The last SCG open has ended and more or less it showed the power of the new "jund" Caw blade deck!
This deck has been dominating the top 8 of the tourney taking 6 out of 8 of the top.Havent people been trying to break this archetype?Of cource they have but to no avail...
But in the end what happened?Red deck won the whole thing...How?NONE was expecting this deck to make a come back anytime soon and there was certainly few hate against red spells..The pilot was an excellent red sorcerer of old time that evenly tried to have a double koth some time in the quarter finals forgeting that rules about legend cards have changed.Other than that he did few mistakes and did the best to send all his red spells on the face of his opponents.
Lets take a look at the list he used.
| Red Deck Wins A Standard Magic deck, by Patrick Sullivan 1st place at a StarCityGames.com Standard Open tournament in Edison, New Jersey, United States on 2011-03-06 | ||||
| Maindeck: Creatures 4 Ember Hauler 4 Goblin Guide 4 Plated Geopede 4 Spikeshot Elder Instants 4 Burst Lightning 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Searing Blaze 4 Staggershock Planeswalkers 4 Koth of the Hammer Basic Lands 12 Mountain Lands 4 Arid Mesa 4 Scalding Tarn 4 Teetering Peaks Sideboard: 4 Ratchet Bomb 4 Manic Vandal 4 Arc Trail 3 Mark of Mutiny The list isnt anything new,it isnt anything people havent seen before or something unformentioned.It is good old red deck wins! The reason it did so well is basicly that new archtypes have just to adjust to win one another so there is little room in the sideboard for old decks that are there but noone cares to take them to an event and start beating people with them. We should remember that people used to beat jund with red deck wins back a year or so?But can red deck wins beat the Caw Blade power house?Chances are it is capable to do so! This deck came to show us one thing,decks unexpected are easy to make it happen and people in big tourneys will be netdecking with just a little of tuning or not.Most decks are there winning and stable.But anyone trying to go rogue or in this current situation go "old" is likely to be awarded for doing so.Caw blade is deploying much faster than ANY older version of U/W control in the last years but red deck is by far faster than any type of red deck. Another lesson we should learn from this is that people should go in tourneys with some sideboard plan about decks that existed some time in the current type 2 were they good for some time or not.If leyline of sanctity was in the sideboard of some caw blade versions,no red deck would stand chances against them.But it was not,caw blade players just have to beat the mirror and thats all theyll care about. Will this make room for other archetypes to breath,valakut to make its come back?Some shape anew breed appear bringing blightsteel colossus in the game?Time will tell. Ending this i would like to post another red deck i saw in the same tourney and is certainly a lot of fun to play!
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