Weapon Of Choice...

After several hours of playtesting and strategizing, I have come up with the decklist I will be using in my quest for Magic glory. From tcgplayer.com, I chose Nick Spagnolo’s UB Control! The decklist is as follows:

3 Frost Titan

2 Jace Beleren

4 Jace The Mindsculptor

3 Trinket Mage

2 Everflowing Chalice

1 Brittle Effigy

1 Elixir Of Immortality

4 Preordain

2 Duress

4 Mana Leak

4 Doom Blade

2 Into The Roil

1 Negate

1 Stoic Rebuttal

1 Consuming Vapors

4 Drowned Catacomb

3 Darkslick Shores

3 Creeping Tar pit

3 Tectonic Edge

2 Misty Rainforest

1 Verdant Catacomb

6 Island

3 Swamp

There is one thing that is prominent as I watched an FNM tournament a while ago: once Jace The Mindsculptor makes it on the board and lasts a few turns, the game becomes as lopsided as the Lakers vs. Minnesota. Jace is such a monster in standard that by playing a beatdown deck, I feel that I would be depriving myself of one of the most powerful cards in Magic. UW Control also came into mind because of day of judgment,  but Doom Blade, Duress, and Creeping Tar Pit are just too irresistible. Furthermore, by going UB I get a great Sideboard with Memoricide and Disfigure.

Card Acquisition began about 48 hours ago and I am close to completing the deck.  Just finished Playtesting with RDW with and without sideboards, so far, the matchup seems to get more favorable after sideboards go in. next up is ramp, quest ww and elves with vengvine. After testing with these decks I will then switch over my attention to next week’s PTQ. The format is sealed so I have to prepare for that. So far I have one rule when playing scars of Mirrodin limited: 3 or more corpse curs = infect the deck! I’ll go into more detail on that theory on future blogs(I need to see if it works first).

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