| Complete BoM 4 Metagame Breakdown | Fri, 02. Jul 2010 12:18 | By Cesar Fernandez:
"We are proud, again, to present you the Complete Metagame Breakdown and Tournament Analysis of the Bazaar of Moxen 4 Vintage Main Event, the 347 people Vintage event. The biggest Vintage tournament of the year all over the world.
This is the complete metagame breakdown and tournament analysis of the 347 player Bazaar of Moxen 4 Vintage Main Event that took place a month ago in the city of Annecy, in France. The biggest Vintage Tournament of the year, and the most important of the european Vintage scene.
Intro
In the Legacy focused BoM analysis I gave much more importance to the numbers than to the analysis, but this being the most important Vintage event of the year all over the world, I thought that some analysis would also help people to understand the tournament and the format. This article took me longer and harder than the Legacy one because I did something that I didn’t for the first one, I analysed some of the most important points of every deck. If you click in a Spoiler named [Card Choices Useful Information] in any deck’s analysis and breakdown you’ll find choices such as powered/unpowered, Null Rod use, Number of Spheres, Trinisphere, Robot choice, Draw Engine choice, Oath creatures choice, Jace use, and every counterspell used by a controlish deck… and more important, its combination."
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Results of the "Throwback" Tournament | Fri, 21. May 2010 09:08 | 13 Players
4 Rounds of Swiss; Cut to Top 4
The event allowed for every set released from 1993-1996. In addition, there was a banned and restrict list found http://www.themanadrain.com/index.php?topic=40049.0
This was a very well planned and executed event and a special thanks goes to Chris LePay for sponsoring the event and Ron Kotwica for running it.
The Top 4:
Rich Shay 1st Seed
Frank Lodovico 2nd Seed
Paul Mastriano 3rd Seed
Brian Keil 4th Seed
Brian defeats Rich
Frank defeats Paul
Brian and Frank split | | |
Tournament Report: ICBM Retro Vintage Open 1 (Unrestricted Gush Metagame!) | Tue, 09. Mar 2010 21:32 | Vintage players have either grown to love or hate the card Gush, and the effect that it had on the metagame over the past half decade during the times when it was allowed to be played. When Gush (and Brainstorm, Flash, Merchant Scroll, and Ponder) landed on the Restricted List again on June 1 2008 many people were saddened by the news, as the "Gush Metagame" was one full of interaction, excitement, many interesting deckbuilding ideas, and of course the broken plays that Vintage players are accustomed to.
In January 2010 the Team ICBM Vintage extraordinaire tournament organizer and Vintage arms dealer Ben Carp decided to take matters into his own hands. He announced that in March (today) there would be an ICBM Retro Vintage Open tournament using the old Restricted List and card pool, with the following rules to mimic the metagame from early 2008:
1. Gush, Brainstorm, Flash, Merchant Scroll, and Ponder are unrestricted. Gifts Ungiven is still restricted. Shahrazad is legal and unrestricted.
2. Time Spiral, Personal Tutor, Dream Halls, Mox Diamond, and Chrome Mox are still restricted.
3. The "M10 rules update" is NOT in effect. This means:
3a. Combat damage stacks.
3b. Tokens are "owned" by whoever controlled the effect that created them.
3c. Mana burn exists.
3d. No more simultaneous mulligans
3f. Wishes fetch RFG'd cards as well as SB cards.
4. All errata updates after July 2008 are NOT in effect. This means:
4a. Illusionary Mask works the old way.
4b. Oath does not target.
4c. Time Vault/Voltaic Key does NOT work.
5. Cards printed after Shadowmoor are not allowed. This includes Eventide, Alara Block, M10, Zendikar, and Worldwake.
Many locals were very excited about this, as the Key-Vault era has grown stale to a lot of people, and they enjoyed the Gush era. Deckbuilding strategy and technology is constantly changing and adapting, so it would be very interesting to see how the deckbuilding of today matches up with the metagame from nearly two years ago. Would the GushBond engine (Gush + Merchant Scroll + Fastbond) dominate, or would new technology and ideas trump the decks of yesteryear?
Check out the complete writeup with ALL decklists posted on Team-Pataners.com:
http://www.team-pataners.com/icbm-retro-vintage-open-1-results/ | | |
Legacy-Cup Iserlohn | Wed, 28. Oct 2009 12:58 | Legacy-Cup Iserlohn am Samstag, 14.Nov.
Preise beim Legacy-Cup Iserlohn:
Platz 1: 10 Deutsch-limitierte Duals ( JEDES 1 mal!)
Platz 2: 8 blaue Duals (z.B. 4x Tundra + 4x Volcanic Island)
Platz 3: 4 limitierte Duals
Platz 4: 4 blaue Duals (z.B. 4x Tropical Island)
Platz 5: 4 Duals (z.B. 4x Taiga)
Platz 6: 4 Duals
Platz 7: 4 Duals
Platz 8: 4 Duals
Platz 9: 2 Duals (z.B. Taiga + Scrubland)
Platz 10: 2 Duals
Platz 11: 2 Duals
Platz 12: 2 Duals
Platz 13: 2 Duals
Platz 14: 2 Duals
Platz 15: 2 Duals
Platz 16: 2 Duals
BONUS:
1.Ligapunkte:
Teilnahme: 10 Pkt
Jeder Sieg: 3 Pkt
Unentschieden: 1 Pkt
Startgeld-Rabatt:
Zusätzlicher Bonus für alle Teilnehmer des Legacy-Cup:
2 Euro Rabatt für das Liga-Event(Legacy, Vintage, Standard, Highlander) am Sonntag, 15.11.09!
Startgeld:
21 Euro bei Voranmeldung mit Vorkasse (Vorgehensweise auf der Homepage verfügbar)
23 Euro am Turniertag
Auf der Suche nach einem günstigen Zimmer?
Übernachtungen im Doppelzimmer: 20 Euro
Im Einzelzimmer: 25 Euro
Wir helfen euch gerne bei der Vermittlung!
Alle Infos ab Morgen auf www.IS-MAGIC.de
P.S. Auf Grund von Spieleranfragen:
Übernachtung in der Halle wird auch wieder angeboten
- aber nur für vorangemeldete Spieler! -
Setzt euch diesbezüglich bitte direkt mit uns in Verbindung.
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in Knappen Worten auch gerne auf englisch:
Legacy-Cup Iserlohn am Samstag, 14.Nov.
Price-Payout:
1st: 10 European-limited Duals-Lands ( one of each)
2nd: 8 blaue Duals (e.g. 4x Tundra + 4x Volcanic Island)
3rd: 4 limitierte Duals
4th: 4 blaue Duals (e.g. 4x Tropical Island)
5th: 4 Duals (e.g. 4x Taiga)
6th: 4 Duals
7th: 4 Duals
8th: 4 Duals
9th: 2 Duals (e.g. Taiga + Scrubland)
10th: 2 Duals
11th: 2 Duals
12th: 2 Duals
13th: 2 Duals
14th: 2 Duals
15th: 2 Duals
16th: 2 Duals
Starting fee DISCOUNT:
Participants receive 2 Euro discount for next days event on sunday, 15th Nov.
Legacy, Vintage, Standard, Highlander - available at 10 Euro (8 Euro discount price)
Starting fee:
21 Euro if pre-registered and pre-paid (information available at www.IS-MAGIC.de)
23 Euro at site
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Double-room: 20 Euro per person
Single-room: 25 Euro
We’ll gladly help you booking!
Complete information available at www.IS-MAGIC.de
Sleeping inside the hall will be available too,
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Please contact us if you are interested.
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