I don't know if anyone here cares, but after 7 months of cubing, have tallied up all the results from my cube.
The people with the best 8 records (out of ~20 people) have been invited for a high stakes rotisserie draft (March 7th, 2015) where I throw in some of my own money to the prize pool.
5 of the 8 players have been to the pro tour (myself included), with a couple of them have gone over 10 times. Many of the players in my group have been cubing for over a decade, so the play quality of the group is high.
Going to post the decklists/spreadsheet after the event as well as the results. I may record the matches as well.
Maybe someone can gain something from the deck lists. Using my cube + 20 utility lands + Null rod. 35 picks.
Results: Marcel's Blue/Black Reanimator deck barely edged out the regular season champion Wilson Mok's Blue/White tempo deck in the finals.
Rd1
Ian (MonoR) Defeated Wilson (UW tempo)
Jeff (BW Stax) Defeated Jordan (Junk Land Destruction)
Marcel (UB reanimator) Defeated Mani (Gifts Ungiven Twin Combo)
Seb (Timevault combo) Defeated Steve (4 color midrange)
Rd2
Winners bracket:
Ian (MonoR) Defeated Seb (Timevault Combo)
Marcel (UB reanimator) defeated Jeff (BW stax)
Losers bracket:
Jordan (Junk Land Destruction) Defeated Mani (Gifts Ungiven Twin Combo)
Wilson (UW Tempo) Defeated Steve (4 color midrange)
Rd3
Winners Bracket:
Marcel (UB reanimator) defeated Ian (MonoR)
Losers bracket:
Seb (Timevault Combo) defeated Jeff (WB Stax)
Wilson (UW tempo) defeated Jordan (Junk Land destruction)
Rd4 *Seb bumped up to winners bracket, think we made a mistake here*
Seb (Timevault combo) defeated Marcel (UB reanimator)
Wilson (UW tempo) defeated Ian (MonoR)
Rd 5
Marcel *bye, by nature of being longest in winners bracket*
Wilson (UW tempo) Defeated Seb (Timevault combo)
My Draft Report:
At first I wanted to draft a mana denial/artifact desctruction/smoke stack strategy, utilizing my chance at a turn 1/2 smoke stack with mana crypt/mox.
I figured there weren't going to be many creature decks out there and I could really punish that with smokestack + a deck built around abusing strip mine.
I thought a lot of the better players were going for greedy manabases which I could really punish.
A big problem mid-draft was that I KNEW I was playing Jeff Fung in Rd1. I realized he was going for a very smiliar strategy but had much stronger engines to build around. When I realized smoke stack + grindy deck would be a liability against him, I decided to alter the strategy a bit and try to go over the top with natural/order craterhoof. Something I thought his deck couldn't handle.
I also knew at least 2 players were heavily graveyard based and jeff fung would be likely using bloodghasts, so I hoarded up all the graveyard hate early (that I knew steve would want).
My deck was good, but really needed another green fatty to put the pressure on and go over the top of Jeff fung or Steve if I ever played him (Hornet Queen/Woodfall primus). I realized it a bit too late in the draft when I was still missing some key pieces of my central strategy.
My utility creatures were excellent in mana denying , attacking the graveyard and dealing with artifacts. But they were not strong enough to deal with a solid one-two color mana base and resilient card advantage. I felt very disadvantaged vs Wilson (despite stealing a game), and couldn't keep up with 2x Stoneforge, Hymn to tourach, Jitte/Skulllclamp/Reccuring Nightmare engine of Jeff Fung.
Wasn't lucky enough to draw Craterhoof/Natural order/GSZ with mana + a board presence to go over the top of Fung, and definitely couldn't grind with all his card advantage engines.
Mani's deck was likely my best matchup , as I had 3 peices of graveyard hate, lots of ways of disrupting the twin combo, plus my mana denial strategy was particularly effective against his mana base. He didn't draw enough lands, and I was fortunate to draw my mana denial early.
Went 1-2, but played many close skill intensive games.
SUPER FUN if anyone here is thinking about organizing one.
Everyone doesn't have a null rod, just added one to the list. Misinterpreting what I wrote before. I meant the entire card pool people can select from is My current cube list + 20 added utility lands + Null rod.
I mentioned it because it's not normally in my cube. I thought a timevault/tinker deck would be unbeatable for certain decks. I overestimated the need for it tho...
Considering almost all the artifact destruction got drafted... Kept those decks in line anyway.
The people with the best 8 records (out of ~20 people) have been invited for a high stakes rotisserie draft (March 7th, 2015) where I throw in some of my own money to the prize pool.
