Grand Prix in Hanau

[pyyhttu]

I snatched the last 15 point standing with prizes (sorry Bjoern!) with this:

Lands (31):
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Polluted Delta
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Flooded Strand
1 Arid Mesa
1 Windswept Heath
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Marsh Flats
1 Tropical Island
1 Bayou
1 Scrubland
1 Underground Sea
1 Tundra
1 Volcanic Island
1 Savannah
1 Taiga
1 Badlands
1 Darkslick Shores
1 Underground River
1 Watery Grave
1 Llanowar Wastes
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Yavimaya Coast
1 Breeding Pool
1 Gemstone Mine
1 Swamp
1 Island
1 Forest
1 Shelldock Isle (Doomsday, Emrakul)

More fast mana (9):
1 Lotus Petal
1 Lotus Bloom
1 Chrome Mox
1 Mox Diamond (?, hell to mulligan with but need fast mana)
1 Dark Ritual
1 Utopia Sprawl (?, because *then* wasteland is gg)
1 Manamorphose (Helps also with initiating the Doomsday combo)
1 Pentad Prism
1 Squandered Resources (!)

Counters & Disrupt (22):
1 Mental Misstep
1 Force of Will
1 Misdirection
1 Daze
1 Dispel
1 Spell Snare
1 Disrupt
1 Flusterstorm (!)
1 Force Spike
1 Spell Pierce
1 Cabal Therapy (gets oathed gamekeeper too)
1 Duress
1 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Thoughtseize
1 Addle
1 Castigate
1 Negate
1 Miscalculation
1 Mana Leak
1 Evasive Action
1 Remand
1 Mana Drain

Draw/Tutor/Cantrips (26):
1 Gitaxian Probe (Cabal Therapy, to combo or not to)
1 Chromatic Star
1 Chromatic Sphere
1 Darkwater Egg (all of these eggs enable same turn Doomsday kill, smoothens mana and draw too)
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
1 Preordain
1 Enlightened Tutor (Oath)
1 Demonic Consultation (Only worth tutoring with this if Emrakul already in hands. Risk dying mitigated by deck size and being multiple two parts. Definitely wins more than causes losses). (!)
1 Gamble
1 Sylvan Tutor
1 Worldly Tutor
1 Personal Tutor
1 Time of Need
1 Eladamri's Call (Due to these 5 creature tutor, finding Emrakul always easier than finding outlet)
1 Lim Dul's Vault (bad with Channel route)
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Tainted Pact (only stop and take is Emrakul)
1 Worldly Counsel
1 Peer Through Depths (lots of targets, makes Demonic Consultation and Shelldock Isle better)
1 Impulse
1 Intuition
1 Cruel Tutor (Pending. Life loss)
1 Rhystic Tutor
1 Grim Tutor (Pending. Life loss, double black)

Utility (6):
1 Chain of Vapor
1 Noxious Revival (Intuition piles, doomsday-kills)
1 Dream's Grip (Doomsday, if opponent has life 15 > 30, also eot hoses opponent's counter mana, buys time against random critters)
1 Devastation Tide
1 Vindicate (Karakas, Maze of Ith)
1 Supreme Verdict (pending)

Combo counterparts (in order of importance) (6):
1 Channel
1 Show and Tell
1 Oath of Druids
1 Doomsday
1 Gamekeeper (Cabal Therapy)
1 Sneak Attack

Win (1):
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Thorn

I managed to pull out couple of times 2nd. turn emrakul's (from play) but mostly combo kills happened on turn 4 or five. I won zoo, couple of bants, bw discard and something I didn't get to see properly. Lost to curved zoo and bug-oath-control.

I have now knowledge how to improve the build, so until next time.

