1. GP Pittsburgh (Standard)
Poslední dvojku před příchodem nové edice si nenechalo ujít 1 378 hráčů. Bohužel, formát se ke konci sezóny trochu zvrhnul a najít na předních místech jiný deck, než GW Tokeny a Bant Company, bylo takřka nemožné.
Tyhle decky zabraly hned sedm míst v top8. Zbytek světa zde zastupoval Aleksa Telarov s GBu Midrangem.
Šampionem se nakonec stal Evan Petre s GW Tokeny, když v top8 porazil dva největší favority, Steva Rubina (také GW) a Pascala Maynarda (Bant Humans).
Pár zajímvých decků se naštěstí našlo alespoň v top32. S velmi neobvylkým deckem skončil jedenáctý Chris Kemple. Šlo o plně bezbarvou rampu (v decku nebyl ani jeden barevný spell), která využívala karet jako Hedron Crawler, Hedron Archive, nebo Oblivion Sower k tomu, aby nakonec zahrála jednoho z dvojice eldrazi titánů.
Podle mě si to ale Chris pokazil jedním Swampem, což měl zcela určitě být Wastes...
Osmnáctý byl Tyler Hill se zajímavou verzí GW Tokenů (či spíše Planeswalkerů), do které přidal na splash červenou (na rozdíl od Raphaela Levyho i se zeměmi, které produkují červenou manu) pro Nahiri a Dragonlorda Atarku.
Kromě toho, že Nahiri umí dobře rozčísnout boardstall je další výhodou této kombinace, že máte manlandy k Sylvan Advokátovi.
23. místo patřilo Alexi Bianchimu s UR Flyery s dračí tématikou. Různé verze Flyerů poslední dobou vídamé stále častěji, jelikož je to celkem dobrá strategie proti GW i Bantu. Tohle je ale poprvé, co vidím, že někdo hrál celý playset Icefall Regentů.
Létající tématiku zakomponoval do své Bant Company i Craig Rocco, který skončil na 26. místě.
Craig se rozhodl nehrát Tireless Trackera a Jace a místo toho sáhl po spirití dvojce Rattlechains a Bygone Bishop. Zajímavý je také playset Smasherů v mainu, což jsme doposud vídali hlavně ve verzích s Cryptolith Rites.
Poslední zajímavý deck v top32 byla UG Rampa s Crush of Tentacles, se kterou skončil na 27. místě Allen Sun.
Oproti klasické RG Rampě je tu hlavní rozdíl v tom, že tady nejsou žádní velcí finisheři a hlavní winkondice je Crush a Part the Waterveil, které můžete skombinovat třeba s Den Protectorem a Nissou. A zajímavý je i transformační sideboard se Sylvan Adkováty a Deathmist Raptory.
Jako bonus byl v coverage ještě uveden deck Bena Friedmana, se kterým Ben skončil na padesátém místě se skóre 11:4.
Po pravdě moc nevím, jak mám deck popsat. Ben v podstatě nacpal všechny tučné pašíky do jednoho decku, ať už to byli Draci, Eldrazi, Woodland Wanderer, nebo Woodland Bellower.
Dost důležitá je v decku rampa, kterou tu zastupuje Deathreap Cultivator a Explosive Vegetation. Nejsem si ale jistý, jestli deck dokáže porazit Displacera s Reflector Magem a samozřejmě budou problematická i rychlá aggra, kvůli kterým je v sidu hned playset Radiant Flamů a Roasty.
Decklisty Standard
Colorless Ramp
Chris Kemple
GP Pittsburgh
Foundry of the Consuls
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {5}, {T}, Sacrifice Foundry of the Consuls: Put two 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield.
Mage-Ring Network
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {1}, {T}: Put a storage counter on Mage-Ring Network. {T}, Remove X storage counters from Mage-Ring Network: Add {X} to your mana pool.
Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
Kozilek, the Great Distortion
Thraben Gargoyle/Stonewing Antagonizer
Westvale Abbey/Ormendahl, Profane Prince
Decklisty Standard
GWr Walkers
Tyler Hill
GP Pittsburgh
Dragonlord Atarka
Flying, trample When Dragonlord Atarka enters the battlefield, it deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or planeswalkers your opponents control.
Dromoka's Command
Choose two — • Prevent all damage target instant or sorcery spell would deal this turn. • Target player sacrifices an enchantment. • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. • Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control.
Surrak, the Hunt Caller
Formidable — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if creatures you control have total power 8 or greater, target creature you control gains haste until end of turn.
Evolutionary Leap
{G}, Sacrifice a creature: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Hangarback Walker
Hangarback Walker enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. When Hangarback Walker dies, put a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying onto the battlefield for each +1/+1 counter on Hangarback Walker.{1}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Hangarback Walker.
Nissa, Vastwood Seer/Nissa, Sage Animist
When Nissa, Vastwood Seer enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic Forest card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library. Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, if you control seven or more lands, exile Nissa, then return her to the battlefield transformed under her owner's control. ——— +1: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.?2 : Put a legendary 4/4 green Elemental creature token named Ashaya, the Awoken World onto the battlefield. ?7: Untap up to six target lands. They become 6/6 Elemental creatures. They're still lands.
Battlefield Forge
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add {R} or {W} to your mana pool. Battlefield Forge deals 1 damage to you.
Archangel Avacyn/Avacyn, the Purifier
Lambholt Pacifist/Lambholt Butcher
Decklisty Standard
UR Flyers
Alex Bianchi
GP Pittsburgh
Draconic Roar
As an additional cost to cast Draconic Roar, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand. Draconic Roar deals 3 damage to target creature. If you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast Draconic Roar, Draconic Roar deals 3 damage to that creature's controller.
Icefall Regent
Flying When Icefall Regent enters the battlefield, tap target creature an opponent controls. That creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as you control Icefall Regent. Spells your opponents cast that target Icefall Regent cost {2} more to cast.
Silumgar's Scorn
As an additional cost to cast Silumgar's Scorn, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand. Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}. If you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast Silumgar's Scorn, counter that spell instead.
Thunderbreak Regent
Flying Whenever a Dragon you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, Thunderbreak Regent deals 3 damage to that player.
Exquisite Firecraft
Exquisite Firecraft deals 4 damage to target creature or player. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, Exquisite Firecraft can't be countered by spells or abilities.
Fiery Impulse
Fiery Impulse deals 2 damage to target creature. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, Fiery Impulse deals 3 damage to that creature instead.
Battlefield Forge
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add {R} or {W} to your mana pool. Battlefield Forge deals 1 damage to you.
Shivan Reef
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add {U} or {R} to your mana pool. Shivan Reef deals 1 damage to you.
Yavimaya Coast
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add {G} or {U} to your mana pool. Yavimaya Coast deals 1 damage to you.
Highland Lake
Highland Lake enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.
Decklisty Standard
Flying Company
Craig Rocco
GP Pittsburgh
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.
Dromoka's Command
Choose two — • Prevent all damage target instant or sorcery spell would deal this turn. • Target player sacrifices an enchantment. • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. • Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control.
Ojutai's Command
Choose two — • Return target creature card with converted mana cost 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. • You gain 4 life. • Counter target creature spell. • Draw a card.
Nissa, Vastwood Seer/Nissa, Sage Animist
When Nissa, Vastwood Seer enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic Forest card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library. Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, if you control seven or more lands, exile Nissa, then return her to the battlefield transformed under her owner's control. ——— +1: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.?2 : Put a legendary 4/4 green Elemental creature token named Ashaya, the Awoken World onto the battlefield. ?7: Untap up to six target lands. They become 6/6 Elemental creatures. They're still lands.
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.
Llanowar Wastes
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add {B} or {G} to your mana pool. Llanowar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.
Yavimaya Coast
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add {G} or {U} to your mana pool. Yavimaya Coast deals 1 damage to you.
