Note: The first round is against a 100-card G/W deck, and the second round concludes when the opponent abruptly concedes while up a game. While the games are still interesting, those of you seeking complete narrative experiences should start with round 3.
Round 1: G/W Casual
Round 2: Bant Enchantress
Round 3: G/W Enchantress
Round 4: Leylines
Round 5: Storm
Round 6: Dredge
Round 7: Mono-Black Disruption
Round 8: Tin Fins
Creatures (15)
Lands (137)
- 1 Forest
- 4 Wooded Foothills
- 1 Plains
- 4 Wasteland
- 1 Volrath's Stronghold
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Island
- 4 Volcanic Island
- 4 Underground Sea
- 4 Tropical Island
- 4 Taiga
- 1 Scrubland
- 4 Savannah
- 3 Plateau
- 4 Bayou
- 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
- 4 Karakas
- 4 Badlands
- 1 Barbarian Ring
- 4 Windswept Heath
- 4 Polluted Delta
- 4 Flooded Strand
- 4 Bloodstained Mire
- 4 Maze of Ith
- 4 Tranquil Thicket
- 4 Lonely Sandbar
- 1 Glacial Chasm
- 4 Rishadan Port
- 1 Cephalid Coliseum
- 4 Krosan Verge
- 1 Ghost Quarter
- 1 Hallowed Fountain
- 3 Dark Depths
- 1 Academy Ruins
- 4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Dryad Arbor
- 4 Grove of the Burnwillows
- 4 Tolaria West
- 4 Arid Mesa
- 4 Marsh Flats
- 4 Misty Rainforest
- 4 Scalding Tarn
- 4 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
- 4 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Bojuka Bog
- 4 Thespian's Stage
Spells (91)
- 4 Sensei's Divining Top
- 4 Brainstorm
- 4 Enlightened Tutor
- 4 Exploration
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
- 1 Seismic Assault
- 3 Intuition
- 4 Gifts Ungiven
- 4 Living Wish
- 4 Burning Wish
- 4 Gamble
- 1 Mindslaver
- 4 Sylvan Scrying
- 1 Zuran Orb
- 4 Manabond
- 4 Crop Rotation
- 4 Battle of Wits
- 1 Ray of Revelation
- 4 Mox Diamond
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
- 1 Engineered Explosives
- 3 Life from the Loam
- 1 Ancient Grudge
- 4 Ponder
- 3 Scapeshift
- 4 Prismatic Omen
- 1 Raven's Crime
- 4 Wargate
- 4 Expedition Map
- 4 Punishing Fire
- 1 Noxious Revival
All of the tutors were excellent, and the mana was solid throughout. I’m still tilted about that Dredge match. Seriously, who has Leyline of Sanctity plus turn 2 kill in both sideboarded games? That is just so messed up.
Regardless, I hope you enjoyed the videos. I went a little overboard on quantity this week both because I was having a lot of fun and because I wanted to see how many different modes of victory the deck could achieve across a larger set of matches. As it turns out, the answer is “many.”
Since I’m a bit shortsighted and forgot how time works, today’s poll will be used for Thursday’s article—my heuristic of “put the poll in the video article” somehow triumphed over the (better) heuristic of “put the poll in the Thursday article.” Moving forward, having the poll in the Thursday article will be the new (continuing) normal.
With that out of the way, we have some good contenders for article topics this week. Enjoy!