GP Baltimore Day 1 Undefeated Decks
GP Baltimore Top 8 Decklists
Comments: What happen to all the Birthing Pods, Wolf Run Ramp/Delver Spirits(in top 8) decks!? I think the reasoning will be perhaps that the Birthing Pod is not good enough and the people had hate out for Wolf Run and Spirits after that strong showing in the Pro Tour. Corrosive Gales answers Spirits while UB Control will triumph Wolf Run according to Paulo Victor Damo da Rosa.
PT DKA's "real" Top Standard Decks
Comments: dgschess pointed out that the Pro Tour scores consisted of constructed and draft matches, thus there may be players who did not do well in draft but had a solid constructed showing with their decks. His list shows the top performing decks.
Showing posts with label top 8. Show all posts
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Sunday, March 4, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Pro Tour Dark Ascension Aftermath: Videos, Fantasy Score and Budget Top Decks
The Pro Tour has been over for quite a few days and it was the first time I manage to watch high Tournament-level Magic videos over YouTube. In case you missed it or the links are too small to noticed, you'll find all the links on the top half of this page, above the tournament playoff table. Being able to watch Jon Finkel play is fantastic!
My Fantasy Score was 1933 and I ranked 1311. The results are here. The cards I called wrongly were non-basic land, artifact, sorcery and Planeswalker. I went for Moorland Haunt but I totally missed out that UW is going to be very popular with Humans and Delvers. For Artifact, I chose Ratchet Bomb over Swords of War and Peace because I went with the thought that both Offensive (in sideboard) and Defensive decks will use it but it only came second to the Swords. My sorcery was Green Sun Zenith which should be Ponder. Lastly, I called the wrong Garruk.
Anyway, the most important things I want to point out in this post relates to the "Top 98"decks of the Pro Tour. I hope I did not miscount as it is an awful long scroll down the page. These came in with 18 points and above. Other than the many Wolf-Runs and Delvers and Humans, I found a few Hellrider/Huntmaster GR decks (Ctr+f to search for Hellrider). I reckon they are the centerpiece because they are 4-ofs in the deck. It looks like creature beatdown with burn and I'm guessing it is a midgame-focused deck? I'm also liking the UB control deck run by Lukas Jaklovsky and Robert Jurkovic (look for their names), which I read came in 9th and 10th, I think. The most compelling information that I dug from all that scrutinizing is that there are decks that do not have a single Mythic rare!
The information might not be something new as I have not read a whole lot of top deck lists from top tournament but for the budget-consiouse players, this deck-lists are definitely very attractive. However, they all have blue and contain Snapcaster Mages so... Look for Bernd Brendmhl's UR Delver deck and Jon Finkel's Delver-Spirits, which is credited as Sam Black's creation. Delver-Spirits in particular are Top 8 decks.
It is important to note this variant of Delver do seem to be built specifically to go against other standard Delver decks, hence Swords were replaced with Artifact/Enchantment-hate mainboard. It still does well overall as the core of Delver is still in there. There is another similarly built deck I remember seeing over at a StarCity Games tournament that had around 2 Geist of Saint Traft. Very importantly, you cannot dismiss the fact that the 2 decks that made it to Top 8 were run by Magic Hall of Fame-rs (Read: Magic Pros of the highest level, therefore other player's experience may vary). I still believe this Delver-Spirits deck will be fairly powerful and worth building.
My Fantasy Score was 1933 and I ranked 1311. The results are here. The cards I called wrongly were non-basic land, artifact, sorcery and Planeswalker. I went for Moorland Haunt but I totally missed out that UW is going to be very popular with Humans and Delvers. For Artifact, I chose Ratchet Bomb over Swords of War and Peace because I went with the thought that both Offensive (in sideboard) and Defensive decks will use it but it only came second to the Swords. My sorcery was Green Sun Zenith which should be Ponder. Lastly, I called the wrong Garruk.
Anyway, the most important things I want to point out in this post relates to the "Top 98"decks of the Pro Tour. I hope I did not miscount as it is an awful long scroll down the page. These came in with 18 points and above. Other than the many Wolf-Runs and Delvers and Humans, I found a few Hellrider/Huntmaster GR decks (Ctr+f to search for Hellrider). I reckon they are the centerpiece because they are 4-ofs in the deck. It looks like creature beatdown with burn and I'm guessing it is a midgame-focused deck? I'm also liking the UB control deck run by Lukas Jaklovsky and Robert Jurkovic (look for their names), which I read came in 9th and 10th, I think. The most compelling information that I dug from all that scrutinizing is that there are decks that do not have a single Mythic rare!
The information might not be something new as I have not read a whole lot of top deck lists from top tournament but for the budget-consiouse players, this deck-lists are definitely very attractive. However, they all have blue and contain Snapcaster Mages so... Look for Bernd Brendmhl's UR Delver deck and Jon Finkel's Delver-Spirits, which is credited as Sam Black's creation. Delver-Spirits in particular are Top 8 decks.
It is important to note this variant of Delver do seem to be built specifically to go against other standard Delver decks, hence Swords were replaced with Artifact/Enchantment-hate mainboard. It still does well overall as the core of Delver is still in there. There is another similarly built deck I remember seeing over at a StarCity Games tournament that had around 2 Geist of Saint Traft. Very importantly, you cannot dismiss the fact that the 2 decks that made it to Top 8 were run by Magic Hall of Fame-rs (Read: Magic Pros of the highest level, therefore other player's experience may vary). I still believe this Delver-Spirits deck will be fairly powerful and worth building.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Pro Tour Dark Ascension Top 8 Deck-lists are out!
Here.
Some of my notes on the list:
- No Planeswalker in any decks, especially Sorin.
- 4 Delver decks, 3 Wolf-Run decks and a Birthing Pod deck
- Huntmaster of the Fells, Drogskol Captain, Lingering Souls and Evolving Wilds are the Dark Ascension Cards that are very popular, and in that particular order, in my opinion.
I missed out choosing Huntmaster of the Fells for the Magic Fantasy Pro Tour Card Roster. It is definitely looking to be the Most Valuable Card of the tournament and of Dark Ascension. The Top 8 matches have not been played at this time of writing and I'm rooting for Jon Finkel to win as I'm heard of him since the yesteryears of Magic!
Some of my notes on the list:
- No Planeswalker in any decks, especially Sorin.
- 4 Delver decks, 3 Wolf-Run decks and a Birthing Pod deck
- Huntmaster of the Fells, Drogskol Captain, Lingering Souls and Evolving Wilds are the Dark Ascension Cards that are very popular, and in that particular order, in my opinion.
I missed out choosing Huntmaster of the Fells for the Magic Fantasy Pro Tour Card Roster. It is definitely looking to be the Most Valuable Card of the tournament and of Dark Ascension. The Top 8 matches have not been played at this time of writing and I'm rooting for Jon Finkel to win as I'm heard of him since the yesteryears of Magic!
Sunday, January 15, 2012
MTG: Holding the Line with Haunted Humans
Huanted Humans is a MTG Worlds 2011 top 8 deck involving White Human Weenies backed by Mana Leak, Hero of Bladehold, Geist of Saint Traft and Moorland Haunt. Those cards alone are threats on their own and provided a better-rounded strategy to White Weenies.
Check out the article by the deck's creator, Craig Wescoe.
A lot of the deck can be built from 2 copies of "Hold the Line" Innistrad Event Decks.
Check out the article by the deck's creator, Craig Wescoe.
A lot of the deck can be built from 2 copies of "Hold the Line" Innistrad Event Decks.
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