[Videos] LCL3 February - Barcelona (Global Games) 21/02/10

[Enric]

Hi!

There are a few videos from the Top 8 of the Catalan League of Legacy that took placed in Barcelona at 21/02/10. There were 92 players playing 7 swiss rounds with this final standings (Bold = winner).

Top 8,here (http://www.deckcheck.net/event.php?event=Lliga+Catalana+de+Legacy+3+-+Febrer+-+Global+Games) are the decklists:

Daniel Rodríguez (Dark Depths) - Adrià Bosch (Bant with nimble mongoose stp and wasteland)
Francisco Fernández (U Merfolks) - David Miñarro (Supreme Blue)
David Gómez (Survival RGB) - Adrián Cañadas (Renimator)
Rubén Pérez (UB Faeires) - Enric Luzán (Enric) (SurviBant)

Top 4:

Daniel Rodríguez (Dark Depths) - Francisco Fernández (U Merfolks)
Enric Luzán (Enric) (SurviBant) - David Gómez (Survival RGB)

Final:

Enric Luzán (Enric) (SurviBant) - Francisco Fernández (U Merfolks)


Here are the videos:

Top 8: Rubén Pérez (UB Faeires) - Enric Luzán (Enric) (SurviBant)

G1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd0XTOuW95A),G2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1WjDFfvqVM)

Top 4: Daniel Rodríguez (Dark Depths) - Francisco Fernández (U Merfolks)

G1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxOkjhan8iM),G2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_x7creTjeI)

Final: Enric Luzán (Enric) (SurviBant) - Francisco Fernández (U Merfolks)

G1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnGSbQwdwVk),G2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZdW55VUoSU)

There's a playlist (http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0C4F399EEFD84258) of all my mtg videos.

Enjoy!

[MMogg]

Always so short. Thanks!

That match wasn't even close. :eek:

[Julian23]

Maybe I should reconsider Daze vs. Spell Snare in Bant Survival. Can we please get a list at least to Luzán's decklist?

[Rune]

Nice. Seems like you played too many bombs for him to deal with :P

[godryk]

Maybe I should reconsider Daze vs. Spell Snare in Bant Survival. Can we please get a list at least to Luzán's decklist?

Yeah, we all kind of thought he same... However, Spell Snare would have worked well too. I don't really know the opponent's list (I guess they'll get published along this week), but it could still counter Confidants, Smother and maybe Bitterblossom/Standstill if played (again, I don't know the list). Daze is nice when you have a strong hand, as Enric did, and you want to force Survival or Natural Order in against blue permission. I guess that playing Natural Order gives you another reason to play Daze. Forcing in Loyal Retainers can be interesting as well. I feel like testing them, but it's just a few days to the BIG day...

[Enric]

@Julian23:

I'll post the lists as soon as they are available

But...

1 Tundra
2 Savannah
3 Tropical Island
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Forest
1 Island
1 Plains
3 Windswept Heath
1 Flooded Strand
2 Taiga
1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
3 Rhox War Monk
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Qasali Pridemage
1 Eternal Witness
1 Kitchen Finks
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
1 Loyal Retainers
4 Survival of the Fittest
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Daze
4 Swords to Plowshares
3 Ponder

Sideboard

1 Loaming Shaman
1 Wheel of Sun and Moon
2 Gaddock Teeg
1 Ethersworn Canonist
2 Enlightened Tutor
3 Firespout
1 Llawan, Cephalid Empress
3 Natural Order
1 Progenitus

I have always played Daze over Snare, the most important spells are played in the first turns, when Daze is the boss. It's the firts time I play Iona in a tournament and I'm not very satisfied.

@MMogg:

Here are the videos, I'll post the rest of them along this week:

[Enigma]

@Enric: I would like to have the Kitchen finks too, but I never felt confidant going below 19 cards with 4 FOW, you are now at 17. Have you felt it was too low? That's the only reason for me to stay with RWM over Finks.

Also, with that much non-blue lands (6!), I'm figuring how can you consistently cast Daze on the first turns...

Not saying you made bad choices, but I wouldn't do the same in a big tournament where I'm more looking for consistency than raw power.

P-M

[Enric]

I've runned this list for 6 tournaments more or less with 5 top 8 and sometimes I found myself without blue card and Fow in hand, but its a problem that I can't solve. I don't want to change Kitchen for the 4th Rhox because Kitchen are amazing. The same for eternal witness. I found that both are essential. -1 Iona, -1 Retainers, +1 Venilion/Trygon + 1 Wonder may be the solution.

The lands aren't a problem, 8 fetch are enought. If you increase the amount of lands giving blue you'll find yourself lacking of green sometimes, witch is worst.

[Enric]

Updated with the decklists and the Top 4 videos.

[yankeedave]

That was an unlucky game for the Depths player in that Top 4 match, I always worry about that basic forest in decks like that and Eva Green for that very reason! Poor sod lost the game with a fist full of winning black cards!

Dave

[Enric]

Updated with the videos of the finals.

[Jak]

I think what hurt you most was not having a good answer for the Vials. Trygon would have been amazing.

[mossivo1986]

I think he plays the matchup aggresively and wins. He has 4 stp 3 firespout post board. all of his important creatures are bigger. Simple math to me :).

g1 and g2 he dropped the early survival and sluffed his rhox, in g2 he sluffed a kitchen finks as well. Smack with the heavy hitters and when jitte hits smack back with qasali. gg?

[HBspulse]

Null rod really shines in this matchup. If you combine null rod with path to exile for removing lord of atlantis, you will probably be ok.