Poll / Opinions etc

[Vazdru]

This questionnaire will be distributed to the participants of the 9th HL GP in Hanau (08.01.12). It's almost the same as the ones before.

Online players are invited to take part in this survey (just quote and fill in). The analysis will be reported here soon.


German Version:

@ HIGHLANDER COMMUNITY

Name:___________________________________________________________________


Fragebogen zur Banned-List

•   Ancestral Recall
•   Balance
•   Black Lotus
•   Chaos Orb
•   Dread Return
•   Enlightened Tutor
•   Entomb
•   Falling Star
•   Fastbond
•   Flash
•   Grindstone
•   Gift's Ungiven
•   Imperial Seal
•   Library of Alexandria
•   Life from the Loam
•   Lion's Eye Diamond
•   Mana Crypt
•   Mana Vault
•   Mind Twist   
•   Mox Emerald
•   Mox Jet
•   Mox Pearl
•   Mox Ruby
•   Mox Sapphire
•   Mystical Tutor
•   Skullclamp
•   Sol Ring
•   Strip Mine
•   Survival of the Fittest
•   Tolarian Academy
•   Time Vault
•   Time Walk
•   Tinker
•   Umezawa's Jitte
•   Vampiric Tutor
•   Yawgmoth's Will   

Alle Ante-Karten:
•   Amulet of Quoz
•   Bronze Tablet
•   Contract from Below
•   Darkpact
•   Demonic Attorney
•   Jeweled Bird
•   Rebirth
•   Tempest Efreet
•   Timmerian Fiends

Weiterhin sind alle Karten aus den Editionen "Unglued" und "Unhinged" mit Ausnahme der Basic Lands banned.
Folgende silberrandige Karten sind ebenfalls banned:
•   Evil Presents
•   Fruitcake Elemental
•   Gifts Given


Wie bewertest Du die Banned-Liste auf einer Skala von 1 bis 10 (1=grottig, 10=super)?

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Wie bewertest Du die Mulligan-Regel auf einer Skala von 1 bis 10?

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Wie oft spielst Du Highlander nach den mp.org-Regeln durchschnittlich

   Mehrmals wöchentlich

   Einmal die Woche

   Einmal im Monat
   
   Nur bei größeren Turnieren

Wie häufig warst Du schon bei einem HL-GP?

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Welche Karten fehlen Deiner Meinung nach auf der aktuellen Banned-Liste? (max. die wichtigsten 5, wenn möglich mit kurzer Begründung)

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Welche Karten würdest Du von der Banned-Liste streichen? (max. die wichtigsten 5, wenn möglich mit kurzer Begründung)

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Weitere Anregungen und Anmerkungen?

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Wie soll das Nachfolgeevent zum GP heißen?

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Bitte um Rückgabe an Gerry Stahl

Vielen Dank! Die Auswertung wird demnächst veröffentlicht.

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Translation:

@ HIGHLANDER COMMUNITY

Name:___________________________________________________________________


Questionnaire for HL Banned List

•   Ancestral Recall
•   Balance
•   Black Lotus
•   Chaos Orb
•   Dread Return
•   Enlightened Tutor
•   Entomb
•   Falling Star
•   Fastbond
•   Flash
•   Grindstone
•   Gift's Ungiven
•   Imperial Seal
•   Library of Alexandria
•   Life from the Loam
•   Lion's Eye Diamond
•   Mana Crypt
•   Mana Vault
•   Mind Twist   
•   Mox Emerald
•   Mox Jet
•   Mox Pearl
•   Mox Ruby
•   Mox Sapphire
•   Mystical Tutor
•   Skullclamp
•   Sol Ring
•   Strip Mine
•   Survival of the Fittest
•   Tolarian Academy
•   Time Vault
•   Time Walk
•   Tinker
•   Umezawa's Jitte
•   Vampiric Tutor
•   Yawgmoth's Will   

All Ante-Cards:
•   Amulet of Quoz
•   Bronze Tablet
•   Contract from Below
•   Darkpact
•   Demonic Attorney
•   Jeweled Bird
•   Rebirth
•   Tempest Efreet
•   Timmerian Fiends
•   Unhinged-Cards
•   Unglued-Cards
•   Evil Presents
•   Fruitcake Elemental
•   Gifts Given


How do you rate the banned-list on a scale from 1 to 10 (1=poor, 10=great)?

