Top Decks 19.5.2011

by **gos** » 19 May 2011, 10:15

4 decks from today's Top Decks, are forgeable: Aadil Qadir's Vampires, Edgar Flores's Caw-Blade, Korey McDuffie's Darkblade, and Kitt Holland's DarkBlade.

Code: Select all: Aadil Qadir's Vampires [general] constructed [main] 6 Swamp 4 Bloodghast 4 Gatekeeper of Malakir 2 Hero of Oxid Ridge 4 Kalastria Highborn 4 Pulse Tracker 2 Vampire Hexmage 4 Vampire Lacerator 2 Viscera Seer 1 Dark Tutelage 1 Burst Lightning 1 Doom Blade 2 Go for the Throat 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Blackcleave Cliffs 4 Dragonskull Summit 4 Lavaclaw Reaches 3 Marsh Flats 2 Verdant Catacombs 2 Arc Trail [sideboard]

Code: Select all: Edgar Flores's Caw-Blade [general] constructed [main] 1 Batterskull 1 Sword of Feast and Famine 1 Sword of War and Peace 5 Island 3 Plains 4 Squadron Hawk 4 Stoneforge Mystic 2 Condemn 3 Into the Roil 4 Mana Leak 4 Spell Pierce 4 Celestial Colonnade 4 Glacial Fortress 2 Inkmoth Nexus 4 Seachrome Coast 4 Tectonic Edge 2 Jace Beleren 4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor 4 Preordain [sideboard]

Code: Select all: Korey McDuffie's Darkblade [general] constructed [main] 1 Batterskull 1 Sword of Feast and Famine 1 Sword of War and Peace 2 Island 4 Plains 2 Swamp 4 Squadron Hawk 4 Stoneforge Mystic 1 Dismember 2 Doom Blade 1 Go for the Throat 2 Into the Roil 4 Creeping Tar Pit 4 Darkslick Shores 2 Glacial Fortress 4 Marsh Flats 4 Seachrome Coast 1 Jace Beleren 4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor 2 Day of Judgment 3 Despise 3 Inquisition of Kozilek 4 Preordain [sideboard]

Code: Select all: Kitt Holland's DarkBlade [general] constructed [main] 1 Batterskull 1 Sword of Feast and Famine 1 Sword of War and Peace 4 Plains 2 Swamp 2 Emeria Angel 4 Squadron Hawk 4 Stoneforge Mystic 3 Go for the Throat 1 Into the Roil 2 Mana Leak 2 Arid Mesa 4 Creeping Tar Pit 4 Darkslick Shores 3 Glacial Fortress 4 Marsh Flats 4 Seachrome Coast 4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor 2 Despise 4 Inquisition of Kozilek 4 Preordain [sideboard]

by **gos** » 19 May 2011, 15:02

Note that 4 out of 7 decks from this article are forgeable.

That's 5 out of 8 top-placing decks in a high-level Standard tournament (one of the DarkBlade decklists placed twice in the top 8).

Or, counting another way, 3 out of 6 archetypes (Vampires, Caw-Blade and DarkBlade - the other 3 are Valakut, Grixis Exarch Twin and RUG Exarch Twin).

Whichever way you split it, I think that's an excellent result for forge :)

by **slapshot5** » 19 May 2011, 15:10

Cool. Do you have a list of the missing?

by **gos** » 19 May 2011, 19:44

slapshot5 wrote:Cool. Do you have a list of the missing?

If you mean the whole decklists, it's probably simplest to follow the link provided.

If you mean which cards are missing from forge, they are:

Valakut: Summoning Trap.
Grixis Exarch Twin: Deceiver Exarch, Spellskite.
RUG Exarch Twin: Deceiver Exarch.

It's a shame the extra targeting restrictions on the Exarch prevented it from being copy-pasted from Pestermite.

by **friarsol** » 19 May 2011, 23:04

The Summoning part of Summoning Trap is scriptable, it's just the Trap part that needs groundwork.