Right, time for some updates. This one has been a long time coming, but I finally made some time to put these lists online. They are from the November 2011 tournament in Ingolstadt, a German city where they play with the same banlist as we do. Even though this tournament was from before we banned Thopter Foundry and unbanned the artifact lands, I think there are some fun lists in there. Enjoy!
Rainer S. - Die Gummibärenbande
Creatures
4 Goblin Sledder
4 Goblin Arsonist
1 Mogg Raider
4 Mogg War Marshal
2 Goblin Lookout
4 Mogg Flunkies
4 Goblin Matron
4 Mudbutton Torchrunner
1 Goblin Ringleader (U)
3 Warren Pilferers
Spells
4 Aether Vial (U)
4 Tarfire
Lands
17 Mountain
4 Swamp
Sideboard
SB: 4 Martyr of Ashes
SB: 3 Relic of Progenitus
SB: 4 Sylvok Lifestaff
SB: 1 Goblin Tinkerer
SB: 3 Smash to Smithereens
Stefan S. - Burn Baby, Burn!!!
Creatures
4 Goblin Arsonist
4 Goblin Fireslinger
4 Keldon Marauders
4 Mogg Fanatic
1 Simian Spirit Guide
Spells
3 Chain Lightning
2 Goblin Grenade
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Incinerate
1 Isochron Scepter (U)
4 Browbeat (U)
1 Rhystic Lightning
1 Rift Bolt
4 Fireblast
Lands
19 Mountain
Sideboard
SB: 2 Dead//Gone
SB: 4 Red Elemental Blast
SB: 3 Curse of the Pierced Heart
SB: 3 Smash to Smithereens
SB: 3 Arc Lightning
Mike S. - Metal Splitter
Creatures
4 Ornithopter
3 Kor Duelist (U)
3 Auriok Sunchaser
4 Porcelain Legionnaire
4 Squadron Hawk
4 Vault Skirge
Spells
4 Bonesplitter
3 Sylvok Lifestaff
3 Apostle's Blessing
4 Cranial Plating
3 Journey to Nowhere
2 Grafted Wargear (U)
Lands
4 Darksteel Citadel
4 Desert
11 Plains
Sideboard
SB: 3 Crimson Acolyte
SB: 3 Obsidian Acolyte
SB: 4 Holy Light
SB: 3 Oblivion Ring
SB: 2 Cenn's Enlistment
Christoph B. - Nein
Creatures
4 Cloud of Faeries
4 Spellstutter Sprite
4 Ninja of the Deep Hours
2 Spire Golem
Spells
2 Condescend
1 Disrupt
3 Mental Misstep (U)
2 Preordain
4 Counterspell
2 Daze
2 Deprive
2 Echoing Truth
1 Capsize
2 Exclude
2 Faerie Trickery
2 Loxodon Warhammer (U)
Lands
2 Halimar Depths
17 Island
2 Lonely Sandbar
Sideboard
SB: 4 Blue Elemental Blast
SB: 3 Force Spike
SB: 4 Tormod's Crypt
SB: 2 Echoing Truth
SB: 2 Negate
Martin K. - Mono Black Aggro Control
Creatures
4 Carnophage
4 Pulse Tracker
4 Vampire Lacerator
4 Dauthi Slayer
4 Wicked Akuba
Spells
4 Dark Ritual
4 Duress
4 Unholy Strength
4 Geth's Verdict
4 Hymn to Tourach
Lands
4 Peat Bog
16 Swamp
Sideboard
SB: 3 Innocent Blood
SB: 2 Doom Blade
SB: 3 Sign in Blood
SB: 3 Plague Stinger
SB: 2 Endless Scream
SB: 2 Vampire Nighthawk (U)
Max S. - Das Weiße/Blaue
Creatures
3 Deft Duelist
4 Lone Missionary
2 Sea Gate Oracle
4 Trinket Mage
Spells
1 Aether Spellbomb
1 Bonesplitter
4 Brainstorm
1 Enlightened Tutor (U)
1 Ponder
1 Preordain
2 Sensei's Divining Top (U)
2 Counterbalance (U)
3 Into the Roil
3 Journey to Nowhere
4 Mana Leak
1 Muddle the Mixture
2 Oblivion Ring
Lands
13 Island
7 Plains
2 Terramorphic Expanse
Sideboard
SB: 3 Blue Elemental Blast
SB: 2 Nihil Spellbomb
SB: 1 Relic of Progenitus
SB: 2 Spell Pierce
SB: 2 Disenchant
SB: 2 Remove Soul
SB: 2 Oblivion Ring
SB: 1 Remember the Fallen
Andreas H. - Mono Black Control
Creatures
4 Crypt Rats
Spells
4 Innocent Blood
4 Consume Spirit
4 Diabolic Edict
1 Geth's Verdict
4 Hymn to Tourach
3 Sign in Blood
4 Tendrils of Corruption
3 Necrologia (U)
1 Beseech the Queen (U)
4 Corrupt
Lands
1 Cabal Coffers (U)
23 Swamp
Sideboard
SB: 1 Wretched Banquet
SB: 1 Cruel Edict
SB: 1 Echoing Decay
SB: 3 Wrench Mind
SB: 4 Chittering Rats
SB: 2 Dross Golem
SB: 3 Ulamog's Crusher
Florian W. - Pommes schwarz & weiß
Creatures
4 Nip Gwyllion
4 Mourning Thrull
4 Nightsky Mimic
1 Vampire Nighthawk (U)
Spells
4 Dark Ritual
