V těchto Flash News nás čeká ohlednutí za dvojicí Limited Grand Prix, které proběhly před Pro Tourem Rivals of Ixalan. Dále pak obří týmové SCG Open, pravidelné turnaje na Magic Online a French Commander.
1. GP Londýn (Rivals of Ixalan Sealed)
Týden před PT se jako obvykle konala dvojice limited GP. Většina pro playerů chystající se na PT už byla v Evropě a na GP tak byla opravdu obrovská konkurence. Mezi 1 979 hráči samozřejmě nechyběli ani Češi, mainu eventu se jich zúčastnilo pěkných dvaatřicet!
Díky nabité konkurenci jsme po celý víkend mohli na předních příčkách sledovat známé tváře. Po prvním dni byli mezi neporaženými hráči Brad Nelson, Steve Rubin, či Andrea Mengucci.
Zajímavé bylo, že hned v pěti decích z osmi neporažených byla Profane Procession a (nebo) Tendershoot Dryad, zatímco obávaného Tetzimoca žádný z neporažených hráčů v decku neměl.
V top8 jsme nakonec mohli vidět Setha Manfielda (ten na PT Ixalan chytnul tak vynikající formu, že se zdá, že je pomalu každý týden někde v top8), Steva Rubina, Brada Nelsona (po jedenácti standardových GP top8 za sebou se konečně prosadil i na limited), Mark Jocobson, či Eduardo Sajgalik.
Jako nejlepší strategie se ve finálové top8 ukázala být co největší agresivita, když na všechny vyzrál mexický pro player, Marcelino Freeman, se velmi agresivními BR Piráty, kde měl playset Grasping Scoundrelů a pouze patnáct zemí. Mimichodem, jeho finálový soupeř byl Steve Rubin, který měl v decku obávanou kombinaci Forerunner of the Empire + Poplyraptor.
V coverage byla zmíněná i zajímavá perlička. Během druhého dne se podařilo německému pro playerovi, Christianu Hauckovi, nadraftovat naprosto brutální merfolky, kde měl pět Merfolk Mistbinderů a Kumenu. S deckem samozřejmě uhrál 3:0.
Několika pěkných výsledků dosáhli i naši hráči. Do druhého dne jich sice postoupilo pouze devět, hned šest z nich dosáhlo na pro pointy. Trojice účastníků pro touru, Lukáš Blohon, Dominik Prošek a Ondřej Stráský vyladila formu nejlépe, když skončila v top64, která získává finanční prémii. Lukáš byl třiadvacátý, Dominik pětatřicátý a Ondřej jednašedesátý.
Na pro pointy dále dosáhli Jan Ksandr (88.), Pavel Matoušek (117.) a Jaromír Kohout (219.).
2. GP Houston (Rivals of Ixalan Sealed)
Druhé GP bylo trochu zastíněné vysokou koncentrací pro hráčů v Londýně. Do Houstonu přišlo pouhých 887 hráčů a konkurence tu tak samozřejmě byla o dost menší, což ale neznamenalo, že bychom na nejvyšších příčkách neměli žádná známá jména.
Na druhou top8 na GP v řadě tu dosáhl Joe Demestrio, po dlouhých osmnácti letech získal svou čtvrtou GP top8 Robert Swarowski a povědomá jména (hlavně díky úspěchům na SCG turnajích) jsou i Bradley Yoo a Phimus Pan.
Finále tu bylo tak trochu deja vu, zvítězil totiž další mexický národní šampion, Axel Martinez Ocampo, když ve finále s agresivním deckem (Vampýři) porazil RG Dinosaury (ale tentokrát bez Polyraptor komba).
3. SCG Open Philadelphia (Team Constructed)
Skoro tisícovka hráčů přišla na další SCG Open v populárním týmovém constructed (hrají proti sobě trojice, kde má jeden hráč standard, druhý modern a třetí legacy).
Do prvního dne se přihlásilo 329 týmů, které měly neúprosný postupový klíč do druhého dne, kam postpopily pouze týmy se skóre 7:2 a lépe, což bylo pouze 25 týmů. Druhý den měl tak opět velmi komorní atmosféru, ale zase na druhou stranu bylo více hráčů v nedělních klasikách...
Z výhry se radovala naprosto neznámá trojice William Lo, Lucas Michaels a Jeremy Henry, když vsadila na kombinaci BUG Constrictor, Dredge a BG Depths. Za pozornost stojí, že v prvním dni začali 1:2, ale potom vyhráli deset kol v řadě. Ve finále navíc porazili velmi silný tým Brennan DeCandio, Caleb Durward a Tannon Grace.
Ze všech tří formátů byl opět nejzajímavější standard, kde se vlivem úspěchu na onlinu staly nejpopulárnjěšími decky Grixis Energy a Mardu Vehicly. Kompletní druhý den vypadal takto:
- 6× Grixis Energy
- 4× Mardu Vehicles
- 2× RW Aggro
- 2× GB Constrictor
- BUG Constrictor
- RG Monsters
- Grixis Control
- UW Approach
- Merfolk
- 4C Marionette Master
- UB Control
- RG Dinos
- UR Tower
- WU Auras
- Esper Gift
Nejzajímavější brew z tohoto seznamu je určitě čtyřbarva s Marionette Masterem, což je v podstatě BW Control, který využívá jako winkondici Marionette Mastera v kombinaci s Treasure Mapou či Tezzeretem, jenž v kombinaci s Masterem může soupeře zabít jenom s několika málo artefakty.
Další zajímavá brew byla RG Monstra s nižší křivkou, ve kterých byl playset Earthshaker Khenra a také dvojice Resilient Khenry, RW Aggro s Path of Mettle, které mělo modrou splash na Negate v sidu, Merfolci s maindeck Nissou a Deeproot Waters, RG Dinosauři s vyšší křivkou, která zahrnovala Carnage Tyranty a Buring Sun's Avatary, či UR Control se zapomenutou kartou v podobě Dynavolt Tower.
Za zmínku stojí například i UB Control s velkým počtem Moment of Craving v mainu, či UW Approach s chuťovkami jako Azor's Gateway či Nezahal, Primal Tide.
Decklisty Standard
BUG Constrictor
Jeremy Henry
SCG Open Philadelphia
Appetite for the Unnatural
Ravenous Chupacabra
When Ravenous Chupacabra enters the battlefield, destroy target creature an opponent controls.
