Zach Tartell
10-02-2008, 08:36 PM
Ok, the following archetypes were present at the 1k Event in Binghamton, NY, on the twenty-seventh of September:
(number will be listed after the deck name when there are more than 1; a deck-by-deck breakdown will follow)
URg Dreadstill
RB Goblins (4 Auntie's Hovel, 0 Green sources, 2 Grips in board)
Survival (3)
Stasis
Affinity (2)
Goyf Sligh
Painter Combo (5)
Ub Merfolk (two basic Swamps for Smother and Leyline of the Void)
PT Junk (like 100 2/1 creatures with regeneration and some discard effects)
Berserk Stompy
Mono Black Aggro (Threats include 3 Bitterblossom, 3 Fulminator Mage, 4 Dark Confidant, and 4 Shriekmaw; 4 Bottle Gnomes are in the board)
Threshold (6)
Tombstone (4 - the decks varried by a card or two per list, everything was fairly standard)
UBg Loam Aggro (Aggro control with Intuition for Raven's Crime and Loam)
Imperial Aluren
Ichorid
Belcher
GW Timmy Aggro (played by one of two girls who attended the event)
MUC (2 - one was pretty standard, the other had fetches for 4 Goyfs. It also included two Counterspells in the board, along with a playset of Cryptic Command)
Mono-Green Timmy Stompy (not the Green Chalice aggro from N&D - just elves and other creatures)
Burn (played byt the second girl)
Rock (Completely Extended manabase, mostly extended creatures, and Hymn to Torach)
UWr Cunnign Wich Control (no Standstills, lots of x-Elemental Blast cards in the board)
UWGb Countersliver
UWb Landstill
4 Decks so amazing that I will include lists at the end
Top 8 lists can be found here (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showpost.php?p=279836&postcount=85) and here (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showpost.php?p=279896&postcount=95).
Survival:
2 RGBSA (both are exactly the same as Dave Price's list)
1 GWbr build with two Enlightened tutors for a Worship and an Engineered Explosives, the two Sliver package, and the Loyal Retainers/White Akroma combo)
Threshold:
1 UG list with 3 Breeding Pool, 4 or 5 fetchlands, a playset of Yavimaya Coast, Serendib Efreet as a 3-of, and Thirst for Knowledge with two Sensei's Divining Tops as the only artifacts)
1 UGr Swan Combo with Blood Moons in the board and a couple coppies of Chain Lightning
2 Canadian Thresh
1 Black Tempo Thresh (it's like Canadian thresh, but with black - switch the burn spells for Thoughtseizes, a single Ghastly Demise, and two Diabolic Edicts)
1 UGrb pile with Magus of the moon and Dark Confidant
Affinity:
1 BG with 4 maindecked Heapdoll and Mishra's Factory. Dread of Night is a 3-of in the board for some reason beyond me
1 UBR with Springleaf Drum and 4 Bonesplitters in the main deck.
Painter Combo:
1 UWr with Jotun Grunt main and Blasts and Pyroclasms in the board
1 UBR with discard and a little burn
2 Epic Painter lists
1 Imperial Painter
Amazing Deck #1:
4 Fecundity
3 City of Brass
2 Gemstone Mine
4 Gravepact
4 Necratog
2 Rite of Consumption
4 Straw Golem
14 Swamp
3 Wicked Reward
2 Predator's Strike
4 Shield Sphere
4 Circling Vultures
Sideboard:
