A new post omg :D and with a bug list o_O

Well lately , or rather for a long time, I didn't and I don't fell like writing for this blog.
Miranda, mostly gave up and with the starcitygames tournaments there's so little space to improve decks in standard that I had no reason to post anything. I have never been a fan of legacy and I don't even have much time or people to test.
So, and to have something going on this blog, I will post the lists I'm currently playing or testing.
So here his a BUG I'm having fun with in standard:

Ramp (12)
4 Rampant Growth
4 Viridian Emissary
4 Solem Simulacrum
Big guys (12)
4 Consecrated Sphinx
4 Wurmcoil
4 Grave Titan
Utility (10)

4 Ponder
4 Black Sun Zenith
2 Unburial Rites
Lands (26)
4 UG land
4 GB land
4 UB Land
6 Forest
5 Swamp
2 Island

1 Plains

 It's a pretty standard list that tries to ramp into 4th or 5th turn fatties.
It could run heartless summoning as a ramp tool but I ditched it since it made all my fatties vulnerable to dismember.
In my very limited testing it has been running well, and better than I expected against mono red thanks to wurmcoil and grave titan.

WB in a brand new field

It’s been a long time since I posted or have done something on the blog.

Between the improvements I wanted to add to the blog but never finished and a report from nationals that I never started, it got put on hold.

Anyway, the improvements will somehow find a way to get in but the report from nationals would be pretty much useless now.

Well, it was like I took a vacation from my blog.

Since my last post two editions were released, M11 and Scars of Mirrodin, and there was a rotation when Scars got released, which brought big changes to the metagame and a bunch of new decks. While this is a big step down for netdeckers it’s a new playground for people who like to explore the tools they have been given.

Some tips for Nationals.

When you know that you are going to nationals, the first thing that most people ask themselves is which deck to pick.

Abyssal Jund

So, as I have seen yesterday's SCG 5k, one deck has caught my eye, Wescoe's Jund. I really like abyssal on the deck, since it provides great approach against Bant, Turboland and decks with Sphinx of Jwar Isle.

But I didn't like his side, so I will try as I write this post to merge my decklist with his, so I can get the best of the two worlds.

Leeching the format

So here I am, a little less than 2 weeks from the nationals. And the day will finally come, the day I will play Jund.
After struggling so much against it, the afterhours of a ptq fail with mythic were spent amusing myself on the dark side playing leeches and cascading into some blightnings.

Leveling up

So I am about 3 weeks to nationals.
The training sessions have begun, both draft as well constructed.
As for constructed I am currently playing the chapin bant, but the list is quite tight and I am not figuring much slots to improve the deck. As for one matchup that really bothers me, which is mirror.

Deck Discussion: Why Brilliant is not that brilliant.

So this time I will look at a list and write about what I like or dislike on the list.

And this time it will be Brilliant Esper.

Here’s the list I tried:

Sculpting Standard

I have to say, I am thrilled about tomorrow's GP. I think it will shape my natz standard. Sure there will be other 2 GP's, but those will just tweak the main decks, I really don't believe some new crazy high tech will be coming for those.
So yeah, it's all about this weekend.
Maybe this post will be absolutely useless since the decks I wanted to talk about maybe completely changed tomorrow, but still, I am gonna give it a try.
So to include the decks in a context, I have to specify the latter. So I am talking about a standard which the most played decks are:

Getting Brilliant

It's been a while since I play competitive magic, so I have been wandering in the regionals checking out decklists and new t3chs.
So I got a few impressions:

- Sovereign Mythic is actually decaying now since the UW fever has been dropping since many players shifted to UWr Walkers which is a thougher matchup, and the consequent raise of jund players since it can beat walkers.

- The geojund, isn't actually better than the normal jund. It just gives a little better odd's against control while hurting mirror.

- Mono red decks are officially out of the competition. The approach of devasting summons is just terrible.

Basically the meta is stabling into a circle of UWr, UW and various takes of Jund. I think I can consider Mythic as a tier1 also.

Report - Stepping on 4 Polymorphs before top 8

I got the chance to go to another Regional.

