Peasant Magic Season V: October 26

Season V is a-rolling!

The first tournament of season V was a success, 19 players attended and they brought a wide variety of decks with them. Congratulations to Arjan for taking the win!

The metagame of this tournament was as said very, very diverse and some decks I personally considered to be in the category of has-beens. Kudos to Henri for bringing Dr. Teeth (Psychatog's pet name, seriously every time I see this card I'm singing 'Calling Dr. Love' by Kiss but replacing the Love with teeth :P)and posting a good result with it. In the end he couldn't quite cope with High Tide. In the final game I saw Henri had all the tools he would theoretically want, scepter-counterspell, a hindering touch and plenty of mana, however, a well-timed early frost caused Henri to cast the Touch to signal Allard he knew he had lost the game. Speaking of High Tide, I loved seeing this take on storm, nice.

Another two decks I didn't expect to be posting a good result these days were the Affinity decks, how we live and learn... :) By the by, I love how these two decks, which on paper have such similar strategies, can still be so different.

Special attention obviously has to go to the U/B the Rack deck wielded by Arjan. I am pleased to see a deck with a heavy discard package and black's solid removal suite taking the night (I played black for the very same reason, so I can say that at least I had an inkling of a good idea, right? Right...?:P). To be honest I think that we can expect a variety of decks supported by the controlling power offered by discard and heavy removal in the future.

The top 8 was complemented by two decks both running its own kind of annoying little critter ;) On one hand we had the very well known Faeries buzzing around everyone's head and needle-pricking them to death, on the other hand Martijn's soul sisters let his life total reach for the heavens (Gods, why didn't I play mass removal...)

All in all, a good tournament so sayeth Johan and I! Lots of peepz and cool decks. Looking forward to next month!

Siebe out!

Rank

Player (click * to see decklist)

Deck

Colors

P/W/D

1.

Arjan Struik *

U/B The Rack

4/4/0

Creatures 4 Chittering Rats 3 Sea Gate Oracle 1 Ravenous Rats 3 Mesmeric Fiend 3 Trinket Mage Spells 1 Executioner's Capsule 4 Doom Blade 4 Hymn to Tourach 4 Raven's Crime 4 The Rack (U) 2 Disfigure 2 Echoing Decay 1 Bonesplitter 1 Funeral Charm 1 Engineered Plague (U) Lands 3 Evolving Wilds 2 Terramorphic Expanse 1 Vault of Whispers 11 Snow-covered Swamp 5 Snow-covered Island Sideboard 1 Tragic Slip 1 Echoing Decay 2 Ghastly Demise 2 Okiba-gang Shinobi 2 Relic of Progenitus 3 Desert 1 Tormod's Crypt 3 Dispel

2.

Desmond Scholtens *

Faeries

4/3/0

Creatures 4 Spellstutter Sprite 4 Pestermite 4 Delver of Secrets 3 Cloud Sprite 1 Cloud of Faeries 4 Ninja of the Deep Hours Spells 1 Force of Will (U) 4 Mana Leak 4 Counterspell 4 Vapor Snag 3 Gush 4 Favorable Winds (U) Lands 17 Island 3 Desert Sideboard 2 Spell Pierce 3 Blue Elemental Blast 3 Weatherseed Faeries 3 Echoing Truth 2 Relic of Progenitus 2 Spire Golem

3.

Allard van der Made *

High Tide Storm

4/3/0

Creatures 4 Cloud of Faeries Spells 4 High Tide 4 Preordain 4 Ponder 3 Snap 3 Turnabout (U) 2 Grapeshot 4 Ideas Unbound 3 Serum Visions 2 Gitaxian Probe 2 Prosperity (U) 4 Words of Wisdom 3 Lotus Petal 2 Peer through Depths Lands 16 Island Sideboard 1 Snap 1 Feldon's Cane 2 Deep Analysis 1 Lotus Petal 2 Brainstorm 4 Early Frost 1 Peer through Depths 1 Echoing Truth 2 Dispel

4.

Henri van der Bij *

Psychatog

4/3/0

Creatures 3 Psychatog (U) 4 Delver of Secrets Spells 3 Counterspell 4 Diabolic Edict 4 Brainstorm 2 Last Gasp 2 Mana Leak 2 Isochron Scepter (U) 3 Deep Analysis 4 Echoing Truth 2 Mystical Teachings 1 Arcane Denial 4 Accumulated Knowledge Lands 12 Island 6 Swamp 4 Terramorphic Expanse Sideboard 3 Duress 3 Hindering Touch 2 Echoing Decay 2 Cremate 2 Shred Memory 3 Blue Elemental Blast

5.

Walter Fuglistahler *

Affinity

4/3/0

Creatures 4 Disciple of the Vault 2 Myr Retriever (U) 3 Atog 4 Frogmite 3 Myr Enforcer Spells 2 Shrapnel Blast (U) 2 Fling 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Galvanic Blast 4 Thoughtcast 2 Chromatic Sphere 4 Chromatic Star 4 Springleaf Drum Lands 4 Seat of the Synod 4 Vault of Whispers 4 Darksteel Citadel 4 Great Furnace 2 Tree of Tales Sideboard 4 Blue Elemental Blast 4 Pyroblast 3 Duress 3 Tormod's Crypt 1 Lightning Greaves (U)

6.

Jasper Boelens *

Robo Unicorns (affinity)

4/3/0

Creatures 4 Atog 2 Perilous Myr 3 Myr Enforcer 2 Ferrovore 4 Disciple of the Vault 4 Frogmite Spells 4 Springleaf Drum 3 Chromatic Sphere 4 Chromatic Star 3 Terrarion 3 Ichor Wellspring 1 Mycosynth Wellspring 4 Galvanic Blast 1 Fling 1 Scrapyard Salvo (U) Lands 2 Mountain 4 Mishra's Factory (U) 4 Great Furnace 3 Darksteel Citadel 4 Vault of Whispers Sideboard 2 Gorilla Shaman 1 Engineerd Plague 3 Pyroblast 3 Lightning Bolt 1 Nihil Spellbomb 2 Relic of Progenitus 3 Duress

7.

Martijn Beljaars *

Midnight Gond

4/2/1

Creatures 4 Soul Warden 4 Soul's Attendant 4 Essence Warden 4 Midnight Guard 4 Ajani's Pridemate (U) 3 Avacyn's Pilgrim Spells 1 Enlightened Tutor (U) 2 Commune with Nature 4 Oblivion Ring 3 Apostle's Blessing 2 Prismatic Strands 1 Rancor 4 Presence of Gond Lands 6 Forest 4 Selesnya Guildgate 10 Plains Sideboard 3 Guerilla Tactics 3 Scattershot Archer 3 Benevolent Unicorn 3 Crimson Acolyte 2 Obsidian Acolyte 1 Hidden Spider

8.

Siebe van der Veer *

Rockpost

4/2/1

Creatures 3 Wickerbough Elder 2 Mold Shambler 3 Acidic Slime (U) 2 Artisan of Kozilek (U) 4 Lilliana's Specter 2 Deadly Recluse 4 Sakura Tribe-elder Spells 4 Hymn to Tourach 4 Prophetic Prism 4 Disfigure 3 Doom Blade 1 Grim Harvest 2 Tragic Slip Lands 4 Cloudpost 4 Glimmerpost 4 Golgari Guildgate 5 Swamp 5 Forest Sideboard 4 Duress 4 Faerie Macabre 4 Scattershot Elf 1 Mold Shambler 1 Doom Blade 1 Grim Harvest