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Title: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: TobiR on 27-07-2014, 03:44:15 PM
First report as  part of my introduction to this forum  ;D

6th Day of the JK-Store HL League

Results:

1.  Radloff, Tobias  Green Ramp
2.  Müller, Tobias  4c Blood
3.  Schäffer, Dirk  4c Blood  (K0d013e4st)
4.  Hittel, Matthias  Esper Beats
5.  Korbel, Jochen  Grixis Control (goblinpiledriver)
6.  Eichenauer, Markus
7.  Farnung, Benjamin 4c Blood
8.  Kaiser, Benny  Mono U control
9.  Kropf, Marco
10. Schulze, Jan  RDW
11.Lavaud-Canonne, Olivier
12.Robst, Joachim Jund Midrange
13.Schramm, Markus UR Control
14. Vogt, Christian
15. Zahedinour, Kewan  Dredge

Sry for missing deck types. Maybe someone can refresh my memory.

REPORT

Match 1 vs. Tobias Müller with 4c Blood

Game 1: He mulligans to six and I'm able to keep him off of red and black mana due to Tectonic Edge, Wasteland and Acidic Slime.  My bigger creatures  win the game.

Game 2: He mulligans to six again but manages to power out Thundermaw Hellkite on turn 3 thanks to Lotus Cobra. I try to race the Hellkite and his follow-up Loxodon Smiter with Thrun and a 5/5 Mistcutter Hydra while Scavenging Ooze and Deathrite Shaman gain me some life (from the chump blocking small ground creatures on either side). He has two turns to draw into burn/removal, but doesn't so I can win this one.


Match 2 vs. Zahedinour, Kewan with Dredge

Game 1: Krovikan Horror teams up with Bloodghast, nether shadow and unearth dudes team up to first kill my elves and then me.

Game 2: He starts dredging early but fails to find relevant stuff on the first couple of tries which gives my big creatures enough time to kill him.

Game 3: His start of crop rotation searching bazaar of Baghdad is crazy (a discussion evokes if this is the best start in the entire format. Opinions??), but I manage to search for scavenging ooze via fauna shaman shortly after. The ooze eats all his relevant graveyard stuff and finishes the game as 10/10 monster.


Match 3 vs. Benny Kaiser with Mono U control

Game 1: I have a fast start with Thragtusk and Deathrite Shaman eating away his life total. He plays Back to basics which shuts of almost all my lands (one forest and elves of deep shadow and birds of paradise to keep deathrite going).  He casts bribery trying to find a creature which has etb trigger to gain life. As I have drawn Pellakka Wurm and already played Thragtusk he opts for wurmcoil engine but realizes that this would give me enough time to kill him with the shaman. So he has to settle for obstinate Baloth as his bribery target, which manages to trade with Thragtusk, but the shaman deals the last points of damage as he fails to find an answer for it.

Game 2: I ramp up early to lot of mana but he makes his lands drop every drop turn while keeping 5+ cards all the time signaling countermagic. I try to keep him busy by casting some spells into his counters when I draw Mistcutter hydra which does its best uncounterable, repeatable 7 damage Fireball impression. He manages to find Solemn Simulacrum and batterskull to block the Hydra but this opens the window for me to play Ruric Thar, the Unbowed which he can't beat in the given situation once it hit the board.

Match 4 vs. Dirk Schäffer with 4c Blood

Game 1: I play a Thragtusk which he kills with swords to plowshares. I manage to deal some damage with the token but he stabilizes and is slowly turning the race in his favour with his freshly summoned Falkenrath Aristocrat. Fortunately for me I draw Ruric Thar which he has to vindicate essentially timewalking himself by using up 3 of his 4 mana while taking 6 damage in a race situation. He doesn't recover from this.

Game 2: I have a slow start after he plays swords on my deathrite shaman and I fail to  hit a land with courser of kruphix several turns in a row. His turn two dark Confidants grants him about one million cards but is kind enough to reveal only high casting costs spells (Thundermaw, Sorin BW) which puts him on dangerously low life. I have an outside chance of winning with his confidant if I sacriifice my board in a gang chump block, but he has the path to exile so knight of reliquary and friends can kill me.

Game 3: I have a sick start of one drop elf into growth spasm into Vraska, the Unseen which kills his turn two bitterblossom. He kills Vraska with Ajani Vengeant which in return gets killed by my elf. I cast Karn Liberated on turn five which eats away his hand cards and threats. He tries to fight back with aven mindcensor (blocking my fauna shaman) und treetop village but a freshly drawn Thrun gives Karn room to breathe and take over the game.

