Side Event Prep: Legacy Bug Landstill 2013

Preparing for GP Kyoto: 11th Nov

Preparing for GP Kyoto: 10th Nov

Today's sealed was quite tough. I felt that UR would be more stable than WR as it had a pair of the 3/4 fliers at the common slot versus a pair of Silent Artisans. WR felt a little lacking without more heroic enablers.

WU could not get the card count.

Went 2-2.

Preparing for GP Kyoto: 7th Nov

Legacy - Bug Landstill 2013 1-3

Last night, I got myself the Esper colored Commander 2013 deck (so expensive!!!) for a Toxic Deluge that I wanted to test for GP Kyoto's legacy side events. (I think I need 1 more)

I think I'm a sucker for very good creature removal and Toxic Deluge is premium.
At 3 mana (anti-Teeg) and requiring only a single black mana while being able to clear everything, it is as good as it gets. The biggest drawback is having to pay the life upfront as a counter against it is going to be big. With creature decks being the most problematic decks around, it's as good as it gets.

With Toxic Deluge being part of a deck strategy, I turned my deck into an updated Landstill deck.

As always, I'm running the same few cards with some minor differences and my deck's entirety changes.

I went 1-3 with the deck, lost to Charbelcher, won UWr Counterbalance (a matchup I played so often 2-3 years ago), lost to Ad Nauseum storm and also the GW that the shopowner plays.

I guess that I have to get my full set of FoWs to run this deck properly.

I ran the below 61 card build:

4 Brainstorm
3 Deathrite Shaman
2 Snapcaster Mage
1 Regrowth (which everyone thought was banned)
2 Force of Will
2 Ancestral Vision
2 Standstill
2 Abrupt Decay
1 Maelstrom Pulse
2 Pernicious Deed
3 Jace, the mind sculptor
2 Intuition
1 Life from the Loam
1 Snuff Out (vs Thalia, may need to change)
1 Dismember

2 Spell Pierce 

3 Counterspell 

1 Bow of Nylea (testing 1x but I probably can't support it at the mana level)
1 Misdirection (replacing Fow spot)
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Liliana of the Veil
1 Daze

1 Creeping Tar Pit
4 Polluted Delta
2 Underground Sea (borrowed 1)
2 Tropical Island (borrowed 1)
2 Darkslick Shores
2 Island
1 Forest
1 Swamp
2 Wasteland
1 Thespian Stage
1 Dark Depths
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Misty Rainforest 21

SB

2 Flusterstorm
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Pernicious Deed
1 Duress
1 Thoughtseize

1 Inquisition of Kozilek (may change to 1 Duress)
2 Cabal Therapy

2 Surgical Extraction
2 Relic of Progenitus
1 Krosan Grip
1 Reverant Silence (brought over from previous lists but the maindeck is good enough so I will swap this out)

Preparing for GP Kyoto: 5th Nov

I just came back from Japan yesterday so I've been out of touch with Magic for slightly over a week.
Going to have to get back into practice gear again.

Today I did a 8-4 draft, secretly hoping to move into blue to complete a circle of colors I've actively drafted.