According to what has been posted by Brian-David Marshall on the Top8magic forums, the deck contained Serra Avenger, Firemane Angel and Lightning Angel, Compulsive Research, Lightning Helix and Demonfire. Julian Levin also mentioned that Fortune Thief was somewhere in the deck, I'm going to guess in the sideboard. I tested it in a few decks of ours and Glare cant beat it out of the board.
I tested it in a few decks of ours and Glare cant beat it out of the board.
If that's due to Fortune Thief, then they may get 1 free game win after board if the Glare player doesn't know beforehand. After that Serrated Arrows should be coming in (I highly recommend this card).
And congrats Lesurgo on the Dragonstorm finish. I personally had very little respect for the deck going into champs, but earning the top two slots in the same event with the same build is definetly a sign I may be wrong in that regard.
And congrats Lesurgo on the Dragonstorm finish. I personally had very little respect for the deck going into champs, but earning the top two slots in the same event with the same build is definetly a sign I may be wrong in that regard.
Err, I don't know how you infered this, but I did not play this deck at Champs, we could only build one copy of it. I got the absolutely rock solid list from Ryan Chimera AKA Btape, and Brian Eaton (Who eventually played the deck at Arizona Champs) and I tested the heck out of it. It won two FNM's in a row undefeated (7 rounds including top 8) and 5-0-2'd into top eight at Champs, then won two matches and split in the finals. It hasn't lost a sanctioned match yet, and its been 24 matches later.
The deck is so silly. Like he told me, his opponent would play a card, then he'd read it and made sure that it didn't make him discard anything, then he'd go off. The deck practically can't lose to non blue aggro decks, and against blue decks you just Gigadrowse them. Its only problem matches are white decks with the Martyr/Proclamation engine and decks with a good bit of discard.
Err, I don't know how you infered this, but I did not play this deck at Champs, we could only build one copy of it. I got the absolutely rock solid list from Ryan Chimera AKA Btape, and Brian Eaton (Who eventually played the deck at Arizona Champs) and I tested the heck out of it. It won two FNM's in a row undefeated (7 rounds including top 8) and 5-0-2'd into top eight at Champs, then won two matches and split in the finals. It hasn't lost a sanctioned match yet, and its been 24 matches later.
The deck is so silly. Like he told me, his opponent would play a card, then he'd read it and made sure that it didn't make him discard anything, then he'd go off. The deck practically can't lose to non blue aggro decks, and against blue decks you just Gigadrowse them. Its only problem matches are white decks with the Martyr/Proclamation engine and decks with a good bit of discard.
Ah, nvm. Read your post on the DStorm forum wrong.
According to what has been posted by Brian-David Marshall on the Top8magic forums, the deck contained Serra Avenger, Firemane Angel and Lightning Angel, Compulsive Research, Lightning Helix and Demonfire. Julian Levin also mentioned that Fortune Thief was somewhere in the deck, I'm going to guess in the sideboard. I tested it in a few decks of ours and Glare cant beat it out of the board.
i can confirm as julian smashed my face in, the only deck that i can honestly say i didn't have a good match up with, in fact julian was the only loss i had that i really felt i couldn't have won without a totally rediculas hand and god topdecks, granted i got him to about 3 or so life consitantly (and him having 3 lightning helixs to kill my serra avangers after his wrath) but its a deck i need to seriosly consider altering my board for.
i had a chance to talk with mike a little and he was commenting on that he really didn't want to be paired agenst the 'vore deck that made it or was about to make it to top 8. the deck has compulsive resea4rch, serra avenger, lightning angel, firemane, lightning helix, remands, court haussar, flagstones, sacred foundery, hollowed fountain (can't recall the rest even though jullian did let me go thru his deck after he beat me) it seemed well tuned and is not fun to face when i was playing aggro, i don't recall psiblast or char though, but i'b be suprised if one or the other didn't make it(personally i think blast would be the better choice)
i can confirm as julian smashed my face in, the only deck that i can honestly say i didn't have a good match up with, in fact julian was the only loss i had that i really felt i couldn't have won without a totally rediculas hand and god topdecks, granted i got him to about 3 or so life consitantly (and him having 3 lightning helixs to kill my serra avangers after his wrath) but its a deck i need to seriosly consider altering my board for.
