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Deckcode: 3898spa4

Lost 1-2, I will drop. I think I got the worst possible matchups out of the possible ones for 2nd and 3rd round

dsck (RDW) 2:0 Tobias (UR control)

G1 I curved on the play, he had Arc Trail and tutored Bonfire but I had enough gas.

G2 I had all creatures hand with bunch of 1 drops, Tobias had turn 1 ancestral. I got him low enough life total before he stabilized with full grip of cards and fireblast finished things off.

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deckcode: 38u4e8pv

all that remains are cosmetical differences.

Maybe Im a "little" pessimistic but I think these differences are bigger than cosmetic and thats why we have different highlanders in the first place. Or is it the lack of direction from WOTC that people in different parts of world created their own 100 singleton communities?

The format is great and I would love to see it being GP format someday

Now I as a legacy player know and understand how Dark Depths interacts with Thespian Stage/Vampire Hexmage/Stifle/Wasteland, but some highlander players may not have encountered these strange situations and if you try to google about these theres millions of topics for different situations.

Could a judge give some compact list of common interactions here? I could just link my opponent here if theres a problem in future games Maybe theres already an article that explains these interactions? If so please link!

Good luck trying to combine commander/canadian/french highlanders with ours... Maybe in 2020 when commander players get bored with their format and want something more competitive or when canadian highlanders impossible to maintain point list gets demolished and they need to ban p9 cards.


Maybe someday in the future we can see GP Highlander, probably not.

@W0lf having all the archetypes presented in concise manner is good for everyone playing and interested in the format. Managing deck categories doesnt take so much effort that it would hinder banlist management.

I have no suggestions regarding the archetypes, but anything is better than what it currently looks @ mtgpulse. MTGpulse.com's search engine is also quite bad compared to http://www.tcdecks.net/.

I save 2 PP and use 2 for entry.

Congrats and thanks for the detailed report 

My dark bant list, definitely can use some fine-tuning. Very light on blue so no Force of Will plus the meta didnt seem good for it. I would look room for Daze and add 1 or 2 more mana elves. Dromoka's Command was ok, but when you compare it to vindicate/maelstrom pulse which deal with anything its pretty lackluster. I havent looked yet if there was something in Origins that would be good here.

Land (36)
    1x Arid Mesa
    1x Bayou
    1x Bloodstained Mire
    1x Breeding Pool
    1x Celestial Colonnade
    1x Flooded Grove
    1x Flooded Strand
    1x Forest
    1x Glacial Fortress
    1x Hallowed Fountain
    1x Hinterland Harbor
    1x Horizon Canopy
    1x Island
    1x Karakas
    1x Marsh Flats
    1x Misty Rainforest
    1x Mystic Gate
    1x Overgrown Tomb
    1x Plains
    1x Polluted Delta
    1x Razorverge Thicket
    1x Savannah
    1x Scalding Tarn
    1x Scrubland
    1x Stirring Wildwood
    1x Sunpetal Grove
    1x Temple Garden
    1x Treetop Village
    1x Tropical Island
    1x Tundra
    1x Underground Sea
    1x Verdant Catacombs
    1x Wasteland
    1x Windswept Heath
    1x Wooded Foothills
    1x Yavimaya Coast

Creature (32)
    1x Avacyn's Pilgrim
    1x Aven Mindcensor
    1x Birds of Paradise
    1x Blade Splicer
    1x Brimaz, King of Oreskos
    1x Courser of Kruphix
    1x Deathrite Shaman
    1x Edric, Spymaster of Trest
    1x Elves of Deep Shadow
    1x Eternal Witness
    1x Fyndhorn Elves
    1x Geist of Saint Traft
    1x Glen Elendra Archmage
    1x Kitchen Finks
    1x Knight of the Reliquary
    1x Llanowar Elves
    1x Lotus Cobra
    1x Loxodon Smiter
    1x Noble Hierarch
    1x Qasali Pridemage
    1x Reclamation Sage
    1x Restoration Angel
    1x Scavenging Ooze
    1x Siege Rhino
    1x Snapcaster Mage
    1x Sylvan Caryatid
    1x Tarmogoyf
    1x Tasigur, the Golden Fang
    1x Thrun, the Last Troll
    1x True-Name Nemesis
    1x Vendilion Clique
    1x Voice of Resurgence

Instant (17)
    1x Abrupt Decay
    1x Bant Charm
    1x Brainstorm
    1x Counterspell
    1x Cryptic Command
    1x Dig Through Time
    1x Dromoka's Command
    1x Eladamri's Call
    1x Fact or Fiction
    1x Mana Drain
    1x Mana Leak
    1x Miscalculation
    1x Mystical Tutor
    1x Path to Exile
    1x Remand
    1x Swords to Plowshares
    1x Tainted Pact

Sorcery (
    1x Ancestral Vision
    1x Council's Judgment
    1x Demonic Tutor
    1x Green Sun's Zenith
    1x Lingering Souls
    1x Maelstrom Pulse
    1x Treasure Cruise
    1x Vindicate

Planeswalker (3)
    1x Elspeth, Knight-Errant
    1x Garruk Wildspeaker
    1x Jace, the Mind Sculptor

Enchantment (2)
    1x Sylvan Library
    1x Treachery

Artifact (2)
    1x Sensei's Divining Top
    1x Sword of Feast and Famine

dsck dark bant 2-1 senshuken uw(b) control

G1 I start but I dont have turn 1 elf so my hand is little slow. I play qasali turn 2 fetching nonbasics because my hand demands too many colors to fetch bascis for. Senshuken plays top. I play knight, Senshuken flips top and stp's my knight and leaves UU open. on my turn I have 4 mana, jace, glen elendra, mana leak and gw command in hand and no more lands. i dont think i get to mana leak anything and making him pay 3 more for top doesnt seem great, what if he just lets it get countered and keeps counter mana open? So I play glen, he counters and plays back to basics I dont topdeck land for qasali and he removes qasali with council on his next turn.

G2 I have decent start with lotus cobra and edric demanding wrath from him, which he has. Then I zenith for voice of resurgence and try to pressure him. I clique him on my turn while he is tapped and take his terminus away leaving him with counterspells which he has had no opportunity to cast because of voice. He cant stabilize despite snapcaster because if he flashbacks wrath he has to tap out and my kitchen finks/voice token would finish him. He flashbacks swords to plow and hopes to topdeck wrath on his next turn. He doesnt.

G3 I keep 5 lands of which 1 was celestial colonnade, birds of paradise and ancestral vision. Risky but it works out as I topdeck clique, zenith for voice and geist of saint traft. Senshuken had misdirection for my ancestral and moat + lots of counters (incluing fow) in hand. He has interesting choice between searching for cryptic command with scroll or tapping out for terminus, hoping I dont have 5th land for colonnade. He chose the last line and I had the land. If he had 1 more life he could have cast moat and survived my clique hitting him but he had to fetch for 2nd white.

GGs.

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