Archangel Avacyn/Avacyn, the Purifier
Duskwatch Recruiter/Krallenhorde Howler
Lambholt Pacifist/Lambholt Butcher
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
UG Crush
Allen Sun
GP Pittsburgh
Deathmist Raptor
Deathtouch Whenever a permanent you control is turned face up, you may return Deathmist Raptor from your graveyard to the battlefield face up or face down. Megamorph {4}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Den Protector
Creatures with power less than Den Protector's power can't block it. Megamorph {1}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.) When Den Protector is turned face up, return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Sight Beyond Sight
Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)
Displacement Wave
Return all nonland permanents with converted mana cost X or less to their owners' hands.
Hydrolash
Attacking creatures get -2/-0 until end of turn. Draw a card.
Nissa, Vastwood Seer/Nissa, Sage Animist
When Nissa, Vastwood Seer enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic Forest card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library. Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, if you control seven or more lands, exile Nissa, then return her to the battlefield transformed under her owner's control. ——— +1: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.?2 : Put a legendary 4/4 green Elemental creature token named Ashaya, the Awoken World onto the battlefield. ?7: Untap up to six target lands. They become 6/6 Elemental creatures. They're still lands.
Nissa's Pilgrimage
Search your library for up to two basic Forest cards, reveal those cards, and put one onto the battlefield tapped and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle your library. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, search your library for up to three basic Forest cards instead of two.
Send to Sleep
Tap up to two target creatures. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, those creatures don't untap during their controllers' next untap steps.
Whirler Rogue
When Whirler Rogue enters the battlefield, put two 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield. Tap two untapped artifacts you control: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Explosive Vegetation
Search your library for up to two basic land cards and put them onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.
Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Anticipate
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.
Decklisty Standard
4C Fatties
Ben Friedman
GP Pittsburgh
Draconic Roar
As an additional cost to cast Draconic Roar, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand. Draconic Roar deals 3 damage to target creature. If you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast Draconic Roar, Draconic Roar deals 3 damage to that creature's controller.
Dragonlord Atarka
Flying, trample When Dragonlord Atarka enters the battlefield, it deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or planeswalkers your opponents control.
Dragonlord Silumgar
Flying, deathtouch When Dragonlord Silumgar enters the battlefield, gain control of target creature or planeswalker for as long as you control Dragonlord Silumgar.
Haven of the Spirit Dragon
{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 Dragon creature spell. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Haven of the Spirit Dragon: Return target Dragon creature card or Ugin planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand.
Roast
Roast deals 5 damage to target creature without flying.
Woodland Bellower
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.
Explosive Vegetation
Search your library for up to two basic land cards and put them onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.
Shivan Reef
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add {U} or {R} to your mana pool. Shivan Reef deals 1 damage to you.
Duskwatch Recruiter/Krallenhorde Howler
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Evolving Wilds
{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
2. GP Taipei (Standard)
Na Taiwanu se odehrálo poměrně komorní GP s účastí 792 hráčů. Paradoxně ale díky tomu bylo těžší se probojovat na nejvyšší příčky, jelikož si GP nenechala ujít většina asijských prohráčů.
Bohužel, většina prohráčů opět sáhla po Bantu, nebo GW a tak jsme i tady měli velmi nudnou top8, ve které bylo 4× Bant Company, 2× GW Tokeni, Bant Humani a zbytek světa zastupovala RG Rampa.
Pro svoje druhé GP vítězství si došel Yuuki Ichikawa s Bant Company, když ve finále porazil GW Tokeny pilotované místním prohráčem, Huang Yung-Mingem. I na dalších dvou místech byli pro hráči - Lee Shi Tian a Yuta Takahashi.
Z méně obvyklých decků v top32 bych zmínil Jund Midrange, se kterým skončil na třináctém místo Sung Bok Tung. Jednalo se o poměrně standardní build, jenom mě trochu překvapila absence Languishe.
Dvacáté místo obsadil s UW verzí Flyerů Sun Bo. Ten se pro změnu úplně vyhnul dračí tématice (místo Scornu hrál Void Shatter) a raději sáhnul po kartách jako Gideon a Hangarback Walker.
S hodně divokým deckem byl na 27. místě Zsolt Tokoli (nenechte se zmást jménem, hrál za Singapur). Jednalo se o 4C Rampu, která měla podobný základ jako UG rampa s Crushem. Navíc byl v decku Dragonlord Atarka, Reflector Mage a hlavně Descend Upon the Sinful, což tu byla i regulérní winkondice, jelikož tu s deliriem pomáhalo hned sedm Oathů.
V sideboardu pak opět máme možnost přejít na agresivnější plán s Tireless Trackery a Ojutaiem.
V coverage byla dále zmíněná updatovaná verze Esper Draků Shota Yasooky, se kterou uhrál 10:5, což stačilo na 77. místo.
Hlavní změny oproti PT byly úplná absence Scornů a dále Avacyn a Kalitas v mainu. Zajímaví jsou také Gideoni v sidu a one-of Tragic Arrogance v mainu.
Decklisty Standard
Jund Midrange
Sung Bok Tung
GP Taipei
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.
Virulent Plague
Creature tokens get -2/-2.
Infinite Obliteration
Name a creature card. Search target opponent's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
Nissa, Vastwood Seer/Nissa, Sage Animist
When Nissa, Vastwood Seer enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic Forest card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library. Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, if you control seven or more lands, exile Nissa, then return her to the battlefield transformed under her owner's control. ——— +1: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.?2 : Put a legendary 4/4 green Elemental creature token named Ashaya, the Awoken World onto the battlefield. ?7: Untap up to six target lands. They become 6/6 Elemental creatures. They're still lands.
Ultimate Price
Destroy target monocolored creature.
Llanowar Wastes
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add {B} or {G} to your mana pool. Llanowar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.
Read the Bones
Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)
Arlinn Kord/Arlinn, Embraced by the Moon
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.
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
UW Flyers
Sun Bo
GP Taipei
Dragonlord Ojutai
Flying Dragonlord Ojutai has hexproof as long as it's untapped. Whenever Dragonlord Ojutai deals combat damage to a player, 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.
Narset Transcendent
+1: Look at the top card of your library. If it's a noncreature, nonland card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. -2: When you cast your next instant or sorcery spell from your hand this turn, it gains rebound. -9: You get an emblem with "Your opponents can't cast noncreature spells."
Ojutai's Command
Choose two — • Return target creature card with converted mana cost 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. • You gain 4 life. • Counter target creature spell. • Draw a card.
Secure the Wastes
Put X 1/1 white Warrior creature tokens onto the battlefield.
Silkwrap
When Silkwrap enters the battlefield, exile target creature with converted mana cost 3 or less an opponent controls until Silkwrap leaves the battlefield. (That creature returns under its owner's control.)
Silumgar Sorcerer
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Flying Exploit (When this creature enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice a creature.) When Silumgar Sorcerer exploits a creature, counter target creature spell.
Hangarback Walker
Hangarback Walker enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. When Hangarback Walker dies, put a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying onto the battlefield for each +1/+1 counter on Hangarback Walker.{1}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Hangarback Walker.
Jace, Vryn's Prodigy/Jace, Telepath Unbound
{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. If there are five or more cards in your graveyard, exile Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control. ——— +1: Up to one target creature gets -2/-0 until your next turn. ?3: You may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard this turn. If that card would be put into a graveyard this turn, exile it instead. ?9: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, target opponent puts the top five cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard."
Archangel Avacyn/Avacyn, the Purifier
Westvale Abbey/Ormendahl, Profane Prince
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Decklisty Standard
4C Ramp
Zsolt Tokoli
GP Taipei
Den Protector
Creatures with power less than Den Protector's power can't block it. Megamorph {1}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.) When Den Protector is turned face up, return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Dragonlord Atarka
Flying, trample When Dragonlord Atarka enters the battlefield, it deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or planeswalkers your opponents control.