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How do you rate the highlander mulligan on a scale from 1 to 10?

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How often do you play Highlander (mp.org-rules) in average

   several times weekly

   once per week

   one per month
   
   only (big) tournaments (like GP)

How often have you played on a HL-GP?

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Which cards are missing on the banned-list and why? (max. the 5 most important ones)

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Which cards should be deleted from the banned-list and why? (max. the 5 most important ones)

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Do you have any further suggestions or notes?

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How should the huge hl tournaments should be called if not Grand Prix  ?

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Thanks a lot for participance!

[Tiggupiru]

Name: Tiggupiru / Janne Öhman

How do you rate the banned-list on a scale from 1 to 10 (1=poor, 10=great)?

9, I think we've made good progress from the last time.

How do you rate the highlander mulligan on a scale from 1 to 10?

10

How often do you play Highlander (mp.org-rules) in average

   several times weekly (or try and want to atleast)

How often have you played on a HL-GP?

Never. Still waiting for GP Helsinki.


Which cards are missing on the banned-list and why? (max. the 5 most important ones)


Sensei's Diving Top - If not for anything else, but because of time issues. Problematic in tournaments.

Stoneforge Mystic - No need to ban Worldly if this goes. If you ban Worldly, this might still need to go.

Birthing Pod - Activating this three times usually gives you enough advantage to win the game. One activation usually gives enough value for you not to feel too bad if opponent removes it immediately afterwards.

Wasteland - This was a great suggestion from so_not in finnish discussion board. Wasteland just randomly wins games where someone was a bit unlucky when mulliganing. Even two colored decks have enough duals and utility lands that it can easily just win when they are low on lands. Banning of the Wasteland would also give more playable lands to the format. Kamigawa Legendary Lands and Ravnica Karoos for example don't really see play because of the threat of Wasteland.

Intuition - ONLY IF Loam gets unbanned and Wasteland would go. If Loam gets unbanned now, Intuition for Wasteland - Loam - Cycle Land would be brutal in probably like most MUs. Similarly, my favorite lock of Loam - Urborg - Raven's Crime is just one Intuition away if Loam is in the same format with Intuition. To me, Intuition doesn't really offer too much for this format. It's decent tutor for control/combo decks, but it's not something I would miss too much. I think unbanning Loam would give way more to this format.


Which cards should be deleted from the banned-list and why? (max. the 5 most important ones)


Life from the Loam - See most of my reasonings above. It would also give a significant boost to some weird decks to emerge.

Yawgmoth's Will - Nothing has changed since last time. Giving some combo decks a boost is very preferred now that the format has become more and more midrange vs. midrange.

Enlightened Tutor - Oath is just a horrible card and I assume this is banned practically solely because of it. If you choose to play Oath, you cannot play Snapcaster, Vendilion, Stoneforge or whatever practically autoplayable creatures this format has. So you need to play bad cards in order to maximize your game plan. I don't thin Worldly needs to go, bnor this needs to stay in exile. Pod should get the axe before this can enter the format, though.

Mystical Tutor - I think these tutors are largely fair. Mystical is better than Enlightened, but I don't think we have anything too broken to search for. Mana Drain is the only reason I can think of why this should stay in the sidelines, but it also gives your opponent the information and Mana Drain is just so much worse when opponent is aware of it.

Dread Return - I've seen pyyhttu play his very ugly-looking combo deck for a while and I think it cannot win unless it can naturally draw the Hermit with a discard backup. Even if I were to assume that list isn't the most optimal one, the number of things that can royally screw you over are just too numerous. If the Loam would come back to the format, we would start to see more GY hate anyways, and Dread Return cannot win past an active Nihil Spellbomb. The deck can win for sure, so someone might have incentive to pla it, bt I think it's just too inconsistent.


How should the huge hl tournaments should be called if not Grand Prix  ?

GP (not an acronym, just GP).

[Orkpopper]

Will the results of this questionnaire be posted here?
Would be interesting...

