LCV April - Barcelona - 60 Players - Top8 Decklists + VIDEO @ Maná Infinito

[PeAcH]

Thanks to the help of Roger Riera, we already have the decklists of the last LCV tournament held in Barcelona this last Saturday available in this link @ Eternal Catala (the LCV and LCL forum):

http://www.eternalcatala.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=836

Here are the decklist for your convenience:

1st - Rubén González - Remora Gush

Maindeck:
3 Island
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Polluted Delta
1 Scalding Tarn
3 Tropical Island
2 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
1 Blightsteel Colossus
2 Vendilion Clique
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Brainstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Fastbond
4 Force of Will
1 Gifts Ungiven
4 Gush
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Mana Crypt
2 Mana Drain
1 Merchant Scroll
4 Mindbreak Trap
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Mystic Remora
1 Mystical Tutor
3 Preordain
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
Sideboard:
1 Mountain
2 Sower of Temptation
2 Viashino Heretic
2 Yixlid Jailer
1 Ancient Grudge
2 Nature's Claim
2 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Pyroblast
1 Pyroclasm
1 Red Elemental Blast

2nd - Mario Fortes - Almost Blue
Maindeck:
1 Flooded Strand
3 Island
1 Misty Rainforest
2 Polluted Delta
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea
1 Blightsteel Colossus
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
2 Brain Freeze
1 Brainstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Fastbond
4 Force of Will
1 Gifts Ungiven
4 Gush
1 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Mana Crypt
3 Mana Drain
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mystical Tutor
3 Preordain
1 Regrowth
2 Repeal
1 Sol Ring
2 Thoughtseize
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will
Sideboard:
3 Tarmogoyf
3 Trygon Predator
2 Yixlid Jailer
1 Extirpate
1 Mindbreak Trap
2 Nature's Claim
2 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Steel Sabotage

Top 4 - Miguel Angel Rodríguez - Red Stacks
Maindeck:
2 Ancient Tomb
4 Mishra's Workshop
6 Mountain
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Wasteland
4 Goblin Welder
4 Lodestone Golem
3 Magus of the Moon
4 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Black Lotus
4 Ichor Wellspring
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
2 Null Rod
4 Smokestack
1 Sol Ring
4 Tangle Wire
4 Thorn of Amethyst
Sideboard:
2 Duplicant
3 Ingot Chewer
3 Pyroblast
1 Red Elemental Blast
4 Relic of Progenitus
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Trinisphere

Top 4 (1st budget) - Adrià Martí - R/W Goblins
Maindeck:
2 Arid Mesa
8 Mountain
4 Plateau
2 Scalding Tarn
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
4 Goblin Lackey
4 Goblin Matron
4 Goblin Piledriver
2 Goblin Recruiter
3 Goblin Ringleader
1 Goblin Tinkerer
1 Goblin Vandal
3 Goblin Warchief
1 Goblin Welder
1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
1 Lightning Crafter
1 Mogg Fanatic
1 Skirk Prospector
1 Stingscourger
4 Æther Vial
1 Mana Crypt
2 Seal of Cleansing
4 Swords to Plowshares
Sideboard:
1 Goblin Sharpshooter
3 Mindbreak Trap
3 Pyroblast
4 Shattering Spree
4 Tormod's Crypt

Top 8 (2nd budget) - Ivan de Castro - Affinity
Maindeck:
4 Ancient Tomb
2 City of Traitors
3 Contested War Zone
1 Gaea's Cradle
3 Mishra's Factory
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Wasteland
4 Arcbound Ravager
4 Frogmite
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Memnite
2 Ornithopter
4 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Signal Pest
4 Steel Overseer
4 Genesis Chamber
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
4 Skullclamp
1 Sol Ring
Sideboard:
3 Ensnaring Bridge
2 Pithing Needle
3 Relic of Progenitus
4 Thorn of Amethyst
3 Tormod's Crypt

Top 8 - David Morales - Forgemaster MUD
Maindeck:
4 Ancient Tomb
2 City of Traitors
4 Mishra's Workshop
2 Rishadan Port
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Wasteland
3 Kuldotha Forgemaster
4 Lodestone Golem
3 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Platinum Angel
2 Steel Hellkite
1 Sundering Titan
1 Black Lotus
4 Chalice of the Void
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Sculpting Steel
1 Sol Ring
3 Sphere of Resistance
4 Tangle Wire
4 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Trinisphere
Sideboard:
1 Duplicant
1 Kuldotha Forgemaster
2 Steel Hellkite
3 Crucible of Worlds
3 Jester's Cap
2 Ratchet Bomb
3 Relic of Progenitus

