GP Providence nebylo bez české účasti :) byl tam Jarda Bouček
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1. GP Kuala Lumpur (Standard)
První velkou příležitost, jak vyzkoušet úspěšné decky z PT na vlastní kůži, si nenechalo ujít 769 hráčů, což je relitivně malé číslo, nicméně v takovýchto odlehlých, tropických končinách to zase není tak neobvyklé.
Nejzajímavější bylo sledovat, jak úspěšný bude UW Flash, který na PT vypadal velmi dobře a jak populární zůstanou kontroly.
Nakonec to dopadlo tak, že UW Flash byl ve druhém dni suverénně nejhranějším deckem, když ho hrálo 85 hráčů, což byla více než třetina herního pole. A naopak v top64 byl jeden jediný kontrol, což byl Jeskai Benedicta Gonzalese, který ještě k tomu celou top64 uzavíral.
Vůbec oproti PT, kde byla dost široká metagame, můžeme říct, že tady bylo velmi jasně vidět, které tři decky budou po další týdny patřit mezi úplnou špičku - UW Flash, Vehicly (ať už RW, nebo Mardu/4C) a BG Delirium ve druhém dni dohromady zabraly 171 míst z celkových 245.
V samotné top8 byly pouze dva různé decky - pětkrát UW Flash (jednou s malou splashí na Scroungera) a dvakrát Mardu Vehicly (jednou s modrou splashí). Mimo jiné to znamenalo, že v top8 bylo 32 Smuggler's Copter, 32 Thraben Inspectorů a 31 Gideonů.
Celkovým vítězem se stal Fumiya Matsumoto se 4C Vehicly, když si v top8 poradil se jmény jako Yuuki Ichikawa a Yuta Takahashi.
Fumiyo Matsumoto
GP Kuala Lumpur
1 Unlicensed Disintegration |
2 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar |
4 Ceremonious Rejection |
2 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship |
2 Fragmentize |
4 Galvanic Bombardment |
({T}: Add {W}.)
({T}: Add {R}.)
Pokud bychom se chtěli porozhlédnout po nějakých zajímavějších decích, tak se dostaneme až k pětačtyřicátému místu, které obsadil Shuhei Nakamura s originálním Sultai MIdrangem, který obsahoval spoustu spot removalu a jako finishery měl Nissy a Torrential Gearhulky (které mohl hledat Traversem, což mi přijde jako velmi pěkná interakce).
Zajímavý byl také sideboard, kde byla možnost přejít do aggro módu pomocí playsetu Grim Flayerů a také tam byly zajímavé chuťovky pro Traverse v podobě Gontiho a Tooth Collectora.
Další zajímavý deck v top64 byli Blue Eldrazi, se kterými dosáhl Shigetaka Hirayama na 57. místo. Deck obsahoval klasické eldrazi jako Skyspawner, Thought-Knot Seer a Reality Smasher, které doplnily Ruination Guide, Scrapheap Scrounger, Elder Deep-Fiend a samozřejmě i Smuggler's Copter.
Shuhei Nakamura
GP Kuala Lumpur
2 Negate |
1 Transgress the Mind |
4 Grim Flayer |
1 Tooth Collector |
2 Gonti, Lord of Luxury |
2 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet |
1 Ceremonious Rejection |
1 To the Slaughter |
1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship |
Counter target noncreature spell.
Destroy target creature.
Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-2.
{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
({T}: Add {U}.)
({T}: Add {B}.)
({T}: Add {G}.)
Shigetaka Hirayama
GP Kuala Lumpur
2 Matter Reshaper |
4 Tide Drifter |
2 Imprisoned in the Moon |
2 Summary Dismissal |
1 Ceremonious Rejection |
1 Jace, Unraveler of Secrets |
1 Dispel |
2 Negate |
Counter target noncreature spell.
{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.
2. GP Providence (Standard)
První velká dvojka po PT na americkém území zlákala 1 180 hráčů (bez české účasti).
Metagame tu byla velmi podobná jako v Kuala Lumpur - ve druhém dni byl nejhranější UW Flash s 88 hráči z celkových 344, což byla zhruba čtvrtina herního pole.
Další decky hrané v hojném počtu byly samozřejmě Vehicly s Deliriem a krok s nimi držel ještě BR Zombie Madness se 27 hráči a UWR Control s 26 hráči.
Nejúspěšnější deck turnaje bylo nakonec BG Delirium, které zabralo hned čtyři místa v top8 (zbylé decky byly 2× RW Vehicly, Zombie Madness a UW Flash). Ta byla zároveň plná velkých jmen jako Seth Manfield, Osyp Lebedowicz, nebo Dave Shiels.
Už to vypadalo, že Setha Manfielda nedokáže nikdo zastavit, ale nakonec se to ve finále v mirroru BG Delirií povedlo Yichenu Wangovi, který se tak při své první GP top8 hned dočkal celkového prvenství.
Yichen Wang
GP Providence
1 Transgress the Mind |
1 To the Slaughter |
1 Dead Weight |
1 Emrakul, the Promised End |
2 Flaying Tendrils |
2 Pick the Brain |
1 Nissa, Vital Force |
1 Ob Nixilis Reignited |
3 Appetite for the Unnatural |
1 Essence Extraction |
1 Lost Legacy |
Destroy target creature.
Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets -2/-2.
({T}: Add {B}.)
({T}: Add {G}.)
Z hlediska Flash News je důležité, že v top64 tu bylo k vidění daleko více zajímavých decků, než v Kuala Lumpur.
Kousek za top8 (desáté místo) byl Julian Wildes, který hrál velice unikátní 4C Aggro s energy tématikou. Deck má stejný základ jako RG Aggro, ale má více interakce díky Reflector Magům a Spell Quellerům. A další velká výhoda je Tamiyo, která představuje resilienci v late gamu.
28. místo obsadil Craig Wescoe se svým vlastním brew, kterým bylo překvapivě White Weenie s malou černou splashí. Craig už tenhle deck hrál na PT, kde s ním měl 7:3. Po malých úpravách z toho bylo 11:3:1 na GP, nicméně je to vlastně zklamání, protože Craig měl po prvním dni perfektních 9:0.
Na 33. místě skončil Andrew Cuneo se zajímavou verzí UW Controlu, která hrála tak trochu jako UW Flash, jelikož v decku byli Spell Queleři, Avacyn a Hulkcaster (pokud chceme použít správnou terminologii, tak tohle by měl de facto být UW Flash a UW Flash by se prostě měl nazývat UW Aggrem...).
Velmi efektivní je v decku transformační sideboard s bytostmi jako Gisela, Thing in the Ice a Thalia, ačkoli mi to zrovna u Adrewa přijde velmi nezvyklé...
Dále tu máme 4C Control, se kterým skončil na 38. místě. Alexander Hayne. Základ decku je UR s counterspelly, removalem a levným prolizem, který doplňuje černá s Painful Truths a Unlicensed Disintegration a také zelená, jenž přináší Nissu, Tireless Trackery, ale také Lumbering Falls, které byly v decku v playsetu a spolu s Hulkcasterem tvořily základní winkondici decku.
A jako poslední chuťuvku tu máme agresivně pojatý BW Midrange s kartami jako Thraben Inspector, Thalia, Ayli, ale hlavně Kambal, což je podle mě velmi přehlížená karta, která ve správném matchupu může být opravdu smrtící.
Julian Wildes
GP Providence
2 Tireless Tracker |
1 Reflector Mage |
2 Harnessed Lightning |
1 Evolving Wilds |
1 Blossoming Defense |
2 Jace, Unraveler of Secrets |
3 Negate |
3 Ceremonious Rejection |
{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
({T}: Add {W}.)
({T}: Add {U}.)
({T}: Add {R}.)
({T}: Add {G}.)
Craig Wescoe
GP Providence
1 Aerial Responder |
2 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar |
2 Swamp |
3 Archangel Avacyn |
1 Anguished Unmaking |
2 Blessed Alliance |
4 Transgress the Mind |
Andrew Cuneo
GP Providence
1 Blessed Alliance |
1 Negate |
1 Quarantine Field |
1 Thing in the Ice |
1 Epiphany at the Drownyard |
3 Summary Dismissal |
2 Fragmentize |
1 Thalia, Heretic Cathar |
2 Gisela, the Broken Blade |
2 Cataclysmic Gearhulk |
Counter target noncreature spell.
Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
({T}: Add {W}.)
({T}: Add {U}.)
Alexander Hayne
GP Providence
1 Nissa, Vital Force |
1 Radiant Flames |
1 Negate |
1 Painful Truths |
4 Tireless Tracker |
2 Ceremonious Rejection |
1 Dispel |
1 Tears of Valakut |
1 Overwhelming Denial |
1 Summary Dismissal |
1 Dragonmaster Outcast |
Counter target noncreature spell.
Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
({T}: Add {U}.)
({T}: Add {B}.)
({T}: Add {R}.)
({T}: Add {G}.)
James Eveland
GP Providence
1 Liliana, the Last Hope |
3 Essence Extraction |
3 Fragmentize |
2 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet |
2 Lost Legacy |
3 Transgress the Mind |
1 Ob Nixilis Reignited |
Forsaken Sanctuary enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.
