Dnes se podíváme na vítězný deklist z jednoho z největších MTGA turnajů v uplnynulém týdnu. Šlo o standard pořádaný americkým profesionálním týmem Lotus Box. Turnaje se zúčastnilo 239 hráčů, hrálo se devět kol + top8 a takhle to dopadlo:
- BW Aristocrats (Lurrus)
- RUG Reclamation
- Jeskai Fires (Keruga)
- BR Aristrocrats (Lurrus)
- RUG Reclamation
- BR Aristocrats (Lurrus)
- BR Aristocrats (Lurrus)
- BR Aristocrats (Lurrus)
O tom, že je Lurrus silný na nerotujících formátech, už asi nikoho přesvědčovat nemusím. Ovšem že je situace podobná i na standardu, to mě osobně celkem překvapilo.
Čekal bych, že se Lurrus bude hrát jako karta v decku, ale neřekl bych, že bude tak dobrý, že se vyplatí kvůli tomu nehrát Mayhem Devila a Midnight Reapera. To jsem se ale evidentně spletl, jelikož hned pět hráčů v této top8 dospělo k přesně opačnému výsledku.
Drtivá většina hráčů vsadila na RB variantu s Kroxou, Dreadhorde Butcherem a Robberem of the Rich. Avšak celkový vítěz, Robert Stanley vsadil na maximálně synergistickou verzi, kterou umožnily hrát dvě nové engine karty - Fiend Artisan a Call of the Death-Dweller. A dobré synergie v decku má i další nová karta, do které byste to na první pohled asi neřekli - Whisper Squad.
Tutorovat si za dvě many 1/1 vanilku, to nevypadá nijak oslnivě, avšak třeba s Priestem of the Forgotten Gods je to opravdu vynikající. A díky tomu, že je v decku playset Artisanů, není nikterak těžké tenhle chain nastartovat.
Jinak je deck taková klasika, kočka v kotlíku, Gutterbones... A pokud se celou tu dobu divíte, proč je tu vlastně vůbec bílá, tak vězte, že za to může zejména Cruel Celebrant, poté další podpůrná karta v podobě Hunted Witness, a také playset Hushbringerů v sidu, což je skvělé proti companionům jako Gyruda či Keruga.
Decklisty Standard
BW Aristocrats
Robert Stanley
Gutterbones
Gutterbones enters the battlefield tapped.
{1}{B}: Return Gutterbones from your graveyard to your hand. Activate this ability only during your turn and only if an opponent lost life this turn.
Priest of Forgotten Gods
{T}, Sacrifice two other creatures: Any number of target players each lose 2 life and sacrifice a creature. You add {B}{B} and draw a card.
Godless Shrine
({T}: Add {W} or {B}.)
As Godless Shrine enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
Cruel Celebrant
Whenever Cruel Celebrant or another creature or planeswalker you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Despark
Exile target permanent with converted mana cost 4 or greater.
Duress
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Temple of Silence
Temple of Silence enters the battlefield tapped.
When Temple of Silence enters the battlefield, scry 1.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}.
Hushbringer
Flying, lifelink
Creatures entering the battlefield or dying don't cause abilities to trigger.
Cauldron Familiar
When Cauldron Familiar enters the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Sacrifice a Food: Return Cauldron Familiar from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Epic Downfall
Exile target creature with converted mana cost 3 or greater.
Witch's Oven
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Create a Food token. If the sacrificed creature's toughness was 4 or greater, create two Food tokens instead. (They're artifacts with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")
Castle Locthwain
Castle Locthwain enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Fabled Passage
{T}, Sacrifice Fabled Passage: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.
Heliod's Intervention
Choose one —
• Destroy X target artifacts and/or enchantments.
• Target player gains twice X life.
Lampad of Death's Vigil
{1}, Sacrifice a creature: Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Mire's Grasp
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -3/-3.
Tymaret, Chosen from Death
Tymaret's toughness is equal to your devotion to black. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
{1}{B}: Exile up to two target cards from graveyards. You gain 1 life for each creature card exiled this way.
Call of the Death-Dweller
Return up to two target creature cards with total converted mana cost 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Put a deathtouch counter on either of them. Then put a menace counter on either of them.
Heartless Act
Choose one —
• Destroy target creature with no counters on it.
• Remove up to three counters from target creature.
Whisper Squad
{1}{B}: Search your library for a card named Whisper Squad, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
Fiend Artisan
Fiend Artisan gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.
{X}{B/G}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Search your library for a creature card with converted mana cost X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
Lurrus of the Dream-Den
Companion — Each permanent card in your starting deck has converted mana cost 2 or less. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may cast it once from outside the game.)
Lifelink
During each of your turns, you may cast one permanent spell with converted mana cost 2 or less from your graveyard.
A to je pro dnešek vše, ale na pravidelnou denní dávku companion decků se samozřejmě můžete těšit i zítra.
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