Magic the Gathering Online Drafting

- Erik Lundblad

2 Standard events in less than a month, I may be becoming a Constructed player. As much as I enjoyed playing 5CC at Gameday, I think Baneslayer Control was the best choice for the metagame (plus, I’ve always enjoyed playing Reveillark decks, which is basically what it is.)

Unfortunately, I ran into some problems getting out of the house and just as I arrived at the tournament site, they were just posting seating for the player’s first round matches.

I organized and sorted my deck and played a quick hand of online poker on my laptop to relax.

I was still able to register, but had to take a first round loss.

The Decklist:

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- Erik

I took a trip into the seldom-visited world of Constructed Magic for M2010 Game Day. It’s not that I mind playing constructed, and usually if I can build a competitive deck, I will play in the PTQ’s and such, but I prefer not to netdeck (which is very hard to not do and be competitive these days) and I prefer to play control decks, where Wizards keeps pushing aggro.

A couple weeks ago, I played a home-brew Blue/Black Mill deck using Mind Funeral and Haunting Echoes in an 8-man Standard and went 2-1. I was pleased with the deck’s performance, but did not really enjoy playing it, so I broke down and borrowed the cards I needed to build 5-Color Control, which was not only one of/the top deck in the format, but fit very well with my play style.

The version I ran initially had 1 Baneslayer Angel, 1 Broodmate Dragon, and 1 Bogardan Hellkite, but I was testing against Blightning Aggro with Anathemancers maindeck and having trouble, and I expected a lot of those, so I added a 2nd Baneslayer in place of an Esper Charm. I ended up not playing a whole lot of Blightning Aggro, but still was glad for the 2nd Angel. I originally intended to run 4 Great Sable Stags in the sideboard, but was only able to get a hold of 2 and replaced the others with Path to Exiles, which served me just fine.
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-Bryan Dowse

I decided to play Warp World for the M2010 game day. I really like the deck and it got me to the top 8 with a record of 4-0-2. Since there are about 16 different versions of the deck I had my work cutout for me and I had figure out which cards I was going to run. I started reading on what cards were successful in other players experience and did a little testing before coming up with a list I felt comfortable playing. For those unfamiliar with the deck, the deck uses a lot of mana accelerators (like Trace of Abundance, Fertile Ground, and Farhaven Elf) to ramp up quickly to big creatures (Like Siege-gang Commander, Bogardan Hellkite, or Broodmate Dragon). Then, if the warp world deck player has board position they will keep beating down or playing more creatures, if not, they cast Warp world. With 56 permanents mainboard, the warp world player will generally kill their opponent the next turn.

There were a couple of cards that were good in the deck, but didn’t make the cut for me.
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