This past weekend, your truly had the joy of doing judging work at the PTQ 
in Oklahoma City, here's the Top 8 decks, with commentary first, as well as 
the top 8 players.  Enjoy!

The turn out was pitiful between the 4th of July Weekend and the fact that 
it was OKC.  Only about 80 people arrived, so we played 7 rounds of swiss 
to break off the final 8, which made for a relatively fast qualifier.

The day started off with people arguing with me over what happened with 3 
Sands of Time in play, and the rest of them saying "I didn't know Abeyance 
did THAT!!!  I gotta get some!"  Then things started to calm down as three 
main themes asserted themselves:Burn, Bosium Strip, and Necratog.  
Equipoise/Sands of Time was a distant memory by the 4th round, but it 
remained interesting, as George Baxter during the Swiss got paired against 
2 of his ex-Team Dallas mates, beating both, only to be knocked out of 
Final 8 by a kid playing 8 Maro deck with 4 Maros, 4 Freewind Falcon, 4 
Diskrider Falcon, and 4 Empyrial Armor.  The 3rd game was quite funny as 
Jeremiah (the kid) put out a Maro, attacked with it as a 5/5 , so George 
Tidal Waved it.  Well George was a bit mana screwed and only had 3 lands, 
so the kid put out City Of Solitude, and George's reaction was priceless.  
George is a good friend, and he took it with his usal style....a laugh and 
a oh well, maybe next time.  

The other amazing thing was the discovery apparently of the Magic playing 
world all at once of the 6th playable card from Homelands:Memory Lapse.  
Almost everyone was playing this card!  It was absolutely amazing to see 
how a card can go from being totally reviled to being utilized by so many 
at once. Anyway, the day proved to be the day of the Weenie when all was 
said and done, but in my opinion the strongest deck fielded for the day was 
the Necratog deck used by Roy Roberts and Bill Macey from Austin.  The only 
reason Bill didn't win was because he simply could not get a decent draw in 
his finals match.

The Final 8 went as follows:

Bill Macey
     vs      -----Bill Macey
David Williams
                              -----Bill Macey
Patrick Lynch
     vs      -----James Stroud
James Stroud
                                   The Winner ----Cortney Cunningham
Cortney Cunningham
     vs      ----- Cortney Cunningham
James Murphy
                              -----Cortney Cunningham
Roy Roberts
    vs       ----- Roy Roberts
Jason Page

So without any more delay...the Decks!!

The Necratog "Graveyard Superiority Deck"
Courtesy of Bill Macey and Roy Roberts.

4 Necratog
4 Nekrataal
2 Tombstone Stairwell
3 Fledgling DJinn
3 Song of Blod (!!)
4 Shadow Guildmage
3 Fog Elemental
3 Sage Owl
4 Man O War
4 Ertai's Familiar
3 Fallen Askari
5 Island
1 Mountain
3 Bad River
2 Undiscovered Paradise
2 Gemstone Mine
Sideboard:
3 Ebony Charm
2 Bubble Matrix
3 Knight of the Mist
3 Crypt Rat
2 Mind Bend
2 Mind Harness
At first this deck looks like a bunch of garbage, but seeing this deck in 
action is an awesome sight.  The cards all work together so well to usually 
end up in a kill by either Tombstone Stairwell tokens (Saw Roy once go "I 
attack you with my 12 Tokens and 3 creatures....You have 1 creature and 2 
tokens....") or the Necratog, which with several creatures in the graveyard 
became almost impossible to kill.

Cortney Cunningham's "Snap Into a Slim Jim!" Deck (sorry...guess you had to 
be there  :)  )
4 Sewer Rats
4 Nekrataal
4 Incinerate
4 Suq'ata Lancer
4 Skulking Ghost
4 Kaervek's Torch
4 Fallen Askari
4 Crypt Rats
3 Dark Banishing
1 Choking Sands
3 Quicksand
7 Mountain
10 Swamp
Sideboard:
1 Dark Banishing
4 Dirtwater Wraith
4 Shadow guildmage
2 Reign of Terror
3 Sirocco

James Stroud's Big Blue
4 Boomerang
3 Cloud Elemental
1 Snake Basket
3 Serrated Biskelion
3 Impulse
4 Waterspout Djinn
4 Dissipate
4 Floodgate
4 Memory Lapse
4 Man O War
2 Desertion
15 Islands
1 Plains
4 Quicksand
4 Flood Plain
Sideboard:
3 Mind Harness
4 Suq'ata Firewalker
3 Honorable Passage
3 Disenchant
2 Plains

David Williams Big Blue
4 Boomerang
3 Cloud Elemental
2 Desertion
4 Dissipate
4 Floodgate
3 Impulse
4 Man O War
4 Waterspout Djinn
4 Memory Lapse
3 Serrated Biskelion
1 Snake Basket
4 Flood Plain
16 Island
1 Plains
4 Quicksand
Sideboard
4 Mind Harness
3 Suq'ata Firewalker
3 Disenchant
3 Honorable Passage
2 Plains

James Murphy's Frenetic Hammer 
2 Ancestral Knowledge
3 Bloodrock Cyclops
4 Fireblast
4 Fog ELemental
3 Frenetic EFreet
4 Hammer of Bogardan
4 Incinerate
2 Kaervek's Torch
4 Man O War
4 Suq'ata Lancer
4 Talruum Minotaur
9 Island
13 Mountain
Sideboard
2 Builder's Bane
1 Cone of Flame
3 Mind Bend
1 Rockslide
4 Sirocco
2 Thunderbolt
2 Undo

Jason Page's .... Stuff   :)
1 Thunderbolt
1 Kaervek's Spite
4 Suq'ata Lancer
4 Fireblast
3 Nekrataal
3 Kaervek's Torch
4 Fallen Askari
3 Dark Banishing
3 Wildfire Emissary
2 Bloodrock Cyclops
4 Incinerate
4 Viashino Sandstalker
2 Quicksand
4 Rocky Tar Pit
8 Swamp
10 Mountain
Sideboard:
3 Builder's Bane
3 Torrent of Lava
3 Dirtwater Wraith
1 Dark Banishing
1 Nekrataal
4 Stupor

Patirck Lynch's Bosium Strip (created by George Baxter and Charles Wolfe)
4 Abeyance
4 Powersink
4 Disspate
3 Foreshadow
2 Tidal Wave
4 Impulse
4 Memory Lapse
2 Rainbow Efreet
3 Pacifism
2 Desertion
2 Bosium Strip
2 Ether Well
13 Island
4 Plains
4 Flood Plain
4 Quicksand
Sideboard:
1 Dream Tide
3 Honrable Passage
2 Prismatic Circle
3 Teferi's Honor Guard
3 Freewind Falcon 
2 Disenchant
1 Rainbow Efreet


There you go!  Cortesy of 
Tim Stoltzfus 
aka Wakko Djinn