[Vazdru]

Will the results of this questionnaire be posted here?
Would be interesting...

yes the results will be posted ...probably within the next two or three weeks

[Kassow-Rossing]

Name: Patrick Kassow Rossing


How do you rate the banned-list on a scale from 1 to 10 (1=poor, 10=great)?
9
I think you've done a really good job so far.


How do you rate the highlander mulligan on a scale from 1 to 10?
10
I keep changing my mind from 8-10 because I also like the Commander mulligan rule, but I think this is the best still.


How often do you play Highlander (mp.org-rules) in average
Several times a week except for those mandatory pauses for a few weeks once a year


Which cards are missing on the banned-list and why? (max. the 5 most important ones)
1. Intuition because it keeps Life from the Loam from getting unbanned. Not because it's particularly strong on its own. Sometimes decisions like this has to be made for the benefit of the format as a whole. See below for more.

Which cards should be deleted from the banned-list and why? (max. the 5 most important ones)
1. Life from the Loam. I don't think Life from the Loam is a threat to the format unless you can tutor it up while also tutoring for Wasteland and/or the Onslaught Land cycles. If Intuition is gone, this won't be possible very easily since Gifts has already been banned (Thx to the Council)
2. Enlightened Tutor. This card should get unbanned if Birthing Pod gets banned in my opinion.
3. Yawgmoth's Will. Not that powerful a card any longer. I believe it will be too slow for most decks to use it properly and those that can, will not end up being tier 1 decks anyways. I trust the playtesting of the HL Council to make the right decision, whatever that decision might be.
4. Dread Return. I also don't think this deck will enable a tier 1 deck either. Same as above what concerns the HL Councils decisions.

[DarkLight]

Name:

How do you rate the banned-list on a scale from 1 to 10?
9

How do you rate the highlander mulligan on a scale from 1 to 10?
10

How often do you play Highlander (mp.org-rules) in average?
Several times a week

How often have you played on a HL-GP?
4 GPs

Which cards are missing on the banned-list and why?
1. Mishra's Workshop - even if you are on the draw you most time have an advantage after you play first round "workshop + manastone" if you are on the play with the same start the game is almost over if you dont have any counterspells
2. Sensei's Devining Top - annoying staller card

Which cards should be deleted from the banned-list and why?
I'm happy with the banned cards or maybe ...
1. Strip Mine - the meta in the last years go more and more to 4c 5c maybe an unban would give some mono or 2c decks a come back

How should the huge hl tournaments should be called if not Grand Prix ?
"The chosen one"

My opinion to Stoneforge Mystic: It's just a two mana sorcery tutor for equipments. My experience is in ~50% of the games Stoneforge Mystic searched an equipment he dies before he could bring it into play. There is enough playable creature and artifact removal to handle.

[Maqi]

Name: Thomas Stier

How do you rate the banned-list on a scale from 1 to 10?
8

How do you rate the highlander mulligan on a scale from 1 to 10?
9

The highlander mulligan is a great achievement and mitigates one of Magic's most fatal flaws - randomness. Recently however I began to dislike the huge gap between a "hl-mulled" hand of 7 and a hand that must be "Paris-mulliganed" after the "hl-mull".
The hl mulligan allows for less lands in the deck, which is usually a good thing because it let's you avoid mana flood. However, a 6-card hand that can't anymore be improved by "hl-mulling" will almost never be able to win against a "hl-optimized" full 7 and will have serious mana issues. This creates a new angle of randomness - namely "losing to the mulligan". Not being "greedy" with the mulligan doesn't really solve the problem, since "greed" is mostly right when it comes to HL starting hands. I don't actually know wat can be done about this problem or even if others do perceive it as a problem at all.

How often do you play Highlander (mp.org-rules) in average?
Usually twice a week

How often have you played on a HL-GP?
3 GPs

Which cards are missing on the banned-list and why?
None

I've always considered HL to be kind of an eternal format in which almost all the nice and dearly remembered cards from the past should be allowed to be played. Therefore I feel that the banned list should be kept as short as possible.

Which cards should be deleted from the banned-list and why?
Lion's Eye Diamond
Mystical Tutor
Enlightened Tutor

All of these fit into certain combo strategies. And combo needs a little help right now. There's definitely more to be said about those cards but I guess that would be an independent thread.