[Vazdru]

thanks to florian from planetmtg for posting

I've added the list to mtgpulse
http://mtgpulse.com/event/11692#162873

Highlander Top8 Decklisten

1. Christoph Alsheimer

1 Chrome Mox
1 Cloud Key
1 Coalition Relic
1 Dimir Signet
1 Gilded Lotus
1 Grim Monolith
1 Helm of Awakening
1 Lion's Eye Diamond
1 Lotus Bloom
1 Lotus Petal
1 Memory Jar
1 Mox Diamond
1 Mox Opal
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Talisman of Dominance

1 Future Sight
1 Necropotence
1 Oath of Druids
1 Phyrexian Unlife
1 Yawgmoth's Bargain

1 Abeyance
1 Ad Nauseam
1 Angel's Grace
1 Beacon of Destruction
1 Brainstorm
1 Cabal Ritual
1 Dark Ritual
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Force of Will
1 Gush
1 Intuition
1 Mana Drain
1 Manamorphose
1 Memory's Journey
1 Muddle the Mixture
1 Mystical Teachings
1 Noxious Revival
1 Pact of Negation
1 Quicken
1 Rain of Filth
1 Remand
1 Repeal
1 Seething Song
1 Shred Memory

1 Arid Mesa
1 Badlands
1 Bayou
1 Blood Crypt
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 City of Brass
1 Darkslick Shores
1 Drowned Catacomb
1 Flooded Strand
1 Forbidden Orchard
1 Gemstone Mine
1 Karakas
1 Marsh Flats
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Polluted Delta
1 River of Tears
1 Savannah
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Scrubland
1 Seat of the Synod
1 Steam Vents
1 Sunken Ruins
1 Tolaria West
1 Tropical Island
1 Tundra
1 Underground Sea
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Vault of Whispers
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Volcanic Island
1 Watery Grave
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills

1 Beseech the Queen
1 Deep Analysis
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Doomsday
1 Duress
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Grim Tutor
1 Idyllic Tutor
1 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Mind's Desire
1 Overmaster
1 Past in Flames
1 Ponder
1 Preordain
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Thoughtseize
1 Time Spiral
1 Timetwister
1 Transmute Artifact
1 Wargate
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Windfall
1 Yawgmoth's Will

2. Patrick Richter

1 AEther Vial
1 Mox Diamond
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
1 Sword of Fire and Ice

1 Birds of Paradise
1 Dark Confidant
1 Deathrite Shaman
1 Delver of Secrets
1 Doran, the Siege Tower
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
1 Fauna Shaman
1 Geist of Saint Traft
1 Kitchen Finks
1 Knight of the Reliquary
1 Lotus Cobra
1 Man-o'-War
1 Noble Hierarch
1 Phantasmal Image
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Putrid Leech
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Restoration Angel
1 Rhox War Monk
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Shadowmage Infiltrator
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Sower of Temptation
1 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Tarmogoyf
1 Thragtusk
1 Thrun, the Last Troll
1 Tombstalker
1 Vendilion Clique

1 Bitterblossom
1 Sylvan Library

1 Abrupt Decay
1 Brainstorm
1 Daze
1 Delay
1 Dismember
1 Eladamri's Call
1 Force Spike
1 Force of Will
1 Into the Roil
1 Intuition
1 Mana Drain
1 Mana Leak
1 Memory Lapse
1 Mental Misstep
1 Path to Exile
1 Remand
1 Slaughter Pact
1 Snuff Out
1 Spell Pierce
1 Spell Snare
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Tainted Pact
1 Worldly Tutor

1 Bayou
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Breeding Pool
1 City of Brass
1 Creeping Tar Pit
1 Flooded Strand
1 Forest
1 Island
1 Karakas
1 Lonely Sandbar
1 Marsh Flats
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Plains
1 Polluted Delta
1 Savannah
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Scrubland
1 Snow-Covered Island
1 Swamp
1 Treetop Village
1 Tropical Island
1 Tundra
1 Underground Sea
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Wasteland
1 Watery Grave
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills

1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

1 Ancestral Vision
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Duress
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Life from the Loam
1 Lingering Souls
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Thoughtseize
1 Timely Reinforcements
1 Vindicate

3. Konstantin Lorenz

1 Ankh of Mishra
1 Shrine of Burning Rage

1 Ash Zealot
1 Ball Lightning
1 Blistering Firecat
1 Boggart Ram-Gang
1 Chandra's Phoenix
1 Ember Hauler
1 Figure of Destiny
1 Frenzied Goblin
1 Giant Solifuge
1 Goblin Guide
1 Grim Lavamancer
1 Guttersnipe
1 Hell's Thunder
1 Hellrider
1 Hellspark Elemental
1 Kargan Dragonlord
1 Keldon Champion
1 Keldon Marauders
1 Magus of the Moon
1 Mogg Fanatic
1 Rakdos Cackler
1 Scorched Rusalka
1 Spark Elemental
1 Stormblood Berserker
1 Stromkirk Noble
1 Tattermunge Maniac
1 Torch Fiend
1 Vexing Devil

