Hey Guys,

Its regionals time again and some of you might be sitting at home thinking "I dunno if I'm gonna play" and "if I do which deck". Well I figured I would draw on the wealth of information I have available to me (the internet) and share a few deck types and lists.

When choosing a deck you really want to go with something that suits your play style. If you are used to a hard and fast aggressive strategy you might find it hard to play a deck packed with counterspells and defensive cards. Whatever your play style is, there is a deck in this article for you.

Here's a few things I've seen and played with over the last few weeks:

BW Tokens

4 Arcane Sanctum
4 Caves of Koilos
4 Fetid Heath
2 Mutavault
2 Plains
4 Reflecting Pool
1 Swamp
4 Windbrisk Heights

4 Cloudgoat Ranger
4 Kitchen Finks
4 Knight of Meadowgrain
4 Tidehollow Sculler

3 Ajani Goldmane
4 Bitterblossom
3 Glorious Anthem
4 Spectral Procession
2 Terror
3 Zealous Persecution

sb
1 Ajani Goldmane
3 Burrenton Forge-Tender
1 Celestial Purge
2 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
2 Head Games
3 Path to Exile
1 Wispmare
2 Wrath of God

 

RW Boat Brew

3 Mountain
4 Plains
4 Battlefield Forge
4 Reflecting Pool
4 Rugged Prairie
4 Windbrisk Heights

4 Figure Of Destiny
1 Flamekin Harbinger
4 Fulminator Mage
2 Mogg Fanatic
3 Ranger Of Eos
3 Reveillark
4 Siege-gang Commander

3 Ajani Vengeant

3 Path To Exile
4 Mind Stone
4 Spectral Procession
2 Wrath Of God

sb
2 Burrenton Forge-tender
2 Wispmare
1 Path To Exile
3 Volcanic Fallout
1 Ajani Vengeant
3 Elspeth, Knight-errant
1 Austere Command
2 Wrath Of God

The token decks are a good way of pushing through the wall of control that is ever present at magic tournaments. More creatures than they can terror and free spells off windbrisk heights makes these decks a powerful force!

 

Cruel control (5C and Grixis Control)

 

5 Colour Control

2 Cascade Bluffs
2 Exotic Orchard
3 Island
1 Mystic Gate
4 Reflecting Pool
4 Sunken Ruins
2 Vivid Crag
4 Vivid Creek
3 Vivid Marsh
2 Vivid Meadow

3 Broodmate Dragon
4 Mulldrifter
3 Plumeveil
3 Wall of Reverence

4 Broken Ambitions
1 Celestial Purge
2 Cruel Ultimatum
4 Cryptic Command
4 Esper Charm
1 Terror
4 Volcanic Fallout

sb
1 Celestial Purge
2 Infest
2 Negate
1 Remove Soul
4 Scepter of Fugue
1 Wispmare
2 Wrath of God
2 Wydwen, the Biting Gale

 

Grixis Control

2 Island
1 Mountain
1 Swamp
3 Cascade Bluffs
4 Crumbling Necropolis
1 Exotic Orchard
4 Reflecting Pool
1 Shivan Reef
2 Sulfurous Springs
3 Sunken Ruins
1 Underground River
2 Vivid Creek
   
1 Caldera Hellion
4 Mulldrifter
2 Shriekmaw
4 Siege-gang Commander
3 Sower Of Temptation
   
4 Mind Stone
2 Agony Warp
2 Broken Ambitions
4 Cryptic Command
3 Makeshift Mannequin
4 Volcanic Fallout
2 Cruel Ultimatum

sb
4 Scepter Of Fugue
3 Flashfreeze
3 Deathmark
2 Pyroclasm
3 Thoughtseize

The Cruel control decks are the most fun to play as you get to slow your opponents rush to a crawl then play 7 cost sorceries that do more than a single magic card should do even for a 7 drop!

 

Esper Lark

2 Island
1 Plains
2 Swamp
1 Adarkar Wastes
4 Arcane Sanctum
1 Caves Of Koilos
3 Fetid Heath
3 Mutavault
2 Mystic Gate
4 Reflecting Pool
1 Underground River

3 Tidehollow Sculler
2 Glen Elendra Archmage
4 Mulldrifter
4 Murderous Redcap
3 Reveillark
2 Shriekmaw
3 Sower Of Temptation

4 Mind Stone
3 Broken Ambitions
3 Esper Charm
2 Makeshift Mannequin
3 Wrath Of God

sb
1 Glen Elendra Archmage
4 Kitchen Finks
1 Sower Of Temptation
2 Wispmare
1 Makeshift Mannequin
3 Path To Exile
2 Identity Crisis
1 Wrath Of God


Reveillark ever the power house in block and standard for the last year, this new breed of lark finds an interesting spot in the meta with the hand disruption of the Sculler and the creature disruption of Sower and friends. You'll love bringing them back again and again all day long

 