({T}: Add {W}.)
3. SCG Open Milwaukee (Modern)
První pořádný modern s novými kartami z Kaladeshe zlákal 809 hráčů, takže mimo jiné hravě strčil do kapsy GP Kuala Lumpur...
Nejúspěšnějšími decky turnaje byly Infect, Dredge a Burn, z čehož bych vypíchl zejména dredge, který hrála spousta známých hráčů jako Kent Ketter, Jacob Baugh, nebo Jim Davis.
Velké popularitě se Dredge samozřejmě těší díky vydání Cathartic Reunion, které mu tady vyneslo hned dvě místa v top8 a celkem devět míst v top32.
Vítěz byl ale ze zcela jiného soudku. Všechny totiž zaskočil Caleb Durward s Bant Spirity! V decku jsou staré známé interakce z předchozího standardu, jako třeba Collected Company + Spell Queller, ale zároveň je obohacený o modern staply jako Noble Hierarch a Geist of Saint Traft (ke kterému je tu do komba ještě Steel of the Godhead).
Poraženým finalistou byl Samuel Jadin s Ad Nauseamem, na kterém se mi líbil zejména discard v sidu v podobě Thoughtseize a Esper Charmu (který zároveň umí zničit Stony Silence).
Ve zbytku top8 jsme mohli vidět vesměs klasické tier decky jako RG Titanshift, Bushwhacker Zoo, UWR Tempo se Spell Quellery a Affinitu.
Z méně obvyklých decků byl v popředí vidět například Grixis s Delverem a Young Pyromancery, Lantern Control (který hrál jenom jednu Inventor's Fair, což je trochu zklamání), Kiki-Chord, nebo RW Moon Todda Stevense, ve kterém měl dvojici nových karet - Chandra, Torch of Defiance a Blessed Alliance.
Caleb Durward
SCG Open Milwaukee
2 Engineered Explosives |
1 Spellskite |
2 Qasali Pridemage |
1 Rhox War Monk |
3 Rest in Peace |
3 Stony Silence |
2 Blessed Alliance |
1 Path to Exile |
As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.
Flying Other Spirit creatures you control get +1/+1 and have hexproof. (They can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Look at the top six cards of your library. Put up to two creature cards with converted mana cost 3 or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {2}{G}{W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Whenever Geist of Saint Traft attacks, put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. Exile that token at end of combat.
You may have Phantasmal Image enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's an Illusion in addition to its other types and it gains "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."
Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) {2}, Sacrifice Engineered Explosives: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Engineered Explosives.
{U/P}: Change a target of target spell or ability to Spellskite. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {1}, Sacrifice Qasali Pridemage: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U} to your mana pool.
When Rest in Peace enters the battlefield, exile all cards from all graveyards. If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Razorverge Thicket enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {G} or {W} to your mana pool.
Lifelink
Exile target creature. Its controller may search his or her library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle his or her library.
Enchant creature As long as enchanted creature is white, it gets +1/+1 and has lifelink. (Damage dealt by the creature also causes its controller to gain that much life.) As long as enchanted creature is blue, it gets +1/+1 and is unblockable.
({T}: Add {G} or {U}.) As Breeding Pool enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) As Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
({T}: Add {W}.)
({T}: Add {U}.)
({T}: Add {G}.)
Kent Ketter
SCG Open Milwaukee
2 Abrupt Decay |
1 Ancient Grudge |
1 Darkblast |
2 Gnaw to the Bone |
2 Golgari Charm |
1 Lightning Axe |
3 Nature's Claim |
2 Collective Brutality |
1 Bojuka Bog |
Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn. Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
You gain 2 life for each creature card in your graveyard. Flashback {2}{G} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Flying When Narcomoeba is put into your graveyard from your library, you may put it onto the battlefield.
Dakmor Salvage enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B} to your mana pool. Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly two cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly 3 cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)
Golgari Grave-Troll comes into play with a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature card in your graveyard. {1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from Golgari Grave-Troll: Regenerate Golgari Grave-Troll. Dredge 6
Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand. Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly three cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)
Flying Whenever Stinkweed Imp deals combat damage to a creature, destroy that creature. Dredge 5 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly five cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)
Abrupt Decay can't be countered by spells or abilities. Destroy target nonland permanent with converted mana cost 3 or less.
Blackcleave Cliffs enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {R} to your mana pool.
Copperline Gorge enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {R} or {G} to your mana pool.
Destroy target artifact. Flashback {G} (You may play this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then remove it from the game.)
Conflagrate deals X damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players. Flashback-{R}{R}, Discard X cards. (You may play this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then remove it from the game.)
When Gemstone Mine comes into play, put three mining counters on it. {T}, Remove a mining counter from Gemstone Mine: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. If there are no mining counters on Gemstone Mine, bury it.
Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped. When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile all cards from target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B} to your mana pool.
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.
Bloodghast can't block. Bloodghast has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life. Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may return Bloodghast from your graveyard to the battlefield.
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard two cards. Draw three cards.
({T}: Add {R}.)
James Johnson
SCG Open Milwaukee
1 Engineered Explosives |
2 Kor Firewalker |
1 Rest in Peace |
1 Stony Silence |
1 Celestial Purge |
1 Dispel |
2 Negate |
1 Wear |
2 Anger of the Gods |
2 Supreme Verdict |
As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.
{T}: Add {W} to your mana pool. {W}, {T}: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target legendary creature this turn.
Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.
Flash When Snapcaster Mage enters the battlefield, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Whenever Geist of Saint Traft attacks, put a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying onto the battlefield tapped and attacking. Exile that token at end of combat.
Sulfur Falls enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain. {T}: Add {U} or {R} to your mana pool.
Counter target spell with converted mana cost 2.
Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) {2}, Sacrifice Engineered Explosives: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Engineered Explosives.
Draw a card. Scry 2 (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top of it in any order.)
Electrolyze deals 2 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players. Draw a card.
Flash Flying When Vendilion Clique enters the battlefield, look at target player's hand. You may choose a nonland card from it. If you do, that player reveals the chosen card, puts it on the bottom of his or her library, then draws a card.
Counter target spell. If you do, return that spell card to its owner's hand. Draw a card.
When Rest in Peace enters the battlefield, exile all cards from all graveyards. If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Supreme Verdict can't be countered. Destroy all creatures.
Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to target creature or player and you gain 3 life.
Counter target spell unless its caster pays an additional {3}.
Anger of the Gods deals 3 damage to each creature. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.
Lightning Bolt does 3 damage to one target.
Exile target creature. Its controller may search his or her library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle his or her library.
Celestial Colonnade enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U} to your mana pool. {3}{W}{U}: Until end of turn, Celestial Colonnade becomes a 4/4 white and blue Elemental creature with flying and vigilance. It's still a land.
Protection from red Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may gain 1 life.
({T}: Add {W} or {U}.) As Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
Counter target noncreature spell.
({T}: Add {W}.)
({T}: Add {U}.)
({T}: Add {R}.)
Matt Vernon
SCG Open Milwaukee
Choose two — • Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Target player discards a card. • Destroy target artifact. • Kolaghan's Command deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life.
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) {2}{G/U}{G/U}: Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard, then return a nonland card of an opponent's choice from your graveyard to your hand.
Flash When Snapcaster Mage enters the battlefield, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. Draw a card.
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Destroy target creature.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a 1/1 red Elemental creature token onto the battlefield.
Counter target spell with converted mana cost 2.
Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) {2}, Sacrifice Engineered Explosives: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Engineered Explosives.
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
Draw a card. Scry 2 (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top of it in any order.)
Electrolyze deals 2 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players. Draw a card.
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Look at target player's hand. Draw a card.
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Haste {T}: Izzet Staticaster deals 1 damage to target creature and each other creature with the same name as that creature.
Choose one — Exile all cards from target player's graveyard; or destroy target artifact; or each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.
Darkslick Shores enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {B} to your mana pool.
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.
Counter target spell unless its caster pays an additional {3}.
All non-basic lands are now basic mountains.
Lightning Bolt does 3 damage to one target.
U
({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) As Blood Crypt enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
({T}: Add {U}.)
({T}: Add {B}.)
({T}: Add {R}.)
Tim King
SCG Open Milwaukee
2 Grafdigger's Cage |
2 Sun Droplet |
2 Welding Jar |
3 Spellskite |
1 Leyline of Sanctity |
1 Ancient Grudge |
1 Nature's Claim |
1 Surgical Extraction |
1 Collective Brutality |
1 Pyroclasm |
Reveal a card from your hand. Search your library for a card with the same name as that card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library. Hellbent — If you have no cards in hand, instead search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
{T}: Each player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.
Whenever you're dealt damage, put that many charge counters on Sun Droplet. At the beginning of each player's upkeep, you may remove a charge counter from Sun Droplet. If you do, you gain 1 life.
Sacrifice Welding Jar: Regenerate target artifact.
{R}, Sacrifice Pyrite Spellbomb: Pyrite Spellbomb deals 2 damage to target creature or player. {1}, Sacrifice Pyrite Spellbomb: Draw a card.