4 Infest
1 Pillar Tombs of Aku
4 Nausea
2 Abyssal Gatekeeper
2 Dread of Night (what is it with this card?)
1 Engineered Plague
1 Ornithopter
Amazing Deck #2
2 Orzhov Basilica
3 Flagstones of Trokair
4 Caves of Kilos
4 Godless Shrine
6 Plains
4 Swamp
4 Urza's Incubator
4 Serra Angel
1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
2 Platinum Angel
1 Reya Dawnbringer
4 Vindicate
4 Swords to Plowshares
3 Deathgrasp
2 Desolation Angel
2 Radiant, Archangel
3 Hide // Seek
3 Serra Avenger
Sideboard:
3 Disenchant
3 Blinding Angel
3 Castigate
3 Wrath of God
3 Decree of Justice
Amazing Deck #3
4 Megrim
2 Underworld Dreams
3 Hymn to Tourach
4 Whistful Thinking
4 Force of WIll
3 Consult of the Necrosages
2 Dark Ritual
2 Extirpate
21 Thoughtseize
2 Lore Broker
2 Null Brooch
2 Memory Plunder
1 Wheel and Deal
2 Dream Salvage
1 Damnation
1 Library of Leng
1 Lotus Bloom
1 Geth's Tome (I think this is supposed to be Geth's Grimorie)
2 Perplex
1 Magus of the Jar
1 Liliana Vess
2 City of Traitors
3 Waterveil Cavern
4 Cephalid Coliseum
1 River of Tears
1 Underground River
1 Sunken Ruins
1 Dreadship Reef
1 Underground Sea
1 Reflecting Pool
1 Watery Grave
1 Salt Marsh
1 Secluded Glen
Sideboard:
1 Hymn to Tourach
2 Diabolic Edict
1 Underworld Dreams
3 Innocent Blood
1 Sensei's Diving Top
1 Mirari
1 Diabolic Tutor
2 Temporal Extortion
2 Perplex
1 Isochron Scepter
Awesome Deck #4:
7 Island
11 Mountain
4 Reckless Ogre
3 Fog Elemental
1 Jackal Pup
2 Viashino Sandstalker
1 Blood Hound
1 Mogg Cannon
4 Unstable Mutation
4 Shadow Rift
2 Mox Diamond
1 Invisibility
1 Veteran Brawlers
3 Cavern Giant
4 Fling
2 Mana Leak
4 Seething Anger
2 Blood Frenzy
1 Keldon Vandals
1 Errantry
1 Blood Lust
Sideboard:
1 Lotus Petal
1 Deflection
2 Merfolk Looter
3 Counterspell
2 Mask of the Mimic
1 Sky Diamond
2 Ray of Command
3 Island
I was just speechless when I came on these four lists. Please, somebody, make sense of them.
(number will be listed after the deck name when there are more than 1; a deck-by-deck breakdown will follow)
URg Dreadstill
RB Goblins (4 Auntie's Hovel, 0 Green sources, 2 Grips in board)
Survival (3)
Stasis
Affinity (2)
Goyf Sligh
Painter Combo (5)
Ub Merfolk (two basic Swamps for Smother and Leyline of the Void)
PT Junk (like 100 2/1 creatures with regeneration and some discard effects)
Berserk Stompy
Mono Black Aggro (Threats include 3 Bitterblossom, 3 Fulminator Mage, 4 Dark Confidant, and 4 Shriekmaw; 4 Bottle Gnomes are in the board)
Threshold (6)
Tombstone (4 - the decks varried by a card or two per list, everything was fairly standard)
UBg Loam Aggro (Aggro control with Intuition for Raven's Crime and Loam)
Imperial Aluren
Ichorid
Belcher
GW Timmy Aggro (played by one of two girls who attended the event)
MUC (2 - one was pretty standard, the other had fetches for 4 Goyfs. It also included two Counterspells in the board, along with a playset of Cryptic Command)
Mono-Green Timmy Stompy (not the Green Chalice aggro from N&D - just elves and other creatures)
Burn (played byt the second girl)
Rock (Completely Extended manabase, mostly extended creatures, and Hymn to Torach)
UWr Cunnign Wich Control (no Standstills, lots of x-Elemental Blast cards in the board)
UWGb Countersliver
UWb Landstill
4 Decks so amazing that I will include lists at the end
Top 8 lists can be found here (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showpost.php?p=279836&postcount=85) and here (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showpost.php?p=279896&postcount=95).
