The Mana Drain

4 Survival of the Fittest

1 Forest

3 Savannah

Sideboard:

1 Energy Flux

1 Null Rod

2 Squee, Goblin Nabob

1 Stony Silence

1 Qasali Pridemage

Jerry Yang – Paradoxical Outcome Oath (4-1)

Metagame Breakdown:

Blue:

• Bant Survival
• Merfolk
• Esper PO
• 4C PO
• PO Oath
• U/W Enligthened Tutor control
• Esper Mentor
• Blue Belcher

Shops:

• (3) Ravager Shops

Misc:

• Aperture Science
• Colorless Eldrazi
• Krark’s Thumb

Thanks to everyone that came out! Hope to see you at the next one!

nartman99

We had 11 players show up to battle some vintage. After 5 rounds of Swiss +1. The top 4 competitors were:

Frank Singel – Lands (5-0)

1 Bayou

4 Bazaar of Baghdad

3 Dark Depths

1 Forest

2 Ghost Quarter

1 Glacial Chasm

3 Grove of the Burnwillows

1 Karakas

1 Misty Rainforest

3 Riftstone Portal

2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

1 Taiga

2 Crop Rotation

4 Exploration

1 Fastbond

4 Life from the Loam

2 Manabond

2 Mental Misstep

1 Mox Diamond

3 Null Rod

Sideboard:

1 Maze of Ith

2 Sphere of Resistance

Nam Tran – Ravager Shops (3-1-1)

4 Arcbound Ravager

1 Chief of the Foundry

4 Foundry Inspector

2 Hangarback Walker

1 Lodestone Golem

3 Phyrexian Metamorph

4 Phyrexian Revoker

4 Steel Overseer

4 Walking Ballista

4 Sphere of Resistance

Sideboard:

4 Grafdigger's Cage

3 Null Rod

2 Sorcerous Spyglass

1 Tormod's Crypt

2 Chief of the Foundry

2 Precursor Golem

1 Dismember

Andre Yatskiv – Dredge (3-2)

4 Golgari-Grave Troll

4 Stinkweed Imp

2 Golgari Thug

4 Narcomoeba

4 Bloodghast

3 Ichorid

2 Prized Amalgam

1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

1 Ashen Rider

Sideboard:

4 Hollow One

Kyle Lenox – Doomsday (3-2)

3 Preordain

1 Gitaxian Probe

1 Ponder

1 Gush

3 Doomsday

2 Duress

1 Sensei's Divining Top

3 Polluted Delta

3 Flooded Strand

4 Underground Sea

2 Island

1 Swamp

Sideboard:

1 Island

1 Chain of Vapor

2 Hurkyl's Recall

2 Null Rod

2 Fatal Push

1 Toxic Deluge

1 Illness in the Ranks

2 Flusterstorm

1 Extirpate

2 Ravenous Trap

Metagame Breakdown:

(2) Ravager Shops
(2) Dragon
White Eldrazi
Grixis
Oath
Jeskai Mentor
Dredge
Lands
Doomsday

Thanks to everyone that came out! See you at the next TSO!

nartman99

We had 16 players show up to battle some Vintage. After 5 rounds of Swiss (Swiss +1), prizes were awarded to the top 6 finishing players.

Results:

Rajah James – Brass City Vault (5-0)

3 Traxos, Scourge of Kroog

1 Lodestone Golem

3 Steel Overseer

2 Kuldotha Forgemaster

4 Sphere of Resistance

1 Thorn of Amethyst

2 Inventor's Fair

1 City of Traitors

Sideboard:

1 Memory Jar

2 Karn, Scion of Urza

1 Powder Keg

Frank Singel – Vintage Lands (4-1)

1 Bayou

4 Bazaar of Baghdad

3 Dark Depths

1 Forest

2 Ghost Quarter

1 Glacial Chasm

3 Grove of the Burnwillows

1 Karakas

1 Misty Rainforest

3 Riftstone Portal

2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

1 Taiga

2 Crop Rotation

1 Demonic Tutor

4 Exploration

1 Fastbond

4 Life from the Loam

2 Manabond

3 Mental Misstep

1 Mox Diamond

2 Null Rod

Sideboard:

1 Maze of Ith

1 Null Rod

1 Sphere of Resistance

Brian Grinnell – U/W Enlightened Tutor Control (4-1)

1 Solemnity

1 Energy Flux

4 Force of Will

1 Inkwell Leviathan

2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

4 Mana Drain

3 Mental Misstep

1 Tinker

1 Sensei’s Divining Top

1 Voltaic Key

4 Damping Sphere

1 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria

4 Flooded Strand

5 Island

1 Plains

4 Tundra

Sideboard:

