Need to redesign the header of the blog, but I’m not 100% sure how it should look like. If you have any suggestions please let me know!

Soon, I’ll be able to announce something very cool. It comes in the form of a new co-writer for the blog. Someone you might already know from some of his articles for MTG Salvation. Ok, ok, I stop giving tips now! He deserve a presentation post for himself, so I ain’t unveiling his name yet! Who do you think he is?

It’s only a month left till we hit Grand Prix Madrid, and there’s something that worries me a lot. No, it’s not the decklist I’ll play that I’m worried about, it’s actually what artists are going to be present at the event. Considering the type of event, Legacy (Eternal), I hope they bring someone important. Someone with a huge card pool, from alpha to latest expansions. I also hope, they don’t bring Mark Tedin, Terese Nielsen or Rob Alexander. Why would I say that if they’ve actually drawn cards from alpha to nowadays? Simply, coz I’ve met them many times already. WotC should make an effort to make other artists travel around. I’m talking about artists like Ron Spears or Pete Venters, to name a couple. I know it’s not gonna happen; it’s just some wet dream of mine.

Anyways, last Sunday I headed to Badalona (lawless city next to Barcelona -  They should actually release a new video game called GTA: Badalona) to play the 1st tournament of the 2010 Catalan Vintage League (LCV). Only 50 players showed up due to a Legacy Grand Prix Trial (GPT) being held at Black Lotus Shop in Barcelona (70 players).

I was planning to play a different deck than the one I used to win the mini tournament at La Màquina del Temps a week ago, but I lacked the time to change it, so I decided to give it another try.

Regular structure for a tournament like this, 6 swiss rounds followed by top8. Prizes were pretty cool, at least for the winner: 1 Beta Tundra + 1 Beta Scrubland. Thumbs up for Alfredo, the organizer!.

My performance went from poor to lame. I scored a 2-4 total. The deck worked well, but I had the feeling my opponents had the hands of their lives. You know, when round after round, you lose being unable to actually play your cards. Lost 2 rounds against Vault/Key with FoW backup. Another one, where my opponent, in game 3, opens with Jet + Duress (taking my FoW), Sapphire + Ancestral, Swamp + Black Lotus, cracking for BBB, and casting Null Rod + Dark Confidant. I go Island, play Sol Ring (and still had 2 dual lands + Tinker in hand), and his Confidant reveals Strip Mine turn 2, and Wasteland turn 3. GG.

I might have made some mistakes, wrong hand choices and mulligans. But I’ve never felt smashed like this in a tournament before. Maybe it’s really me, who’s getting rusty. I know I ain’t play-testing that much lately, but I’m still confidant about my skills and about my knowledge of the format. Who knows…

Now, I’m 100% focused again in Legacy. I don’t think I’ll be able to test much before the GP, but that’s a thing that doesn’t worry me much. I’ve been playing combo decks in Legacy for ages now and there isn’t much to be seen or to worry about at this point. The only thing that is starting to annoy me, is the growth on the amount of decks abusing Natural Order/Progenitus. Man, that 2 card combo is overpowered. In the Legacy context it might be even more powerful than what Tinker is in Vintage. It’s not restricted (people is playing 2-3 copies of Natural Order) and the creep you put in play is even better than any Tinker Robot that you might put into play. I still hope they ban Tarmogoyf soon. Hey! Do you remember the Biezcorp video? (It’s in spanish, but worth watching)

That’s all for today folks!

