French Vintage Cup '09 Finals - Top8 decklists

[quentin]

Hey,
Saturday was the finals of the french vintage cup, an invitation-only tournament with the best players from the country (based on results of the previous year) competing for the title (and an alpha black lotus).

Top8 was :

1: Camille Fenet (Selkie Ninjas)
2: Benjamin Guillerm (Selkie)
3-4: Florian Delafosse (UBr Tezz), Alexi Catelain (Selkie)
5-8: Johnattan Chasane (Ichorid), Quentin Gouedard (Storm Oath), Thomas Kleber (UBr Tezz), Emanuel Dannenmaller (Iona Oath)


Metagame (28 players) :

UBr Tezz : 6
Selkie Fish : 5
DDM : 4 (BG bazaar-loam-bloodghast)
GW Aggro : 2
Ichorid : 2
5C Stax : 2
Oath Storm : 1
Oath Iona : 1
RWB Aggro hate : 1
RG Hate : 1
MUD : 1
Gob : 1
UR Fish : 1


The metagame was full of aggro decks and null rods, Selkie decks getting the best results and placing 3 in the top4.
I was playing the Storm-Oath hybrid build, a deck on which I've been working for a while, which is aimed at killing as often as possible with the first activation of oath. It does so by using E.Witness to recur time walk, YWill, or do tricks with tyrant, while removing the bad oath cards (mainly krosan reclamation and latnam's legacy), and mitigating the impact of drawing oath targets (witness being hardcastable and witness->brainstorm allowing to get tyrant in play from hand if needed), all this combined with a storm bombs shell (rituals, necro, bargain, desire, twister and of course ywill).
The main innovations introduced by zendikar were iona (in oath and ichorid), spell pierce (in control and fish), bloodghast (in a bazaar-loam deck, which although it didn't top8 saturday won the vintage side event of the legacy finals on sunday after winning another tournament last month) and ravenous trap (everywhere).


Top8 Lists :

1: Camille Fenet (Selkie Ninjas)

// Lands
    4  Tropical Island
    2  Tundra
    3  Wasteland
    1  Strip Mine
    2  Windswept Heath
    2  Polluted Delta
    2  Flooded Strand

// Creatures
    4 [ARB] Qasali Pridemage
    4  Cold-Eyed Selkie
    4  Noble Hierarch
    4  Ninja of the Deep Hours
    3  Cursecatcher

// Spells
    1  Black Lotus
    1  Hurkyl's Recall
    3  Spell Snare
    4  Force of Will
    4  Daze
    1  Misdirection
    1  Mystical Tutor
    1  Regrowth
    1  Mox Emerald
    1  Mox Sapphire
    1  Mox Pearl
    3  Null Rod
    1  Ancestral Recall
    1  Time Walk
    1  Brainstorm

// Sideboard
SB: 3  Relic of Progenitus
SB: 4  Tarmogoyf
SB: 2  Kataki, War's Wage
SB: 1  Seal of Primordium
SB: 1  Hurkyl's Recall
SB: 1  Energy Flux
SB: 3  Swords to Plowshares


2: Benjamin Guillerm (Selkie)

// Lands
    3  Tropical Island
    3  Tundra
    1  Island
    3  Wasteland
    1  Strip Mine
    1  Forest
    2  Misty Rainforest
    3  Windswept Heath

// Creatures
    4  Noble Hierarch
    4  Cold-Eyed Selkie
    3 [ARB] Meddling Mage
    3  Trygon Predator
    2  Tarmogoyf
    3 [ARB] Qasali Pridemage

// Spells
    1  Black Lotus
    1  Mox Pearl
    1  Mox Sapphire
    1  Mox Emerald
    4  Force of Will
    3  Daze
    1  Misdirection
    1  Ancestral Recall
    1  Time Walk
    4  Null Rod
    1  Merchant Scroll
    2  Stifle
    1  Rebuild
    1  Hurkyl's Recall
    2  Spell Pierce

// Sideboard
SB: 2  Tarmogoyf
SB: 2  Swords to Plowshares
SB: 2  Umezawa's Jitte
SB: 3  Wheel of Sun and Moon
SB: 1  Relic of Progenitus
SB: 2  Burrenton Forge-Tender
SB: 1  Energy Flux
SB: 1  Enlightened Tutor
SB: 1  Ravenous Trap


3-4: Florian Delafosse (UBr Tezz)