This time it played very well for me as I was able to get in the top8.

However the day didn’t start so well. After we arrived at Coimbra and went in some circles around it I was pointed by a woman that we were on the wrong place, and that I had the wrong address (GoogleMaps let me down for the first time). I got really upset which only got me to get the name of the place where we were going to play wrong. Luckily the place with the wrong name (that place actually existed) was not that far away from the tournament place. And after some time and when I have the right name we finally get there.

O Vingador está de volta!

Boas
Ultimamente tenho andado um pouco afastado de magic, mas tenho de tentar manter o blog “activo”.
Agora que o standard começa a ganhar a sua forma final, começamos a ver os novos decks em acção. UW tappout afirmou-se como tier1 perfeitamente capaz de bater jund.

Report - 5 Steps closer to Nationals but still 2 far away.

So this time I’m going to play Standard in the regionals.

So what deck should I take?

I was playing turbo fog in standard and I also have a Boros deck. My first choices was between this 2 at first, but when a friend of mine said he couldn’t go Jund joined my possibilities  and I ended playing Jund, borrowing my 2 decks to other people.

So I was going to play the deck that most people play but there are quite a bit of different builds.  So which one should I play or rather which one I wanted to play? There was another guy that was with me in this, since he would play Jund too but hadn’t decided which build to play.

So basically, we entered a quest to find the right build for which one of us.

INVITATIONAL TOP4: Miranda goes Controlish

Ora boas,
Finalmente vou entrar em férias de mtg uma vez que a altura competitiva fechou para mim, uma vez que não vou jogar regionais.
Não foi grande season para mim, apenas tive um near top8 em 4 ptq’s, e pronto, fiz o top64 no GP que é bastante decente e ainda top4 no invitational de ontem da ML. AH brincam???
First things first, e começo por falar no ptq. Desde o GP que ando a testar DDT, e tendo a chegado a uma lista, que por mim considero óptima, andava a espancar completamente zoo, mirror’s e w/ever.

Quando tudo virará pó... CONTÉM SPOILERS

Ora boas,
Cá estou eu de novo, desta vez vou tentar abordar um pouco do futuro de t2 com rise of the eldrazi.
Sim, eu sei que ainda só sairam 50 cartas para além dos terrenos básicos, mas mesmo assim já dá para um vislumbre do que está para vir.
A carta que até agora mais me chamou a atenção foi a All is Dust, a carta é absurda. É simplesmente brutal. O efeito é poderosissimo, e a maior caracteristica é que é incolor.
O que significa isto? A priori, que qualquer deck pode usa-lo. Mas se pensarmos melhor, isto é uma solução para monoblacks, mono blues e mono red's de modo a lidarem com encantamentos e artefactos que até agora era impossível.
Esta carta, aliada ao facto de existir o everflowing chalice, implica o aparecimento de novos arquetipos, e quem sabe se não é desta que o big red cola no ambiente.

Contagem descrescente em Bruxelas *top64*

Hey
Regressado de Bruxelas, após um top64, concluo que a minha escolha foi a certa.
Fiz 12-4 com um bye, perdendo para 2 jund dia 1, e 2 naya no dia 2.
De facto, estava a trabalhar para um top16, de modo a qualificar me para san juan, mas não deu, e tive de me contentar com os 200 USD's.
Eu tinha deck para melhor de facto, mas as derrotas nem foram próximas e não deu mesmo para o top16.
A lista que joguei foi:

Quando começamos o jogo a 17 com apenas 5 cartas na mão

Boas,
Ao contrário dos outros posts anteriores, este vai ser em português.
Ora bem, faltam apenas 4 dias para o meu 3º ptq de extended e tou a pouco mais de uma semana para o GP Bruxelas.
Começando por extended, devo manter-me fiel a Dark Depths, mais precisamente à lista verde e preta uma vez que na minha opinião é o melhor deck de extended, já que possui os melhor mu's contra tudo. A sério, não tou no gozo. Com 8 duress's de main, é possível quebrar todas as defesas de controlo, mirror e atrasar combo's o tempo suficiente.