GP Auckland: underway!!

The story, that is. The GP isn't until Saturday morning still.

Here's the deal. I'm writing another diary of the event, but it'll be saved onto my computer. When I get the chance, I WILL post what I've gotten so far up here, much the same as with GP Melbourne. It all depends on internet capabilities and whether the NZ technology hasn't fight with my AUSSIE tech, sweet!

I'm looking the most forward to the entirely new blanket of players, with new accents and groups of people they hang with and all that. It's funny that all the previous travelling I've done for Magic has been within Australia, so I'm used to "just a different part of Aus", not "actually a different country."

Keep yourselves posted!

Day 0 aka “We’re not even there!”

5:45am
The day begins at 5.45am when I wake up early for work. Fun times.

6:45am
We’re behind the counter for a few hours, til 1pm. Then we’ve got the mad fun job of running around, getting bags, and then public transport to Sydney’s International airport.

3:50 pm
Fail to meet up with gf for sad goodbyes, sad anyway.

4:40 pm
At the airport, but knocked back! Turns out our flight is the next one, and we’ve tried to board at 4pm instead of 6pm. There goes my ability to account for “local time difference” accurately.

4:44pm
Begin writing the above, and plan to continue it for the next few days, to create yet another Magic travel diary for GP Auckland. That makes a proper diary of both GP events in the Aus-Zealiand area this year. Don’t look that up in your Geography books, I just made it up.

Day plans? Arrive and hop a taxi to the sweet hotel to meet with fellow teammates Ammonium and JDNoice. Sleep a lot. Possibly. More likely will become “test a lot, until the wee hours of the morning. Do Grinders in a rat-faced mood all day.”

At the moment I have enough points for one bye, same for JDNoice. Ammonium kicked GPT Gosford in the jewels and has the proper compliment of three byes.

I have ,for light reading on my flight, “The crying of lot 49” and “Doctor Who Magazine; issue 451.” There’s a big dinosaur on the front, so who cares what’s actually inside? RRAWR!

Super quick list. Just written.

Looking at my original aggro list, I tried it some more. Without the "gotta play new stuff!" glow from Ravnica, the list looks as such.


6 Islands
5 Plains
4 Temple Garden
4 Hallowed Fountain
3 Azorious Guildgate
1 Gavony Township
---
23 lands

4 Dryad Militant
4 War Falcon
4 New Prahv Guildmage
4 Knight of Glory
4 Lyev Skyknight
4 Dungeon Geists
3 Geist of St Traft
2 Restoration Angel
---
29 creatures

2 Sphinx's Revelation
2 Detention Sphere
2 Azorious Keyrune
2 Tamiyo the Moon Sage
1 Oblivion Ring
---
9 others



2 Civic Saber
2 Teleportal
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

Incomplete sideboard, yes. Do I take this as well? Sigh-igh-igh!

Just a quickie

You like quickies, right?

I'm looking over the very first deck idea I scribbled onto my virtual notepad when Return to Ravnica was still in spoiler season, and it's amazing to see the direction I took from that starting point.

Do we wanna see the list again? OK here we go.



4 Judge's Familiar /// Delver for aggro build
4 New Prahv Guildmage // knight of glory (pro rakdos)
4 Lyev Skynight (great for 1 2 3 drops aggro)
Artic Aven in control
3 Dungeon Geists? good cap
3 Sleep in aggro build

4 ???? not Index
4 Azorious Charm    lifelink/draw/atkblk top of lib
4 Cyclonic Rift

4 Azorious Artifact tap for u/w, activate creature)
4 Terminus
1 Supreme Verdict (yeah, just 1)
3 Detention Sphere
2 Sphinx's Revelation
4 Rewind?
2 Jace, Architect of Thought
2 Isperia, Supreme Judge
1 Fall of the Gavel
4 Azor's Elocutor? build around deck, obv. Hexproof, prevent all damage.
1 Stormtide Leviathan (just one)
1 Sudden Disappearance

sideboard
3 dispel?
3 Civic Saber (birdy beatdown?)
2 Misthollow Griffin [the mirror, o ring ME hey?)
2 Negate?
2 Outwit v Bonfire of the Damned

"Cute" other
4 Void Stalker
4 Index

That's right. Not fully spoiled, but filled with all the good juicy stuff, or cards I knew I did have. From this simple bashing of blue and white's finest aggros, I mutated away into blue white beaters with red, as is my usual way.