At the beginning of the end step, if you control no artifacts, sacrifice Glimmervoid. {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
{U/P}: Change a target of target spell or ability to Spellskite. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Abrupt Decay can't be countered by spells or abilities. Destroy target nonland permanent with converted mana cost 3 or less.
{T}: Target player puts the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard. {5}, {T}, Sacrifice Codex Shredder: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it with converted mana cost 3 or less. That player discards that card.
Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a colorless card from among them and put it into your hand. Then put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. (Cards with no colored mana in their mana costs are colorless. Lands are also colorless.)
Blackcleave Cliffs enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {R} to your mana pool.
Copperline Gorge enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {R} or {G} to your mana pool.
Metalcraft — {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Activate this ability only if you control three or more artifacts.
Each creature with power greater than the number of cards in your hand cannot attack.
Pyroclasm deals 2 damage to each creature.
As Pithing Needle comes into play, name a card. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be played unless they're mana abilities.
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add {B} or {G} to your mana pool. Llanowar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.
{T}: Each player exiles the top card of his or her library face down. {7}, {T}, Sacrifice Pyxis of Pandemonium: Each player turns face up all cards he or she owns exiled with Pyxis of Pandemonium, then puts all permanent cards among them onto the battlefield.
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {1}{U}, {T}: Put target artifact card in your graveyard on top of your library.
Destroy target artifact. Flashback {G} (You may play this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then remove it from the game.)
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.
If Leyline of Sanctity is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield. Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
({T}: Add {B}.)
({T}: Add {G}.)
Brian Hart
SCG Open Milwaukee
Flying, hexproof Spells and abilities your opponents control can't cause you to sacrifice permanents.
Whenever an opponent casts a spell during your turn or when Voice of Resurgence dies, put a green and white Elemental creature token onto the battlefield with "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures you control."
Haunt (When this card is put into a graveyard from play, remove it from the game haunting target creature.) When Orzhov Pontiff comes into play or the creature it haunts is put into a graveyard, choose one — creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn; or creatures you don't control get -1/-1 until end of turn.
Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.
Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.
When Obstinate Baloth enters the battlefield, you gain 4 life. If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Obstinate Baloth, put it onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your graveyard.
{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on Scavenging Ooze and you gain 1 life.
When Reclamation Sage enters the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
When Pia and Kiran Nalaar enters the battlefield, put two 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield. {2}{R}, Sacrifice an artifact: Pia and Kiran Nalaar deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
Flying When Flickerwisp enters the battlefield, exile another target permanent. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) {2}, Sacrifice Engineered Explosives: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Engineered Explosives.
Haste {T}: Put a token that's a copy of target nonlegendary creature you control onto the battlefield. That token has haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
Flying When Reveillark leaves play, return up to two target creature cards with power 2 or less from your graveyard to play. Evoke {5}{W} (You may play this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it comes into play.)
You can't get poison counters. Creatures you control can't have -1/-1 counters placed on them. Creatures your opponents control lose infect.
{U/P}: Change a target of target spell or ability to Spellskite. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {1}, Sacrifice Qasali Pridemage: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Flash Flying When Restoration Angel enters the battlefield, you may exile target non-Angel creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.
When Sin Collector enters the battlefield, target opponent reveals his or her hand. You choose an instant or sorcery card from it and exile that card.
Convoke (Each creature you tap while playing this spell reduces its cost by {1} or by one mana of that creature's color.) Search your library for a creature card with converted mana cost X or less and put it into play. Then shuffle your library.
Flying Activated abilities of creatures your opponents control can't be activated.
All artifacts have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact unless you pay {1}."
Razorverge Thicket enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {G} or {W} to your mana pool.
Sacrifice Fulminator Mage: Destroy target nonbasic land.
Defender When Wall of Omens enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to target creature or player and you gain 3 life.
All non-basic lands are now basic mountains.
Defender Put a -0/-1 counter on Wall of Roots: Add {G} to your mana pool. Play this ability only once each turn.
Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. This ability is played as an interrupt.
Damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 instead reduces it to 1 if you control a creature.
Exile target creature. Its controller may search his or her library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle his or her library.
Raging Ravine enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {G} to your mana pool. {2}{R}{G}: Until end of turn, Raging Ravine becomes a 3/3 red and green Elemental creature with "Whenever this creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it." It's still a land.
({T}: Add {R} or {G}.) As Stomping Ground enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
({T}: Add {W}.)
({T}: Add {R}.)
({T}: Add {G}.)
Todd Stevens
SCG Open Milwaukee
3 Leyline of Sanctity |
3 Rest in Peace |
2 Stony Silence |
2 Blessed Alliance |
1 Chandra, Flamecaller |
1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion |
1 Anger of the Gods |
1 Crumble to Dust |
1 Wrath of God |
Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.
Chalice of the Void enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it. Whenever a player casts a spell with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Chalice of the Void, counter that spell.
Remove Simian Spirit Guide in your hand from the game: Add {R} to your mana pool.
When Rest in Peace enters the battlefield, exile all cards from all graveyards. If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn can't be countered. When you cast Emrakul, take an extra turn after this one. Flying, protection from colored spells, annihilator 6 When Emrakul is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library.
+2: During target opponent's next turn, creatures that player controls attack Gideon Jura if able. -2: Destroy target tapped creature. 0: Until end of turn, Gideon Jura becomes a 6/6 Human Soldier creature that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to him this turn.
Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to target creature or player and you gain 3 life.
All non-basic lands are now basic mountains.
Anger of the Gods deals 3 damage to each creature. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.
+1: Put three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield. -3: Destroy all creatures with power 4 or greater. -7: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have flying."
All creatures in play are destroyed and cannot regenerate.
When Journey to Nowhere enters the battlefield, exile target creature. When Journey to Nowhere leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Clifftop Retreat enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.
If Leyline of Sanctity is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Temple of Triumph enters the battlefield tapped. When Temple of Triumph enters the battlefield, scry 1. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.
When Banishing Light enters the battlefield, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until Banishing Light leaves the battlefield. (That permanent returns under its owner's control.)
({T}: Add {W}.)
({T}: Add {R}.)
4. SCG Classic Milwaukee (Standard & Legacy)
Standard klasiku hrálo 125 hráčů a mnoho zajímavého se toho při ní neudálo. Zvítězil Brad Carpenter s UW Flashem, když ve finále porazil Sama Blacka s RW Tokeny (deck Makise Matsoukase z PT). Pro Brada to po dvou výhrách s Infectem na modernu byla už třetí výhra na SCG okruhu za poslední dva měsíce.
V top16 byly přítomny vesměs pouze tier decky, s výjimkou BW Aggra, o kterém už jsem psal u GP Providence. Za oba úspěchy tenhle deck patrně vděčí Brianu-Braunu Duinovi, který o něm předtím v týdnu psal jakožto o zajímavém decku, který zkoušel při testingu na PT.
Legačka měla přesně o jednoho hráče více, než standard, ale zato více než o 100% zajímavější decky na předních příčkách. Dokonce bych řekl, že tu byly k vidění některé dost divoké kreace.
V top16 jsme mimo jiné mohli vidět: 2× Alluren, Slivery, Monored Sneak Attack, UWR Faerie, nebo BR Reanimator.
Dva z těchto decků se dokonce střetly ve finále. Byl to Alluren Alexe Barnetta a UWR Faerie Davea Patwella. Z tohoto klání vzešel vítězně Alexander, který hrál v podstatě klasickou verzi Alurenu s BUG základem, který je podobný jako u Shadless BUGu a který je doplněný o Imperial Recruitery, několik one-ofů a Cabal Therapie.
Co mě na Alexově decku fascinuje, to je jeho singleton sideboard. One-ofy k Recruiterovi jsou pochopitelné, ale opravdu by mě zajímalo, jak se Alex dostal k one-of Blood Moonu, Bloodbraid Elfovi, nebo Hymn to Tourach.
Druhý finálový deck je takový mix Faerií, Stonebladu a Landstillu. Trochu podezřelý mi přijde playset Lavamancerů, nicméně při aktuální oblíbenosti 4C Delvera a Death and Taxes to vypadá jako poměrně dobrý tah.
Ze zajímavých decků byl dále na pátém místě BR Reanimator, který poslední dobou stále více nahrazuje klasický UB Reanimator. Je pravda, že v první hře je deck skvělý, hlavně díky bílému Chancellorovi, který je často také ideální cíl ke zreanimaování v prvním kole.
Hlavní problém tohoto decku je ale podle mě velká náchylnost na graveyrd hate po sidu. A ačkoli je v sidu několik záložních plánů jako Thoughtseize, Blood Moon a Sneak Attack, tak si nejsem jistý, jestli je to dostatečně efektivní.
Poslední zajímavý deck v top8 byl další Alluren (podle mě je to vůbec poprvé, kdy byly na legacy o 100+ hráčích dva Allureny v top8), tentokrát s bílou kvůli Recuiterovi of the Guard. To je jednak finančně daleko lépe dostupná varianta, ale zároveň kvůli ní musíte trochu pozměnit deck, jelikož nemůžete hrát Dream Stalkera, kterého v tomto buildu nahradil Arctic Merfolk.
