Showing posts with label Kithkin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kithkin. Show all posts

Monday, August 17, 2009

April 2009 Standard (T2) tournament Deck lists

1st White Weenie sgcyrus April 2009 Standard (T2) Deck
2nd WW Kithkin Cazique April 2009 Standard (T2) Deck
3rd Elves Dakh April 2009 Standard (T2) Deck


White Weenie
1st - sgcyrus
Main Deck Sideboard
4 Windbrisk Heights
20 Snow-Covered Plains
3 Knight of Meadowgrain
4 Knight of the Holy Nimbus
4 Serra Avenger
4 Soltari Priest
4 Kitchen Finks
3 Ajani Goldmane
4 Figure of Destiny
2 Oversoul of Dusk
4 Spectral Procession
4 Unmake
1 Oversoul of Dusk
3 Wheel of Sun and Moon
3 Stillmoon Cavalier
2 Oblivion Ring
3 Opal Guardian
3 Sunlance


WW Kithkin
2nd - Cazique
Main Deck Sideboard
14 Snow-Covered Plains
4 Windbrisk Heights
3 Mutavault
4 Rustic Clachan
4 Figure of Destiny
4 Burrenton Forge-Tender
4 Knight of Meadowgrain
4 Wizened Cenn
4 Goldmeadow Stalwart
4 Cloudgoat Ranger
3 Glorious Anthem
2 Mirrorweave
2 Oblivion Ring
4 Spectral Procession
2 Faerie Macabre
1 Sacred Mesa
2 Wheel of Sun and Moon
4 Mana Tithe
4 Gelid Shackles
1 Reveillark
1 Crovax, Ascendant Hero


Elves
3rd - Dakh
Main Deck Sideboard
4 Giant Growth
1 Stonewood Invocation
2 Garruk Wildspeaker
4 Boggart Ram-Gang
4 Talara's Battalion
4 Bramblewood Paragon
4 Wren's Run Vanquisher
4 Twinblade Slasher
4 Nettle Sentinel
4 Groundbreaker
4 Llanowar Elves
16 Forest
1 Pendelhaven
4 Treetop Village
2 Guttural Response
2 Seal of Primordium
3 Pithing Needle
2 Snakeform
3 Faerie Macabre
3 Kitchen Finks

Monday, July 20, 2009

Kithkin Militia: Strategy Session


















Hello everyone, and welcome back to Building on a Budget. Last week, we evolved the Kithkin Militia deck to a mainly Kithkin-based White Weenie deck with a respectable 10-4 record. However, there were multiple cries from the forums and my email that went along these lines:

"Hey! Anyone can build a White Weenie Deck! There's no skill involved in playing or building that deck—why did you waste your time?"

And my response? There's a remarkable amount of depth involved in selecting the right sixty cards for any Magic deck, no matter how straightforward the deck might seem on the surface. In particular, there are four advanced principles of Magic strategy that I'm going to explain today. These concepts are curve, synergy, threat density and threat selection.

These four cornerstones of an aggressive strategy are all interrelated—you cannot take one into account without the others. Curve refers to the mana cost of your cards, and making sure that you are able to maximize the use of your mana each turn. Synergy is having your cards work well together. Threat density means having enough threats to kill your opponent with, and threat selection is making sure you have the right threats. Let's take a look at each of these one-by-one using last week's final deck, and then see why it is so important to a winning aggressive deck to have these four concepts work in harmony. Read full article


24 Plains

24 creatures
1 Cenn's Heir
4 Cloudgoat Ranger
4 Goldmeadow Harrier
4 Goldmeadow Stalwart
2 Kithkin Greatheart
4 Knight of Meadowgrain
1 Thoughtweft Trio
4 Wizened Cenn

12 other spells
2 Crib Swap
3 Glorious Anthem
4 Oblivion Ring
3 Surge of Thoughtweft

Comment:
Here's a white weenie deck that is both budget and efficient!