We are thinking about drafting at Glens this saturday from 1. Who’s interested (M11).

Ok, nobody has expressed interest so i don’t think this is happening..

The new base set M11 released soon.
On Sunday 1st Aug I will be hosting a Two Headed Giant Atogatog.

Teams can be organised before the day, but will be finalised on the when we know all players who are coming.
Each team will receive 8 packs with which to build two 40 card decks. Arguments over who gets what card to be held after the event :D.

Feel free to arrive from 10.30 onwards. Packs can be opened when your teammate arrives. Games to start at 12.00.
We will play either 4 or 5 rounds depending on the number of players.

As usual there will be packs for sale at the end of the day.

Confirmed players:

Steve Tuck

Liam Joslin-Tuck

Greg Tuck (who has offered to miss out if we have an odd number of players)

Jeff Gannon

Chris Every

Jack Clarke

Antony Pederson

Daniel Bird

Brendan Cousins

Meg Spooner

Damien Madigan

Carey Le Bas

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We’ll be hosting a draft this coming Friday night, our place at 7pm. Let me know below if you’re coming.

It’s been too long, so I’m also keen to draft next Friday 25th evening. Are people interested?

Confirmed for:

Friday 25th:

• Michael Wybrow
• Damien Madigan
• Steve Tuck
• Jack Clarke
• Rob Clarke
• Scott Annable

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Here is the latest incarnation of the RG land death deck. Any comments are appreciated. I will be playing it on Saturday and Sunday. I am sure everyone will play against it at some point.

Terastodon Control

[Creatures] (16) 4 Birds of Paradise 4 Master of the Wild Hunt 3 Oracle of Mul Daya 3 Acidic Slime 2 Terastodon [/Creatures] (0) [Spells] (20) 3 Path to Exile 4 Trace of Abundance 4 Awakening Zone 4 Roiling Terrain 3 Eldrazi Monument 2 Earthquake [/Spells] (0) [Land] (24) 3 Tectonic Edge 4 Arid Mesa 4 Raging Ravine 1 Stirring Wildwood 8 Forest 3 Mountain 1 Plains [/Land] (0)

[Sideboard] (15) 1 Earthquake 4 Lightning Bolt 1 Eldrazi Monument 2 Mold Shambler 4 Nest Invader 2 Ajani Vengeant 1 Acidic Slime [/Sideboard] (0)

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Tournament Report

[cardlist title=”4 Colour Zoo”]
4 Wild Nacatl
4 Kird Ape
3 Loam Lion
4 Tarmogoyf
3 Qasali Pridemage
3 Knight of the Reliquary
2 Ranger of Eos
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Lightning Helix
4 Path to exile
2 Bant Charm
1 Umezawas Jitte
4 Arid Mesa
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Misty Rainforest
6 Rav Duals
3 Basics
1 Stirring Wildwood[/cardlist]

Round One
Hypergenesis
Game one I came out strong with Creatures while he just stocked up on his lands. I soon won the game. I had not played against Hypergenesis before and so even though I knew it played stock up lands I didn’t assume he was playing it. I only partially sideboarded for it.

I wasn’t punished for my mistake though as he combo’d on his turn two before I could use any of my hate.

I then sideboarded fully for game three and my hate was pretty good. Negates, Meddling Mages and Ethersworn canonist. I played a turn two ethersworn canonist to which he said “oh yeah, I forgot about that guy”. I bashed away and eventually played a tarmogoyf as a 1/2. He suspended a Hypergenesis. After Bashing again I played another tarmagoyf, and on his turn he topdecked Firespout wiping out my board.

I had been playing a land a turn so far and so I played a 7/7 Knight of the reliquary. He just passed turn and on my turn I cracked another fetch land and swung for eight putting him on three. His hypergenesis finished it’s suspendedness and he put down an Iona, Shield of Emeria set to red, A progenitus and an Angel of despair taking out my knight. At the end of his turn I pathed the Iona thinking, “if I topdeck burn here I win”.

I topdecked a lightning helix and cast it. He had a ricochet trap in hand and redirected it back to me. Ouch

0-1

Round Two
Elves

I had actually tested this matchup and felt I was fovoured. Both games I just bashed whenever possible and killed off his combo pieces. My sideboard hate for this was also really good.

1-1

Round Three
Zoo

Both games were real grindy. I had not tested the zoo mirror so did not really know how to play it. In the end I think the fact the creatures he was playing were bigger on the whole won him the games (he was playing Baneslayer Angels and a full set of knights).

The games were good all the same and a great learning experience.

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Round Four
Bant

Looking at his deck made me want to play it. I played the agro role for our games and did ok, but his trinket mages finding engineered explosives and chalice of the void blew me out both games. I did not have answers to the when I needed them.

1-3

Round Five
Boros deck wins

I had tested this matchup and won both games easily. The first game he got three Zektar shrine expeditions online and cracked them all. I helixed one token and pathed another taking a total of four. After that he ran out of steam.

Game two he cracked a whole bunch of fetches, ghost quarters and flagstones of trokair (I forget the actual sequence) to pump up a massive Plated Geopede. I pathed it leaving him with basically nothing left and he lost.

The important part of this match for me was that I forgot to crack fetches at the end of his turns and forgot to play spells in the right sequence. I decided I really needed to refocus. I decided to try and finish in the top half of the field.

2-3

Round Six
Affinity

I had tested this matchup also and thought it was favorable. The games were fairly standard, every time he played a master of etherium or cranial plating I had an answer.

There was a surprising play error which I wasn’t expecting him to make. He had two artifact lands, an ornithopter, a frogmite and an arcbound ravager. I played Lightning Helix on his ravager expecting him to let it die and put the counter on the thopter, perhaps sacrificing the frogmite to put two on it. He sacrificed his frogmite and ornithopter to try and save it. I told him it was three damage so he would need to sacrifice one more thing to save it. He sacked a land not wanting to waste all of his resources in one hit. I path to exiled his ravager the next turn.

