[Results] Dülmen won by Control Slaver

[Dozer]

News Flash:

Maxim Barkman has won the recent Dülmen Type One tournament. This Sunday, April 18th, Barkman played Control Slaver to a perfect 7-0 record, having picked up the deck from his Team CAB only the night before. 128 players attended and created a dense metagame, with deck choices that showed sense and understanding at the top tables. "This was the Dülmen with the most interesting and consolidated metagame ever", says Carsten Kötter, Member of Team CAB. A high number of Slaver-variant decks was complemented with an assortment of various control decks (Keeper, Landstill) and contrasted by a strong showing of Belcher Combo with only a few players sporting aggro decks like Madness.
Dragon was insignificant, Draw7 combo and Hulk did barely show save for the Dutch players, who walked into the tournament without sideboard removal and had to fight through Duplicants, Memnarchs, Platinum Engels, Pentavi and Exalted Angels.

Even though not only Control Slaver decks, but also Workshop Slaver decks were present, the Workshop variants did not satisfy their claims to fame. Among others, both Kim Kluck and Benjamin Rott, former Dülmen winners, had decided to take Workshop Slaver but failed to make any impression above a 4-3 finish. Comments Kim Kluck, "The Workshop Slaver decks are explosive, but inconsistent and need aggressive mulliganing." He went on to explain that the mixture of U-based control and Workshop-based combo can ruin any opening hand: "Often I got a good control hand with Thirsts and Brainstorm, but Workshop and a non-blue Mox as mana sources, and vice versa. Mindslaver is not that good when paired with Shivan Reef and a Mox."

The decklists for Top 8 and hopefully also a metagame breakdown will be available on Morphling.de soon.

Dozer

[Wollblad]

Kim Kluck's comment is exactly in line with my experience of the deck (see my reply on the Type 1 forum my reply on the Type 1 forum). We recently had a larger tournament here in Sweden with 99 competitors. There were three Control Slavery decks and two of them made it to the top 8. I myself run Workshop Slavery, and made it to top 8, but there the deck just bailed out and gave me too many of those inconsistent draws.

The Control Slavery deck has good mathups against most of the tier one decks of today. The hard matchups are Dragon and possibly Rector-decks. It has also a hard time against some aggro decks. But since both Dragon and Rector are more or less absent today, the Control Slavery is a great meta game choice, perhaps the very best one.

[Phele]

Running Control Slaver in Dülmen with pretty decent results too, I can just underline the statements made above. Control Slaver has less bad matchups and is more consistant. But beside Dragon, Rector and Belcher (the whole bunch of fast combo decks, even though I could handle Belcher this time) our tournament and testing results have shown another bad matchup: Workshop Slaver, which simply runs almost the same engine but is much quicker. When you can't handle to get in the Mana Drain quickly, you lose. Nevertheless these expierences don't rank Workshop Slaver higher than the control variant.

[Smmenen]

The analysis of the Workshop Slaver deck is dead on.  I presented the same analysis to Meandeck.  Essentially, the flaw in the deck is gettng the third mana on turn two - something which is disrupted by Mishra's Workshop unless you have a narrow set of cards.

Alternatively, Drain Slaver uses Mana Drain like a Desertion - which is why, unless the Workshop player knows what they are doing very well - Drain Slaver will win the matchup.   I'm not saying Contol slaveyr is better - far from it - what I'm saying is that Control Slaver is a better deck to play in a field of Workshop Slaver.   They are both about equally good decks.  However, Control Slaver is much weaker against Combo and certain forms of aggro/aggro-control.  What this points to, of course, is that Tog is the best deck if properly metagamed becuase it essentially IS the control slaver deck with more resilience to combo and aggro.  I would just run 2 shamans in the SB and one maindeck.  

It will be interesting to see if the Workshop Slaver build turns into Shane's Funker deck - although I think we need to put FOWs into that deck, and I have a few ideas about how to do it.

Steve

[Eddie]

Nice decklist, although I was wondering why he was running 61 cards. Yes, it is hard to put everything you want main in control slaver, but even then...

It's nice to see someone is using mind twist in his build. I tried it in the beginning and everyone over here (but me) was complaining about bad synergy. So I pulled it. But mind twist will help in the mirror, and against other control decks. I will do some more testing, but I think it is right to use it in a control heavy metagame.

[glenchuy]

whoa! i'm not claiming to be any good at the deck, but it's exactly, and i mean exactly the deck i'm using.  card for card, even the same sideboard  :shock:

[Mon, Goblin Chief]

Lol, seems like Maxim and me were able to read your mind halfway around the world when we built the deck on friday .
I was worse, though, I didn't catch that Coffin Purge

@Mind Twist: Not playing Mind Twist in a deck with that much acceleration is taking away some of your random wins. So we definitly wanted to play it. It was worse than I expected but it still did win games (just see "finals" coverage for an example).