Magic-League Coverage: 27th September Standard Master Top 8 Profiles

Written by EarthPunk on September 27, 2009

Top 8 Profiles

Capeira02 (5-0-2)

Name: Paulo Ricardo Diniz Kai Mota
Age: 22
Location: Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
Deck Choice, Why?: I Choice ... Rg Elves ... because my friend Fabio say with play this deck ...
Thoughts on New T2: I think the new edition too strong, has the cards to build several decks ... plus my friend has a version aggro, and I prefer something more control.
Favorite Card Art: Urza's Rage
Anything else to add?: I want to thank my friends especially Fabio was looking passed me on deck and I want to thank also all the # # mtg.br and Portugal ... Go go go Brazil and Portugal ...Thanks EarthPunk too. ^^

Comodope (5-0-2)

Name: Thomas Steeger
Age: 18
Location: Dresden, Germany
Deck Choice, Why? Vampires, because they seem to be really strong and only loose to real control decks.
Thoughts on new T2: it sucks, i am a blue control player Izzet Tron->Dralnu->Angelfire->5CC-> Vampires, i hate a metagame without a strong blue control deck.
Favorite Card Art: Rhox 10th/promo art
Anything else to add?: the new german governement sucks :)

Ehri (5-0-2)

Name: Tobias Ehrisman
Age: 19
Location: Regensburg, Germany
Deck Choice, Why?: Jund Midrange - Because a friend gave it to me and i didnt have something better
Thoughts on New T2: I'll avoid it and play Ext, considering the experiences from today i can now tell you that i dont like it :>
Favorite Card Art: i think the artworks of island #1 and #2 from ZEN are great :)
Anything else to Add?: Good job Kaesh!

Lame (5-0-2)

Name: Bruno Castro
Age: 19
Location: Portugal
Deck Choice, why?: I chose cobra knight because it can do crazy things with landfall and it speeds the bomb spells like baneslayer and identity crisis.
Thoughts on New T2: I think there are many new decks to explore, and I'm liking the decks I saw so far.
Favorite Card Art: I like Sorin =)
Anything else to add?: Go Go Portugal!! xD

IvanDano (5-1-1)

Name: Ivan Avendano
Age: 23
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Deck Choice, why?: 5 color cascade, the deck was very dominant in Block and I had trouble against it even with Bant...so i thought to make a ZEN version of it. One of the reasons I chose the deck was that many people were wanting to build aggro decks in B/R with all the new Elementals and Vampires. Wall of Denial is a big stopper to all that and being able to cast Cruel Ultimatium is always fun!
Thoughts on New T2: I think with the addition of Zendikar, the format allows players any number of different deck possibilities. Aggro and Control decks can both be played competitively without one completely overshadowing or overpowering the other
Favorite Card Art: Uktabi Orangutan, you cannot stare at that card and not laugh at the two golden monkeys.
Anything else to add?: hmm I just want to give a couple shouts outs....Charles "Twitch" Schutt for helping me out when I started getting back into Magic. The guys at GDT for not selecting me to the team! =/ Unity Entertainment for the Bloodlust and Greed drafts at Orlando PR. And if anyone else wants me on their team...I am available =) oh yeah and thanks to Kaesh for Tc'ing today...excellent job at expediting the process and not making hour long rounds and for ID'ing with me to put me in the top 8 lol!

Kaesh (5-1-1)

Name: Karl
Age: 22
Location: Poland
Deck Choice, Why?: Kavinsky, it was the first deck I made for the format and it doesn't lose to anything yet. Well ok, I lost to the mirror in the swiss.
Thoughts on new T2: I am glad Faeries are gone, and that Wizards finally started printing playable 1 drops.
Favorite Card Art: Original counterspell art
Anything else to add?: no, (EarthPunk: But what about that TC today?) Yes, I heard he fucking rules, totally dope guy this TC is.

Kreff (6-1-0)

Name: Adrian Rodriguez
Age: 26
Location: Castellon, Spain
Deck Choice, why?: Bant because i just had 20 minutes to build the deck (the build is near to horrible).
Thoughts on new T2: Vampires are overrated X-DDD
Anything else to add?: Nah.

Caith (6-1-0)

Name: Jari
Age: 27
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Deck Choice, Why?: Esper control. I wanted a good deck vs red, and Walls of Denials do the job very well.
Thoughts on New T2: Looks interesting as there's no good counters around. I'm not sure if that's a good thing though.
Favorite Card Art: Hard to say, but I like Devout Lightcaster from Zendikar a lot.
Anything else to add?: -

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