Bílá také nabízí lepší možnosti do sidu, kde můžete hrát hatebeary jako Thalia a Containment Priest. A tenhle build se od vítězného ještě lišil v jedné věci - v mainu byli Veteran Exploreři kvůli pěkné synergii s Cabal Therapií.
Mimo top8 byly nejzajímavější decky zmiňovaní Sliveři v Bant barvách (s malou černou splashí), kteří představovali tak trochu flashback do časů, kdy byli Countersliveři běžně hraným legacy deckem. Zajímvé je, že v decku byly tři Brainstormy, když před čtvrtým dostala přednost druhá Sylvan Library. A v decku byl i malý counterspell package s Dazou a Forsážemi.
Největší chuťovka byl Monored Sneak Attack, se kterým obsadil patnácté místo Andrew Hiser. V decku byly hned dvě karty z Kaladeshe - jednak to byla Chandra, která tu byla pouze jako one-of a potom to byl Cumbustible Gearhulk, který mi tady přijde opravdu famózní. Díky vysokému prměrnému manacostu vás soupeř vždycky nechá líznout tři, což z něj dělá takového mini Griselbranda, kterého ale můžete docela častou hardcastit.
A čestnou zmínku ještě zaslouží UR Delver Paula Romineho, který skončil na desátém místě a který obsahoval moji oblíbenou kartu, Bedlam Revelera.
Alexander Barnett
SCG Classic Milwaukee
Flying When Parasitic Strix comes into play, if you control a black permanent, target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
Flash Skylasher can't be countered. Reach, protection from blue
Exploit (When this creature enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice a creature.) When Minister of Pain exploits a creature, creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn.
Target player discards two cards at random.
{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on Scavenging Ooze and you gain 1 life.
When Reclamation Sage enters the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Flying, deathtouch When Baleful Strix enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Flying When Cavern Harpy comes into play, return a blue or black creature you control to its owner's hand. Pay 1 life: Return Cavern Harpy to its owner's hand.
Name a nonland card. Target player reveals his or her hand and discards all cards with that name. Flashback-Sacrifice a creature. (You may play this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then remove it from the game.)
Haste Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
When Imperial Recruiter enters the battlefield, search your library for a creature card with power 2 or less, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
You may draw two extra cards during your draw phase. If you do so, put two of the cards drawn this turn back on top of your library (in any order) or pay 4 life per card not replaced. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life.
Abrupt Decay can't be countered by spells or abilities. Destroy target nonland permanent with converted mana cost 3 or less.
{T}: Exile target land card from a graveyard. Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. {B}, {T}: Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Each opponent loses 2 life. {G}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. You gain 2 life.
Flying Discard Faerie Macabre: Remove up to two target cards in graveyards from the game.
Any player may play a creature card with total casting cost 3 or less whenever he or she could play an instant and without paying its casting cost.
All white creatures get -1/-1.
As Pithing Needle comes into play, name a card. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be played unless they're mana abilities.
All non-basic lands are now basic mountains.
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
When Dream Stalker comes into play, return a permanent you control to its owner's hand.
Counts as both mountains and swamp and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {R} or {B} to your mana pool.
Counts as both swamp and forest and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {B} or {G} to your mana pool.
Counts as both swamp and islands and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {B} or {U} to your mana pool.
Counts as both forest and islands and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {G} or {U} to your mana pool.
Counts as both forest and mountains and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {G} or {R} to your mana pool.
Flying; echo (During your next upkeep after this permanent comes into play under your control, pay its casting cost or sacrifice it.) When Bone Shredder comes into play, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.
Players cannot play any artifact abilities requiring an activation cost.
Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield. Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
({T}: Add {U}.)
({T}: Add {B}.)
({T}: Add {G}.)
Dave Patwell
SCG Classic Milwaukee
3 Leyline of Sanctity |
4 Rest in Peace |
2 Blue Elemental Blast |
2 Disenchant |
1 Hydroblast |
2 Pyroblast |
1 Red Elemental Blast |
You may pay 1 life and remove a blue card in your hand from the game instead of paying Force of Will's casting cost. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Counter target spell.
Counter target spell if it is red or destroy target permanent if it is red.
Counter target spell if it is blue or destroy target permanent if it is blue.
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from black and from green. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player discards a card and you untap all lands you control. Equip {2}
When a player plays a spell, sacrifice Standstill. If you do, then each of that player's opponents draws three cards.
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {1}: Mutavault becomes a 2/2 creature with all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land.
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, put two charge counters on Umezawa's Jitte. Remove a charge counter from Umezawa's Jitte: Choose one — Equipped creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn; or target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn; or you gain 2 life. Equip {2}
Flash Flying When Spellstutter Sprite enters the battlefield, counter target spell with converted mana cost X or less, where X is the number of Faeries you control.
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from blue. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, Sword of Fire and Ice deals 2 damage to target creature or player and you draw a card.
Flash Flying When Vendilion Clique enters the battlefield, look at target player's hand. You may choose a nonland card from it. If you do, that player reveals the chosen card, puts it on the bottom of his or her library, then draws a card.
Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
{T}: Add {W} to your mana pool. {T}: Return target legendary creature to its owner's hand.
Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, put a 0/0 black Germ creature token onto the battlefield, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +4/+4 and has vigilance and lifelink. {3}: Return Batterskull to its owner's hand. Equip {5}
{T}: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. {1}: Mishra's Factory becomes an Assembly Worker, a 2/2 artifact creature, until end of turn. Assembly Worker still counts as a land but cannot be tapped for mana the turn it comes into play. {T}: Target Assembly Worker gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
When Rest in Peace enters the battlefield, exile all cards from all graveyards. If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
{R}, {T}, Remove two cards in your graveyard from the game: Grim Lavamancer deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
Counts as both islands and mountains and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {U} or {R} to your mana pool.
Counters a blue spell being cast or destroys a blue card in play.
Counters target red spell being cast or destroys a red card in play.
Counts as both islands and plains and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {U} or {W} to your mana pool.
Target creature is removed from game entirely; return to owner's deck only when game is over. Creature's controller gains life points equal to creature's power.
+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library. 0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order. -1: Return target creature to its owner's hand. -12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles his or her hand into his or her library.
When Stoneforge Mystic enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library. {1}{W}, {T}: You may put an Equipment card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
If Leyline of Sanctity is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield. You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
({T}: Add {U}.)
Jeremy Barbeau
SCG Classic Milwaukee
1 Bone Shredder |
1 Containment Priest |
1 Orzhov Pontiff |
2 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben |
2 Carpet of Flowers |
1 Abrupt Decay |
3 Force of Will |
1 Thoughtseize |
2 Toxic Deluge |
1 Phyrexian Tower |
You may pay 1 life and remove a blue card in your hand from the game instead of paying Force of Will's casting cost. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Counter target spell.
As an additional cost to cast Toxic Deluge, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.
Flash If a nontoken creature would enter the battlefield and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.
Flying When Parasitic Strix comes into play, if you control a black permanent, target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.
First strike Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.
Haunt (When this card is put into a graveyard from play, remove it from the game haunting target creature.) When Orzhov Pontiff comes into play or the creature it haunts is put into a graveyard, choose one — creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn; or creatures you don't control get -1/-1 until end of turn.
When Reclamation Sage enters the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Flying, deathtouch When Baleful Strix enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Flying When Cavern Harpy comes into play, return a blue or black creature you control to its owner's hand. Pay 1 life: Return Cavern Harpy to its owner's hand.
Kicker - Return a creature you control to its owner's hand. (You may return a creature you control to its owner's hand in addition to any other costs as you play this spell.) If you paid the kicker cost, Arctic Merfolk comes into play with +1/+1 counter on it.
Name a nonland card. Target player reveals his or her hand and discards all cards with that name. Flashback-Sacrifice a creature. (You may play this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then remove it from the game.)
You may draw two extra cards during your draw phase. If you do so, put two of the cards drawn this turn back on top of your library (in any order) or pay 4 life per card not replaced. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life.
Abrupt Decay can't be countered by spells or abilities. Destroy target nonland permanent with converted mana cost 3 or less.
{T}: Exile target land card from a graveyard. Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. {B}, {T}: Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Each opponent loses 2 life. {G}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. You gain 2 life.
{T}: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. {1}{B}, {T}: Put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Any player may play a creature card with total casting cost 3 or less whenever he or she could play an instant and without paying its casting cost.
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
Counts as both swamp and forest and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {B} or {G} to your mana pool.
Counts as both swamp and islands and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {B} or {U} to your mana pool.
Counts as both forest and islands and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {G} or {U} to your mana pool.
Counts as both plains and forest and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {W} or {G} to your mana pool.
Flying; echo (During your next upkeep after this permanent comes into play under your control, pay its casting cost or sacrifice it.) When Bone Shredder comes into play, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.
{T}: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B} to your mana pool.
During your main phase, you may add up to X mana of one color to your mana pool, where X is the number of islands target opponent controls.
If Veteran Explorer is put into any graveyard from play, each player may search his or her library for up to two basic land cards and put those lands into play. Each player shuffles his or her library afterwards.
({T}: Add {U}.)
({T}: Add {B}.)
({T}: Add {G}.)
