Post DKA MetaGame

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Happy Monday MTG peeps,

First up - we want to let you know that our B/W Token build (featuring Sorin 2.0 and mad token generators) that we showed you in Thursday's post performed not too badly during the Friday Night Magic tournament at OMG! Games here in town. First match we won 2-0 against a black-red build, second match we won again 2-0 against a blue-red Delver variant, and in the third match we lost 2-1 against a Solar Flare build. We loved that the deck was not only fun to play but competitive as well.

Speaking of competitive, we should speak onto the big tournaments this past weekend - namely the StarCity Games Open Series in Cincinnati as well as the ProTour Dark Ascension in Honolulu. We realise that this is a casual Magic the Gathering blog with focus on standard constructed but one is well served to see what the 'Pros' are doing as their strategy and tech will show up in one form or another at the Games Store or at the Kitchen table. Anywhoos - let's have a look at the past weekend -

StarCity Games Open Series in Cincinnati, Ohio - Top 8 Breakdown -
4 U/W Delver, 2 Wolf Run Ramp, 1 U/B Heartless Control, 1 Tempered Steel

Nolen Lauren - SCG Champion - U/W Delver Standard Deck

23 Lands : 9 Island, 1 Plains, 4 Glacial Fortress, 3 Moorland Haunt, 4 Seachrome Coast

13 Creatures : 4 Delver of Secrets, 2 Dungeon Geists, 4 Snapcaster Mage, 3 Geist of Saint Traft

26 Other Spells : 1 Dismember, 2 Gut Shot, 4 Mana Leak, 1 Mutagenic Growth, 3 Thought Scour, 4 Vapor Snag, 4 Gitaxian Probe, 4 Ponder, 1 Runechanter's Pike, 2 Sword of War and Peace

Sideboard : 1 Timely Reinforcements, 2 Celestial Purge, 1 Dungeon Geists, 1 Faith's Shield, 2 Oblivion Ring, 2 Dissipate, 2 Divine Offering, 1 Sword of Feast and Famine, 2 Ratchet Bomb, 1 Revoke Existence

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Pro Tour Dark Ascension Honolulu - Top 8 breakdown -
4 U/W Delver, 3 Wolf Run Ramp, 1 Birthing Pod

Brian Kibler - Pro Tour DKA Champion - Standard Wolf Run Ramp

5 lands : 4 Copperline Gorge, 5 Forest, 4 Inkmoth Nexus, 2 Kessig Wolf Run, 6 Mountain, 4 Rootbound Crag

16 creatures : 1 Acidic Slime, 1 Birds of Paradise, 4 Huntmaster of the Fells, 2 Inferno Titan, 4 Primeval Titan, 3 Solemn Simulacrum, 1 Thrun, the Last Troll

19 other spells : 4 Galvanic Blast, 2 Green Sun's Zenith, 4 Rampant Growth, 4 Slagstorm, 4 Sphere of the Suns, 1 Whipflare

Sideboard : 2 Ancient Grudge, 1 Autumn's Veil, 2 Beast Within, 2 Combust, 1 Garruk, Primal Hunter, 2 Karn Liberated, 2 Naturalize, 2 Thrun, the Last Troll, 1 Whipflare

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Lastly, Valentine's Day is right around the corner . . .

and nothing says 'I wub U' more than getting that special someone some Magic Cards. Here's something interesting from the folks over at MTG Mint Card -

Roses are red, violets are blue, the perfect deck for Valentines day?
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