Dragonlord Dromoka
Dragonlord Dromoka can't be countered. Flying, lifelink Your opponents can't cast spells during your turn.
Dragonlord Ojutai
Flying Dragonlord Ojutai has hexproof as long as it's untapped. Whenever Dragonlord Ojutai deals combat damage to a player, 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.
Nissa, Vastwood Seer/Nissa, Sage Animist
When Nissa, Vastwood Seer enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic Forest card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library. Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, if you control seven or more lands, exile Nissa, then return her to the battlefield transformed under her owner's control. ——— +1: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.?2 : Put a legendary 4/4 green Elemental creature token named Ashaya, the Awoken World onto the battlefield. ?7: Untap up to six target lands. They become 6/6 Elemental creatures. They're still lands.
Tragic Arrogance
For each player, you choose from among the permanents that player controls an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a planeswalker. Then each player sacrifices all other nonland permanents he or she controls.
Explosive Vegetation
Search your library for up to two basic land cards and put them onto the battlefield tapped. Then shuffle your library.
Jace, Unraveler of Secrets
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Anticipate
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.
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
Esper Dragons
Shota Yasooka
GP Taipei
Dragonlord Ojutai
Flying Dragonlord Ojutai has hexproof as long as it's untapped. Whenever Dragonlord Ojutai deals combat damage to a player, 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.
Dragonlord Silumgar
Flying, deathtouch When Dragonlord Silumgar enters the battlefield, gain control of target creature or planeswalker for as long as you control Dragonlord Silumgar.
Foul-Tongue Invocation
As an additional cost to cast Foul-Tongue Invocation, you may reveal a Dragon card from your hand. Target player sacrifices a creature. If you revealed a Dragon card or controlled a Dragon as you cast Foul-Tongue Invocation, you gain 4 life.
Ojutai's Command
Choose two — • Return target creature card with converted mana cost 2 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. • You gain 4 life. • Counter target creature spell. • Draw a card.
Infinite Obliteration
Name a creature card. Search target opponent's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
Jace, Vryn's Prodigy/Jace, Telepath Unbound
{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card. If there are five or more cards in your graveyard, exile Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, then return him to the battlefield transformed under his owner's control. ——— +1: Up to one target creature gets -2/-0 until your next turn. ?3: You may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard this turn. If that card would be put into a graveyard this turn, exile it instead. ?9: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, target opponent puts the top five cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard."
Languish
All creatures get -4/-4 until end of turn.
Tragic Arrogance
For each player, you choose from among the permanents that player controls an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a planeswalker. Then each player sacrifices all other nonland permanents he or she controls.
Ultimate Price
Destroy target monocolored creature.
Archangel Avacyn/Avacyn, the Purifier
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Duress
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Dead Weight
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -2/-2.
Evolving Wilds
{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
3. GP Sao Paulo (Team Sealed)
Týmová GP jsou sice zábavná na hraní, ale bohužel nejsou příliš divácky vděčné, takže to vezmu opravdu ve zkratce.
GP se účastnilo 362 týmů a nejzajímavější na sledování byl souboj týmů BBDho a Tomoharu Saita, kteří se přetahují o GP hráče roku. Ve druhém dni se oběma týmům velice dařilo, ale Tomoharu měl nakonec smůlu a jeho tým skončil pátý velmi těšně na pomocné (o dvě setiny procenta).
BBD nakonec vypadl v top4, takže před posledním GP sezóny má na Tomohara náskok jednoho bodu. A teoretickou šanci má stále i Reid Duke, který ztrácí pět bodů (a také Seth Manfield, ale ten nemůže obsadit slot na MS, jelikož má jakožto obhájce titulu místo zaručené).
V top4 došlo ke kurióznímu přehmatu rozhodčích, když někdo udělal pairingy random, namísto podle pořadí v základní části. Osobně nechápu, že to nikomu z rozhodčích, nebo samotných hráčů nepřišlo podezřelé...
Vítězi se nakonec stala trojice Carlos Romao, Eloi Pattaro a Francisco Barciella. A ano, je to ten samý Carlos Romao, který se stal mistrem světa v roce 2002. Mně osobně vždy potěší, když vidím, že se slavným oldschool hráčům daří i dávno potom, co se stáhli z profi scény.
4. SCG Open Dallas (Modern)
Modern týden před WMCQ, to byla ideální konstelace pro úplné naplnění kapacity, což se podařilo už během předregistrace. Z tisícovky předregistrovaných hráčů jich nakonec dorazilo jenom 996, ale stejně to je více, než kolik bylo hráčů třeba na GP Taipei...
Ani maximální návštěvnost ale nerozhodila pětici kamarádů, kteří reprezentovali tým MetaGameGurus (MGG). Byli to Danny a Andrew Jessupovi, Kevin Jones, Jim Davis a Peter Ingram.
Z této pětky se hned čtyři hráči dostali do top8 (pouze Danny Jessup byl s Infectem ostudně až jednatřicátý) a tři do top4 (Peter Ingram v top8 vyradil v mirroru UWR Nahiri Jima Jonese).
Jejich hegemonii nakonec nikdo nenarušil a vítězem se nakonec stal Kevin Jones s Grixis Delverem, když ve finále porazil Infect Andrew Jessupa.
Další decky v top8 byli Jund, Atarka Zoo, Living End a Melira Company (navíc i s Archangel kombem a s chuťovkou v sidu v podobě Phariky).
Hned za top8 skončil Joseph Freeman s Eldrazi & Taxes, což je poprvé, kdy vidím, že tenhle deck dosáhl na takto dobrý výsledek. Osobně se mi tenhle deck moc nelíbí, má hrozně málo removalu, jeho bytosti nejsou nic extra (snad kromě Seera) a v lategame je dost bezzubý.
U téhle konkrétní verze se mi docela líbí Blade Splicer, jelikož 3/3 golem je excelentní v kombatu. Možná by nebylo od věci hrát jich víc a kromě Displacerů zařadit třeba i Restoration Angely.
V top16 byly také dva Kiki-Chordy - oba s Nahiri a malou modrou splashí, zejména pro maindeck Glen Elendru (zajímavý mi ale přišel i Keranos v sidu).
Jedním z nich byl Jeff Hoogland, který tak letos stále pokračuje v sérii, kdy skončil na všech SCG Open v top32.
Se čtyřbarvou vlastní konstrukce obsadil dvanácté místo Eric Liu. V podstatě šlo o Grixis Control doplněný o Pathy, Timely Reinforcements a v sidu o Lingering Souly. Pokud ale nejsou Souly v mainu, tak osobně nevidím důvod, proč zbytečně zatěžovat manabase další barvou...
Poslední zajímavý deck v top16 byl Blue Moon Jacka Kiefera s Thing in the Ice. Docela rád bych si přečetl článek od někoho, kdo s touhle kartou hrál, jelikož mně se vždycky zdálo, že Věc skoro nic nedělá a raději bych hrál libovolnou jinou bytost (Klika, Jace).
Všeobecně si také myslím, že Blood Moon aktuálně není v metagame moc dobře umístěný, jelikož jsou na vzestupu Grixis a Jeskai, kterým Moon příliš nevadí.
Mimo top16 mi přišel ještě zajímavý GW Hexproof Iana Jashewaye, ve kterém jsou hned dvě nové karty, a to Open the Armory a Gryff's Boon, což je celkem pěkná vychytávka.
I tady ale musím říci, že pozice decku na formátu se trochu zhoršila, jelikož Nahiri může způsobit pěkný blowout s Daybreak Coronetem a plno decků má také v sidu více kusů Engineered Explosives, což je pro deck podobně devastující, jako pro Affinitu Stony Silence...