1 Blood Moon
1 Sulfuric Vortex

1 Brimstone Volley
1 Burst Lightning
1 Char
1 Fireblast
1 Flame Javelin
1 Flames of the Blood Hand
1 Incinerate
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Magma Jet
1 Price of Progress
1 Pulse of the Forge
1 Rhystic Lightning
1 Searing Blaze
1 Searing Spear
1 Shard Volley
1 Smash to Smithereens
1 Sonic Burst
1 Staggershock
1 Sudden Shock
1 Thunderous Wrath
1 Volcanic Fallout

1 Barbarian Ring
1 Ghitu Encampment
1 Mishra's Factory
27 Mountain
1 Mutavault
1 Teetering Peaks
1 Wasteland

1 Koth of the Hammer

1 Arc Trail
1 Breath of Darigaaz
1 Chain Lightning
1 Cryoclasm
1 Fire Ambush
1 Firebolt
1 Flame Rift
1 Forked Bolt
1 Lava Spike
1 Molten Rain
1 Rift Bolt
1 Ruination
1 Volcanic Hammer

4. Milan Niznansky

1 Chrome Mox
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Mortarpod
1 Mox Diamond
1 Sword of War and Peace

1 Akrasan Squire
1 Angel of Jubilation
1 Blade Splicer
1 Dryad Militant
1 Elite Vanguard
1 Emancipation Angel
1 Figure of Destiny
1 Flickerwisp
1 Grand Abolisher
1 Hero of Bladehold
1 Icatian Javelineers
1 Isamaru, Hound of Konda
1 Kitchen Finks
1 Knight of Meadowgrain
1 Knight of the Holy Nimbus
1 Knight of the White Orchid
1 Kor Sanctifiers
1 Kor Skyfisher
1 Leonin Relic-Warder
1 Loyal Cathar
1 Mikaeus, the Lunarch
1 Mirran Crusader
1 Mother of Runes
1 Pianna, Nomad Captain
1 Precinct Captain
1 Restoration Angel
1 Safehold Elite
1 Samurai of the Pale Curtain
1 Savannah Lions
1 Serra Avenger
1 Sigiled Paladin
1 Silverblade Paladin
1 Soltari Champion
1 Soltari Monk
1 Soltari Priest
1 Soltari Trooper
1 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Student of Warfare
1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
1 Veteran Armorer
1 Wilt-Leaf Liege

1 Glorious Anthem
1 Honor of the Pure
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Parallax Wave

1 Brave the Elements
1 Disenchant
1 Dismember
1 Faith's Shield
1 Harm's Way
1 Humble
1 Mana Tithe
1 Path to Exile
1 Swords to Plowshares

1 Blinkmoth Nexus
1 Eiganjo Castle
1 Flagstones of Trokair
1 Horizon Canopy
1 Karakas
1 Mishra's Factory
1 Mutavault
24 Plains
1 Rishadan Port
1 Tectonic Edge
1 Wasteland
1 Windbrisk Heights

1 Elspeth, Knight-Errant

1 Armageddon
1 Cataclysm
1 Ravages of War
1 Spectral Procession

5. Florian Hering

1 Batterskull
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Sensei's Divining Top

1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
1 Gamekeeper
1 Griselbrand
1 Rune-Scarred Demon

1 Animate Dead
1 Back to Basics
1 Necromancy
1 Oath of Druids
1 Pernicious Deed
1 Sylvan Library
1 Treachery

1 Abrupt Decay
1 Beast Within
1 Brainstorm
1 Counterspell
1 Cryptic Command
1 Diabolic Edict
1 Dispel
1 Doom Blade
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Force of Will
1 Ghastly Demise
1 Go for the Throat
1 Intuition
1 Mana Drain
1 Mana Leak
1 Mental Misstep
1 Misdirection
1 Moment's Peace
1 Muddle the Mixture
1 Mystical Teachings
1 Shred Memory
1 Spell Pierce
1 Spell Snare

1 Barren Moor
1 Bayou
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Breeding Pool
1 Creeping Tar Pit
1 Drowned Catacomb
1 Flooded Strand
1 Forbidden Orchard
1 Forest
6 Island
1 Llanowar Wastes
1 Lonely Sandbar
1 Marsh Flats
1 Maze of Ith
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Polluted Delta
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Sunken Ruins
4 Swamp
1 Tropical Island
1 Underground Sea
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Wasteland
1 Watery Grave
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills

1 Jace, Architect of Thought
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Liliana of the Veil
1 Sorin Markov
1 Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
1 Vraska the Unseen

1 Ancestral Vision
1 Black Sun's Zenith
1 Bribery
1 Compulsive Research
1 Damnation
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Despise
1 Duress
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Hymn to Tourach
1 Innocent Blood
1 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Life from the Loam
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Massacre
1 Ponder
1 Preordain
1 Regrowth
1 Thoughtseize
1 Treasured Find

6. Christian Hauck

1 AEther Vial
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
1 Sword of Fire and Ice

1 Acidic Slime
1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
1 Aven Mindcensor
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Bloodbraid Elf
1 Dark Confidant
1 Deathrite Shaman
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Eternal Witness
1 Fauna Shaman
1 Flametongue Kavu
1 Fyndhorn Elves
1 Huntmaster of the Fells
1 Kitchen Finks
1 Knight of the Reliquary
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Lotus Cobra
1 Loxodon Smiter
1 Mirran Crusader
1 Mother of Runes
1 Noble Hierarch
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Primeval Titan
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Restoration Angel
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Shriekmaw
1 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Tarmogoyf
1 Thragtusk
1 Thrun, the Last Troll
1 Vithian Renegades

1 Animate Dead
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Parallax Wave
1 Sylvan Library

1 Abrupt Decay
1 Eladamri's Call
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Lightning Helix
1 Path to Exile
1 Putrefy
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Tainted Pact

1 Arid Mesa
1 Badlands
1 Bayou
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Copperline Gorge
1 Flooded Strand
1 Forest
1 Horizon Canopy
1 Karakas
1 Marsh Flats
1 Maze of Ith
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Plains
1 Plateau
1 Polluted Delta
1 Raging Ravine
1 Razorverge Thicket
1 Reflecting Pool
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Savannah
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Scrubland
1 Stirring Wildwood
1 Stomping Ground
1 Swamp
1 Taiga
1 Tectonic Edge
1 Temple Garden
1 Treetop Village
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Wasteland
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Woodland Cemetery

1 Ajani Vengeant
1 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
1 Garruk Relentless
1 Garruk Wildspeaker
1 Liliana of the Veil
1 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
1 Vraska the Unseen

1 Arc Trail
1 Bonfire of the Damned
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Dreadbore
1 Forked Bolt
1 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Lingering Souls
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Natural Order
1 Tribal Flames
1 Vindicate

7. Tim Riedel

1 Arbor Elf
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Bloodbraid Elf
1 Boggart Ram-Gang
1 Burning-Tree Shaman
1 Dark Confidant
1 Deathrite Shaman
1 Dreg Mangler
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Elves of Deep Shadow
1 Fauna Shaman
1 Flametongue Kavu
1 Flinthoof Boar
1 Fyndhorn Elves
1 Glissa, the Traitor
1 Grim Lavamancer
1 Huntmaster of the Fells
1 Kird Ape
1 Kitchen Finks
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Noble Hierarch
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Primeval Titan
1 Putrid Leech
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Shriekmaw
1 Skyshroud Elite
1 Sprouting Thrinax
1 Strangleroot Geist
1 Tarmogoyf
1 Thragtusk
1 Thundermaw Hellkite
1 Ulvenwald Tracker
1 Vengevine
1 Vithian Renegades
1 Wickerbough Elder
1 Wolfir Silverheart

1 Necromancy
1 Phyrexian Arena
1 Rancor
1 Sylvan Library

1 Abrupt Decay
1 Burst Lightning
1 Fire Covenant
1 Incinerate
1 Jund Charm
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Punishing Fire
1 Putrefy
1 Searing Spear
1 Terminate

1 Arid Mesa
1 Badlands
1 Bayou
1 Blackcleave Cliffs
1 Blood Crypt
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Dragonskull Summit
1 Forest
1 Gaea's Cradle
1 Grove of the Burnwillows
1 Kessig Wolf Run
1 Marsh Flats
1 Mishra's Factory
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Mountain
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Polluted Delta
1 Raging Ravine
1 Rootbound Crag
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Stomping Ground
1 Swamp
1 Taiga
1 Tectonic Edge
1 Treetop Village
1 Twilight Mire
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Wasteland
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Woodland Cemetery

