Blightning Specter Beatdown

by Jacob Van Lunen
Building on a Budget, Oct. 21, 2009

Maindeck
4 Bloodbraid Elf
2 Hypnotic Specter
3 Madrush Cyclops
4 Putrid Leech
4 Sedraxis Specter
4 Sprouting Thrinax

4 Blightning
3 Burst Lightning
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Terminate

2 Akoum Refuge
4 Ancient Ziggurat
4 Crumbling Necropolis
3 Forest
1 Island
3 Mountain
4 Savage Lands
3 Swamp

Dark Depths

by Paulo Vitor Dama da Rosa
Top 8, PT Austin 2009

Maindeck
4 Dark Confidant
4 Vampire Hexmage
3 Vendilion Clique

3 Beseech the Queen
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Chrome Mox
3 Engineered Explosives
4 Muddle the Mixture
3 Repeal
4 Thoughtseize

4 Dark Depths
1 Ghost Quarter
4 River of Tears
4 Sunken Ruins
1 Swamp
4 Tolaria West
2 Underground River
4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Sideboard
4 Bitterblossom
2 Damnation
1 Doom Blade
1 Meloku the Clouded Mirror
1 Pithing Needle
1 Slaughter Pact
2 Threads of Disloyalty
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Yixlid Jailer

Boros Bushwhacker

by Christian Calcano
2nd Place, SCG 5k Philadelphia

Maindeck
Creatures - 25
4x Goblin Guide
4x Elite Vanguard
4x Steppe Lynx
4x Plated Geopede
4x Kor Skyfisher
2x Goblin Bushwacker
3x Ranger of Eos

Spells - 12
4x Lightning Bolt
4x Burst Lightning
4x Path to Exile

Lands - 23
4x Arid Mesa
4x Marsh Flats
4x Scalding Tarn
4x Teetering Peaks
4x Plains
3x Mountain

Sideboard
4x Harm's Way
4x Celestial Purge
3x Baneslayer Angel
3x Magma Spray
1x Ranger of Eos

Luminarch Planeswalker Control

by Calosso Fuentes
Top 16, StarCityGames.com $5,000 Standard Open
October 11, 2009

Maindeck
4 Ajani Vengeant
2 Chandra Nalaar
3 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
3 Jace Beleren

4 Luminarch Ascension
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Negate
4 Path to Exile
1 Volcanic Fallout
4 Day of Judgment
2 Martial Coup

2 Island
3 Mountain
6 Plains
4 Arid Mesa
4 Glacial Fortress
3 Rupture Spire
4 Scalding Tarn

Sideboard
4 Baneslayer Angel
4 Celestial Purge
2 Flashfreeze
1 Negate
1 Volcanic Fallout
1 Telemin Performance
1 Chandra Nalaar
1 Jace Beleren

Sphinx Control

by Gavin Verhey
Flow of Ideas, Starcitygames.com

Maindeck
3 Sphinx Of Lost Truths

4 Courier's Capsule
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Negate
2 Terminate
3 Cruel Ultimatum
4 Pyroclasm
4 Wretched Banquet
3 Chandra Nalaar
4 Jace Beleren


4 Island
5 Mountain
4 Swamp
4 Crumbling Necropolis
1 Dragonskull Summit
4 Drowned Catacomb
1 Magosi, The Waterveil
4 Scalding Tarn

Sideboard
4 Countersquall
3 Essence Scatter
1 Negate
2 Terminate
2 Liliana Vess
2 Haunting Echoes
1 Magosi, The Waterveil

Jund Vengeant

Deck Designer: Oliver, Piloted by the author
Rank: 1st (Oct. 3 tournament, Magic Iloilo)
Record: 6-0

// Lands
4 [ALA] Jungle Shrine
4 [ZEN] Swamp (1)
4 [ALA] Savage Lands
4 [M10] Terramorphic Expanse
3 [M10] Dragonskull Summit
1 [ZEN] Plains (1)
4 [ZEN] Forest (1)
2 [ZEN] Mountain (1)

// Creatures
4 [ALA] Sprouting Thrinax
3 [ALA] Broodmate Dragon
1 [ARB] Enlisted Wurm
4 [ARB] Bloodbraid Elf
4 [ARB] Putrid Leech

// Spells
3 [ALA] Ajani Vengeant
3 [ARB] Bituminous Blast
4 [ARB] Maelstrom Pulse
4 [M10] Lightning Bolt
4 [ALA] Blightning

// Sideboard
SB: 3 [M10] Duress
SB: 3 [ARB] Terminate
SB: 2 [ARB] Thought Hemorrhage
SB: 3 [ALA] Jund Charm
SB: 4 [M10] Great Sable Stag