LCV Finals 2012 - 22/12/2012 - Invitational Tournament - Top8 Decklists

[PeAcH]

Sorry for not having posted this before!

The finals of the LCV were held on 22nd of December with an "Invitation only" policy for the players classified among the top 32 best of our league (and the ones tied with the 32nd position).

28 out of 36 attended.

Here is the list of invited players:

http://www.eternalcatala.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=2220

And here are the top8 decklists:

http://www.eternalcatala.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=2223

1st - Jordi Carbonell - Forgemaster MUD

Maindeck:
4 Ancient Tomb
3 Mishra's Factory
4 Mishra's Workshop
2 Rishadan Port
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Wasteland
1 Duplicant
4 Kuldotha Forgemaster
4 Lodestone Golem
3 Phyrexian Metamorph
3 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Sundering Titan
1 Black Lotus
4 Chalice of the Void
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Tangle Wire
4 Thorn of Amethyst

Sideboard:
2 Ghost Quarter
1 Duplicant
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
2 Wurmcoil Engine
2 Crucible of Worlds
3 Grafdigger's Cage
4 Relic of Progenitus

2nd - Ferran Relat - Tezzeret Control

Maindeck:
1 Flooded Strand
5 Island
1 Library of Alexandria
4 Polluted Delta
1 Swamp
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Underground Sea
2 Baleful Strix
1 Blightsteel Colossus
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
2 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Brainstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Mana Crypt
3 Mana Drain
2 Mental Misstep
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Misdirection
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Ponder
1 Repeal
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sol Ring
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Time Vault
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Voltaic Key
1 Yawgmoth's Will

Sideboard:
3 Yixlid Jailer
2 Dismember
1 Flusterstorm
3 Grafdigger's Cage
2 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Spell Snare
1 Steel Sabotage

Top 4 - Omar Nieto - Wizards

Maindeck:
4 Cavern of Souls
1 City of Brass
4 Flooded Strand
1 Strip Mine
1 Tropical Island
1 Tundra
1 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
3 Wasteland
4 Dark Confidant
3 Grim Lavamancer
3 Magus of the Unseen
3 Meddling Mage
3 Qasali Pridemage
3 Sower of Temptation
4 Voidmage Prodigy
4 Æther Vial
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Force of Will
3 Mental Misstep
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Time Walk

Sideboard:
1 Plains
1 Scrubland
1 Balance
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Rest in Peace
4 Serenity

Top 4 - Pau Cantero - Almost Blue

1   Mox Jet
1   Mox Emerald
1   Mox Sapphire
1   Lotus Petal
1   Black Lotus
1   Sol Ring
1   Mana Crypt
1   Nihil Spellbomb
1   Vampiric Tutor
1   Demonic Tutor
1   Yawgmoth's Will
1   Fastbond
1   Noxious Revival
4   Gush
1   Gifts Ungiven
1   Ancestral Recall
3   Preordain
1   Ponder
1   Brainstorm
2   Repeal
1   Mystical Tutor
4   Force of will
2   Mana Drain
2   Remand
3   Flusterstorm
1   Misdirection
1   Time Walk
1   Timetwister
1   Merchant Scroll
1   Rebuild
2   Brain Freeze
1   Library Of Alexandria
3   Island
2   Misty Rainforest
2   Scalding Tarn
1   Polluted Delta
1   Flooded Strand
2   Tropical Island
3   Underground Sea

Sideboard:
3   Abrupt Decay
3   Nature's Claim
1   Extirpate
1   Nihil Spellbomb
2   Talrand Skysummoner
1   Tropical Island
1   Hurkyl's Recall
3   Dismember

Top 8 - Alex Delgado - Gush Tendrils

Maindeck:
2 Flooded Strand
3 Island
1 Library of Alexandria
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Polluted Delta
2 Scalding Tarn
3 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea
1 Blightsteel Colossus
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Brainstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Fastbond
4 Force of Will
4 Gush
1 Mana Crypt
3 Mana Drain
3 Mental Misstep
1 Merchant Scroll
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mystical Tutor
3 Preordain
3 Repeal
1 Sol Ring
1 Tendrils of Agony
2 Thoughtseize
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth's Will

Sideboard:
3 Trygon Predator
1 Yixlid Jailer
2 Dismember
2 Hurkyl's Recall
3 Nature's Claim
2 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Ravenous Trap

Top 8 - David Morales - U/R Painters

Maindeck:
6 Island
1 Misty Rainforest
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Volcanic Island
1 Blightsteel Colossus
3 Painter's Servant
3 Snapcaster Mage
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Brainstorm
1 Fact or Fiction
4 Force of Will
2 Grindstone
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
3 Mental Misstep
1 Misdirection
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mystical Tutor
2 Pyroblast
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Reshape
2 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sol Ring
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Time Vault
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Voltaic Key

Sideboard:
1 Mountain
1 Goblin Welder
4 Ingot Chewer
1 Hurkyl's Recall
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Pyroblast
3 Steel Sabotage

