Live Coverage of StarCityGames.com Open: Indianapolis
It was a record smashing weekend at the StarCityGames.com Open-Indianapolis! The Legacy event saw the old attendance record smashed by 50+ players! And if you had told the nearly 300 competitors this morning that a Monoblack Control and Goblin deck would make the Top 8, most of them would tell you you were crazy. But you wouldn’t have been.
Craig Wostratzky didn’t let an odd deck choice slow him down on his way to the Top 8 ranked first out of the Swiss. And Nick Montaquila wasn’t afraid to run the red tribe of Goblins on his way to the Top 8. But the two weren’t meant to take the title. Instead, it was Chris Woltereck’s day to shine. Playing his third Legacy event with 43 Land, Chris made it to a 100% Top 8 ratio with the deck. His latest version gutted the red cards for Intuition and a heavier reliance on Academy Ruins and Tolaria West. That innovation proved to be the key for his success as he Mindslaver locked opponent after opponent.
Chris Woltereck is your 2010 StarCityGames.com Legacy Open-Indianapolis champion!
It was a record smashing weekend at the StarCityGames.com Open-Indianapolis! The Legacy event saw the old attendance record smashed by 50+ players! And if you had told the nearly 300 competitors this morning that a Monoblack Control and Goblin deck would make the Top 8, most of them would tell you you were crazy. But you wouldn’t have been.
Craig Wostratzky didn’t let an odd deck choice slow him down on his way to the Top 8 ranked first out of the Swiss. And Nick Montaquila wasn’t afraid to run the red tribe of Goblins on his way to the Top 8. But the two weren’t meant to take the title. Instead, it was Chris Woltereck day to shine. Playing his third Legacy event with 43 Land, Chris made it to a 100% Top 8 ratio with the deck. His latest version gutted the red cards for Intuition and a heavier reliance on Academy Ruins and Tolaria West. That innovation proved to be the key for his success as he Mindslaver locked opponent after opponent.
“I’m really excited about trying to win the die roll,” Chris Woltereck joked with his opponent as they sat down for the last match of the StarCityGames.com Open-Indianapolis.
"You could be the first Merfolk player to beat me!" Chris Woltereck cheerfully informed his opponent Sean Gray as they sat down to their Semifinals match. Of course, he followed that up with a smile when he informed Sean he was 22-0 in games against Merfolk.
Jason Terry made the Top 8 of the StarCityGames.com Open-Indianapolis with the recently made popular blue-black Reanimator. Billy Nichols made the cut to the single elimination rounds playing a Team America list tweaked for his own devices.
Exiting the Swiss in first place was Craig Wostratzky, who got there playing a rogue Monoblack Control decklist of his own design. The strategy was built to beat creature-based decks, and Sean Gray was playing one in an innovative take on Merfolk.
Legacy is famous for being filled with powerful cards and thus powerful decks. There is arguably no deck in the format more powerful and explosive than Charbelcher.
While Cedric’s known for playing White Weenie in Standard, he’s always been about Charbelcher in Legacy. Read how he fared against Tony Vermilya’s Zoo build in Round 3.
Brian Finley was one of the multiple Jund players in the Top 8 of the StarCityGames.com Open-Indianapolis. Staring him down, looking to keep the archetype from winning in back-to-back Open events, was Dustin Sendejas and his Naya deck.
Ed Greer and Andrew Steckley sat down to their Quarterfinals match with Steckley on the hated Jund and Greer on Mythic, the Zvi Mowshowitz-inspired take on Bant.
Lewis’ Grixis Control deck took control early, stranding Penick without a second turn play when he cast Spreading Seas on John’s only source of white mana
