One of the public events at GP Okayama this past weekend was a Super Grand Prix Trial for GP Kobe — the 2009 GP schedule can be found here — which offered the winner three byes, entry, and transportation to the event. (I would imagine the organizers were happy none of the Austalian or Europeans in attendance won the Trial.) The format was Extended and provides one of our first peeks at the post-Berlin metagame. It was a pretty small event considering the prize — most of the public event thunder on Sunday was stolen by what was essentially a five-slot qualifier for Kyoto — that only had 17 players. Nonetheless it was something I was eager to look at as I am sure you are too.

It sounds like these lists will show up on the Mothership sometime in the next week or so. Both Mike and I are off this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday so they won’t be appearing there. In the meanwhile I figured I would post them here. Before you continued reading below the fold…  How many Elves decks were in the Top 8?

The answer is zero. I don’t know about the remaining 9 decks but this Top 8 was ‘dominated’ by The Tezzerator and Faeries, which each had two decks in the Top 8. The remaining four archtypes were Zoo, Chain Swans, Burn, and Dirty Kitty. Dirty Kitty was the winning list and the version was very close to the one played by Johan to a Top 16 finish at Berlin.

Enjoy!

Dirty Kitty
Kenji Hamamoto — Winner
Grand Prix Kobe 2009 Super Trial
Extended

2 Blood Crypt
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Mountain
4 Stomping Ground
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Goblin Piledriver
2 Goblin Sharpshooter
4 Goblin Sledder
4 Goblin Warchief
4 Mogg Fanatic
4 Mogg War Marshal
4 Skirk Prospector
4 Chrome Mox
4 Empty the Warrens
4 Fecundity
4 Rite of Flame
Sideboard:

4 Earwig Squad
4 Gempalm Incinerator
1 Goblin Sharpshooter
4 Shattering Spree
2 Naturalize

Faeries
Tomohiro Aridome — Finalist
Grand Prix Kobe 2009 Super Trial
Extended

2 Umezawa’s JItte
3 Threads of Disloyalty
3 Stifle
4 Ancestral Vision
4 Glen Elendra Archmage
4 Sower of Temptation
4 Spell Snare
4 Mana Leak
4 Venillion Clique
4 Spellstutter Sprite
3 River of Tears
1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
4 Secluded Glen
1 Miren, the Moaning Well
1 Riptide Laboratory
4 Mutavault
1 Minamo, School at Water’s Edge
9 Island

Sideboard:

2 Annul
2 Chalice of the Void
1 Stifle
3 Bitterblossom
3 Engineered Explosives
3 Negate
1 Threads of Disloyalty

The Tezzerator
Ken’ichi Abe — Top 8
Grand Prix Kobe 2009 Super Trial
Extended

1 Meloku the Clouded Mirror
4 Vendilion Clique
3 Trinket Mage
3 Tezzeret the Seeker
4 Thirst for Knowledge
3 Spell Snare
3 Cryptic Command
1 Stifle
1 Umezawa’s JItte
1 Oblivion Stone
1 Pithing Needle
3 Engineered Explosives
4 Chrome Mox
2 Vedalken Shackles
2 Chalice of the Void
1 Ensnaring Bridge
1 Breeding Pool
2 Steam Vaults
1 Watery Grave
1 Riptide Laboratory
2 Academy Ruins
1 Tolaria West
1 Miren, the Moaning Well
1 Great Furnace
6 Snow-Covered Island
4 Polluted Delta
3 Flooded Strand

Sideboard:

1 Chalice of the Void
1 Tormod’s Crypt
2 Threads of Disloyalty
3 Blood Moon
3 Firespout
2 Negate
3 Ancient Grudge

Burn Baby
Takehiko Matsumura — Top 8
Grand Prix Kobe 2009 Super Trial
Extended

4 Spark Elemental
4 Keldon Marauders
4 Mogg Fanatic
4 Shrapnel Blast
4 Shard Volley
4 Rift Bolt
4 Magma Jet
4 Incinerate
4 Lava Spike
3 Flames of the Blood Hand
2 Blinkmoth Nexus
4 Darksteel Citadel
4 Great Furnace
11 Snow-Covered Mountain

Sideboard:

4 Pyrostatic Pillar
1 Shatterstorm
4 Smash to Smithereens
2 Demonfire
4 Goblin Sharpshooter

The Tezzerator
Osamu Houwa — Top 8
Grand Prix Kobe 2009 Super Trial
Extended

4 Chrome Mox
3 Chalice of the Void
2 Engineered Explosives
1 Trinisphere
1 AEther Spellbomb
1 Pyrite Spellbomb
4 Pyroclasm
3 Trinket Mage
2 Cryptic Command
3 Tezzeret the Seeker
4 Thirst for Knowledge
3 Rewind
3 Stifle
3 Vendilion Clique
1 Venser, Shaper Savant
3 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
4 Island
4 Seat of the Synod
3 Steam Vaults
1 Breeding Pool
2 Great Furnace
1 Riptide Laboratory
1 Academy Ruins
1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

Sideboard:

1 Tormod’s Crypt
4 Threads of Disloyalty
2 Firespout
1 Pact of Negation
3 Blood Moon
1 Rewind
1 Cryptic Command
2 Jushi Apprentice

Zoo
Shirou Wakayama — Top 8
Grand Prix Kobe 2009 Super Trial
Extended

4 Kird Ape
4 Wild Nacatl
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Seal of Fire
4 Lightning Helix
4 Tribal Flames
4 Tidehallow Sculler
3 Mogg Fanatic
3 Ethersworn Canonist
3 Blightning
2 Umezawa’s Jitte
1 Stomping Ground
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Temple Garden
1 Steam Vents
1 Godless Shrine
1 Plains
1 Overgrown Tomb
2 Blood Crypt
2 Bloodstained Mire
2 Flooded Strand
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills

Sideboard:

4 Kitchen Finks
3 Orzhov Pontiff
3 Ancient Grudge
1 Sigil Blessing
2 Kami of Ancient Law
1 Ronom Unicorn
1 Umezawa’s Jitte

Faeries
Kounosuke Masaki — Top 8
Grand Prix Kobe 2009 Super Trial
Extended

4 Cryptic Command
4 Ancestral Vision
4 Spellstutter Sprite
4 Thoughtseize
3 Mistbind Clique
4 Bitterblossom
3 Scion of Oona
2 Remand
3 Broken Ambitions
1 Sower of Temptation
1 Vendilion Clique
2 Peppersmoke
2 Faerie Conclave
4 Mutavault
4 Secluded Glen
1 Riptide Laboratory
4 Watery Grave
3 Sunken Ruins
4 Underground River
2 Island
1 Reflecting Pool

Sideboard:

2 Infest
3 Hurkyl’s Recall
3 Persecute
4 Chalice of the Void
3 Damnation

Swan Chain
Taiki Yoshida — Top 8
Grand Prix Kobe 2009 Super Trial
Extended

6 Island
4 Flooded Strand
4 Polluted Delta
3 Seat of the Synod
2 Great Furnace
2 Steam Vents
1 Breeded Pool
4 Swans of Bryn Argoll
2 Vendilion Clique
2 Simian Spirit Guide
4 Chain of Plasma
3 Chrome Mox
2 Cryptic Command
3 Pryoclasm
4 Ponder
3 Stifle
3 Spell Snare
4 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Conflagrate
2 Condescend

Sideboard:

2 Hurkyl’s Recall
3 Gigadrowse
2 Blood Moon
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Pyroclasm
3 Firepsout
2 Engineered Explosives