4 Edge of the Divinity
4 Paralyze
4 Unholy Strength
3 Demonic Tutor (U)
4 Hymn to Tourach
1 Shrivel
4 Sign in Blood
1 Unmake
Lands
18 Swamp
Sideboard
SB: 2 Bojuka Bog
SB: 2 Duress
SB: 4 Doom Blade
SB: 3 Geth's Verdict
SB: 2 Shrivel
SB: 1 Gate to Phyrexia (U)
SB: 1 Unmake
Thanks and until very soon! I've got decklists from our december and january tournaments upcoming!
Jan 31, 2012
Dec 21, 2011
Results November 25, 2011
It's been a long, long time since I uploaded any actual decklists to this site. Things have changed in my life, and Magic hasn't been the first thing on my mind every day for a while now. Instead I'm thinking of stuff like how wonderful it is my girlfriend's pregnant! It's still nice to read some of the comments on my latest (banned list) update calling for more updates though, so here is a small one. Only two decks had a better than 5/3/0 result, and one of those was mine. Not that I won, but at least I didn't completely fail at building a decent deck, I just played the wrong one :)
Results
Andre Pannekoek - UB Reanimator
Creatures
4 Hapless Researcher
4 Owl Familiar
4 Ulamog's Crusher
2 Pathrazer of Ulamog (U)
Spells
4 Lotus Petal
4 Careful Study
4 Duress
1 Ponder
4 Preordain
3 Reanimate (U)
4 Exhume
3 Dragon Breath
Lands
10 Island
9 Swamp
Sideboard
SB: 4 Disfigure
SB: 4 Spell Pierce
SB: 4 Steel Sabotage
SB: 3 Daze
Desmond Scholtens - Burn
Creatures
4 Spark Elemental
3 Hellspark Elemental (U)
Spells
1 Burst Lightning
4 Chain Lighting
4 Lava Spike
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Needle Drop
3 Shard Volley
4 Flame Rift
2 Magma Jet (U)
4 Rift Bolt
4 Fireblast
Lands
19 Mountain
Sideboard
SB: 2 Burst Lightning
SB: 4 Incinerate
SB: 3 Martyr of Ashes
SB: 3 Kiln Fiend
SB: 3 Smash to Smithereens
I hope you can forgive me for posting less and less often. I'm not yet planning on quitting this blog though, so please bear with me ;)
Until next time!
Results
| Nr. | Name | Deck | Colors | P/W/D/B |
| 01. | Andre Pannekoek | UB Reanimator | 5/5/0/0 | |
| 02. | Desmond Scholtens | Burn | 5/4/0/0 | |
| 03. | Siebe van der Veer | MBC | 5/3/0/0 | |
| 04. | Jasper Boelens | Affinity | 5/3/0/0 | |
| 05. | Mathijs Hoogeveen | Umbral Elves | 5/3/0/0 | |
| 06. | Maarten Jacobs | MBC | 5/3/0/0 | |
| 07. | Gijsbert Haaksman | GU Mimic | 5/3/0/0 | |
| 08. | Sebastiaan Tuinstra | GU Madness | 5/3/0/0 | |
| 09. | Johan Nobel | RUG Proliferator | 5/2/0/0 | |
| 10. | Martijn Hennink | GW Hatebears | 5/2/0/0 | |
| 11. | Chris ***** | Vial Slivers | 5/2/0/0 | |
| 12. | Niels ***** | Burning Vengeance | 5/1/0/1 | |
| 13. | Oswin ten Brinke | Affinity | 5/1/0/1 | |
| 14. | Elderik Peeman | Grapeshot Combo | 5/2/0/0 | |
| 15. | Johan Nobel | Affinity | 3/1/0/0 | |
| 16. | Allard van der Made | UB Reanimator | 5/1/0/0 |
Andre Pannekoek - UB Reanimator
Creatures
4 Hapless Researcher
4 Owl Familiar
4 Ulamog's Crusher
2 Pathrazer of Ulamog (U)
Spells
4 Lotus Petal
4 Careful Study
4 Duress
1 Ponder
4 Preordain
3 Reanimate (U)
4 Exhume
3 Dragon Breath
Lands
10 Island
9 Swamp
Sideboard
SB: 4 Disfigure
SB: 4 Spell Pierce
SB: 4 Steel Sabotage
SB: 3 Daze
Desmond Scholtens - Burn
Creatures
4 Spark Elemental
3 Hellspark Elemental (U)
Spells
1 Burst Lightning
4 Chain Lighting
4 Lava Spike
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Needle Drop
3 Shard Volley
4 Flame Rift
2 Magma Jet (U)
4 Rift Bolt
4 Fireblast
Lands
19 Mountain
Sideboard
SB: 2 Burst Lightning
SB: 4 Incinerate
SB: 3 Martyr of Ashes
SB: 3 Kiln Fiend
SB: 3 Smash to Smithereens
I hope you can forgive me for posting less and less often. I'm not yet planning on quitting this blog though, so please bear with me ;)
Until next time!
