Hi, everyone. My name is Wilkin Chau, and before I get into the tournament report I’ll give you a brief MTG history of me. I’m a Toronto area player who almost exclusively plays Dead Guy Ale, a black white disruption deck that aims to break apart my opponent’s game plan with discard, land destruction, and massive amounts of removal. I usually do fairly well in local tournaments. In bigger events, I’ve put up respectable (although not too insane) finishes:
– 45th place out of around 1800 at Grand Prix Washington 2013
– 13th place out of 225 at StarCityGames Detroit Open 2014
– 45th place out of around 4000 at Grand Prix New Jersey 2014
– 2nd place out of 107 at StarCityGames Syracuse IQ 2015
I think I stick with the deck since it harkens back to the 1990’s when I played a deck full of Sinkholes, Icequakes, [card]Erhnam Djinn[/card]s and Icy Manipulators.
Here’s the decklist. Yes, there are a ton of singletons and weird card choices. What can I say, I’m a lucksack.
[sbplan]
1 Dark Confidant
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Stoneforge Mystic
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No, these cards aren’t the singletons or weird choices — they’re staples in Dead Guy Ale.
[deck]
[creatures]
4 Dark Confidant
4 Deathrite Shaman
3 Stoneforge Mystic
2 Shriekmaw
1 Hero of Bladehold
[/creatures]
[spells]
3 Thoughtseize
1 Cabal Therapy
1 Inquisition of Kozilek
2 Hymn to Tourach
3 Liliana of the Veil
2 Vindicate
1 Abrupt Decay
4 Swords to Plowshares
1 Umezawa’s Jitte
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Batterskull
3 Lingering Souls
2 Chrome Mox
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[lands]
4 Scrubland
1 Bayou
2 Swamp
1 Plains
1 Karakas
4 Wasteland
4 Marsh Flats
2 Verdant Catacombs
2 Polluted Delta
[/lands]
[sideboard]
1 Leyline of the Void
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Rest in Peace
1 Surgical Extraction
2 Abrupt Decay
2 Gaddock Teeg
1 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
1 Zealous Persecution
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Pithing Needle
1 Ensnaring Bridge
[/sideboard]
[/deck]
[SBplan]
1 Shriekmaw
1 Hero of Bladehold
[/sbplan]
Yes, these are in an actual Legacy deck. No, really.
I played grinders heavily all Friday since I have no byes (being a strictly Legacy player and not winning a trial). I failed miserably. No byes for me. Boo-urns.
ROUND 1. Benjamin Michael. Dredge. Win 2-0
As we both shuffle our decks, his randomization is a bit sloppy and I see a [card]Gemstone Mine[/card]. (I only look at someone and how they shuffle their deck to see if they are cheating. Most people I find are not — well, either that or I’m extremely poor at spotting who’s a cheatyface.)
With [card]Gemstone Mine[/card] I figure he’s either a Storm deck or Dredge. I go with Dredge as Gemstone isn’t seen as much in Storm anymore. I’m on the play and I have a [card]Deathrite Shaman[/card], [card]Stoneforge Mystic[/card] and other crap. I keep, play the Shaman, and pass. On his play he blind Therapies and names [card]Dark Confidant[/card]. Whiff. I was a bit worried he was Storm as that isn’t a typical Dredge start game 1. While he’s eventually able to start dredging off a [card]Careful Study[/card], my [card]Batterskull[/card] token and Shaman are able to stabilize my life total. I also [card]Wasteland[/card] his [card]Cephalid Coliseum[/card] early so he can’t Dredge like a madman. I can’t eat every dredger as his [card]Careful Study[/card] binned two (an Imp and a Troll) but I eat every Ichorid in sight. His dredges don’t really help him either and I end the game at 42 life when I kill him.
Game 2. We both mull hard. He asks me who it benefits more; I laugh and say, clearly you. He could have a good three-card hand. I go even further and joke that if it was Vintage Dredge, he could just mull to [card]Bazaar of Baghdad[/card] and be fine. We each end up mulling to 5. I have a [card]Rest in Peace[/card], [card]Chrome Mox[/card], and Deathrite as the important cards. He goes land, pass. I play a first-turn [card]Rest in Peace[/card]. I’d rather have my single [card]Leyline of the Void[/card], but even my luck doesn’t extend that far. So the Dredge gameplan of a motley crew beatdown happens. He hardcasts [card]Putrid Imp[/card] and a couple of [card]Narcomoeba[/card]s. I don’t draw much action to deal with it early, just more graveyard hate. I cast the Leyline turn 4 and I have a Surgical in hand later. I eventually deal with the three creatures by casting a [card]Toxic Deluge[/card] for 1 life, leaving my Shaman alive. My opponent does have 2 Chains of Vapor, but he can’t do much with them as I wasted his one Coliseum. He concedes at 10 life.