3 Energy Flux

2 Swords to Plowshares

Nam Tran – Brass City Vault (3-2)

4 Sphere of Resistance

4 Phyrexian Revoker

4 Arcbound Ravager

4 Walking Ballista

2 Kuldotha Forgemaster

2 Traxos, Scourge of Kroog

1 Memory Jar

1 Thorn of Amethyst

Sideboard:

4 Ratchet Bomb

4 Grafdigger’s Cage

2 Karn, Scion of Urza

1 Blightsteel Colossus

1 Hangarback Walker

1 Crucible of Worlds

1 Foundry Inspector

Steven Sasala – Merfolk (3-2)

10 Islands

4 Cavern of Souls

4 Wastelands

4 Master of the Pearl Trident

4 Lord of Atlantis

1 Daze

3 Null Rod

Sideboard:

3 Energy Flux

1 Null Rod

Marland Moore – Mono-Blue Paradoxical Outcome (3-2)

4 Paradoxical Outcome

3 Karn, Scion of Urza

1 Blightsteel Colossus

1 Tezzeret, the Seeker

1 Erayo, Soratami Ascendant

1 Snapcaster Mage

1 Tinker

1 Ponder

1 Gush

1 Timetwister

2 Voltaic Key

2 Sensei's Divining Top

2 Mox Opal

1 Chrome Mox

6 Island

Sideboard:

Metagame Breakdown:

Blue:

U/W Enlightened Tutor Control
(2) Esper Paradoxical Outcome
Mono Blue Paradoxical Outcome
Merfolk
U/R Pyromancer
(2) Oath

Shops:

(2) Brass City Vault
Car Shops
2 Card Monte

Misc:

U/G Enchantress
Lands
Dragon
Dredge

Thanks to everyone that came out! Hope to see you at the next TSO!

nartman99

@grandpabelcher So 6 5th-8th finishes, 2 top 4 finishes, and 1 win for me eh? One win out of 9 top 8s isn't that bad is it?!

nartman99

@shaman-ben Man, do I make a great adversary? Too bad I lost in top 8 and we couldn't have a finals rematch!

nartman99

@moorebrother1 Sweet! I'm not sure if anyone else from Michigan would be coming but arranging a car pool would be sweet! Though I thought you were trying to improve your MtG game?! Warning, TSOs are not conducive for that haha!

nartman99

Facebook Event

What: Unlimited Proxy Vintage Magic
When: May 19th
Where: Kidforce Collectibles, Berea, OH
103 Front St, Berea, Ohio 44017
Entry Fee: $20.00
Registration Opens: 11 AM
Start Time: 12:00 PM

Format: Unsanctioned Vintage - Unlimited Proxy

Prizes - store credit equal 100% of entry fees.

We will play Swiss+1 rounds based on attendance so everyone gets to play plenty of Vintage. Decklists will be collected from the top 4. If you feel confident you'll make it in, write one up beforehand to save time!

Playtest cards will be permitted. There are several ways of making playtest cards:

Using Basic Land: The first and most basic is taking a basic land card and writing the details of the card on it.
Altering an existing card: PREFERRED! The second method is to use a card that shares some of the characteristics with the card that you want to make as a Playtest Card and remove any characteristics that do not match, replacing them with the correct characteristics. Methods for doing this can be found on Youtube.com.
Printed Slips: the third is to print out all 75 cards, and slip the cuts sheets of paper into each sleeve. If you do this, every card must be printed on the same type of paper and have a basic land backing.
Collector's Edition cards: CE/ICE versions of cards are allowed.
World Championship cards: blank WC cards can be used to make great proxies with your own writing or art.

See you there! BAOM!

nartman99

@matori Looks like Jeremiah!

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nartman99

We filled up the house again with 24 players for the 3rd annual Matt Hazard Birthday Team Serious Invitational.

