Life Outside PLT1

Primers for PTQ: Berlin

Preparing for PTQ: Berlin
As stated elsewhere, I can’t actually make it to the Wellington PTQ, and the Auckland one will include Eventide so is entirely a different ballgame. With that in mind, I thought I’d share some more fruits of my deck design, and testing, of the last few weeks. I must mention that the deck design may be a bit more radical than usual (:o) since I’ve been consciously avoiding a tribal theme to the newer decks. Also my playtesting has been limited to around 10 games per deck, due to time contrainsts posed by impending (and current) exams. And since I can’t concentrate on study at the moment, you get this literary masterpiece instead. I must mention that my phone and internet went out around midday today (sunday), and according to Telecom this fault affects around 200 people in my area and will be resolved by around 1900 hours on Tuesday (55 hours later). I’m uncertain what sort of fault takes two working days to fix, but later on Telecom sent me the following helpful text message: “If you service is not restored by: 19:00pm on 24.3.06 call 120.”. That’s right, NZ’s biggest telecommunications provider thinks it’s currently March two years ago, so I probably shouldn’t be surprised that their service is a touch on the unsatisfactory side. I tend to upload this tomorrow at Uni, so if you’re reading this that is probably what happened; additionally I don’t have a chance to check decklists online, so am working from memory, and personal notes.
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Shadowmoor in Lorwyn Block Constructed

Alright, so at time of writing, the Lakers are 2 games down against the Celtics; close games though, so maybe the home team advantage will work for the Lakers in the next 3.

Moving right along to Lorwyn block constructed with Shadowmoor…
While people were busy with Standard, munching on Quick’n’Toast and hating on Faeries, I was busy messing around with Vivids, Reflecting Pool, and Bitterblossom. Errr… The point being that Lorwyn has a lot of powerful cards that are pretty much defining Standard right now, and thus should have a heavy impact on Block constructed.
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Planning for PTQ Berlin (with Shadowmoor)

This was the initial planning thread for PLT1’s preparation for PTQ: Berlin, with Shadowmoor. Since it is now semi-obsolette we’re opening it to show our planning process.
The decks here are not final, nor are they necessarily good/viable/playable.
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Regionals 2008

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Some Shadowmoor Standard decks

Some ideas now that Shadowmoor has hit Standard:

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Regionals 2008, Team Whangarei

Team whangarei has two decks in contension

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Tog in Extended

Thinking about playing in PTQ: Hollywood on the 9th of Febuary and the easiest deck to put together is a tog deck. At the moment most of the cards are B/U and thinking about going for the more control, upheveal + zombie infestation tog. Work in progress at the moment, just need some input on what list or what I should definitely have in the deck. Will update later with maybe a suedo list

23 January 2008: So now I think specter chant will be better

6 Feburary 2008: So current decklist is as follows, not sure on the sideboard though
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DS wants RDW 4 NIC2007

Name: JW RDW
//Land
2 Kher Keep
3 Molten Slagheap
3 Keldon Megaliths
14 Mountain
//Non-Creature
3 Browbeat
3 Goblin Lore
4 Threaten
4 Fiery Temper
4 Rift Bolt
2 Thunderblade Charge
//Creatures
4 Gathan Raiders
4 Blood Knight
3 Mogg Fanatic
3 Reckless Wurm
4 Greater Gargadon
SB: 4 Word of Seizing
SB: 3 Sulfur Elemental
SB: 4 Cryoclasm
SB: 4 Fortune Thief

Sideboard could use work as you probably don’t need 4 Fortune Thieves or 4 Word of Seizing. Maybe something like pyrocasm for the white weanies. Hostility would be good in this deck. This still isn’t very good vs lifegain but in NIC2007 meta the best life gain is sun’s bounty or matyr of sands. If vs sun’s bounty aim burn to head, vs matyr, well there’s not that much recursion going with her so maybe use sudden shock? or use firebreathing fat creature

Smelly Green Imortals

Pelvic Thrust!

Timespiral Block Constructed

Well I’ve created a number of rather odd very rogue decks for TSP Block Constructed, and here is the first: Pyrohemia.

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