Comments/questions/additions are welcome
Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: Maqi on 28-07-2014, 08:36:38 AM
Your decklist seems innovative. Would be nice if you could share it with us. Preferably upload it to mtgpulse.com (but posting it here would be fine to).
Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: TobiR on 28-07-2014, 01:29:15 PM
Hi. I played the following list (posting it here because I don't have facebook and can't find a way to handle mtgpulse without it):

Green Ramp

Lands (34)
1 Tectonic Edge
1 Wasteland
1 Homeward Path
1 Yavimaya Hollow
1 Kessig Wolf Run
1 Treetop Village
1 Mishra's Factory
1 Snow-Covered Swamp
1 Snow-Covered Mountain
1 Taiga
1 Bayou
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Gaea's Cradle
1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
8 Snow Covered Forest
9 Forest
1 Dryad Arbor

Ramp (23)

1 Boreal Druid
1 Noble Hierarch
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Deathrite Shaman
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Fyndhorn Elves
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Arbor Elf
1 Joraga Treespeaker
1 Elves of Deep Shadow
1 Avacyn's Pilgrim

1 Wall of Roots
1 Nature's Lore
1 Three Visits
1 Rampant Growth
1 Farseek
1 Explore
1 Into the North
1 Rofellos
1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
1 Voyaging Satyr


1 Cultivate
1 Growth Spasm

Tutor/Draw/Cardselection (12)

1 Worldly Tutor
1 Crop Rotation

1 Sylvan Library
1 Sylvan Scrying
1 Fauna Shaman

1 Triumph of Ferocity
1 Summoning Pact
1 Primal command
1 Summoning Trap
1 Tooth and Nail

1 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Chord of calling

Removal (1)

1 Maelstrom Pulse

Creatures (23)

1 Scavenging Ooze

1 Courser of Kruphix
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Eternal Witness

1 Obstinate Baloth
1 Oracle of Mul Daya
1 Polukranos, World Eater
1 Thrun, The Last Troll
1 Wickerbough Elder

1 Thragtusk
1 Acidic Slime
1 Batterskull

1 Wurmcoil Engine
1 Primeval Titan
1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed

1 Pelakka Wurm
1 Avenger of Zendikar
1 Sylvan Primordial
1 Regal Force

1 Woodfall Primus
1Craterhoof Behemoth
1 Mistcutter Hydra
1 Genesis Hydra

Planeswalker (7)

1 Garruk Wildspeaker
1 Garruk Relentless
1 Garruk, Primal Hunter
1 Garruk, Caller of Beasts
1 Garruk, Apex Predator

1 Vraska, Unseen
1 Karn Liberated

The deck is pretty strong imho (Last two tournament 4-0). The worst matchup is UR, because they have arc trail and bribery. I especially like that you manage to fit so many lifegain spells (Thragtusk, courser, primal command, Wurmcoil, Pelakka wurm, obstinate baloth) to make for a great mono red matchup without hurting the other matchups (because the lifegain spells shine in other matchups too).

The deck looked a lot different when Natural Order was still legal (with more big guys like terrastodon and ramp cards like somberwald sage). Now it is shifting more and more to planeswalkers (new Garruk rules, but unfortunately new Nissa doesn't).

I would love to fit in Wild Growth and Utopia Sprawl as more one drop ramp which can't be hit by the common removal spells, but I don't know what to cut (don't want to swap them for other one drops, since you always want to play an elf turn one).

Cards I'd love to include but have no room for:

- Demonic Tutor (maybe for sylvan scrying)
- Sensei's divining top
- Beast Within
- BG or mono G God
- Wolfbriar Elemental
- Reaper of the Wilds
- Kitchen Finks (and if so, then Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers)

If someone has suggestions to make the deck better I'm looking forward to reading them.
Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: K0d013e4st on 28-07-2014, 05:23:20 PM
http://mtgpulse.com/event/17414#246610
Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: Maqi on 28-07-2014, 05:27:04 PM
Thx for sharing!
Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: MMD on 28-07-2014, 05:51:15 PM
Five Garruks in a Highlander deck...hilarious

I would have expected that non-combo ramp would have become unplayable piles without the spoils mulligan but it seems I was wrong here.
Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: GoblinPiledriver on 06-08-2014, 06:10:26 PM
14.05