Nov 3, 2011
Banned List Update 6
As of 07/11/2011, Cranial Plating and Thopter Foundry are banned in peasant tournaments in Groningen. At the same time Ancient Den, Great Furnace, Seat of the Synod, Tree of Tales, and Vault of Whispers will be pulled off the banned lists and are, once again, legal to play at our tournaments.
So, what happened while this little blog didn't get updated? We rebranded our Peasant tournaments to Budget, and have been playing Pauper events for the last few months as an experiment. Our conclusion was that it is not quite as varied as Peasant, and certainly doesn't offer the same amount of build-around-me cards as Peasant. Starting this month we will be running Peasant events again. Playing Pauper did offer a few insights though.
One of our players pointed out (a while ago) that the Thopter Foundry + Sword of the Meek combo, while seemingly beatable, kept other control decks in check. Playing Pauper reinforced that impression, as that format has a wider range of control decks than our Peasant metagame had, while still having a lot of agressive decks. There doesn't seem to be a playable control deck that can handle both the early onslaught of the various aggressive decks as well as the inevitability of that combo. Once we knew we wanted to kill the combo, the question remained which one of the pieces we had to ban.
This is where our second insight helped us, namely that Affinity isn't a problem in Pauper. The artifact lands have been banned not once, but twice in the, I mean our little history of Peasant. The last few years of Magic have really enriched the metagame with numerous good cards and archetypes, as well as answers to decks that previously seemed unbeatable. When first we unbanned the artifact lands because of this, eventually a gross list incorporating the Thopter Foundry + Sword of the Meek combo proved to be so much better than anything else that we could bring to the table, that we couldn't think of any solution other than banning the artifact lands again. Our first reaction was to ban Sword of the Meek, but than we asked ourselves, is there a deck that wants to play Thopter Foundry without the Sword? We figured that, without artifact land in the equation, there is no such deck. Then we asked ourselves, do we want to bring back artifact lands? After all, affinity is, as I said before, not a problem in Pauper, and certainly not more explosive than the various infect decks that prompted us to ban Invigorate.
Once we decided it was okay to bring back artifact land, we knew Thopter Foundry was the card to ban. Of course, that meant Cranial Plating also had to go. In the end I think we have a list that more closely resembles the Pauper banned list, adjusted for Peasant concerns. I hope you will enjoy the changes to the banned list and the certain changes to the metagame it entails. Have fun!
To see the full list of banned cards, click here.
PS. In an effort to clean up the rules section, I stopped chronicling changes to the banned list. I hope you can appreciate it.
So, what happened while this little blog didn't get updated? We rebranded our Peasant tournaments to Budget, and have been playing Pauper events for the last few months as an experiment. Our conclusion was that it is not quite as varied as Peasant, and certainly doesn't offer the same amount of build-around-me cards as Peasant. Starting this month we will be running Peasant events again. Playing Pauper did offer a few insights though.
One of our players pointed out (a while ago) that the Thopter Foundry + Sword of the Meek combo, while seemingly beatable, kept other control decks in check. Playing Pauper reinforced that impression, as that format has a wider range of control decks than our Peasant metagame had, while still having a lot of agressive decks. There doesn't seem to be a playable control deck that can handle both the early onslaught of the various aggressive decks as well as the inevitability of that combo. Once we knew we wanted to kill the combo, the question remained which one of the pieces we had to ban.
