Thursday, August 26, 2010

Mono Black Control

by JosueS
3rd place, Magic-League Standard Trial 24/08/2010

Maindeck
4 Black Knight
3 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
4 Gatekeeper of Malakir
4 Vampire Nighthawk

4 Sign in Blood
3 Corrupt
4 Tendrils of Corruption
3 Marsh Casualties
3 Duress
3 Mind Sludge

17 Swamp
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Marsh Flats

Sideboard
4 Disfigure
4 Vampire Hexmage
3 Deathmark
4 Malakir Bloodwitch

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Jund

by DARKING
2nd place, Magic-League Standard Trial 02/07/10

Maindeck
4 Raging Ravine
3 Swamp
4 Savage Lands
1 Lavaclaw Reaches
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Dragonskull Summit
3 Forest
2 Mountain
1 Rootbound Crag

2 Siege-Gang Commander
1 Broodmate Dragon
4 Sprouting Thrinax
4 Bloodbraid Elf
4 Putrid Leech

2 Sarkhan the Mad
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Bituminous Blast
3 Terminate
3 Maelstrom Pulse
4 Blightning

Sideboard
1 Maelstrom Pulse
3 Duress
2 Prophetic Prism
4 Goblin Ruinblaster
3 Dragon's Claw
2 Thought Hemorrhage

Monday, June 28, 2010

Red Deck Wins

by Joey Mispagel
1st, StarCityGames.com Standard Open tournament in St. Louis, Missouri

Maindeck
Creatures
4 Ball Lightning
4 Goblin Guide
4 Hell's Thunder
4 Hellspark Elemental
2 Kargan Dragonlord
Instants
4 Burst Lightning
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Searing Blaze
4 Staggershock
Sorceries
2 Earthquake

Basic Lands
8 Mountain
Lands
4 Arid Mesa
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Smoldering Spires
4 Teetering Peaks

Sideboard
4 Dragon's Claw
3 Goblin Ruinblaster
2 Punishing Fire
2 Chandra Nalaar
2 Forked Bolt
2 Quenchable Fire

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

UG Turboland

by Llowle
4th Place, Magic-League Standard Trial 22/06/10

Mainboard
4 Tectonic Edge
4 Khalni Garden
6 Forest
5 Island
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Halimar Depths
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Verdant Catacombs

4 Avenger of Zendikar
4 Oracle of Mul Daya
3 Lotus Cobra

2 All Is Dust
4 Explore
2 Mind Spring
4 Time Warp
4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Rampant Growth

Sideboard
1 Mind Spring
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
3 Roil Elemental
4 Fog
2 Mold Shambler
4 Narcolepsy

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Next Level Bant

by Pat Chapin/Brian Kibler

Mainboard
2 Bant Charm
2 Birds of Paradise
4 Celestial Colonnade
1 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
5 Forest
2 Gideon Jura
2 Island
4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Kor Skyfisher
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Noble Hierarch
2 Oblivion Ring
2 Path to Exile
1 Plains
3 Ranger of Eos
2 Scute Mob
3 Sea Gate Oracle
4 Seaside Citadel
1 Stirring Wildwood
3 Sunpetal Grove
4 Vengevine
4 Wall of Omens

Sideboard
2 Deprive
3 Kor Firewalker
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
2 Mind Control
2 Negate
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Path to Exile
1 Pithing Needle
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Wall of Reverence

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Geo-Jund

by CamilleSalat
1st, Magic-league.com 5-15-10 Standard Tournament

Maindeck
4 Evolving Wilds
3 Forest
3 Mountain
4 Raging Ravine
4 Savage Lands
1 Scalding Tarn
3 Swamp
4 Verdant Catacombs

4 Bloodbraid Elf
2 Borderland Ranger
4 Plated Geopede
4 Putrid Leech
4 Siege-Gang Commander
4 Sprouting Thrinax

2 Bituminous Blast
4 Blightning
2 Lightning Bolt
4 Maelstrom Pulse

Sideboard
1 Bituminous Blast
2 Lightning Bolt
1 Burst Lightning
1 Chandra Nalaar
3 Consuming Vapors
2 Doom Blade
1 Island
4 Sedraxis Specter

