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The Magic Show #255 - Eight Top Standard Decks

Evan Erwin
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The highlighted decklists in this video:

U/W/R Midrange
Adam Percy
9th Place at StarCityGames.com Standard Open on 7/22/2012
Standard
 

Creatures (17)

  • 4 Blade Splicer
  • 3 Phantasmal Image
  • 4 Restoration Angel
  • 2 Snapcaster Mage
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 3 Thundermaw Hellkite

Lands (25)

  • 4 Island
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Plains
  • 3 Cavern of Souls
  • 4 Clifftop Retreat
  • 4 Seachrome Coast
  • 4 Sulfur Falls

Spells (18)

  • 3 Desperate Ravings
  • 2 Dismember
  • 3 Bonfire of the Damned
  • 2 Devil's Play
  • 2 Pillar of Flame
  • 4 Ponder
  • 2 Whipflare

    Sideboard

  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 2 Celestial Purge
  • 2 Combust
  • 1 Divine Offering
  • 3 Mana Leak
  • 2 Surgical Extraction
  • 2 Day of Judgment
  • 2 Ghost Quarter
 


U/W Venser Control
Lloyd Wasson
14th Place at StarCityGames.com Standard Open on 7/22/2012
Standard
 

Creatures (14)

  • 3 Blade Splicer
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 4 Restoration Angel
  • 2 Snapcaster Mage
  • 4 Stonehorn Dignitary

Planeswalkers (5)

  • 1 Gideon Jura
  • 4 Venser, the Sojourner

Lands (25)

  • 8 Island
  • 7 Plains
  • 4 Glacial Fortress
  • 2 Moorland Haunt
  • 4 Seachrome Coast

Spells (16)

  • 2 Oblivion Ring
  • 1 Cloudshift
  • 4 Mana Leak
  • 4 Think Twice
  • 3 Day of Judgment
  • 2 Terminus

    Sideboard

  • 2 Ratchet Bomb
  • 2 Celestial Purge
  • 1 Faith's Shield
  • 1 Redirect
  • 2 Surgical Extraction
  • 1 Gideon Jura
  • 1 Jace, Memory Adept
  • 1 Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
  • 2 Revoke Existence
  • 2 Timely Reinforcements
 


Mono-Green Aggro
Erik Panknin
30th Place at StarCityGames.com Standard Open on 7/22/2012
Standard
 

Creatures (21)

  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Bellowing Tanglewurm
  • 3 Birds of Paradise
  • 4 Dungrove Elder
  • 4 Llanowar Elves
  • 3 Strangleroot Geist
  • 1 Viridian Corrupter
  • 2 Wolfir Silverheart
  • 2 Thrun, the Last Troll

Lands (23)

  • 23 Forest

Spells (16)

  • 2 Sword of War and Peace
  • 4 Rancor
  • 2 Dismember
  • 4 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 4 Revenge of the Hunted

    Sideboard

  • 1 Batterskull
  • 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Primordial Hydra
  • 1 Stingerfling Spider
  • 1 Thragtusk
  • 1 Ulvenwald Tracker
  • 2 Beast Within
  • 2 Crushing Vines
  • 1 Melira, Sylvok Outcast
  • 2 Garruk Relentless
  • 1 Corrosive Gale
 


Frites
Tyler Smit
15th Place at StarCityGames.com Standard Open on 7/22/2012
Standard
 

Creatures (18)

  • 1 Wurmcoil Engine
  • 4 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 4 Birds of Paradise
  • 2 Blade Splicer
  • 2 Inferno Titan
  • 4 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One

Lands (22)

  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Plains
  • 4 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 4 Copperline Gorge
  • 3 Razorverge Thicket
  • 3 Rootbound Crag
  • 2 Sunpetal Grove

Spells (20)

  • 2 Bonfire of the Damned
  • 4 Faithless Looting
  • 4 Lingering Souls
  • 4 Mulch
  • 4 Unburial Rites
  • 2 Wild Guess

    Sideboard

  • 1 Wurmcoil Engine
  • 1 Angel of Glory's Rise
  • 2 Oblivion Ring
  • 2 Ancient Grudge
  • 1 Divine Deflection
  • 2 Naturalize
  • 1 Elspeth Tirel
  • 2 Day of Judgment
  • 3 Timely Reinforcements
 


