Zendikar draft queues on magic online!They pay so....why dont play?

Here are two drafts i played recently,they all ended with me winning the whole thing so why not have a look to play on some queues and win those well paying booster packs!
DRAFT No1





DRAFT No2





Zendikar holds great value on magic online and it has a great amount of pay rares apart from its mythic rares!Also you get a chance to pull a jace the mind sculptor and who doesnt want that card anyway?!

Good luck and see you at the modo queues!

Action announced as New Phyrexia!

So we will be seeing a lot more infect and as expected the 5 praetors of phyrexia!

Drafting on mbs!!3-0 with dinosaurs!!

One of the easiest drafts i won, those bodies proved to be way to much for any of my opponents to withstand a game against it!

Jumanji,aka beating caw blade!

You KNOW 80% of people are playing caw blade and you wanna get them?Here is the deck for you!Jumanji!
All you have to do is go an explosive start of your first rounds bring some guys down and stampede them!This strategy has a target on caw blade and is sure to bring your caw blade foes down!
Exploiting fauna shaman and vengevine will let you leave with day of judgement and lead the stampede will let you dig for more and more guys that jace and hawks cant beat unless they draw the nuts!
This list is a creature tool box constructed to make a caw blade match up a bye!
Here is the original list presented at the last SCG open!

Jumanji Featured by Lewis Laskin on 2011-03-06 (Standard)

Maindeck: Artifact Creatures 1 Molten-Tail Masticore 1 Phyrexian Revoker Creatures 1 Acidic Slime 1 Baneslayer Angel 4 Birds of Paradise 4 Fauna Shaman 4 Llanowar Elves 4 Lotus Cobra 1 Soul's Attendant 4 Squadron Hawk 4 Vengevine Legendary Creatures 1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence Sorceries 4 Lead the Stampede 2 Overwhelming Stampede Basic Lands 4 Forest 2 Plains Lands 2 Marsh Flats 4 Misty Rainforest 4 Razorverge Thicket 3 Stirring Wildwood 3 Sunpetal Grove 2 Tectonic Edge Sideboard: 1 Glimmerpoint Stag 1 Kor Hookmaster 1 Kor Skyfisher 2 Leatherback Baloth 1 Obstinate Baloth 1 Viridian Corrupter 3 Journey to Nowhere 3 Nature's Claim 1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence 1 Gideon Jura This deck will ramp on its first rounds to fill the board with creatures and go all in at caw blade match up.It also has some plan b options like masticore to inflict that last dmg where vengevines will have fuel from lead the stampede to be around on every turn! Linvala shuts down sparkmages and stoneforge mystic cheating swords into play! The deck also offers many synergies on the sideboard plan as the stag-skyfisher endless recycling that will also help making sure you cast a creature spell on EACH of your turns.Hook master will shut down a titan for some time and there is a lot of artifact hate to break swords when they make an appearance. This list apart from a rogue plan against caw blade gives us the basis we need on stopping caw blade.Stopping their day of judgement plan will almost certainly give us all the advantage we need to win caw blade.Apart from that being milled with sword of the body and mind or discarding a vengevine due to sword of feast and famine is an asset to our strategy! Possible additions to the list A greater number of acidic slime mainboard is certain to be of use either breaking swords or some lands and screwing our opponents out of mana if their mana base is a demanding one. We will be seeing more and more artifacts so this guy is certain to be of good use!Be it caw blade or boros they all use swords.Even that U/B tezzeret list will give us a lot to target with our slimes. Kor firewalkers in our sideboard plan will also do a lot against boros or mono red match up as they will stay on the board and keep our life total out of lethal reach.Apart from that sneaking them in with shaman is always an option! Green Sun's zenith  is very good if we consider the versatility of the deck and bringing in just what we need in a certain match up will add a great value to this card hitting our mainboard.We will need creatures to make lead the stampede worth it but green sun zenith will give us exaclty what we need from our deck at a given point of the game, so it will be a good addition!Lotus Cobra mana can make even the most mana heavy creatures come into play with our zenith. Sun titan is certain to bring a lot of guys back each turn and can also see play in this list.Also bringing a phyrexia revoker back its turn is certain to stall many boards! Garruk wildspeaker is always usefull to lists like this .He can threat overrun on our opponents and will get us some guys wich will be very use full to stampede our foes life total! This list is in need of a lot of tuning i guess before it can get to tier one ,as the versatility of creatures it uses as a one of make it random more or less.Other than that i am sure it has what it takes to appear in some top 8 in standard any time soon!

Is red deck wins back?

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! Goblins A Standard Magic deck, by Douglas Scheinberg 11th 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 Chieftain 4 Goblin Guide 4 Goblin Wardriver 4 Spikeshot Elder 4 Warren Instigator Instants 4 Burst Lightning 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Staggershock Sorceries 1 Arc Trail Basic Lands 17 Mountain Lands 2 Tectonic Edge 4 Teetering Peaks Sideboard: 3 Sword of Feast and Famine 4 Molten-Tail Masticore 4 Manic Vandal 4 Mark of Mutiny I believe this list will be great to run around (and fast too) at some modo daily queue  taking some quick games!Or of cource your local fnm!