Revisiting WMCQ 2 (14 September 2015)

Hello folks!

WMCQ 2 is now in the book. Sadly I did not have a stellar one. I dropped after absorbing my second setback against a RG Tron in the fifth round. How was your modern WMCQ campaign?  What modern deck did you use?  What were your match ups? Did you have any unforgettable play?  Whatever your answers for my questions, I am pretty sure you did had a wonderful weekend.

I am not going to do a tournament report about my WMCQ 2 but instead; I will share to you the winning deck lists of other countries.

Belgium: Johan Vershulst– Tooth and Nail

Singapore: Jeffrey Chan  – Grixis Delver

Czech Republic: Dominik Mikolas – Grixis Control

Indonesia: Michael Sjamputra – Affinity

Malaysia:  Wee Pang Ming– Merfolk

Austria: Christoph Aukenthaler – RUG Twin

Denmark: Martin Muller– Living End

Ukraine: Alexander Drapaylo– Elves

Slovinia: Miha Zagar – Jund

Italy: Bifero Francesco – Scapeshift Gifts

Taiwan: Huang Ta Chi – GR Tron

Canada: Hunter Platt– Scapeshift

USA: Tom Martell– Amulet Bloom

Cyprus: Tatsiana Suponeva– Infect

Hungary: Kocsis Gabor – Twin

Non creature spells

4 Splinter Twin

2 Gitaxian Probe

2 Spell Pierce

1 Vapor Snag

1 Izzet Charm

2 Mana Leak

3 Remand

4 Lightning Bolt

4 Serum Visions

1 Cryptic Command

Creatures

3 Pestermite

4 Deceiver Exarch

3 Snapcaster Mage

2 Spellskite

1 Kiki Jiki, Mirror Breaker

Land

3 Sulfur Falls

3 Steam Vents

1 Stompy Ground

2 Mountain

5 Island

1 Desolate Lighthouse

4 Scalding Tarn

4 Misty Rainforest

Sideboard

3 Blood Moon

1 Dispel

1 Teferi, Mage of

1 Engineered Explosives

3 Ancient Grudge

2 Anger of Gods

2 Relic of Progenitus

2 Rending Volley

Croatia: Matija Vlahovic – Scapeshift

Non creature spells

4 Scapeshift
2 Prismatic Omen
2 Khalni Heart Expedition
2 Farseek
4 Search for Tomorrow
2 Echoing Truth
4 Remand
4 Izzet Charm

Creatures

4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
3 Primeval Titan
2 Obstinate Baloth

Lands

4 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
1 Kessig Wolf Run
1 Breeding Pool
1 Steam Vents
4 Stomping Ground
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Scalding Tarn
4 Misty Rainforest
3 Forest
1 Island
6 Mountain

Sideboard
2 Spellskite
2 Sowing Salt
1 Scavenging Ooze
2 Torpor Orb
2 Negate
3 Anger of the Gods
1 Obstinate Baloth
2 Combust

