Hi everyone. As you are reading this, I’m probably heading back home from SCG Open: St. Louis. My deck choice should be something similar to what is in this video, but I have a lot of cool ideas in mind for what I’m going to try. For reference, here is the decklist:

U/W Illusions

Todd Anderson

Test deck on 12-11-2011

Standard

Creatures (15)

• 4 Phantasmal Bear
• 4 Snapcaster Mage
• 3 Geist of Saint Traft
• 4 Delver of Secrets

Lands (22)

• 3 Plains
• 9 Island
• 4 Glacial Fortress
• 4 Seachrome Coast
• 2 Moorland Haunt

Spells (23)

• 2 Dissipate
• 4 Mana Leak
• 3 Oblivion Ring
• 4 Ponder
• 3 Mental Misstep
• 2 Psychic Barrier
• 3 Vapor Snag
• 2 Gut Shot

Sideboard

• 2 Flashfreeze
• 1 Oblivion Ring
• 1 Negate
• 2 Celestial Purge
• 1 Batterskull
• 1 Mental Misstep
• 2 Azure Mage
• 2 Phantasmal Image
• 3 Timely Reinforcements

This deck is kind of a hybrid between a deck posted by Gerry Thompson last week, as well as my Illusions deck that I’ve been talking about for weeks. I know that this list is a few cards off, but I’m under the impression that Geist of Saint Traft is the direction the deck wants to move toward. I might be going about it the wrong way, but I still like the aggressive blue package. Geist of Saint Traft is a little awkward against certain decks/draws, but his power level should not be mistaken.

Before anyone starts in about cards I should add and cut, I already know that Geist probably needs something like Sword of Feast and Famine to make him harder to block. I might eventually move in that direction, but for now we’re going to keep it simple. As I expand the deck and try out new things, I’ll let you know how it ends up.

Enjoy!

Draft

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Round 4