Subject: Tourney Report Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 23:35:16 -0700 From: Ed Grubaugh To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com Frank and Readers: I've been urged by a few people to write something resembling a decklist for this totally random deck I played at a NGSF Rome PTQ the first Saturday in October (don't recall the date). I went 3-1-2 (3-0-2 after 5, but I couldn't clutch it up in the last round) - not impressive, but I'm posting the deck in the hope that someone will play this pile and piss more people off. So, here is the deck. You can figure out how it plays if you think long and hard about it, and it truly is a lot of fun in how it will annoy people and frustrate people who aren't sure what you are doing. Here it is... 14 cards in the deck and 46 others that don't do much in no particular order. 4 Wall of Blossoms 3 Bottle Gnomes 2 Spike Weaver 4 Rampant Growth 4 Wood Elves 2 Harrow 4 Power Sink 2 Mana Leak 4 Intuition 3 Scroll Rack 2 Recurring Nightmare 1 Scriviner 2 Anarchist 1 Reclaim 1 Time Warp 1 Rolling Thunder 2 Reflecting Pool 2 Skyshroud Forest 10 Forest 4 Island 1 Swamp 1 Mountain The sideboard needs: 1 Shattering Pulse, 3 Dread of Night, 1 Trainquility, 2 Forbid (maybe 3), 1 Mana leak, 2 Boil, 1 Silver Wyvern, and 3-4 cards based on pre-tournament scouting. The major things to remember are 1) intuitioning for recur, reclaim, scriviner is really good when it works, and 2) you MUST mana short your counterspelling pponent before attempting to go to infinity and piss the person off. This deck looks enough like some common decks for the first few turns to confuse the opponent. It's not that good, but people will play quite horrid against you, so it can work. -Ed