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