Russia: Kristina Papikyan – Naya Burn 

Creatures

4 Eidolon of Great Rebel

4 Goblin Guide

1 Grim Lavamancer

4 Monastery Swiftspear

4 Wild Nacatl

Non creature spells

4 Atarka’s Command

4 Boros Charm

4 Lava Spike

4 Lightning Bolt

4 Rift Bolt

3 Searing Blaze

Lands

4 Arid Mesa

1 Bloodstained Mire

3 Copperline Gorge

3 Sacred Foundry

1 Scalding Tarn

2 Stomping Ground

4 Wooded Foothills

2 Mountain

Sideboard

3 Kor Firewalker

2 Molten Rain

2 Skullscrack

1 Searing Blaze

3 Destructive Revelry

2 Path to Exile

1 Rending Volley

1 Deflecting Palm

Philippines: Erick Macasaet – BW Tokens 

Non creature spells

2 Liliana of the Veil

2 Sorin, Solemn Visitor

4 Inquisition of Kozilek

4 Path to Exile

3 Thoughtseize

2 Zealous Persecution

2 Dismember

4 Lingering Souls

4 Spectral Procession

3 Timely Reinforcement

2 Bitterblossom

4 Intangible Virtue

Lands

4 Marsh Flats

4 Winswepth Heath

4 Godless Shrine

4 Windbrisk Heights

3 Plains

1 Swamp

3 Ghost Quarter

1 Vault of the Archangel

Sideboard

1 Thoughtseize

4 Kor Firewalker

1 Rest in Peace

2 Spellskite

2 Stoney Silence

1 Drown in Sorrow

1 Timely Reinforcement

2 Hero of Bladehold

1 Wrath of God

In case you’re in the process of acquiring an Elven deck, I hope Stanley Yu’s fourth placer tournament report report with Gb CoCo Elves helps you a lot. 

Before everything ends, I would like to thank the following for replying immediately to my email:

Tomas Klimes of Czech Republic
Renee Nooryaldie of Indonesia 

Chris Davis of Channel Fireball (USA)

Francesco of Galactus Roma (Italy)

Viacheslav Ivanov of Russia

Horus Vinkovci of Croatia

Emanuel Burtsher of Austria

Jeff MacDougall of Canada

Horvath Tamas of Hungary

You have been so helpful gentlemen. I wish I’ll be able to play in your shop when I visit your respective countries. Again, thank you very much! Until then, thank you for reading! Have a great a nice day everyone! -Paeng4983 6214089146

Fetches and Fiends

Hello folks!

Modern WMCQ is just a few hours away.  I am pretty sure that as of the very moment, majority of you are now well prepared. In fact, regardless of the deck’s variance, most of the modern players are aware the content of the deck of their opponent. And that they are so competitive, a few of them are well aware of what to do in a certain situation; proper sequencing of casting of spells or effects; and even what land to fetch during his opening turn.  

Fetch lands!  They are one of the best modern cards ever printed by Wizard of the Coast. They fix the colors we need. And as Garrett Johnson explained in his work, fetch land increased our probability of drawing spells. And lastly, it serves as food for delve mechanic. These are just some of the great things fetch lands can do.

This is my last-ditch effort in helping you prepare for modern WMCQ for I do not want you to experience a losing situation in which the one of the issues involve is over a fetch land. I would like to freshen up some cards concerning fetch lands.

Blood Moon can single-handedly cause you a game. If you are aware that his deck has a Blood Moon in it, as much as possible fetch a basic land in the early progress.

Pithing Needle. Only a handful of people utilize the needle as an option in shutting down fetch land. It’s a good tactic in a way because a deck has an average of six fetches in it. And out of those six, four of those are a set of a specific color fit for the deck while the remaining acts as support.  With the same effect, there are a few players who abuse Surgical Extraction or Extirpate in which they intentionally remove your fetches to thin you out of the possibility of drawing a land.

Aven Mindcensor. Watch out if your opponent leaves three mana (one of them must have the capacity to produce white) for this pesky bird wizard can also be an instant out tempo-ing you by limiting your chances of fetching a land you need.

Opponent dropped Suppression Field or a Leonin Arbiter in his turn two, and you just top decked a fetch but unable to pay the taxes being imposed upon. GG.

Squelch and Trickbind. These two are modern’s Stifle which are not that popular but still can out tempo you.

Shadow of Doubt. Never trust a control opponent if he has an open two blue and/ or black combination of mana. In modern, two mana in the said color combination doesn’t always mean Remand or Mana Leak. And by the time he reached four mana, he might do it again – Snapcaster Mage into Shadow of Doubt.

And if you are still looking for anything to read regarding modern, here as penned by Sam Pardee. 

Alright people! There you have it!

I hope I did help you in my little way in the past weeks of writing.

Again, I wish you all the best this Saturday!

Please be at the venue if you can at 8am.

If not, at least before players’s meeting.

Until then! Have a great day!

-Paeng