After the GP trial up in Gosford that got put aside in favour of looking elsewhere, and together with team I figured out that we liked to try Bant, or the potential powerhouse one-two punch of Slaughter Games/double Up Chandra.

I like the fact that I've kept up with those two decks and will piloting them at the GP. My grinder deck, as mentioned a few times, will be Slaughter Games. People are aware of it, but I don't think they'd expect such a gungho approach to it--it's perfect the grinders as well as an "oops, look at this aspect of the metagame you weren't expecting" type deck. That DOESN'T turn the game into solitaire for 15 minutes like Eggs does (don't get me wrong, it's a powerful deck. Just completely corrupting to the game, and metagame etc, but that's another topic and post entirely).

Day 1 I will be piloting, certainly most likely, my own variety of Bant. As I've said it's up to the user to win the day and their games/matches through skill rather than cards, seeing everyone worth their spit n polish will know decks are out there, what typical cards are in them and how to beat X with Y over Zs head. So it's skill based, how well you read EVERYTHING.

So I decided upon Bant because I love the simplicity of paying 6 mana for a 10/10 in two parts, which allows for racing but also doesn't mean you need to over commit at all, seeing they'll need to Wrath at that point, making wrath a bad one-for-one while you've still got cards aplenty.

I also opt for no Elves whatsoever, because the clever red mages will have some combination of Electrickery and Geistflame, that pings and later on pings once more or all of the opponent's team. Wrath x8, but I will sadly not have the 4x Pillar of Flame that I craved so very much. I imagine if Boros or Orzhov had've been in the first set of Ravnica it'd all be different, but oh wells.

So to that effect, I'm taking two powerful decks with me, worth quite a few monies (that I don't want to contemplate, oh how much have I spent?) and that'll be it. The temptation to trade wont be that high, and I have no 'pet cards I want from this. Just the decks to play, and nothing else. This means I'll need to consider how I'll have them with me on the day, but that's it.

Did I say quickie? Sorry there :S

New team member? (And new view in general)

So it's very close to take off time. Tomorrow, 66% of the base team of You Don't Say are taking off for NZ, to have a lovely coupley time before Fridays grinding. I'll follow them thursday after work.

New member, you say? Well yes I did. Not really anything new or big or exciting, but rather Matt, who playtests with DJNoice and Ammonium, and whom we all tested with together for GP Melbourne earlier in the year. His brother also joined us, Scott?, and he faired worse than I did, while James and Ammy both made day 2 and nary' a touch further.

I found this out last time we were testing, and by "we" my default will usually mean "james, ammy and Fox Murdoch" or some combination there of. They told me that Matt/Scott tested with them often, and was thought of as a member, which was cool! I told them that makes five and remembered them about Rony.

Then I realised that within the larger "group of all members" we had partial members who tested amongst us but not with the whole group. So it'll be great when I organise a triple Time Spiral sealed for everyone to play, to get to know each other better etc. That's just some house keeping -- I think it's funny the way the group has grown these extra limbs without anyone's real knowledge.

No no, the more exciting thing today is the latest I have on what is THE best deck. I mean the BEST. Play this, and you wont lose!

Whatever deck you like. It doesn't matter! The true ability to just win a lot comes from looking within, what you want to do and knowing you'll have the deck that can help you do that. I don't want to sound wishywash and "heart of the cards" too much, so I'll be brief as I can. Bottom line:

"It's based much more on the skill of the players, than the deck itself."

