Too Much Information – The 2009s

As the StarCityGames.com Events Manager, I have access to a lot of decklists. I’ve always felt that it was a waste to toss the extra lists at the end of the day without anyone getting a chance to mine that huge source of information. So I started thinking about ways to work with the decklists, to put them in a manageable format. The first step was to bring together all of the archetypes, then put them together with the final standings. That worked for a few tournaments, and even let me put together an article on one of our double PTQ weekends, but I still wanted to do more… and this is the result.

In each Excel document, you will find:

A spreadsheet of all of the Players and the Archetypes that they played
A spreadsheet of the final standings with the Archetypes of each player
A spreadsheet for each round with results and Archetypes for every player
A spreadsheet of the Top 8 deck lists

All of the spreadsheets are sortable and I hope that you can all use them to great effect. I intend to keep putting these together, so let me know if there are any other features that you would like to see going forward and I will see if I can work them in.

The 2009s – West Virginia
The 2009s — Virginia

Also, in these articles, I intend to spotlight a deck outside of the Top 8 that deserves some attention. This week it is Brian Schnieder’s 16th place Ziggurat list from Virginia.

Ziggy & Friends

Brian Schneider

16th Place at States on 12-06-2009

Standard

Creatures (30)

• 3 Birds of Paradise
• 3 Rhox War Monk
• 4 Sprouting Thrinax
• 2 Tidehollow Sculler
• 4 Woolly Thoctar
• 3 Noble Hierarch
• 4 Putrid Leech
• 2 Knight of New Alara
• 4 Bloodbraid Elf
• 1 Baneslayer Angel

Lands (22)

• 2 Forest
• 1 Plains
• 1 Swamp
• 1 Mountain
• 1 Island
• 2 Jungle Shrine
• 2 Savage Lands
• 4 Ancient Ziggurat
• 3 Arid Mesa
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 3 Verdant Catacombs

Spells (8)

• 3 Lightning Bolt
• 2 Deathmark
• 3 Path to Exile

Sideboard

• 2 Pyroclasm
• 2 Realm Razer
• 1 Rhox War Monk
• 2 Sedraxis Specter
• 1 Tidehollow Sculler
• 1 Path to Exile
• 3 Dauntless Escort
• 3 Unstable Footing

Round 1:
Won 2-1 – Weaver, Josh – Emeria’s Pledge

Round 2:
Lost 1-2 – McCauley, Arthur – Vampires

Round 3:
Won 2-0 – Kerr, James – 5 Color Seas

Round 4:
Won 2-0 – Kirtley, David L – Jund

Round 5:
Lost 1-2 – Debrosky, Eric C – Bant

Round 6:
Won 2-0 – Cross, Joshua S – Bant

Round 7:
Won 2-0 – Chatham, Charles E – Naya

Round 8:
Won 2-0 – Stickles, Josh – Boros Bushwhacker

Brian brought five colors and a lot of guys to the table. If it costs three different colors and can kick some tail, it’s here. With 2-0 (4-0 in games) records against the Jund and Boros Bushwhacker decks that he faced, this deck may be worth a second look. Brian’s 6-2 record in the Swiss shows that there is such a thing as Five-Color Aggro.

I’m looking forward to the forums. See you there!

Jared