// Lands
    2  Polluted Delta
    1  Library of Alexandria
    1  Tolarian Academy
    3  Volcanic Island
    3  Scalding Tarn
    3  Underground Sea
    3  Island

// Creatures
    4  Dark Confidant
    1  Inkwell Leviathan
    1  Gorilla Shaman (2)

// Spells
    1  Voltaic Key
    2  Sensei's Divining Top
    1  Time Vault
    1  Mystical Tutor
    1  Time Walk
    1  Yawgmoth's Will
    1  Vampiric Tutor
    1  Demonic Tutor
    1  Fact or Fiction
    1  Black Lotus
    1  Tinker
    1  Tezzeret the Seeker
    1 [BD] Brainstorm
    1  Mox Ruby
    1  Mox Pearl
    1  Mox Jet
    1  Mox Emerald
    1  Mox Sapphire
    1  Merchant Scroll
    1  Fire/Ice
    1  Lotus Petal
    1  Ancestral Recall
    4  Mana Drain
    4  Force of Will
    1  Mana Crypt
    1  Sol Ring
    3  Spell Pierce
    1  Rebuild
    1  Mana Vault

// Sideboard
SB: 2  Rack and Ruin
SB: 2  Ravenous Trap
SB: 2  Ingot Chewer
SB: 2  Pyroclasm
SB: 2  Pyroblast
SB: 1  Red Elemental Blast
SB: 1  Darkblast
SB: 2  Relic of Progenitus
SB: 1  Chain of Vapor



3-4: Alexi Catelain (Selkie)

// Lands
    3  Tropical Island
    3  Tundra
    1  Island
    1  Flooded Strand
    3  Wasteland
    1  Strip Mine
    4  Misty Rainforest
    1  Forest

// Creatures
    4  Noble Hierarch
    3  Cold-Eyed Selkie
    3 [ARB] Meddling Mage
    3  Trygon Predator
    3  Tarmogoyf
    3 [ARB] Qasali Pridemage

// Spells
    1  Black Lotus
    1  Mox Pearl
    1  Mox Sapphire
    1  Mox Emerald
    4  Force of Will
    3  Daze
    1  Misdirection
    1  Ancestral Recall
    1  Time Walk
    4  Null Rod
    1  Merchant Scroll
    3  Stifle
    1  Rebuild
    1  Hurkyl's Recall

// Sideboard
SB: 1  Tarmogoyf
SB: 3  Swords to Plowshares
SB: 2  Umezawa's Jitte
SB: 3  Wheel of Sun and Moon
SB: 1  Relic of Progenitus
SB: 2  Serenity
SB: 3  Burrenton Forge-Tender



5-8:Quentin Gouedard (Storm Oath)

// Lands
    4  Forbidden Orchard
    1  Tolarian Academy
    4  Polluted Delta
    2  Underground Sea
    2  Tropical Island
    1  Island
    1  Volcanic Island

// Creatures
    1  Tidespout Tyrant
    2  Eternal Witness

// Spells
    4  Dark Ritual
    4  Oath of Druids
    1  Mox Emerald
    1  Mox Pearl
    1  Mox Ruby
    1  Mox Sapphire
    1  Lotus Petal
    1  Sol Ring
    1  Mox Jet
    1  Demonic Tutor
    1  Vampiric Tutor
    4  Force of Will
    1  Merchant Scroll
    1  Tendrils of Agony
    1  Timetwister
    1  Yawgmoth's Bargain
    1  Yawgmoth's Will
    1  Black Lotus
    1  Necropotence
    1  Chain of Vapor
    1  Gifts Ungiven
    1  Mind's Desire
    1  Brainstorm
    1  Ancestral Recall
    1  Time Walk
    1  Mystical Tutor
    1  Mana Crypt
    1  Ponder
    1  Rebuild
    2  Duress
    2  Misdirection

// Sideboard
SB: 2  Tormod's Crypt
SB: 3  Ancient Grudge
SB: 3  Pyroclasm
SB: 1  Tinker
SB: 1 [ARB] Sphinx of the Steel Wind
SB: 3  Ravenous Trap
SB: 1  Sadistic Sacrament
SB: 1  Pyroblast


5-8:Thomas Kleber (UBr Tezz)

// Lands
    3  Polluted Delta
    1  Library of Alexandria
    1  Tolarian Academy
    2  Volcanic Island
    2  Scalding Tarn
    3  Underground Sea
    3  Island
    1  Swamp

