Life Outside PLT1

JW Experience in Auckland Regional (BR)

The turn out was less than I expected probably because the competition was quite high for the Auckland Regional 2007. Continue reading JW Experience in Auckland Regional (BR)…

Auckland Regionals 9th of June

Auckland Regionals is fast approaching in…….Auckland. Details at http://forums.gameplayer.co.nz/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=3828 I was wondering who at PLT1 is thinking on attending this card slingling event Continue reading Auckland Regionals 9th of June…

Brief FNM report

Ok, this is at Jawyei’s request, a brief battle report for FNM 18 May, Future-Sight constructed.

There were two dissapointments about the ‘tournament’, firstly it was not sanctioned because it allowed Future Sight cards (admittedly I was one of two people to run a FS card - Magus of the Vineyard in my case) , and secondly only six people played, so there weren’t any exciting prizes either (if 8 people had played the winner would have received a FS and a random Kamigawa booster). Continue reading Brief FNM report…

Road to Regionals Northland BR

Well Road to Regionals happened on the 7th of April and I went along to participate in sanctioned event that went a lot better than I thought. It was a small turn out but when the event which was primary for Yugi Oh, the MTG turnout was larger ^_^

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Road to Regionals/Nationals

Ok people it nationals has a date set in Gameplayer: MTG National Champs confirmed for August 11 & 12 in Auckland.

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Somebody playtest this

Inspired by opening 3 timbermares on prerelease saturday; here’s some MONOGREEN BURN.

I designed this deck after laying in bed for about 10 minutes and getting up at 4 in the morning and drafting a decklist. I haven’t changed a single card specified in that blur of half-assed stupor.

creatures
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3 Llanowar Elves
4 Uktabi Drake
4 Ashcoat Bear
4 Scryb Ranger
4 Primal Forcemage
3 Timbermare

non-creatures
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4 Giant Growth
4 Sprout
3 Seal of Primordium
3 Search for Tomorrow
2 Harmonize

lands
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22 Forest

Yeah, this deck is built around the idea of turn 1 elf, turn 2 primal forcemage (Anyone up for an extremely unlikely 4 Uktabi drakes on turn 3?).
After that, it’s mass hasted green burn or EoT flash creatures for a free giant growth on your turn. You can say that this is pretty much like Mono-Green Aggro with less consistency and more “COMBAT MATH? FUCK THAT SHIT.”

Monochrome Standard, Part one: Red

Monochrome Planar Chaos Standard, Part one: Red
Introduction:
The type 2 tournament scene is dominated by fancy lands these days: shocklands, painlands, karoo lands, and the average deck has $150+ worth of land in it. For me this is extreme, and I dislike spending that much money on so few cards that just provide mana. Call me stingy, or poor. Anyway, this is going to be a brief series of articles on building decks that are monochrome. Monochrome is very interesting because you need to rely completely on the strengths and weaknesses of a particular colour, and, due to the absence of dual lands, it’s also a heck of a lot cheaper. For each article I will therefore look at two deck options: a more expensive deck that aims to be semi-competitive, and a budget deck which should be more fun to play (budget means we’ll try to stay under the $20 mark, roughly the price of a preconstructed deck). I’ll also have a brief look at some of the ideas Planar Chaos gives us.
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Pink sleaves

DarkSentinel was here

I went to the Planar Chaos prerelease today with Simon and Josh.

Jeremy’s R/G 40 card limited deck:

• 8x Mountain
• 7x Forest
• (TS)
• Goblin Skycutter
• Lightning Axe
• Firemaw Kavu
• Coal Stoker
• Browbeat
• Bogardan Rager
• Ghitu Firebreathing
• (PC)
• 2x Brute Force
• Pyrohemia
• Needlepeak Spider
• Dead // Gone
• Dust Corona
• (TS)
• Durkwood Baloth
• Krosan Cloudscraper
• Sporesower Thallid
• Penumbra Spider
• Æther Web
• Gemhide Sliver
• (PC)
• Essence Warden
• Giant Dustwasp
• Utopia Vow
• 2 Uktabi Drake
• Evolution Charm

People seem to pick Blue/Black. I don’t know why, might be because they get flashy rares or something and build their entire decks around it, but they tend to be unable to support it with enough removal. Also nobody was running hard counterspells, regardless of whether they got them or not. For those who don’t know I went 4/1

Analysing (and attempting to beat) the Standard Meta-Game: WIP

Last updated: 30/01/07
The Meta-Game is what people are playing. Beat the meta-game and you will win most of your matches!

Disclaimer: I’m wrong. Read on at your own risk.
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Poor Man’s White Weenie

So White Weenie is fun. And if you have Savannah Lions, Soltari Priest, Paladin en-Vec and Ghostway (among others) it becomes really good. But. I don’t have any of those cards. I don’t even have Squire. So I would like to try something more interesting: White Weenie in TimeSpiral Standard (using no Rares):

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