LCV Junio – Badalona

Fecha: 14/06/2009 – DOMINGO! UEEEEEE
Hora: 09:00
Lugar: Asociación de vecinos Sant Mori C/ Antigua de Valencia Nº 60, junto Parque de las Palmeras
Inscripción: 15€
Formato: Vintage

Premios:
1º- Mox Ruby
2º- Por confirmar
3º- Por confirmar
4º- Por confirmar
Del 5º al 8ª: 6 sobres

1º-Clas.sin pack: Mana Drain
2º- Clas. Sin pack: Por confirmar

LCL Junio – Berga

Fecha: 20/06/2009
Hora: 09:00
Lugar: Berga;Alberg de Berga, Crta. de Caserres nº8(Davant de Jaloguing Berga).
Inscripcion: 10
Formato: Legacy

Premios:
1r Classif: Segons la participació:
- Fins a 76 jugadors: 2 Duals en Borde Negre + 2 Duals de Revised
- De 77 a 80 Jugadors: 3 Duals en Borde Negre + 1 Dual de Revised
- 81 ó més jugadors: 4 Duals de Borde Negre

2n Classif: 4 Duals
3r y 4t Classif: 2 duals
del 5è al 8è Classif: 8 sobres

1r Classificat Junior: 1 Dual + sobres
2n Classificat Junior: 1 fechland + sobres

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1st – David Pla – U/R Stacks
Maindeck:
3 Ancient Tomb
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Flooded Strand
1 Mishra’s Factory
4 Mishra’s Workshop
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Volcanic Island
4 Wasteland
1 Wooded Foothills
4 Goblin Welder
1 Karn, Silver Golem
3 Razormane Masticore
1 Sundering Titan
1 Triskelion
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
2 Crucible of Worlds
1 Mana Crypt
1 Memory Jar
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Smokestack
1 Sol Ring
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Tangle Wire
3 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Tinker
1 Trinisphere
Sideboard:
1 Viashino Heretic
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 In the Eye of Chaos
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Pithing Needle
2 Pyroclasm
2 Rack and Ruin
1 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Tormod’s Crypt

2nd – Pau Cantero – MUC Tezzeret Transformista
Maindeck:
2 Flooded Strand
6 Island
1 Library of Alexandria
2 Polluted Delta
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Wasteland
1 Sundering Titan
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
4 Accumulated Knowledge
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Brainstorm
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Echoing Truth
1 Fact or Fiction
4 Force of Will
2 Intuition
1 Mana Crypt
4 Mana Drain
1 Mana Vault
1 Merchant Scroll
2 Misdirection
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Ponder
1 Powder Keg
1 Repeal
1 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Sol Ring
3 Stifle
1 Time Vault
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Voltaic Key
Sideboard:
4 Forbidden Orchard
2 Hellkite Overlord
3 Energy Flux
4 Oath of Druids
2 Pithing Needle

Top 4 (1st unpowered) – Joan Lava – Manaless Ichorid
Maindeck:
4 Bazaar of Baghdad
1 Angel of Despair
2 Cephalid Sage
4 Dryad Arbor
2 Flame-Kin Zealot
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
3 Golgari Thug
3 Ichorid
4 Narcomoeba
4 Stinkweed Imp
3 Street Wraith
4 Bridge from Below
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Chalice of the Void
3 Dread Return
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Serum Powder
3 Unmask
Sideboard:
3 Bayou
1 Darksteel Colossus
2 Ancient Grudge
3 Contagion
2 Oxidize
4 Reverent Silence

Top 4 – Ramón Romero – U/W Fish
Maindeck:
4 Flooded Strand
2 Island
1 Plains
2 Polluted Delta
1 Strip Mine
4 Tundra
4 Wasteland
2 Icatian Javelineers
2 Jötun Grunt
2 Kataki, War’s Wage
4 Meddling Mage
4 Ninja of the Deep Hours
3 Sage of Epityr
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Brainstorm
4 Daze
1 Echoing Truth
4 Force of Will
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mystical Tutor
3 Null Rod
4 Stifle
2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Time Walk
Sideboard:
1 Jötun Grunt
2 Disenchant
2 Hydroblast
3 Pithing Needle
3 Relic of Progenitus
2 Serenity
2 Swords to Plowshares