// Creatures
    4  Dark Confidant
    1  Inkwell Leviathan
    1  Gorilla Shaman (2)

// Spells
    1  Voltaic Key
    2  Sensei's Divining Top
    1  Time Vault
    1  Mystical Tutor
    1  Time Walk
    1  Yawgmoth's Will
    1  Vampiric Tutor
    1  Demonic Tutor
    1  Fact or Fiction
    1  Black Lotus
    1  Tinker
    1  Tezzeret the Seeker
    1 [BD] Brainstorm
    1  Mox Ruby
    1  Mox Pearl
    1  Mox Jet
    1  Mox Emerald
    1  Mox Sapphire
    1  Merchant Scroll
    1  Fire/Ice
    1  Lotus Petal
    1  Ancestral Recall
    3  Mana Drain
    4  Force of Will
    1  Mana Crypt
    1  Sol Ring
    1  Mana Vault
    1  Rack and Ruin
    1  Darkblast
    2  Repeal
    1  Hurkyl's Recall

// Sideboard
SB: 1  Rack and Ruin
SB: 4  Ravenous Trap
SB: 2  Ingot Chewer
SB: 2  Pyroclasm
SB: 1  Yixlid Jailer
SB: 1  Tormod's Crypt
SB: 1  Pithing Needle
SB: 1  Mountain
SB: 2  Mindbreak Trap


5-8:Emanuel Dannenmaller (Iona Oath)

// Lands
    1  Island
    1  Misty Rainforest
    1  Tolarian Academy
    1  Volcanic Island
    2  Tropical Island
    2  Underground Sea
    4  Forbidden Orchard
    4  Scalding Tarn

// Creatures
    1  Iona, Shield of Emeria
    1  Painter's Servant

// Spells
    1  Demonic Tutor
    1  Mystical Tutor
    1  Rebuild
    1  Vampiric Tutor
    2  Lat-Nam's Legacy (2)
    3  Mana Drain
    4  Force of Will
    1  Pyroblast
    1  Misdirection
    1  Imperial Seal
    1  Ponder
    1  Time Walk
    1  Tinker
    1  Yawgmoth's Will
    2  Deep Analysis
    2  Red Elemental Blast
    1  Black Lotus
    1  Mox Sapphire
    1  Grindstone
    1  Lotus Petal
    1  Mana Crypt
    1  Mox Emerald
    1  Mox Jet
    1  Mox Ruby
    1  Krosan Reclamation
    1  Sol Ring
    1  Sensei's Divining Top
    4  Oath of Druids
    1  Ancestral Recall
    1  Brainstorm
    1  Ancient Grudge
    1  Fire/Ice

// Sideboard
SB: 1  Red Elemental Blast
SB: 1  Karakas
SB: 2  Pyroclasm
SB: 1  Inkwell Leviathan
SB: 1  Tendrils of Agony
SB: 1  Hurkyl's Recall
SB: 1  Echoing Truth
SB: 4  Ravenous Trap
SB: 1  Tidespout Tyrant
SB: 1  Mountain
SB: 1  Rack and Ruin


5-8:Johnattan Chasane (Ichorid)

// Lands
    4  Bazaar of Baghdad
    2  City of Brass
    2  Gemstone Mine

// Creatures
    4  Golgari Thug
    4  Ichorid
    4 [DDC] Stinkweed Imp
    4  Narcomoeba
    1  Flame-Kin Zealot
    4  Golgari Grave-Troll
    1  Angel of Despair
    1  Sphinx of Lost Truths
    1  Iona, Shield of Emeria

// Spells
    4  Chalice of the Void
    4  Serum Powder
    4  Bridge from Below
    4  Cabal Therapy
    3  Dread Return
    3  Unmask
    4  Leyline of the Void
    2  Darkblast

// Sideboard
SB: 3  Ancient Grudge
SB: 4  Chain of Vapor
SB: 1  Emerald Charm
SB: 1  Ingot Chewer
SB: 2  Wispmare
SB: 1  Strip Mine
SB: 2  Reanimate
SB: 1  Darkblast

[Phele]

Interesting lists, congratulations to all the top 8 participants.

I think it is now safe to say, that UGW Noble/Selkie Fish ist not only the best Fish deck around. It is also one of the three best decks in the format (beside Confidant-Combo-Control and Aggro Mud).

Noble has been recently in the top 8 of the both biggest vintage worldwide (Ovinogeddon and Annecy) and has won several medium sized tournaments like this and the Lotus run in Zürich with 55 participants. Great deck, great results.