Jadelight Ranger
When Jadelight Ranger enters the battlefield, it explores, then it explores again. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard. Then repeat this process.)
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Duress
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Essence Scatter
Counter target creature spell.
Decklisty Standard
Grixis Energy
Brennan DeCandio
SCG Open Philadelphia
Chandra, Torch of Defiance
Dire Fleet Daredevil
First strike
When Dire Fleet Daredevil enters the battlefield, exile target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard. You may cast that card this turn, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to cast that spell. If that card would be put into a graveyard this turn, exile it instead.
Rekindling Phoenix
Flying
When Rekindling Phoenix dies, create a 0/1 red Elemental creature token with "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature and return target card named Rekindling Phoenix from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste until end of turn."
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Duress
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Essence Scatter
Counter target creature spell.
Decklisty Standard
RG Monsters
Matt Tumavtich
SCG Open Philadelphia
Chandra, Torch of Defiance
Rekindling Phoenix
Flying
When Rekindling Phoenix dies, create a 0/1 red Elemental creature token with "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature and return target card named Rekindling Phoenix from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste until end of turn."
Jadelight Ranger
When Jadelight Ranger enters the battlefield, it explores, then it explores again. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard. Then repeat this process.)
Thrashing Brontodon
{1}, Sacrifice Thrashing Brontodon: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Decklisty Standard
RWu Aggro
Craig Krempels
SCG Open Philadelphia
Chandra, Torch of Defiance
Daring Buccaneer
As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a Pirate card from your hand or pay {2}.
Fanatical Firebrand
Haste
{T}, Sacrifice Fanatical Firebrand: It deals 1 damage to any target.
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Shock
Shock deals 2 damage to any target.
Decklisty Standard
UW Approach
Jorge Esquivel
SCG Open Philadelphia
Approach of the Second Sun
Nezahal, Primal Tide
Nezahal, Primal Tide can't be countered.
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, draw a card.
Discard three cards: Exile Nezahal. Return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Field of Ruin
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Field of Ruin: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles their library.
Essence Scatter
Counter target creature spell.
Decklisty Standard
Merfolk
Ted Felicetti
SCG Open Philadelphia
Nissa, Steward of Elements
Silvergill Adept
As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a Merfolk card from your hand or pay {3}.
When Silvergill Adept enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Deeproot Elite
Whenever another Merfolk enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on target Merfolk you control.
Jungleborn Pioneer
When Jungleborn Pioneer enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 blue Merfolk creature token with hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Naturalize
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca
Tap another untapped Merfolk you control: Kumena, Tyrant of Orazca can't be blocked this turn.
Tap three untapped Merfolk you control: Draw a card.
Tap five untapped Merfolk you control: Put a +1/+1 counter on each Merfolk you control.
Merfolk Mistbinder
Other Merfolk you control get +1/+1.
Woodland Stream
Woodland Stream enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {G} or {U}.
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Unsummon
Return target creature to its owner's hand.
Essence Scatter
Counter target creature spell.
Decklisty Standard
4C Marionette Master
Timothy Guy
SCG Open Philadelphia
Moment of Craving
Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. You gain 2 life.
Orazca Relic
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice Orazca Relic: You gain 3 life and draw a card. Activate this ability only if you have the city's blessing.
Arch of Orazca
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{5}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate this ability only if you have the city's blessing.
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Duress
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Evolving Wilds
{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
Decklisty Standard
UB Control
Jim Davis
SCG Open Philadelphia
Hieroglyphic Illumination
Golden Demise
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. If you have the city's blessing, instead only creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Moment of Craving
Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. You gain 2 life.
Vona's Hunger
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
Each opponent sacrifices a creature. If you have the city's blessing, instead each opponent sacrifices half the creatures they control, rounded up.
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Duress
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Field of Ruin
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Field of Ruin: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles their library.
Essence Scatter
Counter target creature spell.
Decklisty Standard
RG Dinos
Kellen Pastore
SCG Open Philadelphia
Chandra, Torch of Defiance
Burning Sun's Avatar
3RRR
Dire Fleet Daredevil
First strike
When Dire Fleet Daredevil enters the battlefield, exile target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard. You may cast that card this turn, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to cast that spell. If that card would be put into a graveyard this turn, exile it instead.
Rekindling Phoenix
Flying
When Rekindling Phoenix dies, create a 0/1 red Elemental creature token with "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this creature and return target card named Rekindling Phoenix from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste until end of turn."
Thunderherd Migration
As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a Dinosaur card from your hand or pay {1}.
Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
Arch of Orazca
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{5}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate this ability only if you have the city's blessing.
Thrashing Brontodon
{1}, Sacrifice Thrashing Brontodon: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Decklisty Standard
UR Tower
Allesandro Pogorzhelsky
SCG Open Philadelphia
Highland Lake
Highland Lake enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Field of Ruin
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Field of Ruin: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles their library.
Essence Scatter
Counter target creature spell.
Na modernu bylo již tradičně velmi rozmanité herní pole, kde žádný deck nijak výrazně nedominoval. Čtveřice decků měla shodně tři hráče v top25 - Grixis Death's Shadow, Jeskai Control, Boros Burn a Affinita.
V top8 jsme mohli vidět osm různých decků - Dredge, Bant Spirity (specialita Caleba Durwarda), RG Ponzu s Madcap Moonem, Grixis Death's Shadow, Gb Tron, 5C Humany s Thraben Inspectory a Kessig Malcontenty, Jeskai Control a Boros Burn.
Metagame sice byla pestrá, ale mnoho neobvyklých decků jsme na předních příčkách neměli. Kromě Bant Spiritů se mezi zajímavé decky dali zařadit možná ještě UG Merfolci, Grixis Control, či BW Eldrazi.
Decklisty Modern
Bant Spirits
Caleb Durward
SCG Open Philadelphia
Cavern of Souls
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.
Drogskol Captain
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.)
Collected Company
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.
Stony Silence
Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.
Gavony Township
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {2}{G}{W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Geist of Saint Traft
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.
Eidolon of Rhetoric
Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.
Phantasmal Image
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."
Engineered Explosives
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.
Mirran Crusader
Double strike, protection from black and from green
Qasali Pridemage
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.
Noble Hierarch
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.
Rest in Peace
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
Razorverge Thicket enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {G} or {W} to your mana pool.
Path to Exile
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.