This is where our second insight helped us, namely that Affinity isn't a problem in Pauper. The artifact lands have been banned not once, but twice in the, I mean our little history of Peasant. The last few years of Magic have really enriched the metagame with numerous good cards and archetypes, as well as answers to decks that previously seemed unbeatable. When first we unbanned the artifact lands because of this, eventually a gross list incorporating the Thopter Foundry + Sword of the Meek combo proved to be so much better than anything else that we could bring to the table, that we couldn't think of any solution other than banning the artifact lands again. Our first reaction was to ban Sword of the Meek, but than we asked ourselves, is there a deck that wants to play Thopter Foundry without the Sword? We figured that, without artifact land in the equation, there is no such deck. Then we asked ourselves, do we want to bring back artifact lands? After all, affinity is, as I said before, not a problem in Pauper, and certainly not more explosive than the various infect decks that prompted us to ban Invigorate.
Once we decided it was okay to bring back artifact land, we knew Thopter Foundry was the card to ban. Of course, that meant Cranial Plating also had to go. In the end I think we have a list that more closely resembles the Pauper banned list, adjusted for Peasant concerns. I hope you will enjoy the changes to the banned list and the certain changes to the metagame it entails. Have fun!
To see the full list of banned cards, click here.
PS. In an effort to clean up the rules section, I stopped chronicling changes to the banned list. I hope you can appreciate it.
Jun 5, 2011
Banned List Update 5
As of 02/06/2011, Invigorate is banned in peasant tournaments in Groningen.
We realize this banning comes short after the March bannings, but we did put Invigorate on the watchlist then. After only two tournaments we have to conclude that Invigorate is simply too strong in infect decks. Yes, an infect deck is still beatable, but you have to have a one-mana answer, because they can kill you on turn two. Black has good options that fit in black deck's strategies, but other colors aren't as fortunate.
We believe that, rather than let the metagame warp itself around these super-aggressive infect builds, it's better to eliminate the worst offender in the deck. This will slow down infect decks by a turn or two and give other decks the room to be somewhat more inventive with their answers.
To see the full list of banned cards, click here.
We realize this banning comes short after the March bannings, but we did put Invigorate on the watchlist then. After only two tournaments we have to conclude that Invigorate is simply too strong in infect decks. Yes, an infect deck is still beatable, but you have to have a one-mana answer, because they can kill you on turn two. Black has good options that fit in black deck's strategies, but other colors aren't as fortunate.
We believe that, rather than let the metagame warp itself around these super-aggressive infect builds, it's better to eliminate the worst offender in the deck. This will slow down infect decks by a turn or two and give other decks the room to be somewhat more inventive with their answers.
To see the full list of banned cards, click here.
Results April 29, 2011
A tad late, but we're not dead! It's been a bit hectic for me lately, so I didn't spent too much time on magic, let alone on this blog. There's been two tournaments since, the Spring Qualifier and the end-of-season Finale. More on the last one later, but first the results of that qualifier. Unfortunately, they're not quite up to speed, because I can't remember what everyone was playing. Apologies for that.
PS. Since Johnny played the same deck as in september (save for some sideboard slots) and I don't have decklists for André and Sietze, I'll be posting the top 3 deck only.
Results
Gijsbert Haaksman - Grapeshot Combo
Creatures
Spells
4 Lotus Petal
4 Chromatic Sphere
4 Chromatic Star
4 Dark Ritual
4 Rite of flames
4 Demonic Tutor (U)
4 Grapeshot
4 Ideas Unbound
4 Manamorphose
3 Words of Wisdom
4 Seething song
1 Ignite Memories(U)
Lands
4 Ancient Spring
4 Irrigation Ditch
4 Island
4 Sulfur Vent
Sideboard
SB: 4 Disrupt
SB: 3 Duress
SB: 4 Red Elemental Blast
SB: 4 Early Frost
Rob de Jonge - BG Infect
Creatures
4 Vector Asp
4 Blight Mamba
4 Ichorclaw Myr
4 Plague Stinger
1 Cystbearer
3 Rot Wolf
Spells
4 Berserk (U)
3 Bonesplitter
3 Rancor
3 Vines of Vastwood
1 Sylvan Library (U)
4 Invigorate
Lands
2 Evolving Wilds
11 Forest
6 Swamp
3 Teramorphic Expanse
Sideboard
SB: 2 Duress
SB: 4 Nature's Claim
SB: 2 Relic of Progenitus
SB: 1 Doomblade
SB: 3 Nausea
SB: 3 Snuff Out
Jasper Boelens - Thopter Teachings
Creatures
4 Aven Riftwatcher
4 Sea Gate Oracle
1 Mnemonic Wall
2 Mulldrifter
Spells
1 Condescend
1 Enlightened Tutor (U)
1 Expedition Map
4 Accumulated Knowledge
1 Azorius Signet
1 Counterspell
2 Momentary Blink
1 Muddle the Mixture
4 Prohibit
3 Prophetic Prism
1 Sword of the Meek (U)
3 Thopter Foundry (U)
1 Faith's Fetters
1 Mystical Teachings
1 Quicksilver Geyser
Lands
1 Azorius Chancery
4 Cloudpost
4 Glimmerpost
8 Island
6 Plains
Sideboard
SB: 2 Sunlance
SB: 1 Circle of Protection: Black
SB: 1 Circle of Protection: Red
SB: 1 Hindering Touch
SB: 3 Journey to Nowhere
SB: 3 Lone Missionary
SB: 1 Dismantling Blow
SB: 1 Holy Light
SB: 1 Serrated Arrows
SB: 1 Ulamog's Crusher
That's all for this installment!