i had a chance to talk with mike a little and he was commenting on that he really didn't want to be paired agenst the 'vore deck that made it or was about to make it to top 8. the deck has compulsive resea4rch, serra avenger, lightning angel, firemane, lightning helix, remands, court haussar, flagstones, sacred foundery, hollowed fountain (can't recall the rest even though jullian did let me go thru his deck after he beat me) it seemed well tuned and is not fun to face when i was playing aggro, i don't recall psiblast or char though, but i'b be suprised if one or the other didn't make it(personally i think blast would be the better choice)
Thanks Lunan. So, you said he was playing wrath too, and Lesergo mentioned demonfire, so we have the core of the deck.
I went 6-2 at PA states with Dragonstorm, and got 17th out of 140 or so. I'm not sure exactly what the whole top 8 was, but I do remember two matches were Boros vs. Gruul & Tron vs. Tron. I'm certain one of the other 4 was some kind of 3 color control, either Firemane or Solar Pox, since they were everywhere. I did see lots of UG with Looters, Calls, Psi Blast, etc. there too, but I don't know how well they did(I played two of them and won both times).
To confirm, the finals of FL States was a Glare Mirror, and one of my friends from a draft group at the University of Florida was on the losing end of it. He admits it was a legitimate loss with bad plays by him. Two quotes sum it up: "He has Pendelhaven?!" and "He has Vitu-Ghazi?!"
His opponent legitimately had them in play, btw.
Knute (my friend) thought the Pendelaven was a Forest, so he attacks with a Selesnya Guildmage (not enough mana to pump it) and it runs into what becomes a 2/3 saproling. This elicits the first quote. The second quote was spewed when his opponent had no blockers. Knute swings (not for lethal) and runs into a fresh-out-of-the-Vitu-Ghazi-oven saproling.
On the bright side, he went 7-2 and got in as the 8th seed. In the quarters he plays against what I think is his worst matchup - Dragonstorm. The same guy he played beat him 2-0 in the Swiss. At any rate, he wins game 1 (Hey, thanks for the three 2/2s, I'll Devouring Light your Hunted Dragon), then game 2 sides in his only copy of Ivory Mask. Turn 3, he drops the Ivory Mask, THE TURN BEFORE HIS OPPONENT WOULD HAVE GONE OFF.
And that's how you beat Dragonstorm. Render the Hellkites useless.
If someone could fill in the blanks here, that'd be great:
1st: Glare
2nd: Glare
3rd-8th: Dragonstorm, U/W Control, (four unknowns)
I went 2-3 before dropping with Karsten-Bot. Let it be known that I fail at sideboarding.
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Illinois state champ had 8 rounds, about 180 pp? or 160 something, I forgot. They said that they had 40 people more than last year. There were a lot of random decks, like UGB aggro-control..... I did not see a single KristenBotBabyKiller, which I was about to play. But the Top 8 clearly was dominated by control. I believe there was a net decker played UWB Solar Pox who won the tournament.
Top 8 were like:
1 WUB Solar Pox (Winner)
1 WUB Solar Flare
1 UR Dragon Storm
1 GWR Zoo
1 UWR Firemand control
2 BW discard hand to hand
1 "BW" solar flare
I'm not too sure about the 2 BW hand to hand, I can be wrong
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IL Top 8:
Zoo def. Solar Pox
Solar Flare def. Solar Pox(me)
Dragonstorm def. B/W Discard
B/W Control def. U/G/w Aggro-Control
Zoo def. Solar Flare
B/W Control def. Dragonstorm
B/W Control def. Zoo
I believe the total was 177 people this year. I left after losing in top8, and we were the last match, so I can't confirm top4 results. I hadn't built a deck for the event yet and woke up 2 hours before the event and slapped Solar Pox together, getting the last 4 cards I needed from the dealers 5 minutes before registration ended. Same pox deck on the 'net except I replaced the maindeck Peace of Mind with a 3rd Haakon and totally changed the board. I went 6-0 in the swiss (against U/W/R Firemane control (2-0), R/b sligh/burn (2-1), G/R Gruul (2-0), G/W/u Enforcer/Sky Swallower (2-1), the B/W discard also from the top8 (2-1), and G/B/w aggro-control (2-0), before ID'ing with the Solar Flare and then Solar Pox decks that also made top8.