Breeding Pool
({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.
Hallowed Fountain
({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.
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Decklisty Modern
UG Merfolk
Justin LaRocque
SCG Open Philadelphia
Cavern of Souls
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.
Master of the Pearl Trident
Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1 and have islandwalk. (They are unblockable as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Harbinger of the Tides
You may cast Harbinger of the Tides as though it had flash if you pay {2} more to cast it. (You may cast it any time you could cast an instant.) When Harbinger of the Tides enters the battlefield, you may return target tapped creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand.
Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
Flying Creatures you control have "Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability for the first time in a turn, counter that spell or ability."
Aether Vial
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.
Gut Shot
({R/P} can be paid with either {R} or 2 life.) Gut Shot deals 1 damage to target creature or player.
Mutavault
{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.
Merrow Reejerey
Other Merfolk creatures you control get +1/+1. Whenever you play a Merfolk spell, you may tap or untap target permanent.
Dismember
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Unified Will
Counter target spell if you control more creatures than that spell's controller.
Relic of Progenitus
{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.
Master of Waves
Protection from red Elemental creatures you control get +1/+1. When Master of Waves enters the battlefield, put a number of 1/0 blue Elemental creature tokens onto the battlefield equal to your devotion to blue. (Each {U} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
Lord of Atlantis
All Merfolk in play gain islandwalk and +1/+1 while this card is in play.
Spreading Seas
Enchant land When Spreading Seas enters the battlefield, draw a card. Enchanted land is an Island.
Silvergill Adept
As an additional cost to cast this spell, reveal a Merfolk card from your hand or pay {3}.
When Silvergill Adept enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Breeding Pool
({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.
Grafdigger's Cage
Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield.
Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
Decklisty Modern
Grixis Control
Steven Krysiak
SCG Open Philadelphia
Kolaghan's Command
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.
Countersquall
Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life.
Tasigur, the Golden Fang
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.
Snapcaster Mage
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.)
Sulfur Falls
Sulfur Falls enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain. {T}: Add {U} or {R} to your mana pool.
Thought Scour
Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. Draw a card.
Disdainful Stroke
Counter target spell with converted mana cost 4 or greater.
Logic Knot
Delve (You may exile any number of cards from your graveyard as you cast this spell. It costs {1} less to cast for each card exiled this way.) Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}.
Spell Snare
Counter target spell with converted mana cost 2.
Engineered Explosives
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.
Surgical Extraction
({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.
Vendilion Clique
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.
Izzet Staticaster
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.
Fulminator Mage
Sacrifice Fulminator Mage: Destroy target nonbasic land.
Terminate
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.
Anger of the Gods
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
Lightning Bolt does 3 damage to one target.
Creeping Tar Pit
Creeping Tar Pit enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {U} or {B} to your mana pool. {1}{U}{B}: Until end of turn, Creeping Tar Pit becomes a 3/2 blue and black Elemental creature and is unblockable. It's still a land.
Blood Crypt
({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.
Opt
Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)
Draw a card.
Decklisty Modern
BW Eldrazi
Brendan Cevasco
SCG Open Philadelphia
Cavern of Souls
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.
Orzhov Pontiff
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.
Stony Silence
Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.
Sorin, Solemn Visitor
+1: Until your next turn, creatures you control get +1/+0 and gain lifelink. -2: Put a 2/2 black Vampire creature token with flying onto the battlefield. -6: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature."
Vault of the Archangel
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.
Mutavault
{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.
Rest in Peace
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.
Inquisition of Kozilek
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.
Eldrazi Temple
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add {2} to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast colorless Eldrazi spells or activate abilities of colorless Eldrazi.
Fulminator Mage
Sacrifice Fulminator Mage: Destroy target nonbasic land.
Relic of Progenitus
{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.
Tidehollow Sculler
When Tidehollow Sculler comes into play, target opponent reveals his or her hand and you choose a nonland card from it. Remove that card from the game. When Tidehollow Sculler leaves play, return the removed card to its owner's hand.
Lingering Souls
Put two 1/1 white Spirit creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield. Flashback {1}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Caves of Koilos
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add {W} or {B} to your mana pool. Caves of Koilos deals 1 damage to you.
Path to Exile
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.
Godless Shrine
({T}: Add {W} or {B}.)
As Godless Shrine enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
Disenchant
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Legačka se nám od minule obrátila vzhůru nohama. Zatímco minule byly nejhranějšími decky RG Landy a Death and Taxes, tedy decky, které se snaží mít co nejlepší matchup s Grixis Delverem, tak tentokrát už na Delvera nidko vyzrát nedokázal a se šesti hráči se stal nejhranějším decky. Krok s ním udržely pouze Miracly, které měly ve druhém dni čtyři zástupce.
Na druhou stranu jsme mohli vidět i celou řádku zajímavých decků. Hned dva hráči hráli zajímavý 4C Stoneblade s Leovoldy, opět se objevily i WR Death and Taxes s Dire Fleet Daredevilem, dále tu byl 4C Control s Kess a dvojice odvážných brew v podobě UB Tezzeratora s Thopter//Sword kombem (a ještě zajímavěji s Leyline//Helm kombem v sidu) a Rest in Peace Miracly, kde byla navíc Nahiri, která uměla zabít buďto pomocí Emrakul, nebo mohla najít Helmu do komba s Rest in Peace.
Decklisty Legacy
4C Stoneblade
Jon Goss
SCG Open Philadelphia
Force of Will
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.
True-Name Nemesis
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.)
Council's Judgment
Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for a nonland permanent you don't control. Exile each permanent with the most votes or tied for most votes.
Snapcaster Mage
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.)
Surgical Extraction
({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.
Baleful Strix
Flying, deathtouch When Baleful Strix enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Meddling Mage
As Meddling Mage comes into play, name a nonland card. The named card can't be played.
Umezawa's Jitte
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}
Sword of Fire and Ice
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.
Flusterstorm
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.)
Batterskull
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}
Sylvan 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.
Deathrite Shaman
{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.
Zealous Persecution
Until end of turn, creatures you control get +1/+1 and creatures your opponents control get -1/-1.
Thoughtseize
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
Underground Sea
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.
Tropical Island
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.
Savannah
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.
Tundra
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.
Swords to Plowshares
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.
Scrubland
Counts as both plains and swamp and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {W} or {B} to your mana pool.
Jace, the Mind Sculptor
+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.
