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[9 Proxies will be allowed!]

Congratulations Benjamin and Laurent for a great tournament :)

We are really happy a French expedition came to the LCV (as you have done a lot of times in the past) to enjoy a great day of Vintage with a good assistance, great environment and cool prizes (altered Yawgwin on a raffle).

The next stop is the LCV Finals (invitation only) which will be @ Maná infinito Store on the 22nd of December:

http://www.manainfinito.com/eventos/torneo-final-lliga-catalana-de-vintage-2012

Benjamin has a direct spot to the tournament for winning in Lloret, but it´s a pity Jerome almost made it to the top32 of the Regular classification:

41. Suarez, Jerome ... 59

http://www.eternalcatala.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=1573

Don´t forget we have a great "Help a child get a present" Vintage Charity tournament on 8th of December with a direct spot to the finals and AWESOME prizes (Judge Foils raffle, boosters and more) as always:

http://www.manainfinito.com/eventos/ayudar-jugando-2012-torneo-vintage

Ayudar Jugando
8/12/2012
Cotxeres de Sants, Barcelona.

9 Proxies will be allowed!

Hope to see there.

If not, see you all next year :)

Take care!

I put this thread this morning in this very same forum but it dissapeared.

Sorry for the trouble, here is it again:

Interview: Matthias Knelangen - MagicCardMarket owner @ Maná Infinito

We have published an in-depth interview with Mathias Knelangen (completely in English) , owner of one of MTG hottest sites: MagicCardMarket. The website everyone uses to buy and sell cards or as price reference due to its real time prices. What´s the story behind it´s huge success?

How did you get started with TCG buying and selling? Have you attended any events as a dealer?

The funny thing is that both Luis and I had no real experience with the TCG community, neither as a player, nor as a dealer. So we had not attended any events and didn't even have a collection to sell cards from. In order to generate the initial offer on MKM we had bought two collections on eBay and a handful of Future Sight booster boxes at our local game store and that was it.

You can´t miss this one!

http://manainfinito.com/entrevistas/interview-matthias-knelangen-magiccardmarket-owner

Enjoy!

We have published @ Maná Infinito an interview with Jean Baptiste Aymes (Klu), French Vintage player and deckbuilder:


http://manainfinito.com/entrevistas/bazaar-moxen-2011-interview-jean-baptiste-aymes-klu

Enjoy!

[BOM 5 - Entrevista a Carlos Ho - Judge Level 4]

We @ Maná Infinito have finished a series of interviews with the organization and judges from Bazaar of Moxen (in Spanish):

BOM 5 - Entrevista a Carlos Ho - Judge Level 4

http://manainfinito.com/entrevistas/bom-5-entrevista-carlos-ho-judge-level-4

BoM 5 - Entrevista a Niko Glick - Judge Level 3

http://manainfinito.com/entrevistas/bom-5-entrevista-niko-glick-judge-level-3

Bazaar of Moxen 2011 - Entrevista a Lois Jacquet y Manu Dannenmuller - Organizadores del BOM

http://manainfinito.com/entrevistas/bazaar-moxen-2011-entrevista-lois-jacquet-y-manu-dannenmuller-organizadores-del-bom

Bazaar of Moxen 2011 - Entrevista a Kepa Arrieta - Judge Level 2

http://manainfinito.com/entrevistas/bazaar-moxen-2011-entrevista-kepa-arrieta-judge-level-2

Enjoy!


Enjoy!

First match of the finals:

http://manainfinito.com/videos/coverage-lcv-1-ruben-gonzalez-fase-3-final-game-1

Enjoy!

Third match of the top4 uploaded:

http://manainfinito.com/videos/coverage-lcv-1-ruben-gonzalez-fase-3-top-4-game-3

We hope you like it!

Hi guys :D

Second match of the top4 uploaded:

http://manainfinito.com/videos/coverage-lcv-1-ruben-gonzalez-fase-3-top-4-game-2

Enjoy!

[Coverage LCV 1 -Ruben Gonzalez - Deck Tech]

We have published @ http://manainfinito.com/ a series of videos from Rubén González @ LCV (he made it to the finals in a 65 player tournament):

Coverage LCV 1 -Ruben Gonzalez - Deck Tech

Explaining the decklist and reasons for playing his Gush Storm deck in the LCV2011 January tournament.

http://manainfinito.com/videos/coverage-lcv-1-ruben-gonzalez-fase-1

Coverage LCV 1 -Ruben Gonzalez - Swish After Round Analisis:

http://manainfinito.com/videos/coverage-lcv-1-ruben-gonzalez-fase-2

Coverage LCV 1 -Ruben Gonzalez - Fase 3 - TOP 8

http://manainfinito.com/videos/coverage-lcv-1-ruben-gonzalez-fase-3-top-8
http://manainfinito.com/videos/coverage-lcv-1-ruben-gonzalez-fase-3-top-8-game-2
http://manainfinito.com/videos/coverage-lcv-1-ruben-gonzalez-fase-3-top-8-game-3

Coverage LCV 1 -Ruben Gonzalez - Fase 3 - TOP 4

http://manainfinito.com/videos/coverage-lcv-1-ruben-gonzalez-fase-3-top-4-game-1

@astre:
My side for the EWAS (already in the post by César):


1 Forest
3 Nihil Spellbomb
3 Thoughtseize
2 Hurkyl's Recall
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Nature's Claim

My gameplan is switching to 4 tarmos 3 thoughtseize in this kind of counterwall matchup. The side is intended to buy time versus Workshops and also have a gameplan versus Jester´s and Counterwall.decks.
That´s why I was thinking on playing 2 Xandid Swarm on board for 2nd game. However, this is a really metadependant deck due to the sideboard configuration/needs.