Round 2. Sachaa Mims. Grixis Pyro Delver. Win 2-0
I land an early [card]Stoneforge Mystic[/card] into [card]Batterskull[/card] and her deck decides to mana flood in response. I think at the end of game 1, she had 7 lands in play. She could have hardcast [card]Gurmag Angler[/card] at that point.
Her deck seems to fail her again in game 2 and I don’t see much removal at all. I have 2 Deathrites, a [card]Hero of Bladehold[/card], and a germ equipped with [card]Batterskull[/card] and [card]Sword of Fire and Ice[/card]. She’s at 4 life with [card]True-Name Nemesis[/card] and a [card]Baleful Strix[/card] out. I cast a [card]Toxic Deluge[/card] for 1 and then swing for the win.
Round 3. Patrick Hartzell. Cloudpost with Artifact Mana (Big Eldrazi?). Win 2-1
I actually don’t remember too much about game 1. I do see [card]Thought-Knot Seer[/card] and [card]Thran Dynamo[/card], though, and immediately recognize the deck from mtgthesource.com. I probably wasted and Vindicated a bunch of his lands.
Game 2. His mana acceleration is too much. I’m able to [card]Thoughtseize[/card] away his Coercive Portal, leaving the [card]Ugin, the Spirit Dragon[/card], but once he gets to eight mana (I drew no [card]Wasteland[/card]s), it’s game over. I go through a couple of draw steps hoping for a Needle, Revoker, or [card]Vindicate[/card] but I concede when I draw nothing.
Game 3. I have an early Bob and Liliana. I attack his manabase pretty hard. It also doesn’t help that he kept a hand of 3 Wurmcoils, 1 [card]Grim Monolith[/card], 1 [card]City of Traitors[/card], 1 [card]Cloudpost[/card] and a [card]Trinisphere[/card]. My [card]Thoughtseize[/card] takes the Monolith to start the mana denial plan.
How silly did it get? He’s down to [card]Voltaic Key[/card], [card]City of Traitors[/card], and a just-cast [card]Grim Monolith[/card]. My Liliana ultimates and I make him choose the Key and City or the Monolith. He chooses the Key and the City and I then play [card]Wasteland[/card] and destroy his [card]City of Traitors[/card], leaving him on just a [card]Voltaic Key[/card]. He draws a couple of presumably uncastable cards over the next turns and Bob kills him.
Round 4. Kyle Hutchens. Grixis Pyro Delver. Win 2-0
Game 1 is a grindfest game going back and forth. I’m able to cast and flashback [card]Lingering Souls[/card] to kill him.
Game 2 is also a long game. At one point, he has a flipped Delver, a [card]Young Pyromancer[/card], and a [card]Gurmag Angler[/card]. Probably a couple of tokens too. I have a Shaman with [card]Batterskull[/card] on it. In my humble opinion, he makes a few mistakes. The first is obvious: he misses at least 3 Young Pyro triggers. The second is that he shows me his [card]Lightning Bolt[/card]. He Ponders and by accident treats it like a [card]Brainstorm[/card]. The judge’s ruling allows me to see his hand to choose what becomes the one card in hand when he Pondered. The third mistake is that Kyle keeps the [card]Gurmag Angler[/card] back. I figure he should always swing with it. If I block he can just Bolt the Shaman; if I let it through and I swing back, he can block with a token and before damage Bolt the token so my lifelink doesn’t happen. My life total is low enough that a single turn of not gaining 5 could be game. But, in fairness, our game 2 drags on so much that there’s a lot of pressure on him to win the game since I won game 1. He doesn’t do much except attack with Delver and I end-of-turn activate Shaman to exile a Ponder and then do it again on my turn for the win.
