My Tourney Report

Hi Guys,
In order to prep Stan and Alvin, I have decided to write about my tourney experience for the National Qualifyer. It was an event of 7 rounds of swiss.

The meta game has greatly been affected by the recent GPs Top 8, consisting mostly of Faeries, Elves and U/W Lark.

Round1: Sanity Grinding 2-1
MVP is surely Putrid Leech! This card can break control deck nerves by forcing a huge pressure on their options. Just attack 'withwhatever' that is on your board. SB out some creature removals and bring in more threats!

Round 2: Faeries 2-1
MVP is our old man: Gaddock Teeg. I won the game with him in play and my opponent stuck with cryptic commands in his hands. One thing to take note, Scion of Oona spoils alot of combat tricks and single target removals. Try to play around that.

Round 3: U/W Lark 2-1
MVP: Smelly Hand. Although he took the first match, I won the next two games with him stuck on 1 land and 4 lands respectively. First turn BoP, second turn Doran, third turn Leige and your opponent is on 1 land sounds pretty exciting to me.

Round 4: Faeries again.... 1-2
Karma.... Made fatal mistake of not playing around Mistblind Clinque and Scion. GG

Round 5: Faeries again....... WTH..... Notice 5 rounds I played against decks with Cryptic commands... 2-0
MVP: Treetop Villages. Basically, I top decked path to exile for his last blocker and punch through his last blockers with 2 treetops and 1 putrid leech. He made mistake of Thoughtseizing me despite on 3 life left.

Round 6: Jund Good Stuff. 1-2
I lost to him not because of skill, but rather, because he was just plain lucky. He has better top deck skills. BUT I am gonna stomp him in Nationals... For Real!

Round 7: Green/White Tokens 2-0
The unfortunate opponent that got paired up with me. He needs an ID where as I need a win. For two games in a row, I mulligan till 6, keeping a 1land and 1 bird hand. Leige equip with Sledge. Enough said.

My conclusion
Doran is once again a 50-50 match up agn the meta game now. Armed with 2 best removals in the current format aka Maelstorm Pulse and Path to Exile and access to uber sb options like Celestial Purge, Forge Tender etc.

Metagame is seriously filled with loads of annoying flying pest. Thank God for the 3 Cloudthreshers in my sb, I could eke out a win through unexpected fae players.

My advice is to play something fast and furious. Jund is what I feel is best for such cases. Do not attempt to play faeries unless you have immerse amount of playtesting. (ie: Lucas...)

Good Luck for next Saturday. Need help for playtesting pls chio... =P

Decklist

4 Birds of Paradise (Mana is damn screwed in this deck, thus this pwns Noble)
4 Treefolk Harbringer (With Doran, this is a 3/3 for 1 mana. And he tutors for your Doran or Murmuring Bosk)
4 Putrid Leech (Smack controls ass)
4 Qasali Pridemage (No bitterblossom, razormane masticore, equipment for joo!)
3 Gaddock Teeg (No Planeswalker, commands and ambition)
4 Dauntless Escort (No Wrath, terror, deathmark etc...)
4 Doran, the Siege Tower (Big Daddy Cool!)
3 Wilt Leaf Leige (Anthem on legs... What more you want?)

4 Maelstorm Pulse (Die multiple copies! Die!)
4 Path to Exile (Cheapo Swords to Plowshares)
1 Behemoth Sledge (Fat, trampling, life gaining beasts...)

4 Llanowar Wastes
4 Treetop Village
3 Murmuring Bosk
3 Wooded Bastion
2 Brushlands
3 Forest
1 Plains
1 Swamp

SB:
4 Zealous Persecution (Sb-ing this agn faeries more than tokens. Wtf)
4 Kitchen Finks (CB... no Red/Black)
3 Terror
3 Cloudtresher (Uber!)
1 Behemoth Sledge