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GPT Portland - Twin Falls, Idaho

Submitted by peteyJ on August 5, 2010 - 8:52pm

I was able to top 8 with this pool, and thought I had a great shot at winning the whole thing. I felt I got hosed in the semi's, and was disappointed to not have three byes. Congrats to Steve Canty for winning those. I was really disappointed with this pool at first because the rares were just so bad! 2x Leyline, 2x Land, Elvish Archdruid and Camptivating Vampire. Not to mention 3x Incite, 2x Pyretic Ritual, and 2x Goldenglow Moth. After briefly looking through it, I thought I was doomed! But upon sorting it out, it was not as terrible as I initially thought and figured I could top 8 given the small field of 17-18.

1x Lightning Bolt
1x Pyroclasm
1x Fling
1x Ember Hauler
1x Goblin Tunneler
1x Goblin Piker
2x Chandra's Spitfire
2x Manic Vandal
1x Canyon Minotaur
1x Volcanic Strength
3x Incite
2x Pyretic Ritual
1x Bloodcrazed Goblin

1x Mighty Leap
1x Excommunicate
1x Inspired Charge
2x Infantry Veteran
1x Serra Ascendant
1x Ajani's Pridemate
1x Palace Guard
1x Wild Griffin
1x Assault Griffin
1x Serra Angel
1x Solemn Offering
2x Goldenglow Moth
1x Squadron Hawk
1x Holy Strength
1x Celestial Purge

1x Doom Blade
1x Deathmark
1x Duress
1x Viscera Seer
1x Leyline of the Void
1x Captivating Vampire
1x Stabbing Pain
1x Sign in Blood
1x Barony Vampire
1x Bloodthrone Vampire
1x Nightwing Shade

1x Brindle Boar
1x Hunters' Feast
1x Primal Cocoon
1x Dryad's Favor
1x Elvish Archdruid
2x Giant Spider
1x Yavimaya Wurm
1x Spined Wurm
2x Greater Basilisk
2x Cultivate

1x Preordain
1x Leyline of Anticipation
1x Merfolk Spy
1x Tome Scour
1x Armored Cancrix
2x Cancel
1x Harbor Serpent
1x Unsummon
1x Flashfreeze
1x Negate
1x Foresee
1x Mind Control
1x wall of Frost
1x Scroll Thief
1x Cloud Elemental
2x Azure Drake
1x Water Servant

1x Juggernaut
1x Gargoyle Sentinel
1x Crystal Ball
1x Stone Golem

1x Terramorphic Expanse
1x Dragonskull Summit
1x Sunpetal Grove

I was going to post the decklist I played, but would like to see how other people may have built this. I went 3-1-1 with this pool, beating some very good decks. I will post my decklist after everybody has had a chance to look at this and put some thought into it.

On a sidenote... do you ever board Dryad's Favor??

Who was your one loss? lol

Submitted by Daniel Gardner on August 12, 2010 - 11:01am.

Who was your one loss? lol being serious though you got screwed or something I watched your deck against my brother and your deck was far more legit. Though he punted.

The list I played

Submitted by peteyJ on August 11, 2010 - 1:53pm.

Here is the list I played to a 3-1-1 record (the draw was intentional)

1x Negate
1x Foresee
1x Mind Control
1x Wall of Frost
1x Scroll Thief
1x Cloud Elemental
2x Azure Drake
1x Water Servant

2x Giant Spider
1x Yavimaya Wurm
1x Spined Wurm
2x Greater Basilisk
2x Cultivate

1x Doom Blade

1x Juggernaut
1x Gargoyle Sentinel
1x Crystal Ball
1x Stone Golem

8x Forest
8x Island
1x Terramorphic
1x Sunpetal Grove

With green I get mana fix and now from the board I can bring in:
Celestial Purge
Death Mark
Pyroclasm

Merfolk Spy sucka!

Submitted by djactionman on August 6, 2010 - 4:38pm.

The blue is a given. Then you are sitting there looking at some griffins and an angel versus the doubles in green, the 2 spiders, 2 wurms, 2 basilisk, etc. So I think green moves up. You can gain back the ground versus the u/w decks and can win the battle on the ground versus the other green players.

nice blue

Submitted by hodgepodge0 on August 6, 2010 - 9:25am.

Yeah, this pool doens't have any bombs, but the blue is amazing and you have four artifacts to play too. After choosing blue you can't really go wrong with the second color. I'd go with White for the flyers and veterans. You have answers to fatties, but can't stop any good utility creatures. I like counterspells in this format to handle any bombs.

Preordain
Unsummon
2 Infantry Veterans
Negate
Gargoyle Sentinel
Crystal Ball
Cloud Elemental
Scroll Thief
Wild Griffin
Excommunicate
Cancel
Wall of Frost
Juggernaut
2 Azure Drake
Foresee
Water Servant
Assault Griffin
Stone Golem
Mind Control
Serra Angel
Harbor Serpent

I guess this is how I would do it, classic u/w flyers with good ground blockers. No good two drops. A Pegasus or two would have been great, but I don't want to play Pridemage. Kind of heavy at the 3/4 spots, but I think 17 land is fine with Preordain, Crystal Ball, Foresee to help. I almost maindecked Solemn Offering but we have two counterspells so I went with Unsummon instead, that will do the same thing most of the time (auras), but could also affect double blocks or counter Act of Treason. I put in the Scroll Thief over the Palace Guard because of the potential upside compare to just one more toughness and an ability that is rarely needed. Especially since we have two Vets, Excomm, and Mind Control to screw up their blocking plans.