Rank         Name         MatchPoints         Archetype                  OMW%       
   1         Korbel, Jochen        12              Izzet-Midrange       56,3
   2       Hittel, Matthias         9              Esper Control            68,8
   3       Zanotti, Danilo          9              4C-Blood                 64,5
   4       Radloff, Tobias          9              UW-Control               47,8
   5       Sinner, Denis            9              Esper                    47,8
   6       Zimmermann, Martin       6              Mono-Blue-Control        64,5
   7       Lavaud-Canonne, Olivier  6              Zur the Echanter         60,3
   8       Schulze, Jan             6              RDW                      60,3
   9       Monkmöller, Ruben        6              4C-Blood                 47,8
  10       Göhring, Jan             3              Capatin America          66,7
  11       Müller, Tobias           3              Naya                     64,5
  12       Kropf, Marco             3              Captain America          45,8
  13       Knötgen, Tobias          0              Captain America          50
  14       Kaiser, Benny            0              Esper Helm Combo         38,7


Match 1: Martin Zimmermnan with Mono Blue 2-1

Match 2: Olivier Lavaud-Canonne with Zur the Echanter 2-1

Match 3: Jan Schulze  with RDW 2-0

Match 4: Danilo Zanotti with 4C-Blood 2-1
Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: GoblinPiledriver on 06-08-2014, 06:11:01 PM
14.06

Rank         Name         MatchPoints         Archetype                  OMW%       
   1         Haas, Martin          12          4C-Blood                 68,8
   2       Lavaud-Canonne, Olivier  9               4C-Staxx                56,2
   3       Sinner, Denis            9               Esper                   58,25
   4       Müller, Tobias           9               4C-Blood                58,3
   5       Franz, Marcus            9               Izzet                   41,6
   6       Farnung, Benjamin        6               4C-Blood                66,7
   7       Hittel, Matthias         6               Esper                   64,6
   8       Logisch, Arne            6               Lands                   61,1
   9       Korbel, Jochen           6               4C-Blood                54,1
  10       Robst, Joachim           6               Jund                    52
  11       Zanotti, Danilo          4               Naya                    47,8
  12       Göhring, Jan             4               Naya                    41,5
  13       Schulze, Jan             3               RDW                     47,8
  14       Kaiser, Benny            1               Izzet                   47,9
  15       Kropf, Marco             1               Captain America         47,1
  16       Dichter, Leon            0               Jund                    75

Match 1: Danilo Zanotti with Naya  2-0

Match 2: Olivier Lavaud-Canonne with Staxx 1-2

Match 3: Jan Schulze  with RDW  2-0

Match 4: Matthias Hittel with Esper  1-2
Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: GoblinPiledriver on 06-08-2014, 06:11:39 PM
14.07

Rank         Name         MatchPoints         Archetype                  OMW%      
  1         Radlof, Tobias         12         Green Ramp + BR-Splash   58,3
  2       Müller, Tobias            9             4C-Blood                 66,7
  3       Schäfer, Dirk             9             4C-Blood                 64,5
  4       Hittel, Matthias          9             Esper                    62,5
  5       Korbel, Jochen            9             Grixis-Tempo             47,8
  6       Kaiser, Benny             6             Mono Blue Control        68,8
  7       Schulze, Jan              6             RDW                      61
  8       Farnung, Benjamin         6             4C-Blood                 54
  9       Eichenauer, Markus        6             UR-Control               47,8
 10       Kropf, Marco              6             4C-Blood                 37,25
 11       Vogt, Christian           3             UR-Control               dropped
 12       Robst, Joachim            3             Big Jund                 65,3
 13       Lavaud-Canonne, Olivier   3             4C-Staxx                 52,8
 14       Schramm, Markus           3             Izzet-Control            45,8
 15       Zahedinour, Kewan         3             BG-Dredge                dropped


Match 1: Matthias Hittel with Esper  0-2

Both games ended very close by Matthias removing the final blocker or attacker. So both games ended in his favour.


Match 2: Olivier Lavaud-Canonne with Staxx 2-0

Game 1: I countered all of Olivier's key spells and burned the final damage very early(than expected by Olivier).

Game 2: At the beginning I didn't had good aggresiv creatures and Olivier didn't had manastone acceleration. Olivier played the Trinisphere and I had Phyrexian Arena, Bitterblossom and Jace, the Mind Sculptor. i couldn't played much spells but had always 3 mana to counter the game winning spells of Olivier. At the end he fetched with Transmute Artifact his Crumbling Sanctuary which I had Venser for it.


Match 3: Kewan Zahedinour with GB-Dredge  2-0

Game 1: Kewan was medium-low on mana and I had Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver getting quick(3 turns) his Venegvine. Kewan had Necromancer's Stockpile producing him several 2/2 Zombies. Ashiok produced his Woodland Changeling and I burned in combat a Zombie for my Venegvine doing the 2-1 Swap. The Vengevine made enough damage for the final burn spell finish.