There's one thing however that I want to add. I really don't agree with the recent sentiments of unbanning Yawgmoth's Will in order to boost the combo archetype. The card is too strong in the already established 4-5c Goodstuff decks - in much the same manner as Gifts Ungiven was.

How should the huge hl tournaments should be called if not Grand Prix ?
HL World Cup, HL Championship

[MMD]

Name: MMD / Björn Ortmann

How do you rate the banned-list on a scale from 1 to 10 (1=poor, 10=great)?

8, I am fine with it in general

How do you rate the highlander mulligan on a scale from 1 to 10?

8, I like the "flow", but the problem is that this supports a greedy mana base and a 4-5C build (see bannings)

How often do you play Highlander (mp.org-rules) in average

1-2 times a month 

How often have you played on a HL-GP?

This one was my 5ths (in a row)

Which cards are missing on the banned-list and why? (max. the 5 most important ones)

Fetch Lands  – explanation/discussion in the forum

Birthing Pod -  Activating this twice is game imo which is quite easy to accomplish and difficult to stop.

Mana Drain (Demonic Tutor) - People outside of HL still laugh about this and it is hard to argue based on the power level of the cards itself. The aggro meta can be the only excuse for not banning them.

Which cards should be deleted from the banned-list and why? (max. the 5 most important ones)

Why not trying some of these cards for one season and see what happens:
Dread Return
Life from the Loam (switched with Intuition)
Lion's Eye Diamond
Umezawa's Jitte
Yawgmoth's Will

[Vazdru]

In both years 2010 and 2012 exactly 43 participants  


2012

   

Ban:			Unban:
Birthing Pod	20	46,51%	Life from the Loam	11	25,58%
Stoneforge Mystic	13	30,23%	Yawgmoth's Will	9	20,93%
Sensei's Divining Top	7	16,28%	Gifts Ungiven	8	18,60%
Mana Drain	6	13,95%	Dread Return	8	18,60%
Batterskull	4	9,30%	Enlightened Tutor	8	18,60%
Mishra's Workshop	4	9,30%	Library of Alexandria	5	11,63%
Worldly Tutor	4	9,30%	Mystical Tutor	5	11,63%
Jace, the Mind Sculptor	3	6,98%	Lion's Eye Diamond	5	11,63%
Demonic Tutor	3	6,98%	Entomb	4	9,30%
Aether Vial	2	4,65%	Umezawa's Jitte	3	6,98%
Eladamri's Call	2	4,65%	Balance	2	4,65%
Intuition	2	4,65%	Sol Ring	1	2,33%
Moat	1	2,33%	Survival of the Fittest	1	2,33%
Crumbling Sanctuary	1	2,33%	Tinker	1	2,33%
Channel	1	2,33%	Strip Mine	1	2,33%
Wheel of Fortune	1	2,33%
Wasteland	1	2,33%
Fetchlands	1	2,33%

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2010
   

Ban:			Unban:
Natural Order	11	25,58%	Life from the Loam	11	25,58%
Mana Drain	7	16,28%	Trinisphere	9	20,93%
Demonic Tutor	6	13,95%	Buried Alive	8	18,60%
Mishra's Workshop	5	11,63%	Enlightened Tutor	7	16,28%
Oath of Druids	5	11,63%	Yawgmoth's Will	6	13,95%
Gifts Ungiven	4	9,30%	Mystical Tutor	5	11,63%
Aether Vial	3	6,98%	Entomb	5	11,63%
Sensei's Divining Top	3	6,98%	Umezawa's Jitte	4	9,30%
Progenitus	2	4,65%	Tolarian Academy	4	9,30%
Moat	2	4,65%	Library of Alexandria	4	9,30%
Worldly Tutor	2	4,65%	Imperial Seal	4	9,30%
Stoneforge Mystic	2	4,65%	Dread Return	3	6,98%
Intuition	2	4,65%	Wheel of Fortune	2	4,65%
Trygon Predator	1	2,33%	Survival of the Fittest	1	2,33%
Onslaught Cycle-Lands	1	2,33%	Strip Mine	1	2,33%
Worldgorger Dragon	1	2,33%	Skullclamp	1	2,33%
Channel	1	2,33%	Mind Twist	1	2,33%
Power Artifact	1	2,33%	All Moxes	1	2,33%
Thopter Foundry	1	2,33%
Protean Hulk	1	2,33%
Karakas	1	2,33%
Price of Progress	1	2,33%
Quasli Pridemage	1	2,33%
Shahrazad	1	2,33%