Edit: Funny sideboard tool this Burrenton thing. I guess the Selkie players were expeting lots of Pyroclasms. Did it work out as an answer?

[quentin]

Here are the top8 lists for the side event that occurred in parallel to the legacy finals.

Metagame (39 players) :

UBr Tezz : 3
Trinket control : 1
Painter : 1

Selkie : 4
DDM : 4
Goblins : 2
GWu aggro hate : 1
GWR aggro hate : 1
GWB aggro hate : 1
RW aggro hate : 1
BG aggro : 1
UBw fish : 1

Tyrant Oath : 2
Iona Oath : 2
Progenitus Oath : 1
Storm Oath : 1

TPS : 2
Elves : 1
Storm : 1
Food Chains Goblins : 1

5C Stax : 1
Stax monobrown : 1
R Stax : 1
MUD : 1

Ichorid : 2

Really weird : 1



1 JB Aymes (DDM)

// Lands
    4  Bazaar of Baghdad
    1  Strip Mine
    2  Wasteland
    1  Verdant Catacombs
    3  Swamp
    4  Bayou
    1  Marsh Flats
    3  Polluted Delta
    2  Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

// Creatures
    4  Dark Confidant
    4  Bloodghast
    4  Tarmogoyf

// Spells
    1  Mox Emerald
    1  Demonic Tutor
    1  Black Lotus
    3  Life from the Loam
    1  Mox Jet
    4  Thoughtseize
    3  Cabal Therapy
    4  Null Rod
    1  Vampiric Tutor
    2  Darkblast
    3  Smallpox
    1  Raven's Crime
    1  Lotus Petal
    1  Seal of Primordium

// Sideboard
SB: 2  Ravenous Trap
SB: 2  Tombstalker
SB: 1  Karakas
SB: 1  Oxidize
SB: 2  Seal of Primordium
SB: 3  Extirpate
SB: 2  Umezawa's Jitte
SB: 2  Sadistic Sacrament


2 Christophe Peyronnel (UBr Tezz)

// Lands
    1  Polluted Delta
    1  Library of Alexandria
    1  Tolarian Academy
    1  Scalding Tarn
    4  Underground Sea
    2  Island
    2  Flooded Strand
    1  Strip Mine
    4  Volcanic Island

// Creatures
    4  Dark Confidant
    1  Darksteel Colossus

// Spells
    1  Voltaic Key
    2  Sensei's Divining Top
    1  Time Vault
    1  Mystical Tutor
    1  Time Walk
    1  Yawgmoth's Will
    1  Vampiric Tutor
    1  Demonic Tutor
    1  Black Lotus
    1  Tinker
    1  Tezzeret the Seeker
    1  Mox Ruby
    1  Mox Pearl
    1  Mox Jet
    1  Mox Emerald
    1  Mox Sapphire
    1  Merchant Scroll
    1  Fire/Ice
    1  Lotus Petal
    1  Ancestral Recall
    3  Mana Drain
    4  Force of Will
    1  Mana Crypt
    1  Sol Ring
    1  Hurkyl's Recall
    1  Red Elemental Blast
    1  Shattering Spree
    3  Spell Snare
    3  Duress

// Sideboard
SB: 2  Pyroclasm
SB: 2  Yixlid Jailer
SB: 1  Tormod's Crypt
SB: 1  Red Elemental Blast
SB: 1  Shattering Spree
SB: 1  Darkblast
SB: 1  Relic of Progenitus
SB: 1  Energy Flux
SB: 1  Rebuild
SB: 4  Mystic Remora


3 Gael Bailly maitre (GWu Aggro Hate)

// Lands
    3  Horizon Canopy
    2  Forest
    1  Plains
    2  Savannah
    1  Strip Mine
    4  Wasteland
    4  Windswept Heath
    1  Verdant Catacombs
    1  Misty Rainforest
    1  Tropical Island

// Creatures
    1  Aven Mindcensor
    2  Elvish Spirit Guide
    3  Gaddock Teeg
    3  Kataki, War's Wage
    4 [ARB] Qasali Pridemage
    4  Tarmogoyf
    2  Vexing Shusher
    4  Noble Hierarch
    4  Cold-Eyed Selkie
    2  Knight of the Reliquary