Game2: Kewan had this time only 2 lands and dredged not the right cards to Face several creatures from my side. At the end I Force of Will'd his Mesmeric Orb a two turns before my victory so that no creepy thing can happen.


Match 4: Benjamin Farnung with 4C-Blood  2-1    

Game1: Benjamin had a good line of play and his final Elspeth, Knight Errant came with 8 damage through.

Game two and three were much the same, I had counters for his high drops and my Thundermaw Hellkite/Stormbreath Dragon made unhandled enough damage for the final burn spell to finish the game.

Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: GoblinPiledriver on 17-11-2014, 09:13:51 PM
30.08

Rank         Name             MatchPoints       Archetype                     OMW%     
   1       Hittel, Matthias         12             Esper                    68,8
   2       Zimmermann, Martin        9             Mono Blue Control        62,5
   3       Bausch, Joshua            9             UGB Tempo                58,3
   4       Müller, Tobias            9             4C Blood                 54
   5       Zanotti, Danilo           6             Naya                     64,5
   6       Kropf, Marco              6             4C Blood                 58,25
   7       Korbel, Jochen            6             4C Planeswalker Staxx    54
   8       Dahmen, Mark              6             RG Ramp                  47,8
   9       Lavaud-Canonne, Olivier   6             5C Staxx                 45,8
  10       Logisch, Arne             4             Captain America          43,6
  11       Zahedinour, Kewan         4             Artifacts Synergy        37,3
  12       Tetzlaff, Leonard         3             GW Maverick              47,9
  13       Schulze, Jan              3             RDW                      45,8
  14       Robst, Joachim            0             Big Jund                 52,1


Match 1: Leonard Tetzlaff with GW Maverick 2-0

Game 1: Leonard played several creatures but my Tezzeret, the Seeker and Elspeth, Sun's Champion made the game.

Game 2: Leonard conceded after my Wilfire destroyed all his creatures and lands.


Match 2: Joshua Bausch with UGB Tempo 0-2

Game 1: Joshua countered all my important spells and won with a Tarmogoyf.

Game 2: On a developed board I played Wildfire, Joshua played end of main phase Boon Satyr. I didn't found in time the mana for a solution for his Boon Satyr.


Match 3: Jan Schulze with RDW 2-1

Game 1: At 8 life I played Crumbling Sanctuary, a  few turns later Entreat the Angels for 5.

Game 2: I stopped the opening assault, but faced Price of Progress.

Game 3: As I was on 4 life I could assemble the Thopter Foundry combo.


Match 4: Tobias Müller with 4C Blood 1-2

Game 1: Tobias could remove all my Planeswalker and attack me with cheap and efficient creatures.

Game 2: As I had 2 planeswalker I can resolve Devastation, after this I had all the permanents on the board.

Game 3: I can assemble Thopter Foundry Combo, but Tobias destroyed my Foundry as I had only 4 Thopter tokens. He played then Obzedat, Ghost Council where I had Maze of Ith. 2 turns before my victory with the Thopter Tokens Tobias topdecked Wasteland and killed my with the Obzedat.
Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: Tabris on 17-11-2014, 11:13:49 PM
What kind of esper is that, artifact or simply midrange/control?
Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: Promole on 18-11-2014, 03:15:55 PM
The esper list is basicly midrange/tempo. As we run this tournament in Frankfurt monthly I try to get some decklists in the future to post them on mtgpulse.
Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: K0d013e4st on 01-02-2015, 03:19:54 PM
31.01.15

Rank         Name         MatchPoints         Archetype                  OMW%      
  1       Korbel, Jochen          12              URW                      62,5
  2       Klein, Timo              9              WW                       58,25
  3       Hittel, Matthias         9              BUG                      58,25
  4       Logisch, Arne            7              UW(b)Helm                47,83
  5       Schwing, Florian         7              URW Twin                 43,58
  6       Schäffer, Dirk           6              Dreamhalls               72,91
  7       Müller, Tobias           6              4-col Blood              64,5
  8       Schallenberg, Stephan    6              RUG Twin                 49,83
  9       Deutscher, Markus        6              Elves                    47,75
 10       Kaiser, Benny            6              MUC                      41,5
 11       Kropf, Marco             3              4-col Blood              58,33
 12       Smeltz,Christopher       3              ???                      45,75
 13       Robst, Joachim           3              Jund                     41,5
 14       Di Pancrazio, Marc       0              RDW                      56,16


Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: Promole on 15-03-2015, 12:08:12 AM
HL Touranment Frankfurt 14.02.2015

