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:

Adressing Mythic Rarity

For quite some time there are a lot of people nagging about the price of some mythics.

And I’m one of them.

Paying 50 to 80 dollars for a card is almost prohibitive for me, and when the decks I would like to play have 4-10 cards of this type this is even worse. To top it all this can not be addressed by any other way than buying them or been lucky on a draft.

But drafting for this kind of cards is not worth it, because if you aren’t able to hit them you will most likely lose money.

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.

Eldrazi's - Edição limitada

Boas!

Ontem foi o pre release, e devo dizer que gosto bastante desta expansão para limited. Também já tenho feito alguns drafts e tenho gostado bastante.
Parece-me equilibrada, em que todas as cores têm boas cartas, e não há a predominância de uma especifica, ao contrário do que acontecia em Zendikar.
Sendo assim, vou fazer uma curta análise ao limited desta expansão.

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.