Hey everybody, here’s two more videos from PAX East for your enjoyment.
The first is a recap of Saturday, which as you’ll see, became sort of a “LoadingReadyRun Day” for us, and the second is our Archenemy game against Wizards Community Manager Michael Robles (which we separated into its own video so it’s not a 7 minute video with 4 minutes of MTG in it).
If you’re interested what our decklists are, check out the rest of this article, after the jump.
Here are our decklists for Game, Set and Match:
GAME
Land:
- 23 Swamps
Creatures:
- 4 Pulse Tracker
- 4 Vampire Lacerator (It hurts you, but it’s a 2/2 for 1B)
- 4 Dauthi Slayer (Dauthi creatures have Shadow, it basically makes them unblockable)
- 4 Dauthi Horror
Spells:
- 3 Doom Blade
- 3 Go for the Throat
- 4 Dark Ritual
- 4 Hymn to Tourach (Best hand-attack card ever, basically)
- 3 Duress
- 3 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Mind Twist (For fun, why not?)
SET
Land:
- 12 Islands
- 8 Plains
- 2 Glacial Fortress
- 1 Seachrome Coast
Creatures:
- 4 Squadron Hawk (Early flyers at best, good chump-blockers at worst)
- 4 Savannah Lions (Cheap, agressive)
- 4 Elite Vanguard (Functional reprint of Savannah Lions)
Spells:
- 4 Silence (Buy us another turn)
- 4 Swords to Plowshares (Best removal spell ever)
- 4 Spell Pierce
- 3 Negate
- 3 Deprive
- 3 Remand
- 2 Counterspell
- 2 Rushing River
MATCH
Land:
- 18 Mountain
- 4 Teetering Peaks
Creatures:
- 4 Goblin Guide (Basically all the creatures have haste, this deck is fast)
- 4 Hellspark Elementals
- 3 Ball Lightning
- 3 Hells Thunder
- 3 Boggart Ram Gang
- 2 Kargan Dragonlord
Spells:
- 4 Lightning Bolt
- 4 Burst Lightning
- 4 Magma Jet (Card draw in Red? What?)
- 1 Skullclamp (See above)
- 2 Mimic Vat
- 4 Flame Javelin
MIKE’S ARCHENEMY DECK “Y U SO MEAN?” (Mike was nice enough to include links)
Schemes:
- 1 Dance, Pathetic Marionette (You can see this one being used, when we have to mill cards for a creature)
- 1 Surrender Your Thoughts
- 1 My Undead Horde Awakens
- 1 Mortal Flesh Is Weak
- 2 Realms Befitting My Majesty
- 2 I Delight in Your Convulsions
- 2 The Dead Shall Serve
- 2 Your Puny Minds Cannot Fathom
- 2 Every Hope Shall Vanish
- 2 Your Fate Is Thrice Sealed
- 2 Only Blood Ends Your Nightmares
- 2 Perhaps You’ve Met My Cohort (This is the one that tutored for Nicol Bolas)
Creatures:
- 1 Kaervek the Merciless
- 1 Avatar of Discord
- 1 Kederekt Creeper
- 1 Ashling, the Extinguisher
- 1 Oculus
- 1 Royal Assassin
- 1 Fulminator Mage
- 1 Malfegor
- 1 Dominus of Fealty
- 1 Doomed Necromancer
- 1 Dread
- 1 Avatar of Woe
- 1 Reassembling Skeleton
- 1 Undertaker
- 2 Liliana’s Specter
- 1 Extractor Demon
Spells:
- 1 Terminate
- 1 Beacon of Unrest
- 1 Syphon Mind
- 1 Cruel Ultimatum
- 1 Rise from the Grave
- 1 Bonehoard
- 1 Nettlevine Blight
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Grave Pact
- 1 Painful Quandary
- 1 Polluted Bonds
- 1 Underworld Dreams
- 1 Consume the Meek
- 1 Mystical Tutor
- 1 Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker (He’s a wreckin’ machine!)
- 1 Liliana Vess [Planeswalker]
- 1 Jace Beleren [Planeswalker]
Lands:
- 1 Crumbling Necropolis
- 1 Barren Moor
- 1 Sulfurous Springs
- 1 Sunken Ruins
- 1 Volcanic Island
- 1 Underground River
- 1 Shivan Reef
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Cascade Bluff
- 1 Darkslick Shores
- 1 Graven Cairns
- 7 Swamp
- 4 Mountain
- 4 Island
*reads Match library*
Ah, yes. Can’t have a good burn deck without Lightning Bolt and Ball Lightning. Flame Javelin is always welcomed as well. Although yours is done differently to mine, largely because I haven’t heard of most of the cards you use. I looked them up on the Gatherer and I can see why you picked them.
Comment by CounterAttack — March 31, 2011 @ 2:19 am
I went to the screening, was awesome. I also got a cookie badge!
Comment by ShinobiRAGE — April 1, 2011 @ 6:46 pm
Thanks a lot for this. I was having a really bad day today, and watching these videos really cheered me up.
Comment by Moon_Called — April 2, 2011 @ 12:24 am
‘Perhaps You’ve Met My Cohort’ – Is this a hint that they’re going to release new Archenemy cards?
Comment by Megacherv — April 2, 2011 @ 3:47 am
thi has nothign to do with the game vid really but i wonder how many views you guys get on your videos and how many fans you have
just curious
OZITO
Comment by OZITOMAE — April 2, 2011 @ 8:03 am
@megacherv – No it is not. Perhaps You’ve Met My Cohort” is a DCI exclusive promo card. You get those for competing and going to special events. I also have a better scheme for next time: http://twitpic.com/4h1rde
Comment by Michael Robles — April 4, 2011 @ 7:27 pm
Just saying, Mike’s Archenemy deck is fantastically better than mine. Almost went to PAX this year, but unfortunately had too many things going on. Looks like I missed some epic stuff. Oh well, always another time.
Comment by Grey Jedi — April 4, 2011 @ 8:09 pm
@ Grey Jedi. Thanks! After I sent the deck list to Graham I realized that I have a ton of “one-of’s”. So I re-purposed the deck into an even meaner Commander deck! With Nicol Bolas (Elder Dragon, not Planeswalker) as my general!
Comment by Michael Robles — April 5, 2011 @ 4:52 pm
Eh, I would say Vindicate is better than Swords to Plowshares. But that’s just me 😛
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