This weekend there is a PTQ (Pro Tour qualifier), with M13 in full swing now, the meta is still as if it was AVR (Avacyn Restored) standard. the meta still looks like this:-
U/W Delver
Birthing Pod decks (Naya/Bant/4c Pod)
Naya Aggro
B/x zombie
R/G Aggro
Mono Green Aggro
With the weekend of SCG (Star City Games), where M13 was legal there came a few new decks. Mono Blue Wizards, and MBC (Mono Black Control). Here are the list:-
Mono-Blue Wizards
A Standard Magic deck, by Adam Prosak
4th place at a StarCityGames.com Standard Open tournament in St. Louis, Missouri, United States on 2012-07-15
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Maindeck:
Artifacts
1
1
Creatures
3
4
2
4
Instants
2
2
2
2
4
4
Legendary Creatures
3
Sorceries
4
4
Basic Lands
9
Lands
3
2
4
Sideboard:
2
4
2
1
1
2
2
1
This deck takes the shell of the very well domanating Dever deck, replacing Restoration Angel with Talrand, Sky Summoner in the main deck. So its just another Delver deck. (moving on)
Mono-Black Control
A Standard Magic deck, by Jason Bulkowski
66th place at a StarCityGames.com Standard Open tournament in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States on 2012-07-22
As reported at http://www.starcitygames.com/
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Maindeck:
Artifacts
1
2
3
2
2
2
3
1
Artifact Creatures
3
3
Instants
2
2
Planeswalkers
3
Sorceries
1
2
4
Basic Lands
21
Lands
1
2
Sideboard:
1
1
2
1
1
2
1
2
1
3
This deck looks really strong, it has a lot of removal, Mutilate is good in the deck with 21 swamps and the only creature are artifacts it will be easy to block those guys carrying swords.
Now on to the good"ish" bit, as some of you may know I have been paying 4c pod, the list can be found here. So I like playing this deck, now for an updated list.
Main Deck
1 Acidic Slime
2 Avacyn's Pilgrim
4 Birds of Paradise
1 Blade Splicer
1 Blisterstick Shaman
3 Borderland Ranger
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
3 Elvish Visionary
1 Geist-Honored Monk
2 Huntmaster of the Fells
3 Phantasmal Image
4 Restoration Angel
1 Solemn Simulacrum
2 Sun Titan
2 Thragtusk
Creatures [31]
3 Birthing Pod
2 Bonfire of the Damned
1 Dismember
Spells [6]
4 Cavern of Souls
3 Copperline Gorge
3 Forest
1 Gavony Township
1 Hinterland Harbor
1 Island
1 Kessig Wolf Run
1 Mountain
1 Plains
4 Razorverge Thicket
3 Seachrome Coast
Lands [23]
Sideboard [15]
2 Ancient Grudge
2 Beast Within
1 Beguiler of Wills
1 Celestial Purge
2 Ghost Quarter
2 Ratchet Bomb
1 Ray of Revelation
1 Spellskite
1 Stingerfling Spider
1 Surgical Extraction
1 Zealous Conscripts
As you can see this is very Differantfron the preveus 4c Pod list. Thragtusk is really good in a deck like this, he comes in to play you gain 5 life, you pod him away you get a 3/3 beast, Restoration Angel is also really strong with Thragtusk, blinking him gets you 5 life and a 3/3 beast for 2-4 mana. The other adds to the deck are Blisterstick Shaman this is just used as a 1 damage removal (like a gut shot) and can come back with Sun Titan.
Huntmaster of the Falls is good vs most decks, if you have a 3 mana guy and you pod into Huntmaster (and cast no spells), Huntsmaster will flip so long as you opanant does not cast any, this is a good removal and value, although you do the lose a 4 mana guy to pod away as a flipped Huntsmaster has no Converted Mana Cost (CMC). I would be careful doing this as it can alter the mana curve to get to the all inportant Elesh Norn.
So thats all guys, have fun building new ideas, see you this weekend for the PTQ.
"combo" Mike
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