Round 5. Kai Burnett. Shardless Bug. Lose 2-1
Game 1. A long game, with tons of removal on both sides. I’m able to have two Stoneforges out, with one equipped with a Jitte and the other with a [card]Sword of Fire and Ice[/card]. He [card]Abrupt Decay[/card]s the [card]Sword of Fire and Ice[/card] but isn’t able to draw any other resistance.
Game 2. Multiple [card]Ancestral Vision[/card]s are too much for me to handle. Goyf is doing a major beatdown on my head. I topdeck my Gideon and make a token. Kai casts a [card]Maelstrom Pulse[/card] on the token and I’m dead.
Game 3. My [card]Hero of Bladehold[/card] gets Pulsed. Sad times.
Round 6. Tristan Raitano. Tezzerator. Lose 2-1
I triple sleeve my deck. Yes, I know, it’s absurd, and not the easiest to shuffle with. But here comes someone also with triple sleeves. I laugh, and go “Yes, I’m not the only one”. I feel Vindicated. Get it, Vindicated? Where’s my snare drum?
He assembles early [card]Thopter Foundry[/card] combo with the help of [card]Transmute Artifact[/card]. Game over.
Game 2. I have an early Bob. He draws me nothing. Now, I often only reveal lands with Bob and that’s usually fine, but I’m flooding in Biblical proportions. So I take a chance and play a second [card]Dark Confidant[/card]. Greatness at any cost, right? Tristan plays an Abyss, which requires two judges to explain to me how it works. No, it’s not because I’m a complete idiot, but it’s because the first judge there got it wrong on the Abyss, since it’s an Enchant World. The end result is I get to stack the Bob triggers and the Abyss trigger in any order I want, despite the fact I don’t control (or own) the Abyss.
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1 The Abyss
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Why did I spend my money on a [card]Chains of Mephistopheles[/card] instead of this card? [card]The Abyss[/card] is a cool-looking card that does something. Chains is just plain awful.
I’m able to deal enough damage to kill him before multiple [card]Dark Confidant[/card]s kill me.
Game 3. I have a Needle on [card]Thopter Foundry[/card] but Tristan has way too many permanents to deal with [card]Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas[/card]. [card]Tezzeret the Seeker[/card]. Dack Fayden. [card]Ghirapur Aether Grid[/card]. Lol, I guess the hopeless beating I felt is the same thing that other people feel when I’m beating someone to death with 4 [card]Lingering Souls[/card], Liliana, Jitte, [card]Batterskull[/card], Bob and friends and they have few to no permanents in play.
Round 7. James Roberston. Reanimator. Win 2-0
Game 1. My opener has a Deathrite, [card]Thoughtseize[/card], and Karakas. No, I didn’t know what he was on before the game. Yes, I have the uncanny knack of having a Karakas in my opener vs Reanimator and Sneak Show decks.
[display]
1 Karakas
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I won’t be getting any Eternal Masters versions of Karakas since I only really need one. Why play four when you seem to always seem to get it when you need it?
He is on the play and Entombs for [card]Griselbrand[/card]. He also mulled to 5, I think. I [card]Thoughtseize[/card] him seeing an [card]Animate Dead[/card], [card]Show and Tell[/card] and a [card]Flooded Strand[/card]. No [card]Animate Dead[/card] for you. I purposely don’t play the Karakas until later in the game. Bob and Mystic getting [card]Batterskull[/card] apply pressure to him, knocking him down to 7. I then play a [card]Hero of Bladehold[/card]. On his turn he draws and laughs.
He drew an [card]Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite[/card]. He could have cast [card]Show and Tell[/card] to put out Elesh Norn, killing most of my board. And even with Karakas to bounce the Legendary Praetor, I could only swing for 4 with the Germ Token. But [card]Hero of Bladehold[/card] put a wrench into those plans. I’d be able to swing for lethal.
Game 2. I don’t remember much here, except I landed an [card]Ensnaring Bridge[/card] and he mulled to 4.
Round 8. Eric Rill. ????? I’ll tell you later. Win 2-0
Eric is a player I recognize from StarCityGames opens. I know he has at least one Legacy win, with Grixis Delver.