// Spells
    1  Mox Pearl
    1  Mox Emerald
    1  Black Lotus
    3  Null Rod
    1  Time Walk
    1  Mox Sapphire
    1  Ancestral Recall
    2  Crucible of Worlds

// Sideboard
SB: 1  Null Rod
SB: 2  Swords to Plowshares
SB: 2  Tormod's Crypt
SB: 2  Umezawa's Jitte
SB: 3  Relic of Progenitus
SB: 2  Ethersworn Canonist
SB: 3  Pithing Needle



4 Romain Claperon (Tyrant Oath)

// Lands
    2  Island
    3  Flooded Strand
    2  Polluted Delta
    1  Tropical Island
    2  Underground Sea
    2  Volcanic Island
    4  Forbidden Orchard

// Creatures
    2  Tidespout Tyrant

// Spells
    1  Mox Pearl
    1  Merchant Scroll
    1  Dark Ritual
    4  Oath of Druids
    1  Mox Emerald
    1  Mox Jet
    1  Imperial Seal
    1  Mox Ruby
    1  Mox Sapphire
    1  Black Lotus
    1  Ancestral Recall
    1  Brainstorm
    1  Time Walk
    1  Yawgmoth's Will
    1  Krosan Reclamation
    4  Force of Will
    2  Mana Drain
    2  Deep Analysis
    1  Vampiric Tutor
    1  Tendrils of Agony
    1  Regrowth
    1  Chain of Vapor
    1  Intuition
    1  Demonic Tutor
    1  Mana Crypt
    1  Regrowth
    2  Thoughtseize
    3  Opt
    1  Lat-Nam's Legacy (2)
    1  Muddle the Mixture
    1  Ponder

// Sideboard
SB: 2  Pithing Needle
SB: 1  Pyroblast
SB: 2  Red Elemental Blast
SB: 3  Shattering Spree
SB: 2  Fire/Ice
SB: 4  Ravenous Trap
SB: 1  Misdirection



5 Sebastien Vicaire (TPS)

// Lands
    1  Tolarian Academy
    2  Island
    2  Swamp
    2  Underground Sea
    4  Polluted Delta
    1  Verdant Catacombs

// Creatures
    1  Inkwell Leviathan

// Spells
    1  Lotus Petal
    1  Memory Jar
    1  Tinker
    1  Timetwister
    1  Chain of Vapor
    1  Rebuild
    1  Necropotence
    1  Yawgmoth's Bargain
    1  Yawgmoth's Will
    1  Tendrils of Agony
    4  Duress
    1  Mox Emerald
    1  Sol Ring
    4  Dark Ritual
    4  Force of Will
    2  Cabal Ritual
    1  Black Lotus
    1  Mox Sapphire
    1  Mox Ruby
    1  Mox Pearl
    1  Mox Jet
    1  Mind's Desire
    1  Grim Tutor
    1  Gifts Ungiven
    1  Merchant Scroll
    1  Brainstorm
    1  Demonic Tutor
    1  Ancestral Recall
    1  Time Walk
    1  Mystical Tutor
    1  Imperial Seal
    1  Vampiric Tutor
    1  Fact or Fiction
    1  Mana Crypt
    1  Ponder
    1  Mana Vault
    1  Misdirection

// Sideboard
SB: 2  Hurkyl's Recall
SB: 1  Pithing Needle
SB: 1  Island
SB: 1  Swamp
SB: 1  Extirpate
SB: 1  Yixlid Jailer
SB: 1  Engineered Explosives
SB: 3  Tombstalker
SB: 4  Ravenous Trap



6 Thomas Kleber (UBr Tezz)

// Lands
    3  Polluted Delta
    1  Library of Alexandria
    1  Tolarian Academy
    2  Scalding Tarn
    3  Underground Sea
    3  Island
    1  Swamp
    2  Volcanic Island

// Creatures
    4  Dark Confidant
    1  Inkwell Leviathan
    1  Gorilla Shaman (2)

// Spells
    1  Voltaic Key
    2  Sensei's Divining Top
    1  Time Vault
    1  Mystical Tutor
    1  Time Walk
    1  Yawgmoth's Will
    1  Vampiric Tutor
    1  Demonic Tutor
    1  Fact or Fiction
    1  Black Lotus
    1  Tinker
    1  Tezzeret the Seeker
    1 [BD] Brainstorm
    1  Mox Ruby
    1  Mox Pearl
    1  Mox Jet
    1  Mox Emerald
    1  Mox Sapphire
    1  Merchant Scroll
    1  Fire/Ice
    1  Lotus Petal
    1  Ancestral Recall
    3  Mana Drain
    4  Force of Will
    1  Mana Crypt
    1  Sol Ring
    1  Mana Vault
    1  Darkblast
    2  Repeal
    1  Hurkyl's Recall
    1  Perish