1. Benjamin Farnung 10 Esper Control
2. Marco Kropf 9 4C blood
3. Jochen Korbel 9 4c blood
4. Matthias Hittel 9 Sultai Tempo
5. Nils Huther 7 Mono Black Aggro
6. Arne Logisch 7 Creatureless Esper
7. Dirk Schäffer 6 Izzet Control
8. Florian Schwing 6 Jeskai Twin
9. Markus Deutscher 4 Elves
10. Tobias Müller 3 4c blood
11. Tobias Knötgen 3 Jeskai
12.  Daniel Szabo 3 ?
13. Torben Gräfe 0 Enchantress
Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: Promole on 15-03-2015, 12:30:37 AM
HL Tournament 14.03.2015

1. Matthias Hittel 12 Temur Scapeshift
2. Marco Kropf 12 4c blood
3. Olivier Lavaud-Canonne 12 Green Esper
4. Jochen Korbel 12 4c blood
5. Benjamin Farnung 10 Esper Control
6. Tobias Müller 10 4c blood
7. Arne Logisch 9 Creatureless Esper
8. Patrick Ravano 9 Sultai Reanimator
9. Tobias Radloff 9 Mono Green Ramp
10. Markus Deutscher 7 Bant Midrange
11. Florian Schwing 7 4c blood
12. Marvin Ebert 7 Gruul Aggro
13. Danilo Zanotti 6 Naya Midrange
14. Dirk Schäffer 6 4c Oath Reanimator
15. Benny Kaiser 6 MUC
16. Timo Klein 6 White Weenie
17. Hanfried Ohmayer 4 Jeskai
18. Christopher Smeltz 3 Jeskai
19. Jörn Hintze 3 Mono Black Aggro
20. Tobias Knötgen 3 Jeskai
21. Nils Huther Mono 0 Black Aggro
22. Daniel Szabo 0 5c Goodstuff

Thanks to TaZi for sharing his Scapeshift list. With few changes i managed the tournament. With 22 participants a new record for our monthly league.
Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: Vazdru on 15-03-2015, 11:49:21 AM
Quote from: Promole on 15-03-2015, 12:30:37 AM
HL Tournament 14.03.2015

1. Matthias Hittel 12 Temur Scapeshift

Thanks to TaZi for sharing his Scapeshift list. With few changes i managed the tournament. With 22 participants a new record for our monthly league.

so that list already won 3 consecutive tournaments  :)
I've lost last four games with 4C blood and Jund against it - let's see if MaQi can beat it in Online League today
Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: derStefan82 on 15-03-2015, 11:54:51 AM
I'm not able to find the Scapeshift list on mtgpulse or here.

Is someone able to tell me where it is?
Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: GoblinPiledriver on 15-03-2015, 12:09:51 PM
It's a real life list, so there isn't an online copy yet. I was surprised that Promole had contact with Tazi and builded this list. Now that I had converted my Jund-Scapeshift into a similliar UGr-Scapeshift list, there are now 3 copys of that deck.
Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: Vazdru on 15-03-2015, 12:27:17 PM
Quote from: derStefan82 on 15-03-2015, 11:54:51 AM
I'm not able to find the Scapeshift list on mtgpulse or here.

Is someone able to tell me where it is?

hitman has the list already as far as I know
TaZi plays that deck in the current Online League and it will be published after the swiss rounds of the tournament (at the latest)
Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: MMD on 16-03-2015, 12:25:09 PM
Scapeshift is a very good metagame call if 4C blood is everywhere. I just wonder why Temur is preferred as the Tutor package of a 4c list should improve the deck even more. Most probably  it is a Temur creature ramp with Scapeshift as a 2nd win condition, otherwise I would doubt the list is teched out.
Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: Georg B on 16-03-2015, 03:25:10 PM
No, its a straight forward combo deck with quite a lot of disruption. Lost against it at the HLL and it is going for the combo each time I guess.
Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: Tabris on 16-03-2015, 09:10:26 PM
I agree with Björn here. I played against it and saw the list and Matthias told me he was losing too much against nonbasic hate and its not an all in combo build, its more like a RUG-Control deck with a small focus on ramping and no alternate win cons (like Karn, WurmCoil or Titan).

Being a scapeshift lover myself and playing the deck since three years in different iterations I would always go for the full tutorpackage black provides to have a consistent and fast combo deck. I can see building a heavy RUG Midrange deck with scapeshift as backdoor out though.
Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: Promole on 16-03-2015, 09:51:23 PM
Since I just adopted the list from TaZi and did some personal changes (metagame decisions, personal preferences/experience). TaZi is the person to explain the list and cardchoices.

The Decks plays very well. In my experience it is not necessary to weaker the mana base for more speed reasons. But as usual it is also something about personal preferences and playstyle.

