Melgin's Keep's first DCI tournament took place on Saturday, April 29th at the Knights of Columbus Club in Grand Falls.
Despite a disappointingly low turnout of 9, we all had a good time and a lot of food fun. I even managed to trade
and sell several hundred dollars worth of cards, which can never be a bad thing. Espeically if you get 4 Masticores...
The tournament was Type I, and it was interesting in that every single player was new to the DCI tournament scene. Despite the supposed "broken-ness" of Type I, not one Mox, Lotus or any other power card was seen, with the possible exception of Strip Mine and Sol Ring, and of course Demonic Tutor. It just goes to show that even though people don't like Type I because they're afraid of getting whupped turn 2 by a Jewellry deck, it just doesn't happen. People can't afford the cards! This led to some interesting problems, but nothing I couldn't deal with. All sorts of drama, from the final round match to determine who would be knocked out of the Top 8, to the top seed making a rather funny mistake, to somoene playing with main deck Western and Eastern Paladins. Not as funny as it sounds, since all but 2 decks had some white or green in them. Still, enough of my ramblings. On to the important stuff...
Note: Most of the decklists submitted to me were nameless, so blame me for the really crap names!
For the second tournament's results, click here.
| Blue | Artifact | Sideboard |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Deflection 4 Counterspell 4 Control Magic 4 Confiscate 3 Air Elemental 2 Rewind 3 Quash 2 Dominationg Licid 3 Clone 1 Telepathy 1 Misdirection 1 Time Warp 1 Palinchron 1 Mahamoti Djinn
| 2 Sapphire Medallion 2 Fellwar Stone 1 Sol Ring 1 Grim Monolith 20 Islands
| 2 Reins of Power 2 Altar of Dementia 2 Douse 1 Steal Artifact 1 Time Spiral 2 Dissipate 1 Feldon's Cane 2 Capsize 2 Grinning Totem
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| Black | Green | Red | Artifact | Sideboard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Sinkhole 4 Rain of Tears 4 Icequake 2 Sengir Vampire 4 Hymn to Tourach 4 Dark Ritual 1 Demonic Tutor | 4 Ernham Djinn 1 Regrowth 1 Beserk | 2 Shivan Dragon 3 Fireball 1 Fork 1 Wheel of Fortune 4 Lightning Bolt | 4 Nevinyrral's Disk 4 Bayou | 4 Incinerate 2 Kird Ape 2 Jester's Cap 2 Sengir Vampire 1 Shivan Dragon 1 City of Solitude 1 Feldon's Cane 1 Sol Ring 1 Fireball |
| Red | Green | Artifact | Sideboard |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Kird Ape 1 Uthden Troll 4 Lightning Bolt 3 Granite Gargoyle 4 Orcish Lumberjack 2 Fireball 1 Stormbind 1 Shivan Dragon 1 Fork | 4 Ernham Djinn 4 Elvish Archers 4 Giant Growth 1 Regrowth 1 Tranquility 1 Sylvan Library | 3 Juggernaut 1 Sol Ring 1 Lotus Petal 1 Maze of Ith | 2 Lifeforce 2 Flashfires 1 Maze of Shadows 2 Pillage 1 Whirling Dervish 1 Tranquility 2 Tsunami 1 Monsoon 1 Hurricane 1 Choke 1 Serene Heart |
| White | Green | Artifact |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Serra's Sanctum 1 Archery Training 1 Opal Titan 1 Cho-Manno's Blessing 3 Congregate 1 Wrath of God 1 Land tax 1 Faith Healer 1 Disenchant 1 Glorious Anthem 1 Wall of Nets 1 Soul Sculptor 1 Serra Angel 1 Replenish 1 Soltari Visionary | 1 Endless Wurm 1 Cradle Guard 1 Might of Oaks 1 Citanul Hierophants 1 Spike Weaver 1 Ancestral Mask 1 Argothian Wurm 1 Overlaid Terrain 1 Dirtcowl Wurm 1 Emperor Crocodile 2 Rancor 1 Aboroth 2 Hunted Wumpus 2 Defense of the Heart 1 Whirlwind | 1 Monkey Cage 1 Crawlspace 1 Yavimaya Hollow |
| Black | Blue | Artifacts |
| 4 Dark Ritual | 2 Demonic Consultation 2 Duress 4 Necropotence 1 Demonic Tutor 2 Lim-Dűl's Vault 4 Illusions of Grandeur | 4 Donate 2 Hoodwink 2 Boomerang 2 Counterspell 2 Arcane Denial 4 Force of Will 1 Ivory Tower | 1 Mana Vault 1 Voltaic Key 1 Grim Monolith 1 Sol Ring 8 Island 1 Dream Halls | 2 Thran Dynamo 1 Jester's Cap 1 Thran Foundry 1 Annul 1 Nausea 1 Gloom 2 Rebuild 2 Blue Elemental Blast 2 Hibernation 1 Massacre |