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Grixis

by Thomas Ma
Standard – PTQ for PT-Amsterdam in Denver

Maindeck
4 Creeping Tar Pit
4 Crumbling Necropolis
2 Lavaclaw Reaches
3 Drowned Catacomb
3 Dragonskull Summit
3 Scalding Tarn
4 Swamp
2 Island
2 Mountain

4 Sedraxis Specter
3 Gatekeeper of Malakir
3 Siege-Gang Commander

4 Blightning
4 Spreading Seas
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Terminate
4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Cruel Ultimatum
2 Staggershock

Sideboard
1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
2 Consuming Vapors
2 Thought Hemorrhage
3 Countersquall
3 Malakir Bloodwitch
4 Goblin Ruinblaster

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Open the Vaults

by Gerry Thompson
SCG Open Atlanta

Maindeck
4 Glassdusk Hulk
2 Sphinx of Lost Truths
4 Wall of Omens

3 See Beyond
2 Jace Beleren
1 Jace the Mind Sculptor
4 Open the Vaults
4 Time Warp
2 Angelsong
2 Pilgrim's Eye
2 Time Sieve
4 Howling Mine
2 Overflowing Chalice
2 UB Borderpost
4 Fieldmist Borderpost

5 Plains
1 Swamp
3 Marsh Flats
9 Island

Sideboard
4 Baneslayer Angel
3 Kor Firewalker
3 Negate
2 Oblivion Ring
2 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Executioner's Capsule

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Red Deck Wins

by Bill Stark

4 Arid Mesa
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
14 Mountain

4 Jackal Familiar
4 Goblin Guide
4 Hellspark Elemental
4 Plated Geopede
4 Ball Lighting
4 Hell's Thunder

4 Lightning Bolt
4 Burst Lightning
4 Searing Blaze

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Boros Bushwhacker

from Magic-league

Maindeck
2 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Teetering Peaks
4 Arid Mesa
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Marsh Flats
4 Plains
6 Mountain

4 Ranger of Eos
4 Steppe Lynx
4 Plated Geopede
4 Goblin Guide
4 Hellspark Elemental
2 Hell's Thunder
2 Goblin Bushwhacker

4 Lightning Bolt
4 Path to Exile
3 Emerge Unscathed

Sideboard
4 Manabarbs
3 Earthquake
4 Kor Firewalker
1 Burst Lightning
3 Oblivion Ring

Mythic Conscription

by Patrick Dickmann
1st place, Nationals Qualifiers Koln, Germany (April 25, 2010)

Maindeck
4 Baneslayer Angel
4 Birds Of Paradise
4 Knight Of The Reliquary
4 Lotus Cobra
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Rhox War Monk
4 Sovereigns Of Lost Alara

2 Elspeth, Knight-errant
3 Jace, The Mind Sculptor
2 Eldrazi Conscription

4 Forest
2 Island
2 Plains
1 Arid Mesa
3 Celestial Colonnade
1 Glacial Fortress
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Sejiri Steppe
2 Stirring Wildwood
2 Sunpetal Grove
1 Tectonic Edge
2 Verdant Catacombs

Sideboard
4 Dauntless Escort
3 Kor Firewalker
2 Qasali Pridemage
2 Oblivion Ring
4 Negate

Friday, April 16, 2010

Grixis Aggro

by Chye Yian Hsiang
Top 8, GPT Manila April 11, 2010

Maindeck
4 Sedraxis Specter
4 Slaving Nulls
4 Goblin Ruinblaster
4 Gatekeeper of Malakir

4 Lightning Bolt
4 Blightning
4 Spreading Seas
2 Bituminous Blast
2 Sign in Blood
1 Agony Warp
2 Terminate

4 Crumbling Nercopolis
4 Dragonskull Summit
1 Lavaclaw Reaches
2 Creeping Tar Pit
2 Scalding Tarns
2 Drowned Catacomb
7 Swamp
2 Mountain
1 Island

Sideboard
3 Slave of Bolas
3 Malakir Bloodwitch
2 Deathmark
2 Doomblade
3 Duress
2 Chain Reaction

Thursday, April 8, 2010

UW Tapout Control

by Andrej Rutar
9th place, Grand Prix Brussels 2010

Maindeck
4 Baneslayer Angel
4 Knight of the White Orchid
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria

3 Fieldmist Borderpost
2 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Day of Judgment
3 Martial Coup
3 Mind Spring
3 Path to Exile
3 Oblivion Ring
4 Everflowing Chalice
4 Spreading Seas