Stoneforge Mystic
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.
Decklisty Legacy
Kess Control
Brian Marx
SCG Open Philadelphia
Force of Will
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.
Toxic Deluge
As an additional cost to cast Toxic Deluge, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.
Kolaghan's Command
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.
Hymn to Tourach
Target player discards two cards at random.
Snapcaster Mage
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.)
Surgical Extraction
({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.
Baleful Strix
Flying, deathtouch When Baleful Strix enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Flusterstorm
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.)
Sylvan 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
Abrupt Decay can't be countered by spells or abilities. Destroy target nonland permanent with converted mana cost 3 or less.
Deathrite Shaman
{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.
Terminate
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.
Diabolic Edict
Target player sacrifices a creature.
Thoughtseize
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
Volcanic Island
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.
Counterspell
Counters target spell as it is being cast.
Badlands
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.
Bayou
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.
Red Elemental Blast
Counters a blue spell being cast or destroys a blue card in play.
Underground Sea
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.
Tropical Island
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.
Jace, the Mind Sculptor
+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.
Chandra, Torch of Defiance
Decklisty Legacy
UB Tezzerator
Jake Farrar
SCG Open Philadelphia
Force of Will
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.
Helm of Obedience
{X}, {T}: Put the top card of target opponent's library into his or her graveyard. Continue doing this until you have put X cards or a creature card into that graveyard, whichever occurs first. If the last card put into the graveyard is a creature card, bury Helm of Obedience and put that creature into play under your control as though it were just cast. X cannot be equal to 0.
Transmute Artifact
Search through your library for one artifact and immediately place it into play; also, choose any artifact in play that you control and place it in its owner's graveyard. If the new artifact has a casting cost greater than that of the discarded one, you must pay the difference or Transmute Artifact fails and both artifacts are discarded. Shuffle your library after playing this card.
Thopter Foundry
{1}, Sacrifice a nontoken artifact: Put a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying onto the battlefield. You gain 1 life.
Toxic Deluge
As an additional cost to cast Toxic Deluge, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.
City of Traitors
If you play any land, sacrifice City of Traitors. {T}: Add two colorless mana to your mana pool.
Trinisphere
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.)
Sword of the Meek
Equipped creature gets +1/+2. Equip {2} Whenever a 1/1 creature comes into play under your control, you may return Sword of the Meek from your graveyard to play, then attach it to that creature.
Witchbane Orb
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.)
The Abyss
All players bury one target non-artifact creature under their control, if they have any, during their upkeep.
Misdirection
You may remove a blue card in your hand from the game instead of paying Misdirection's mana cost. Target spell with a single target targets another target instead.
Talisman of Dominance
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add {U} or {B} to your mana pool. Talisman of Dominance deals 1 damage to you.
Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
+1: Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order. -1: Target artifact becomes a 5/5 artifact creature. -4: Target player loses X life and you gain X life, where X is twice the number of artifacts you control.
Chalice of the Void
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.
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Seat of the Synod
(Seat of the Synod isn't a spell.) {T}: Add {U} to your mana pool.
Vault of Whispers
(Vault of Whispers isn't a spell.) {T}: Add {B} to your mana pool.
Baleful Strix
Flying, deathtouch When Baleful Strix enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Dimir Signet
{1}, {T}: Add {U}{B} to your mana pool.
Tezzeret the Seeker
+1: Untap up to two target artifacts. -X: Search your library for an artifact card with converted mana cost X or less and put it into play. Then shuffle your library. -5: Artifacts you control become 5/5 artifact creatures until end of turn.
Ensnaring Bridge
Each creature with power greater than the number of cards in your hand cannot attack.
Mox Diamond
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.
Academy Ruins
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {1}{U}, {T}: Put target artifact card in your graveyard on top of your library.
Underground Sea
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.
Engineered Plague
When Engineered Plague comes into play, choose a creature type. All creatures of the chosen type get -1/-1.
Lodestone Golem
Nonartifact spells cost {1} more to cast.
Padeem, Consul of Innovation
Leyline of the Void
If Leyline of the Void is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Decklisty Legacy
RIP Miracles
Jeff Kieper
SCG Open Philadelphia
Force of Will
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.
Helm of Obedience
{X}, {T}: Put the top card of target opponent's library into his or her graveyard. Continue doing this until you have put X cards or a creature card into that graveyard, whichever occurs first. If the last card put into the graveyard is a creature card, bury Helm of Obedience and put that creature into play under your control as though it were just cast. X cannot be equal to 0.
Thopter Foundry
{1}, Sacrifice a nontoken artifact: Put a 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature token with flying onto the battlefield. You gain 1 life.
Containment Priest
Flash If a nontoken creature would enter the battlefield and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.
Terminus
Put all creatures on the bottom of their owners' libraries. Miracle {W} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)
Sword of the Meek
Equipped creature gets +1/+2. Equip {2} Whenever a 1/1 creature comes into play under your control, you may return Sword of the Meek from your graveyard to play, then attach it to that creature.
Moat
Non-flying creatures cannot attack.
Engineered Explosives
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.
Vendilion Clique
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.
Flusterstorm
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.)
Karakas
{T}: Add {W} to your mana pool. {T}: Return target legendary creature to its owner's hand.
Detention Sphere
When Detention Sphere enters the battlefield, you may exile target nonland permanent not named Detention Sphere and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent. When Detention Sphere leaves the battlefield, return the exiled cards to the battlefield under their owner's control.
Rest in Peace
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
Supreme Verdict can't be countered. Destroy all creatures.
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
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.
Enlightened Tutor
Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card and reveal that card. Shuffle your library, then put the card on top of it.
Ensnaring Bridge
Each creature with power greater than the number of cards in your hand cannot attack.
Humility
Each creature loses all abilities and is a 1/1 creature.
Blood Moon
All non-basic lands are now basic mountains.
Academy Ruins
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {1}{U}, {T}: Put target artifact card in your graveyard on top of your library.
Volcanic Island
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.
Red Elemental Blast
Counters a blue spell being cast or destroys a blue card in play.
Tundra
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.
Swords to Plowshares
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.
Energy Field
Prevent all damage dealt to you from sources you do not control. When a card is put into your graveyard, sacrifice Energy Field.
Jace, the Mind Sculptor
+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.
