Classic League is a player-run Classic tournament series, hosted by Classic Quarter (and run by Unlocking the Vault author enderfall), sponsored by MTGO Academy and MTGO Traders, and made possible through generous prize donations from Wizards of the Coast and a multitude of dedicated Classic fans. As you can read about on Classic Quarter, the Winter 2013 Classic League is broken into two qualifier tournaments, from which successful players will be invited to an invitational this year on December 21st, 2013.
In addition, all players who finish 4-0 in a Classic Daily Event before the invitational will receive an invite, and players who finish 3-1 in such an event will be invited to a last-chance qualifier tournament. This means that the next three Classic Daily Events — 5:30 EST (2:30 PST) this Friday (Dec. 13th), Saturday, and Sunday — will be the last chances to qualify for the free-to-enter and HEAVILY PRIZED Classic Quarter Invitational tournament on December 21st. Come out and join the fun, even if you’re on the fence! The decks are hard to play and hard to beat, but the community is good, and you might just qualify for the invitational!
Below are the Swiss rounds of the second qualifier tournament from the perspective of me, PlanetWalls. Because the tournament is over now, all my rounds are available on video below.
You can see all the decklists represented in the tournament on Gatherling.
In this tournament, I played a deck based around Orcish Lumberjack, ramp creatures, and fat dudes, in an attempt to beat the field. Check out my decklist below, and then you can check out my matches.
PlanetWalls' RGb Orcish Lumberamp aka OrcJacking
NOTE: If you’d prefer to watch all the below videos in sequence, check out the playlist on MTGO Academy’s Youtube channel.
Well, you’re probably quite tired of watching Lumberjacks saw down, and be crushed by, falling timber. But if you’d like to see more, I had a successful showing in a Classic Daily Event with a Survival of the Fittest-based version of the deck that I think was much better. The first two rounds feature some background chatter, but the third and fourth rounds do not (and the fourth is especially exciting, I think). The decklist I piloted follows, and then the rounds from the tournament.
PlanetWalls' RGu Jacking of the Fittest
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If you’ve made it this far, congrats! And come by for the fun in this weekend’s DEs at 5:30 EST (2:30 PST) Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. They’ll be your last chance to qualify for the FREE-TO-ENTER and prize-heavy Classic Quarter Invitational on December 21st!
You can find me on Twitter @PlanetWalls or @MTGOAcademy.
Who do you think has a more preferable epistemology, Gianni Vattimo or James Cone?
Nice, new classic content, haven’t seen all of it yet, but had to comment.
I have to disagree with you, the part with Jason and Becky is WAY to good to skip. The wondrous innocence and out of the box thinking (admittedly due to sheer unawareness of said box) of suggesting fetching Jace the Mind Sculpter (and definetly not a land, we do indeed not need a land, thanks Jason) with Darwin’s Theory suggests a possible world so filled with value, I sighed, and not with exasperation.
Also liked the contrast of the part where she was explaining drafting in the simplest abstract form possible while you were wondering how to put two Blightsteels with haste into play the same turn.
Hi PlanetWalls students, hope you were watching!
I don’t know if you are aware, but round 3 opponent is, I believe, Enric Luzán, who has a Youtube Channel in which he plays the Thought Lash combo deck (among others), commenting both in Spanish and English.
I loved the Lumberjack, btw!
@Martin Heidegger — I don’t think you’re the real Heidegger, because the real Heidegger would never precisely ask me that question.
@Comments — Glad you enjoyed the peanut gallery commentary.
@Enzo — Yep, he was my opponent, though I don’t believe I saw a video based on our match on his channel. If you see it there, let me know!
I made a snarky comment on CQ at the beginning of this tournament about how there should be a special prize for anyone who plays Theros cards because they looked so bad for eternal. Props to you for finding a home for these crazy Monsters! I guess I should have put up that prize.
I like the orcish lumberjack a great deal. He allows for a kind of radical freedom which has never been conceived of prior. But when this lumberjack, this bûcheron, destroys a forest, does he not create a kind of explosion, a plastic explosion of identity? From this explosion, can the identity of the forest ever truly be recovered?
Malabou murderous
this is among my favorite video set on this website. comparable to the middle-quality so many trolls vids.
it was cute seeing chris apologize for interrupting his friends to commentate on his own video. round 4 was indeed absurd.
I’ll try to write a paper on Malabou’s neo-Hegelian concept of plasticity in the context of jacking trees.