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Around the Web: Not Ready for the Top 8 Decks from Grand Prix Los Angeles

bdm | January 22, 2009 | 4:58 pm

In addition to the awesome coverage work that Bill Stark and Dane Young did covering GP: LA, Bill has followed up with an exhaustive burst of typing over at TheStarkingtonPost.com to post ALL the decklists from Day Two of the GP. Below you can find the decks that finished from 9th through 20th in that event and you can look through all the lists on Bill’s blog. I was only going to post 9 - 16 but when the next four players are Martin Juza, Sam Black, Gabe Walls, and Adam Yurchick I decided to just keep going a little while longer.

A couple of notes:

The top tables of this tournament were absurd. It was a pretty hot little Top 8 but then as you keep scrolling down the standings you have a former World Champion, a pair of Worlds Team Champions, Gavin Verhey locking up another invite on his climb to PT inevitable PT success, rising star Martin Juza, Gabe Walls, and Adam Yurchick.

The Top finishing Elf deck was in 18th place but it warrants looking at as LSV suggests that Elves might be good again based on the Storm front that is rolling in for the PTQ season.

The highest finishing Death Cloud deck — Michael Jacob’s — did not have any actual Death Cloud in it but Brazillian superstar Carlos Romao’s did. With or without the Clouds, the Raven’sd Crime package seems like it could be a nice way to combat TEPS decks from crafting that perfect turn.

I broke the ManuelB deck away from the traditonal Faeries listing mostly on the basis of Azami, Lady of Scrolls. Although you could easilly lump it in with the Fae this deck is something else altogether.

Gabe Walls’ Slide deck was certainly an unexpected but welcome surprise. When people were prepping for Berlin I definitley liked Edge of Autumn as a sneaky cycler and was glad to see it have some success although it would have been nice to see Walls make a return to the PT in Hawaii.

Death Cloud
Carlos Romao - 9th Place
Grand Prix-Los Angeles
Format: Extended

3 Damnation
4 Smother
3 Garruk Wildspeaker
3 Raven’s Crime
1 Worm Harvest
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
4 Kitchen Rinks
4 Thoughtseize
4 Life from the Loam
3 Death Cloud
2 Crime/Punishment
3 Barren Moor
2 Ghost Quarter
1 Godless Shrine
2 Overgrown Tomb
2 Golgari Rot Farm
3 Tranquil Thicket
2 Windswept Heath
4 Polluted Delta
2 Forest
4 Swamp

Sideboard:
4 Bitterblossom
2 Persecute
3 Darkblast
3 Circle of Protection: Red
3 Ravenous Baloth

Zoo
Brian Six - 10th Place
Grand Prix-Los Angeles
Format: Extended

4 Wooded Foothills
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Windswept Heath
2 Stomping Ground
2 Sacred Foundry
1 Temple Garden
1 Mountain
1 Plains
2 Treetop Village
2 Mutavault
4 Wild Nacatl
4 Kird Ape
1 Isamaru, Hound of Konda
4 Mogg Fanatic
4 Tarmogoyf
3 Countryside Crusher
1 Seal of Fire
4 Lightning Helix
4 Incinerate
3 Char
3 Sulfuric Vortex
2 Umezawa’s Jitte

Sideboard:
2 Duergar Hedge-Mage
1 Sulfuric Vortex
2 Vexing Shusher
4 Ethersworn Canonist
4 Kataki, War’s Wage
2 Kitchen Finks

Loam Wizards
Manuel Bucher - 11th Place
Grand Prix-Los Angeles
Format: Extended

4 Mana Leak
4 Spell Snare
4 Thirst for Knowledge
2 Gifts Ungiven
1 Ancient Grudge
2 Bitterblossom
1 Life from the Loam
1 Firespout
2 Engineered Explosives
1 Triskelion
1 Vedlken Shackles
1 Umezawa’s Jitte
2 Chrome Mox
1 Azami, Lady of Scrolls
4 Spellstutter Sprite
3 Glen Elendra Archmage
1 Sower of Temptation
2 Island
3 Snow-Covered Island
4 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
1 Lonely Sandbar
1 Riptide Laboratory
1 Tolaria West
3 Mutavault
1 Breeding Pool
1 Steam Vents
1 Academy Ruins
1 Ghost Quarter
2 River of Tears
1 Watery Grave
1 Overgrown Tomb