I’m on the play and play Shaman, pass. He plays a [card]Tropical Island[/card] into [card]Noble Hierarch[/card]. So I now put him on perhaps Infect? I also see a [card]Dryad Arbor[/card] that I kill with an evoked [card]Shriekmaw[/card]. [card]Shriekmaw[/card], the new Sinkhole 😀 He puzzles over that one. Who plays that? Believe me, he won’t be the only confused player at the table. I also land an early Liliana. I was wary of using removal so liberally on Hierarchs and [card]Dryad Arbor[/card]s, since if he’s Infect maybe he’s baiting it out. I then activate Liliana’s discard ability and he discards [card]Shardless Agent[/card]. What? Well, I suppose you can cascade into Berserk? In theory, sure, but not very practical. It makes no sense.
He later plays a [card]Gaea’s Cradle[/card]. He concedes when my [card]Stoneforge Mystic[/card] tutors an [card]Umezawa’s Jitte[/card]. I thought about [card]Batterskull[/card] but I figure, a) he has a lot of little creatures that die easily to -1/-1 counters and b) I see only blue and green which typically don’t have much removal so I can fairly assume I can equip a creature and attack with it.
[SBplan]
1 Shardless Agent
1 Gaea’s Cradle
1 Noble Hierarch
[/sbplan]
My brain imploded trying to figure out what deck would use all three cards.
My thought is that maybe he wants to cascade into Thopter Foundry/Sword of the Meek combo. So I put in a Revoker and board in more removal: [card]Toxic Deluge[/card], [card]Engineered Explosives[/card], and [card]Zealous Persecution[/card]. I finally add a [card]Surgical Extraction[/card], just in the hope that I’ll get to see the deck.
Game 2. Much like Game 1 except [card]Phyrexian Revoker[/card] showed up. I name [card]Noble Hierarch[/card] since I’ve seen nothing else and want to apply some pressure. I have Bob out but I can’t attack into his [card]Dryad Arbor[/card]. I eventually hardcast [card]Shriekmaw[/card] to kill his [card]Dryad Arbor[/card], knocking him down to one land and giving the green light for Bob and Revoker to attack. He concedes after lamenting on drawing lands too late.
So, figured out what he was playing? I sure didn’t. Turns out he has an article written about his deck on the Wizards website.
Cloudvine. A lot of weird cards. Yes, I’m commenting that another deck has some odd choices, and the irony isn’t lost on me.
Round 9. Tomas Antonio. Canadian Threshold (the proper name, by the way). L2-0.
Game 1 and 2. Delver decks are usually very favourable for me. Not in round 9. It didn’t help that my deck didn’t help me out, but that’s variance for ya. I suppose I could play [card]Brainstorm[/card] and other blue cards, but I only play [card]Brainstorm[/card] in fragile, fun combo decks. Mongoose, Goyf, and Delver were too much for me and I didn’t draw enough removal to stabilize.
I don’t like calling my opponent’s deck other than what it is, Canadian Threshold. I don’t like “RUG Delver.” I hate “Temur Delver” even more. Kind of like when people call my deck “Abazan Deathblade.” I hate that. But I do find it amusing when people from Toronto suggest I call it “the Wilkin Chau special.”
Record is now 6-3, which is now the new cut-off to make it to day 2. Despite the new rule allowing me to make day 2, I’m not sure this is a good idea or not. Well, one good thing is that it allows me to comment on further matches.
Round 10. Ryan Aucoin. Miracles. Lose 2-0
Nice guy, seems a bit nervous. Maybe it’s his first day 2. Maybe he’s naturally a jittery guy. Maybe he thinks I’m Oddjob from Goldfinger — you know, the burly Korean henchman who throws his hat at people?
His super sloppy shuffling reveals a Ponder, and then a few seconds later a [card]Sensei’s Divining Top[/card]. Alrighty. My first Miracles Opponent. To top it off, when he tries to cut my deck he sees a card. JUDGE! I’m not mad at the guy, as I’m sure it was a legit mistake, although I am amused when he appeals that it’s not his fault since my deck is so big and triple sleeved. So he gets a warning and we play on. Earlier in the tournament someone also revealed a card when they cut my deck (and also got a warning) — a [card]Chrome Mox[/card]. But I do think that may actually HELP me since I’m sure that person would think I’m playing Storm. Lol, mull to [card]Force of Will[/card]? Go right ahead.
The main feature is a punt from me. My [card]Dark Confidant[/card]s go farming a lot but Liliana applies pressure. She ultimates. He has 4 lands in play and a [card]Sensei’s Divining Top[/card]. I separate into 2 lands and a Top, and 2 lands. Fumble on my part. I should have given him the [card]Volcanic Island[/card] (no more plows please) and a Top in one pile and 3 lands in the other. He’s able to recover.