I made the mistake of playing Persecute over Nightmare Void in the 'board, along with swapping Trickbind (which I didn't have) for Tormod's Crypts and Disenchants. Both would have helped in my top8 match where my replacements really didn't.
I didn't miss the Peace of Mind at all, but a 2nd Skeletal Vampire seemed like it should be in there...it's bat token ability's interaction with Dread Return's flashback won me a number of games.
I believe the total was 177 people this year. I left after losing in top8, and we were the last match, so I can't confirm top4 results. I hadn't built a deck for the event yet and woke up 2 hours before the event and slapped Solar Pox together, getting the last 4 cards I needed from the dealers 5 minutes before registration ended. Same pox deck on the 'net except I replaced the maindeck Peace of Mind with a 3rd Haakon and totally changed the board. I went 6-0 in the swiss (against U/W/R Firemane control (2-0), R/b sligh/burn (2-1), G/R Gruul (2-0), G/W/u Enforcer/Sky Swallower (2-1), the B/W discard also from the top8 (2-1), and G/B/w aggro-control (2-0), before ID'ing with the Solar Flare and then Solar Pox decks that also made top8.
I made the mistake of playing Persecute over Nightmare Void in the 'board, along with swapping Trickbind (which I didn't have) for Tormod's Crypts and Disenchants. Both would have helped in my top8 match where my replacements really didn't.
I didn't miss the Peace of Mind at all, but a 2nd Skeletal Vampire seemed like it should be in there...it's bat token ability's interaction with Dread Return's flashback won me a number of games.
I guess my post was the swiss result or something random = =
cause we left after the swiss ended
That list was what my friend told me
Sorry about the mistake of the Top8 List
Can't remember the specifics for WI, but the winner (Levi) played a W/B control deck (no Rack), there were 3 W/B decks (not all Rack decks), the WUR control, Dragonstorm, RWB control, a RGW Kudzu/LftL/GhaziGlare deck (Hron played this, not Pat like I PMd you), and I don't know the 8th deck.
226 people, though - only 3 chairs left unused in the entire store.
Pete Jahn should have a detailed report on this up on SCG sometime, so there and then's the best place for getting the lowdown on WI.
PS: Adrian Sullivan finished 30th playing a W/U deck utilizing Locket of Yesterdays.
On the Flores deck:
No md counter magic.
sb had 3 GA, 3 fortune thief, 4 mana leak and some other stuff I forgot.
THe deck's worst match was glare since all the good glare decks splashed red for battlemage.
i can confirm as julian smashed my face in, the only deck that i can honestly say i didn't have a good match up with, in fact julian was the only loss i had that i really felt i couldn't have won without a totally rediculas hand and god topdecks, granted i got him to about 3 or so life consitantly (and him having 3 lightning helixs to kill my serra avangers after his wrath) but its a deck i need to seriosly consider altering my board for.
i had a chance to talk with mike a little and he was commenting on that he really didn't want to be paired agenst the 'vore deck that made it or was about to make it to top 8. the deck has compulsive resea4rch, serra avenger, lightning angel, firemane, lightning helix, remands, court haussar, flagstones, sacred foundery, hollowed fountain (can't recall the rest even though jullian did let me go thru his deck after he beat me) it seemed well tuned and is not fun to face when i was playing aggro, i don't recall psiblast or char though, but i'b be suprised if one or the other didn't make it(personally i think blast would be the better choice)
The judges put a bounty on Julian's head - a pack to anyone who beat him. To be honest I didn't get to see him play too much, I was busy running around handling questions about Blood Moon.
My friend was playing that Vore deck, and he did indeed make it into the top 8 - and the top 4, losing to the UG Aggro/Control deck.
