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| Canadian Domination! The stars all fell here in Rochester, and when the dust settled it was a French Canadian that was left standing. Going into the final round, there were three Shooting Stars with a good chance to make the Top 8, but when Josh Rider and Rich Hoaen both lost, that left only Adam Chambers - Osyp Lebedowicz's Star stand-in - as the only Shooting Star in the Top 8. Joining Chambers in the elimination rounds were two other Americans and an astounding five Canadians. Chambers fell in the quarterfinals, but the Canadians continued to dominate, culminating in an all-Canadian, two-hour final between Ugo Rivard and Peter Olszewski. The two men split the first two games, before an extremely tense third game where Olszewski fought and scrapped just to stay alive for forty minutes until Rivard finally drew the decisive Yawgmoth's Will and finished things. Congratulations to Ugo Rivard, the Star City Power 9 Rochester champion! | ||||||
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| We've got an all-Canadian final here. Both players have hard-to-classify decks - Peter is running Gifts Belcher, but without the Goblin Charbelcher/Mana Severance combo, while Ugo has Control Slaver, but is running Gifts Ungiven in it. | ||||||
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| For this semifinal, we have yet another Canadian mirror match. Olszewski just came off a match with fellow countryman Richard Mattiuzzo, whilst Rosu has been waiting for a while and is rested and refreshed for the game ahead. | ||||||
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| Peter applies the pressure right back with - another land, go. Rich casts Time Walk after drawing with Library, which Peter considers doing something about and ends up declining, still without having played a single spell over the course of this game. Land, go. Bob Kochis, eat your heart out. | ||||||
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| Rosu kicked off the match with a Mox Sapphire and Mishra's Factory, which he used to cast a Cloud of Faeries. Chamber's first play was a Tropical Island and Basking Rootwalla. Rosu's next turn saw him Wasteland Chamber's Tropical and swing in with his Factory and Faeries. Rosu was able to force through a Crucible of Worlds with a Daze and Force of Will to stop both of Chamber's Force of Wills. Chambers thought for a bit, shook his head, and scooped up his cards for the next game putting him on the brink of elimination and his first match loss of the day. | ||||||
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| This match features Ugo, a member of the Montreal Type 1 scene with Control Slaver against Joe Weber, a local pro with more than twenty Pro tour appearances to his name. The deck he's running today is Four-Color Fish. "Wait - so my kind of deck is called 'Fish?'" Weber asked. | ||||||
Final Standings After the SwissThe swiss has ended and it's on to the elimination rounds! See which players made the Top 8 and where your favorite stars ended up here. |
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| Before the match began, the players spent a considerable amount of time discussing the different tiebreaker connotations and whether or not Mattiuzzo could afford to draw. Hoaen's tiebreakers were definitely good enough to make him a lock for the Top 8 with a draw, but the other Canadian Richard was not so fortunate and eventually decided that he had to play it out or likely draw himself into something less than the Top 8. | ||||||
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Round 7 Standings Complete Round 7 Standings. |
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Josh: "I don't know what your deck does." | ||||||
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Round 6 Standings Complete Round 6 Standings. |
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| "Well, kiss my Grits..." Josh replied. The smile fell from Eli's face, however, when Josh untapped and topdecked Swords to Plowshares. | ||||||
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| For the rest of the day, our crack reporting staff will bring you all the extras going on outside the feature match area via the Shooting Stars blog. *Updated Through Round 8* | ||||||
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| Complete Standings after round 5. | ||||||
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| Rich: "So after your deck draws a lot of cards like that, what does it actually do?" Brad: "Well, it's supposed to drop Ravager and stuff..." Rich: "No Disciple!?" Brad: "Nope, I just go with Triskelion." | ||||||
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| We're going to start giving you round standings soon, but here are the records of the Shooting Stars at the halfway point complete with a list of the decks they are playing. | ||||||
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| "That was pretty lucky of me," said Wolfman. "That's why you build the deck that way..." responded a somewhat dejected Brassman. | ||||||
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| Chad won the die roll 1,000,014 to Rich's uh, 9 or something. Both of them kept their opening hands and Chad led off Mountain, Skirk Prospector. Rich played a Flooded Strand (for Underground Sea) and then a Mox Emerald, which Chad needed to read. Rich cast a Demonic Tutor before ending his turn. Chad: "Judge! All of my opponent's cards are a million times better than mine!" | ||||||
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| Doug cast a flurry of spells including an Ancestral Recall, Brainstorm, two Moxen and finally, a Tinker, fetching Darksteel Colossus. Ben didn't have the Force of Will and scooped to the 11/11 monstrosity, putting the Bleiweiss in an early 0-1 hole. | ||||||
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| Want to know what the Stars played, why they chose the decks they did, and what they think of Vintage Magic? Carl and JP have the inside scoop on that and more! | ||||||
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| We'll have the full deck database breakdown of the Metagame by the end of the week, but for those who just can't wait, here are the preliminary numbers. | ||||||
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| After a year-long wait, Aether Vial has started to show up en masse in Type One! | ||||||
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| A cursory look around the tables during the opening round shows that something very fishy is going on here... | ||||||
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| Carl discovers that the gentlemen from North of the Border are becoming suprisingly Americanized with their deck choices. | ||||||
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| Kanoot takes you behind the scenes of the development for this very special event. | ||||||
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