4 Celestial Colonnade
4 Glacial Fortress
7 Plains
5 Island
2 Tectonic Edge


Sideboard
3 Celestial Purge
4 Flashfreeze
3 Kor Firewalker
4 Negate
1 Day of Judgment

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

UB Control

by Ehri
2nd Place, April 6 Zendikar Block Constructed trial
Magic-League.com

Maindeck
4 Gatekeeper of Malakir
4 Vampire Nighthawk
3 Abyssal Persecutor
4 Sphinx of Jwar Isle
4 Calcite Snapper

2 Sorin Markov
1 Rite of Replication
4 Smother
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
3 Disfigure
2 Into the Roil

8 Island
9 Swamp
4 Jwar Isle Refuge
4 Creeping Tar Pit
1 Tectonic Edge

Sideboard
3 Tectonic Edge
3 Marsh Casualties
4 Dispel
2 Cancel
2 Vapor Snare
1 Hideous End

UG Ponza

by Richard Berzé
6th place, National Qualifier 2010 - Graz/Austria

Maindeck
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Lotus Cobra
4 Spreading Seas
4 Acidic Slime
4 Mold Shambler
2 Master of the Wild Hunt
2 Wolfbriar Elemental

1 Mind Control
2 Sphinx of Lost Truths
3 Garruk Wildspeaker
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

10 Forest
4 Island
4 Misty Rainforest
2 Verdant Catacombs
3 Tectonic Edge

Sideboard
3 Mind Contol
2 Pithing Needle
3 Great Sable Stag
4 Leatherback Baloth
3 Basilisk Collar

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Nayallies

by Shirai Taiga
Top 8, Worldwake Game Day
Maindeck
4 Arid Mesa
1 Forest
4 Jungle Shrine
3 Mountain
3 Plains
4 Stirring Wildwood
4 Sunpetal Grove

4 Akoum Battlesinger
4 Bloodbraid Elf
2 Dauntless Escort
4 Hada Freeblade
4 Kabira Evangel
4 Kazandu Blademaster
4 Oran-Rief Survivalist
3 Talus Paladin

3 Naya Charm
1 Sarkhan Vol
4 Violent Outburst

Sideboard
1 Basilisk Collar
2 Dauntless Escort
4 Devout Lightcaster
2 Manabarbs
2 Tajuru Archer
4 Tuktuk Scrapper

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Vamps w/ Answers

by Joseph Nusbaum
7th place, Worldwake Game Day - The Arkham Asylum Connecticut
Maindeck
4 Vampire Nighthawk
4 Gatekeeper of Malakir
4 Bloodghast
4 Vampire Nocturnus
3 Quag Vampires
3 Pulse Tracker
2 Malakir Bloodwitch

4 Urge to Feed
4 Maelstrom Pulse
2 Grim Discovery
2 Feast of Blood

1 Plains
2 Forest
4 Marsh Flats
4 Verdant Catacombs
13 Swamp

Sideboard
3 Vampire Hexmage
3 Oblivion Ring
3 Kalastria Highborn
2 Malakir Bloodwitch
2 Feast of Blood
1 Pulse Tracker
1 Quag Vampires

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Mono Red Goblins

by EMerbaum
Top 4, March 9 Standard (T2) Trial tournament, Magic-league.com

Maindeck
4 Warren Instigator
4 Goblin Chieftain
4 Goblin Guide
4 Siege-Gang Commander

4 Lightning Bolt
4 Mark of Mutiny
4 Act of Treason
4 Dragon Fodder
4 Burst Lightning

4 Scalding Tarn
12 Mountain
4 Arid Mesa
2 Teetering Peaks
2 Tectonic Edge

Sideboard
3 Ricochet Trap
3 Unstable Footing
2 Relic of Progenitus
2 Chandra Nalaar
1 Earthquake
4 Goblin Ruinblaster

Friday, March 5, 2010

BR Vamps

by DARKING
Magic-League.com

Maindeck
3 Gatekeeper of Malakir
4 Bloodghast
4 Vampire Nocturnus
4 Vampire Nighthawk
4 Malakir Bloodwitch
3 Kalastria Highborn