Xander Niazi
SCG Classic Milwaukee
3 Pithing Needle |
3 Harmonic Sliver |
3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben |
3 Flusterstorm |
3 Surgical Extraction |
You may pay 1 life and remove a blue card in your hand from the game instead of paying Force of Will's casting cost. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Counter target spell.
As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.
First strike Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.
You may have Phantasmal Image enter the battlefield as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it's an Illusion in addition to its other types and it gains "When this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."
Sliver creatures you control have flying.
Sliver creatures you control get +1/+1.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on ?ther Vial. {T}: You may put a creature card with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on ?ther Vial from your hand onto the battlefield.
You may return an island you control to its owner's hand instead of paying Daze's mana cost. Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
All Slivers get +1/+1.
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {1}: Mutavault becomes a 2/2 creature with all creature types until end of turn. It's still a land.
Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
You may draw two extra cards during your draw phase. If you do so, put two of the cards drawn this turn back on top of your library (in any order) or pay 4 life per card not replaced. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life.
Each Sliver gains "Pay 2 life: Return this creature to owner's hand."
Slivers cannot be the target of spells or abilities.
All Slivers get +1/+1.
As Pithing Needle comes into play, name a card. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be played unless they're mana abilities.
All Slivers have "When this creature comes into play, destroy target artifact or enchantment."
Counts as both swamp and islands and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {B} or {U} to your mana pool.
Counts as both forest and islands and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {G} or {U} to your mana pool.
Counts as both plains and forest and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {W} or {G} to your mana pool.
Counts as both islands and plains and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {U} or {W} to your mana pool.
({T}: Add {W}.)
({T}: Add {U}.)
Andrew Hiser
SCG Classic Milwaukee
3 Trinisphere |
2 Ingot Chewer |
2 Magus of the Moon |
1 Sulfur Elemental |
2 Price of Glory |
1 Pyromancy |
1 Pyrostatic Pillar |
1 Kozilek's Return |
2 Sudden Shock |
Put a creature card from your hand into play. That creature has haste. Sacrifice that creature at end of turn. Splice onto Arcane {2}{R}{R} (As you play an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)
If you play any land, sacrifice City of Traitors. {T}: Add two colorless mana to your mana pool.
As long as Trinisphere is untapped, each spell that would cost less than three mana to cast costs three mana to cast. (Additional mana in the cost may be paid with any color of mana or colorless mana. For example, a spell that would cost {1}{B} to cast costs {2}{B} to cast instead.)
Nonbasic lands are Mountains.
When Ingot Chewer comes into play, destroy target artifact. Evoke {R} (You may play this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it comes into play.)
Sandstone Needle comes into play tapped with two depletion counters on it. {T}, Remove a depletion counter from Sandstone Needle: Add two red mana to your mana pool. If there are no depletion counters on Sandstone Needle, sacrifice it.
Chalice of the Void enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it. Whenever a player casts a spell with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Chalice of the Void, counter that spell.
Add {R}{R}{R}{R}{R} to your mana pool.
Whenever a player taps a land for mana during another player's turn, destroy that land.
Remove Simian Spirit Guide in your hand from the game: Add {R} to your mana pool.
Flash (You may play this spell any time you could play an instant.) Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't play spells or activated abilities that aren't mana abilities.) White creatures get +1/-1.
Flying, lifelink Pay 7 life: Draw seven cards.
Trample When Worldspine Wurm dies, put three 5/5 green Wurm creature tokens with trample onto the battlefield. When Worldspine Wurm is put into a graveyard from anywhere, shuffle it into its owner's library.
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn can't be countered. When you cast Emrakul, take an extra turn after this one. Flying, protection from colored spells, annihilator 6 When Emrakul is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library.
Whenever a player plays a spell with converted mana cost 3 or less, Pyrostatic Pillar deals 2 damage to that player.
{T}: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. {T}, Sacrifice Crystal Vein: Add two colorless mana to your mana pool.
Sacrifice Lotus Petal: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Play this ability as a mana source.
All non-basic lands are now basic mountains.
Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't play spells or activated abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Sudden Shock deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
{3}, Discard a card at random: Pyromancy deals to target creature or player an amount of damage equal to the total casting cost of the discarded card.
{R}: Choose a creature card from your hand and put that creature into play. The creature is unaffected by summoning sickness. At end of turn, sacrifice the creature.
({T}: Add {R}.)
Paul Romine
SCG Classic Milwaukee
2 Grafdigger's Cage |
1 Null Rod |
2 Sulfuric Vortex |
1 Dismember |
1 Flusterstorm |
2 Price of Progress |
1 Pyroblast |
1 Pyrokinesis |
2 Smash to Smithereens |
1 Sudden Shock |
1 Surgical Extraction |
You may pay 1 life and remove a blue card in your hand from the game instead of paying Force of Will's casting cost. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Counter target spell.
As True-Name Nemesis enters the battlefield, choose a player. True-Name Nemesis has protection from the chosen player. (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything controlled by that player.)
You may exile a red card from your hand rather than pay Pyrokinesis's mana cost. Pyrokinesis deals 4 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures.
Counter target spell if it is blue or destroy target permanent if it is blue.
Haste Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
You may return an island you control to its owner's hand instead of paying Daze's mana cost. Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
Chain Lightning deals 3 damage to target creature or player. Then that player or that creature's controller may pay {R}{R}. If the player does, he or she may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.
Price of Progress deals damage to each player equal to twice the number of nonbasic lands that player controls.
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Look at target player's hand. Draw a card.
Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Destroy target artifact. Smash to Smithereens deals 3 damage to that artifact's controller.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, Sulfuric Vortex deals 2 damage to that player. If a player would gain life, that player gains no life instead.
Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't play spells or activated abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Sudden Shock deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
Counts as both islands and mountains and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {U} or {R} to your mana pool.
Lightning Bolt does 3 damage to one target.
Players cannot play any artifact abilities requiring an activation cost.
Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield. Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
({T}: Add {U}.)
({T}: Add {R}.)
5. Bazaar of Moxen Eternal Weekend (Legacy, Vintage, Duel Commander, Oldschool)
Bazaar of Moxen měl tu čest pořádat (pokud se nemýlím) úplně první oficiální evropský šampionát v eternal formátech.
Vrcholem byla jako vždy legačka, které se účastnilo 294 hráčů. Nejhranější decky byly klasicky různé Delver varianty (včele se 4C) a Miracly, po kterých následovaly Eldrazi a Death and Taxes.
Tahle statistika se promítla i do finálové top8, ve které byly troje Miracly, dva 4C Delveři a po jednom BR Reanimator, Death and Taxes a Elfové.
Z vítězství se nakonec poměrně překvapivě radoval Michel Chevalier s BR Reanimatorem, když postupně porazil Death and Taxes, Miracly a Delvera. Možná že lepší matchup s Death and Taxes ve srovnání s UB Reanimatorem (pokud snad nevíte, tak klasickému Reanimáoru nedělá moc dobře Karakas ani Containment Priest) je ten hlavní důvod, proč tehle deck vyzkoušet.
Turnaje se účastnila i docela početná česká výprava, které se ale vůbec nedařilo, když jediný dobrý výsledek zaznamenal Svatopluk Sejkora skončivší na dvacátém místě.
Michel Chevalier
European Eternal Championship
1 Blazing Archon |
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite |
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria |
3 Blood Moon |
3 Sneak Attack |
2 Pithing Needle |
1 Pyroblast |
1 Red Elemental Blast |
2 Thoughtseize |
Flying Whenever you play a spell, return target permanent to its owner's hand.
At the beginning of each end step, each player discards his or her hand.
Counter target spell if it is blue or destroy target permanent if it is blue.
You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, when each opponent casts his or her first spell of the game, counter that spell unless that player pays {1}. Flying Whenever an opponent casts a spell, counter it unless that player pays {1}.
Vigilance Other creatures you control get +2/+2. Creatures your opponents control get -2/-2.
Remove Simian Spirit Guide in your hand from the game: Add {R} to your mana pool.
Search your library for a card and put that card into your graveyard. Then shuffle your library.
Flying, lifelink Pay 7 life: Draw seven cards.
Flying Creatures can't attack you.
Sacrifice Lotus Petal: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Play this ability as a mana source.
Put target creature card from any graveyard into play under your control. Lose life equal to that creature's total casting cost.
As Pithing Needle comes into play, name a card. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be played unless they're mana abilities.
All non-basic lands are now basic mountains.
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
Counts as both mountains and swamp and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {R} or {B} to your mana pool.
Counters a blue spell being cast or destroys a blue card in play.
Any creature in either player's graveyard comes into play on your side with -1 to its original power. If this enchantment is removed, or at end of game, target creature is returned to its owner's graveyard. Target creature may be killed as normal.
Each player chooses a creature card in his or her graveyard and puts that creature into play.
Add {B}{B}{B} to your mana pool.
{R}: Choose a creature card from your hand and put that creature into play. The creature is unaffected by summoning sickness. At end of turn, sacrifice the creature.
Flying As Iona, Shield of Emeria enters the battlefield, choose a color. Your opponents can't cast spells of the chosen color.
({T}: Add {B}.)
({T}: Add {R}.)
Druhá největší událost byla vintage s účastí 94 hráčů.