4. SCG Classic Philadelphia (Standard, Modern, Legacy)
Výsledky nedělních klasik si projdeme chronologicky, takže začneme dvojkou. Tu hrálo slušných 167 hráčů, což znamenalo osm kol základní části + top8.
Výsledky byly velice rozmanité, v top8 bylo osm různých decků včetně několika pěkných brew. Z vítězství se radoval Aiden Brier, když s Monored Aggrem ve finále porazil Vehicly Roberta Stanleyho.
Na dalších místech byl UW Eternalize, což je deck, který mi dost připomíná UW Gift, ale s tím rozdílem, že místo Giftu hraje Annointed Procession, zajímavá verze Grixis Energy s Championy of Wits, Grixis Improvise, ve kterém mě zaujaly hned tři Battle at the Bridge v mainu, což je zajímavý způsob, jak se zbavit Hazoret, Jund Monstra, Grixis Control a UB Midrange s Treasure Mapami.
Velká rozmanitost pokračovala i ve zbytku top16, kde jsme mohli vidět agresivně laděný Jund Midrange, hodně kontrolní verzi Grixis Energy, dvojici BR Agger (jedno s černým a druhé s červeným základem), UB Control, či Monoblack Aggro.
Decklisty Standard
Monored Aggro
Aiden Brier
SCG Classic Philadelphia
Chandra, Torch of Defiance
Shock
Shock deals 2 damage to any target.
Decklisty Vše
UW Eternalize
Austin Herrick
SCG Classic Philadelphia
Silent Gravestone
Cards in graveyards can't be the targets of spells or abilities.
{4}, {T}: Exile Silent Gravestone and all cards from all graveyards. Draw a card.
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Field of Ruin
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Field of Ruin: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles their library.
Decklisty Standard
Grixis Energy
Thomas Hoffman
SCG Classic Philadelphia
Chandra, Torch of Defiance
Dusk Legion Zealot
When Dusk Legion Zealot enters the battlefield, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Ravenous Chupacabra
When Ravenous Chupacabra enters the battlefield, destroy target creature an opponent controls.
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Duress
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Decklisty Standard
Grixis Improvise
John Hughes
SCG Classic Philadelphia
Kumena's Awakening
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, each player draws a card. If you have the city's blessing, instead only you draw a card.
Golden Demise
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. If you have the city's blessing, instead only creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Duress
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Sorcerous Spyglass
As Sorcerous Spyglass enters the battlefield, look at an opponent's hand, then choose any card name.
Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.
Decklisty Standard
UB Midrange
Ben Ragan
SCG Classic Philadelphia
Moment of Craving
Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. You gain 2 life.
Ravenous Chupacabra
When Ravenous Chupacabra enters the battlefield, destroy target creature an opponent controls.
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Duress
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Essence Scatter
Counter target creature spell.
Decklisty Standard
Jund Midrange
Craig Rocco
SCG Classic Philadelphia
Chandra, Torch of Defiance
Jadelight Ranger
When Jadelight Ranger enters the battlefield, it explores, then it explores again. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard. Then repeat this process.)
Naturalize
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Duress
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Decklisty Standard
Grixis Energy
Kevin Jones
SCG Classic Philadelphia
Moment of Craving
Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. You gain 2 life.
Angrath, the Flame-Chained
+1: Each opponent discards a card and loses 2 life.
−3: Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap it. It gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step if it has converted mana cost 3 or less.
−8: Each opponent loses life equal to the number of cards in their graveyard.
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Duress
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Essence Scatter
Counter target creature spell.
Decklisty Standard
BR Aggro
Aaron Schwarcz
SCG Classic Philadelphia
Unlicensed Disintegration
Dire Fleet Daredevil
First strike
When Dire Fleet Daredevil enters the battlefield, exile target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard. You may cast that card this turn, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any type to cast that spell. If that card would be put into a graveyard this turn, exile it instead.
Angrath, the Flame-Chained
+1: Each opponent discards a card and loses 2 life.
−3: Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap it. It gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step if it has converted mana cost 3 or less.
−8: Each opponent loses life equal to the number of cards in their graveyard.
Duress
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Decklisty Standard
Monoblack Aggro
AJ Kerrigan
SCG Classic Philadelphia
Moment of Craving
Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn. You gain 2 life.
Duress
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Modernu se účastnilo 325 hráčů, což znamenalo devět kol základní části. To je na side event hodně slušný výkon.
Stejně jako na standardu, i tady jsme měli v top8 osm různých decků. Zvítězil Ross Meriam, který svůj oblíbený Dredge vyměnil za 5C Humany.
Ve finále porazil divoké brew v Grixis barvách, které bylo založené na As Foretold. K tomu byl v decku Living End a Ancestral Vision, ale tím to zdsaleka nekončilo. V decku byly i Goryo's Vengeance s Griselbrandem a Jacem, Vryn's Prodigy. Třešničkou na dortu tu bylo Kiki-Jiki kombo, protože proč ne. Důležité je zmínit i Faithless Looting a Izzet Charm, což jsou asi nejdůležitější karty v decku, které zvyšují konzistenci a zároveň i enablují většinu komb.
Další decky v top8 byly Bant Company, Gift Storm, Affinita, All-in Red (verze, která se snaží co nejdříve locknout soupeře díky Simian Spirit Guidám a Desperate Rituálům), Dredge a Eldrazi Tron.
Mimo top8 mne nejvíce zaujala RUG verze Hollow One, která hrála Vengeviny a Hooting Mandrily a hrob plnila pomocí Thought Scourů a Chart a Course. Důležité je zmínit, že deck hrál Julian Grace-Martin, což je člověk, který vůbec jako první dostal tenhle typ decků do povědomí širší veřejnosti.
Decklisty Modern
5C Humans
Ross Meriam
SCG Classic Philadelphia
Vithian Renegades
When Vithian Renegades comes into play, destroy target artifact.
Cavern of Souls
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.
Kessig Malcontents
When Kessig Malcontents enters the battlefield, it deals damage to target player equal to the number of Humans you control.
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
First strike Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.
Champion of the Parish
Whenever another Human enters the battlefield under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Champion of the Parish.
Mantis Rider
Flying, vigilance, haste
Phantasmal Image
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."
Xathrid Necromancer
Whenever Xathrid Necromancer or another Human creature you control dies, put a 2/2 black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield tapped.
Aether Vial
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.
Gut Shot
({R/P} can be paid with either {R} or 2 life.) Gut Shot deals 1 damage to target creature or player.