According to what has been posted by Brian-David Marshall on the Top8magic forums, the deck contained Serra Avenger, Firemane Angel and Lightning Angel, Compulsive Research, Lightning Helix and Demonfire. Julian Levin also mentioned that Fortune Thief was somewhere in the deck, I'm going to guess in the sideboard. I tested it in a few decks of ours and Glare cant beat it out of the board.
I find that kinda funny, as I was going to play a variation of it(Angel Stompy, for those of you that suck at naming decks :p), but I couldn't make the 5-hour drive to houston(work :mad:). My version has remands, 12 angels(including 1 akroma), a touch of card-draw, SB'd Weirdings, and LOTS of burn(helix, bolts, blasts, demonfire)... Obviously a different variation than what supposedly won NY, but it still puts a smile on my face. I never discovered the tech of Fortune Thief against glare, sounds like it's pretty effective...
On topic, does anyone know what happened in Texas States? I haven't heard back from the few people I know that actually attended, so if anyone knows who/what made T8 or won, that'd be appreciated.
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The judges put a bounty on Julian's head - a pack to anyone who beat him. To be honest I didn't get to see him play too much, I was busy running around handling questions about Blood Moon.
My friend was playing that Vore deck, and he did indeed make it into the top 8 - and the top 4, losing to the UG Aggro/Control deck.
yes i know, i was unable to collect but that random enforcer hierach deck that beat me managed to beat him. my own flagstones hurt me though. when he blew mine and his up it helped him much more as my mana being only 2 colors and lightly red at that were much more stable
i do want to get that U/G beck list, the one with 2 drifter il-dal 4 calls 4 looters and 4 vipers though, i liked the look of it
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His name is Paul beiber-Tremblay, and yeah he won states. How could he not? God loved him that day? He had the most miraculous luck all throughout the tournament. He ended my friends undefeated streak with karstenbotdirebuy, and in the finals he faced my buddy dan, armed with the Son of Beach House I lent to him before the tournament.
Game 1 wasn't even close. As expected Dan wrecked him. We start celebrating since he's obv goign to win. Game 2 they fight an attrition battle, with vampire tokens and elephants up against a lot of saprolings. Paul rips a Glare when it's his only possible way to win. Game 3 was the most stupifying thing I've ever seen. He unmorphs a Thelonite Hermit, then scatters the seeds twice. Yet, Dan was still able to survive and gain control of the game. Paul's only out is to rip the 3rd Scatter teh Seeds followed by the 2nd Selesna Guildmage in that order. Surely enough, he does.
I went 5-3 with Zoo, losing to a lucksack URW player who made T8, as well as my friends Dan and Pat (2 of the best players in the tournament, playing a really bad match-up for me). The T8 was
Boros (gerard)
Son of Beach House
UWC
UW Reanimator
Sizzetron
URW Aggro
2x Glare
I dunno if anyone has said yet, but Mike Flores won NY states. Him and his team played a URW Aggro-Control deck, which is aparently by far the best deck in the format.
Edit: There wasn't near 300 people at NJ champs. Try 144. Decent attendence, ut hardly pheneomenal. Can we try and get a tally of all the champs T8?
I got 2nd at VA champs playing tron, I misplayed in the finals and it really got to me, but after thinking that last game over and over i realized that there was no way for me to play around my opponents double honorable passage. I had never seen the card to that point in the tourney, and had not heard anyone talk about the card, so I wasnt thinking about having to play around it. I think getting 2nd out of 169 was pretty good with absolutely no testing though. I actually had to take random cards i found in my backpack to finish the sideboard, because we got there late and I expected to have enough time to borrow stuff.
I ended up finding a confiscate and IGNORANT BLISS in my backpack and stuck them in my sideboard because they were on color, and the first round was already up, so I just decided a bad sideboard was better than no sideboard. Its funny because I wasnt planning on playing confiscate, but 3 rounds in a row (including the quaterfinals) i let my opponent resolve akroma, dropped a hellkite on endstep, and them confiscated akroma, swung for 11 and demonfired for the win. I actually want confiscates in the board not because of that.
Edit: i also played 9, yes NINE! control mirrors in a row, and learned exactly how important mana advantage is in control mirrors. Clue: its really important.
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Badmouthing strangers on teh interent is one thing. Badmouting people you know is another thing.
