Build up to PTQ Barcelona

So, before the event began, I had been working out deck ideas and trying to get in touch with the metagame and what to expect.  Here's what I had come up with (And man do I need some help playtesting and planning...)

Affinity 25%
Aggro Loam 10-15%
UW Tron 15%
Boros 10%
Splinter Twin 10%
Fairies 10%
and of course Jund at around 20% or so.

Splinter Twin and Affinity were barely represented at all.  Almost a third of the field was playing some variation of UW Tron.  Jund was well represented as well.  But it felt like most the rest of the field was barely playing standard lists at all.  This was my first mistake.

With that field in mind, I played a brew WB Tokens.  It seemed really solid against most of the midrange and aggro decks, and had some solid solutions to burn decks.  I built my board to deal with Fairies, Twin and Storm, and Affinity...  I only played a Fairie deck.  The rest of them I never saw.  I heard there was one or two Twin decks, maybe one or two Affinity.

I ran the following list after a little consideration.

BW Tokens
4 Champion of the Parish
4 Dark Confidant
2 Hero of Bladehold
2 Tidehollow Sculler
(12 creatures)

2 Gideon Jura
2 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
(4 planeswalkers)

4 Lingering Souls
4 Gather the Townsfolk
4 Intangible Virtue
2 Honor of the Pure
4 Path to Exile
4 Thoughtseize
(22 spells)

3 Plains
3 Swamp
2 Vault of the Archangel
2 Windbrisk Heights
4 Marsh Flats
4 Godless Shrine
4 Isolated Chapel
(22 land)

Sideboard
2 Torpor Orbs (fairies in mind)
2 Castigate (to switch out with the scullers against more burn oriented decks)
2 Kataki, War's Wage (Affinity)
3 Kor Firewalker (RDW, Storm)
3 Nihil Spellbomb (Aggro Loam, Dredge)
3 Leyline of Sanctity (Jund, RDW, Boros, Rakdos)

The Castigates were main deck till the morning of the event, since I didn't own both scullers.  The Kataki in the side board were both disenchants instead, since I didn't own the Kataki.  I bought the cards before the event.  As well as the two maindeck Windbrisk.  I thought those would be good for the deck, but I don't think so.  They only went off once, and it was in a game that I already had well in hand.  In short, they were a bad call.  I should have kept the disenchants and left in the two other basic lands instead of the Windbrisk.

Next post, we'll talk about the actual event.
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