Standard Pauper: EssenceOfBosk

by Dabil on 17 January 2013

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (15 cards)

Creatures (6)


Instants (5)

Enchantments (4)

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Deck Description

This deck was played at Gatherling.com's PK Standard 2.01 event on 01/16/13 by MTGO player paloalto36. The deck went 4-1 against opponents and took 2nd place. There was a total of 10 registered players.

PK Standard is a Swiss event followed by a Single Elimination bracket for the Top X players. If the event has less than 16 players there will be 3 rounds of swiss, with a Top 4 cut. 16 players or over and there will be 4 rounds of swiss followed by a Top 8 cut. Standard Pauper is a Standard format that allows only commons to be played. The PK Standard event was created and is run by yours truly. Although I have recently given control of the event over to MTGO player FabioS as I wanted to move forward with other events.

Gatherling.com is a Player Run Event (PRE) site that uses Magic: The Gathering Online (MTGO) to play the matches. So anyone anywhere in the world can play in these events as long as you have an MTGO account.

If you would like to play in our events, you can download Wizard's MTGO software and get an account by going here:

www.mtgonline.com

If any of you would like to join us for this PK Standard in the Standard Pauper format, we meet every Wednesday night at 5:00 pm Eastern Standard time. There are also about 16 other events per week on Gatherling.com in many different formats, all are free to join. You are invited to come and play in any of these events with us.

Here is the Event's Metagame:
http://www.gatherling.com/eventreport.php?event=PK%20Standard%202.01

Here is the Deck Report which show the players and decks he faced:
http://www.gatherling.com/deck.php?mode=view&id=5725

Here is paloalto36's profile page that shows his medal winning decks.
http://www.gatherling.com/profile.php?player=paloalto36

Deck Tags

  • Gatherling
  • Gatherling.com
  • MTGO
  • MTGO
  • Standard
  • Pauper
  • Standard Pauper
  • 2nd
  • 2nd Place

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Standard Pauper: EssenceOfBosk

This looks like a really solid deck. I have been thinking how to get best out of Essence Harvest, but exalted totally skipped my mind. With mainly attack power with a touch of control in the form of Murder and Pacifism I am not surprised this deck got so far in the tournament.

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Posted 17 January 2013 at 19:58

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Yeah I bet this was a good finals match between this deck and the Azorius Tempo deck that won. I didn't get to watch the match since I was competing in the Modern SilverBlack tournament. I imagine though that the Azorius Tempo deck just edged him out because he didn't draw his Hexproof creatures. The Archaeomancer + Ghostly Flicker + Mist Raven would nullify the creature aura's pretty effectively with out them. So I am betting this really came down to who got the luckier draws.

This is pretty much a picture perfect mid-range deck. The creatures are more defined by their resilience and abilities than by their over-all power. This kind of deck is clearly at a disadvantage if they draw too much control, since the point of the deck is to gain an advantage on the board itself. Essence Harvest isn't much good with out a large creature.

And it should be noted that Essence Harvest is merely tech in this deck. It's not part of the overall game plan. Although certainly an effective piece, the deck itself is completely capable of winning with out it.

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Posted 18 January 2013 at 20:45

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