There. That explains why Matt Anderson is always so good at things. That explains why I've previously been so "middle of the pack". That explains why those awful players at FNMs remain awful players at FNMs, despite having certainly better decks, and even better board positions than I do.

Obviously showing up with 50 Forests and a Lost in the Woods will get you killed 100% of the games 2 and 3 you play, but assuming that everyone is smart, and brings any deck that is a tier 2 competitor (and that no 'bloody obvious' tier 1 exists, and it hasn't for a good while without that ONE hiccup (Jace I'm looking at you) then it largely becomes who has the better skill, the better ability to assess the situation, to know what's going to come up and even what to do in the assumed worst scenario.

It's very odd, but I'm beginning to feel as if I really rather know how the minds over at ChannelFireball work. I love those guys, and their work, videos and written articles (and PV, please never stop writing actual articles. Video doesn't provide the mental food the brain needs). It's a lot like Poker players saying that you play the opponent, not the hand. Just knowing what can happen, and adjusting accordingly is where the game works back and forth.

For example, a 1W costing 2/2. We're playing in a format where a three drop is usually a 2/2. That guys pretty quick. We're playing in a format where eventually, turn 7 comes and everybody has their own GODZILLA. That 2/2 guys pretty small and useless. We're playing in a bloodthirst abled format and our deck is full of 3-drop Bloodthirst critters. That 2/2 is looking awesome and threatening.

Just in that paragraph we can see how completely varied the simplest of "efficient" creatures can be -- it's always format dependent, time dependent, turn, location, job dependent! If that's true, then it rather removes the power from specific cards and decks, and rather puts it into the master of the skills as applied by the pilots, and who navigates the murky seas of a game better.

So having said all that, I don't see any reason why I couldn't be THE winner of GP Auckland. And I don't see why the winning deck couldn't be Slaughter Games. I'm not saying either of those are true, but rather that I'm not cutting myself off from the chance to do/be those things.

Did I mention I'm really enjoying a year of playing Magic, instead of judging or being a "good boy" and simply working?

Actually really bloody torn.

There you are, "bloody" in one of my post titles. Proves I'm an Aussie. Aside from that, I'm really bloody torn.

It's about Black. We've gotten along forever, ever since I first Terror'd a creature in Mirrodin, then later when Doran came out, and again we fell in love as I took hands with Walking-Terror aka Shriekmaw. Whenever I do tests it usually tells me I'm Rakdos or Dimir, so black or black, but lately... We've been having difficulties.

You know Slaughter Games? I wrote about it just last post, 'course you remember! I tried the deck again today, and got fed up, deciding I'd had enough. So removing all the black from my deck, I saw once again the "love pump" that makes each player build the decks they do. It's like imagining not being with your sweety (assuming you're on good terms), you'd just miss them too much.

Same here. There's only about half my lands gone, and Nicol Bolas and Slaughter Games itself, and Nephalia Drownyards and such. All good cards I want to have. And to replace them all, WHITE!

What does white offer? FIRST off, Terminus. I instantly loved it around preview time, and knew wrath for W was always going to be popular. It also does Angels but relying on the random topdeck for angels/win con is silly, even if heavily undercosted. It does allow for Angel of Serenity, Restoration Angel, Oblivion Ring and Detention Sphere, ALL cards I love just as much as the black side of my deck. So I want them all, and can't play them all, because there's no such thing Watery Grave x4 or Godless Shrine x4 in Standard at the moment.

So I must choose, and do not know what to do. I have an idea -- the Slaughter Games deck is powerful, when it works it's amazing, plus it's the most information rich deck out there. Turn 4, I get to see your everything unless you concede. You wont though, that's silly, so I can see all the cute little tech that people are playing and are thinking "Ha, no one else will be playing this!"

