I was really impressed by them, but after a while I realized that Gisela is just a worse Kalitas & Lancers are too cute and the Bruna/Grisela package is not really needed, although good in some matchups (mainly GW tokens). To fix that, I tried to add creatures to the deck, starting with an angel package (2 《Gisela, the Broken Blade》 and one of each of these 《Archangel Avacyn》, 《Thalia's Lancers》 《Linvala, the Preserver》, 《Bruna, the Fading Light》 + 2 《Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet》). The problem I had with this deck was that after sideboard, bant decks with their 《Negate》 would be really problematic, because they can just counter your expensive planeswalkers for 2 mana, while getting ahead with their card advantage creatures ( 《Duskwatch Recruiter》, 《Tireless Tracker》, 《Nissa, Vastwood Seer》). Both were great at protecting your other planeswalkers and made your opponent overcommit to the board and into a well-timed Languish. Only new additions were 《Liliana》 and her 《Oath》, both of which over performed. Then I built BW creatureless control with planeswalkers, similar to what Seth Manfield used to win GP New York with. We started with BG delirium control, but didn’t find a version we liked, so we dismissed it after a while. That was, at least for me, the main reason not to play it and try to find something I would feel more comfortable playing and that fits my play style better. It was a bit soft to Liliana and Aerial Volley, but the biggest problem was that it was really hard to play properly, because you had to play around everything and once you screwed up there was no coming back from it. This continued to be the deck most of us considered playing for the PT, because it was solid, fast and powerful. The deck reminded me of faeries, because most of the cards had flash, used some of the most powerful cards in standard ( 《Spell Queller》, 《Collected Company》) and was hard to play against because of those elements. As usual we started drafting, 3-4 drafts a day and a little bit of constructed.įirst deck we built was Bant Spirits, courtesy of Niels Noorlander(2015 MOCS winner). Most of our team met in the cabin on July 19, in the middle of nowhere in the Czech Republic near the city Prachatice. Preparation was done as usual with my team: Cabin Crew. I did not know that it actually was 58 points, so I would need one more win or draw. To do that, I would need a 10-6 record, which is worth 6 points that would put me at 57 – a threshold I thought would be good enough to qualify. Going into the tournament, I was sitting at 51 points, locked for Platinum and looking to secure my spot at the World Championship. I won last week, so I will write about my expectations, preparation, about the tournament itself, sideboarding and how would I change the deck for the upcoming weeks. Hello everyone, my name is Lukas Blohon, I am a Platinum pro from Czech Republic and this is my first article for Hareruya.
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