 2 unlimited Underground Seas, 1 Unlimited Tundra and 1 Unlimited Bayou.

I have a request for those who are making arguments for or against restrictions based on 'interactivity.' Could you take a moment and define this term and what it means for you? Believe it or not, interactivity or interactive game play is not as objective a term as some people think. For instance I would define interactivity as games where both players attempt to execute their game plan. Whether its on the stack or in the combat phase, both players have the opportunity to cast spells and achieve their goal. By my definition, blue permission is interactive. If I'm on blue permission nothing is stopping my opponent from casting spells. I may be stopping him from resolving them but that is interactivity on the stack. Landstill, Oath, bug would all be interactive.
Current iterations of shops would be non-interactive. Their goal is to stop you from doing anything - waste/strip your lands, sphere your spells and revoker your moxen to leave you dead in the water, unable to act while an army of artifacts beats you down.
But there are people who consider counter-heavy blue decks to be non-interactive because they stop you from resolving spells.
I'm not looking for a debate or argument over what interactivity means. Just looking for some information to help me properly interpret some of the commenters statements in this thread.

@stormanimagus said in Deal Me In Games August Event Results:

Joe needs to stop calling "Jeskai Mentor" "UWR Humans." Incorrect naming is annoying.

Joe calls it humans. I call it uwr instead of Jeskai because those names came out while I was on a break from magic and I can never which is bant or jeskai or whatever.

Thank you to all the weekend, cardboard warriors who came out to do battle this past Saturday in Boyertown at Deal Me In Games. We had a total of 14 players this month meet Saturday to sling fire, ice and mud at each other. In the end, the mud slingers won with Dan Barkon and Jeff Grebe meeting in the finals and splitting their Shops mirror.

We had 4 rounds break to top 8 of:
Jeff Greb: Ravager Shops
Dan Barkon: Ravager Shops
Nick Dijohn: Sai Outcome
Joe Brennan: UWR Humans
Josh Potucek: Dredge
Chuck Greb: DPS
Ryan Glackin: Dredge
Zack Dobbin: Jeskai's TiTi's.

The non contending decks included:
Paradoxical Storm, Bluebelcher, black Stax, Bomberman, human control, pyromancer

And of course we had a bit of a shake up in our 2018 Invitational standings with this event as there are about 10-15 of us in a pretty close fight for 4-5 spots.

Despite bailing on us, Dan Miller holds on to the #1, barely holding off Dan Barkon. But the shake up comes at the bottom, where coming into the day we had 3 people tied for 8th and 4 or 5 people within 4 points. Here's how things look now:

This gives us a top 8 of:

1. Dan Miller 99
2. Dan Barkon 91
3. Zach Dobbin 71
4. Joe Brennan 64
5. Josh Barkon 62
6. Stephen Harvey 55
7. Nick DiJohn 54
8. Dean Harris 52

We still have Matt Buck, Keith Seals, Jason Beaupre, Greg Hoover and Stephen Ganter within 6 points and Sahaj Viradia within striking distance. Consistent showing from Stephen Nowakoswki, Evan Hunterdmark, Ryan Glackin and Chuck Greb, Josh Potucek or Joel Lim could force any of them into the mix here as well. Though the window of opportunity is closing.

Also we had a huge announcement to kick things off as Jason announced partial prize support for the 8 man invitational. We already have over $2000 worth of prizes announced with 2nd place receiving an Underground Sea and first place announced as a MISHRA'S WORKSHOP!

Not bad all for coming out and having fun. Our next tournament will be SUNDAY Sept 9!

Congratz to Jeff Grebe and Dan Barkon for splitting the finals in our event today!!! Full report coming tomorrow.

Less than a week to go!!

What server do people play on cockatrice now? I had been on woogerworks, but stopped playing on cockatrice for a few months. when I came back I had to reinstall and woogerworks is gone. Their web page says they no longer support cockatrice.

@stormanimagus said in [C18] Retrofitter Foundry:

@brass-man I think this card has "Auriok Salvagers Infi combo with upside when you draw it outside the combo" written all over it.

Walking Ballista fills that role pretty well. Easily hard cast outside of the combo. Provides board control while waiting for the combo. Looking over my past few tournaments, I honestly can't think of a single situation where I'd rather have had this than ballista. Ballista doesn't need to pass the turn or have time walk in hand. It is proof against hurkyl's recall and artifact destruction.

Still it looks like a fun card. One I'd love to play with. Just not in competitive vintage.

I guess an explanation of my charts is in order as well. The name columns are pretty obvious. The next few columns represent a round by round accounting of points for the particular event being posted. A win is worth 3, a tie is worth 2 and a loss is worth 1. So its worth it, sometimes, to play out the last round of an event. Even if it doesn't matter in that particular event, you still accumulate points towards the invitational.
The number of rounds of 1-3 points will depend on the size of the event (last month we had 22!!)

Next we have the point total for that particular event. The second to last column is that players point total coming INTO this event and the final column is the new point total when we add the current event to the prior total. This is the column we use to determine the standings.

For those following the point totals from one event to the next please note that since I got these in late, the 'prior total' already includes July. The final column is accurate, I just put in July then June.