I will add my list on mtgpulse. I do not have other decklists from the event, but I hope to add other lists soon since there were a couple of interesting ones.


http://www.mtgpulse.com/event/19563#275847
Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: TaZi on 16-03-2015, 11:20:00 PM
Hello guys,
the list will be online soon I think and I'll take a minute and explain the list.

First point, this is not a ramp list and I don't think that ramp is a good deck in any form at the moment. That is because you will too often draw only the ramp half or only the fatty half of the deck.

I'ts a combo, with a different combo as a plan B and the possibility to kill with creatures as a last resort. The good thing is, that the combo (and the second combo) takes only very few cards in the deck and almost none of them are bad cards. That leaves a lot of space for good cards which are able to delay most opponents for very long time. So you don't need any black to find your combo, as you will have a lot of time in most games and the great amount of filtering in addition to the fact, that you only need 1 card helps a lot too.

Allright, I think there will be more discussion, when some list is available.
Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: GoblinPiledriver on 21-03-2015, 02:27:11 PM
14.02.2015

Rank         Name         MatchPoints         Archetype                  OMW%      
  1       Farnung, Benjamin         10            Esper Control         66,7
  2       Kropf, Marco              9             Abzan Rock            61,1
  3       Korbel, Jochen            9             4C-Blood              60,4
  4       Hittel, Matthias          9             Sultai                47,8
  5       Huther, Nils              7             MBC                   49,9
  6       Logisch, Arne             7             UW Control            45,75
  7       Schäffer, Dirk            6             Izzet                 60,4
  8       Schwing, Florian          6             URW Twin              54
  9       Deutscher, Markus         4             RG Elves              56,2
 10       Müller, Tobias            Dropped       4C-Blodd
 11       Graefe, Torben            Dropped       Naya
 12       Szabo, Daniel             3             5C-Goodstuff          47,2
 13       Knötgen, Tobias           Dropped       Jeskai
Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: GoblinPiledriver on 27-06-2015, 01:49:54 AM
18.04.2015



RankName   MatchPointsArchetype OMW%
1Logisch, Arne 12 UW/b creatueless-Control 64,5
2Hittel, Matthias9 Esper-Midrange68,8    
3Kannegiesser, Thomas  9 Esper-Control54
4Korbel,Jochen9 Jeskai52,8
5 Hellmann, Gerrit 6 Jeskai47,8
6 Radloff, Tobias6 RG-Ramp58,2
7Bausch, Joshua6 BUG58,3
8Schäffer, Dirk 6 RG-Ramp47,8
9Schwing, Florian6 RDW37,3
10Huther, Nils3Mono-Black-Suicide 64,5
11Squirewell, Sascha3Abzan-Rock61
12Deutscher, Markus34C-Blink56,3
13Kropf, Marco34C-Blood41,5
14Di Pancrazio, Marco04C-Blood66,7





16.05.2015



RankName   MatchPointsArchetype OMW%
1Logisch, Arne 10 UW/b creatueless-Control 66,7
2Korbel,Jochen9Jeskai56,2
3Schwing, Florian 9Jeskai49,9
4Ebert, Marvin  9Naya49,8
5Schäffer,Dirk  8U/b High Tide66,7
6Klein, Timo 7White Weenie 56,2
7Hellmann, Gerrit6Jeskai64,6
8Radloff, Tobias6RG-Ramp54
9Hintze, Joerns6Abzan-Rock52,9
10Dakic, Alexander6RG-Ramp43,6
11Smeltz, Christopherr6GW-Midrange41,5
12Huther, Nils4Mono Black Suicide38,7
13Olivier Lavaud-Canonne3UW/b creatueless-Control62,5
14Deutscher, Markus34C-Goodstuff52,1
15Kropf, Marco04C-Blood66,7
15Szabo, Daniel05C-Reanimator50



20.06.2015

Rank         Name         MatchPoints         Archetype                  OMW%    
  1       Korbel,Jochen            12        4C-Blood                   54,2
  2       Sinner,Dennis             9        Esper-Control              56,1
  3       Schäffer,Dirk             9        U-b High Tide              52,1
  4       Zarges, Florian           9        Mono-Green Ramp            47,8
  5       Hittel, Matthias          7        BUG-Control                70,8
  6       Deutscher, Markus         7        4C-nonblack-Zoo            60,3
  7       Jessen, Johannes          6        RDW                        60,3
  8       Klein, Timo               6        White Weenie               54,1
  9       Logisch, Arne             6        UW-b Creatueless Control   54,1
 10       Radloff, Tobias           6        RG-Ramp                    47,8
 11       Huther, Nils              4        Black Suicide              54
 12       Kropf, Marco              3        4C-Blood                   47,9
 13       Smeltz, Christopher       3        Abzan                      47,9
 14       Olivier Lavaud-Canonne    3        Jeskai-Spells              Dropped
 15       Squirewell, Sascha        1        Jeskai                     52,1

