Congratulations to Jonathan Loucks on not only winning his PTQ this past weekend but doing it in grand style with a home brewed deck that is not what you might expect at this poing in the Extended metagame. Jonathan popped up in a chat window on Friday and we had the following conversation:

Jonathon: I’m casting Kiki-jiki tomorrow, fyi me: Kiki Mite Get there? Jonathon: +reveillark & trinket mage

You may remember Kiki Mite Get There as a Day Two deck from GP Philadelphia played by Zeilend Powell and featured in my column. At the time it seemed like an interesting deck that was relatively unaffected by rotations but it never picked up much traction. Then along came Loucks with his eye for the rogue build and desire to qualify for the Pro Tour — often mutually exclusive qualities in terms of execution.Here is the deck Jonathan played and that you will almost certainly be seeing in the closing weeks of the PTQ season.

Kiki-Jiki gets Friki-Diki
Jonathan Loucks — Winner
PTQ Honolulu — Seattle

4 Flooded Scrand
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Polluted Delta
2 Sacred Foundry
2 Steam Vents
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Plains
1 Mountain
1 Island
3 Rugged Prarie
2 Cascade Bluffs
1 Ancient Den
1 Great Furnace
1 Academy Ruins
1 Tolaria West

4 Pestermite
3 Trinket Mage
3 Kitchen Finks
3 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
2 Reveillark
1 Body Double

4 Mana Leak
3 Thirst for Knowledge
3 Gifts Ungiven
1 Resurrection
1 Firespout
1 Wrath of God
1 Pyrite Spellbomb
1 Sunbeam Spellbomb
1 Pithing Needle
1 Chalice of the Void
2 Engineered Explosives
1 Chrome Mox

SB:
1 Shatterstorm
1 Kataki
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Volcanic Fallout
1 Firespout
1 Wrath of God
1 Pact of Negation
1 Sower of Temptation
1 Stifle
1 Trickbind
1 Cannonist
1 Rule of Law
1 Duergar Hedge-Mage
1 Gilded Light

Congratulations Jonathan. Hopefully you will be writing about this deck real soon for one of the strategy sites or perhaps get an interview in Top Decks or The Week That Was. If only we had a way to make that happen around here.