Happy new year!! Wishes for 2010

We would like to wish you all the best for 2010!

May you aggro players continue hitting us...
May you combo players... err...ehmm... find a combo deck???
May you control players get the counterspells you NEED!!!
May you Jund players... Stop playing Jund!!!

Feel free to post your magic wishes! Mine are really simple:

4c Sphinx Control (for the Current Standard) by Orgios

Anyone who knows me well, knows this, I love Sphinx Control... The affair started when I first saw Sphinx Summoner and Sharrum the Hedgemon, what a remarkable recycling engine! I thought...

Then came two players (Sascha Thomsen / Marcel Bauche) who took GP barcelona by surprise Day 1 with this beauty:

Dragon Age

Take a look at the trailer of Dragon Age! The game that stole our hearts and keeps us even away from magic!
Once you install this , there's no coming back!

Jace - The mind Sculptor

Ok!! The new Jace is @#$!@ing Amazing!!! The 4 four abilities is what stands out immediately and all of them are good. Wizards gimme Counter-Draw, I wanna play Blue-White Control!

Vengeant White by Papasouzas

Hello guys! Christmas coming soon and the fact is that this period is a relatively magic-free one. So what you do when it’s hard to play paper magic? You don’t play magic at all? Nah! That’s not the right answer if you are an addict. Magic online is here for all of us to keep us company along with the Christmas turkey. So I am going to talk about a deck which is quite strong in a jund – boros – monored defined environment. These decks represent around 70% of the field in magic online. So the main board is tuned for them. To be honest I saw the idea in an article by Patrick Chapin and tested it and changed some of the cards that doesn’t seem to fit (many thanks to antonis fyssas for his help ). More test is required though and I’d like to hear the opinion of anyone who will give it a shot. So, here is the deck list:

PTQ San Diego Top 4, Report by Papasouzas

The sealed master Thanos Amarantidis (Papasouzas) added one more top 8 appearance to his bio. We hear all about it in his very interesting  and detailed report.

Finally, after weeks of “man write an article about block”, “what about this article for block” and “write this article about block” (a certain number of curses follow), I managed to fight my laziness and write an article about….a sealed ptq for Austin I played last week. An article about block will follow soon…I hope :P. Lets concentrate on our subject for today. 
 

The ptq took place at Athens and had around 60 participants (can’t remember the exact number). I was lucky to have a pretty nice pool ,but here it is so you can judge for yourself.

Sealed Pool:

Bant Aggro

Today we'll take a look into bant, tell you what we liked, didn't like and the changes we thought were necessary.

I was looking for something different to try (as always) and I knew I had found it when I saw the following list from Worlds:

Deck Tech - Aven Mimeomancer

He is the hottest card on the rise. If you're planning on playing aggro (bant aggro that is) , you are gonna be needing him . Trust me , you will see this guy beating face in upcoming tournaments. I suggest you get your playset soon as he is as cheap as it gets.

We're currently on testing grounds and will post our decklist soon.

FNM PROMO-January 2010

Wizards finally decided to give us a good T2 uncommon and a reason to play at FNMs. This makes me happy!