Magic-League Coverage: 1st January Modern Master: Top8 Interviews

Written by DARKING on January 02, 2012

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Happy new year! 2012 is now upon us, and what better to start it than by playing some Magic? 69 players showed up for a Modern Master. After 7 rounds, 50 drops and 1 DQ, these 8 players managed to get to the top, the first one of the new year:

Ryk
Name, age and nationality: Paulo "Ryk" Ricardo, 24, Brazil.
What deck are you playing and why? Dark Sea Stompy by me, I put together based on the lists that I could get here in the master and I relied on the same strategies.
What do you think of the recent bans made to Modern? This is wonderful *.*
Dark Ascension is coming. What do you want to see from it? I do not know, I stopped playing because of the PWP which is very ridiculous.
What are your new year's resolutions? I honestly do not know, I'll just spend more on my personal life, work, studies and girlfriend.
Anything else you'll like to add? Ty everyone, especially the friends of Portugal #! Happy New Year to all!

SilverSeraph
Name, age and nationality: Lino Burgold, 20, German.
What deck are you playing and why? Affinity, because its sweet. Dark Confidant is awesome :x
What do you think of the recent bans made to Modern? I guess its fine, although it wasn't really needed; I am curious if we will have any really aggressive decks in the format at all now, and I don't think that's good...
Dark Ascension is coming. What do you want to see from it? A good set, i.e. not like Innistrad...thats all, I guess.
What are your new year's resolutions? I have long stopped making resolutions, because I'm not gonna keep them anyway. I may be lazy, but I am honest enough for that :p
Anything else you'll like to add? Shoutout to Naisirc! His opponents were incredibly lucky today, he doesnt deserve that, because he played really brilliantly...

mishimakaz
Name, age and nationality: Jack Wang, 20, American.
What deck are you playing and why? UW Tron. I did not feel like playing Zoo and Tron is the only control deck I am familiar with.
What do you think of the recent bans made to Modern? I like them. Punishing Fire was an obvious ban. Wild Nacatl getting axed makes other one drops and two drops playable.
Dark Ascension is coming. What do you want to see from it? I don't know. I have not been playing a lot of magic lately due to school so I have no idea how the Innistrad limited format or Standard format is.
What are your new year's resolutions? Do more harm to my liver.
Anything else you'll like to add? When do I get my cards? ;P

smeo
Name, age and nationality: Stefano Meoni, 23, Italy.
What deck are you playing and why? UR Delver Burn because Delver is the best card in modern with no more punishing fire in the format.
What do you think of the recent bans made to Modern? I like it =)
Dark Ascension is coming. What do you want to see from it? I want to see another delver =)
What are your new year's resolutions? Win the master!
Anything else you'll like to add? Thanks to Emanuele Giusti that support me and my ideas!

HomieK
Name, age and nationality: Kevin Gomez,16, Canada.
What deck are you playing and why? Jund, I feel like its still really good even with the bannings and it has been doing really well for me on magic online.
What do you think of the recent bans made to Modern? I feel like they were needed, fire was really oppresive when you get it out and lead to slow and boring games.
Dark Ascension is coming. What do you want to see from it? I hope it's as good as Innistrad, for cards I guess I want them to expand on what they did but not to get too out of hand with the graveyard stuff. We don't need dredge 2.0
What are your new year's resolutions? Do good at school, be better at magic(good start) and just have fun.
Anything else you'll like to add? Hi mom

straca3
Name, age and nationality: Ondrej Strasky, 16, Czech Republic.
What deck are you playing and why? Crappy BUG, cause Ryk shipped me the list. I really didn't know what to play, so I picked that. Its bad though and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone (though adding Lilianas and Pulses over Serum Vision could help).
What do you think of the recent bans made to Modern? I like them, Fire was really powerful and cause of Nacatl, Zoo was the only aggro deck worth playing, plus Merfolks are playable now (my IRL deck).
Dark Ascension is coming. What do you want to see from it? I dont really care, I just want to see those cards so I could start playtesting for the PT.
What are your new year's resolutions? Nothing really.
Anything else you'll like to add? I'm looking for some guys, who would like to test with me for the Pro Tour (T2) through the mws, also props to Ryk for the list.

Kabelis
Name, age and nationality: Modestas, 21, Lithuania.
What deck are you playing and why? Erayo Affinity. Was browsing through daily events and deciding what to play and it looked like a cool spin on affinity. Didn't expect much hate either.
What do you think of the recent bans made to Modern? Feels like they diversified the format a lot, so nothing negative.
Dark Ascension is coming. What do you want to see from it? More support for millyourself.dec (Skaab Ruinator, Splinterfright etc.)
What are your new year's resolutions? Magic-wise, take the time to playtest the formats and not be as lazy in life in general.
Anything else you'll like to add? Happy and productive 2012 for everyone. Also, TARANTULA'D!

tonis69
Name, age and nationality: Toni Ramis,19, Spain.
What deck are you playing and why? I playing Jund, I think is the best deck in this metagame.
What do you think of the recent bans made to Modern? i had not ban any card, if they continue at this rate I may not play anything.
Dark Ascension is coming. What do you want to see from it? I don't have preferences.
What are your new year's resolutions? top8 in one GP or win a PTQ.
Anything else you'll like to add? I would like to see more female players.

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