His name is Paul beiber-Tremblay, and yeah he won states. How could he not? God loved him that day? He had the most miraculous luck all throughout the tournament. He ended my friends undefeated streak with karstenbotdirebuy, and in the finals he faced my buddy dan, armed with the Son of Beach House I lent to him before the tournament.
Game 1 wasn't even close. As expected Dan wrecked him. We start celebrating since he's obv goign to win. Game 2 they fight an attrition battle, with vampire tokens and elephants up against a lot of saprolings. Paul rips a Glare when it's his only possible way to win. Game 3 was the most stupifying thing I've ever seen. He unmorphs a Thelonite Hermit, then scatters the seeds twice. Yet, Dan was still able to survive and gain control of the game. Paul's only out is to rip the 3rd Scatter teh Seeds followed by the 2nd Selesna Guildmage in that order. Surely enough, he does.
I went 5-3 with Zoo, losing to a lucksack URW player who made T8, as well as my friends Dan and Pat (2 of the best players in the tournament, playing a really bad match-up for me). The T8 was
Boros (gerard)
Son of Beach House
UWC
UW Reanimator
Sizzetron
URW Aggro
2x Glare
I dunno if anyone has said yet, but Mike Flores won NY states. Him and his team played a URW Aggro-Control deck, which is aparently by far the best deck in the format.
Edit: There wasn't near 300 people at NJ champs. Try 144. Decent attendence, ut hardly pheneomenal. Can we try and get a tally of all the champs T8?
Paul won? Awesome!!! I had to leave before the final match. In one game in the third or so round, the opponent fettered his glare of subdual and Paul naturalized the glare so the opponent wouldn't gain life. Then he drew another glare next turn... lol. He told me his deck was just something he threw together the night before and he just expected to have fun. He sided out thallids every match. And that hour of reckoning for the win was hilarious.
I ended up 7th in my area with a Satanic sligh build. A note to people looking forward to play this deck: every deck out there has a plan to beat it and sometimes all it takes is a single cop:red or a worship with soltari priest. Most other choices are better right now. Every game I played was too close for my liking.
On to the best results:
1st
My friend took the tournament with an unorthodox solar flare build that run 4xShadowmage infiltrator main (turned out amazing in most matchups). The mvp card in the finals was a Garza zol plague queen that took his opponent completely off guard, bashed in and drew him a crucial card that sealed the game.
2nd
...was a pretty standard build of u/w snow control that run Windreavers as finishers and had a backup plan with Sacred mesa.
3rd
...was, once again, solar flare.
4th
...was a urzatron build with lots of signets that won with SSS usually after a Wildfire. I had an amazing loss against this deck. I dropped him to 2 with fast aggressive creatures and burn only to get Demonfired for 22. Scary.
5th
...was a r/g Gruul beats deck that run Stormbind as a late game answer to control, but was otherwise a pretty standard deck.
Control is obviously king in the new format. Unfortunately, there were no Dragonstorm nor Monoblack discard decks in my area. I really wanted to see their performance.
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Played at Reading UK. Was a small tourney but had a good time anyways. Got really bad match ups. Was playing Zoo 3/5 matches I had were Glare. Nothing much I can do when the opponent Wraths (foil textless mostly) and then starts casting Hierarchs + Fetters. (I so miss Pithing Needle).
Didn't manage to stay to see the top 8 but top 8 decks as far as I can remember were
G/R Land D
Solar Pox
2x Glare
Dragonstorm
U/G Aggro
2x Some form of solar flare.
All in all not a good place to play inconsistant 3x mana relient decks haha.
I won Maryland Champs with Solar Pox. Top 8 consisted of 2 Solar Pox decks, 2 B/W control, 1 U/W Mesa Control, 1 Zoo, 1 Solar Flare, and 1 Kuroda U/W/R.