Top 8 - Arnau Rovira - Tezzeret Control
Maindeck:
2 Island
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Mountain
2 Polluted Delta
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
1 Blightsteel Colossus
3 Dark Confidant
2 Goblin Welder
1 Gorilla Shaman
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Brainstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Echoing Truth
1 Fire // Ice
4 Force of Will
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Crypt
3 Mana Drain
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Misdirection
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Rebuild
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sol Ring
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Time Vault
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Voltaic Key
1 Yawgmoth's Will
Sideboard:
1 Greater Gargadon
3 Ingot Chewer
1 Inkwell Leviathan
1 Viashino Heretic
1 Darkblast
2 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Mindbreak Trap
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Perish
1 Pithing Needle
1 Pyroblast
1 Red Elemental Blast

Top 8 - Roger Riera - MUD
Maindeck:
4 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Traitors
4 Mishra's Workshop
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Wasteland
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Phyrexian Revoker
2 Razormane Masticore
1 Black Lotus
4 Chalice of the Void
2 Crucible of Worlds
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Null Rod
4 Sculpting Steel
1 Sol Ring
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Tangle Wire
3 Thorn of Amethyst
Sideboard:
3 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
4 Duplicant
1 Crucible of Worlds
4 Relic of Progenitus
3 Tormod's Crypt


Rubén González confirmed he is stilll on Fire! with this new final and he finally won!

Stay tunned for all the usual coverage @

www.manainfinito.com

We have:

-The top9 decklist (http://manainfinito.com/articulos/mazo-del-top-9-lcv4-lcv2011)
-Rubén's Report in Spanish (http://manainfinito.com/articulos/report-ruben-gonzalez-caballero-4-lcv-2011)

During the week, we will publish another Top8 Report (Arnau), the top8 profiles, pics from the event, the top8 Player Profiles, a coverage we did on an Ichorid player, and top8 videos as usual.



Stay tuned!

[Mr. Type 4]

How long until the metagame in the US shifts so that maindeck Mystic Remora is good again?

Thanks for posting this report, G.  do any of the links you provided have the lists with Sideboard?

[beder]

Congratz to Ruben!

I have to say that this Gush/REmora list is pretty intriguing. There are some choices that are definitely not obvious - Vendilion Clique, Tendrils-No vault-key, 4 Mindbreak, ...

I would like Ruben to tell us more about this build and his choices.

Anyway, congratz to Ruben

[Tempus]

Yeah I also like to know more about that deck. Cause normally Gush and Remora is kind of a nonbo at least without Fastbond.

[PeAcH]

@Paul

Yes, all the decklist have sides. All the lists are sorted in alphabetical order (lands first then spells).

@Tempus

He uses the Remoras to protect himself from the early game along with the Traps to avoid getting first turn killed
It might seem a nonbo, but the Remora is there not as a main draw engine but as a way to gain time to win.

I would like to say he is the top player right now playing this kind of decks in our meta. He has been playing practically the same core for some time now and has proven the deck evolves pretty well along all the 4 months of the LCV where he has reached the finals 3 times and won one of them.

I will talk with him to see if he can explain some of his choices

Thanks for all the feedback!

We will publish the rest of the coverage material during this week (I will be updating this thread to let you know about the new things) and also the following one.

Next week the Team travels to Annecy where we expect to perform a big coverage of the best Eternal events in Europe of this year

[PeAcH]

We have added another report and the Top8 player profiles (both in Spanish):

Another top8 Report:

http://manainfinito.com/articulos/gorilas-en-la-niebla-report-del-top-8-en-la-lcv-abril-2011

Top8 Player profiles:

http://manainfinito.com/articulos/perfiles-top8-lcv-mayo-2011

More pics and videos still to come!

[Shax]

Carlos Fernadiez(?) is someone who has been using Remora tons in the European tourney's and has posted good results with the deck for a long time. Last year he took second at the Bazaar of Moxen, and the other events he goes to I always see him in second place or winning the whole thing. He definatley has a good grasp of that blue deck.