Možná je to trochu překvapivé, ale Kaladesh měl na formát docela velký vliv. Hned několik karet se prosadilo v Shopech. Nejzajímavější je asi Inventor's Fair, o jejíž interakci s Cruciblem jsem tu už hovořil, a dále tu máme dvojici vehiclů, Fleetwheel Cruiser a Skysovereign, Consul Flagship. A k vidění byly i další karty jako Foundry Inspector, Chandra, Metalwork Collosus, nebo Paradoxical Outcome.
Top8 byla plná Stax decků, kterých tam bylo hned pět (White Eldrazi, Colorless Eldrazi, 2× Ravager Shops a TKS Shops s playsetem Misstepů), nicméně se všemi si nakonec poradil Joan Anton Mateo s klasickým Gush Mentorem.
Zbylé dva decky v top8 byly Oathy s Emrakul/Dragon Breath kombem a Dark Petition Storm se zajímavým sideboard plánem v podobě Ancient Tomb a Voltaic Key/Time Vault kombem.
Ani tady samozřejmě nechyběla česká výprava, která se tu dočkala pěkného úspěchu, když se Ladislav Loučka dostal do top8 s Ravager Shops.
Joan Anton Mateo
European Eternal Championship
1 Balance |
1 Supreme Verdict |
2 Containment Priest |
3 Ingot Chewer |
1 Flusterstorm |
1 Mindbreak Trap |
1 Swords to Plowshares |
2 Grafdigger's Cage |
1 Mountain |
2 Wear / Tear |
You may pay 1 life and remove a blue card in your hand from the game instead of paying Force of Will's casting cost. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Counter target spell.
Tap to add 1 colorless mana to your mana pool or draw a card from your library; you may use the card-drawing ability only if you have exactly seven cards in your hand.
As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.
Flash If a nontoken creature would enter the battlefield and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.
+1: Target player draws two cards, then discards two cards. -2: Gain control of target artifact. -6: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell that targets one or more permanents, gain control of those permanents."
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a 1/1 white Monk creature token with prowess onto the battlefield.
{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Draw a card, then put Sensei's Divining Top on top of its owner's library.
Counter target spell if it is blue or destroy target permanent if it is blue.
Flash When Snapcaster Mage enters the battlefield, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Draw three cards.
When Ingot Chewer comes into play, destroy target artifact. Evoke {R} (You may play this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it comes into play.)
You may return two islands you control to their owner's hand instead of paying Gush's mana cost. Draw two cards.
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Counter target spell with converted mana cost 1.
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Look at target player's hand. Draw a card.
Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Supreme Verdict can't be countered. Destroy all creatures.
Counts as both islands and mountains and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {U} or {R} to your mana pool.
Add 1 green mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Add 1 blue mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Take an extra turn after this one.
Add 1 black mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Counts as both islands and plains and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {U} or {W} to your mana pool.
Add 1 red mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Whichever player has more lands in play must discard enough lands of his or her choice to equalize the number of lands both players have in play. Cards in hand and creatures in play must be equalized the same way. Creatures lost in this manner may not be regenerated.
Add 1 white mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Draw 3 cards or force opponent to draw 3 cards.
Target creature is removed from game entirely; return to owner's deck only when game is over. Creature's controller gains life points equal to creature's power.
Adds 3 mana of any single color of your choice to your mana pool, then is discarded. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library. 0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order. -1: Return target creature to its owner's hand. -12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles his or her hand into his or her library.
If an opponent cast three or more spells this turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay Mindbreak Trap's mana cost. Exile any number of target spells.
Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield. Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
({T}: Add {U}.)
({T}: Add {R}.)
Antonio Mussara
European Eternal Championship
1 Batterskull |
3 Grafdigger's Cage |
3 Null Rod |
2 Pithing Needle |
2 Tormod's Crypt |
2 Witchbane Orb |
1 Dismember |
1 Duplicant |
Tap to add 3 colorless mana to your mana pool. This mana may only be used to cast artifacts.
If you play any land, sacrifice City of Traitors. {T}: Add two colorless mana to your mana pool.
All spells cost an additional {1} to play.
As long as Trinisphere is untapped, each spell that would cost less than three mana to cast costs three mana to cast. (Additional mana in the cost may be paid with any color of mana or colorless mana. For example, a spell that would cost {1}{B} to cast costs {2}{B} to cast instead.)
When Witchbane Orb enters the battlefield, destroy all Curses attached to you. You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control, including Aura spells.)
Imprint — When Duplicant comes into play, you may remove target nontoken creature from the game. (The removed card is imprinted on this artifact.) As long as a creature card is imprinted on Duplicant, Duplicant has that card's power, toughness, and creature types. It's still a Shapeshifter.
As Phyrexian Revoker enters the battlefield, name a nonland card. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated.
Chalice of the Void enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it. Whenever a player casts a spell with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Chalice of the Void, counter that spell.
Fading 4 (This artifact comes into play with four fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player taps an artifact, creature, or land he or she controls for each fade counter on Tangle Wire.
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Counter target spell with converted mana cost 1.
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) You may have Phyrexian Metamorph enter the battlefield as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, put a 0/0 black Germ creature token onto the battlefield, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +4/+4 and has vigilance and lifelink. {3}: Return Batterskull to its owner's hand. Equip {5}
As Pithing Needle comes into play, name a card. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be played unless they're mana abilities.
{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Remove target player's graveyard from the game.
Add 1 green mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Add 1 blue mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Add 1 black mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Add 1 red mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Add 1 white mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Adds 3 mana of any single color of your choice to your mana pool, then is discarded. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
{T}: Add {U} to your mana pool for each artifact you control.
Players cannot play any artifact abilities requiring an activation cost.
Nonartifact spells cost {1} more to cast.
Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield. Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
Ladislav Loučka
European Eternal Championship
2 Crucible of Worlds |
4 Grafdigger's Cage |
1 Relic of Progenitus |
1 Tormod's Crypt |
2 Witchbane Orb |
2 Dismember |
2 Karakas |
1 Triskelion |
Tap to add 3 colorless mana to your mana pool. This mana may only be used to cast artifacts.
All spells cost an additional {1} to play.
As long as Trinisphere is untapped, each spell that would cost less than three mana to cast costs three mana to cast. (Additional mana in the cost may be paid with any color of mana or colorless mana. For example, a spell that would cost {1}{B} to cast costs {2}{B} to cast instead.)
When Witchbane Orb enters the battlefield, destroy all Curses attached to you. You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control, including Aura spells.)
Noncreature spells cost {1} more to play.
As Phyrexian Revoker enters the battlefield, name a nonland card. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated.
Sacrifice an artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on Arcbound Ravager. Modular 1 (This enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies, you may put its +1/+1 counters on target artifact creature.)
Chalice of the Void enters the battlefield with X charge counters on it. Whenever a player casts a spell with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Chalice of the Void, counter that spell.
Fading 4 (This artifact comes into play with four fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.) At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player taps an artifact, creature, or land he or she controls for each fade counter on Tangle Wire.
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, Mana Crypt deals 3 damage to you. {T}: Add {2} to your mana pool.
{T}: Add {W} to your mana pool. {T}: Return target legendary creature to its owner's hand.
When Triskelion comes into play, put three +1/+1 counters on it. {0}: Remove one of these counters from Triskelion to have Triskelion deal 1 damage to target creature or player.
{T}: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. {1}: Mishra's Factory becomes an Assembly Worker, a 2/2 artifact creature, until end of turn. Assembly Worker still counts as a land but cannot be tapped for mana the turn it comes into play. {T}: Target Assembly Worker gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
{T}: Target player removes a card in his or her graveyard from the game. {1}, Remove Relic of Progenitus from the game: Remove all graveyards from the game. Draw a card.
You may play land cards from your graveyard.
{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Remove target player's graveyard from the game.
Add 1 green mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Add 1 blue mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Add 1 black mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Add 1 red mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Add 1 white mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Adds 3 mana of any single color of your choice to your mana pool, then is discarded. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Whenever Karn blocks or becomes blocked, it gets -4/+4 until end of turn. {1}: Target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its casting cost until end of turn. (That artifact retains its abilities.)
{T}: Add {U} to your mana pool for each artifact you control.
Nonartifact spells cost {1} more to cast.
Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield. Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
Rob Mesotten
European Eternal Championship
2 Ancient Tomb |
1 Island |
2 Chain of Vapor |
3 Hurkyl's Recall |
1 Empty the Warrens |
2 Sadistic Sacrament |
1 Tinker |
1 Memory Jar |
1 Time Vault |
1 Voltaic Key |
Tap to add 1 colorless mana to your mana pool or draw a card from your library; you may use the card-drawing ability only if you have exactly seven cards in your hand.
Skip your draw phase. If you discard a card from your hand, remove that card from the game. {0}: Pay 1 life to set aside the top card of your library. At the beginning of your next discard phase, put that card into your hand. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life.
Search your library for a card and put that card into your hand. Then shuffle your library. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, add {B}{B}{B} to your mana pool.
Sacrifice Lion's Eye Diamond, Discard your hand: Add three mana of any one color to your mana pool. Play this ability as a mana source.
Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. Then that permanent's controller may sacrifice a land. If the player does, he or she may copy this spell and may choose a new target for that copy.
