ROUND 6: The T1 Round
Me: 9. silkster: Blinkmoth Nexus, Mox Sapphire, Mox Ruby, Wheel of Fortune
1. Asthereal (TO): Blinkmoth Mexus, Mox Sapphire, Sea's Claim, Thorn of Amethyst WL
2. GoblinSmashmaster: Mox Ruby, Rite of Flame, Rite of Flame, Empty the Warrens WL
3. Reeplcheep: Swamp, Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage, Dark Ritual, Dread Fugue WW
4. dte: Collective Defiance, Mox Ruby, Mox Ruby, Hellion Crucible WL
5. Phasmoid: Peat Bog, Hymn to Tourach, Remote Farm, Serra the Benevolent WW
6. FTW: Mox Sapphire, Sunken Ruins, Hymn to Tourach, Ensoul Artifact WL
7. alphastryk: Lotus Bloom, Lotus Bloom, Barren Glory, Noxious Revival WW
8. RoosterCocoa: Forest, Mox Ruby, Ranger Class, Sorcerous Spyglass WL
10. maxx!: Blinkmoth Nexus, Sol Ring, Mox Ruby, Wheel of Fortune WL (great minds!)
12W,8L6L.
This round is pretty much what I expected. For about five seasons now, I've actively tried to avoid what I thought was the "obvious" best deck, but there was no fighting it this time. I had a few ideas for how to fight against this, but those decks kept losing to just Blinkmoth Nexus + land/mox. You can see that I split my Moxen in the hopes of getting more of them banned, though it looks like both of them would have been banned anyway. I'm also impressed that Dark Ritual and Sol Ring are both on the chopping block. I was not expecting that. My proposed initial banlist included the unrestricted 1-mana discard spells to avoid having too many rounds like this. That and the 3.0 cutoff together mean that we probably won't have another round of WL like this one.