Match 1: Johannes Jessen with RDW
Game 1: Johannes played turn 2 Gore-House Chainwalker, i played on my turn 2 Demonic Tutor for Doran, the Siege Tower. Next turn I faced Blood Moon, for the rest of the game I could only play Huntmaster of the Fells and Thundermaw Hellkite, which wasn't enough.
Game 2: I could play quick Mother of Runes + Voice of Resurgence, which faced Porcelain Legionaire and Gobli Guide. Later in the game i lost my Mother of Runes but could gather enough life with Ajani Vengeant to stay out of the red zone. With the new drawn creatures i could win this game.
Game 3: This game begin with me losing Lotus Cobra to his Mogg Fanatic, but I could find the needed lands so i played Lingering Souls against his Mardu Scout and Kitchen Finks against his Goblin Guide. At the end I finished him with Zealous Persecution which killed his Porcelain Legionnaire.

Match 2: Nils Huther with Black Suicide
Game 1: Nils opens this game quick with turn 1 + 2 Gnarled Scarhide, Bloodsoaked Champion plus a Phyrexian Reclamation. The next two turns he plays Lifebane Zombie twice with use of his Lake of the Dead removing my Courser of Kruphix and Huntmaster of the Fells. With my creatures I could trade away most damage sources as he layed down Curse of Shallow Graves. The Zombie tokens from this card made me serious problems with balancing my lifepoints out of the red zone, luckily I drew Ajani Vengeant and with a fresh drawn Falkenrath Aristocrat I could manage to counterattack his lifepoints. As Nils drew 2 turns only swamps my Falkenrath flew to vitocry.
Game 2: Nils didn't found really relevant cards only a early  Diregraf Ghoul plus two other small creatures later in the game. I let him discard Diabolic Intent and his Recurring Nightmare didn't found good targets.

Match 3: Dennis Sinner with Esper Control
Game 1: I hit nearly the perfect curve and Dennis didn't found enough relevant cards with his draw spells.
Game 2: I used my only creature destroy spell on his Brimaz, King of Oreskos, so I didn't had anything left for his Baneslayer Angel. as he layed down Tasigur, the Golden Fang with enough mana for his ability the game was over.
Game 3: In this game I started nearly quick with a Dark Confidant, Knight of the Reliquary plus a Fauna Shaman. Dennis stalled my attack with an unremovable True-Name Nemesis, he had only one removal spell for my 3 creatures so he choosed Fauna Shaman. With my Dark Confidant I drewed enough small spells(Discard + Removal Spells(not against TNN)) while my Knight of the Reliquary grew fast by the use of Tectonic Edge + Wasteland. As I played Ajani Vengeant blocking another of Dennis lands he attacked with the Nemesis Ajani. In the following counterattack I killed him especially with the help of my giant Knight of the Reliquary.

Match 4: Matthias Hittel with BUG
Game 1: My first turn Avacyn's Pilgrim got manaless countered by Mental Misstep. I had only 4 mana spells which got countered one by another by Matthias while he used Mystical Teachings to generate advantage mainly by using Mana Drain. At the end he won with a Reaper of the Wilds.
Game 2: I hit the perfect curve with Bloodbraid Elf, Lingering Souls while Matthias had onyl 2 draw spells.
Game 3: This game took verly long we both traded many cards while I had more relevant cards and at the end Matthias had 3 lands in his hand.

Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: GoblinPiledriver on 27-07-2015, 06:39:34 PM
25.07.2015


1Hittel, Matthias  12 UGR-Scapeshift    62,5                
2Zimmermann, Martin  9 Mono-U-Control  64,5    
3Logisch, Arne  9 UW/b-Creatureless-Control  61  
4Kropf, Marco    9 4C-Blood   56,3    
5Kannegiesser, Thomas  6 RDW  64,5    
6Huther, Nils  6 Mono-Black-Suicide   64,5    
7Schäffer, Dirk   6 Izzet-Machinegun 58,3
8Deutscher, Markus 64C-nonblack-aggro     58,3    
9Korbel, Jochen 6BR-Satanic-Sligh41,5
10Dakic, Alexander3Naya-aggro52
11Neuf, Sabine 3Mono-Red-Goblins 50
12Lavaud-Canonne, Olivier 34C-nonred-Goodstuff44,3
13Schmidt, Thomas0BUG-Control62,5
Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: Tabris on 27-07-2015, 09:14:39 PM
MonoU Control? Call me interested :)
Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: Promole on 30-07-2015, 11:35:55 PM
3 decks added (including MUC)

http://www.mtgpulse.com/event/20905#297704
Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: GoblinPiledriver on 24-10-2015, 02:38:50 PM
08.08.2015



