April: Ancestral Vision III (modern)

Greetings everyone!

I am here in Vigan for an hour and a half stop over. This is where we will have our first long rest and breakfast. I am not here to talk about our trip to Pagudpud. I am here because I want to share a couple of deck lists that have Ancestral Vision. So without further ado, here they are.

TJB_UWr_Faeries

Paeng_4983

Lands (20)

4 Scalding Tarn 

4 Flooded Strand   

2 Steam Vents

2 Hallowed Fountain   

3 Island

1 Sulfur Falls

1 Glacial Fortress

1 Mystic Flood

1 Plains

1 Mutavault

Creatures (15)

4 Geist of Saint Traft

4 Spellstutter Sprite

4 Snapcaster Mage 

3 Vendilion Clique

Non-creature spells (25)

4 Ancestral Vision

4 Serum Vision

4 Lightning Bolt

3 Remand

3 Vapor Snag

3 Path to Exile

2 Spell Pierce

2 Spell Snare

Sideboard (15)

2 Leyline of Sanctity

2 Wear / Tear

2 Stoney Silence

2 Timely Reinforcement  

1 Wrath of God 

1 Negate

1 Flash Freeze   

1 Path to Exile

1 Forked Bolt

1 Pithing Needle

1 Echoing Truth

TJB_BUG

Paeng_4983

(without sideboard)

Lands (23)

4 Polluted Delta

3 Misty Rainforest

3 Verdant Catacomb  

3 Watery Grave  

2 Breeding Pool

2 Overgrown Tomb

2 Island

1 Swamp

1 Drown Catacomb

2 Creeping Tar Pit

Creatures (12)

4 Tarmogoyf

4 Snapcaster Mage  

2 Scavenging Ooze

2 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet  

Non-creature spells (25)

4 Ancestral Vision 

4 Serum Vision 

3 Abrupt Decay

3 Inquisition of Kozilek

3 Mana Leak

2 Cryptic Command

2 Vapor Snag

2 Murderous Cut 

1 Dismember

1 Doomblade

I hope these two were a big help in constructing your Ancestral Vision deck. Until next time folks!

Paeng Paeng

April: Ancestral Vision II (modern)

During the weekend of April 9 and 10, Manila saw three Grand Prix Trials. These GPTs were the perfect playgrounds for those Ancestral Vision and Thopter based decks. On the 9th of April we had GPT New York at Blaster Hobby Shop, Paco, Manila and GPT Taipei at HobbyPro Central, BF Homes, Parañaque. And on April 10th, GPT Taipei at Friday Quest, Gabbys, Mandaluyong.

I do not have the deck list of all participants from the said three GPTs, only the top three or four placers. 

GPT New York

Blaster Hobby Shop, Paco, Manila

UW Tron   

Infect

Living End

GPT Taipei

HobbyPro Central, BF Homes, Parañaque

Abzan Rhino

Tron

Burn
Ad Naus

GPT Taipei

Friday Quest, Gabbys, Mandaluyong

Living End

Titan ramp Shift

Through the Breach

Burn

From the said list of winners, there was not a single representative from the Ancestral Vision or Thopter decks. Let us not make any early assessment yet. The best is yet to come for them. And when that time comes, I wish you will be ready for the punishment they'll offer.

Anyway, I participated in Friday Quest's GPT Taipei. Judge Ben Ferrer (thank you very much sir) lend me his Grixis Control deck (with a couple of Ancestral Visions in it). I lost my first two games (Through the Breach and Burn) before winning my last three (UR aggro, Elves and Grixis Control). During my first two games, I did not drew the cards I needed. And for the last three games, Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet was superb. Its lifelink was, I think, is just an added bonus. Its the zombie producing triggered ability plus the deck's a ton of removals, that makes Kalitas the "you the real MVP" in this deck. 

And before I end this, I hope you will like this list even though you guys rarely see me on control:

TJB_Grixis Control

Paeng_4983

Lands (23)

4 Polluted Delta 

4 Scalding Tarn

3 Steam Vents

2 Watery Grave

2 Creeping Tar Pit

1 Wandering Fumarole 

1 Desolate Lighthouse

1 Darkslick Shores

1 Blood Crypt

1 Drown Catacomb

1 Sulfur Falls

1 Swamp

1 Island

Creatures (7)

4 Snapcaster Mage

2 Kalitas, Traitor

1 Vendilion Clique 

Non-creature spells (30)

4 Ancestral Vision

4 Lightning Bolt

4 Inquisition of Kozilek

4 Serum Vision

3 Terminate

3 Kolaghan's Command

3 Mana Leak

2 Cryptic Command

1 Murderous Cut

1 Countersquall

1 Electrolyze

Sideboard:
2 Vandalblast
1 Spellskite
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Flaying Tendrils
1 Anger of the Gods
1 Tribute to Hunger
1 Counterflux
1 Surgical Extraction

1 Batterskull

1 Negate
1 Flashfreeze
1 Damnation

1 Dispel

1 Infinite Obliteration

There you have it guys!

And in case you are wondering what's our schedule for the coming weekend, here.

April 16 GPT at Got Game (modern)
April 16 GPT at Neutral Grounds Examiner (modern)
April 16 Modern tournament at Kicks Engine 

-Paeng Paeng

April: Ancestral Vision in Modern

Okay, this is going to be a quick one because I am just in a 15 minute break. Let me start with their official announcement, for sure everyone is expecting Eldrazi's number to ebb strikingly, if not a bit. But please do not count those aliens out yet for they can still pack a punch like: they can resolve a turn one Chalice of the Void setting it at one which can still cripple a lot of decks; resolves a turn two Thought Knot-Seer which can, somehow, screw your game plan provided he will exile the precise card from your hand; or they can bin your newly unbanned suspended Ancestral Vision from its obliviousness. And speaking of it, as I see it, this is their (blue base control players) missing link in order for them to be in the deck to beat list.

Anyway, I am not here to tackle what or how will the landscape of modern will look like after the April 4th. Reid Duke already did that in his work. Since there are two modern GPTs this weekend, if I still have the resources, I'll probably bring this list that I have in mind.

TJB_Urg Control
Paeng_4983

10 Island
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Misty Rainforest
3 Stomping Grounds
1 Academy Ruins

1 Mountain

4 Ancestral Vision
4 Serum Visions

4 Remand
3 Cryptic Command

4 Anger of the Gods
4 Engineered Explosives
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Relic of Progenitus
3 Vedalken Shackles
2 Repeal

1 Keranos, God of Storms

Sideboard:
3 Elixir of Immortality
2 Ancient Grudge
2 Negate
2 Spellskite
2 Torpor Orb
1 Elixir of Immortal
1 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Pithing Needle
1 Surgical Extraction

There you have it guys!
Good luck to your modern GPTs campaigns this month.

-Paeng Paeng