A na závěr tu máme Monoblue Tron Travise Parkera. Na tomhle decku se mi líbí, že je velmi snadno kustomizovatelný, takže do něj můžete nacpat všechny své pet karty (taková obdoba legacy Nic Fitu). Tady mi asi nejzajímavější přijde maindeck Chalice a Thought-Knot Seer.
Jako celkem vtipná karta tu může být i Epiphany at the Drownyard, ačkoli je tu pouze jako one-of.
Decklisty Modern
Grixis Delver
Kevin Jones
SCG Open Dallas
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.
Gurmag Angler
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.)
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.)
Thought Scour
Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. Draw a card.
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.
Vampiric Link
Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.
Serum Visions
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
Electrolyze deals 2 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players. Draw a card.
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.
Remand
Counter target spell. If you do, return that spell card to its owner's hand. Draw a card.
Dreadbore
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Darkslick Shores
Darkslick Shores enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {B} to your mana pool.
Terminate
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.
Mana Leak
Counter target spell unless its caster pays an additional {3}.
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.
Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt does 3 damage to one target.
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.
Decklisty Modern
Eldrazi & Taxes
Joseph Freeman
SCG Open Dallas
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
First strike Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.
Stony Silence
Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.
Timely Reinforcements
If you have less life than an opponent, you gain 6 life. If you control fewer creatures than an opponent, put three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield.
Flickerwisp
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.
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.
Blade Splicer
When Blade Splicer enters the battlefield, put a 3/3 colorless Golem artifact creature token onto the battlefield. Golem creatures you control have first strike.
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.
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.
Kataki, War's Wage
All artifacts have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact unless you pay {1}."
Leonin Arbiter
Players can't search libraries. Any player may pay {2} for that player to ignore this effect until end of turn.
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.
Zealous Persecution
Until end of turn, creatures you control get +1/+1 and creatures your opponents control get -1/-1.
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.
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.
Kor Firewalker
Protection from red Whenever a player casts a red spell, you may gain 1 life.
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.
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
Kiki Chord
Jeff Hoogland
SCG Open Dallas
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."
Eidolon of Rhetoric
Each player can't cast more than one spell each turn.
Keranos, God of Storms
Indestructible As long as your devotion to blue and red is less than seven, Keranos isn't a creature. Reveal the first card you draw on each of your turns. Whenever you reveal a land card this way, draw a card. Whenever you reveal a nonland card this way, Keranos deals 3 damage to target creature or player.
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.
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.
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.
Glen Elendra Archmage
Flying {U}, Sacrifice Glen Elendra Archmage: Counter target noncreature spell. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on 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.
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.
Spellskite
{U/P}: Change a target of target spell or ability to Spellskite. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
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.
Restoration Angel
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kataki, War's Wage
All artifacts have "At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice this artifact unless you pay {1}."
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.
Wall of Omens
Defender When Wall of Omens enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Lightning Helix
Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to target creature or player and you gain 3 life.
Lone Missionary
When Lone Missionary enters the battlefield, you gain 4 life.
Wall of Roots
Defender Put a -0/-1 counter on Wall of Roots: Add {G} to your mana pool. Play this ability only once each turn.
Birds of Paradise
Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. This ability is played as an interrupt.
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.
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.
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Decklisty Modern
Grixis White
Eric Liu
SCG Open Dallas
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.
Soulfire Grand Master
Lifelink Instant and sorcery spells you control have lifelink. {2}{U/R}{U/R}: The next time you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand this turn, put that card into your hand instead of into your graveyard as it resolves.
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.)
Curse of Death's Hold
Enchant player Creatures enchanted player controls get -1/-1.
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.
Timely Reinforcements
If you have less life than an opponent, you gain 6 life. If you control fewer creatures than an opponent, put three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield.
Spell Snare
Counter target spell with converted mana cost 2.
Serum Visions
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
Electrolyze deals 2 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players. Draw a card.
Remand
Counter target spell. If you do, return that spell card to its owner's hand. Draw a card.
Dreadbore
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Slaughter Games
Slaughter Games can't be countered by spells or abilities. Name a nonland card. Search target opponent's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
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.
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.)
Lightning Helix
Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to target creature or player and you gain 3 life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Duress
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Decklisty Modern
Blue Moon
Jack Kiefer
SCG Open Dallas
Roast
Roast deals 5 damage to target creature without flying.
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.
Keranos, God of Storms
Indestructible As long as your devotion to blue and red is less than seven, Keranos isn't a creature. Reveal the first card you draw on each of your turns. Whenever you reveal a land card this way, draw a card. Whenever you reveal a nonland card this way, Keranos deals 3 damage to target creature or player.
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.
Spell Snare
Counter target spell with converted mana cost 2.
Serum Visions
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
Electrolyze deals 2 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players. Draw a card.
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.
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}
Remand
Counter target spell. If you do, return that spell card to its owner's hand. Draw a card.
Mana Leak
Counter target spell unless its caster pays an additional {3}.
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.
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.
Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt does 3 damage to one target.
Spreading Seas
Enchant land When Spreading Seas enters the battlefield, draw a card. Enchanted land is an Island.
Burst Lightning
Kicker {4} (You may pay an additional {4} as you cast this spell.) Burst Lightning deals 2 damage to target creature or player. If Burst Lightning was kicked, it deals 4 damage to that creature or player instead.
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Decklisty Modern
GW Hexproof
Ian Jasheway
SCG Open Dallas
Unflinching Courage
Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and has trample and lifelink.
Slippery Bogle
Slippery Bogle can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.
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.
Stony Silence
Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.
Gaddock Teeg
Noncreature spells with converted mana cost 4 or greater can't be played. Noncreature spells with {X} in their mana costs can't be played.
Gladecover Scout
Hexproof (This creature can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Daybreak Coronet
Enchant creature with another Aura attached to it Enchanted creature gets +3/+3 and has first strike, vigilance, and lifelink.
Seal of Primordium
Sacrifice Seal of Primordium: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Spirit Mantle
Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has protection from creatures.
Suppression Field
Activated abilities cost {2} more to play unless they're mana abilities.
Ethereal Armor
Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 for each enchantment you control and has first strike.
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.
Hyena Umbra
Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has first strike. Totem armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)
Kor Spiritdancer
Kor Spiritdancer gets +2/+2 for each Aura attached to it. Whenever you cast an Aura spell, you may draw a card.
Spider Umbra
Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has reach. (It can block creatures with flying.) Totem armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)
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.
Spirit Link
Enchant creature (Target a creature as you play this. This card comes into play attached to that creature.) Whenever enchanted creature deals damage, you gain that much life.
Rancor
Enchanted creature gains +2/+0 and trample. When Rancor is put into a graveyard from play, return Rancor to owner's hand.
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.
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.)
Decklisty Modern
Monoblue Tron
Travis Parker
SCG Open Dallas
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.
Sundering Titan
When Sundering Titan enters the battlefield or leaves the battlefield, choose a land of each basic land type, then destroy those lands.
Condescend
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. Scry 2 (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)
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.
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.
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.)
Thirst for Knowledge
Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact card.
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.
Treasure Mage
When Treasure Mage enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an artifact card with converted mana cost 6 or greater, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. If you do, shuffle your library.
Dismember
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Remand
Counter target spell. If you do, return that spell card to its owner's hand. Draw a card.
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.
Cyclonic Rift
Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change its text by replacing all instances of "target" with "each.")
Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
{T}: Add {U} to your mana pool. {1}: Return Oboro, Palace in the Clouds to its owner's hand.
Mindslaver
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice Mindslaver: You control target player during that player's next turn. (You see all cards that player could see and make all decisions for the player.)
Wurmcoil Engine
Deathtouch, lifelink When Wurmcoil Engine is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a 3/3 colorless Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink onto the battlefield.
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.
Mana Leak
Counter target spell unless its caster pays an additional {3}.
Crucible of Worlds
You may play land cards from your graveyard.
