GenCon 2014 Saturday Vintage – Decklists, Metagame Breakdown, and Pictures

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Continuing our coverage of GenCon 2014, we bring you coverage from the Saturday Vintage tournament. 26 players came out to battle, and we’ve posted the Top 8 decklists, metagame breakdown, and photos from the event.

Many thanks to event coordinator Ingrid Bergman, event head judge Nick Rzeczkowkski, and tournament organizer Pastimes for their help and cooperation in bringing you these decklists.

Top 8 Quarterfinals

1 Mike Kravitz (BUG Tempo) vs. 8 Max Schroeder (Oath) – Kravitz wins

4 Chris LaPay (Grixis Show and Tell) vs. 5 Aaron Swerdlow-Freed (Grixis Cotnrol) – LaPay wins

3 Benjamin Ball (Gitaxian Storm) vs. 6 David Ata (Delver RUG) – Ball wins

2 Sean O’Brien (BRW Dega Dudesweats) vs. 7 Justin Kohler (Bomberman UW) – O’Brien wins

Top 4 Semifinals

1 Mike Kravitz (BUG Tempo) vs. 4 Chris LaPay (Grixis Show and Tell) – Kravitz wins
2 Sean O’Brien (BRW Dega Dudesweats) vs. 3 Benjamin Ball (Gitaxian Storm) – O’Brien wins

Top 2 Finals

1 Mike Kravitz (BUG Tempo) vs. Sean O’Brien (BRW Dega Dudesweats) – Kravitz wins

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Top 8 Decklists, by Final Standing

BUG

[Business] (38)
4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
2 Flusterstorm
2 Thoughtseize
1 Spell Pierce
1 Steel Sabotage
4 Abrupt Decay
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Liliana of the Veil
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Dark Confidant
2 Snapcaster Mage
1 Scavenging Ooze
2 True-Name Nemesis

[/Business] (0)

[Mana Sources] (22)
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Polluted Delta
1 Verdant Catacombs
2 Misty Rainforest
3 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
1 Bayou
1 Island
1 Swamp
1 Strip Mine
2 Wasteland

[/Mana Sources] (0)
[Sideboard] (15)
1 Darkblast
1 Null Rod
2 Dismember
2 Trygon Predator
1 Steel Sabotage
2 Nature’s Claim
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Surgical Extraction
2 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Yixlid Jailer[/Sideboard]

BRW

[Business] (36)
4 Thoughtseize
3 Lightning Bolt
2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Wear//Tear
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Batterskull
1 Umezawa’s Jitte
4 Stoneforge Mystic
4 Dark Confidant
4 Spirit of the Labyrinth
3 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Aegis of the Gods
4 Tidehollow Sculler
2 Aven Mindcensor

[/Business] (0)

[Mana Sources] (24)
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
2 Marsh Flats
2 Arid Mesa
2 Bloodstained Mire
2 Badlands
2 Plateau
2 Scrubland
1 Mountain
1 Swamp
1 Plains
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland

[/Mana Sources] (0)
[Sideboard] (15)
4 Leyline of Sanctity
2 Path to Exile
2 Red Elemental Blast
1 Rest in Peace
1 Rakdos Charm
1 Seal of Cleansing
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Stony Silence[/Sideboard]

Gitaxian

[Business] (30)
3 Duress
1 Cabal Therapy
2 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Imperial Seal
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Grim Tutor
4 Gitaxian Probe
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Windfall
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Timetwister
1 Necropotence
1 Memory Jar
1 Yawgmoth’s Bargain
1 Mind’s Desire
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Empty the Warrens
1 Yawgmoth’s Will

[/Business] (0)

[Mana Sources] (30)
4 Dark Ritual
1 Cabal Ritual
1 Lion’s Eye Diamond
1 Lotus Petal
1 Black Lotus
2 Mox Opal
1 Chrome Mox
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Mana Vault
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Polluted Delta
2 Underground Sea
1 Volcanic Island
1 Badlands
1 Island
1 Swamp

[/Mana Sources] (0)
[Sideboard] (15)
1 Rebuild
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
2 Defense Grid
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Tinker
2 Chain of Vapor
4 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Nihil Spellbomb[/Sideboard]

Grixis

[Business] (37)
4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Mana Drain
1 Fire//Ice
1 Izzet Charm
1 Dead//Gone
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Tinker
1 Intuition
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Thirst for Knowledge
2 Dack Fayden
1 Ral Zarek
1 Snapcaster Mage
3 Show and Tell
1 Reanimate
2 Griselbrand
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
1 Yawgmoth’s Will

[/Business] (0)

[Mana Sources] (23)
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Mana Confluence
2 Scalding Tarn
3 Polluted Delta
3 Underground Sea
3 Volcanic Island
1 Island

[/Mana Sources] (0)
[Sideboard] (15)
1 Far//Away
1 Nihil Spellbomb
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Pyroclasm
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Notion Thief
2 Shattering Spree
2 Ingot Chewer
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Grim Lavamancer[/Sideboard]

Grixis

[Business] (35)
4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
1 Flusterstorm
1 Mana Leak
2 Mana Drain
2 Lightning Bolt
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Tinker
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Dack Fayden
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Snapcaster Mage
4 Dark Confidant
1 Blightsteel Colossus
1 Voltaic Key
1 Time Vault
1 Yawgmoth’s Will

[/Business] (0)

