Hi again,
This is a follow up on my previous post. The PTQ in Aarhus is over and I feel it’s time to look back on how things shaped out for me.
With unlimited time and the intellect of a genius I guess anythings possible. Unfortunately I had neither, although I think less could have put me at the top. In the end the result was not a ticket to the Pro Tour, since I went 4-4 on the day of the PTQ. The final result put me at a 49th place out of a 150 participants.
The pool
The pool contained the cards below. To begin with I built a midrange RB deck, but after losing my first three matches, I asked a friend and went into aggro. That helped 🙂
The final deck contained the following
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Creatures
1 Felhide Brawler
1 Pain Seer
1 Blood-Toll Harpy
1 Odunos River Trawler
1 Nyxborn Eidolon
1 Felhide Minotaur
1 Insatiable Harpy
1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
1 Marshmist Titan
1 Cyclops of One-Eyed Pass
1 Everflame Eidolon
1 Nyxborn Rollicker
1 Minotaur Skullcleaver
1 Thunder Brute
1 Firedrinker Satyr
Spells
1 Pharika’s Cure
1 Read the Bones
1 Lash of the Whip
1 Sip of Hemlock
1 Bolt of Keranos
1 Fearsome Temper
1 Rage of Purphoros
1 Magma Jet
Lands
1 Unknown Shores
9 Swamps
7 Mountains
Sideboard
1 Servant of Tymaret
1 Cavern Lampad
1 Warchanter of Mogis
1 Marshmist Titan
1 Spearpoint Oread
1 Read the Bones
2 Rise to the Challenge
1 Portent of Betrayal
1 Siren of the Fanged Coast
1 Nimbus Naiad
1 Chorus of the Tides
1 Divination
1 Vortex Elemental
2 Retraction Helix
1 Artisan of Forms
1 Crypsis
1 Stratus Walk
1 Crackling Triton
1 Priest of Iroas
2 Loyal Pegasus
1 Nyxborn Shieldmate
1 Observant Alseid
1 Wingsteed Rider
1 Ray of Dissolution
1 Decorated Griffin
1 Fated Retribution
1 Hold at Bay
2 Last Breath
1 Great Hart
1 Vanquish the Foul
1 Ephara’s Radience
1 Forsaken Drifters
1 Weight of the Underworld
1 Drown in Sorrow
1 Medomai the Ageless
1 Ephara’s Enlightenment
1 Sealock Monster
1 Dissolve
1 Triton Shorethief
1 Gainsay
1 Lost in a Labyrinth
1 Evanescent Intellect
1 Thassa’s Rebuff
1 Nylea’s Disciple
1 Sedge Scorpion
1 Nessian Wilds Ravager
1 Pheres-Band Tromper
1 Swordwise Centaur
1 Satyr Hedonist
1 Fade into Antiquity
1 Time to Feed
1 Raised by Wolves
1 Satyr Piper
1 Hunt the Hunter
1 Defend the Hearth
1 Satyr Wayfinder
1 Guardian of Meletis
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When looking back I think I made a mistake when I constructed my deck. The cards to take it towards aggro where there, but I missed it and went into some midrange solution. The deck tried to do two different things, which I’m not interested in in general. I believe that the more uniform a decks plan is, the better it will perform.