Vintage Mar 4, 2007
I can't seem to think what happened to my games. So I can't write a good tournament report even if I want to.
I used my favorite Gifts Build, but instead of Burning Wish Main, I removed it in favor of Empty the Warrens. The Goblin tokens puts a lot of pressure even better than oath sometimes and I think you need to watch out for only a few spells that can handle it.
GIFTS, DUAL CORE
Mana:
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Flooded Strand
3 Underground Sea
3 Volcanic Island
3 Island
1 Snow Covered Island
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Emerald
1 Lotus Petal
1 Crypta de Mana
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
Creatures:
1 Darksteel Colossus
Instants:
4 Gifts Ungiven
4 Brainstorm
4 Mana Drain
4 Force of Will
2 Misdirection
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Rebuild
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Ancestral Recall
Sorceries:
4 Merchant Scroll
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Recoup
1 Timewalk
1 Yagmoth's Will
1 Tinker
DUAL CORE
1 Empty the Warrens
1 Tendrils of Agony
Sideboards:
2 Repeal
1 Dark Ritual
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pyroblast
2 Pyroclasm
1 Wipe Away
1 Echoing Truth
1 Rack and Ruin
1 Hurkyll's Recall
1 Fire / Ice
1 Empty the Warrens
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First Round: vs Spike playing Combo
Game 1: I gained advantage through his Howling Mine. It was too much advantage. I won via EtW. (1)
Game 2: I can't really recall, but I think I won again, but this time with ToA. (1)
Second Round: vs Christian (mercer) playing Sligh
Gane 1: He had a Slith beating up but I was able to go Tinker+DS for the win. (1)
Game 2: I was about to combo off when I noticed that I tapped the wrong mana and now I can't put my Goblins into play. (Loss)
Game 3: I think my first lesson came to easily. First I didn't almost shuffle, then I didin't mulligan with 2 unplayable in hand. (Loss)
Third Round: vs Fish, Mono Black
Game 1: I was able to win, I don't know how. :(
Game 2: Planar void hit the table, and then Bob, Mr Shade all came to party. (Loss)
Game 3: I went off with Tinker and Timewalk. (2)
Fourth Round: vs Paulo (Fish (Wizards)
Game 1: I won via my Goblin Tokens (2) I'm starting to love my Goblins now. Does that mean I'm a goblin player now?
Game 2: I got a pretty bad hand with no control elements or a strong tutor. I ended getting locked up by his dreaded Master Wizard. Bob helped sealed it. (Loss)
Game 3: I almost can't remember but I was able to pull off an EtW. It later got bounced after beating him down to 2 Life. I then made a play for Tinker+Collosus, which he had Echoing Truth for. Looking at enough mana, and thinking I can make that one resolve if I can pull off a Recoup for the Tendrils Win, it came through. (Hard to check which win condition bailed me out, so 1pt to each)
EtW: 3
Tinker: 3
ToA: 1
Fifth Round: vs Cheng (tractor) with Control Slaver
Game 1: He mulliganed once. I was able to Tinker for the big man in the second turn I think? (4)
Game 2: I was able to win, can't remember how. :(
Sixth Round: vs Ryan payabyab (Dark Confidant) with Oath
Game 1: I was able to play 2nd turn EtW for 6 Tokens. He wa able to give me one more token so his last attempt of Oath and Timewalk was not enough to save the game but that was a pretty play there. EtW(3)
Game 2: I got the storm count getting off but for some reason, I failed to get the winning condition. :( I tried beating him with the tokens he gave me and time was called. Ryan was able to Tinker+DS but I got to get Echoing Truth. Nasa kamay nya pala dalawang SS, nabunot nya in the turns of the game while one was in the opening hand.
EtW: 3
Tinker: 4
ToA: 1
I got first seed going 5-1 in the Swiss.
Quarters: vs Resley with Oath.
Game 1: I won, via EtW?
Game 2: I lost, because no matter what, Hidden Gibbons is tech!
Game 3: I won via EtW and Timewalk.
EtW: 5
Tinker: 4
ToA: 1
Semis: vs Yol with Landstill, Please wait for Gio's Coverage
Game 1: I win via EtW for 20tokens.
Game 2: I won via Tinker for the big man.
EtW: 6
Tinker: 5
ToA: 1
Finals: vs Myk with Oath, Please wait for Gio's Coverage
Congrats to Myk again. Well deserved win. I can't beat Oath going in for him in the first turn! :)
*SLOPS: My sideboard still is not right for the meta.
*PROPS:
To everyone who have been there, Vintage for life.
To my teams, TX and the new one, the regulars of NG G2.
To SCG, and Smenmen, for writing about Gifts and how to play it. I read a lot of tournament reports and his analysis and it helped a lot. Smenmen and Oscar Tan are two writers in SCG that really influenced me in playing vintage. I've read the Control Player's Bible over and over again and I atill want to play The Deck but I know Gifts is the better deck right now.
It seems that EtW do deserves a spot. But I think I was using it only because I find the ToA harder at 2BB compared to EtWs 3R casting cost.
Vintage Forever!!