Bant

3 Forest
2 Adarkar Wastes
4 Brushland
3 Mystic Gate
3 Reflecting Pool
4 Treetop Village
4 Yavimaya Coast

4 Rafiq Of The Many
4 Birds Of Paradise
4 Dauntless Escort
4 Jhessian Infiltrator
2 Kitchen Finks
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Rhox War Monk
4 Shorecrasher Mimic

3 Finest Hour
4 Bant Charm

sb
4 Burrenton Forge-tender
1 Cloudthresher
2 Kitchen Finks
2 Negate
2 Path To Exile
2 Elspeth, Knight-errant
2 Captured Sunlight

 

GW Overrun

4 Forest
2 Plains
4 Brushland
2 Reflecting Pool
3 Treetop Village
4 Windbrisk Heights
4 Wooded Bastion

2 Birds Of Paradise
1 Burrenton Forge-tender
4 Cloudgoat Ranger
3 Figure Of Destiny
2 Kitchen Finks
4 Noble Hierarch
3 Ranger Of Eos
2 Stillmoon Cavalier

2 Ajani Goldmane
2 Garruk Wildspeaker

4 Path To Exile
2 Martial Coup
2 Overrun
4 Spectral Procession

sb
1 Burrenton Forge-tender
3 Cloudthresher
2 Elvish Hexhunter
1 Scattershot Archer
2 Stillmoon Cavalier
3 Oblivion Ring
3 Guttural Response


Green White agro hasn't been the strongest over the years but this is starting to change. As many top slots have been taken up by the new green white Overrun deck and the solid Rafiq style Bant

 

Jund Ramp

4 Forest
2 Mountain
2 Swamp
4 Fire-lit Thicket
4 Reflecting Pool
2 Savage Lands
4 Treetop Village
2 Twilight Mire

2 Broodmate Dragon
4 Chameleon Colossus
3 Cloudthresher
4 Kitchen Finks

3 Garruk Wildspeaker

2 Loxodon Warhammer
4 Fertile Ground
4 Volcanic Fallout
1 Banefire
4 Maelstrom Pulse
2 Primal Command
4 Rampant Growth

sb
3 Jund Charm
4 Terminate
1 Banefire
2 Mind Shatter
1 Primal Command
4 Thoughtseize


Jund Ramp plays a lot like the GR Ramp decks of old accelerate into a lot of mana, play big stuff. The Black in this deck gives it a lot of power in the late game especially in Broodmate Dragon

 

Faeries

6 Island
2 Swamp
1 Faerie Conclave
4 Mutavault
4 Secluded Glen
4 Sunken Ruins
4 Underground River

4 Mistbind Clique
4 Scion Of Oona
2 Sower Of Temptation
3 Spellstutter Sprite
2 Vendilion Clique

1 Loxodon Warhammer
2 Agony Warp
4 Broken Ambitions
4 Cryptic Command
2 Remove Soul
3 Terror
4 Bitterblossom

sb
2 Scepter Of Fugue
2 Plumeveil
2 Sower Of Temptation
1 Countersquall
4 Infest
4 Thoughtseize


ahh Faeries, i played this deck in more tournaments than any other over the last year and a half. It hasn't gained much from the new sets, but it kinda needed to be slowed down as it was a driving force in standard and the other decks needed to catch up. Still a solid deck even if you don't play anything new.

 

Blightning

9 Mountain
4 Auntie's Hovel
3 Ghitu Encampment
4 Graven Cairns
4 Sulfurous Springs

4 Boggart Ram-gang
4 Figure Of Destiny
3 Goblin Outlander
4 Hellspark Elemental
4 Mogg Fanatic
2 Shambling Remains

4 Flame Javelin
3 Terror
3 Volcanic Fallout
1 Banefire
4 Blightning

sb
3 Dragon's Claw
1 Shambling Remains
2 Everlasting Torment
2 Chaotic Backlash
2 Wild Ricochet
1 Banefire
4 Deathmark


The Blightning Red a solid choice for destroying blue decks, I mean they dont even stand a chance. And my new favourite Green Red Deck Wins, this deck utalizes the best card in the new set Bloodbraid Elf and he's sooo broken!

 

GRDW

13 Mountain
2 Forest
4 Fire-Lit Thicket
4 Karplusan Forest

4 Figure of Destiny
4 Tattermunge Maniac
4 Jund Hackblade
3 Stigma Lasher
3 Hellspark Elemental
4 Boggart Ram-Gang
4 Bloodbraid Elf

4 Incinerate
3 Colossal Might
4 Flame Javelin

sb
4 Everlasting Torment
4 Volcanic Fallout
4 Ashenmoor Gouger
3 Guttural Response

I'm out of time for this one, feel free to ask me questions in the forums, I will surely answer.
And don't forget to check out my trade thread if you are short on cards for this weekend
http://forums.gameplayer.co.nz/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=229

Gene Brumby
good for it since 1995

 

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