[Article] Instant Analysis - SCG Indianapolis Legacy Open 2011

[JACO]

Another frigid weekend in the Midwest, another awesome SCG Open. This time the traveling road show made its way to Indianapolis, Indiana. With Snowpocalypse 2011 only a few days prior, weather conditions were tricky but 266 competitors slogged their way to Indy for some rabblerousing and gamesmanship.

After nine rounds of Swiss and three more rounds of single elimination, SCG regular Ben Wienburg stood triumphantly with his UGWR CounterTop deck, modeled after Gerry Thompson’s build from a few weeks ago, but featuring Grim Lavamancer and a small Trinket Mage package. Besides Ben’s deck there were plenty of other cool new decks making their breakout appearance, as well as some old standbys like Goblins and Merfolk. Check out the technology after the jump!

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[GGoober]

I really liked the article. It dug to the heart of it: innovations, and variations to stock lists e.g. GerryT's Countertop with Lavamancer, and it's nice to see lots of diversity in the top 16 again.

For myself, this statement made me happy:

"There is a lot of food for thought here, and in a metagame where I have urged people to do something more broken than their opponent, this is a very interesting direction to take CounterTop decks as well. Slim down the control suite and just start landing powerful permanents that affect the game state immediately."

Sometimes, we forget that the simple answers in control to beat aggressive deck is to play broken cards as well.

[OurSerratedDust]

A good read. I was testing that Forgemaster MUD deck last night, and that thing is busted. Some of the synergies in the deck are pretty insane.