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2012

                                    
   

Banned-List			Mulligan
10	4	9,30%		22	51,16%
9	17	39,53%		12	27,91%
8	14	32,56%		5	11,63%
7	5	11,63%			0,00%
6	2	4,65%		2	4,65%
5		0,00%			0,00%
4		0,00%			0,00%
3		0,00%		1	2,33%
2		0,00%			0,00%
1	1	2,33%		1	2,33%
-		0,00%			0,00%
	43	100,00%		43	100,00%

Average Banned-List: 8,21
Average Mulligan: 8,93

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2010
                           
      

Banned-List                     Mulligan                     10       3       6,98%       10       28       65,12%       9       17       39,53%       9       1       2,33%       8       13       30,23%       8       5       11,63%       7       9       20,93%       7       1       2,33%       6              0,00%       6       3       6,98%       5              0,00%       5       3       6,98%       4       1       2,33%       4              0,00%       3              0,00%       3       1       2,33%       2              0,00%       2              0,00%       1              0,00%       1       1       2,33%       -              0,00%                                   43       100,00%              43       100,00%    Rating of Banned-Liste 8,23 (7,19 in 2008) Ratng of Mulligan 8,67 (8,92 in 2008)

[LasH]

Thx for the infos.

Interesting for me that ppl rather wanna have the 1 mana mirage tutor's in the format than banned. Birthing Pod really doesnt need any explantion (sotf 2.0).

I faced 2 ld decks at the gp. Ppl start building with land destruction which is a good thing in this 4c meta. I hope an unban of lftl won't kill this developing. Im pretty sure the unban of lftl will also affect reanimator decks, which alrdy have a very bad meta. Lftl might push gravehate (OOze is going to be the mvp).

@ MMD: Ppl outside of the format who dont play the format are not even close to judge about the powerlvl of cards in this format. Best example of this would be memory jar/timetwister. Ask your ppl about these cards. Such  feared cards by so many ppl and did u see any good build with it since the unban? Demonic tutor isn't a problem at all, proven many times to just be an answer.

[Vazdru]

Some other interesting facts for me:

• Natural Order has been the card in 2010 which has been nominated by the community for a ban most frequently. In 2012 noone cares about this card anymore - seems our decision proved right not to ban that card 


• Life from the Loam is again in the top spot of the community for Unbanning but only two mentioned Intuition for a ban ( exatly like 2 years before ). But on the other side there were many "suggestions/notes" to leave LftL on Banned-List especially because that card would make the game more slowly and annoying.


• 5 guys wanna have LoA back but noone mentioned Academy 


• the most recent unbannings seem to be ok for the community, noone mentioned Trinisphere, only one Wheel of Fortune

the 21 guys who quoted playing Highlander more than once each week (or at least trying to do so) voted this way:                                 
   

Ban:			Unban:
Birthing Pod	9	42,86%	Yawgmoth's Will	6	28,57%
Stoneforge Mystic	5	23,81%	Gifts Ungiven	5	23,81%
Sensei's Divining Top	5	23,81%	Life from the Loam	5	23,81%
Mana Drain	3	14,29%	Enlightened Tutor	4	19,05%
Aether Vial	2	9,52%	Mystical Tutor	3	14,29%
Eladamri's Call	2	9,52%	Dread Return	3	14,29%
Mishra's Workshop	2	9,52%	Entomb	2	9,52%
Intuition	2	9,52%	Library of Alexandria	1	4,76%
Batterskull	1	4,76%	Umezawa's Jitte	1	4,76%
Demonic Tutor	1	4,76%	Balance	1	4,76%
Worldly Tutor	1	4,76%	Strip Mine	1	4,76%
Wasteland	1	4,76%	Lion's Eye Diamond	1	4,76%

Almost 25% don't like Sensei's  On the other side more than 75% don't mind playing with/vs Sensei's.
Almost 25% nominated Gifts Ungiven for Unban but almost 30% Yawgmoth's Will - only one of them mentioned both cards.
Almost 25% nominated Life from the Loam for Unban - only one of them nominated both Gifts Ungiven and Life from the Loam.

