If you like Old School you probably have heard about the German International tournament

Sadly I won’t be able to make it even though I worked on a brew to get the max points I could think of while still having a nice deck to play. I even ordered jank from MKM for it and playtested it a whole session.

Since I’m such a nice guy I’ll share that work and fun with you guys, hoping you’ll enjoy it!

The Perks (Bold = targeted perk) :

*Fun player* – not playing The Deck or UR Counterburn: +2 points

*Half Breed* – playing one to three P9 only: +3 points

*Budget Master* – playing completely unpowered: +5 points

*Fresh Meat* – first time playing 93/94 in Germany: +1 points

*Grand Arbiter* – for multicolored decks, each color in the maindeck is represented with the exact same amount of cards : +3 points

*Summoner* – combined power of creatures in the maindeck exceeds 50: +3 points

*Child of Darkness* – playing at least 15 cards from The Dark in the maindeck: +4 points

*Wordsmith* – for each letter in the alphabet, play a card in the maindeck starting with that letter: +5 points



Sorry The Dark and I like playing with Power 🙂

The process :

Set up an Excel with a line for each letter (and calculating total ATK/colour split) and get scryfall.com running to get all cards sorted alphabetically.

Notice that there are only 2 cards in Q which aren’t playable (Quagmire in Black and Quarum Trench Gnomes in Red)

Notice that Will-O, Xenic, Yawgmoth and Zephyr finish the alphabet nicely and we’re set for a UB deck.

Add the usual suspects and Underground Sea.

Add some Erg Raiders, Guardian Beast, Hurkyl’s Recall, Juzam Djinn, Khabal Ghoul, Nevinnyral’s Disk, Oubliette, Phantasmal Image, Royal Assassin and Volcanic Island (as an island starting with V)

Adjust quantities and notice that you aren’t that far from *Summoner* perk so adding a Leviathan is a nobrainer.

Notice that you’re like a Project M / Disco Troll deck and that you already have Volcanic Island and several deck cards Main Deck to work on a red transformational sideboard

The final decklist (2 slots left in the sideboard) :

Playtesting results (vs “real decks”) :

1st game you better dodge your unplayable (Leviathan, Quagmire, …) 🙂

The Disk’s / Hurkyl’s synergy is very fun

Xenic Poltergeist is a good card (gunnarsonbag.blogspot)

Turn 1 Nebuchadnezzar (mox + land + lotus) doesn’t win games 😀

vs The Deck: you’ve got game and the Guardian Beast+Chaos Orb lock is so great

vs Monoblack : Hyppy turn 1 is a problem (Might wanna get Bolts in the sideboard)

vs Prison : Erg Raiders and Phantasmal Images are good beaters / Disks and trolls are nice

Final words :

So sad I don’t get to win the upcoming tournament because starting with 14 points and such a fun and powerful deck it would have been a blast!

I don’t have time to go get my cards right now so a http://manastack.com picture will do the trick!

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