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While his stats aren’t much bigger than those of the average 7-drop, Sentry’s “Pay ATK” power can drastically hinder an opponent’s attacking options in the late game.
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$10K Amsterdam
Metagame Staff
 
April 09, 2005

166 players boiled down to a final two, and in a finals match that could only be handled by a team of two reporters working together, Dean Sohnle and Rich Edbury duked it out with mirror-image Fantastic Fun decks.

Cutting wide swaths of destruction through the competition, both players worked hard to get to the grand finale of Day 2. Mentally fatigued from running the incredibly demanding deck for a total of thirteen rounds, mistakes were still few and far between in the clash between these two massive gladiators.

In the end it was the deck’s creator himself, Dean Sohnle who narrowly eeked out Rich Edbury. A Canadian, this is Sohnle’s second $10K victory in as many tries. Batting 1.000, one can only imagine what he’ll have his sights set on next. In the meantime, though, it seems official—Fantastic Fun is here to stay, and may very well be the best deck in the Golden Age format. Incredibly difficult to play, it can be incredibly rewarding, and the proof is in the results, as Dean Sohnle is $2,500 richer!

QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinalsChampion
Jason Green
 Jason Green
Fabian Held
 Richard Edbury
Richard Edbury
 Richard Edbury
Hans Joachim Hoeh
 Dean Sohnle
Dean Sohnle
 Dean Sohnle
Robin Pailer
 Dean Sohnle
Gregory Bezard
 Sebastian Mueller
Sebastian Mueller


Click here for coverage of Pro Circuit: Amsterdam!
 
Day 2
Check out Tim Willoughby's coverage of the final match, where he brings you all the action from Richard Edbury's side of the table!
Check out Jason Grabher-Meyer's coverage of the final match, where he brings you all the action from Dean Sohnle's side of the table!
“Can you put in the coverage that Jason Green entered the feature-match area whining?” asked Green’s friend, Jeremy Gray, with a big grin.
The participants: Germany’s Sebastian Mueller and Canadian/English hybrid Dean Sohnle. The decks: Common Enemy, and what I can say with certainty is the best and most complex deck in the history of the game, Fantastic Fun.
It’s one of the classic battles of Golden Age—Common Enemy against Curve Sentinels.
Coming into the Top 8, we have two competitors with significant success at the $10K level. Hans has three previous Top 8s and two wins, while Richard’s three Top 8s are a 1/2/3 split.
Day 1
Check out the Top 8 decklists here!
Check out Jason's side of the pivotal Round 11 match between Hans Joachim Hoeh and Fabian Held, and decide which Metagame.com reporter is worthy of your love!
Check out Tim's side of the pivotal Round 11 match between Hans Joachim Hoeh and Fabian Held, and decide which Metagame.com reporter is worthy of your love!
Walking around $10K Amsterdam, there are various decks that, while not necessarily sitting at the top tables, provide inspiration for deckbuilders everywhere. When metagames change, these decks can rocket from average to amazing.
Iain Reid is one of the UK players in this event who has elected to break with the common wisdom that Curve Sentinels is the best deck, and is instead playing something a little bit fruitier. Henry Henry is a rather neatly monikered Belgian playing a Brotherhood beatdown deck.
Robin Pailer is a 30-year-old worker in a German print shop. The Curve Sentinel deck he played, which runs Juggernaut instead of Magneto, Master of Magnetism, was the main reason for covering this matchup. Though it was a high-ranking match, of course, my main interest was in seeing if Juggernaut could pay off in a documented case.
Richard Edbury is one of the TCG world’s most recognizable personalities. A former Magic pro who won $10K Minehead, Edbury decided this morning to run Dean Sohnle’s Fantastic Fun deck. Insanely difficult to play, Edbury was handling the deck incredibly well throughout the day.
The 166-deck metagame that comprises Europe’s largest $10K tournament is in some aspects incredibly varied and in other aspects highly static.
“Antonino’s definitely losing” —a quote straight from Mr. De Rosa himself.
David Bradle is a player who has traveled from the Czech Republic and is currently 3-0. His opponent is Dean Sohnle, the Canadian currently living in London, who is hot off a victory in $10K London. His signature “Fantastic Fun” deck, replete with equips, is in action again today.
David Fielder is a 21-year-old student and security guard. “I don’t really guard anything per se. Basically, I get paid ten dollars an hour to play Settlers of Catan. No wait, don’t put that in! My boss’ll read it!”
Gabe is a big man playing Big Men, the stall deck playing various massive characters and stalling out until dropping the biggest, baddest characters imaginable.
“Stupid euro, this thing doesn’t have a heads!” Turner laughed and tossed away the first coin, digging for another. Rizzi won the flip and took the odd initiative.
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