Platinum Angel
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.
Academy Ruins
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {1}{U}, {T}: Put target artifact card in your graveyard on top of your library.
Expedition Map
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Expedition Map: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
Epiphany at the Drownyard
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.
5. SCG Classic Dallas (Standard & Legacy)
Dvojky se účastnilo 201 hráčů a v top8 byly hned tři non-GW decky! Byli to WR Humani, kontrolnější verze Naya Midrange s Chandrami, Nahiri/Atarkou a Radiant Flames a konečně zvláštní GB deck, který byl takovou míchanicí mezi klasickým Rockem a Seasons Past.
Deck obsahoval některé rampící elementy, mimo jiné Ulvenwald Hydru a From the Beyond, ke kterému tu byli dva World Breakeři a Ulamog, ale jinak hrál klasické value bytosti jako Tireless Tracker, Sylvan Advocate, nebo Gitrog Monster.
Trochu zvláštní mi přijde, že v decku byla jednom jedna Dark Petiton a nula Season's Pastů.
S deckem se dokázal dostat až do finále Bennett Bartlett, ale nakonec v něm nestačil na Bant Company.
Mimo top8 byl pak nejzajímavější deck Mardu Control, což je takový král midrangů, jelikož má k dispozici všechen nejlepší removal a všechny planeswalkery. K tomu je tu pak dvojice vynikajících bytostí, Kalitas a Goblin Dark-Dwellers.
Decklisty Standard
GB Ramp
Bennett Bartlett
SCG Classic Dallas
Virulent Plague
Creature tokens get -2/-2.
Dark Petition
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.
Languish
All creatures get -4/-4 until end of turn.
Nissa, Vastwood Seer/Nissa, Sage Animist
When Nissa, Vastwood Seer enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic Forest card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library. Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, if you control seven or more lands, exile Nissa, then return her to the battlefield transformed under her owner's control. ——— +1: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.?2 : Put a legendary 4/4 green Elemental creature token named Ashaya, the Awoken World onto the battlefield. ?7: Untap up to six target lands. They become 6/6 Elemental creatures. They're still lands.
Nissa's Pilgrimage
Search your library for up to two basic Forest cards, reveal those cards, and put one onto the battlefield tapped and the rest into your hand. Then shuffle your library. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, search your library for up to three basic Forest cards instead of two.
Ultimate Price
Destroy target monocolored creature.
Llanowar Wastes
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add {B} or {G} to your mana pool. Llanowar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.
Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
Duress
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Dead Weight
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -2/-2.
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
Naya Midrange
Guo Quan Lim
SCG Classic Dallas
Den Protector
Creatures with power less than Den Protector's power can't block it. Megamorph {1}{G} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its megamorph cost and put a +1/+1 counter on it.) When Den Protector is turned face up, return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Dragonlord Atarka
Flying, trample When Dragonlord Atarka enters the battlefield, it deals 5 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or planeswalkers your opponents control.
Dragonlord Dromoka
Dragonlord Dromoka can't be countered. Flying, lifelink Your opponents can't cast spells during your turn.
Dromoka's Command
Choose two — • Prevent all damage target instant or sorcery spell would deal this turn. • Target player sacrifices an enchantment. • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. • Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control.
Rending Volley
Rending Volley can't be countered by spells or abilities. Rending Volley deals 4 damage to target white or blue creature.
Evolutionary Leap
{G}, Sacrifice a creature: Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature card. Put that card into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Hallowed Moonlight
Until end of turn, if a creature would enter the battlefield and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.Draw a card.
Nissa, Vastwood Seer/Nissa, Sage Animist
When Nissa, Vastwood Seer enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic Forest card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library. Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, if you control seven or more lands, exile Nissa, then return her to the battlefield transformed under her owner's control. ——— +1: Reveal the top card of your library. If it's a land card, put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.?2 : Put a legendary 4/4 green Elemental creature token named Ashaya, the Awoken World onto the battlefield. ?7: Untap up to six target lands. They become 6/6 Elemental creatures. They're still lands.
Battlefield Forge
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add {R} or {W} to your mana pool. Battlefield Forge deals 1 damage to you.
Archangel Avacyn/Avacyn, the Purifier
Lambholt Pacifist/Lambholt Butcher
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
Mardu Midrange
Maxwell Jones
SCG Classic Dallas
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.
Virulent Plague
Creature tokens get -2/-2.
Dark Petition
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.
Fiery Impulse
Fiery Impulse deals 2 damage to target creature. Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, Fiery Impulse deals 3 damage to that creature instead.
Languish
All creatures get -4/-4 until end of turn.
Ultimate Price
Destroy target monocolored creature.
Battlefield Forge
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add {R} or {W} to your mana pool. Battlefield Forge deals 1 damage to you.
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.
Read the Bones
Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)
Evolving Wilds
{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
Legacy se účastnilo dokonce 202 hráčů a stala se kořistí Jarroda Feighta s Death and Taxes, když ve finále porazil Eldrazi Bena Kendricka.
Eldrazi mají sice daleko silnější bytosti, ale dovedu si představit, že tu zafungovala kombiance Wastelandů a Rishadan Portů.
Ze zajímavých decků byl v top8 zejména Doomsday, což je vlastně taková komplikovanější verze Stormu.
Pokud nevíte, jak Doomsday funguje, tak jsou v podstatě dva způsoby, jak z pěti karet vyhrát hru. První je s Laboratory Maniacem (Ideas Unbound, Lion's Eye Diamond, Laboratory Maniac a 2× Gitaxian Probe) a druhá se Shelldock Islem a Emrakulem.
Mimo top8 byla nejzajímavější zvláštní verze Jundu, se kterou skončil dvanáctý Tom Nelson. Byla to planeswalker heavy verze s Garrukem Relentless a Arlinn Kord. A zajímavé byly i maindeck Chains of Mephistopheles.
Oproti klasické verzi v decku nebyl Bloodbraind a Punishing Fire. A bez Punishing Firů se zároveň otevírá možnost hrát v sidu Blood Moony.
Decklisty Legacy
Death and Taxes
Jarrod Feight
SCG Classic Dallas
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.
Brimaz, King of Oreskos
Vigilance Whenever Brimaz, King of Oreskos attacks, put a 1/1 white Cat Soldier creature token with vigilance onto the battlefield attacking. Whenever Brimaz blocks a creature, put a 1/1 white Cat Soldier creature token with vigilance onto the battlefield blocking that creature.
Containment Priest
Flash If a nontoken creature would enter the battlefield and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.
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.
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
First strike Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.
Cataclysm
Each player chooses from among the permanents he or she controls an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a land, then sacrifices the rest.
Rishadan Port
{T}: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. {1}, {T}: Tap target land.
Phyrexian Revoker
As Phyrexian Revoker enters the battlefield, name a nonland card. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated.
Flickerwisp
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.
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.
Mirran Crusader
Double strike, protection from black and from green
Sword of War and Peace
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from white. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, Sword of War and Peace deals damage to that player equal to the number of cards in his or her hand and you gain 1 life for each card in your hand. Equip {2}
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.
Karakas
{T}: Add {W} to your mana pool. {T}: Return target legendary creature to its owner's hand.
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}
Mishra's Factory
{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.
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.
Manriki-Gusari
Equipped creature gets +1/+2 and has "{T}: Destroy target Equipment." Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Ethersworn Canonist
Each player who has played a nonartifact spell this turn can't play additional nonartifact spells.
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.
Mangara of Corondor
{T}: Remove Mangara of Corondor and target permanent from the game.
Serra Avenger
You can't play Serra Avenger during your first, second, or third turns of the game. Flying, vigilance
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.
Mother of Runes
{T}: Target creature you control gains protection from a color of your choice until end of turn.
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.
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.
