FNM Results

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G/U/R Decklist

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   Okay, here are the results from this week's FNM!!

Our Mono-Black deck, we did a small amount of changing things up! We have the new decklist here for you! It went 3-2 this week, only being beat by a mono-blue control deck, and a mirror match with another Mono-Black Devotion deck. It won 8'th place overall in the event out of 21.


Mono-Black Devotion

Creatures: (19)

• 4x Desecration Demon
  
• 2x Erebos, God of the Dead
  
• 3x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  
• 4x Lifebane Zombie
  
• 4x Nightveil Specter
  
• 2x Pack Rat
  

Instant: (8)

• 2x Doom Blade
  
• 2x Hero's Downfall
  
• 3x Pharika's Cure
  

Sorcery: (7)

• 2x Corrupt
  
• 3x Thoughtseize
  

Enchantment: (2)

• 2x Whip of Erebos
  

Planeswalker: (1)

• 3x Liliana of the Dark Realms
  

Lands: (23)

• 19x Swamp
  
• 4x Temple of Deceit
  

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Sideboard: (13)

• 3x Devour Flesh
  
• 2x Diabolic Tutor
  
• 4x Duress
  
• 2x Hero's Downfall
  
• 2x Ultimate Price
  

This week we are going to try and work Underworld Connections
into this deck, we feel like the merit of having it there is going to really help us out a lot!
Next up, we have the Mid-Range Junk deck, that went 2-2-1 this week, and one of the wins we gave to a mono-blue control, which theoretically was a draw.
   The other draw was to a Spellheart Chimera deck. I won the first game, and the second game it went to time and I misplayed and didn't discard to the troll, and the judge misheard me say "is it good?" when I played the Whip and thought I said "go ahead", so that really screwed me too, Pretty much lost an entire turn on turn 2.
   The one match it actually lost went 2-1, I lost the first game due to it going 25 minutes, and I conceded to start over. I won the 2'nd match, and then he came back in and won the third at almost time.
   I did win my mirror match, against a Golgari deck. I won that 2-1, and I also went 2-1 against a Boros aggro deck, which theoretically should have killed me. But hey, that's the game right.
   I will be re-tooling this deck this week, and should have a new decklist up for you by mid-week or so! This weekend I will be playing in Springfield, IL. And then I won't be at FNM, or here, for 2 weeks, as I have my National Guard AT starting on Nov 1st and going through the 16th.
    As always, thanks for reading and keep brewing those decks!!

G/U/R Decklist

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Mono-Black Standard

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So I played this deck the other day designed by Javier Perez in a match on Cockatrice, and it performed so well that I wanted to share it with you.

   It's a G/U/R deck.

Creatures: (19)

• 4x Elvish Mystic
  
• 4x Manaweft Sliver
  
• 4x Sylvan Caryatid
  
• 4x Voyaging Satyr
  
• 3x Worldspine Wurm
  

Instant: (4)

• 4x Turn/Burn
  

Sorcery: (8)

• 4x Catch/Release
  
• 4x Blast of Genius
  

Land: (24)

• 2x Breeding Pool
  
• 7x Forest
  
• 4x Steam Vents
  
• 2x Stomping Ground
  
• 1x Temple Garden
  
• 4x Temple of Abandon
  
• 4x Temple of Mystery
  

Planeswalker: (5)

• 4x Garruk, Caller of Beasts
  
• 1xJace, Architect of Thought
   

So this deck looks funny when you just look at it right? Well he basically just ramps into Blast of Genius and either throws Worldspine on the field with the Blast, or he gets a Garruk out there and just -3's Garruk with a Worldspine, it worked. He also discarded Catch/Release to hit me for 9 damage. It just wins quick once it gets going. Check it out, try it out, let us know how it works for you!
   He is a friend of ours on our Facebook page, and we will be play testing some more decks of ours against this and recording them as well to let you see how this deck plays!
   As always, thanks for reading and we look forward to seeing you next time!

Decklists for FNM

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Mono-Black Standard

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The Decklists for this weeks' FNM are as follows. I will be running my Whipstacular Junk deck brewed by us here at MTG The Journey. David will be playing his Mono-Black Devotion deck. They look a little something like this.

Whipstacular Junk

Creatures: (20)

• 3x Desecration Demon
  
• 3x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  
• 1x Lord of the Void
  
• 4x Lotleth Troll
  
• 3x Nightveil Specter
  
• 2x Obzedat, Ghost Council
  
• 4x Sylvan Caryatid
  

Instant: (8)

• 3x Hero's Downfall
  
• 2x Putrefy
  
• 1x Abrupt Decay
  
• 2x Rescue from the Underworld
  

Enchantment: (6)

• 3x Underworld Connections
  
• 3x Whip of Erebos
  

Artifact: (2)

• 2x Chromatic Lantern
  

Planeswalker: (3)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
  
• 2x Vraska, the Unseen
  

Land: (22)

• 2x Forest
  
• 1x Godless Shrine
  
• 4x Golgari Guildgate
  
• 4x Overgrown Tomb
  
• 2x Plains
  
• 6x Swamp
  
• 3x Temple of Silence
  

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Sideboard: (15)

• 2x Abrupt Decay
  
• 1x Ashen Rider
  
• 3x Blind Obedience
  
• 2x Blood Baron of Vizkopa
  
• 2x Dark Betrayal
  
• 2x Gaze of Granite
  
• 3x Fade into Antiquity
  
• 2x Golgari Charm
  

This deck has come a long way from it's origins. By leveling down to the most essential functions, and working through the dead draws and screws before we finally arrived at this. And it's not perfect, but we think it's an all-around good base, and it has a strong sideboard. In a couple days we are going to link a few videos of playing this deck, but right now we are still working out a few bugs in our recording software.




Here is a video of the Whipstacular Junk deck vs. another Junk deck, there was just SO much LG going on, and I had to get to work, so I actually had to concede the game and leave. Look how long I held on though with even this terrible of a hand.

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Mono-Black Devotion

Creatures: (19)

• 4x Desecration Demon
  
• 2x Erebos, God of the Dead
  
• 3x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  
• 4x Lifebane Zombie
  
• 4x Nightveil Specter
  
• 2x Returned Phalanx
  

Instant: (8)

• 2x Doom Blade
  
• 2x Hero's Downfall
  
• 3x Pharika's Cure
  

Sorcery: (7)

• 2x Corrupt
  
• 2x Read the Bones
  
• 3x Thoughtseize
  

Enchantment: (2)

• 3x Whip of Erebos
  

Planeswalker: (1)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
  

Lands: (23)

• 19x Swamp
  
• 4x Temple of Deceit
  

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Sideboard: (13)

• 3x Devour Flesh
  
• 2x Diabolic Tutor
  
• 4x Duress
  
• 2x Hero's Downfall
  
• 2x Ultimate Price
  

This deck has been fun to watch come together. We have had so many people tell us that this looks like a net-deck, or a rip-off of a net-deck. But the fact of the matter is that this deck originated right here in the confines of MTG The Journey. We looked nowhere else but our card collections for what we wanted to add, and traded for everything else we didn't. So we are super proud that we came up with a product that is similar to what a pro is playing! We home-brew all the way!

   Well, we hope you enjoy these decklists, feel free to use them or modify them in any way you want to, we just ask that if you copy our templates and win big, that you tell people where you got the idea from and point them back here! We would also, of course, love to know if you are playing a copy or variant of a deck we have posted, and how it does or what you've changed and why.

    Until next time, thanks for reading and we look forward to providing you with more MTG excellence in the future!