I win Game 2 with sideboard help from [card]Gaddock Teeg[/card] and Decay.
Game 3 I keep a hand with Bayou, [card]Wasteland[/card], [card]Thoughtseize[/card], Bob and other non-land stuff. I stall on mana. mI lose.
Round 11. Grant Knierim. Grixis Delver. Win 2-0
I notice he’s wearing a Red Wings hat and Talk briefly about Gordie Howe passing away. Yes, I’m from Toronto, but I’m a Red Wings fan.
He has an early Delver that doesn’t flip at all. Early in the game I have no lands but I’m able to recover with Bob plus a Jitte. He could have Dazed a removal spell but didn’t.
Game 2, his deck decides to only give him [card]Wasteland[/card]s after I waste his [card]Volcanic Island[/card]. I bash him with [card]Batterskull[/card]. He draws [card]Underground Sea[/card] much too late. I end the game at 30 life.
Round 12. Kasey Walton. Sneak Breach. Lose 2-0
He’s on the play. First turn [card]Blood Moon[/card] via [card]City of Traitors[/card] and a [card]Simian Spirit Guide[/card]. I had mulled to six, and although I have a basic [card]Swamp[/card] I’m super dead. So I draw and pass. He then plays a [card]Lotus Petal[/card] and passes. I scoop so as to not give him any information.
I remark to him I may have an idea what he’s playing (I guessed wrong, thinking he was Imperial Painter.) He says he has no clue what I am. I remark that I’m not Manaless Dredge since it doesn’t care about [card]Blood Moon[/card], nor is it likely to mull a hand.
I open game 2 with a first turn Bob. He plays a Chalice at 1. Well, he’s not Painter. Oops. And no, I don’t mean the deck Oops, No Lands. I have an Bob with Jitte and a Liliana but it doesn’t stop him from casting [card]Sneak Attack[/card], dodging one turn for me to draw something and then puking out [card]Griselbrand[/card], Emrakul and [card]Godo, Bandit Warlord[/card] bringing along a [card]Batterskull[/card].
[SBplan]
1 Godo, Bandit Warlord
1 Emrakul, the aeons torn
1 Griselbrand
[/sbplan]
Look at the bright side: at least [card]Griselbrand[/card] and Emrakul don’t untap for another attack because they aren’t Samurai.
Round 13. Neeraj Shukla. Lands. Win 2-1.
I find out early game 1 he is on Lands — with a maindeck [card]Sensei’s Divining Top[/card]. Nice. He gambles for [card]Life from the Loam[/card] and I scoop it up early.
Game 2. My opening hand has [card]Leyline of the Void[/card]. Karakas. [card]Deathrite Shaman[/card]. Fetchland. [card]Liliana of the Veil[/card] And who cares what else. By the end of that game I had Leyline, [card]Rest in Peace[/card], [card]Ensnaring Bridge[/card] and Karakas in play. All. The. Hate.
Game 3. My opener has a few lands, a [card]Surgical Extraction[/card], and an [card]Engineered Explosives[/card]. He goes [card]Mox Diamond[/card], land, Top. I go land, pass. On his next turn, he casts Loam. I try and [card]Surgical Extraction[/card] it. He activates and dredges with top. Crap. He casts Loam to get a couple of lands and two more [card]Mox Diamond[/card]s.So he now has 3 [card]Mox Diamond[/card]s and a [card]Rishadan Port[/card] in play, no cards in hand, and a [card]Sensei’s Divining Top[/card] on top his library in order to save Loam. On my turn I cast Explosives for zero and he’s left with only a Port. A couple of friends from my car were done their matches and saw that play. Blowout City. He draws his Top and plays it, but I draw a [card]Wasteland[/card], use it, and then [card]Vindicate[/card] his next 3 lands. Bob eventually gets me a [card]Relic of Progenitus[/card] as insurance.I must admit, it’s satisfying reducing a Lands player to no lands. I’m glad he didn’t ask me how many Leylines or Explosives I run. I wouldn’t have lied to him about how many I play so it would have added more salt to the wound.