Disenchant
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Decklisty Legacy
Doomsday
Albert Huang
SCG Classic Dallas
Sensei's Divining Top
{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.
Laboratory Maniac
If you would draw a card while your library has no cards in it, you win the game instead.
Shelldock Isle
Hideaway (This land comes into play tapped. When it does, look at the top four cards of your library, remove one from the game face down, then put the rest on the bottom of your library.) {T}: Add {U} to your mana pool. {U}, {T}: You may play the removed card without paying its mana cost if a library has twenty or fewer cards in it.
Void Snare
Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
Lion's Eye Diamond
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.
Massacre
If an opponent controls a plains and you control a swamp, you may play Massacre without paying its mana cost. All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.
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.)
Burning Wish
You may choose a sorcery card you own from outside the game, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. Remove Burning Wish from the game.
Gitaxian Probe
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Look at target player's hand. Draw a card.
Karakas
{T}: Add {W} to your mana pool. {T}: Return target legendary creature to its owner's hand.
Abrupt Decay
Abrupt Decay can't be countered by spells or abilities. Destroy target nonland permanent with converted mana cost 3 or less.
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.
Ideas Unbound
Draw three cards. Discard three cards at end of turn.
Tendrils of Agony
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.)
Xantid Swarm
FlyingWhenever Xantid Swarm attacks, defending player can't play spells this turn.
Infernal Contract
Draw four cards. You lose half your life, rounded up.
Lotus Petal
Sacrifice Lotus Petal: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Play this ability as a mana source.
Empty the Warrens
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.)
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.
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.
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.
Dark Ritual
Add {B}{B}{B} to your mana pool.
Rain of Filth
Each land you control gains "Sacrifice this land: Add {B} to your mana pool" until end of turn.
Doomsday
Pay half your life, rounded up: Put your graveyard on top of your library, then remove all but five cards of your library from the game. Put the rest on top of your library in any order.
Duress
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Decklisty Legacy
Jund Walkers
Tom Nelson
SCG Classic Dallas
Hymn to Tourach
Target player discards two cards at random.
Garruk Relentless/Garruk, the Veil-Cursed
When Garruk Relentless has two or fewer loyalty counters on him, transform him. 0: Garruk Relentless deals 3 damage to target creature. That creature deals damage equal to its power to him. 0: Put a 2/2 green Wolf creature token onto the battlefield. ——— +1: Put a 1/1 black Wolf creature token with deathtouch onto the battlefield. -1: Sacrifice a creature. If you do, search your library for a creature card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library. -3: Creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.
Liliana of the Veil
+1: Each player discards a card. -2: Target player sacrifices a creature. -6: Separate all permanents target player controls into two piles. That player sacrifices all permanents in the pile of his or her choice.
Chains of Mephistopheles
Every time a player draws a card, that player must first discard a card from his or her hand. If there are no cards in player's hand, take top card from library and place it in the graveyard instead of drawing. This enchantment does not apply to the first card drawn by a player during the draw phase.
Tarmogoyf
Tarmogoyf's power is equal to the number of card types among cards in all graveyards and its toughness is equal to that number plus 1.
Maelstrom Pulse
Destroy target nonland permanent and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent.
Dark Confidant
At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its converted mana cost.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt does 3 damage to one target.
Engineered Plague
When Engineered Plague comes into play, choose a creature type. All creatures of the chosen type get -1/-1.
Null Rod
Players cannot play any artifact abilities requiring an activation cost.
Raging Ravine
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.
Arlinn Kord/Arlinn, Embraced by the Moon
Grafdigger's Cage
Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield.
Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
6. Bazaar of Moxen Strasbourg (Legacy, Modern, Standard)
Jedna ze tří hlavních evropských eternal sérií tentokráte pokračovala v samotné Francii, kde se čekala nejvyšší návštěvnost. Avšak díky tomu, že různých sérií je tolik, tak se stalo, že všechny mají dosti průměrnou účast, z čehož nijak nevybočilo ani 167 hráčů hrajících main event (legacy).
Husarský kousek se tu povedl Antonu Karlinskimu, když dokázal obhájit výhru z Madridu. Opět hrál Eldrazi, ale tentokráte přidal do decku Displacery. Ve finále opět porazil Miracly, tentokráte verzi s Mentory Johannese Gutbroda.
Na třetím místě byli Chaos Elfové se zajímavou techovkou v sidu v podobě Armageddonů.
Nejzajímavější deck v top8 ale zcela jednoznačně patřil Pierru Canalimu, který hrál BUG Elfball s Oppozicí! Deck se hodně podobal Elfům, ale měl navíc přístup k Probám s Terapiemi. Jako value karty k Oppozici tu byli Coiling Oracle a Shardless Agent. A nesmíme zapomenout na trojici Garruků (Wildspeaker).
V sidu pak stojí za zmínku hate proti kombům v podobě Thornů of Amethyst a Winter Orby proti Miraclům a Eldrazi.
Decklisty Legacy
Eldrazi White
Anton Karlinski
BoM Strasburg
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.
City of Traitors
If you play any land, sacrifice City of Traitors. {T}: Add two colorless mana to your mana pool.
Thorn of Amethyst
Noncreature spells cost {1} more to play.
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.
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.
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}
Dismember
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Karakas
{T}: Add {W} to your mana pool. {T}: Return target legendary creature to its owner's hand.
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.
Ratchet Bomb
{T}: Put a charge counter on Ratchet Bomb. {T}, Sacrifice Ratchet Bomb: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Ratchet Bomb.
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.
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.
Basilisk Collar
Equipped creature has deathtouch and lifelink. Equip {2}
Decklisty Legacy
BUG Opposition
Pierre Canali
BoM Strasburg
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.
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.
Thorn of Amethyst
Noncreature spells cost {1} more to play.
Garruk Wildspeaker
+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.
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.
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.
Spellskite
{U/P}: Change a target of target spell or ability to Spellskite. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wirewood Symbiote
Return an Elf you control to its owner's hand: Untap target creature. Play this ability only once each turn.
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.
Thoughtseize
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
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.
Winter Orb
Players can untap only one land each during untap phase. Creatures and artifacts are untapped as normal.
Opposition
Tap an untapped creature you control: Tap target artifact, creature, or land.
Gaea's Cradle
{T}: Add {G} to your mana pool for each creature you control.
Ostatní formáty bohužel už tak zajímavé nebyly. Modernu se zúčastnilo 177 hráčů a zvítězil v něm Samuel Vuillot, když ve finále ovládl mirror Infectu.
Dvojku hrálo 104 hráčů a z vítězství se v ní radoval Eliott Boussaud s Uw Prisonem.
Zajímavé na tom je, že to zdaleka nebyl nejzvláštnější deck v top8. Ten hrál bez diskuze Didier Boitel. Šlo o velmi zvláštní BW Aggro s kartami jako Drana, Relentless Dead, Ayli, nebo Gideon.
Decklisty Standard
BW Aggro
Boitel Didier
BoM Strasburg
Secure the Wastes
Put X 1/1 white Warrior creature tokens onto the battlefield.
Surge of Righteousness
Destroy target black or red creature that's attacking or blocking. You gain 2 life.
Hallowed Moonlight
Until end of turn, if a creature would enter the battlefield and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.Draw a card.
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.
Drana, Liberator of Malakir
Archangel Avacyn/Avacyn, the Purifier
Hanweir Militia Captain/Westvale Cult Leader
Westvale Abbey/Ormendahl, Profane Prince
7. Standard MOCS
Vrchol dvojkové sezóny na MTGO si nenechalo ujít 446 hráčů, což znamenalo klaiscký neúprosný klíč v základní části, kdy bylo z deseti kol potřeba devět výher do top8 (dva šťastlivci postoupili s 8:2).
V top8 dokonce byly hned tři jiné decky, než Bant a GW a jeden z nich dokonce celý turnaj vyhrál! Byli to WR Humani pilotovaní BradPitKeeperem, což je docela známý modo grinder.
