Lands:
2 Cascade Bluffs
3 Island
2 Mystic Gate
4 Reflecting Pool
4 Sunken Ruins
1 Vivid Crag
4 Vivid Creek
3 Vivid Marsh
3 Vivid Meadow
Creatures:
4 Mulldrifter
4 Plumeveil
4 Wall of Reverence
Other Spells:
2 Banefire
2 Call the Skybreaker
4 Cryptic Command
4 Esper Charm
4 Jace Beleren
2 Terror
4 Volcanic Fallout
Sideboard:
3 Bitterblossom
4 Celestial Purge
4 Scepter of Fugue
4 Wrath of God |
 Five-Color
Control March 2009.
Description of deck by Tom LaPille
on www.wizards.com (quoted):
I also got some firsthand experience in our
current Standard environment last weekend. There was a large
unsanctioned Standard tournament in Seattle last Saturday, and I took
the opportunity to actually play in a Magic tournament for the first
time in four months or so. I had been planning to play some sort of
five-color control deck. The Top 8 decks had been posted by 11:00 p.m.
on Friday night, so fellow Magic developer Erik Lauer and I tuned my
deck late into the morning with that in mind. The first thing we
identified was that when two copies of Nassif's deck play against each
other, both players' life totals quickly spiral off to infinity and no
one can win. However, Erik wanted to play even more card drawing than
Nassif had, and Jace Beleren is both an excellent card drawing spell and
a great way to win that ignores your opponent's life total.
Planeswalkers are also excellent things to hide behind Walls, and Erik
had the wild idea of playing all eight Walls! I ended up playing the
following crazy brew...
I spend most of my time working in an environment
that's about eight months in the future, so my deck was a lot less tuned
than most of my opponents'. I was also less practiced than my opponents
were with the deck archetypes in the real world. I was a bit
disappointed to only post a record of three wins and three losses, but I
still had tons of fun. My three wins were against two slow grinding
control decks that couldn't handle Jace and a red-black deck that
couldn't beat my powerful curve of Plumeveil into Wall of Reverence.
Also, Jace Beleren ended the day with five notches on his belt. My
favorite match of the tournament was against a player who had
essentially copied Nassif's deck from Kyoto. About halfway through Game
1, he realized with creeping horror that he had no way to win a long
game against me and that Jace was inevitably going to destroy his
library. Not even two Cruel Ultimatums were enough to stop me! It was
nice to see that the script I wrote in my head about that matchup
actually was accurate. |