1 Garruk Relentless
1 Garruk Wildspeaker
1 Liliana of the Veil

1 Arc Trail
1 Blightning
1 Chain Lightning
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Dreadbore
1 Duress
1 Firebolt
1 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Hymn to Tourach
1 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Natural Order
1 Rakdos's Return
1 Thoughtseize

8. Matthias Gerber

1 Pithing Needle
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Sword of War and Peace
1 Vedalken Shackles

1 Augur of Bolas
1 Azure Mage
1 Consecrated Sphinx
1 Dungeon Geists
1 Faerie Harbinger
1 Flametongue Kavu
1 Glen Elendra Archmage
1 Grim Lavamancer
1 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
1 Magus of the Moon
1 Phantasmal Image
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Sower of Temptation
1 Spellskite
1 Thundermaw Hellkite
1 Trinket Mage
1 Vedalken AEthermage
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Venser, Shaper Savant
1 Voidmage Prodigy
1 Wurmcoil Engine

1 Back to Basics
1 Blood Moon
1 Control Magic
1 Treachery

1 Brainstorm
1 Burst Lightning
1 Condescend
1 Counterspell
1 Cryptic Command
1 Daze
1 Electrolyze
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Fire // Ice
1 Force of Will
1 Incinerate
1 Izzet Charm
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Magma Jet
1 Mana Drain
1 Mana Leak
1 Mental Misstep
1 Misdirection
1 Price of Progress
1 Searing Spear
1 Smash to Smithereens
1 Spell Pierce
1 Spell Snare
1 Stifle

1 Arid Mesa
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Cascade Bluffs
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Flooded Strand
13 Island
1 Karakas
1 Maze of Ith
1 Misty Rainforest
6 Mountain
1 Polluted Delta
1 Riptide Laboratory
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Shivan Reef
1 Steam Vents
1 Sulfur Falls
1 Volcanic Island
1 Wasteland
1 Wooded Foothills

1 Jace Beleren
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

1 Arc Trail
1 Bribery
1 Flame Slash
1 Gitaxian Probe
1 Ponder
1 Preordain
1 Ruination

[Doks]

Thanks for the work! Admitted it's a pretty mixed T8, yet a little creature heavy though. But the deck diversity is great.


I like to see all the nonbasic land hate there since it shows that B2B / Moon / Ruination + PoP etc. are still quite effective which provides some food for thoughts for the fetchland ban discussion (some people are of the opinion that fetchlands render nonbasic hate somewhat 'useless').

[Tabris]

thx.

[Vazdru]

HIGHLANDER TOURNAMENT HANAU Dec. 28th, 2012 - TOP 8

QUARTER-FINALIST

NAME / NICKNAME: Christian Hauck
Age: 28
Hometown: Mutterstadt
Occupation: Student

Shop and/or community where you usually play Magic:
Wizard's Well Mannheim

Your deck archetype:
RBGW-Goodstuff

Why did you choose your deck?
Played it for years

Number of Times Playing on Highlander GPs:
4

Number of HL Top 8s:
3

Other previous Magic Accomplishments:
National Team Member 2010,  Several GP Money Finishes and PT competitor 2010
http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/deck.asp?deck_id=661020

What was your record today?
6-0-1

How often do you play Highlander?
Once a week

Is there any card you would like to nominate for Ban / Unban in Highlander?
Ban Mana Drain

Anything else you would like to say?

[Vazdru]

HIGHLANDER TOURNAMENT HANAU Dec. 28th, 2012 - TOP 8

QUARTER-FINALIST

NAME / NICKNAME: Tim Riedel
Age: 23
Hometown: Würzburg
Occupation:

Shop and/or community where you usually play Magic:
Funtainment Nürnberg

Your deck archetype:
Jund

Why did you choose your deck?
Jund is wicked (o-ton: "Jund ist geil"  )

Number of Times Playing on Highlander GPs:
1

Number of HL Top 8s:
1

Other previous Magic Accomplishments:

What was your record today?
6-1

How often do you play Highlander?
I've played Highlander the first time 3 days before.

Is there any card you would like to nominate for Ban / Unban in Highlander?

Anything else you would like to say?