5 of the 8 players have been to the pro tour (myself included), with a couple of them have gone over 10 times. Many of the players in my group have been cubing for over a decade, so the play quality of the group is high.
Going to post the decklists/spreadsheet after the event as well as the results. I may record the matches as well.
Maybe someone can gain something from the deck lists. Using my cube + 20 utility lands + Null rod. 35 picks.
http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/5624 is the list we are drafting from
1. Wilson Mok
2. Sebastian Denno
3. Mani Davoudi
4. Jeff Fung
5. Jordan Cairns
6. Marcel Dizon
7. Ian Jang
8. Stephen Barnett
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Results: Marcel's Blue/Black Reanimator deck barely edged out the regular season champion Wilson Mok's Blue/White tempo deck in the finals.
Rd1
Ian (MonoR) Defeated Wilson (UW tempo)
Jeff (BW Stax) Defeated Jordan (Junk Land Destruction)
Marcel (UB reanimator) Defeated Mani (Gifts Ungiven Twin Combo)
Seb (Timevault combo) Defeated Steve (4 color midrange)
Rd2
Winners bracket:
Ian (MonoR) Defeated Seb (Timevault Combo)
Marcel (UB reanimator) defeated Jeff (BW stax)
Losers bracket:
Jordan (Junk Land Destruction) Defeated Mani (Gifts Ungiven Twin Combo)
Wilson (UW Tempo) Defeated Steve (4 color midrange)
Rd3
Winners Bracket:
Marcel (UB reanimator) defeated Ian (MonoR)
Losers bracket:
Seb (Timevault Combo) defeated Jeff (WB Stax)
Wilson (UW tempo) defeated Jordan (Junk Land destruction)
Rd4 *Seb bumped up to winners bracket, think we made a mistake here*
Seb (Timevault combo) defeated Marcel (UB reanimator)
Wilson (UW tempo) defeated Ian (MonoR)
Rd 5
Marcel *bye, by nature of being longest in winners bracket*
Wilson (UW tempo) Defeated Seb (Timevault combo)
Rd 6
Marcel(UB reanimator) defeated Wilson(UW tempo)
Learned a LOT from this...
My Draft Report:
At first I wanted to draft a mana denial/artifact desctruction/smoke stack strategy, utilizing my chance at a turn 1/2 smoke stack with mana crypt/mox.
I figured there weren't going to be many creature decks out there and I could really punish that with smokestack + a deck built around abusing strip mine.
I thought a lot of the better players were going for greedy manabases which I could really punish.
A big problem mid-draft was that I KNEW I was playing Jeff Fung in Rd1. I realized he was going for a very smiliar strategy but had much stronger engines to build around. When I realized smoke stack + grindy deck would be a liability against him, I decided to alter the strategy a bit and try to go over the top with natural/order craterhoof. Something I thought his deck couldn't handle.
I also knew at least 2 players were heavily graveyard based and jeff fung would be likely using bloodghasts, so I hoarded up all the graveyard hate early (that I knew steve would want).
My deck was good, but really needed another green fatty to put the pressure on and go over the top of Jeff fung or Steve if I ever played him (Hornet Queen/Woodfall primus). I realized it a bit too late in the draft when I was still missing some key pieces of my central strategy.
My utility creatures were excellent in mana denying , attacking the graveyard and dealing with artifacts. But they were not strong enough to deal with a solid one-two color mana base and resilient card advantage. I felt very disadvantaged vs Wilson (despite stealing a game), and couldn't keep up with 2x Stoneforge, Hymn to tourach, Jitte/Skulllclamp/Reccuring Nightmare engine of Jeff Fung.
Wasn't lucky enough to draw Craterhoof/Natural order/GSZ with mana + a board presence to go over the top of Fung, and definitely couldn't grind with all his card advantage engines.
Mani's deck was likely my best matchup , as I had 3 peices of graveyard hate, lots of ways of disrupting the twin combo, plus my mana denial strategy was particularly effective against his mana base. He didn't draw enough lands, and I was fortunate to draw my mana denial early.
Went 1-2, but played many close skill intensive games.
SUPER FUN if anyone here is thinking about organizing one.
Last Updated 02/07/24
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I mentioned it because it's not normally in my cube. I thought a timevault/tinker deck would be unbeatable for certain decks. I overestimated the need for it tho...
Considering almost all the artifact destruction got drafted... Kept those decks in line anyway.
Last Updated 02/07/24
Streaming Standard/Cube on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/heisenb3rg96
Strategy Twitter https://www.twitter.com/heisenb3rg