Top 8 Matchups:
Kuroda U/W/R beats U/W Mesa Control 2-1
B/W control beats B/W control, concession
Zoo beats Solar Pox 2-1
Solar Pox beats Solar Flare 2-0
Top 4:
Solar Pox beats Kuroda U/W/R 2-0
Zoo beats B/W control 2-0
Finals:
Solar Pox beats Zoo 2-0
My list was exactly the same as the Pox list from the SCG event, except that I changed the 2 Gemstone Mines to a Dimir Aqueduct and an Orzhov Basilica. Sideboard was a little different though:
2 Trickbind
2 Nightmare Void
2 Faith's Fetters
2 Deathmark
1 Condemn
1 Peace of Mind
2 Willbender
3 CoP: Red
As to the metagame, unlike previous posters I didn't see much Firemane. My matches were against Glare, Kuroda U/W/R, Flores U/G, Boros, Zoo, B/W Haakon/Knight Control, and Zoo.
The deck is unreal good, my game record on the day was 18-2. Never saw a Game 3. Only loss was in Round 2 to the Kuroda U/W/R deck, which I still hadn't figured out how to beat (obviously I figured that out for the T8).
Edit: Also the turboland deck was a deck I saw in Kobe last weekend. Told my friend about it and we put it together Saturday morning. It did alright for a deck with exactly zero testing behind it.
Well I'm Glad I lost to the State Champ (I played you round six with the Haakon/Knight Control). Stromgald Crusader was the VIP in my deck all day with his protection from white. I'll post a decklist later as right now I am at my place of employment.
As to the metagame, unlike previous posters I didn't see much Firemane. My matches were against Glare, Kuroda U/W/R, Flores U/G, Boros, Zoo, B/W Haakon/Knight Control, and Zoo.
I never played against her, but walking around it seemed every third match or so there was a Firemane in play.
I guess my post was the swiss result or something random = =
cause we left after the swiss ended
That list was what my friend told me
Sorry about the mistake of the Top8 List
No problem . I think the other Solar Pox was 1st after swiss, and then I was 4th and the Solar Flare 5th. Not sure about the rest of the Swiss standings though, I didn't pay much attention after I confirmed I made top8 and was playing the Flare deck.
And I just checked and per the DCI there was 178 in attendance to start the tourney.
I won Manitoba Champs with Snow White. Some of the other T8 decks were:
UGW aggro control (snakes,momentary blinks, hierarchs, etc.)
4 Color Garagon Balance Combo Control (A Jason Simard Original, very good deck)
BWR Firemane Angel
BWG Beach House
GWr Glare (splash red for Flame Fusillade)
Sligh (yes , straight red sligh!)
Solar Pox (maybe x 2?)
And something else that I don't know.
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If that's due to Fortune Thief, then they may get 1 free game win after board if the Glare player doesn't know beforehand. After that Serrated Arrows should be coming in (I highly recommend this card).
And congrats Lesurgo on the Dragonstorm finish. I personally had very little respect for the deck going into champs, but earning the top two slots in the same event with the same build is definetly a sign I may be wrong in that regard.
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Err, I don't know how you infered this, but I did not play this deck at Champs, we could only build one copy of it. I got the absolutely rock solid list from Ryan Chimera AKA Btape, and Brian Eaton (Who eventually played the deck at Arizona Champs) and I tested the heck out of it. It won two FNM's in a row undefeated (7 rounds including top 8) and 5-0-2'd into top eight at Champs, then won two matches and split in the finals. It hasn't lost a sanctioned match yet, and its been 24 matches later.
The deck is so silly. Like he told me, his opponent would play a card, then he'd read it and made sure that it didn't make him discard anything, then he'd go off. The deck practically can't lose to non blue aggro decks, and against blue decks you just Gigadrowse them. Its only problem matches are white decks with the Martyr/Proclamation engine and decks with a good bit of discard.
Ah, nvm. Read your post on the DStorm forum wrong.
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i can confirm as julian smashed my face in, the only deck that i can honestly say i didn't have a good match up with, in fact julian was the only loss i had that i really felt i couldn't have won without a totally rediculas hand and god topdecks, granted i got him to about 3 or so life consitantly (and him having 3 lightning helixs to kill my serra avangers after his wrath) but its a deck i need to seriosly consider altering my board for.
i had a chance to talk with mike a little and he was commenting on that he really didn't want to be paired agenst the 'vore deck that made it or was about to make it to top 8. the deck has compulsive resea4rch, serra avenger, lightning angel, firemane, lightning helix, remands, court haussar, flagstones, sacred foundery, hollowed fountain (can't recall the rest even though jullian did let me go thru his deck after he beat me) it seemed well tuned and is not fun to face when i was playing aggro, i don't recall psiblast or char though, but i'b be suprised if one or the other didn't make it(personally i think blast would be the better choice)
Thanks Lunan. So, you said he was playing wrath too, and Lesergo mentioned demonfire, so we have the core of the deck.