[Vazdru]

HIGHLANDER TOURNAMENT HANAU Dec. 28th, 2012 - TOP 8

QUARTER-FINALIST

NAME / NICKNAME: Florian Hering
Age: 28
Hometown: Würzburg
Occupation: PhD Student (Chemistry)

Shop and/or community where you usually play Magic:

Your deck archetype:
BUG Oath

Why did you choose your deck?
it was just laying around

Number of Times Playing on Highlander GPs:
6

Number of HL Top 8s:
1

Other previous Magic Accomplishments:

What was your record today?
6-0-1

How often do you play Highlander?
~ once per month (casual)

Is there any card you would like to nominate for Ban / Unban in Highlander?
Ban: Natural Oder, Stoneforge Mystic

Anything else you would like to say?

[ChristophO]

Small Tournament report from myself:

After talking with Tabris about deck options a couple of days before christmas I proceeded to build a creatureless staxx deck in Esper colors and asked Lash as my favourite Staxx player for some input on card choices/missed options. After arriving at our rented flat near Hanau I decided to also add green for crop rotation and Wargate. The deck was build around Tabernacle/Mana Denial and screwing everybodies Metagame expectations by playing no creatures but instead including allstars such as Torpor Orb etc.

R1: 4/5c Staxx
G1:
He has a quicker start and supplies quite some pressure with Tamiyo/Tanglewire lockdown and applies beats with sundering Titan. I make some bad choices but finally find Cyclonic Rift in a Memory Jar activation   My opponent has to destroy his last two permanents staying on the battlefield with his sundering Titan triggers and discards his complete board at the end of my turn due to Jar trigger.
G2:
My opponent starts with Workshop + Trinisphere. I curse the council for allowing both cards at the same time and have to discard two times before finally finding my third land to escape the lock to start wrathing away a Grave Titan. My opponent follows up with a Inferno Titan and I colne it with phyrexian Metamorph (my only creature which my freinds convinced me to play). Obvoiusly my opponent then tries to Bribery into a solution for the dilemma which does not work out so well for him... . After he attacks with his Titan and we trade I gain control of the game with a Tezz.v1 and win shortly afterwards.

R2/R3:
I have no memory for one of those games. I believe I played a typical 4c midrange deck.

Other round:
I play against a 4c base green deck.
G1:
He resolves a Primeval titan and fetches quite a few land (I belive 6 in total), However he taps out for a Twonship activation in his turn. I play Sphinx revelation and draw Tabernacle plus Rising Waters. I take one more Titan hit and then wrath. I gain control of the game at two life and start to inch back up with pristine talisman. I find a Rishadan Port to lock down his mana development and when I can resolve The Abyss my opponent sccops since he is annoyed and does not believe to have outs. This game lasted a long time.
G2:
My opponent Natural orders into Terrastodon on T3 and kills my board. He then pulses my token next turn and kills me quickly.
G3:
My opponent Natural orders into Terrastion on T3 and goes for my board again. Luckily I already have 2 signets this time amd am on the play. Since time is being called I use my Metamorph after plying grim monolith and everflowing chalice for x = 0 to blow up my board some more with a copied Terrastodon. All the sudden I have 27 points of Power on board. My opponent takes 6 dmg from the first wave and dies in my next attack step.  

R4:
I play against Christian Hauck which I know from some PTQ and Highlander tournaments before.

G1:
He has a very quick start and even tough I had put him on 4c Blood aggro I can not establish control.
G2:
This game is much more drawn out because I have both Tabernacle and Maze really slowing him down. I Ponder, Brainstorm, and Brqainstorm with Jace while using shuffle effects but can not find any wrath effect over 10. turns. I finally die to Acidic slime and Fyndhorn elf damage. I am somewhat annoyed about my unlucky draw but Christian played tight, yet still friendly and I believe I could have maybe done better decisions in one or two cases. I really missed Cursed totem in both games.

R5:
I play against Janne? from the finnish delegation here.

I remember that we finished 3 games in about 15 minutes. One game I get goldfished on turn 4 or 5 I think. One game I wrath t4, on t5 he has to tap all his (non basic) lands to play two new threats and I skillfully cantrip into Back to Basics plus Tabernacle on my turn... . In the third game I mana drain a Garrk on T3 or 4 and use the extra mana to play and activate Helm while casting Rest in Peace with my lands...