Meddling Mage
As Meddling Mage comes into play, name a nonland card. The named card can't be played.
Ancient Ziggurat
{T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells.
Dismember
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Noble Hierarch
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.
Sin Collector
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.
Banisher Priest
When Banisher Priest enters the battlefield, exile target creature an opponent controls until Banisher Priest leaves the battlefield. (That creature returns under its owner's control.)
Izzet Staticaster
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.
Kataki, War's Wage
All artifacts have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact unless you pay {1}."
Seachrome Coast
Seachrome Coast enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {U} to your mana pool.
Grafdigger's Cage
Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield.
Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
Decklisty Modern
Grixis As Foretold
Tom Medvec
SCG Classic Philadelphia
Goryo's Vengeance
Return target legendary creature card from your graveyard to play. That creature gains haste. Remove it from the game at end of turn. Splice onto Arcane {2}{B} (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.)
Tolaria West
Tolaria West comes into play tapped. {T}: Add {U} to your mana pool. Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with converted mana cost 0, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library. Play only as a sorcery.)
Engineered Explosives
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.
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
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.
Deceiver Exarch
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When Deceiver Exarch enters the battlefield, choose one — Untap target permanent you control; or tap target permanent an opponent controls.
Simian Spirit Guide
Remove Simian Spirit Guide in your hand from the game: Add {R} to your mana pool.
Griselbrand
Flying, lifelink Pay 7 life: Draw seven cards.
Izzet Charm
Choose one — Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}; or Izzet Charm deals 2 damage to target creature; or draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Rakdos Charm
Choose one — Exile all cards from target player's graveyard; or destroy target artifact; or each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.
Blackcleave Cliffs
Blackcleave Cliffs enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {R} to your mana pool.
Anger of the Gods
Anger of the Gods deals 3 damage to each creature. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.
Ancestral Vision
Ancestral Vision is blue. Suspend 4—{U} (Rather than play this card from your hand, pay {U} and remove it from the game with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, play it without paying its mana cost.) Target player draws three cards.
Living End
Living End is black. Suspend 3—{2}{B}{B} Each player removes all creature cards in his or her graveyard from the game, then sacrifices all creatures he or she controls, then puts into play all cards he or she removed this way.
Blood Crypt
({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.
Leyline of Sanctity
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.)
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Decklisty Modern
Bant Company
AJ Martenco
SCG Classic Philadelphia
Voice of Resurgence
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."
Collected Company
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.
Gavony Township
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {2}{G}{W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Eidolon of Rhetoric
Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.
Scavenging Ooze
{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.
Burrenton Forge-Tender
Protection from red Sacrifice Burrenton Forge-Tender: Prevent all damage a red source of your choice would deal this turn.
Qasali Pridemage
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.
Noble Hierarch
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.
Chord of Calling
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.
Kataki, War's Wage
All artifacts have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact unless you pay {1}."
Devoted Druid
{T}: Add {G} to your mana pool. Put a -1/-1 counter on Devoted Druid: Untap Devoted Druid.
Kitchen Finks
When Kitchen Finks comes into play, you gain 2 life. Persist (When this creature is put into a graveyard from play, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to play under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)
Birds of Paradise
Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. This ability is played as an interrupt.
Worship
Damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 instead reduces it to 1 if you control a creature.
Path to Exile
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.
Breeding Pool
({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.
Hallowed Fountain
({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.
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Decklisty Modern
All-in Red
Russell Colosi
SCG Classic Philadelphia
Magus of the Moon
Nonbasic lands are Mountains.
Shattering Spree
Replicate {R} (When you play this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.) Destroy target artifact.
Eidolon of the Great Revel
Whenever a player casts a spell with converted mana cost 3 or less, Eidolon of the Great Revel deals 2 damage to that player.
Pyretic Ritual
Add {R}{R}{R} to your mana pool.
Goblin Rabblemaster
Other Goblin creatures you control attack each turn if able. At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a 1/1 red Goblin creature token with haste onto the battlefield. Whenever Goblin Rabblemaster attacks, it gets +1/+0 until end of turn for each other attacking Goblin.
Pia and Kiran Nalaar
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.
Slagstorm
Choose one — Slagstorm deals 3 damage to each creature; or Slagstorm deals 3 damage to each player.
Desperate Ritual
Add {R}{R}{R} to your mana pool. Splice onto Arcane {1}{R} (As you cast 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.)
Chalice of the Void
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.
Spellskite
{U/P}: Change a target of target spell or ability to Spellskite. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Torpor Orb
Creatures entering the battlefield don't cause abilities to trigger.
Simian Spirit Guide
Remove Simian Spirit Guide in your hand from the game: Add {R} to your mana pool.
Mutavault
{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.
Ensnaring Bridge
Each creature with power greater than the number of cards in your hand cannot attack.
Boil
Destroy all islands.
Blood Moon
All non-basic lands are now basic mountains.
Anger of the Gods
Anger of the Gods deals 3 damage to each creature. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.
Gemstone Caverns
If Gemstone Caverns is in your opening hand and you're not playing first, you may begin the game with Gemstone Caverns in play with a luck counter on it. If you do, remove a card in your hand from the game. {T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. If Gemstone Caverns has a luck counter on it, instead add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
Koth of the Hammer
+1: Untap target Mountain. It becomes a 4/4 red Elemental creature until end of turn. It's still a land. -2: Add {R} to your mana pool for each Mountain you control. -5: You get an emblem with "Mountains you control have '{T}: This land deals 1 damage to target creature or player.'"
Chandra, Torch of Defiance
Grafdigger's Cage
Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield.
Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
Sorcerous Spyglass
As Sorcerous Spyglass enters the battlefield, look at an opponent's hand, then choose any card name.
Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated unless they're mana abilities.
Decklisty Modern
RUG Hollow One
Julian Grace-Martin
SCG Classic Philadelphia
Roast
Roast deals 5 damage to target creature without flying.
Flamewake Phoenix
Flying, haste Flamewake Phoenix attacks each turn if able. Ferocious — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control a creature with power 4 or greater, you may pay {R}. If you do, return Flamewake Phoenix from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Snow-Covered Mountain
{T}: Add {R} to your mana pool.
Thought Scour
Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. Draw a card.
Become Immense
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Target creature gets +6/+6 until end of turn.
Feed the Clan
You gain 5 life. Ferocious — You gain 10 life instead if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Hooting Mandrills
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Trample
Monastery Swiftspear
Haste Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.)