RankName  MatchPointsArchetype OMW%
1Logisch, Arne 10 UW/b creatueless-Control 54,1
2Klein,Timo9White Weenie56,2
3Deutcher, Markus 9Magic Zoo33
4Korbel, Jochen  7Izzet56,1
5Hittel, Matthias 6RG-Beats56,1
6Smeltz, Christopher 3BUG Tempo  60,3
7Swing, Florian3Jeskai54,1
8Huther, Nils3Mono Black Suicide47,8

Match 1: Florian Swing with Jeskai
Game 1: Florian didn't find a red land for most of the game, which binds several cards in his hand. As he had finally drawn a Mountain the game was already over.
Game 2: In this game Florian played quickly Kitchen Finks and Mantis Rider which I answered with Tamiyo, Repulse and a Cryptic Command. At the end I got the Tamiyo Emblem and killed him with Fire/Ice.


Match 2: Christopher Smeltz with BUG Tempo
Game 1: In this game I had to face Experiment One, Scryb Ranger, Dark Confidant, Duress and a few soft counter. They made a few damage before I shot them. Thundermaw Hellkite and Jace, the Mind Sculptor flew this game home.
Game 2: Like the first game only with an opposing Bitterblossom and Putrid Leech more. This time I had Jace, Architect of Mind and a Stormbreath Dragon so the game was really Deja-Vue of the first one.


Match 3: Timo Klein with White Weenie
Game 1: Timo played on 2/1 creature after another and I could only counter/shot down half of them. So this game didn't take too long for me to lose it.
Game 2: My Opponent had a medium slow start and I could control him with a Vedalken Shackles Flametongue Kavu and so on.
Game 3: Turn 2 I faced a Silver Knight and Turn 3 Ajani, Caller of the Pride. At the end I didn't had an answer for Ajani's Ultimate with 20 2/2 Cats.


Match 4: Logisch Arne with UW/b creaturess Control
Game 1: Arne tutored for Rune of Protection: Red, which blocked more than half of my cards. He also drew more relevant cards so I conceded after 20 minutes.
Game 2: As we were both out of cards I drew Conundrum Sphinx which gave me more cards than Arne so I could control him.
Game 3: After a long game I drew again Conundrum Sphinx but after 2 attacks Arne topdecked Gideon Jura which destroyed the Sphinx. He couldn't kill me with Gideon because I had Maze of Ith. So after felt infinte play time the game ended with a draw.

Title: Re: Highlander tournaments in Frankfurt (Main)
Post by: GoblinPiledriver on 12-02-2016, 03:12:17 PM
29.08.2015



RankName  MatchPointsArchetype OMW%
1Korbel, Jochen10 4C-Blood 56,1
2Zanotti, Danilo10Naya Midrange54,1
3Schäffer, Dirk9Izzet Spell Aggro56,2
4Müller, Tobias94C-Blood47,8
5Huther, Nils6Mono Black Suicide55,6
6Lauvad-Canonne, Olivier6Zur, the Enchanter52
7Kropf, Marco44C-Blood54
8Logisch, Arne4UW/b creatureless Control37,3
9Deutscher, Markus3Magic Zoo68,8
10Neuf, Sabine3RW-Goblins61
11Smeltz, Christopher2UB-Reanimator50
12Goempel, Jonas0GW +1/+1 Counters43,8



10.10



RankName   MatchPointsArchetype OMW%
1Klein, Timo12White Weenie68
2Zimmermann, Martin12Mono Blue Control58,6
3Hittel, Matthias12Esper58,6
4Korbel, Jochen124C Blood46,6
5Huther, Nils9Mono Black Suicide65
6Kropf, Marco94C-Blood54,6
7Kreile, Julien9Grixis Midrange53,2
8Burger, Julian9Bant52
9Logisch, Arne9UW/b creatureless Control45,2
10Lauvad-Canonne, Olivier9Esper44,3
11Hubertus, David94C Scapeshift41,2
12Müller, Tobias64C Blood60
13Bausch, Joshua6Izzet Spell Midrange58,6
14Jaafari, Constantin6Izzet58,6
15Hafner, Constantin6Jund54,6
16Heil, Max3Mono G Elves60
19Hornikel, Sascha0Abzan Tokens56