R6:
G1:
My opponent starts with T1 Mox plus Fetch into Volcanic. On t3 he plays cabal therapy naming Mana drain. I realize he is on Angry Hermit at this point but can not stop the casting of Hermit on t4 and the kill on T5... .
G2:
I find a hand with Enlightened Tutor. I find and resolve Rest in Peace. My opponent curses and I really enjoy myself. I continue with Back to Basics. When I tutor for Humility he scoops.
G3:
My opponent announces that he wishes to keep his seven cards... I imagine Hemit Druid in hand with FoW backup and lands to cast and activate Hermit. I mull to 6 since my hands neither includes hate or lands. I mull 5 cards in my 6 card hand keeping Anceint tomb and get a hand that is capable to generate 4 Mana on T2. My opponent Probes on his T2 to see no hate and casts Hermit Druid. My hope flares up that he might not have Force of Will. I rip a Wrath that obviously gets Force of Willed. I die on T3. My opponent relly enjoys himself and shows me the Pact of Negation he still had in hand.

R7:
I play against UW Midrange
G1:
I loose against Simulacrum and some Dude with Sword of Feast and Famine which both vant be killed by The Abyss.
G2:
I resolve early planeswalkers and win with  a scoop to Winter Orb/Tamiyo lock.
G3:
We fight a somewhat longer battle for attrition but I resolve a Torpor Orb just in time to turn an otherwise killer Fact or Fiction into a less seroius matter (flip was Stoneforge Mystic, Image, Suspend bounce guy, Reveilark, Knight of the white orchid. My opponent chosses knight plus lark. I use icy manipulator effects etc. to make good wrath situations and can protect my self for a long time. When he finally finds a non creatrue threat in Jace, i topdeck into the missing piece for the Helm combo and win before the board sitution goes out of control.

I finish in 16th place with a 5-2 record. My opponents cast Bribery against me 3 times missing every time ;-)


This was (roughly) my decklist - it might be off by about 4 cards or so:

1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Idyllic Tutor
1 Humility
1 Moat
1 Back to Basics
1 Rest in Peace
1 Helm of Obedience
1 Catastrophe
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1 Jace, Architect of Thought
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
1 Counterspell
1 Mana Drain
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Day of Judgment
1 Wrath of God
1 Supreme Verdict
1 Gideon Jura
1 Sphinx's Revelation
1 Talisman of Progress
1 Azorius Signet
1 Brainstorm
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Maze of Ith
1 Expedition Map
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Mox Opal
1 Land Tax
1 Academy Ruins
1 Grim Monolith
1 Thopter Foundry
1 Sword of the Meek
1 Cyclonic Rift
1 Rising Waters
1 Winter Orb
1 Gilded Lotus
1 Fellwar Stone
1 Mind Stone
1 Talisman of Dominance
1 Fabricate
1 Everflowing Chalice
1 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Thoughtcast
1 Orzhov Signet
1 Vindicate
1 Zuran Orb
1 Tolaria West
1 Ponder
1 Seat of the Synod
1 Polluted Delta
1 Flooded Strand
1 Marsh Flats
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Windswept Heath
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Arid Mesa
1 Tundra
1 Scrubland
1 Underground Sea
1 Watery Grave
1 Hallowed Fountain
5 Island
2 Plains
1 Swamp
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Future Sight
1 Staff of Nin
1 Dimir Signet
1 Thran Dynamo
1 Coalition Relic
1 Torpor Orb
1 Mistvein Borderpost
1 Fieldmist Borderpost
1 Karn Liberated
1 Talisman of Unity
1 Pristine Talisman
1 Chromatic Lantern
1 The Abyss
1 Forest
1 Rishadan Port
1 Dust Bowl
1 Crop Rotation
1 Wargate
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Karakas
1 Upheaval
1 Scepter of Dominance
1 Wildfield Borderpost
1 Cursed Totem
1 Selesnya Signet
1 Faith's Fetters

 


 

[Vazdru]

i would like to see the top 16 decklists, hitman (9th place) has already added his deck

http://mtgpulse.com/event/11692#162873

if you have access to any of those lists feel free to add it - thx in advance

[Nastaboi]

I'm working on longer report in Finnish for the whole trip, but here's for the tournament. The list is from so_not and was chosen for excepted field of midrange and aggro.