Stubborn Denial
Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {1}. Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, counter that spell instead.
Street Wraith
Swampwalk Cycling—Pay 2 life. (Pay 2 life, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Vengevine
Haste Whenever you cast a spell, if it's the second creature spell you cast this turn, you may return Vengevine from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Copperline Gorge
Copperline Gorge enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {R} or {G} to your mana pool.
Ancient Grudge
Destroy target artifact. Flashback {G} (You may play this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then remove it from the game.)
Grim Lavamancer
{R}, {T}, Remove two cards in your graveyard from the game: Grim Lavamancer deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt does 3 damage to one target.
Stomping Ground
({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.
Leyline of the Void
If Leyline of the Void is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Cathartic Reunion
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard two cards.
Draw three cards.
Velmi dobrou účast měla i legacy, která přesně o jednoho hráče trumfnula standard (tj. 168 hráčů). Na rozdíl od ostatních formátů zde ale samozřejmě nebylo tolik zajímavých decků.
Dva nejúspěšnější decky turnaje byly Grixis Delver a Elfové. Delver měl čtyři hráče v top16, ovšem z toho byli tři v top4 a Oliver Tomajko s deckem celý turnaj ovládnul, když ve finále zvítězil v mirroru.
Elfové obsadili zbylé místo v top4 a další dva hráče měli v top16. Nejlépe umístěnou verzi hrála Emma Handy, která měla maindeck Ruric Thara a Blood Moony v sidu.
Z ostatních decků v top16 mne nejvíce zaujal BUG Food Chain, kde nebyli Walking Ballisti, nýbrž starší způsob winkondice s Fierce Empathy a Emrakul, a také Men of Steel, kteří se pomalu zařazují mezi stálice formátu.
Zbylé decky na předních příčkách byly dva Stormy, BUG Delver, dvoje RG Země, Eldrazi Post a Czech Pile.
Decklisty Legacy
Grixis Delver
Oliver Tomajsko
SCG Classic Philadelphia
Force of Will
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.
True-Name Nemesis
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.)
Gurmag Angler
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Pyroblast
Counter target spell if it is blue or destroy target permanent if it is blue.
Young Pyromancer
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a 1/1 red Elemental creature token onto the battlefield.
Engineered Explosives
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.
Daze
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}.
Surgical Extraction
({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.
Price of Progress
Price of Progress deals damage to each player equal to twice the number of nonbasic lands that player controls.
Cabal Therapy
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.)
Dismember
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Gitaxian Probe
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Look at target player's hand. Draw a card.
Flusterstorm
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.)
Deathrite Shaman
{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.
Forked Bolt
Forked Bolt deals 2 damage divided as you choose among one or two target creatures and/or players.
Diabolic Edict
Target player sacrifices a creature.
Volcanic Island
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.
Underground Sea
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.
Tropical Island
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.
Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt does 3 damage to one target.
Decklisty Modern
Elves
Emma Handy
SCG Classic Philadelphia
Cavern of Souls
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.
Craterhoof Behemoth
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.
Glimpse of Nature
Whenever you play a creature spell this turn, draw a card.
Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
Vigilance, reach Ruric Thar, the Unbowed attacks each turn if able. Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, Ruric Thar deals 6 damage to that player.
Nettle Sentinel
Nettle Sentinel doesn't untap during your untap step. Whenever you play a green spell, you may untap Nettle Sentinel.
Dryad Arbor
(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.
Scavenging Ooze
{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.
Reclamation Sage
When Reclamation Sage enters the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Green Sun's Zenith
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.
Heritage Druid
Tap three untapped Elves you control: Add {G}{G}{G} to your mana pool.
Surgical Extraction
({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.
Birchlore Rangers
Tap two untapped Elves you control: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Morph {G} (You may play this face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Cabal Therapy
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.)
Abrupt Decay
Abrupt Decay can't be countered by spells or abilities. Destroy target nonland permanent with converted mana cost 3 or less.
Deathrite Shaman
{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.
Wirewood Symbiote
Return an Elf you control to its owner's hand: Untap target creature. Play this ability only once each turn.
Blood Moon
All non-basic lands are now basic mountains.
Thoughtseize
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
Pendelhaven
{T}: Add {G} to your mana pool. {T}: Target 1/1 creature gets +1/+2 until end of turn.
Bayou
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.
Taiga
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.
Crop Rotation
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.
Gaea's Cradle
{T}: Add {G} to your mana pool for each creature you control.
Quirion Ranger
Return a forest you control to owner's hand: Untap target creature. Use this ability only once each turn.
Natural Order
Sacrifice a green creature: Search your library for a green creature card and put it into play as though it were just played. Snuffle your library afterwards.
Mindbreak Trap
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.
Decklisty Legacy
BUG Food Chain
Nick Cummings
SCG Classic Philadelphia
Force of Will
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.
Misthollow Griffin
Flying You may cast Misthollow Griffin from exile.
Gurmag Angler
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
Manipulate Fate
Search your library for three cards, remove them from the game, then shuffle your library. Draw a card.
Food Chain
Remove a creature you control from the game: Add X mana of any color to your mana pool, where X is the removed creature's converted mana cost plus one. This mana may be spent only to play creature spells.
Surgical Extraction
({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.
Baleful Strix
Flying, deathtouch When Baleful Strix enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Shardless Agent
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.)
Umezawa's Jitte
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}
Flusterstorm
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.)
Abrupt Decay
Abrupt Decay can't be countered by spells or abilities. Destroy target nonland permanent with converted mana cost 3 or less.
Deathrite Shaman
{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.
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
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.
Nihil Spellbomb
{T}, Sacrifice Nihil Spellbomb: Exile all cards from target player's graveyard. When Nihil Spellbomb is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay {B}. If you do, draw a card.
Fierce Empath
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.
Pithing Needle
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.
Bayou
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.
Underground Sea
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.
Tropical Island
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.
Engineered Plague
When Engineered Plague comes into play, choose a creature type. All creatures of the chosen type get -1/-1.
4. Standard Monthly MOCS
Na onlinu se konaly první letošní dvojkové MOCS, které se ale netěšily velké přízni hráčů, když se jich zúčasnilo jenom osmašedesát...
Do finálové čtvrtletní kvalifikace se tak dostalo pouze deset hráčů (pro tu je potřeba v osmi kolech získat alespoň šest výher).