// Sideboard
SB: 1  Rack and Ruin
SB: 4  Ravenous Trap
SB: 2  Ingot Chewer
SB: 2  Pyroclasm
SB: 1  Yixlid Jailer
SB: 1  Tormod's Crypt
SB: 1  Pithing Needle
SB: 1  Mountain
SB: 1  Perish
SB: 1 [ARB] Sphinx of the Steel Wind



7 Benoit Seveno (5C Stax)

// Lands
    4  Wasteland
    4  Mishra's Workshop
    4  City of Brass
    3  Gemstone Mine
    1  Tolarian Academy
    1  Strip Mine
    1  Bazaar of Baghdad
    1  Undiscovered Paradise

// Creatures
    1  Sundering Titan
    4  Goblin Welder
    1  Duplicant

// Spells
    4  Smokestack
    1  Trinisphere
    4  Tangle Wire
    3  Crucible of Worlds
    1  Sol Ring
    1  Mana Vault
    1  Mox Pearl
    1  Mox Emerald
    1  Mox Ruby
    1  Mox Jet
    1  Mox Sapphire
    1  Black Lotus
    1  Crop Rotation
    1  Demonic Tutor
    1  Vampiric Tutor
    1  Tinker
    1  Ancestral Recall
    1  Mana Crypt
    1  Darkblast
    1  Ancient Grudge
    1  Intuition
    1  Balance
    1  Memory Jar
    4  Sphere of Resistance

// Sideboard
SB: 3  Tormod's Crypt
SB: 3  Pithing Needle
SB: 2  Jester's Cap
SB: 1  Crucible of Worlds
SB: 1  Relic of Progenitus
SB: 2  Pyroblast
SB: 1  Hurkyl's Recall
SB: 1  Triskelion
SB: 1  Ensnaring Bridge



8 Julien Huguenin (Selkie)

// Lands
    2  Tropical Island
    3  Tundra
    1  Island
    3  Flooded Strand
    3  Wasteland
    1  Strip Mine
    3  Misty Rainforest
    1  Forest
    1  Plains

// Creatures
    4  Noble Hierarch
    4  Cold-Eyed Selkie
    2  Trygon Predator
    4  Tarmogoyf
    3 [ARB] Qasali Pridemage

// Spells
    1  Black Lotus
    1  Mox Pearl
    1  Mox Sapphire
    4  Force of Will
    2  Daze
    1  Misdirection
    1  Ancestral Recall
    4  Null Rod
    1  Hurkyl's Recall
    1  Brainstorm
    2  Swords to Plowshares
    3  Spell Pierce
    1  Mystical Tutor
    2  Giant Growth

// Sideboard
SB: 1  Tarmogoyf
SB: 3  Swords to Plowshares
SB: 2  Umezawa's Jitte
SB: 3  Wheel of Sun and Moon
SB: 1  Relic of Progenitus
SB: 2  Serenity
SB: 3  Burrenton Forge-Tender

[Puinsai]

Thank you for all !  very good description of metagame.

[Watanabe]

Interesting lists, congratulations to all the top 8 participants.

I think it is now safe to say, that UGW Noble/Selkie Fish ist not only the best Fish deck around. It is also one of the three best decks in the format (beside Confidant-Combo-Control and Aggro Mud).

Noble has been recently in the top 8 of the both biggest vintage worldwide (Ovinogeddon and Annecy) and has won several medium sized tournaments like this and the Lotus run in Zürich with 55 participants. Great deck, great results.

Edit: Funny sideboard tool this Burrenton thing. I guess the Selkie players were expeting lots of Pyroclasms. Did it work out as an answer?

Hey,

I'm the finalist player (Benjamin GUILLERM with Selkie)

I totally agree with you concerning the deck, and its strong is that players have not yet find how to play against this deck. I think that Darkblast is such a BAD idea against this deck and think that Perish or Massacre is such better !

Concerning Burrenton, it replaces Children of Korlis :
Children was better in a combo metagame with a lot of TPS or Drain-Tendrill ; But Burrenton is better against goblin and Tezz-R (side in Pyroclasm)

It's clearly a metagame choice !