Highlander tournament at Tampere Pelimaa 26.9.2008

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18 people played 4 rounds with 60 minutes round time organized by Tampere Pelimaa. The original report can be found from here with the contributions of decks played by some of the players. No decklist were gathered.

Final standings:

         Tie 1   Tie 2   Tie 3   Matches
Rank   No.   Name   Points   OMW%   PGW%   OGW%   P/W/D/B
1   3   Nevalainen, Ville [FIN]   12   56,2500   72,7273   56,3889   4/4/0/0
2   17   Suvela, Santeri [FIN]   10   45,8333   73,3333   44,1919   4/3/1/0
3   12   Haapa, Mikko [FIN]   9   54,1667   70,0000   51,5152   4/3/0/0
4   8   Ã–hman, Janne [FIN]   9   45,8333   60,0000   48,3586   4/3/0/0
5   15   Becker, Matias [FIN]   8   47,9167   54,5455   52,5000   4/2/2/0
6   2   Puranen, Jari [FIN]   6   77,0833   55,5556   64,0152   4/2/0/0
7   13   Kaipiainen, Arttu [FIN]   6   60,4167   54,5455   50,6061   4/2/0/0
8   18   Salonen, Jussi [FIN]   6   55,5556   50,0000   57,7778   3/1/0/1
9   11   Hiltunen, Jaakko [FIN]   6   54,1667   45,4545   48,1061   4/2/0/0
10   6   Himanen, Teemu [FIN]   6   52,0833   50,0000   48,3333   4/2/0/0
11   16   Becker, Kalle [FIN]   6   45,8333   50,0000   46,0859   4/2/0/0
12   7   Pyyhtiä, Tuomas [FIN]   5   45,8333   53,3333   47,7273   4/1/2/0
13   14   Tuominen, Kari [FIN]   4   54,1667   50,0000   52,8030   4/1/1/0
14   5   Vuorio, Jani [FIN]   3   64,5833   25,0000   61,9697   4/1/0/0
15   4   Matikainen, Lasse [FIN]   3   43,7500   36,3636   46,6667   4/1/0/0
16   10   Virtanen, Joni [FIN]   1   58,3333   18,5185   52,8030   4/0/1/0
17   1   Hämäläinen, Olli [FIN]   1   37,0370   29,1667   42,6587   3/0/1/0
18   9   Välimäki, Joona [FIN]   0   50,0000   20,0000   50,0000   2/0/0/0

Ville Nevalainen won the tournament with pure record of 4-0. His RG-beats won the last round against BR-Goblins played by Mikko Haapa.

Metagame was:
2x RG
1x Suicide Black
1x GW-Ideal/Enchantress/Parfait
1x MonoU-Skies
1x BR-Goblins
1x GB-Meat
1x Staxx

Rest of the decks were either 3C, 4C ja 5C-control builds.

This tournament also offered an opportunity to put Topel's Skies onto test, as one of the players didn't have time to put a deck together due to a move and his vintage staples were still unpacked. I put the deck together with some minor changes, as didn't find all the necessary cards in time (Curfew & Aether Spellbomb) or some of the choices in Topel's Skies felt suboptimal in short test (Wizard Replica & 1 Dream Stalker).

The Skies was eventually piloted by Kari Tuominen placing 13th.

The deck I ended up piloting was again something from the rogue front, GWEnchantress/Parfait/Ideal-kombo

1 Academy Rector
1 Argivian Find
1 Argothian Enchantress
1 Aura of Silence
1 City of Solitude
1 Crop Rotation
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Decree of Justice
1 Dovescape
1 Earthcraft
1 Eladamri's Call
1 Elephant Grass
1 Enchantress's Presence
1 Enduring Ideal
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Exploration
1 Faith's Fetters
1 Femeref Enchantress
1 Flagstones of Trokair
1 Flooded Strand
1 Genju of the Fields
1 Greater Auramancy
1 Guilty Conscience
1 Holistic Wisdom
1 Hoofprints of the Stag
1 Horizon Canopy
1 Humility
1 Idyllic Tutor
1 Island Sanctuary
1 Ivory Mask
1 Karakas
1 Karmic Justice
1 Kor Haven
1 Krosan Verge
1 Land Tax
1 Life from the Loam
1 Limited Resources
1 Maze of Ith
1 Mesa Enchantress
1 Moat
1 Mobilization
1 Mox Diamond
1 Nantuko Monastery
1 Oath of Druids
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Opalescence
1 Overgrowth
1 Parallax Wave
1 Planar Birth
1 Porphyry Nodes
1 Regrowth
1 Replenish
1 Rise of the Hobgoblins
1 Sacred Mesa
1 Savannah
1 Seal of Cleansing
1 Seal of Primordium
1 Secluded Steppe
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Serra's Sanctum
7 Snow-Covered Forest
13 Snow-Covered Plains
1 Solitary Confinement
1 Squirrel Nest
1 Sterling Grove
1 Story Circle
1 Stuffy Doll
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Sylvan Library
1 Temple Garden
1 Thawing Glaciers
1 Tithe
1 Tranquil Thicket
1 Utopia Sprawl
1 Verduran Enchantress
1 Wasteland
1 Wheel of Sun and Moon
1 Wild Growth
1 Windswept Heath
1 Worship
1 Wrath of God
1 Zuran Orb

The deck has a lot of synergy between various cards and is quite mana hungry. It runs with close to 40 different enchantments and gains card advantage by searching & playing an early game enchantress. The deck has numerous silver bullets (Humility, Worship, Wheel of Sun and Moon, City of Solitude...) and combos like Squirrel Nest/Earth Craft and Stuffy Doll/Guilty Consience. Late game win conditions involve Replenish, Opalesence, Sacred Mesa and Mobilization to name but a few.

The first game was ironically against Topel Skies which ended up as a tie, and because of my play mistake: In one critical attack phase, I could have activated Genju of the Fields multiple times to gain multiple lifelinks and thus secure my following turns to back up Squirrel Nest/Earthcraft combo.

The only win was achieved against GB-Meat and that match up didn't pose any problems. Another tie was against 4c-control because of opponent's fetch/top combinations and my Dowscape which eventually won me the first game after we had traded bird tokens for 30 minutes of so.