Until next time!
PS. Since Johnny played the same deck as in september (save for some sideboard slots) and I don't have decklists for André and Sietze, I'll be posting the top 3 deck only.
Results
| Nr. | Name | Deck | Colors | P/W/D |
| 01. | Gijsbert Haaksman | Grapeshot Combo | 5/4/0 | |
| 02. | Rob de Jonge | B/G Infect | 5/4/0 | |
| 03. | Jasper Boelens | Thopterpost | 5/4/0 | |
| 04. | Sietze Wijma | Elves | 5/3/0 | |
| 05. | André Pannekoek | ??? | 5/3/0 | |
| 06. | Johnny Niemeyer | Cheese | 5/3/0 | |
| 07. | Matthijs Hoogeveen | Umbral Elves | 5/2/0 | |
| 08. | Desmond Scholtens | ??? | 5/2/0 | |
| 09. | Martijn Hennink | Brown-White Beatdown | 5/2/0 | |
| 10. | Remco van der Berg | ??? | 5/1/0 | |
| 11. | Niels Gramser | Moosebite | 5/1/0 | |
| 12. | Julius Sijtstra | MBC | 5/1/0 |
Gijsbert Haaksman - Grapeshot Combo
Creatures
Spells
4 Lotus Petal
4 Chromatic Sphere
4 Chromatic Star
4 Dark Ritual
4 Rite of flames
4 Demonic Tutor (U)
4 Grapeshot
4 Ideas Unbound
4 Manamorphose
3 Words of Wisdom
4 Seething song
1 Ignite Memories(U)
Lands
4 Ancient Spring
4 Irrigation Ditch
4 Island
4 Sulfur Vent
Sideboard
SB: 4 Disrupt
SB: 3 Duress
SB: 4 Red Elemental Blast
SB: 4 Early Frost
Rob de Jonge - BG Infect
Creatures
4 Vector Asp
4 Blight Mamba
4 Ichorclaw Myr
4 Plague Stinger
1 Cystbearer
3 Rot Wolf
Spells
4 Berserk (U)
3 Bonesplitter
3 Rancor
3 Vines of Vastwood
1 Sylvan Library (U)
4 Invigorate
Lands
2 Evolving Wilds
11 Forest
6 Swamp
3 Teramorphic Expanse
Sideboard
SB: 2 Duress
SB: 4 Nature's Claim
SB: 2 Relic of Progenitus
SB: 1 Doomblade
SB: 3 Nausea
SB: 3 Snuff Out
Jasper Boelens - Thopter Teachings
Creatures
4 Aven Riftwatcher
4 Sea Gate Oracle
1 Mnemonic Wall
2 Mulldrifter
Spells
1 Condescend
1 Enlightened Tutor (U)
1 Expedition Map
4 Accumulated Knowledge
1 Azorius Signet
1 Counterspell
2 Momentary Blink
1 Muddle the Mixture
4 Prohibit
3 Prophetic Prism
1 Sword of the Meek (U)
3 Thopter Foundry (U)
1 Faith's Fetters
1 Mystical Teachings
1 Quicksilver Geyser
Lands
1 Azorius Chancery
4 Cloudpost
4 Glimmerpost
8 Island
6 Plains
Sideboard
SB: 2 Sunlance
SB: 1 Circle of Protection: Black
SB: 1 Circle of Protection: Red
SB: 1 Hindering Touch
SB: 3 Journey to Nowhere
SB: 3 Lone Missionary
SB: 1 Dismantling Blow
SB: 1 Holy Light
SB: 1 Serrated Arrows
SB: 1 Ulamog's Crusher
That's all for this installment!
Until next time!
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