Sideboard:

1 Island
1 Izzet Boilerworks
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Trinket Mage
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Vedalken Shackles
2 Flashfreeze
1 Sower of Temptation
3 Firespout
1 Threads of Disloyalty
1 Bitterblossom

Affinity
Paul Rietzl - 12th Place
Grand Prix-Los Angeles
Format: Extended

4 Arcbound Worker
4 Arcbound Ravager
4 Chromatic Star
4 Thoughtcast
4 Frogmite
4 Myr Enforcer
4 Cranial Plating
4 Springleaf Drum
4 Ornithopter
2 Soul’s Fire
4 Atog
4 Seat of the Synod
4 Great Furnace
4 Ancient Den
4 Vault of Whispers
2 Blinkmoth Nexus

Sideboard:
4 Ethersworn Canonist
4 Krark-Clan Shaman
3 Welding Jar
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Pithing Needle
1 Umezawa’s Jitte

Faeries
Gavin Verhey - 13th Place
Grand Prix-Los Angeles
Format: Extended

4 Vendilion Clique
4 Mana Leak
4 Spellstutter Sprite
4 Spell Snare
2 Vedalken Shackles
2 Glen Elendra Archmage
2 Venser, Shaper Savant
3 Umezawa’s Jitte
2 Firespout
3 Engineered Explosives
4 Ancestral Vision
4 Flooded Strand
4 Polluted Delta
2 Steam Vents
1 Breeding Pool
4 Mutavault
3 Riptide Laboratory
1 River of Tears
1 Minamo, School at Water’s Edge
6 Island

Sideboard:
3 Ancient Grudge
3 Stifle
2 Firespout
3 Relic of Progenitus
2 Future Sight
1 Glen Elendra Archmage
1 Flashfreeze

Death Cloud
Derek Umamoto - 14th Place
Grand Prix-Los Angeles
Format: Extended

4 Kitchen Finks
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
4 Garruk Wildspeaker
4 Death Cloud
3 Damnation
1 Smother
4 Putrefy
1 Worm Harvest
3 Life from the Loam
3 Thoughtseize
3 Raven’s Crime
4 Snow-Covered Swamp
3 Snow-Covered Forest
1 Snow-Covered Plains
2 Bloodstained Mire
2 Windswept Heath
4 Barren Moor
4 Tranquil Thicket
1 Temple Garden
1 Godless Shrine
2 Overgrown Tomb
2 Ghost Quarter

Sideboard:
2 Crime/Punishment
2 Krosan Grip
1 Damnation
3 Extirpate
4 Darkblast
3 Circle of Protection: Red

TEPS
Alec Nezin - 15th Place
Grand Prix-Los Angeles
Format: Extended

4 Mind’s Desire
4 Rite of Flame
4 Desperate Ritual
4 Seething Song
4 Lotus Bloom
4 Peer Through Depths
4 Ponder
4 Sleight of Hand
3 Remand
3 Chromatic Star
2 Tendrils of Agony
4 Manamorphose
4 Dreadship Reef
4 Polluted Delta
3 Cascade Bluffs
1 Island
3 Steam Vents
1 Watery Grave

Sideboard:
2 Stifle
3 Thoughtseize
4 Ancestral Vision
3 Gigadrowse
1 Echoing Truth
2 Chain of Vapor

