But first I had a Standard Grand Prix to play, and Lasse and I had found a sweet brew. Khans of Tarkir was released, the format rotated, and we geared up for the World Magic Cup in a couple of months. To this day I still love Llanowar Elves aggro decks, double strike combo and very proactive sideboards. This tournament win, however lucky it might have been, was the stepping stone to my career, and I’ll always cherish this deck for it.
Evirea planeshift professional#
This time I did best his Blue-White Control deck and I was overcome with joy that I’d finally be joining Martin Müller at a professional event. We had met so many times in the finals of our FNMs (back then we even had top 8s at our FNMs!), and since both of us were green to success, it was kind of surreal to suddenly play for a national team spot. I defeated Thomas Enevoldsen in the quarters, won my semifinal and got to face off against another good friend, Mads, in the finals. My version had been tuned well over the months and I knew exactly what I wanted to do in every matchup.
Evirea planeshift full#
It’s inexplicable how I did it, but in a field full of Lifebane Zombie, Tidebinder Mage and Supreme Verdict I managed to cruise to the top 8. I didn’t have much success with Red-Green Blood except for winning an 80-player side event at a Grand Prix (back when those had Swiss rounds and a top 8), but I was still determined to bring it to the first of three World Magic Cup Qualifiers in Denmark. I played this deck nonstop in that format and absolutely loved it! I also got to know it very well, which was certainly an advantage in a format where most people had played their deck for the better part of a year. With Aspect of the Hydra as a new additional pump spell, the deck was ready. Once Born of the Gods released, Gruul Spellbreaker-wannabe Fanatic of Xenagos entered our card pool and was a perfect opportunity to cut Reverent Hunter. He had already played a deck like that before rotation, and Theros gave us the opportunity to use a devotion theme and play Reverent Hunter as a giant 3-drop. My good friend Lasse was very much into Red-Green beatdown decks at the time, and he was especially interested in using Flesh // Blood with Ghor-Clan Rampager to just combo-kill people out of nowhere. Theros Standard was a time where I’d go to FNM every Friday and since the format was in such a way where the metagame didn’t really change that much for a year, everyone mostly stuck to their decks.
Evirea planeshift pro#
I was driven by the sudden early Pro Tour success of my good friend Martin Müller who would be the captain for Denmark at the World Magic Cup at the age of 17. We start in the summer of 2014, when I was still a hopeful FNM player who rigorously watched all the coverage. I realized that these decks combined tell the tale of how I launched myself onto the pro scene, so not only do they paint a picture of how the Standard format evolved in the 2014-2016 era, it also shows how I grew as a player with the people around me. Specifically, some of my favorite Standard decks I've played in tournaments and the history surrounding them. Instead of pouring useless words down your drain, I'll instead use the time to share some light-hearted and arguably more useful stories from my past. A new exciting set is on the Modern Horizons, but as I'm typing, most of the set hasn't been spoiled, so I'm not sure what I could have to contribute aside from obvious statements like "Sunbaked Canyon is good for Burn" and "Scale Up will make Infect faster". Plus, my lovely editor is going on vacation for the next two weeks at the time of writing, so any advice I could give would no longer be up to date by the time this article is published anyway. I haven't played enough Modern or Standard lately to say anything confidently about the formats.
This time is a bit of a challenge for me, article-wise.
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