It's not long term though. It hasn't got much outright power, just really picks on tiny weenie decks once I stabilise. So I'm thinking that the sneaky clever deck would be best for, wait for it, GP Grinders. Yeah, Friday can be Slaughter Games all the way. That leaves Serious Deck of Choice #1 to be the Day 1, Day 2 part of my game, but what's that going to be?

My natural attraction was to blue/red/white, so I'm thinking at the moment that that's it, and I'm going to have to figure it out really soon. Next thursday I leave, so by then I'd better have my deck chosen. Do I go Bant though, with it's quick ramp, permissable control and giant boom-booms? (That 10/10 in two parts for six mana, Armada Wurm? YEAH!) Or does everyone expect it so they build the 8+ Terminus deck to eat me arse out?

I don't know. I do know playing Elves will get the elves killed because everyone kills elves. So there's no point. Wait for turn 2 naturally and cast Far Seek, ya know? It'd also allow for a clever splash of any colour I want, seeing there's a nonForest nonBasic of whatever colour you'd like, say W for the definate ability to Terminus?

Though Terminus and Armada Wurm in the same deck == the sillies.

The options are great, powerful and all look enticing. Nothing looks as good as just playing super control and nuking the board until I can drop my large slow lads that just glomp up the ground. This suggests some kind of 4-colour deck, though I REALLY don't think the decks can support it, and Far Seek would only half fix that.

So that's my position, and I'm torn. I've come full circle to love Slaughter Games again, and I know plenty of people wouldn't even consider it legitimate, so being suddenly pants'd in game 1 by this "horrible card" would do loads to tilt an unwary opponent.

But I can't shake the idea that there's something more consistent out there, that everyone else is playing. Is that the Rogue calling me, "Fooox... it's a good, clever, but above all legitimate idea...!"

I certainly hope not, will keep you posted.

Oh God we've been rude!

It's been a while (you don't say) but we've been busy! We are testing, a lot, and we'll have the story to tell longer and better once it settles down, I guess. The basics have been simple enough. Build what you think is good, play. Does it win? good, now find another angle, build and play that, and then battle against itself and each other. What's the weaknesses? Do we see any emerging "simply better" play styles or decks?

In the beginning, g/w lost to wrath. Still true, but it's quite savage when it's full tilt.
Blue white miracles is still and will always be a thing, but then again "randomly, off the top" will also be, and sometimes that fails to show up.
What have I done?

After my silly performance at the GPT in Gosford (I got a good article outta horrid player behaviour) I took it apart and we looked at the day. I fear I'm repeating myself, so I'll just summarise that I thought double up Chandra/Slaughter Games would be a great deck to try out.

And it was. I took it to FNM, lost round 1 against control (HOW!?) and then won the next three rounds against varying aggro/tribal decks. Fun, all round, but when you go Slaughter Games it's fun. When you drop Chandra, ping a dork and stabilise, then double Slaughter Games the next turn it's even more fun, but your opponent's quickly get the idea that your deck isn't sporting, well not really even though the card exists, and plays rather more of a "stop hitting yourself" kind of game.

One opponent, on Golgari 'fun stuff' (by fun stuff I mean cards the player just liked and enjoyed, so they played that), commented that it wasn't really fun to apart his own cards, seeing I used Mindclaw Shaman to cast his Jarad's Orders (failing to find the second creature, so I just fished out that nice 2/2 Goblin), then when he cast his Demon of 6/6 tap down I stole it with my topdecked Nicol Bolas. Anything left in the deck I stole away completely with Slaughter Games, so he felt rather like he didn't enjoy losing to his own stuff. He was an awful good sport though, not getting irate when going after Tamiyo and missing, when he used Death-Rite Shaman to "kill her off", only to be informed about the redirect damage rules not working for "life loss", only damage.

That was week 1. Week 2 went far worse, when match 1 I was against the very same opponent, and he'd listened to ALL my advice and had a much more formidable deck. I didn't get my awesome starts, he didn't get his demon at me too quickly, and we end up drawing the round.