Zbylé dva non-GW decky v top8 byly dvě RG Rampy, z čehož jedna byla s Pyromancer's Goggles, což je verze, kterou už dnes skoro nevídáme.
Těsně za top8 skončili UR Draci s playsetem Fevered Vizí v mainu. Vize jsou podle mě neprávem opomíjenou kartou, které v rozletu brání hlavně Dromoka's Command. Osobně u nich po rotaci očekávám velký vzestup popularity.
Jinak ale ve zbytku celé top32 nebylo k vidění nic moc zajímavého...
8. MTGO Vintage Challenge
Poslední Power Nine challenge si nenechalo ujít 69 hráčů a zajímavé bylo, že narozdíl od turnajů v reálu se tu příliš nevedlo Shopům a Eldrazi.
Vítězem se stal Diophan s Grixis Pyromancerem, který obsahoval nejnovější techovky proti Eldrazi v podobě Baleful Strixy a Snuff Outu.
Na druhém až čtvrtém místě byli tři Mentor decky, ze kterých byl nejzajímavější Esper, který splashoval černou pro Baleful Strixy a Cabal Therapy.
Šestý byl Dredge a sedmý byl nejlepší Eldrazi deck v podobě mixu mezi vintage Shopy a legacy Eldrazi.
Poslední dvě místa v top8 patřila dvojici Stormů, z nichž hrál jeden v mainu playset Confidantů a Pack Rat. Osobně mi to přijde hodně zvláštní, ale vzhledem k tomu, jak málo removalu se na vintage hraje, to může být velmi dobrý plán B.
V top16 jsme dále mohli vidět White Eldrazi, UWr Mentora, jedny trochu zvláštní Shopy s Wurmcoilami a Porcelain Legionáři, Oathy s Auriok Salvagery, další Oathy s Tezzeretem a Time Vaultou (a Helm of Obediance kombem v sidu) a poté trojici klasických TKS Shopů.
Decklisty Vintage
Grixis Pyromancer
diophan
MTGO Vintage Challenge
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.
Dack Fayden
+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."
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.
Pyroblast
Counter target spell if it is blue or destroy target permanent if it is blue.
Dig Through Time
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.
Murderous Cut
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Destroy target creature.
Treasure Cruise
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Draw three cards.
Ingot Chewer
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.)
Young Pyromancer
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a 1/1 red Elemental creature token onto the battlefield.
Snuff Out
If you control a swamp, you may pay 4 life instead of paying Snuff Out's mana cost. Destroy target nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.
Gush
You may return two islands you control to their owner's hand instead of paying Gush's mana cost. Draw two cards.
Mental Misstep
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Counter target spell with converted mana cost 1.
Sulfur Elemental
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.
Baleful Strix
Flying, deathtouch When Baleful Strix enters the battlefield, draw a card.
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.)
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.)
Tormod's Crypt
{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Remove target player's graveyard from the game.
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.
Mox Sapphire
Add 1 blue mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
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.
Time Walk
Take an extra turn after this one.
Mox Jet
Add 1 black mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Mox Ruby
Add 1 red mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Ancestral Recall
Draw 3 cards or force opponent to draw 3 cards.
Black Lotus
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.
Demonic Tutor
You may search your library for one card and take it into your hand. Reshuffle your library afterwards.
Null Rod
Players cannot play any artifact abilities requiring an activation cost.
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.
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.
Grafdigger's Cage
Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield.
Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
Decklisty Vintage
Esper Mentor
cageykg
MTGO Vintage Challenge
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.
Containment Priest
Flash If a nontoken creature would enter the battlefield and it wasn't cast, exile it instead.
Monastery Mentor
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.
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.)
Aegis of the Gods
You have hexproof. (You can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)
Dig Through Time
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.
Treasure Cruise
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Draw three cards.
Gush
You may return two islands you control to their owner's hand instead of paying Gush's mana cost. Draw two cards.
Mental Misstep
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Counter target spell with converted mana cost 1.
Baleful Strix
Flying, deathtouch When Baleful Strix enters the battlefield, draw a card.
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.)
Gitaxian Probe
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Look at target player's hand. Draw a card.
Mana Crypt
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.
Thoughtseize
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
Tormod's Crypt
{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Remove target player's graveyard from the game.
Mox Emerald
Add 1 green mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Mox Sapphire
Add 1 blue mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
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.
Time Walk
Take an extra turn after this one.
Mox Jet
Add 1 black mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
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.
Mox Ruby
Add 1 red mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Mox Pearl
Add 1 white mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Ancestral Recall
Draw 3 cards or force opponent to draw 3 cards.
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.
Black Lotus
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.
Demonic Tutor
You may search your library for one card and take it into your hand. Reshuffle your library afterwards.
Serenity
During your upkeep, bury all artifacts and enchantments.
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.
Disenchant
Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Grafdigger's Cage
Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield.
Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
Decklisty Vintage
Pack Rat Storm
desolutionist
MTGO Vintage Challenge
Library of Alexandria
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.
Sensei's Divining Top
{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.
Necropotence
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.
Plague Spitter
At the beginning of your upkeep, Plague Spitter deals 1 damage to each creature and each player. When Plague Spitter is put into a graveyard from play, Plague Spitter deals 1 damage to each creature and each player.
Dark Petition
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.
Rushing River
Kicker - Sacrifice a land. (You may sacrifice a land in addition to any other costs as you play this spell.) Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If you paid the kicker cost, return another target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
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.)
Gitaxian Probe
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Look at target player's hand. Draw a card.
Mana Crypt
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.
Dark Confidant
At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its converted mana cost.
Pack Rat
Pack Rat's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Rats you control. {2}{B}, Discard a card: Put a token onto the battlefield that's a copy of Pack Rat.
Tendrils of Agony
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.)
Mind's Desire
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.)
Lotus Petal
Sacrifice Lotus Petal: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Play this ability as a mana source.
Hurkyl's Recall
Return all artifacts target player owns to his or her hand.
Cabal Ritual
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.)
Mox Emerald
Add 1 green mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Mox Sapphire
Add 1 blue mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
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.
Mox Jet
Add 1 black mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Mox Ruby
Add 1 red mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Mox Pearl
Add 1 white mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Ancestral Recall
Draw 3 cards or force opponent to draw 3 cards.
Black Lotus
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.
Demonic Tutor
You may search your library for one card and take it into your hand. Reshuffle your library afterwards.
Yawgmoth's Bargain
Skip your draw step. Pay 1 life: Draw a card.
Yawgmoth's Will
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.
Dark Ritual
Add {B}{B}{B} to your mana pool.
Tolarian Academy
{T}: Add {U} to your mana pool for each artifact you control.
Vampiric Tutor
Pay 2 life: Search your library for any one card. Shuffle your library, then put that card on top of your library.
Null Rod
Players cannot play any artifact abilities requiring an activation cost.
Ravenous Trap
If an opponent had three or more cards put into his or her graveyard from anywhere this turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay Ravenous Trap's mana cost. Exile all cards from target player's graveyard.
Duress
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.
Decklisty Vintage
Salvagers Oath
kleuter
MTGO Vintage Challenge
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.
Library of Alexandria
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.
Pyroblast
Counter target spell if it is blue or destroy target permanent if it is blue.
Dig Through Time
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.
Treasure Cruise
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Draw three cards.
Auriok Salvagers
{1}{W}: Return target artifact card with converted mana cost 1 or less from your graveyard to your hand.
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.
Pyrite Spellbomb
{R}, Sacrifice Pyrite Spellbomb: Pyrite Spellbomb deals 2 damage to target creature or player. {1}, Sacrifice Pyrite Spellbomb: Draw a card.
Mental Misstep
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Counter target spell with converted mana cost 1.
Oath of Druids
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.