Name a nonland card. Target player reveals his or her hand and discards all cards with that name. Flashback-Sacrifice a creature. (You may play this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then remove it from the game.)
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Look at target player's hand. Draw a card.
At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, Mana Crypt deals 3 damage to you. {T}: Add {2} to your mana pool.
Target player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. Storm (When you play this spell, copy it for each spell played before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Shuffle your library. Then remove the top card of your library from the game. Until end of turn, you may play it as though it were in your hand without paying its mana cost. (If it has X in its mana cost, X is 0.) Storm (When you play this spell, copy it for each spell played before it this turn.)
Sacrifice Lotus Petal: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Play this ability as a mana source.
Return all artifacts target player owns to his or her hand.
Put two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens into play. Storm (When you play this spell, copy it for each spell played before it this turn.)
Add {B}{B}{B} to your mana pool. Threshold - Instead add {B}{B}{B}{B}{B} to your mana pool. (You have threshold if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.)
Tap to add 3 colorless mana to your mana pool. Mana Vault doesn't untap normally during untap phase; to untap it, you must pay 4 mana. If Mana Vault remains tapped during upkeep it does 1 damage to you. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Counts as both mountains and swamp and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {R} or {B} to your mana pool.
Add 1 green mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
{T}: Gain an additional turn after the current one. Time Vault doesn't untap normally during untap phase; to untap it, you must skip a turn. Time Vault begins tapped.
Add 1 blue mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Counts as both swamp and islands and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {B} or {U} to your mana pool.
Add 1 black mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Set Timetwister aside in a new graveyard pile. Shuffle your hand, library, and graveyard together into a new library and draw a new hand of seven cards, leaving all cards in play where they are; opponent must do the same.
Add 1 red mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Add 1 white mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Draw 3 cards or force opponent to draw 3 cards.
Adds 3 mana of any single color of your choice to your mana pool, then is discarded. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
You may search your library for one card and take it into your hand. Reshuffle your library afterwards.
Both players must discard their hands and draw seven new cards.
Skip your draw step. Pay 1 life: Draw a card.
During each player's turn, spells played by another player cost an additional {3}.
{T}, Sacrifice Memory Jar: Each player sets aside his or her hand, face down, and draws seven cards. At the end of turn, each player discards his or her hand and returns to his or her hand each card he or she set aside this way.
At the time you play Tinker, sacrifice an artifact. Search your library for an artifact card and put that artifact into play. Shuffle your library afterward.
Until end of turn, you may play cards in your graveyard as though they were in your hand. Cards put into your graveyard this turn are removed from the game instead.
Add {B}{B}{B} to your mana pool.
{1}, {T}: Untap target artifact.
Pay 2 life: Search your library for any one card. Shuffle your library, then put that card on top of your library.
Kicker {7} (You may pay an additional {7} as you cast this spell.) Search target player's library for up to three cards, exile them, then that player shuffles his or her library. If Sadistic Sacrament was kicked, instead search that player's library for up to fifteen cards, exile them, then that player shuffles his or her library.
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
({T}: Add {U}.)
({T}: Add {B}.)
Yves Dahinden
European Eternal Championship
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite |
1 Terastodon |
2 Mindbreak Trap |
3 Nature's Claim |
2 Pithing Needle |
4 Rest in Peace |
1 Savannah |
1 Toxic Deluge |
You may pay 1 life and remove a blue card in your hand from the game instead of paying Force of Will's casting cost. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Counter target spell.
As an additional cost to cast Toxic Deluge, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Draw three cards.
Vigilance Other creatures you control get +2/+2. Creatures your opponents control get -2/-2.
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Counter target spell with converted mana cost 1.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player controls fewer creatures than an opponent, the player may reveal cards from the top of his of her library until he or she reveals a creature card. The player puts that card into play and all other cards revealed this way into his or her graveyard.
Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Flying, lifelink Pay 7 life: Draw seven cards.
Abrupt Decay can't be countered by spells or abilities. Destroy target nonland permanent with converted mana cost 3 or less.
When Rest in Peace enters the battlefield, exile all cards from all graveyards. If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn can't be countered. When you cast Emrakul, take an extra turn after this one. Flying, protection from colored spells, annihilator 6 When Emrakul is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library.
Enchanted creature has haste. {R} Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn. When a creature with converted mana cost 6 or more comes into play, you may return Dragon Breath from your graveyard to play enchanting that creature.
As Pithing Needle comes into play, name a card. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be played unless they're mana abilities.
Add 1 green mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Add 1 blue mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Counts as both swamp and islands and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {B} or {U} to your mana pool.
Take an extra turn after this one.
Counts as both forest and islands and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {G} or {U} to your mana pool.
Add 1 black mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Counts as both plains and forest and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {W} or {G} to your mana pool.
Add 1 red mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Add 1 white mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Draw 3 cards or force opponent to draw 3 cards.
Adds 3 mana of any single color of your choice to your mana pool, then is discarded. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
You may search your library for one card and take it into your hand. Reshuffle your library afterwards.
Each player may choose an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land card in his or her hand and put that permanent into play.
Pay 2 life: Search your library for any one card. Shuffle your library, then put that card on top of your library.
+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library. 0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order. -1: Return target creature to its owner's hand. -12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles his or her hand into his or her library.
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.
If an opponent cast three or more spells this turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay Mindbreak Trap's mana cost. Exile any number of target spells.
({T}: Add {U}.)
Další zajímavý turnaj v rámci Eternal Weekendu byl Duel Commander, což byl první velký turnaj hraný na 20 životů (účast byla 71 hráčů). Zajímavé bylo, že oficiálně se na dvacet životů má hrát až od 11.11., kdy také bude updatovaný banlist.
Organizátoři to vyřešili tak, že udělali vlastní banlist, kde byla odbanovaná pětice karet - Serra's Ascendant (pouze kosmetická úprava), Grindstone, Gifts Ungiven, Humility a Yawgmoth's Bargain.
Zajímavé bylo, že z těchto změn evidentně nejvíce profitovaly zelené agresivní decky, jelikož se ve finále utkaly dvě Titanie. V top8 také byla dvojice Doranů, Gitrog Monster, Leovold a Jenara. Jediný nongreen deck v top8 byla Narset, ve které byla dvojice nově odbanovaných karet - Humility a Gifts Ungiven. Není moc obtížné si představit, jaký rachot musí v tomhle decku být Gifty...
Samuel Marti
European Eternal Championship
1 Titania, Protector of Argoth |
As Cavern of Souls enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.
Haste When Craterhoof Behemoth enters the battlefield, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures you control.
Play with the top card of your library revealed. You may play the top card of your library if it's a land card. Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool.
Dark Depths comes into play with ten ice counters on it. {3}: Remove an ice counter from Dark Depths. When Dark Depths has no ice counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, put an indestructible legendary 20/20 black Avatar creature token with flying named Marit Lage into play.
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Each player gains control of all creatures he or she owns.
When Titania, Protector of Argoth enters the battlefield, return target land card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Whenever a land you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a 5/3 green Elemental creature token onto the battlefield.
Enchant Forest As Utopia Sprawl comes into play, choose a color. Whenever enchanted Forest is tapped for mana, its controller adds one mana of the chosen color to his or her mana pool.
If you play any land, sacrifice City of Traitors. {T}: Add two colorless mana to your mana pool.
(Dryad Arbor isn't a spell, it's affected by summoning sickness, and it has "{T}: Add {G} to your mana pool.") Dryad Arbor is green.
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {2}, {T}: Thespian's Stage becomes a copy of target land and gains this ability.
{0}: Sacrifice a land to gain 2 life.
{T}: Add {G} to your mana pool. Play this ability as an interrupt.
Sacrifice a land: Target creature you control can't be the target of spells or abilities this turn.
If you control four or fewer lands, search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library. Cycling—Sacrifice a land. (Sacrifice a land, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Choose two - Target player gains 7 life; or put target noncreature permanent on top of its owner's library; or target player shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library; or search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
+1: Untap two target lands. -1: Put a 3/3 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield. -4: Creatures you control get +3/+3 and gain trample until end of turn.
+1: Put a 3/3 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield. -3: Draw cards equal to the greatest power among creatures you control. -6: Put a 6/6 green Wurm creature token onto the battlefield for each land you control.
When Thragtusk enters the battlefield, you gain 5 life. When Thragtusk leaves the battlefield, put a 3/3 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield.
{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on Scavenging Ooze and you gain 1 life.
When Reclamation Sage enters the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Whenever a creature with power 3 or greater enters the battlefield under your control, draw a card.
When Woodland Bellower enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a nonlegendary green creature card with converted mana cost 3 or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
Search your library for a green creature card with converted mana cost X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library. Shuffle Green Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.
Sacrifice any number of lands. Search your library for that many land cards, put them into play tapped, then shuffle your library.
+4: Target player exiles a card from his or her hand. -3: Exile target permanent. -14: Restart the game, leaving in exile all non-Aura permanent cards exiled with Karn Liberated. Then put those cards onto the battlefield under your control.
({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.) {1}{G/P}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature card with converted mana cost equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's converted mana cost, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
{T}: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. {T}, Sacrifice Petrified Field: Return target land card from your graveyard to your hand.
