Regionals - SUCCESS

-Greg

Regionals was a great success for Team Barnabus!

CJ: Green/White Overrun - SECOND PLACE GOING TO NATIONALS HOLY SHIT
Phil: BR Aggro Demigod - 6-3, smashing all the mirror matches. He was the most successful BR Aggro of the day, landing in the top 10%-15% range.
Brenna: Boat Brew, 5-4, had a rough start, but pulled out amazing plays all day. After she warmed up, people were crowding around the table to watch her games.
Greg: 5CC, 3-3-3, tuned it to beat Faeries and BW Tokens and faced neither. Only human in existence to draw three games in a Regionals event.
Kimball: 4-5, was dropping jaws all day with his unexpected combination of cheap creatures and unstoppable enchantments.
Pete: UW Lark, had a positive record, and had possibly more fun than anyone at the entire event. I'm going to specifically request that Pete not take his medication on game days. :)
Sean: Had a string of rough matches, including one mandatory re-sleeve, but had a lot of luck testing a new Bloodbraid beats deck.
Tom: Tom's Naya Ramp seemed like a good deck, but Tom couldn't draw lands all day. Worst streak of luck I've ever seen.


Even though CJ was the man of the hour, I feel like we all could share in his win. It was his deck and playing that put him at the top, and we were glad to have been behind him the entire time. If anyone gets a chance, look for CJ (Charles Hendricks) in Adrian Sullivan's article this week at

This Saturday, we're all headed to PTQ at Pastimes in Niles, and I'll be posting our decklists here. I'll start with mine today, the infamous Black/White Tokens:


Kitchen Finks has been the shining star in every deck I've played for like six months, so I'm thinking of dropping one Cloudgoat Ranger (which I feel is a little underpowered) for the fourth Finks. Redcap seems necessary for board control, and he can accelerate my wins pretty well with direct damage if need be. I've been running 4 of the power cards in the deck, because they seem to be what makes it win: spectral, blossom, anthem, and now zealous persecution always feel like blowouts when they hit the board.

After talking to the guy that got first seat at Regionals, I was pretty sold on the deck. He said he started out just playtesting it so his buddies could get the match down, and ended up running it instead because it just decimated everything else. I have to agree with his assertion, as this thing is slaughtering every other deck Brenna and I can put on it. So anyway, here's the list as it is now, but it's definitely still being worked on:

Maindeck:
Critters:
4 Tidehollow Sculler
3 Cloudgoat Ranger
3 Murderous Redcap
3 Kitchen Finks

Spellz:
4 Spectral Procession
4 Bitterblossom
4 Glorious Anthem
4 Zealous Persecution
3 Path To Exile
3 Ajani Goldmane

Lands:
3 Plains
1 Swamp
4 Arcane Sanctum
3 Caves Of Koilos
4 Fetid Heath
2 Mutavault
4 Reflecting Pool
4 Windbrisk Heights

Sideboard:
3 Burrenton Forge-tender
3 Wispmare
1 Zealous Persecution
2 Identity Crisis
3 Wrath Of God
2 Terror