I'm paired up and lose when my opponent simply rips me a new one with green white monsters, Angels and Ajani. Slaughter Games, thou art too slow!

Round 3 I'm against my mate who I offer to sign the slip before the match is started. He's playing a silly 1/1 attackers deck, with Lily as pump, only her pump occurs once before she needs to refill. Chandra against these "little creatures" deck is really good, especially as a PW hidden behind the Hover Barrier, she clicks up to her ultimate (and beyond, not point losing her) quite regularly, especially when you've had the chance to Slaughter Games and know exactly how to play around their hand contents/what they might play.

Round 4 I'm trounced by Spirits that aren't targetable, and Mizzium Mortars that are too slow. 7 mana to nuke the board? Didn't really happen, and turn 2 Invisible Stalker beats turn 3 Slaughter Games anyway.

So off that FNM I decided to retire the idea, figuring it was a better Modern deck. Not that decks aren't that quick, but I think of the deck fondly, but mostly as a "cute filler" that fills a space not considered by the more popular/winning decks.

Don't get me wrong -- being able to hit with Slaughter Games is such a gain on information I'm entertaining running it for games 1, but games 1 only. Games 2/3 sure they've sideboarded, but 45 cards at the least must remain the same, plus you'll recognise the deck, then know the match up. Who knows? The idea, while great and powerful, is still too inconsistent. When I had nothing in hand but the Slaughter Games, or when they had double removal for Hover Barriers #1 and #2 it was just curtains after some more "umming" and "ahhing" from me.

So I conversed with James and Ammy, and decided that the team would all play different decks. Rather than an agreed upon "best deck" we'd all play our own brand of deck, allowing our prefered play style to offer up extra skill, allowing us to perform our best, rather than to let the deck's do the main load of work.

So considering that I'm returning to the blue/white/red build from the GPT. Yes, that means two weeks of "wasted" testing, on Slaughter Games and not "Murdoch Control", but that's OK by me. It meant I tried something, got out there, and saw that it worked and then didn't. It also doesn't change what I'm taking with me to NZ, which is all the Standard cards that I own. All together we'll have the meat of the cards that we all need, allowing us to build on the spot whatever's desired. Maybe not perfectly, but James/Ammy are arriving a few days before me, so getting the cards we need (1 Tamiyo, please!) won't prove too hard.

In the mean time, I'm going to write an article about all the current mechanics in Standard, how they work and how to fight them. Hopefully food for thought for all the people attending, or to help with deck building ideas.

Who knows, I may end up running Slaughter Games at the GP anyway!
Fox out.

Open all writers!

Just a quick note. I've changed the account settings, so you'll see posts from Fox Murdoch, as well as JDNoice, Ammonium and iRony now, not just Fox. This is great, because I don't know when you'll see updates! Who knows, maybe some crackers deck that I'm not privy too, which we battle in the Top 2 and I lose to a fellow teammate. Hilarious.

In the latest news, tonight is FNM again, which is about the 3rd last before GP Auckland itself. I'm counting down the FNMs obviously as a kind of testing ground, but also as a good way to just get that whiff of the metagame that I'm expecting. The problem is I'm using a smallish sample from the western suburbs of Sydney, surely that's going to be different from the Auckland of New Zealand?

I don't think it matters too much. When everyone comes together, there's an accepted "right" and "not so right" way to do things, that is competitive or casually. Lots of players show up at a GP for the fun, so their decks aren't honed and they don't mind coming where they come. Others are built for violence and winning, and will likely go winwinwinwinwinwinwinwiwniwniwiwn day 2 top 8. It's the day 2 people that will matter more, I think, so simply see what the CARDS themselves are spawning (in terms of deck ideas that work, as well as colour combinations that are being championed) and to then respond to that. For example I don't expect to fight ANY Orzhov. If someone does show up with a clever black/white deck, it'll have inferior lands seeing they tap for a turn and don't abuse the ridiculous easy three-colour mana bases available to us.