Top 8 - Eduard Castro - Forgemaster MUD

Maindeck:
4 Ancient Tomb
1 City of Traitors
4 Mishra's Factory
4 Mishra's Workshop
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Wasteland
4 Kuldotha Forgemaster
4 Lodestone Golem
1 Myr Battlesphere
3 Phyrexian Metamorph
3 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Steel Hellkite
1 Sundering Titan
1 Black Lotus
4 Chalice of the Void
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
3 Sphere of Resistance
4 Tangle Wire
4 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Trinisphere

Sideboard:
2 Ghost Quarter
1 Wurmcoil Engine
2 Crucible of Worlds
3 Dismember
3 Grafdigger's Cage
4 Relic of Progenitus

Top 8 - Pablo Ambrojo - U/W Landstill

Maindeck:
4 Flooded Strand
3 Island
3 Mishra's Factory
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Plains
1 Strip Mine
4 Tundra
3 Wasteland
2 Aven Mindcensor
2 Snapcaster Mage
3 Stoneforge Mystic
2 Vendilion Clique
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Batterskull
1 Black Lotus
1 Brainstorm
1 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
2 Mana Drain
3 Mental Misstep
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mystical Tutor
4 Standstill
2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Time Walk

Sideboard:
2 Kataki, War's Wage
1 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Disenchant
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Flusterstorm
2 Mindbreak Trap
3 Rest in Peace
2 Serenity
1 Steel Sabotage
1 Swords to Plowshares

Congratulations to Jordi for an awesome year!

See you in LCV2013.

Stay tuned!

[audetnelson1]

Impatient to see picture !

No SNap control in the top8 !!!

[Onslaught]

I've been playing Almost Blue a lot recently with Talrand and enjoying it a lot, do you know if the missing decklist had Talrand, ETW, or Brain Freeze for its win conditions?

[PeAcH]

Last time I played against Pau in Ayudar Jugando tournament in early December he was playing 2 Freeze 1 Talrand as wincons.

He has been toying around with the deck for some time now.

I will check if he can post the decklist.

[Grand Inquisitor]

Perhaps this:

http://morphling.de/printview.php?c=1639&d=8

[PeAcH]

:_D these are my 75 from July LCV top8:

http://morphling.de/printview.php?c=1624&d=7

Pau plays more controlish builds with Misdirections, 2 Remands (awesome!) and Nihil Spellbomb main. At least when I played against him in the Ayudar Jugando.

He also usually plays with 1 Noxious revival main.

I have sent him an email so as soon as I get it I will publish it here (or he will write himself here).

[JACO]

I see Guillem Ragull did not participate. What was his excuse?!

[PeAcH]

@Jaco:

I went on a Family Christmas trip to Holland for a week the very same day of the Finals.

Plane tickets were bought months before and everything was already planned. Thus as it had Split Second it had to be resolved without responding to it :_D

I will have to try it next time!

[audetnelson1]

Any photoreport Peach?

[xouman]

Any photoreport Peach?

Just 2 photos as far as i know:

http://manainfinito.com/articulos/cronica-de-la-final-de-la-lcv-2012

First is Miquel Alcoriza, winner of 2012 league, and latter is Jordi Carbonell, who managed to win the LCV 2012 final. Congrats to them

And a bonus: the winner's report (in spanish, though):

http://totomagic.com/2012/12/28/report-ganador-torneo-final-lcv-2012-con-kuldhota-forgemaster/

[JACO]

@Jaco:

I went on a Family Christmas trip to Holland for a week the very same day of the Finals.

Plane tickets were bought months before and everything was already planned. Thus as it had Split Second it had to be resolved without responding to it :_D

I will have to try it next time!

I figured something like that would be the only way you would miss it. Do you know if there's any video from the event?

[PeAcH]

@Onslaught

Here is Pau Cantero's decklist:

1   Mox Jet
1   Mox Emerald
1   Mox Sapphire
1   Lotus Petal
1   Black Lotus
1   Sol Ring
1   Mana Crypt
1   Nihil Spellbomb
1   Vampiric Tutor
1   Demonic Tutor
1   Yawgmoth's Will
1   Fastbond
1   Noxious Revival
4   Gush
1   Gifts Ungiven
1   Ancestral Recall
3   Preordain
1   Ponder
1   Brainstorm
2   Repeal
1   Mystical Tutor
4   Force of will
2   Mana Drain
2   Remand
3   Flusterstorm
1   Misdirection
1   Time Walk
1   Timetwister
1   Merchant Scroll
1   Rebuild
2   Brain Freeze
1   Library Of Alexandria
3   Island
2   Misty Rainforest
2   Scalding Tarn
1   Polluted Delta
1   Flooded Strand
2   Tropical Island
3   Underground Sea

Sideboard:
3   Abrupt Decay
3   Nature's Claim
1   Extirpate
1   Nihil Spellbomb
2   Talrand Skysummoner
1   Tropical Island
1   Hurkyl's Recall
3   Dismember

@JACO

I will check the video issue to see whether they recorded it or not

[Onslaught]

Thanks for posting that, Remand is very interesting...certainly goes with the theme of filtering/card quantity of Almost Blue.

I feel like this archetype moving forward is the best hope for Gush to remain relevant, it has been so consistent in my testing lately.