Court Hussar
Serra Avenger
Lightning Angel
Firemane Angel
Lightning Helix
Wrath of God?
Demonfire?
Remand
Compulsive Research
Sideboard?
Fortune Thief?
I'm guessing that not all of these are four ofs, but the decklist is almost finished, assuming the usual suspects for mana base that is.
His opponent legitimately had them in play, btw.
Knute (my friend) thought the Pendelaven was a Forest, so he attacks with a Selesnya Guildmage (not enough mana to pump it) and it runs into what becomes a 2/3 saproling. This elicits the first quote. The second quote was spewed when his opponent had no blockers. Knute swings (not for lethal) and runs into a fresh-out-of-the-Vitu-Ghazi-oven saproling.
On the bright side, he went 7-2 and got in as the 8th seed. In the quarters he plays against what I think is his worst matchup - Dragonstorm. The same guy he played beat him 2-0 in the Swiss. At any rate, he wins game 1 (Hey, thanks for the three 2/2s, I'll Devouring Light your Hunted Dragon), then game 2 sides in his only copy of Ivory Mask. Turn 3, he drops the Ivory Mask, THE TURN BEFORE HIS OPPONENT WOULD HAVE GONE OFF.
And that's how you beat Dragonstorm. Render the Hellkites useless.
If someone could fill in the blanks here, that'd be great:
1st: Glare
2nd: Glare
3rd-8th: Dragonstorm, U/W Control, (four unknowns)
I went 2-3 before dropping with Karsten-Bot. Let it be known that I fail at sideboarding.
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I believe the total was 177 people this year. I left after losing in top8, and we were the last match, so I can't confirm top4 results. I hadn't built a deck for the event yet and woke up 2 hours before the event and slapped Solar Pox together, getting the last 4 cards I needed from the dealers 5 minutes before registration ended. Same pox deck on the 'net except I replaced the maindeck Peace of Mind with a 3rd Haakon and totally changed the board. I went 6-0 in the swiss (against U/W/R Firemane control (2-0), R/b sligh/burn (2-1), G/R Gruul (2-0), G/W/u Enforcer/Sky Swallower (2-1), the B/W discard also from the top8 (2-1), and G/B/w aggro-control (2-0), before ID'ing with the Solar Flare and then Solar Pox decks that also made top8.
I made the mistake of playing Persecute over Nightmare Void in the 'board, along with swapping Trickbind (which I didn't have) for Tormod's Crypts and Disenchants. Both would have helped in my top8 match where my replacements really didn't.
I didn't miss the Peace of Mind at all, but a 2nd Skeletal Vampire seemed like it should be in there...it's bat token ability's interaction with Dread Return's flashback won me a number of games.
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I guess my post was the swiss result or something random = =
cause we left after the swiss ended
That list was what my friend told me
Sorry about the mistake of the Top8 List
226 people, though - only 3 chairs left unused in the entire store.
Pete Jahn should have a detailed report on this up on SCG sometime, so there and then's the best place for getting the lowdown on WI.
PS: Adrian Sullivan finished 30th playing a W/U deck utilizing Locket of Yesterdays.
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sb had 3 GA, 3 fortune thief, 4 mana leak and some other stuff I forgot.
THe deck's worst match was glare since all the good glare decks splashed red for battlemage.
The judges put a bounty on Julian's head - a pack to anyone who beat him. To be honest I didn't get to see him play too much, I was busy running around handling questions about Blood Moon.
My friend was playing that Vore deck, and he did indeed make it into the top 8 - and the top 4, losing to the UG Aggro/Control deck.