I'd like to test Grixis tonight, but depending on numbers I make take another Travis Woo build to the red zone. It's Dirt Cheap Dirty Red, and you can find it here: http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/woo-brews-dirt-cheap-dirty-red/

After tonight there is only two FNMs left, though Blacktown does run a thursday night's worth of Magic, so that's another potential testing ground.

Expect more always!

You don't say? We do.

So in the latest news, the GPT for Gosford has been and gone and we have success! Well that is, Ammy has success. She won the thing, got the byes, so well done to her. That means the team atleast has a first round bye, and there's a chance James will make the top of this weeks event at Mega Games, Penrith, which is sealed.

Sunday is another event, which I'll have the joy of attending thanks to not working.

The write up of the GPT is going up on Good Games once I finish writing it tonight, so for you dedicated and long haired giant co-players, I'm going to quickly put up a pick and rumourise about what's good.

My blue red white was fun and cute but never sculpted enough. James' white/green really packed a punch, but died after he saw any kind of wrath. Ammy's deck was controlly, slow and really packed a punch with it's angels, whenever they randomly showed up, and Ammy just had the ability to take each round and win.

Discussing her win afterwards we came to the idea that the deck itself wasn't super great, but the meta was just well positioned for it. There was no control that wasn't either worse (mine) or just easy to play around (who isn't holding a Syncopate when they pass with two up?) and some lucky Angels for, say, 9!

I don't think that matters as much, the meta, compared to how well Ammy just seems to play all the time. For such a young player (young in years of playing, not age) shes consistently good, also winning a grinder at Melbourne GPT earlier this year.

We also talked about what we like. I like the stupidly powerful creatures there are when uncontested, so green white. I like white and blues ability to mess with everyone, and just save creatures. We must take into account that Terminus is a Wrath for W, seeing you can ramp up, bump your hand and be comPLETEly undone for a teeny tiny W. One card, one mana, no creature pressure. Although that must lead to "kept pressure" of Thragtusk, but a 3/3 is obviously preferable to a board of bash. The biggest "creature" is the Wurm that's a 10/10 for 6. In two bodies, withOUT the same name so Detention Sphere only half answers it. Sweepers answer it, or another "bigger" threatening thing. More on that later.

The Zombie threat is no longer really relevant I think, because the Pillar of Flame/Terminus 8-suite really deters anyone from playing, and if they do, they're immediately met with proper irriversible counters. So ha, right?

Ditto control, anything they'd like to keep has to deal with spells that say "I can't be countered, actually," so that must be taken into account.

That's my experience and I'm sticking to it. So seeing all of the above, I've got two ideas. What is proactive, expects a catastrophic turn, then rebuilds and hopes for no repeat show. That's BANT, which isn't new at all, and well supported, and allows the flex and muscle of green and white to be upheld, and not simply fall apart without the support of blue.

The second deck is completely the opposite, hoping to abuse the mother-lovin' SHIT out of Slaughter Games. You want my opinion of it? Wait for my report on the GPT, round 2. It made me lame and mute for the first time in Magic playing. Not a "wow, that's huge and great!" kind of way, but more "there is no response for this."

It's Grixis Control, and it uses a lot of things to make the board really complicated and sticky. Rather than Terminus/Pillar of Flame to deal with creatures permanently, we're just going to cast about 8 Slaughter Games, off of Snapcaster Mage for 5-8, and after the first Slaugher Games in game 1 we'll know exactly what to play, forever. There's a picture, and it's got the cards I want to include, but we haven't a list yet.

The obvious test is to build the two decks and fight them against each other, and they pit both against lesser versions of themselves, Angels, and Zombies, Golgari and other random junk that wont do anything.

Stormtide Leviathan. The card deserves a mention as an unsung hero, seeing it can rip apart an offensive nonflying team, as you'll find in the Selesnya decks. What can they do about it apart from Oblivion Ring? And we'll have ways to bounce it to allow the dealing with that.