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.)
Griselbrand
Flying, lifelink Pay 7 life: Draw seven cards.
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.)
Tormod's Crypt
{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Remove target player's graveyard from the game.
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.
Mox Emerald
Add 1 green mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Mox Sapphire
Add 1 blue mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Time Walk
Take an extra turn after this one.
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.
Mox Jet
Add 1 black mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
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.
Mox Ruby
Add 1 red mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Balance
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.
Mox Pearl
Add 1 white mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Ancestral Recall
Draw 3 cards or force opponent to draw 3 cards.
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.
Black Lotus
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.
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.
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.
Ravenous Trap
If an opponent had three or more cards put into his or her graveyard from anywhere this turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay Ravenous Trap's mana cost. Exile all cards from target player's graveyard.
Decklisty Vintage
Tezz Oath
Call1Me1Dragon
MTGO Vintage Challenge
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.
Library of Alexandria
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.
Toxic Deluge
As an additional cost to cast Toxic Deluge, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.
Sensei's Divining Top
{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.
Demonic Consultation
Name a card. Remove the top six cards of your library from the game and reveal the next card to all players. If it is the card named, put it into your hand. If not, remove that card from the game and continue revealing the top card of your library and removing it from the game until the named card appears.
Dig Through Time
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.
Mental Misstep
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Counter target spell with converted mana cost 1.
Oath of Druids
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.
Gitaxian Probe
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Look at target player's hand. Draw a card.
Mana Crypt
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.
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.)
Griselbrand
Flying, lifelink Pay 7 life: Draw seven cards.
Blazing Archon
Flying Creatures can't attack you.
Abrupt Decay
Abrupt Decay can't be countered by spells or abilities. Destroy target nonland permanent with converted mana cost 3 or less.
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.
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.
Thoughtseize
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
Mox Emerald
Add 1 green mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Time Vault
{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.
Mox Sapphire
Add 1 blue mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
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.
Time Walk
Take an extra turn after this one.
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.
Mox Jet
Add 1 black mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
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.
Mox Ruby
Add 1 red mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Balance
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.
Mox Pearl
Add 1 white mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Ancestral Recall
Draw 3 cards or force opponent to draw 3 cards.
Black Lotus
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.
Demonic Tutor
You may search your library for one card and take it into your hand. Reshuffle your library afterwards.
Yawgmoth's Will
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.
Voltaic Key
{1}, {T}: Untap target artifact.
Vampiric Tutor
Pay 2 life: Search your library for any one card. Shuffle your library, then put that card on top of your library.
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.
Nature's Claim
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.
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.
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.
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TKS Shops
Montolio
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Mishra's Workshop
Tap to add 3 colorless mana to your mana pool. This mana may only be used to cast artifacts.
Sphere of Resistance
All spells cost an additional {1} to play.
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.)
Thorn of Amethyst
Noncreature spells cost {1} more to play.
Hangarback Walker
Hangarback Walker enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it. When Hangarback Walker dies, put a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying onto the battlefield for each +1/+1 counter on Hangarback Walker.{1}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on Hangarback Walker.
Phyrexian Revoker
As Phyrexian Revoker enters the battlefield, name a nonland card. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated.
Arcbound Ravager
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
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.
Tangle Wire
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.
Dismember
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.
Mana Crypt
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.
Karakas
{T}: Add {W} to your mana pool. {T}: Return target legendary creature to its owner's hand.
Triskelion
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.
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.
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.
Crucible of Worlds
You may play land cards from your graveyard.
Tormod's Crypt
{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Remove target player's graveyard from the game.
Mox Emerald
Add 1 green mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Mox Sapphire
Add 1 blue mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Mox Jet
Add 1 black mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Mox Ruby
Add 1 red mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Mox Pearl
Add 1 white mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Black Lotus
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.
Tolarian Academy
{T}: Add {U} to your mana pool for each artifact you control.
Lodestone Golem
Nonartifact spells cost {1} more to cast.
Grafdigger's Cage
Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield.
Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
9. Duel Commander Palaiseau
Ve francouzském Palaiseau se konal triál na Demonic Commander v Rouenu, což je tradičně největší turnaj v duel commanderu na světě (více o něm v příštích Flash News).
Turnaje se zúčastnilo 55 hráčů a z vítězství se radoval Yohan Blanchard s hodně kontrolní verzí Nina, kde byl jakožto hlavní winkondice (nepočítám Blood Moon) Splinter Twin.
Poraženým finalistou byl Kaourintin Le Guiban s Narset, což je klasický tap-out kontrol s hromadou Time Walků a planeswalkerů.
Ve zbytku top8 byl dále Doran Rock, Geist, Jenara, Prossh a dvě Sidisi (Necrotic Ooze/Shallow Grave kombo).
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Nin, the Pain Artist
Yohan Blanchard
Duel Commander Palaiseau
2 Tireless Tracker
1 Nissa, Vastwood Seer/Nissa, Sage Animist
3 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
4 Goblin Dark-Dwellers
Instant & Sorceries
2 Transgress the Mind
2 Radiant Flames
3 Ruinous Path
3 Read the Bones
1 Painful Truths
2 Ultimate Price
2 Grasp of Darkness
4 Birds of Paradise
1 Deceiver Exarch
2 Eternal Witness
1 Glen Elendra Archmage
1 Noble Hierarch
1 Qasali Pridemage
2 Restoration Angel
1 Scavenging Ooze
3 Voice of Resurgence
2 Wall of Omens
4 Wall of Roots
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
1 Pia and Kiran Nalaar
Instant & Sorceries
4 Chord of Calling
4 Kor Spiritdancer
4 Slippery Bogle
2 Dryad Arbor
Instant & Sorceries
3 Path to Exile
1 Open the Armory
Land
1 Forest
1 Plains
4 Horizon Canopy
2 Misty Rainforest
2 World Breaker
2 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
1 Languish
2 Nissa's Pilgrimage
1 Nissa's Renewal
Instant & Sorceries
2 Abrupt Decay
4 Brainstorm
4 Dark Ritual
1 Rain of Filth
3 Burning Wish
3 Cabal Therapy
3 Doomsday
4 Duress
4 Ponder
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Tarmogoyf
Instant & Sorceries
4 Abrupt Decay
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Thoughtseize
Land
1 Forest
4 Reality Smasher
4 Eldrazi Displacer
4 Matter Reshaper
Instant & Sorceries
2 Dismember
1 Brainstorm
1 Dig Through Time
1 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Mental Misstep
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Ponder
Land
1 Flooded Strand
4 Forbidden Orchard
1 Library of Alexandria
2 Scalding Tarn
2 Tropical Island
1 Tundra
2 Underground Sea
Other
1 Black Lotus
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sol Ring
1 Time Vault
1 Voltaic Key
4 Oath of Druids
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Gilded Drake
1 Imperial Recruiter
1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
1 Magus of the Moon
1 Pestermite
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Venser, Shaper Savant
Instant & Sorceries
1 Ancestral Vision
1 Condescend
1 Counterspell
1 Cryptic Command
1 Dig Through Time
1 Dissolve
1 Electrolyze
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Flash of Insight
1 Force Spike
1 Force of Will
1 Into the Roil
1 Izzet Charm
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Mana Leak
1 Memory Lapse
1 Mental Misstep
1 Misdirection
1 Mystic Confluence
1 Order of Succession
1 Ponder
1 Remand
1 Rolling Earthquake
1 Ruination
1 Scrap
1 Slagstorm
1 Spell Pierce
1 Spell Snare
1 Sudden Demise
1 Swan Song
1 Treasure Cruise
1 Aethersnatch
Land
1 Arid Mesa
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Cascade Bluffs
1 Command Tower
1 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta
1 Volcanic Island
1 Wasteland
Other
21 Island
1 Fire / Ice
1 Blood Moon