[Dreamer]

You'll pry my Pod from my cold, dead fingers. Or with appeasements like replacement tutors and Loam, I guess

Personally, Stoneforge isn't much of a problem at our shop, but guess it's good to kill it. Top, too perhaps. Wouldn't mourn either of those. Pod I will protest violently unless I get other fun things to replace it.

I'd like testing out unbanning Loam (please don't ban Intuition at the same time), Enlightened/Mystical Tutor and perhaps Y-Win or Dread Return.

Highlander once a week as the only Magic format with Rares I bother with anymore.

[Tabris]

For now just in german but I summarized my reasons for banning pod and unbanning lftl in this thread. Feedback would be appreciated (I am open minded )

http://www.mtg-forum.de/index.php?s=&showtopic=76653&view=findpost&p=803058

[pyyhttu]

Those are some pretty interesting figures. To me the Natural Order case reminds that the ban decisions should not be made lightly or hastily, but to be tested and pondered on a longer term.

@Tabris: I don't always read my magic threads in German, but when I do, I'll make sure I read that one. Thanks for the pointer, bookmarked.

[ChristophO]

I strongly agree that Birthing Pod is too powerful. It tutors a creature directly into play for 1 generic mana and 2 lifepoints as a "cost". Because of using Citp Effect creatures or mechanics like Persist Birthing Pod = 1 free spell of your choice per turn.

I strongly dislike the motion to unban Life form the Loam. Current "pure" control builds tend to be UW; UR, UB, or a 3 color combination of U and two of WBR that are not Tier 1 in my opinion (placing in a Top 8 certainly is possible but not easy). Life from the Loam is far more harder to remove than Crucible of Worlds and also is a engine card (by dredging good lands into your yard which Crucible can not do). Life form the loam also punishes mana denial strategies that are powerful against slugish 5 color midrange decks. Ponza is a good T2 deck to have in the meta to keep people honest just like Blood Moon/Winter Orb aggro. I do not believe an unban would create a powerful Retrace deck or some such. It would severly strengthen UG Aggro conmtrol however. I believe in that deck one of the strongest plays being on the play is T1 Mana elf, T2 intuition for LftL; Wasteland, cycleland enabling one waste every turn starting on turn 3. To prevent this either the one mana cycle lands would have to go or Intuition. I did not play Highlander on a serious level during that time but I understand the Oath vs. Loam vs. Survival Meta was despised by a lot of players. I would be happy to here some stories from that time. 

Here is an old list thay Payron posted 2010 that was pretty sucessful:
12 Island
11 Forest
1 Tropical Island
1 Wasteland
1 breeding Pool
1 Trinquil Thicket
1 Lonely Sandbar
1 Maze of Ith
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Windswept Heath
1 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Misty Rainforest

Creatures:

1 Venser, Shaper Savant
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Looter il-Kor
1 Wall of Blossoms
1 Serendib Efreet
1 Trinket Mage
1 Sower of Temptation
1 Masticore
1 Tarmogoyf
1 Glen Elendra Archmage
1 Noble Hierarch
1 Sphinx of Jwar Isle
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Cloudthresher
1 Mystic Snake
1 Troll Ascetic
1 Meloku the Clouded Mirror
1 Phantom Centaur
1 Wall of Roots
1 Chameleon Colossus
1 Kitchen Finks
1 Spike Weaver
1 Fyndhorn Elves
1 Ramping Baloth
1 Ravenous Baloth
1 Trygon Predator
1 Eternal Witness
1 Man-o´-War
1 Mulldrifter
1 Lotuscobra
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Grazing Gladehart

Spells:

1 Mana Leak
1 Miscalculation
1 Intuition
1 Life from the Loam
1 Force of Will
1 Vedalken Shackles
1 Upheaval
1 Counterspell
1 Future Sight
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Treachery
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Garruk Wildspeaker
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Brainstorm
1 Regrowth
1 Back to Basic
1 Aether Veil
1 Remand
1 Worldly Tutor
1 Cryptic Command
1 Compulsive Research
1 Deprive
1 Control Magic
1 Daze
1 Thrist for Knowledge
1 Tormod´s Crypt
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Mana Drain