I find that kinda funny, as I was going to play a variation of it(Angel Stompy, for those of you that suck at naming decks :p), but I couldn't make the 5-hour drive to houston(work :mad:). My version has remands, 12 angels(including 1 akroma), a touch of card-draw, SB'd Weirdings, and LOTS of burn(helix, bolts, blasts, demonfire)... Obviously a different variation than what supposedly won NY, but it still puts a smile on my face. I never discovered the tech of Fortune Thief against glare, sounds like it's pretty effective...
On topic, does anyone know what happened in Texas States? I haven't heard back from the few people I know that actually attended, so if anyone knows who/what made T8 or won, that'd be appreciated.
yes i know, i was unable to collect but that random enforcer hierach deck that beat me managed to beat him. my own flagstones hurt me though. when he blew mine and his up it helped him much more as my mana being only 2 colors and lightly red at that were much more stable
i do want to get that U/G beck list, the one with 2 drifter il-dal 4 calls 4 looters and 4 vipers though, i liked the look of it
Who's bad mouthing him? I'm glad he won.
I ended up finding a confiscate and IGNORANT BLISS in my backpack and stuck them in my sideboard because they were on color, and the first round was already up, so I just decided a bad sideboard was better than no sideboard. Its funny because I wasnt planning on playing confiscate, but 3 rounds in a row (including the quaterfinals) i let my opponent resolve akroma, dropped a hellkite on endstep, and them confiscated akroma, swung for 11 and demonfired for the win. I actually want confiscates in the board not because of that.
Edit: i also played 9, yes NINE! control mirrors in a row, and learned exactly how important mana advantage is in control mirrors. Clue: its really important.
Hopefully i will have a swelling of pride sometime soon..........
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Paul won? Awesome!!! I had to leave before the final match. In one game in the third or so round, the opponent fettered his glare of subdual and Paul naturalized the glare so the opponent wouldn't gain life. Then he drew another glare next turn... lol. He told me his deck was just something he threw together the night before and he just expected to have fun. He sided out thallids every match. And that hour of reckoning for the win was hilarious.
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On to the best results:
1st
My friend took the tournament with an unorthodox solar flare build that run 4xShadowmage infiltrator main (turned out amazing in most matchups). The mvp card in the finals was a Garza zol plague queen that took his opponent completely off guard, bashed in and drew him a crucial card that sealed the game.
2nd
...was a pretty standard build of u/w snow control that run Windreavers as finishers and had a backup plan with Sacred mesa.
3rd
...was, once again, solar flare.
4th
...was a urzatron build with lots of signets that won with SSS usually after a Wildfire. I had an amazing loss against this deck. I dropped him to 2 with fast aggressive creatures and burn only to get Demonfired for 22. Scary.
5th
...was a r/g Gruul beats deck that run Stormbind as a late game answer to control, but was otherwise a pretty standard deck.
Control is obviously king in the new format. Unfortunately, there were no Dragonstorm nor Monoblack discard decks in my area. I really wanted to see their performance.
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Didn't manage to stay to see the top 8 but top 8 decks as far as I can remember were
G/R Land D
Solar Pox
2x Glare
Dragonstorm
U/G Aggro
2x Some form of solar flare.
All in all not a good place to play inconsistant 3x mana relient decks haha.
Well I'm Glad I lost to the State Champ (I played you round six with the Haakon/Knight Control). Stromgald Crusader was the VIP in my deck all day with his protection from white. I'll post a decklist later as right now I am at my place of employment.
I never played against her, but walking around it seemed every third match or so there was a Firemane in play.
No problem . I think the other Solar Pox was 1st after swiss, and then I was 4th and the Solar Flare 5th. Not sure about the rest of the Swiss standings though, I didn't pay much attention after I confirmed I made top8 and was playing the Flare deck.
And I just checked and per the DCI there was 178 in attendance to start the tourney.
UGW aggro control (snakes,momentary blinks, hierarchs, etc.)
4 Color Garagon Balance Combo Control (A Jason Simard Original, very good deck)
BWR Firemane Angel
BWG Beach House
GWr Glare (splash red for Flame Fusillade)
Sligh (yes , straight red sligh!)
Solar Pox (maybe x 2?)
And something else that I don't know.