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| Black | Artifact | Sideboard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Entropic Specter 4 Hymn to Tourach 3 Coercion 2 Cat Burglar 1 Knight of Stromgald 2 Intimidation 2 Ostracise 2 Order of Yawgmoth 2 Mindwarper 1 Dauthi Mindripper 2 Planar Void 1 Megrim 1 Persecute 2 Abyssal Specter 2 Duress 1 No Mercy 1 Oppression 3 Drain Life 2 Snuff Out | 1 Rackling 1 Flowstone Sculpture 2 Living Wall 2 Flowstone Armor 1 Bargaining Table 22 Swamp | 1 Dark Ritual 1 Ersatz Gnomes 1 Corrupt Official 1 Putrefaction 1 Engineered Plague 1 Bereavement 1 Extinction 1 Stromgald Cabal 1 Scare Tactics 2 Mindwhip Sliver 2 Mindwarper 1 Maze of Shadows 1 Murk Dwellers |
| Red | Black | Artifact | Sideboard |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Squee, Goblin Nabob 4 Fling 2 Sneak Attack 1 Keldon Vandals 1 Deadshot 1 Covetous Dragon 1 Shivan Dragon 1 Lightning Dragon | 1 Nekrataal 2 Sengir Vampire 3 Dark Ritual 2 Phyrexian Negator 2 Haunted Crossraods 1 Commander Greven il-Vec 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Disturbed Burial 1 Royal Assassin 1 Volrath the Fallen 1 Kjeldoran Dead 1 Corrupt 1 Rathi Assassin 1 Nether Spirit 1 Contamination 1 Doomsday 1 Persecute | 1 Magistrate's Scepter 1 Lotus Blossom 1 Worn Powerstone 1 Colossus of Sardia 1 Thran Foundry 1 Puppet Strings 6 Mountains | 1 Contamination 1 Dauthi Embrace 1 No Mercy 2 Nether Shadow Vile Requiem 1 Jet Medallion 1 Ruby Medallion 1 Necropotence 1 Sorceress Queen 1 Vampiric Embrace 1 Phyrexian Plaguelord 2 Engineered Plague 1 Corpse Dance |
The Top 8 - Seedings, Pairings and Results
#1 - Brad Morgan
#2 - Sheldon Bannister
#3 - Matthew Clancey
#4 - John Sharpe
#5 - Chris Budgell
#6 - Matthew Power
#7 - Kevin Reid
#8 - Kristin Hong
Quarterfinals - Kristin Hong beat Brad Morgan 2-1.
Matthew Clancey beat Matthew Power 2-0.
John Sharpe beat Chris Budgell 2-0
Sheldon Bannister beat Kevin Reid 2-0
Semifinals - Matthew Clancey beat Kristin Hong 2-1
Sheldon Bannister beat John Sharpe 2-0
Finals - Matthew Clancey beat Sheldon Bannister 2-1 to win the tournament.
Tournament Details
Apart from being great fun, it set the stage well for the second tournament, which wass on May 20th, at the Knights of Columbus Club, Grand Falls-Windsor, at 11am.
The final was a rather comical event. To start with, both players had pre-sideboarded, not knowing this was against the rules. Instead of giving them each a game loss and reducing the finals
to a best of one, which was a good idea as it happened, I decided to let it slide. So then in the next game, Mattew finds that he forgot to remove one of his Dissipates from the Main Deck. Enough is enough,
I thought, and gave him a game loss. To have had the final decided in that way would have been really cheap, so I'm glad I didn't penalise them the first time. Matthew then went on to win the next two
games, die to Sheldon using Beserk from creature kill, and the tournament.
The real story, though, came in the quarterfinals. Brad, who had played his Trix deck to 5-0 in the Swiss, came up against 8th seed Kristin Hong. Brad walked all the way through the first game, winning on turn 5. Kristin, however, saved himself with a Congregate in game 2, pulling himself out of danger's path when he let the Illusions go. The shocker, though, came in game 3. On 6 life, and facing 3 damage this turn, Brad allowed a Soltari Visionary to hit the table, without reading the card, and while holding an Arcane Denial. He took the 3 damage from the attack, and on his turn played Illusions, to save himself. One mana short of being able to Donate, he said "Go". Kristin attacked with the Visionary...