Affinity
Max Unger - 16th Place
Grand Prix-Los Angeles
Format: Extended

4 Vault of Whispers
4 Seat of the Synod
4 Great Furnace
3 Ancient Den
3 Blinkmoth Nexus
4 Master of Etherium
4 Ornithopter
4 Myr Enforcer
4 Frogmite
4 Arcbound Worker
4 Arcbound Ravager
4 Chromatic Star
4 Springleaf Drum
4 Cranial Plating
3 Shrapnel Blast
2 Soul’s Fire
1 Tree of Tales

Sideboard:
3 Ethersworn Canonist
3 Smother
3 Mana Leak
1 Relic of Progenitus
2 Ancient Grudge
2 Thoughtseize
1 Tormod’s Crypt

Faeries
Martin Juza - 17th Place
Grand Prix-Los Angeles
Format: Extended

4 Spellstutter Sprite
4 Vendilion Clique
3 Sower of Temptation
2 Glen Elendra Archmage
2 Venser, Shaper Savant
4 Ancestral Vision
4 Mana Leak
4 Spell Snare
2 Thirst for Knowledge
3 Umezawa’s Jitte
3 Engineered Explosives
3 Chrome Mox
4 Mutavault
3 Riptide Laboratory
1 River of Tears
1 Breeding Pool
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Steam Vents
1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
1 Minamo, School at Water’s Edge
9 Island

Sideboard:
3 Jace Beleren
3 Flashfreeze
3 Relic of Progenitus
2 Threads of Disloyalty
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Glen Elendra Archmage
2 Hurkyl’s Recall

Elves
Sam Black - 18th Place
Grand Prix-Los Angeles
Format: Extended

4 Llanowar Elves
4 Heritage Druid
4 Birchlore Rangers
4 Wirewood Symbiote
4 Nettle Sentinel
4 Elves of Deep Shadow
4 Glimpse of Nature
4 Summoner’s Pact
4 Elvish Visionary
3 Weird Harvest
1 Regal Force
1 Eternal Witness
1 Viridian Shaman
1 Brain Freeze
1 Horizon Canopy
2 Pendelhaven
2 Overgrown Tomb
4 Gilt-Leaf Palace
8 Forest

Sideboard:
4 Thoughtseize
2 Chord of Calling
2 Fecundity
2 Engineered Explosives
3 Viridian Shaman
1 Jagged Scar Archers
1 Vexing Shusher

Slide
Gabe Walls - 19th Place
Grand Prix-Los Angeles
Format: Extended

3 Life from the Loam
3 Loxodon Hierarch
3 Kitchen Finks
3 Lightning Helix
4 Engineered Explosives
4 Edge of Autumn
4 Spark Spray
4 Astral Slide
3 Duergar Hedge-Mage
2 Cloudthresher
4 Secluded Steppe
4 Tranquil Thicket
1 Mountain
2 Plains
2 Sacred Foundry
2 Wooded Foothills
3 Windswept Heath
1 Temple Garden
1 Stomping Ground
2 Flagstones of Trokair
2 Forest
3 Forgotten Cave
1 Ghost Quarter

Sideboard:
2 Ancient Grudge
4 Condemn
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Duergar Hedge-Mage
2 Boil
2 Plow Under
2 Eternal Witness
1 Avalanche Riders

Faeries
Adam Yurchick - 20th Place
Grand Prix-Los Angeles
Format: Extended

4 Spell Snare
4 Mana Leak
3 Stifle
4 Spellstutter Sprite
4 Vendilion Clique
3 Glen Elendra Archmage
3 Sower of Temptation
2 Venser, Shaper Savant
2 Umezawa’s Jitte
2 Engineered Explosives
4 Ancestral Vision
4 Secluded Glen
4 River of Tears
3 Polluted Delta
1 Watery Grave
2 Riptide Laboratory
1 Minamo, School at Water’s Edge
1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
4 Mutavault
5 Island

Sideboard:
4 Bitterblossom
3 Damnation
2 Thoughtseize
2 Negate
2 Relic of Progenitus
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Umezawa’s Jitte


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