Top 8 – Rubén González – Repeal Gifts
Maindeck:
2 Flooded Strand
4 Island
1 Library of Alexandria
3 Polluted Delta
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
1 Darksteel Colossus
1 Gorilla Shaman
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Brainstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Fact or Fiction
4 Force of Will
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Mana Crypt
4 Mana Drain
1 Merchant Scroll
2 Misdirection
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Rebuild
4 Repeal
2 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Skeletal Scrying
1 Sol Ring
1 Tendrils of Agony
4 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
Sideboard:
1 Sundering Titan
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
2 Pithing Needle
1 Pyroblast
2 Pyroclasm
2 Rack and Ruin
2 Red Elemental Blast
3 Tormod’s Crypt

Top 8 – Adrià Moreno – Repeal Gifts
Maindeck:
3 Flooded Strand
4 Island
1 Library of Alexandria
2 Polluted Delta
1 Tolarian Academy
3 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
1 Darksteel Colossus
1 Gorilla Shaman
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
1 Brainstorm
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Fact or Fiction
4 Force of Will
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Mana Crypt
4 Mana Drain
1 Merchant Scroll
2 Misdirection
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Rebuild
4 Repeal
2 Sensei’s Divining Top
1 Skeletal Scrying
1 Sol Ring
1 Tendrils of Agony
4 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Yawgmoth’s Will
Sideboard:
1 Sundering Titan
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Pithing Needle
1 Pyroblast
2 Pyroclasm
2 Rack and Ruin
2 Red Elemental Blast
1 Shattering Spree
3 Tormod’s Crypt

Top 8 – Joan Castaño – U/R Stacks
Maindeck:
1 Academy Ruins
3 Ancient Tomb
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Flooded Strand
1 Mishra’s Factory
4 Mishra’s Workshop
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Volcanic Island
3 Wasteland
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Duplicant
4 Goblin Welder
1 Karn, Silver Golem
1 Platinum Angel
2 Razormane Masticore
1 Sundering Titan
1 Triskelion
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
2 Crucible of Worlds
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Smokestack
1 Sol Ring
4 Sphere of Resistance
4 Tangle Wire
3 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Tinker
1 Trinisphere
Sideboard:
1 Razormane Masticore
2 Viashino Heretic
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Pithing Needle
3 Pyroclasm
1 Rack and Ruin
1 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Tormod’s Crypt

Top 8 – Adam Subirana – U/W Fish
Maindeck:
4 Flooded Strand
3 Island
1 Plains
2 Polluted Delta
1 Strip Mine
4 Tundra
4 Wasteland
2 Icatian Javelineers
2 Jötun Grunt
2 Kataki, War’s Wage
4 Meddling Mage
1 Mistblade Shinobi
4 Ninja of the Deep Hours
4 Sage of Epityr
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Black Lotus
4 Daze
4 Force of Will
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
3 Null Rod
3 Stifle
3 Swords to Plowshares
1 Time Walk
Sideboard:
3 Ethersworn Canonist
2 Relic of Progenitus
2 Seal of Cleansing
2 Serenity
2 Spell Snare
2 Tormod’s Crypt
2 Umezawa’s Jitte

Source: La Màquina del Temps

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LCL OCTUBRE

Fecha: Sábado 18/10/08
Inscripción: 10 Euros
Horario: 9:00 a.m
Formato: Legacy
Dirección: Asociación de vecinos Sant Mori-C/ Antigua de Valencia Nº 60, junto Parque de las Palmeras

Premios:

1º Clasificado: 4 Tropical Island (Borde Negro)- Italiano
2º Clasificado: 4 Tropical Island (Revised)
3º y 4º Clasificados: 2 Duals
Del 5º al 8º Clasificado: sobres dependiendo la participación
1º Clasificado Junior: 1 Dual + sobres
2º Clasificado Junior: 1 fechland + sobres

Nota: Un jugador se considera Junior si tiene 16 o menos años.

Los premios pueden aumentar dependiendo de la participación

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