RUG Jaceshift

Artifact: 5
1 Batterskull
1 Coalition Relic
1 Scroll Rack
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Worn Powerstone

Creature: 28
1 Acidic Slime
1 Arc-Slogger
1 Avenger of Zendikar
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Bloodbraid Elf
1 Coiling Oracle
1 Consecrated Sphinx
1 Eternal Witness
1 Flametongue Kavu
1 Frost Titan
1 Huntmaster of the Fells
1 Inferno Titan
1 Kitchen Finks
1 Lotus Cobra
1 Primeval Titan
1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Shardless Agent
1 Siege-Gang Commander
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Thragtusk
1 Thrun, the Last Troll
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Wall of Blossoms
1 Wall of Roots
1 Wurmcoil Engine
1 Yavimaya Elder

Enchantment:
1 Sylvan Library

Instant: 6
1 Brainstorm
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Intuition
1 Mana Drain
1 Punishing Fire
1 Worldly Tutor

Land: 35 + Maze
1 Arid Mesa
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Breeding Pool
1 Desolate Lighthouse
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Flooded Strand
4 Forest
1 Grove of the Burnwillows
1 Island
1 Kessig Wolf Run
1 Lonely Sandbar
1 Maze of Ith
1 Misty Rainforest
6 Mountain
1 Polluted Delta
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Steam Vents
1 Stomping Ground
1 Taiga
1 Tranquil Thicket
1 Treetop Village
1 Tropical Island
1 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Volcanic Island
1 Wasteland
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills

Planeswalker: 5
1 Garruk Relentless
1 Garruk Wildspeaker
1 Jace, Architect of Thought
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Karn Liberated

Sorcery: 19
1 Bonfire of the Damned
1 Bribery
1 Compulsive Research
1 Explore
1 Farseek
1 Firespout
1 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Life from the Loam
1 Mizzium Mortars
1 Natural Order
1 Nature's Lore
1 Personal Tutor
1 Ponder
1 Preordain
1 Rampant Growth
1 Scapeshift
1 Search for Tomorrow
1 Slagstorm
1 Three Visits

1: Fabian Junk

Fabian played some bears until I drew Firespout. He got Loll Troll and Rancor for some damage until he decided to tapout for something stupid and there went his team again.

1-0

Kierros 2: Danilo Naya

I had Scapeshift in my opening, so I just ramped and chumped until I dealt 21 at once. In 2nd game we played this and that until I drew Scapeshift and that was 21 again.

2-0

3: Matthias Ur control

I got Loam going 1st game and his Blood Moon did not really disrupt. I mulliganed to 6 in the 2nd one and was annihilated by Clique wearing WR sword and not finding 2nd green source. 3rd game looked good when I drew Natural Order from his Clique, but he had Control Magic for it with Spellskite backup.

2-1

4: Felix 4c Landstill

Felix started with classical Landstill, miss a land drop. I hit him for some with Dryad Arborilla until he broke Landstillin with his Humilityllaan. Garruk the Relentless took it home for me with his tokens.

I was met with fast Moat in the 2nd game and was forced to burn him down from 16. I started with setupping Bonfire for 8, and after a fetchland and a red titan he was at 4. I played sandbagged Siege-Gang Commanderin with mana up. Felix tried Crop Rotation and found Cabal Pitin, which was used in response to ETB-trigger so that I could not sacrifice goblin tokens. Then he killed me off in his turn.

In 3rd game I had Cobra and suspended Search, whish got Mana Drained. He went Intuition Loam but no land drop as I gave him cycling land. Then I topdecked a land to Acidic Slime his and that was it.

3-1

5: Adrian BUG Oath

Adrian played Gamekeeper and killed it, getting Rune-Scarred Demonin. Then he killed and reanimated it and all that nonsense. I got to Bribery him next game, but had no good tutor targets in my deck except maybe 6th land so I took Emrakul. I forgot he had Vraska in his deck and thus hand as I hadn't seen it. Couple of turn later he hard casted Griselbrand, also hiding in his hand.

3-2

6: Dennis UW Blink

I lost 2-1, nothing really interesting happened.

3-3

I was not satisfied with the results, though playing against 4 blue-based control decks in a row might just qualify as a tough luck in pairings. But my opponents were great, friendly and sportsmanlike, and I got to meet some great people from here, like Magi, MMD and CristophO (Vazdru and Firestarter I had already met before).