[PeAcH]

You can find the photoreport of the tournament in the following link:

http://manainfinito.com/articulos/fotoreportaje-lcv-2011-abril

The videos will follow next week!

Stay tuned for an Ichorid player coverage (kebote) during the day and top8 videos.

[LotusHead]

Top 4 - Miguel Angel Rodríguez - Red Stacks
Maindeck:
4 Ichor Wellspring

I am curious how good the Ichor Wellsprings were. 

[PeAcH]

Miguel Angel has a user here in TMD so I guess he will answer

[Mantis]

Ruben Gonzalez's deck looks truly amazing. To echo the comment of beder: PeAcH, could you please ask him to tell us a bit about the deck? Real interesting stuff..

[etcl]

hi, I´m Ruben, and I´ll try to explain my deck as well as I could. First of all sorry for my english but i don´t usually use it so I have it a little rusty.

About the deck, if you see it is very similar to gush storm decks that ya had been played, but the problems of those decks it was a problem to control the game in the firsts turns, so i change the drains to traps, and add remoras, but only to stop the development of the opponent, and with this we could play ours preordain, moxes and the opponent only wait until the remora disappears.

Then in the late game the remoras I used to protect my carts, like gitfs, Jace etc, so the remoras is only a utility no the draw engine.

With this changes improve the confrotation with other blue decks, and combo deck, there is no substantial change against mud and fish, and what if it is true that we have a pairing against ichorid almost impossible in the first game.

and the truth is that there is not much more to comment on the deck but if ye asked me try to answer

[PETER FLUGZEUG]

Dear Ruben, First of all, nice to see you here on TMD!
I have watched your blue decks evolve over the last few years (which was rather easy, because you went into top8 almost every time) and it has been very interesting for me to watch how it changed.
Do you think this version of the deck is good for the spanish metagame in particular (for starters: not so many shops, loads of gushes) or do you think it is good against a more balanced field with more MUD, creatures (confidants etc.) but still gush and jaces etc. too?

[etcl]

this configuration is not the best if you think that the number of mud is high. In the first mach only have the hurklys, so is probably that add at least another specifies cart (like Ancient Grudge, versus fish and creatures in general with the colosus is enough for win. how ever, at least at the following tournaments will go with a deck of its kind, with slight changes, as I've said to fit the metagame

[PeAcH]

Back from the BoM, Rubén played the deck he has been updating lately (http://manainfinito.com/articulos/pensando-en-annecy) to a 7-0 finish after 7 rounds, so he could ID into top8 the last 2 rounds. There he lost to Dredge in a 2-1 match.

He is preparing the report to be published this very same week.

Stay tuned!

[PeAcH]

@ Maná Infinito we have published the Video Deck Tech part of the coverage we perform monthly to a player in our LCV tournament (in Spanish).

Find out who is him and which deck does he play in the following URL:

http://manainfinito.com/videos/coverage-lcv-4-joan-castano-fase-1-deck

Enjoy!

[PeAcH]

We have published two top8 games from LCV 4 (April) between Arnau (Tezzeret) versus Mario (Almost U):

http://manainfinito.com/videos/top-4-lcv-abril-arnau-rovira-vs-mario-fortes-game-2

http://manainfinito.com/videos/top-8-lcv-abril-arnau-rovira-vs-mario-fortes-game-3

We have some videos left still to be published from last month. Will publish them still this week.

[Gambit]

No Sol Ring in the winning list? Care to comment on it's exclusion?

[PeAcH]

@Gambit

Well, you can find Rubén's Report in Spanish:

http://manainfinito.com/articulos/report-ruben-gonzalez-caballero-4-lcv-2011

Here is the article on the deck Evolution towards Annecy:

http://manainfinito.com/articulos/pensando-en-annecy


And here is Ruben´s report from Annecy:

http://manainfinito.com/articulos/bazaar-moxen-2011-vintage-report-ruben-gonzalez-caballero

By the way, here are the VIDEOS from the FINAL:

http://manainfinito.com/videos/final-lcv-abril-ruben-gonzalez-vs-mario-fortes-game-1

http://manainfinito.com/videos/final-lcv-abril-ruben-gonzalez-vs-mario-fortes-game-2