4 Lightning Bolt
4 Blightning
3 Bituminous Blast
4 Terminate

1 Crumbling Necropolis
4 Dragonskull Summit
4 Lavaclaw Reaches
4 Verdant Catacombs
9 Swamp
1 Mountain

Sideboard
4 Pithing Needle
4 Black Knight
3 Duress
4 Thought Hemorrhage

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Combo Pyromancer

by Rodrigo Sanchez
3rd place, Open Summer 2010 Cash

Mainboard
3 Scalding Tarn
3 Misty Rainforest
2 Seaside Citadel
4 Jungle Shrine
4 Island
3 Forest
1 Plains
2 Mountain
2 Arid Mesa

4 Pyromancer Ascension
4 Into the Roil
4 Ponder
3 Naya Charm
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Rampant Growth
4 Divination
3 Captured Sunlight
2 Worldly Counsel
4 Time Warp

Sideboard
2 Woolly Thoctar
3 Bloodbraid Elf
4 Rhox War Monk
4 Celestial Purge
2 Negate

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Jund

by Yoshihiko Ikawa
Pro Tour–San Diego Top 8

Maindeck
4 Putrid Leech
4 Sprouting Thrinax
4 Bloodbraid Elf
3 Siege-Gang Commander
2 Broodmate Dragon

4 Blightning
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Terminate
3 Maelstrom Pulse
3 Bituminous Blast

3 Swamp
3 Forest
4 Mountain
4 Savage Lands
4 Raging Ravine
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Dragonskull Summit

Sideboard
4 Goblin Ruinblaster
4 Duress
3 Master of the Wild Hunt
2 Mind Rot
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Liliana Vess

Red Deck Wins

by Jeroen Kanis (NLD)
Pro Tour–San Diego Top 8

Maindeck
4 Goblin Guide
4 Plated Geopede
4 Hell's Thunder
4 Ball Lightning
4 Hellspark Elemental

3 Burst Lightning
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Searing Blaze
3 Earthquake
2 Quenchable Fire

4 Scalding Tarn
4 Arid Mesa
3 Teetering Peaks
13 Mountain

Sideboard
2 Punishing Fire
2 Manabarbs
4 Unstable Footing
3 Dragon's Claw
2 Hellkite Charger
2 Quenchable Fire

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Naya Aggro

by Luis Scott-Vargas
Pro Tour San Diego 2010

Maindeck
4 Ranger of Eos
4 Bloodbraid Elf
1 Dauntless Escort
4 Knight of the Reliquary
2 Stoneforge Mystic
4 Wild Nacatl
4 Noble Hierarch
2 Birds of Paradise
1 Scute Mob

2 Ajani Vengeant
1 Behemoth Sledge
1 Basilisk Collar
3 Path to Exile
3 Lightning Bolt

Land
3 Misty Rainforest
4 Arid Mesa
2 Terramorphic Expanse
5 Forest
2 Mountain
2 Plains
1 Rootbound Crag
2 Raging Ravine
1 Stirring Wildwood
1 Sejiri Steppe
1 Tectonic Edge

Sideboard
2 Manabarbs
2 Qasali Pridemage
1 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Basilisk Collar
1 Behemoth Sledge
1 Goblin Guide
4 Cunning Sparkmage
3 Dauntless Escort

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Ruel Gets Crabs!

by Kyle Sanchez

Maindeck
4 Noble Hierarch
2 Birds of Paradise
4 Hedron Crab
4 Knight of the Reliquary
4 Ranger of Eos

4 Ponder
4 Treasure Hunt
4 Archive Trap
3 Path to Exile
3 Jace, the Mindsculptor

4 Terramorphic Expanse
4 Misty Rainforest
2 Verdant Catacombs
2 Scalding Tarn
2 Island
4 Forest
2 Plains
3 Halimar Depths
1 Celestial Colonnade

Sideboard
1 Path to Exile
4 Wall of Reverence
4 Negate
4 Kor Firewalker
2 Pithing Needle

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

RGB Ramp

by Orgios
1st place, February 8 Standard (T2) Trial, Magic League

Maindeck
4 Savage Lands
4 Raging Ravine
2 Terramorphic Expanse
4 Swamp
3 Forest
2 Mountain
3 Rootbound Crag
3 Dragonskull Summit

1 Broodmate Dragon

1 Sorin Markov
1 Liliana Vess
4 Explore
3 Mind Shatter
3 Chandra Nalaar
2 Lightning Bolt
2 Lavalanche
3 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Terminate
2 Earthquake
4 Violent Ultimatum
3 Garruk Wildspeaker
4 Rampant Growth
1 Volcanic Fallout