Some drinks:

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The donated prizes:

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Some tournament action:

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After 5 rounds of Swiss, the top 8 played out as follows:

Top 8:

(1st) Frank Singel (Vintage Lands) vs (8th) Craig Kuchar (Zacama Oath) – Frank wins 2-1

(3rd) Kevin Cron (4 Color Leovold) vs (6th) Nam Tran (2 Card Monte) – Kevin wins 2-1

(4th) Jon Hammack (Grixis Tinker) vs (5th) Charles Rolko (Jeskai Mentor) – Charles wins 2-1

(2nd) Kevin Nelson (Dredge) vs (7th) Ben Perry (Oath) – Ben wins 2-1

Top 4:

Frank Singel (Vintage Lands) vs Kevin Cron (4 Color Leovold) – Frank wins 2-1
Charles Rolko (Jeskai Mentor) vs Ben Perry (Oath) – Ben wins 2-1

Finals

Frank Singel (Vintage Lands) vs Ben Perry (Oath) – Ben wins 2-1

Every match in the elimination rounds went to 3 games!

Congrats to Ben Perry, our first repeat TSI Champion!

Decklists:

Ben Perry – Oath

1 Pyroblast

1 Ponder

2 Preordain

1 Voltaic Key

4 Oath of Druids

2 Griselbrand

1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn

1 Engineered Explosives

1 Dack Fayden

1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

1 Vampiric Tutor

1 Demonic Tutor

1 Lotus Petal

1 Island

Sideboard:

1 Wasteland

2 Ravenous Trap

1 Engineered Explosives

Frank Singel – Vintage Lands

4 Bazaar of Baghdad

3 Dark Depths

1 Forest

2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

2 Taiga

3 Crop Rotation

4 Exploration

1 Fastbond

3 Gamble

4 Life from the Loam

3 Manabond

2 Mental Misstep

3 Mox Diamond

Sideboard:

1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

2 Null Rod

1 Pyroblast

1 Red Elemental Blast

1 Song of the Dryads

Kevin Cron – 4 Color Leovold

2 Deathrite Shaman

2 Snapcaster Mage

2 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy

1 Vendilion Clique

1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang

1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest

1 Sylvan Library

2 Dack Fayden

1 Ponder

1 Treasure Cruise

4 Preordain

1 Gush

2 Pyroblast

1 Island

Sideboard:

2 Grafdigger's Cage

3 Shattering Spree

2 Abrupt Decay

1 Pyroblast

1 Mountain

1 Fire Covenant

1 Annul

Charles Rolko – Jeskai Mentor

1 Ponder

1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance

4 Preordain

1 Monastery Mentor

2 Young Pyromancer

2 Snapcaster Mage

1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

2 Dack Fayden

2 Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy

1 Gush

1 Abrade

3 Swords to Plowshares

2 Pyroblast

2 Tundra

1 Mountain ("Arabian Nights, sorry Snow Covered fans!")

1 Snow Covered Island

1 Snow Covered Plains

Sideboard:

2 Wear//Tear

2 By Force

Kevin Nelson – Dredge

4 Undiscovered Paradise

4 Bloodghast

4 Bridge from Below

4 Cabal Therapy

2 Dread Return

1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

1 Flayer of the Hatebound

4 Golgari Grave-Troll

1 Golgari Thug

3 Ichorid

4 Narcomoeba

Sideboard:

3 Gurmag Angler

4 Hollow One

4 Nature's Claim

4 Null Rod

Jon Hammack – Grixis Tinker

2 Island

1 Mountain

1 Sensei’s Divining Top

1 Voltaic Key

1 Blightsteel Colossus

1 Ponder

3 Preordain

2 Abrade

2 Mana Drain

1 Dack Fayden

1 Tinker

1 Yawgmoth’s Will

2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

1 Gifts Ungiven

4 Force of Will

1 Tezzeret the Seeker

1 Treasure Cruise

1 Dig Through Time

Sideboard:

2 Subterranean Tremors

1 By Force

Nam Tran – 2 Card Monte

4 Helm of Obedience

4 Painter’s Servant

4 Grindstone

3 Defense Grid

3 Red Elemental Blast

1 Disenchant

1 Demonic Tutor

1 Vampiric Tutor

1 Demonic Consultation

1 Tinker

1 Timetwister

1 Wheel of Fortune

1 Memory Jar

1 Mana Vault

1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Sideboard:

3 Mindbreak Trap

3 Containment Priest

4 Nature’s Claim

1 Red Elemental Blast

1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind

1 City of Brass

1 Balance

Craig Kuchar – Zacama Oath

1 Island

1 Tundra

1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn

1 Inferno Titan

1 Zacama, Primal Calamity

1 Balance

1 Mana Drain

1 Ponder

4 Preordain

1 Treasure Cruise

1 Arlinn Kord

1 Dack Fayden

1 Dragon Breath

2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

1 Mana Vault

4 Oath of Druids

1 Sylvan Library

Sideboard:

1 Carnage Tyrant

1 Firespout

1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight