5CB #10 (TS and PC Special Round)

[Mogg]

Welcome to Magic Deck Vortex's tenth round of Five Card Blind.

This round will be different in that you may only use cards from Time Spiral and Planar Chaos. The only banned card from these sets is The Rack. I anticipate many innovative and competetive decks to come out of this round. Decklists are due Friday, February 16th and 12:00 EST (In a week). My deck's cardnames begin with the letters M, M, M, S and U.

Good luck to all and enjoy the format! Post in this thread if you plan to participate.

Rules and other stuff are in the spoiler.

Rules
These are the rules for Vanishing 5 Card Blind:
Your deck is composed of 5 cards which all start in your hand.
Your library contains 0 cards and you don’t have a sideboard.
Random effects always go in your opponent's favor.
You can see your opponent's hand.
You don't lose as a result of not being able to draw a card.
You play each opponent twice; once going first and once going second.
For each win, you score 3 points.
For each draw, you score 1 point.
For each loss, you score 0 points.

Further, you may not submit a deck that can:
1. Win before the opponent's first main phase.
2. Force an opponent to lose more than one card from his hand per turn.
3. Generate infinite (an arbitrarily large amount of) mana on the first turn.

Other than the aforementioned, everything is handled exactly like a real game of Magic.

To play, simply send me a PM with your list of five cards.

The "Vanishing" part is the twist. After each round, the cards in the winning deck and any card in at least 1/3 of the decks played that round will be banned in future rounds. Some cards will never be banned in ordinary rounds.
Winning Decks
3CB
- Round #1 [ Mogg ] Swords to Plowshares + Plains + Mishra's Factory

- Round #2 [ Pingele_Pats ] Maze of Ith + Scalding Tongs + Ancient Tomb

- Round #3 [ Pingele_Pats ] Ancient Spring + The Rack + Balance

- Round #4 [ Pingele_Pats ] Strip Mine + Æther Vial + Faceless Butcher

- Round #4 [ Mogg ] Mishra's Workshop + Steel Golem + Trinisphere

- Round #5 [ Mogg ] Wasteland + Lion's Eye Diamond + Nether Spirit

- Round #6 [ Mogg] Mox Pearl + Soldevi Sentry + Ghost Quarter

- Round #7 [ Hiakashi ] : Mox Sapphire + Ancient Den + Meddling Mage

- Round # 7 [ Pingele_Pats ] : Blinkmoth Nexus + Mox Jet + Mesmeric Fiend

- Round #8 [ Mogg ] Bayou + Blackmail + Rogue Elephant

- Round #8 [ Pingele_Pats ] Bayou + Blackmail + Rogue Elephant

- Round #9 [ Pingele_Pats ] City of Traitors + Isochron Scepter + Lightning Helix

- Round #10 [ Mogg ] (At least one card from Unglued / Unhinged) Mercadian Bazaar + Flame Fusillade + Urza's Contact Lenses

- Round #11 [ Yezzandrix ] Gemstone Mine + Restore Balance + Durkwood Baloth

- Round #12 [ Mogg ] Chain of Vapor + Keldon Halberdier + Volcanic Island
5CB
- Round #1 [ Mogg ] Channel + Darksteel Colossus + Force of Will + Hickory Woodlot + Misdirection

- Round #1 [ Pingele_Pats ] Force of Will + Echoing Truth +
Undiscovered Paradise + Yavimaya Hollow + Nezumi Shortfang

- Round #2 [ RichardMNixon ] Karakas + Leyline of Singularity + Isamaru, Hound of Konda + Savannah Lions + Mox Pearl

- Round #3 [ Pingele_Pats ] Snow-Covered Island + Mana Crypt + Show and Tell + Form of the Dragon + Feldon’s Cane

- Round #4 [ Cashew ] Mox Ruby + Mox Jet + Dark Ritual + Rift Bolt + Empty the Warrens

- Round #5 [ Mogg ] Duress + Innocent Blood + Kjeldoran Outpost + Orzhov Basilica + Scrubland

- Round #6 [ Mogg ] (No moxes) Conjurer's Bauble + Crystal Vein + Illusionary Mask + Phyrexian Dreadnought + Rishadan Port

- Round #7 [ Mogg ] (No moxes) Rite of Flame + Rite of Flame + Serra Avatar + Sneak Attack + Snow-Covered Mountain

- Round #8 [ Mogg ] Foil + Fountain of Cho + Snow-Covered Island + Windborn Muse + Voice of All

-Round #9 [ Mogg ] (Six mana-producing cards unbanned) Black Lotus + City of Traitors + Powder Keg + Soldevi Digger + Voidstone Gargoyle
Banned List
All cards not in Time Spiral or Planar Chaos
The Rack

Other XCB Threads
3CB
Round 1 (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=1796)
Rounds 2 and 3 (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=2084)
Round 4 (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=2420)
Round 5 (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=2619)
Round 6 (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=2913)
Round 7 (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=3330)
Round 8 (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=3744)
Round 9 (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=4292)
Round 10 (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=4640)
Round 11 (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=4919)
Round 12 (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=5071)
Round 13 (1) (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=5335)
Round 14 (2) (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=5430)
Round 15 (3) (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=5508)
Round 16 (4) (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=5664)
Round 17 (5) (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=5761)
Round 18 (6) (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=5902http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=5902)
4CB
Round 1 (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=5596)
Round 2 (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=5760)
Round 3 (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=5901)
5CB
Round 1 (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=5173)
Round 2 (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=5280)
Round 3 (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=5327)
Round 4 (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=5511)
Round 5 (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=5598)
Round 6 (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=5683)
Round 7 (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=5748)
Round 8 (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=5828)
Round 9 (http://magicdeckvortex.com/vbforums/showthread.php?t=5919)
Monthly Results
February Results
1. Mogg 90% (27/30)
2. Halinn 53% (16/30)
3. Cashew 50% (15/30)
4. Death_By_Beebles 47% (14/30)
5. SenorClown 43% (13/30)
6. Niv-Mizzet_Rulez! 10% (3/30)
January Results:
1. Mogg 85% (132/156)
2. Rayden_Marz 67% (32/48)
3. guest1234 64% (54/84)
4. Cashew 63% (98/156)
5. SenorClown 46% (72/156)
6. Death_By_Beebles 44% (68/156)
7. Halinn 34% (53/156)
8. Niv-Mizzet_Rulez! 31% (48/156)
9. DarkRequiem 13% (15/120)
Articles
Part 1 (http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=5310)
Part 2 (http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=5700)
Part 3 (http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=7544)

[Death_By_Beebles]

I'm in!

[shteev]

This looks interesting. I've thought about playing 5CB before but I've always been scared off by the enormous banned list. I'm in.

Scuze me for being dense, tho, but: when you say ONLY cards from Time Spiral block, you mean, only lands from those sets as well? No moxes or anything?

[Mogg]

Yes, no moxes. If it wasn't in Time Spiral or Planar Chaos, don't use it. On a side note, I'll probably run this format again when Future Sight comes out and depending on the results of this round I may or may not include a few cards outside of the block, like moxes.

List of Players
*= decklist received

Mogg*
Death_By_Beebles*
Shteev*
Halinn*
Niv-Mizzet_Rulez!*
SenorClown*
Pingele_Pats*

[Halinn]

Oh man! I want to play four decks! This is hard...
I got a control deck, two racers, even a kobold deck...

[Niv-Mizzet_Rulez!]

*raises hand to join then shoots self in head*

edit-deck sent.*shoots self again*

[Mogg]

1) Mogg "New Blocks Are Fast? Oh."
Magus of the Disk
Mangara of Corondor
Mana Tithe
Saltcrusted Steppe
Urza’s Factory

2) Niv-Mizzet_Rulez! ";_;"
Porphyry Nodes
Thallid
Thallid
Saltcrusted Steppe
Urza’s Factory

3) SenorClown
Mountain
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Greater Gargadon
Funeral Charm
Smallpox

4) Shteev
Pendelhaven
Gemstone Mine
Thallid
Deathspore Thallid
Thelon of Havenwood

5) Halinn
Forest
Forest
Thelon of Havenwood
Thallid
Thallid

6) Pingele_Pats
Porphyry Nodes
Durkwood Baloth
Durkwood Baloth
Feldon's Cane
Gemstone Mine

7) Death_By_Beebles
Lotus Bloom
Gemstone Mine
Big Game Hunter
Icatian Javelineers
Chronozoa

X| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7| Total
1| X 6 0 0 0 0 6| 12
2| 0 X 0 3 3 0 6| 12
3| 6 6 X 4 4 0 2| 19
4| 6 3 1 X 6 0 6| 22
5| 6 3 1 0 X 0 6| 16
6| 6 6 6 6 6 X 6| 36
7| 0 0 2 0 0 0 X| 2

Essentially Pingele_Pats > Fast Deck > Slow Deck. The deck that intrigued me most, though, was SenorClown's. Turn one suspend followed by Smallpox is a potent combination. I'm really happy with this block format. So happy in fact, that I'm doing it again, and I'm not even waiting. I've also gotten some feedback saying that I'm not the only one who likes this special format. New round is going up in a couple minutes!

[shteev]

Oh, man, the FIRST DECK I thought of for this format was Forest + 4xDurkwood Baloth... and now here's Pingele Pats winning with a teched up version of it!! Grats :)

I've really enjoyed this round, Time Spiral block is a good one to play due to the variety of mana producers(Gemstone Mine, Dual storage lands, and Lotus Bloom).

<edit> I'm looking forward to playing this block again when Future Sight is out.