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:

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.