Regarding Pierce vs. Drain, I have tried both with similar results. On the main differences, I have to highlight that playing with maindeck tormod´s allows you to be less scared of Yagmothswin thus it´s safer to play with pierces if you want to try them. It´s kind of meta depandant too,  as I believe you need drains to stay alive versus decks playing Vault to reach turn 3-4 and win.
IMHO Drains are better :)

@lowkick:
You can build a Jazzerator deck without green changing Trigons and Claims for more Counters (as Jacerator is focused on winning MUD matchups and control) like more drains, traps, etc... That kind of deck totally anihilates combocontrol or straight combo (althought it loses to other kind of more aggroish archetypes). It´s good to heavy test a build of ZBS or Almost against this counterwall as when facing any control matchup in a tournament you will never face a worst deck than your testing one (just decks with less counters :_D)

Hi Zanketsull,

Thanks for your comments on the topic. I haven´t tried LDV as I think one of the greatness of the deck is try to stay "blue" almost as possible. Thus playing just 3 black spells and 2 green ones.

I forgot to say I attended LCV 2 weekends ago performing a 4-2 (losing to GAT and MUD and winning against 3 aggro decks and 1 storm deck) with the very same list I played @Vintage All Stars.

Repeal is part of the drawing shell and backbone of the deck to generate 12-15 or more spells in order to finish the Enemy.

I still have to find a good sideboard plan against extreme hate (there are some hateful decks in LCV playing with drains, thoughtseizes, pierces, fow, 4 Mindbreak and extirpates in the board). Any suggestion?

Hi, this is Guillem (2nd @EW All Stars invitational) :)

This deck proved doing really well in a "controlled" metagame. The side needs a bit of tweaking as the deck was metagamed for a ComboControl/Mud meta with barely any Dredge, Fish or Oath.

My pairings went like: Dredge (2-0), TPS (2-o), MUD (2-1), Almost UBRg (1-2), MUD (2-1), Tezzcast (ID into top 8), GAT (2-0), MUD (2-1), Tezzcast (1-2).

MD tormod´s proved really useful game 1. Specially for uping storm prior/after YW and with Desire. I always played NSB in second game when playing more controlish style.

Have any of you tried an update version of ZBS?

I would love to share some thoughts as this is not a wide common commented archetype  :D

Looooooooool nice theory :DDDDDD although it goes against all logic :DDDD

But I understand your position as I strongly believe one has to play with what suits better one´s play style and feels comfortable with (no matter what other people say).

In my case, I prefer to play 24/36 in Combo controlish builds (like repeal tendrils) and 25/35 in Tezzeret adding Mana Vault as producer 25th.


Thanks a lot for your help, guys!

@Nico

Your sideboarding seems very strong like this. I like it!

As you only play 2 colors, I would not side in Pithings, but if I ran red (in other Repeal tendrils builds) I would side in needle to stablish the manabase a little bit.

So you would play with 61 then? Weird indeed :D

I don´t remember last time I played with more than 60 cards. I guess it was a looooooooooooooong time ago :D

@KLU

BTW, is there a chance to see a new version of ZBS? I have been trying some builds myself, but playing just 1 merchant makes it pretty complicated :DDDDD
2 tops, 4 repeals, 1 chain, 1 hurkyl´s and 1 rebuild seem the way to go thought. However, the draw engine does not seem to be good for this kind of deck right now.

HI Nico, thanks for the advise. I will give it a try this very same afternoon as we are testing for the April LCV event next Saturday.

As you mention, If I side in the core too, it would not be the main Tinker target. However, I tend to side out drains as well as fact and gifts against fish (if you face a good fish player) to side in more board control, so maybe playing Razormane can be a little difficult being drainless :D

Regarding the side, maybe I would switch this for the LCV meta:

2 Engineered Explosives
2 Tormod's Crypt
3 Duress
2 Pithing Needle
2 Hurkyl's Recall
2 Yixlid Jailer
1 Razorman Masticore
1 Sundering Titan

-2 Engineered
-1 Hurkyl´s

+1 Massacre (good versus Bomberman too because it is also part of our meta)
+1 Inkwell
+1 Rebuild (as wise shop players would CotV you for 1 and 2)

As for the 61 cards, do you think petal could be cut to make it 60? My guess would be the petal, but I have not tried the deck so I´m talking about this without knowhing (although I know maximizing chances to drop The Great One first turn is a House against everyone :D)