Survival:
2 RGBSA (both are exactly the same as Dave Price's list)
1 GWbr build with two Enlightened tutors for a Worship and an Engineered Explosives, the two Sliver package, and the Loyal Retainers/White Akroma combo)
Threshold:
1 UG list with 3 Breeding Pool, 4 or 5 fetchlands, a playset of Yavimaya Coast, Serendib Efreet as a 3-of, and Thirst for Knowledge with two Sensei's Divining Tops as the only artifacts)
1 UGr Swan Combo with Blood Moons in the board and a couple coppies of Chain Lightning
2 Canadian Thresh
1 Black Tempo Thresh (it's like Canadian thresh, but with black - switch the burn spells for Thoughtseizes, a single Ghastly Demise, and two Diabolic Edicts)
1 UGrb pile with Magus of the moon and Dark Confidant
Affinity:
1 BG with 4 maindecked Heapdoll and Mishra's Factory. Dread of Night is a 3-of in the board for some reason beyond me
1 UBR with Springleaf Drum and 4 Bonesplitters in the main deck.
Painter Combo:
1 UWr with Jotun Grunt main and Blasts and Pyroclasms in the board
1 UBR with discard and a little burn
2 Epic Painter lists
1 Imperial Painter
Amazing Deck #1:
4 Fecundity
3 City of Brass
2 Gemstone Mine
4 Gravepact
4 Necratog
2 Rite of Consumption
4 Straw Golem
14 Swamp
3 Wicked Reward
2 Predator's Strike
4 Shield Sphere
4 Circling Vultures
Sideboard:
4 Infest
1 Pillar Tombs of Aku
4 Nausea
2 Abyssal Gatekeeper
2 Dread of Night (what is it with this card?)
1 Engineered Plague
1 Ornithopter
Amazing Deck #2
2 Orzhov Basilica
3 Flagstones of Trokair
4 Caves of Kilos
4 Godless Shrine
6 Plains
4 Swamp
4 Urza's Incubator
4 Serra Angel
1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
2 Platinum Angel
1 Reya Dawnbringer
4 Vindicate
4 Swords to Plowshares
3 Deathgrasp
2 Desolation Angel
2 Radiant, Archangel
3 Hide // Seek
3 Serra Avenger
Sideboard:
3 Disenchant
3 Blinding Angel
3 Castigate
3 Wrath of God
3 Decree of Justice
Amazing Deck #3
4 Megrim
2 Underworld Dreams
3 Hymn to Tourach
4 Whistful Thinking
4 Force of WIll
3 Consult of the Necrosages
2 Dark Ritual
2 Extirpate
21 Thoughtseize
2 Lore Broker
2 Null Brooch
2 Memory Plunder
1 Wheel and Deal
2 Dream Salvage
1 Damnation
1 Library of Leng
1 Lotus Bloom
1 Geth's Tome (I think this is supposed to be Geth's Grimorie)
2 Perplex
1 Magus of the Jar
1 Liliana Vess
2 City of Traitors
3 Waterveil Cavern
4 Cephalid Coliseum
1 River of Tears
1 Underground River
1 Sunken Ruins
1 Dreadship Reef
1 Underground Sea
1 Reflecting Pool
1 Watery Grave
1 Salt Marsh
1 Secluded Glen
Sideboard:
1 Hymn to Tourach
2 Diabolic Edict
1 Underworld Dreams
3 Innocent Blood
1 Sensei's Diving Top
1 Mirari
1 Diabolic Tutor
2 Temporal Extortion
2 Perplex
1 Isochron Scepter
Awesome Deck #4:
7 Island
11 Mountain
4 Reckless Ogre
3 Fog Elemental
1 Jackal Pup
2 Viashino Sandstalker
1 Blood Hound
1 Mogg Cannon
4 Unstable Mutation
4 Shadow Rift
2 Mox Diamond
1 Invisibility
1 Veteran Brawlers
3 Cavern Giant
4 Fling
2 Mana Leak
4 Seething Anger
2 Blood Frenzy
1 Keldon Vandals
1 Errantry
1 Blood Lust
Sideboard:
1 Lotus Petal
1 Deflection
2 Merfolk Looter
3 Counterspell
2 Mask of the Mimic
1 Sky Diamond
2 Ray of Command
3 Island
I was just speechless when I came on these four lists. Please, somebody, make sense of them.