3-3

Round Seven
Dark Depths Goyf? Some B/G thing

Game one I don’t remember.

Game two he spent the time getting two copies of his Dark Depths combo in his hand. He played out one which I bant charmed away and then played his second and I had no answer.

3-4

Reflections

I won every match I had tested for (none of which are ‘favoured’ decks mind). This I think is pretty significant and next time I will test against the field more thoroughly.

When I was not the aggressive deck I did much better than when I wasn’t. Against the decks that were faster than me I did much better than against the ones that weren’t. I also felt more comfortable in the controlling role. My aggressive game needs some work I think.

It was a really great learning experience and all but one of my opponents were very likeable (which I found surprising). I am looking forward to playing more extended in the future (and doing more than a weeks preparation for it). Thanks Michael for the deck..

Hey guys, here is the list I have been putting together (it’s warp world’s more sensable son). Any comments would be appreciated.

Warp World's More Sensable Son

[Creatures] (18) 4 Birds of Paradise 4 Goblin Ruinblaster 4 Bloodbraid elf 4 acidic slime 2 Terastodon [/Creatures] (0) [Spells] (18) 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Trace of abundance 4 Awakening Zone 1 Banefire 2 Garruk Wildspeaker 3 Eldrazi Monument [/Spells] (0)

[Lands] (24) 4 Rootbound Crag 4 Raging Ravine 4 Tectonic Edge 7 Forest 5 Mountain [/Lands] (0) [Sideboard] (15) 4 Overgrown Battlement 4 Leatherback Baloth 4 Mold Shambler 3 Unstable Footing [/Sideboard] (0)

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So here’s a deck list I’ve currently got in the works (just need the fetch lands and I’m done) for the nationals qualifier this weekend. As always, I’ve picked a very family friendly name for the deck 😛

So here’s the list (Also up on this site):

[cardlist title=”Brown Ring Fiend”][Lands]
6 Mountain
5 Forest
3 Arid Mesa
3 Scalding Tarn
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Verdant Catacombs
1 Raging Ravine
1 Rootbound Crag
[/Lands]

[Creatures]
4 Kiln Fiend
4 Elvish Visionary
4 Plated Geopede
2 Bloodbraid Elf
[/Creatures]

[Spells]
4 Harrow
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Colossal Might
3 Staggershock
3 Vines of Vastwood
2 Violent Outburst
2 Flame Slash
2 Preys Vengeance
1 Sarkhan Vol
[/Spells]
[Sideboard]
3 Heat Ray
3 Naturalize
3 Souls Fire
3 Unstable Footing
3 Ricochet Trap
[/Sideboard][/cardlist]

Fairly basic deck to figure out, smack with creatures that get fat, burn to kill stuff and a few other spells to help it all flow together.

So, any suggestions for this monstrosity?? Also, as per usual, I was wondering if anyone could help out with fetchlands??

Thanks,
–Monty .

I was interested to see how people build their decks in sealed and what cards they include. If you are interested too build a deck from this sealed pool and post your build. Don’t look at other peoples first!

1 Eldrazi Temple

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1 land

2 Arrogant Bloodlord
1 Battle Rampart
2 Bloodthrone Vampire
1 Broodwarden
1 Cadaver Imp
1 Caravan Escort
1 Dawnglare Invoker
1 Emrakuls Hatcher
1 Escaped Null
1 Glory Seeker
1 Goblin Tunneler
1 Grotag Siege-Runner
1 Halimar Wavewatch
2 Hand of Emrakul
1 Ikiral Outrider
1 Jwari Scuttler
1 Kozileks Predator
1 Lavafume Invoker
1 Lone Missionary
1 Merfolk Skyscout
1 Mnemonic Wall
1 Nema Siltlurker
1 Null Champion
1 Ogre Sentry
1 Ondu Giant
1 Pathrazer of Ulamog
1 Pawn of Ulamog
2 Pelakka Wurm
1 Pestilence Demon
1 Sea Gate Oracle
1 Souls Attendant
1 Soulsurge Elemental
1 Sporecap Spider
1 Stalwart Shield-Bearers
1 Stomper Cub
1 Surrakar Spellblade
1 Totem-Guide Hartebeest
1 Valakut Fireboar
1 Venerated Teacher
1 Wildheart Invoker
1 Zof Shade

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45 creatures
2 Aura Finesse
1 Boar Umbra
1 Brood Birthing
1 Consuming Vapors
1 Disaster Radius
1 Dreamstone Hedron
1 Eland Umbra
1 Emerge Unscathed
2 Essence Feed
2 Growth Spasm
1 Harmless Assault
2 Lay Bare
1 Living Destiny
1 Lust for War
1 Mammoth Umbra
1 Might of the Masses
1 Naturalize
1 Ogres Cleaver
1 Perish the Thought
2 Puncturing Light
1 Regress
1 Repel the Darkness
1 See Beyond
1 Shared Discovery
1 Snake Umbra
1 Spawning Breath
1 Spider Umbra
1 Splinter Twin
1 Unified Will
2 Vendetta
1 World at War
1 Wrap in Flames

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38 other spells.

I’m offering drafing at my place this Friday, and next Friday evening. Both 7pm starts. Expressions of interest welcome!

Also, if anyone is wondering where Matt Curtis is for the next couple of months, you can follow his and Kat’s blog about there travels across Asia here:
http://mattkat.travellerspoint.com/.

One for the calendar:
Sunday May 16th. Nationals Qualifier. Standard Constructed. $20. 9:30 rego for 10am start. Melbourne High School. Top 8 gets you qualified for Australian Nationals!.