Sideboard
1 Maelstrom Pulse
4 Goblin Ruinblaster
2 Duress
4 Vampire Nighthawk
4 Malakir Bloodwitch

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Mystic WW

by Comodope
1st, February 6 Standard Trial Magic-League

Maindeck
4 Path to Exile
2 Behemoth Sledge
1 Basilisk Collar
2 Sigil of Distinction
4 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
4 Knight of the White Orchid
4 Kor Firewalker
4 White Knight
3 Kor Skyfisher
4 Stoneforge Mystic
4 Elite Vanguard

16 Plains
4 Stirring Wildwood
4 Sunpetal Grove

Sideboard
4 Luminarch Ascension
4 Kor Sanctifiers
4 Devout Lightcaster
3 Baneslayer Angel

Monday, February 1, 2010

U/W Turbofog

by Dimitris Mitritsas
8th place, Standard Tournament - BG Thessaloniki

Mainboard
4 Time Warp
2 Sunspring Expedition
4 Safe Passage
1 Path to Exile
4 Jace Beleren
4 Howling Mine
4 Font of Mythos
4 Negate
3 Day of Judgment
2 Archive Trap
4 Angelsong

6 Plains
4 Kabira Crossroads
10 Island
4 Glacial Fortress

Sideboard
2 Pithing Needle
3 Path to Exile
4 Baneslayer Angel
2 Relic of Progenitus
1 Sunspring Expedition
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
2 Wall of Denial

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Grixis Control

by Luis Scott-Vargas

Maindeck
2 Sphinx of Jwar Isle

3 Couriers Capsule
2 Into the Roil
2 Flashfreeze
2 Negate
3 Terminate
1 Burst Lightning
3 Cruel Ultimatum
2 Double Negative
3 Essence Scatter
3 Divination
2 Earthquake
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Sorin Markov

1 Jwar Isle Refuge
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Drowned Catacomb
4 Crumbling Necropolis
3 Island
4 Swamp
4 Dragonskull Summit
2 Mountain

Sideboard
4 Vampire Nighthawk
3 Malakir Bloodwitch
2 Flashfreeze
2 Duress
2 Swerve
1 Mind Shatter
1 Negate

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Grixis Control

by Anthony Laflamme
7th place, StarCityGames.com $5,000 Standard Open - Dallas

Maindeck
3 Sphinx of Jwar Isle

3 Courier's Capsule
1 Double Negative
2 Essence Scatter
4 Flashfreeze
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Negate
4 Terminate
1 Sorin Markov
3 Cruel Ultimatum
3 Divination
2 Earthquake
1 Mind Shatter

3 Island
2 Mountain
3 Swamp
4 Crumbling Necropolis
4 Dragonskull Summit
4 Drowned Catacomb
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Terramorphic Expanse

Sideboard
2 Pithing Needle
4 Vampire Nighthawk
2 Mind Control
1 Double Negative
2 Swerve
3 Duress
1 Mind Shatter

Friday, January 8, 2010

Vampires + Red

by Cassius Weathersby
Top 16, StarCityGames.com $5,000 Standard Open - Los Angeles
January 3, 2010

Maindeck
4 Black Knight
4 Bloodghast
4 Gatekeeper of Malakir
2 Malakir Bloodwitch
4 Vampire Nighthawk

4 Lightning Bolt
4 Terminate
4 Blightning
3 Earthquake
4 Sign in Blood

11 Swamp
4 Akoum Refuge
4 Crumbling Necropolis
4 Dragonskull Summit

Sideboard
1 Malakir Bloodwitch
2 Vampire Hexmage
3 Manabarbs
1 Earthquake
4 Mind Rot
4 Slave of Bolas

Mono-Red Aggro by Zach Lindler

Top 16, StarCityGames.com $5,000 Standard Open - Los Angeles

Maindeck
4 Ball Lightning
4 Goblin Guide
4 Hell's Thunder
4 Hellspark Elemental
4 Plated Geopede

4 Burst Lightning
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Earthquake
1 Elemental Appeal
4 Quenchable Fire

11 Mountain
4 Arid Mesa
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Teetering Peaks

Sideboard
3 Dragon's Claw
4 Goblin Ruinblaster
3 Manabarbs
2 Unstable Footing
3 Banefire