Now how do I attach pictures?

GPT Gosford (3 decklists)

OK so today, team You Don't Say are seated at GPT Gosford, waiting to start. We've got the armada wurm deck (JNoice as pilot) the blue white red anti-zombies (yours truly) and Ammiracles (miracles, Ammy), while iRony judges an event miles away.

Here's the decklists, I'll try and write a report after each round. At the moment, 8 have shown up so yay!

"Non-bies" is meant to play 8 main answers to Zombies, and board into quick beaters against the mirror/control. I don't assume they'll leave their removal in for the match up, so yay. Originally have Supersonic Dragon in, but changed them for Hellkite when you realise the stats are obv better.

4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Steam Vents
2 Glacial Fortress
1 Clifftop Retreats
1 Sulfur Falls
1 Cavern of Souls
5 Island
5 Plains
2 Mountain
---
25 lands

4 Lyev Skyknight
2 Geist of St Traft
2 New Prahv Guildmage
2 Thundermaw Hellkite
1 Angel of Serenity
---
11 creatures

4 Terminus
4 Pillar of Flame
3 Jace Architect of Thought
3 Detention Sphere
3 Izzet Charm
2 Thoughtflare
2 Azorious Keyrune
1 Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Amass the Components
---
24 other

3 Knight of Glory
2 Supreme Verdict
2 Rest in Peace
2 Outwit
1 Zealous Conscripts
1 Vandalblast
1 Detention Sphere
1 Fall of the Gavel
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Mizzium Mortars
---
15 others

The next deck is James', that we tested last night that I couldn't deal with unless I have WRATH x8!! So that's why Terminus danced a lot between main and sideboard for me. James ramps, gets out 5/5 Wurms that you can't deal with save wraths, then wins. It's cute and strong, and I like it. Even Jace/Tamiyo are useless against it because they don't deal with both halves. Here it is, "Value Town." (Gavony Township is nicknamed Super Town after I couldn't remember the name.)

James’ Value Town

8 Forest
2 Plains
4 Temple Garden
4 Sunpetal Grove
4 Gavony Township
2 Cavern of Souls
---
24 lands

4 Arbor Elf
4 Avacyn’s Pilgrim
4 Restoration Angel
4 Thragtusk
3 Loxodon Smiter
3 Borderland Ranger
2 Armada Wurm
2 Trostani, Selesyna’s Voice
2 Sigarda Super Awesome blocker

---
26 creatures

4 Farseek
2 Selesnya Charm
2 Oblivion Ring
---
8 other

3 Garruk, Primal Hunter
3 Centaur Healers
2 Wolfir Silverheart
2 Rest in Peace
2 Sigarda
1 Acidic Slime
1 Mikaeus, thte Lunarch
1 Selesnya Charm

-- 15 SB

Ammonium's deck is blue white planeswalkers.

4 Glacial Fortress

4 Hallowed Fountain

3 Azorious Guildgate

8 Island

3 Plains

3 Seraph Sanctum

1 Ghost Quarter

---

26 lands

2 Snapcaster Mage

1 Drogskol Reaver

---

3 creatures

4 Jace, Architect of Thought

3 Terminus

3 Entreat the Angels

3 Supreme Pizza

3 Think Twice

2 Cyclonic Rift

2 Azorious Keyrune

2 Sphinx's Revelation

2 Dissipate

2 Negate

2 Thoughtscour

2 Tamiyo, the Moon Sage

1 Detention Sphere

---

31 others

SIDEBOARD

3 Geist of St Traft

3 Feeling of Dread

2 Erase

2 Tormod's Crypt

2 Jace Memory Adept

1 Dissipate

1 Angel of Glory's Rise

1 Purify the Grave

At the moment we're waiting to start, and I'm trying to convince Ammonium to take out the Seraph's Sanctums for 2 Ghost Quarter and 1 Azorious Guildgate.