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Top8Magic #306 – Splinter For The Win with MichaelJ
Category: Games & Hobbies
Duration: 01:34:50
Publish Date: 2011-05-27 00:28:26
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Kudos to our own Michael J Flores for winning the TCGPlayer.com WWS Big Apple this past weekend with the long-threatened Splinter Twin/Deceiver Exarch combo deck. Mike fought his way through a 200+ person field that was split into two separate flights which merged into a single elimination Top 16. There, he squared off with Chris Leveque and Grixis Twin, GP winner Dave Shiels with Caw-Blade, MOCS competitor Reid Duke with Blue-Black Control, and finally — in a show down between the grizzled veteran Flores and the young upstart Flores — Edgar Flores with Caw-Blade.

We talked the Monday after the tournament about the big win, his individual card choices, and the operational techniques he used to get through the very long and grueling event. Here is the decklist he used and as a bonus I have included Top8Magic intern Matt Ferrando’s Bant Blade list which he played to a Top 16 finish — after winning a SCG IQ qualifier with it last week.

Splinter Twin
Michael Flores — Winner
2011 TCGplayer.com WWS Big Apple

4 Deceiver Exarch
2 Inferno Titan
2 Jace Beleren
4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Pilgrim’s Eye
4 Sea Gate Oracle
4 Into the Roil
3 Mana Leak
4 Preordain
2 Spell Pierce
4 Splinter Twin
10 Island
8 Mountain
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Tectonic Edge

Sideboard:
1 Basilisk Collar
1 Consecrated Sphinx
1 Dispel
1 Elixir of Immortality
1 Jace Beleren
1 Jace’s Ingenuity
2 Manic Vandal
2 Pyroclasm
2 Spell Pierce
2 Spellskite
1 Trinket Mage

You can find all the Top 16 decklists here but I have singled out Matt Ferrando’s Bant Blade and longtime friend of Top8Magic.com’s Luis Neiman’s Dark Blade below the fold.

Bant Blade
Matt Ferrando — Top 16
2011 TCGplayer.com WWS Big Apple

4 Birds of Paradise
2 Jace Beleren
4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Mirran Crusader
4 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Batterskull
4 Beast Within
1 Dismember
3 Mana Leak
4 Preordain
2 Spell Pierce
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
1 Sword of War and Peace
4 Celestial Colonnade
3 Forest
3 Island
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Razorverge Thicket
4 Seachrome Coast
1 Sunpetal Grove
2 Tectonic Edge

Sideboard:
1 Celestial Purge
3 Flashfreeze
3 Mental Misstep
2 Nature’s Claim
2 Phyrexian Metamorph
3 Spellskite
1 Tectonic Edge

Darkblade
Luis Neiman — Top 16
2011 TCGplayer.com WWS Big Apple

2 Emeria Angel
4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Squadron Hawk
4 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Batterskull
2 Despise
3 Go for the Throat
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Into the Roil
2 Mana Leak
4 Preordain
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
1 Sword of War and Peace
2 Arid Mesa
4 Creeping Tar Pit
4 Darkslick Shores
3 Glacial Fortress
4 Marsh Flats
4 Plains
4 Seachrome Coast
2 Swamp

Sideboard:
1 Batterskull
3 Divine Offering
1 Duress
1 Emeria Angel
2 Flashfreeze
3 Oust
3 Spellskite
1 Sun Titan
Total Play: 0