Mono-Blue Wizards
Shaheen Soorani
7th Place at StarCityGames.com Standard Open on 7/22/2012
Standard
 

Creatures (14)

  • 1 Augur of Bolas
  • 4 Delver of Secrets
  • 2 Phantasmal Image
  • 4 Snapcaster Mage
  • 3 Talrand, Sky Summoner

Lands (20)

  • 15 Island
  • 3 Cavern of Souls
  • 2 Inkmoth Nexus

Spells (26)

  • 3 Runechanter's Pike
  • 3 Gut Shot
  • 4 Mana Leak
  • 4 Thought Scour
  • 4 Vapor Snag
  • 4 Gitaxian Probe
  • 4 Ponder

    Sideboard

  • 3 Spellskite
  • 1 Phantasmal Image
  • 1 Dismember
  • 3 Mental Misstep
  • 2 Negate
  • 1 Steel Sabotage
  • 2 Surgical Extraction
  • 2 Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
 


UW Trading Post
Chris Higashi
95th Place at StarCityGames.com Standard Open on 7/22/2012
Standard
 

Creatures (8)

  • 4 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Wurmcoil Engine
  • 3 Treasure Mage

Lands (20)

  • 2 Island
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 4 Glimmerpost
  • 3 Inkmoth Nexus
  • 3 Phyrexia's Core

Spells (32)

  • 2 Gilded Lotus
  • 4 Ichor Wellspring
  • 1 Mimic Vat
  • 3 Mycosynth Wellspring
  • 3 Pristine Talisman
  • 2 Ratchet Bomb
  • 4 Sphere of the Suns
  • 1 Staff of Nin
  • 4 Trading Post
  • 1 Mindslaver
  • 4 Day of Judgment
  • 3 Terminus

    Sideboard

  • 1 Mimic Vat
  • 1 Nihil Spellbomb
  • 1 Ratchet Bomb
  • 1 Spine of Ish Sah
  • 2 Torpor Orb
  • 2 Witchbane Orb
  • 3 Oblivion Ring
  • 3 Celestial Purge
  • 1 Terminus
 


Mono-Black Control
Jason Bulkowski
66th Place at StarCityGames.com Standard Open on 7/22/2012
Standard
 

Creatures (6)

  • 3 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 3 Wurmcoil Engine

Planeswalkers (3)

  • 3 Liliana of the Veil

Lands (24)

  • 21 Swamp
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 2 Phyrexia's Core

Spells (27)

  • 1 Batterskull
  • 2 Grafdigger's Cage
  • 3 Ichor Wellspring
  • 2 Mycosynth Wellspring
  • 2 Pristine Talisman
  • 2 Ratchet Bomb
  • 3 Trading Post
  • 1 Tumble Magnet
  • 2 Go for the Throat
  • 2 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Black Sun's Zenith
  • 2 Despise
  • 4 Mutilate

    Sideboard

  • 1 Batterskull
  • 1 Grafdigger's Cage
  • 2 Torpor Orb
  • 1 Tumble Magnet
  • 1 Hex Parasite
  • 2 Curse of Death's Hold
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 2 Karn Liberated
  • 1 Black Sun's Zenith
  • 3 Distress
 


U/B Zombies
Phillip Drennon
8th Place at StarCityGames.com Standard Open on 7/22/2012
Standard
 

Creatures (26)

  • 3 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 3 Blood Artist
  • 1 Butcher Ghoul
  • 1 Diregraf Captain
  • 4 Diregraf Ghoul
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 4 Geralf's Messenger
  • 4 Gravecrawler
  • 3 Phantasmal Image
  • 1 Phyrexian Obliterator
  • 1 Skinrender

Lands (23)

  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 4 Darkslick Shores
  • 4 Drowned Catacomb
  • 4 Woodland Cemetery

Spells (11)

  • 3 Birthing Pod
  • 2 Mortarpod
  • 2 Go for the Throat
  • 2 Tragic Slip
  • 2 Ponder

    Sideboard

  • 2 Sword of War and Peace
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 2 Fume Spitter
  • 2 Phyrexian Obliterator
  • 1 Skinrender
  • 1 Dismember
  • 2 Vile Rebirth
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 2 Killing Wave
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
 


- Evan
@misterorange

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