Díky malému počtu hráčů neměl nikdo 8:0, ale trojice hráčů dosáhla na skóre 7:1 - elder088 s Grixis Controlem, yttymanthe2 s Monored Aggrem a WitchKling, také s Monored Aggrem.
Mezi dalšími úspěšnými klalifikanty jsme mohli vidět UR Control (bez Dynavolt toweru), UB Control, Grixis Energy, dvakrát BG Constrictora, Monored Aggro a Esper Midrange s playsetem Secrets of the Golden City.
Decklisty Standard
Grixis Control
elder088
Monthly MOCS
Essence Scatter
Counter target creature spell.
Decklisty Standard
UR Control
OafMcNamara
Monthly MOCS
Sideboard
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2 Abrade
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1 Commit // Memory |
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1 Essence Scatter |
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2 Negate |
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2 Chandra's Defeat |
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2 Nezahal, Primal Tide |
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2 Search for Azcanta |
3 Whirler Virtuoso
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Hieroglyphic Illumination
Highland Lake
Highland Lake enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Essence Scatter
Counter target creature spell.
Decklisty Standard
Esper Ascend
joohyun
Monthly MOCS
Baffling End
When Baffling End enters the battlefield, exile target creature an opponent controls with converted mana cost 3 or less.
When Baffling End leaves the battlefield, target opponent creates a 3/3 green Dinosaur creature token with trample.
Sailor of Means
When Sailor of Means enters the battlefield, create a colorless Treasure artifact token with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color."
Secrets of the Golden City
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
Draw two cards. If you have the city's blessing, draw three cards instead.
Golden Demise
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. If you have the city's blessing, instead only creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Arch of Orazca
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
{T}: Add {C}.
{5}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate this ability only if you have the city's blessing.
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Field of Ruin
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Field of Ruin: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles their library.
5. MTGO Weekly Challenges (Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Duel Commander, Pauper)
Přehled pravidelných online challengí jako obvykle načneme modernem, kde jsme tentokrát měli v top8 osmi různých decků. Ve všech případech šlo ale o klasické tier decky. Zvítězil Elfkid s Green Tronem a za ním se seřadil UR Madcap Moon, Lantern Control, Ad Nauseam, Eldrazi and Taxes, Boros Burn, Esper Death's Shadow (kvůli Lingering Soulům) a Grixis Death's Shadow.
Pár zajímavých decků jsme mohli vidět alespoň ve druhé polovině top16. Na jedenáctém místě byl Monoblack Midrange s Gray Merchanty, ve kterém byla malá červená splash kvůli Kolaghan's Commandu s Blood Moonům v sidu.
Třináctý skončil Amulet Titan s velkým počtem Azus a Explore, hned za ním byl RG Scapeshift s Huntmastery v mainu a se zajímavým midrange plánem po sidu se Scavenging Oozami, Tireless Trackery a Thragtusky. A na konec tu máme Krak-Clan Ironworks kombo s Whir of Invention (mimochodem nechápu, proč je ta karta pořád tak směšne levná) na šestnáctém místě.
Decklisty Modern
Green Tron
Elfkid
MTGO Weekly Challenge
Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
+2: Ugin, the Spirit Dragon deals 3 damage to target creature or player. -X: Exile each permanent with converted mana cost X or less that's one or more colors. -10: You gain 7 life, draw seven cards, then put up to seven permanent cards from your hand onto the battlefield.
Thragtusk
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.
Oblivion Stone
{4}, {T}: Put a fate counter on target permanent. {5}, {T}, Sacrifice Oblivion Stone: Destroy each nonland permanent without a fate counter on it, then remove all fate counters from all permanents.
Chromatic Sphere
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Chromatic Sphere: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Draw a card.
Karn Liberated
+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.
Dismember
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Urza's Mine
{T}: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. If you control Urza's Mine, Urza's Tower, and Urza's Power Plant, add two colorless mana to your mana pool instead of one.
Urza's Power Plant
{T}: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. If you control Urza's Mine, Urza's Tower, and Urza's Power Plant, add two colorless mana to your mana pool instead of one.
Urza's Tower
{T}: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. If you control Urza's Mine, Urza's Tower, and Urza's Power Plant, add three colorless mana to your mana pool instead of one.
All Is Dust
Each player sa
Instant & Sorceries
4 Censor
3 Disallow
3 Essence Scatter
4 Glimmer of Genius
3 Supreme Will
3 Approach of the Second Sun
3 Fumigate
7 Plains
1 Field of Ruin
4 Glacial Fortress
4 Irrigated Farmland
2 Scavenger Grounds
1 Azor's Gateway
Instant & Sorceries
4 Fatal Push
1 Island
1 Arch of Orazca
4 Concealed Courtyard
4 Evolving Wilds
2 Glacial Fortress
1 Vraska, Relic Seeker
2 Orazca Relic
4 Renegade Map
4 Treasure Map
4 Hidden Stockpile
4 Ixalan's Binding
2 Magma Spray
4 Aether Hub
2 Field of Ruin
4 Spirebluff Canal
Other
4 Dynavolt Tower
2 Commit
3 Search for Azcanta
4 Deathrite Shaman
1 Snapcaster Mage
4 Stoneforge Mystic
4 True-Name Nemesis
Instant & Sorceries
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Swords to Plowshares
3 Ponder
4 Thoughtseize
Land
1 Island
4 Brainstorm
3 Fatal Push
1 Terminate
4 Ponder
Land
4 Ahn-Crop Crasher
4 Earthshaker Khenra
1 Glorybringer
4 Soul-Scar Mage
4 Hazoret the Fervent
3 Kari Zev, Skyship Raider
Instant & Sorceries
3 Angel of Sanctions
4 Champion of Wits
4 Sunscourge Champion
1 Vizier of Many Faces
Instant & Sorceries
4 Chart a Course
4 Fumigate
4 Herald of Anguish
4 Maverick Thopterist
Instant & Sorceries
4 Fatal Push
3 Battle at the Bridge
Land
1 Island
Instant & Sorceries
1 Abrade
2 Dragonskull Summit
4 Spirebluff Canal
1 Search for Azcanta
4 Dread Wanderer
4 Earthshaker Khenra
4 Hazoret the Fervent
2 True-Name Nemesis
Instant & Sorceries
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
2 Spell Pierce
2 The Scarab God
4 Fatal Push
