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Veccie Wins TCGplayer.com $5K Atlanta
TCGplayer Staff
1/24/2010 12:00:00 PM  - or -
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[Coverage Summary] 248 players came to Atlanta for the second installment of the TCGPlayer.com $5K series for the last major Standard tournament before Worldwake rouses the format in just a few short days. Jund -- once again -- was the most played archetype with slightly more than 20% field lurking in the Savage Lands of the Standard format. The next two most popular archetypes -- Grixis Control and Red Deck Wins -- both came in just over 10% of the field. The fourth most popular archetype was Vampires around 8% and it was the most successful of the top decks in terms of putting players through to the Top 8. The Top 8 featured three copies each of Jund and Vampires and one each of Red Deck Wins and Valakut Ramp. There were only eleven copies of Valakut in the tournament but Derek Huang -- a 25-year old medical student -- was on cruise control throughout the tournament with 7 wins and 2 intentional draws. He was up a game in the quarterfinals but then, assured of an agreement to an even payout across the Top 8, conceded to his grateful opponent. Whether or not Valakut could have crossed the finish line is a question that will have to wait until after the addition of Worldwake. It was the other singleton archetype in the Top 8 that became the story as it surged up the other bracket. 23-year old local player Nick Veccie lived up to the verb in Red Deck Wins with some careful applications of burn to the face. In the semifinals he scratched, clawed, and ultimately topdecked a Lightning Bolt with his elimination lurking on the next turn. The finals came down to Veccie's red cards vs. the Vampires of Jeff Akers. Nick's deck handed him a steady stream of burn -- including sideboarded Punishing Fire -- in two tight games and squeaked past an increasingly popular deck archetype that looks only to get stronger with the release of the new set. Until then, Nick Veccie proved what Magic players have known for years....Red Deck Wins.  Congratulations to Nick Veccie, the TCGPlayer.com $5K Series Atlanta winner!
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