[Mana Sources] (24)
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Tolarian Academy
1 Library of Alexandria
3 Scalding Tarn
3 Flooded Strand
3 Underground Sea
3 Volcanic Island
2 Island

[/Mana Sources] (0)
[Sideboard] (15)
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Flusterstorm
1 Pyroblast
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Mountain
3 Ingot Chewer
1 Pithing Needle
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Tormod’s Crypt
2 Ravenous Trap
2 Pyroclasm[/Sideboard]

Delver

[Business] (43)
4 Force of Will
2 Misdirection
3 Mental Misstep
2 Flusterstorm
2 Spell Pierce
3 Lightning Bolt
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Fire//Ice
1 Mystical Tutor
4 Gush
4 Preordain
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
4 Delver of Secrets
4 Young Pyromancer
2 Snapcaster Mage
2 Trygon Predator

[/Business] (0)

[Mana Sources] (17)
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
1 Misty Rainforest
3 Volcanic Island
2 Tropical Island
2 Island

[/Mana Sources] (0)
[Sideboard] (15)
4 Leyline of the Void
3 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Nature’s Claim
2 Pyroblast
4 Ingot Chewer
1 Mountain[/Sideboard]

Bomberman

[Business] (36)
4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
2 Spell Snare
1 Flusterstorm
4 Mana Drain
4 Swords to Plowshares
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
1 Thirst for Knowledge
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Trinket Mage
2 Vendilion Clique
1 Auriok Salvagers
1 Magus of the Future

[/Business] (0)

[Mana Sources] (24)
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
1 Tolarian Academy
2 Cavern of Souls
2 Polluted Delta
4 Flooded Strand
3 Tundra
3 Island
1 Plains

[/Mana Sources] (0)
[Sideboard] (15)
3 Rest in Peace
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Pithing Needle
3 Magus of the Unseen
1 Devout Witness
2 Disenchant
1 Magus of the Moat
1 Path to Exile
1 Flusterstorm[/Sideboard]

Oath,

[Business] (36)
4 Force of Will
1 Misdirection
3 Mental Misstep
3 Swan Song
2 Mana Drain
2 Abrupt Decay
1 Ponder
1 Brainstorm
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
4 Oath of Druids
1 Show and Tell
1 Gaea’s Blessing
2 Griselbrand
1 Voltaic Key
1 Tinker
1 Yawgmoth’s Will

[/Business] (0)

[Mana Sources] (24)
1 Lotus Petal
1 Black Lotus
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mana Crypt
1 Sol Ring
4 Forbidden Orchard
3 Polluted Delta
3 Misty Rainforest
2 Tropical Island
2 Underground Sea
1 Island

[/Mana Sources] (0)
[Sideboard] (15)
2 Show and Tell
2 Abrupt Decay
2 Pithing Needle
1 Pernicious Deed
4 Ravenous Trap
1 Rebuild
2 Nature’s Claim
1 Misdirection[/Sideboard]

Metagame Report

Grouped by Deck
4C Control – 1
Bomberman UW – 1
Bomberman UWB – 1
BGW Junk Dudesweats – 1
BRW Dega Dudesweats – 1
BUG Control – 1
BUG Tempo – 1
Burning Oath Tendrils – 2
Delver 4C – 1
Delver RUG – 1
Dredge – 1
Forgemaster Workshops – 3
Gitaxian Storm – 2
Grixis Control – 2
Grixis Welder Control – 2
Grixis Show and Tell – 1
Oath – 4
Total: 26

Most Notably Absent: Doomsday, Smokestack Workshops, Merfolk, Landstill

Very Loosely Grouped by Archetype
Dredge – 1
Forces (4C Control, Bomberman UW, Bomberman UWB, BUG Control, BUG Tempo, Delver 4C, Delver RUG, Grixis Control, Grixis Show and Tell, Grixis Welder Control, Oath) – 16
Non-Force Combo (Burning Oath Tendrils, Gitaxian Storm) – 4
Other (BGW Junk Dudesweats, BRW Dega Dudesweats) – 2
Workshops (Forgemaster Workshops) – 3
Total: 26

All Decks, by Player Last Name
Ata, David – Delver RUG
Ball, Benjamin – Gitaxian Storm
Buck, Katie – Oath
Buck, Vincent – 4C Control
Callis, Paul – Forgemaster Workshops
Dafoe, Bryce – Dredge (w/ 4 Laboratory Maniac & 4 Griselbrand)
Eaton, Cameron – Delver 4C
Franks, Justin – Burning Oath Tendrils
Frawley, Josh – Forgemaster Workshops
French, Shawn – BGW Junk Dudesweats
Generas, Josh – Gitaxian Storm
Gouthro, Michael – Bomberman UWB
Hazard, Matt – Burning Oath Tendrils
Jennings, Raymond – Grixis Control
Kiesel, Mike – Grixis Welder Control
Kohler, Justin – Bomberman UW
Kravitz, Mike – BUG Tempo
LaPay, Chris – Grixis Show and Tell
Lura, Jason – BUG Control
Martens, William – Forgemaster Workshops
O’Brien, Sean – BRW Dega Dudesweats
Ritter, Brian – Grixis Welder Control
Schroeder, Max – Oath
Smith, Andy – Oath
Swan, Kevin – Oath
Swerdlow-Freed, Aaron – Grixis Control
Total: 26

Coverage Photos

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Mike Kravitz
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Sean O’Brien
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