Destroy target permanent. Its controller puts a 3/3 green Beast creature token onto the battlefield.
Search your library for a forest card and put that forest into play. Shuffle your library afterward.
Trample Whenever Primeval Titan enters the battlefield or attacks, you may search your library for up to two land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
{T}: Add {G} to your mana pool.
Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand. Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, instead you may put exactly three cards from the top of your library into your graveyard. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand. Otherwise, draw a card.)
Level up {1}{G} ({1}{G}: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.) LEVEL 1-4 1/2 {T}: Add {G}{G} to your mana pool. LEVEL 5+ 1/4 Elves you control have "{T}: Add {G}{G} to your mana pool."
Search your library for four land cards with different names and reveal them. An opponent chooses two of those cards. Put the chosen cards into your graveyard and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
When Fierce Empath comes into play, you may search your library for a creature card with converted mana cost 6 or more, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
{T}: Add {G} to your mana pool. Put a -1/-1 counter on Devoted Druid: Untap Devoted Druid.
{T}: Add 1 Mana to your mana pool. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Naya Panorama: Search your library for a basic Mountain, Forest, or Plains card and put it into play tapped. Then shuffle your library.
Search your library for a creature card and reveal that card. Shuffle your library, then put the card on top of it.
{T}: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. {T}, Sacrifice Crystal Vein: Add two colorless mana to your mana pool.
Search your library for a forest card and put that card into play. Then shuffle your library.
When Mox Diamond comes into play, choose and discard a land card or sacrifice Mox Diamond. {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Play this ability as a mana source.
During your upkeep, you may look at the top three cards of your library and put them back in any order.
You may play land cards from your graveyard.
{T}: Target attacking creature becomes untapped. This creature neither deals nor receives damage as a result of combat.
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add to your mana pool an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)
When tapped, target land provides 1 green mana in addition to the mana it normally provides.
Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. This ability is played as an interrupt.
Tap to add green mana to your mana pool. This tap can be played as an interrupt.
{T}: Add one green mana to your mana pool for each forest you control.
{T}: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. {G}, {T}: Regenerate target creature.
At the time you play Crop Rotation, sacrifice a land. Search your library for a land card and put that land into play. Shuffle your library afterwards.
{T}: Add {G} to your mana pool for each Elf in play. Play this ability as a mana source.
You may play an additional land each turn.
{T}: Untap target Forest.
When Avenger of Zendikar enters the battlefield, put a 0/1 green Plant creature token onto the battlefield for each land you control. Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant creature you control.
You may play an additional land this turn. Draw a card.
As an additional cost to cast Harrow, sacrifice a land. Search your library for up to two basic land cards and put them onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.
Landfall — Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you may add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Play with the top card of your library revealed. You may play the top card of your library if it's a land card.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Expedition Map: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
Všechny decky z top8 si můžete prohlédnout zde.
Z dalších zajímavých eventů bych ještě zmínil Oldschool, což je v podstatě varianta vintage, kde můžete hrát pouze karty, které vyšly v letech 1993/94 (edice Alpha, Beta, Unlimited, Arabian Nights, Antiquities, Legends a The Dark). Zároveň to je jediný competetive formát, kde můžete hrát Chaos Orb :)
Tady jsme totiž slavili největší úspěchy, když v konkurenci 34 hráčů zvítězil Matouš Trajhan s "The Deckem", což je v podstatě oldschool UW kontrol se Serra Angelem, Counterspelly, Disenchanty, apod. V praxi se ale jedná o pětibarvu, protože se tu splashují karty jako Fireball, Mind Twist, nebo Regrowth.
V top8 byl ještě Jan Zuskač, který vypadl v top4 v bratrovražedném souboji s Matoušem. I Zuzy hrál variaci The Decku...
Matouš Trajhan
European Eternal Championship
3 Red Elemental Blast |
3 Blue Elemental Blast |
2 Dust to Dust |
1 Wrath of God |
1 Moat |
2 Greater Realm of Preservation |
1 Mirror Universe |
1 City in a Bottle |
1 Serra Angel |
All cards from Arabian Nights must be discarded from play, except for City in a Bottle. While City in a Bottle is in play, no further cards from Arabian Nights can be played.
Tap to add 1 colorless mana to your mana pool or draw a card from your library; you may use the card-drawing ability only if you have exactly seven cards in your hand.
Counters target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add {X} to your mana pool, where X is the casting cost of target spell.
Non-flying creatures cannot attack.
{T}: Sacrifice Mirror Universe during your upkeep, and trade your number of life points with opponent. For example, if you had 2 life points and your opponent had 10, you would now have 10 life points and your opponent would have 2. Effects that prevent or redirect damage may not be used to counter this change of life.
{1}{W}: Prevents all damage against you from one red or black source. If a source does damage to you more than once in a turn, you must pay {1}{W} each time you want to prevent the damage.
{T}: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. {1}: Mishra's Factory becomes an Assembly Worker, a 2/2 artifact creature, until end of turn. Assembly Worker still counts as a land but cannot be tapped for mana the turn it comes into play. {T}: Target Assembly Worker gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Choose and discard X cards from your hand, then return that many cards from your graveyard to your hand. Remove Recall from the game.
Whenever City of Brass becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of a color of your choice to your mana pool.
Removes two target artifacts from the game.
Counts as both islands and mountains and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {U} or {R} to your mana pool.
Counters target spell as it is being cast.
Add 1 green mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Add 1 blue mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Counters a blue spell being cast or destroys a blue card in play.
Destroys any one land.
{1}: Flip Chaos Orb onto the playing area from a height of at least one foot. Chaos Orb must turn completely over at least once or it is discarded with no effect. When Chaos Orb lands, any cards in play that it touches are destroyed, as is Chaos Orb.
{4}: You may draw one extra card.
Counts as both swamp and islands and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {B} or {U} to your mana pool.
Counters target red spell being cast or destroys a red card in play.
Take an extra turn after this one.
Add 1 black mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Flying Does not tap when attacking.
Counts as both islands and plains and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {U} or {W} to your mana pool.
Set Timetwister aside in a new graveyard pile. Shuffle your hand, library, and graveyard together into a new library and draw a new hand of seven cards, leaving all cards in play where they are; opponent must do the same.
Add 1 red mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Whichever player has more lands in play must discard enough lands of his or her choice to equalize the number of lands both players have in play. Cards in hand and creatures in play must be equalized the same way. Creatures lost in this manner may not be regenerated.
Add 1 white mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Draw 3 cards or force opponent to draw 3 cards.
Draw X cards or force opponent to draw X cards.
Fireball does X damage total, divided evenly (round down) among any number of targets. Pay 1 extra mana for each target beyond the first.
Lightning Bolt does 3 damage to one target.
All creatures in play are destroyed and cannot regenerate.
Target creature is removed from game entirely; return to owner's deck only when game is over. Creature's controller gains life points equal to creature's power.
Adds 3 mana of any single color of your choice to your mana pool, then is discarded. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
You may search your library for one card and take it into your hand. Reshuffle your library afterwards.
Return any card from your graveyard to your hand.
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
A pokud vás zajímá, co všechno lze na tomhle formátu hrát, tak decklisty z top8 jsou zde.
6. Magic Online Championship (Standard)
Na závěr tu mám jeden poslední standard, kterým byl klasický měsíční MTGO Championship, kterého se zúčastnilo 76 hráčů, což sice není mnoho, ale na turnaji byla o to větší konkurence.
V top16 můžeme najít jména jako Mike Sigrist, Sam Pardee, Brad Nelson, Thiago Saporito a také Lukáš Blohon, který celý turnaj vyhrál s BG Deliriem. Jednalo se o verzi více vytuněnou na mirror (tři Trackeři v mainu) a UW Flash (tři Ishkanahové v mainu).
Jako zajímavost bych také zmínil Start Your Engines jakožto one-of v RW Vehiclech, které obsadily čtvrté místo.
A aby to nebylo zcela bez decklistů, tak tu máme zajímavou verzi 4C Zomb-Emerge s Grim Flayery, která obsadila osmé místo. Když se nad tím zamyslím, tak mě trochu překvapuje, že jsem je v tomhle decku až doteď ještě neviděl, jelikož Grim Flayer má velmi pěknou synergii se všemi hrobolezci, ať už je to Prized Amalgam, Scrapheap Scrounger, nebo Haunted Dead.
kozoukun
Standard MOCS
1 Kozilek's Return |
4 Ceremonious Rejection |
2 Collective Brutality |
1 Distended Mindbender |
1 Ishkanah, Grafwidow |
1 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet |
1 Ob Nixilis Reignited |
2 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship |
2 Transgress the Mind |
{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
({T}: Add {U}.)
({T}: Add {B}.)
({T}: Add {R}.)
({T}: Add {G}.)
A to je pro tentokrát vše, u dalších vydání na viděnou.
Kumano
12.10. Double RC Qualifier weekend, Nádražní 84, Praha 5 Sealed day 1, Modern day 2 |
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25.10. World Championship , Las Vegas Constructed / draft |
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6.12. Eternal Weekend Praha, Praha Více formátů |
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24.1. Regional Championship Praha 2025, Praha Modern či Limited |
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