Round 14. Jordon Robbins. Storm. Lose 2-0
My game 1 hand is actually fairly decent with a [card]Thoughtseize[/card] and a [card]Hymn to Tourach[/card] but Jordon’s hand consists of a lot of redundancy in 2 [card]Brainstorm[/card]s and a Ponder. I quickly lose when I run out of gas. Game 2 is much the same, as while I do draw [card]Phyrexian Revoker[/card], [card]Liliana of the Veil[/card] and discard, I do not draw [card]Gaddock Teeg[/card], which is my best card vs Storm. His [card]Ad Nauseam[/card] doesn’t get him the kill immediately and he passes the turn at 1 life. He casts a Massacre to kill my Revoker and Bob, so I have one turn to draw something relevant. I don’t and I die.
Round 15. Byron Long. RW Painter. Win 2-1
I’m now paired against a friend and someone who I drove in with. I’ve never lost to Byron on Painter. I’ve usually drawn super insane, and in the one painful case when I didn’t Byron had the win if he drew ANY mana source, had 3 or 4 turns to do it, and whiffed.
Game 1 he plays a land and passes. I play a first-turn [card]Dark Confidant[/card]. He’s glad it isn’t a [card]Hymn to Tourach[/card]. Soon I have the [card]Dark Confidant[/card] plus an unequipped [card]Sword of Fire and Ice[/card] in play and [card]Thoughtseize[/card], [card]Swords to Plowshares[/card], and [card]Vindicate[/card] in hand. Byron has a Painter naming blue. The game-breaker: I cast [card]Thoughtseize[/card]. In response he tries to blast my Sword, and in response to that I Plow his Painter. So not only do I remove his Painter, I prevent my Sword from being destroyed. My [card]Thoughtseize[/card] then takes away his Painter in his hand, leaving him with just an [card]Imperial Recruiter[/card]. I equip Bob with the Sword and it’s game over. Very rare that I connect with [card]Sword of Fire and Ice[/card] vs Painter. He later plays an [card]Ensnaring Bridge[/card], but [card]Vindicate[/card] takes care of that.
Game 2. I have an active [card]Stoneforge Mystic[/card] with a Jitte. He has two [card]Ensnaring Bridge[/card]s out but I’m able to cast Explosives for 3 and crack it on the same turn. I swing and use the Jitte to kill [card]Painter’s Servant[/card] and it’s GG.
HIGHLIGHTS AND OBSERVATIONS:
– A bit disappointed that I didn’t do better, as I was 11-3-1 in Washington and 12-3 in New Jersey in a [card]Treasure Cruise[/card] meta. But I was more relaxed day 2 this time since I knew my chances of making top 8 were long gone. Even making prize was a stretch.
– I only played against Miracles once and did not face Infect or Eldrazi at all. The [card]Ensnaring Bridge[/card] was there in my board specifically with Eldrazi in mind. Reminds me of StarCityGames Worcester last year: I went 10-5 and did not face the boogeyman Omnitell (with, at the time, [card]Dig Through Time[/card]) which was fortunate for me.
– This was a great venue. With so many food options close and the hotel in the same complex as the GP, I didn’t even have to go outside to get to the tournament. I had a donut from the market close by and I can’t even look at Tim Horton’s doughnuts the same way again.
– Every opponent was a pleasure to play against.
– [card]Dark Confidant[/card] drew me too many lands this time. ☺ I’m willing to take a little damage in order to get spells.
– I still get a kick out of people’s reactions when I cast [card]Shriekmaw[/card] or [card]Hero of Bladehold[/card]. I didn’t get to [card]Shriekmaw[/card] an Emrakul in the main event but I did against [card]Show and Tell[/card] in a grinder. Oh, [card]Hero of Bladehold[/card] kill count: 2.
– Engineered Explosives was the sideboard MVP, winning game 3 by mana screwing Lands and blowing up two Bridges vs Painter.
– Maindeck MVP was probably Stoneforge as I beatdown with [card]Batterskull[/card] a bit more than I usually do. Honorary mention is probably Karakas. It showed up when I really needed it.
Would I recommend this deck to anyone? Sure, but with a caveat. If you copy my exact 75, you probably won’t be as lucky as me. It’s designed in a way that maybe only I can find some degree of success with. One of my friends is currently playing a similar list. He’s doing very well with it in local tournaments so far, but he hasn’t gone total insanity yet and decided to play a single [card]Leyline of the Void[/card] in the board. One day, perhaps. Thanks for reading.