Magic-League Coverage: 26th February Standard Master: Top8 Interviews

Written by DARKING on February 27, 2012

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On these days, where Standard is a healthy and diverse format, we come across another Magic-League Master tournament. 67 players joined us today, and these 8 made the cut:

Torcuato
Name, age and nationality: Torcuato , 69 , Spanish.
What deck are you playing and why? Esper Turbia Tia Paca Team because is the best deck in the format and a troll bird say me the list.
What's your favorite thing about Magic? The Cheats Illo.
From a flavor perspective, who's your favorite planeswalker? Nissa Revane. Then is a lot of turbia for do fetchtutor.
Anything else you'll like to add? If I win I change my prize for a merfolk deck for AndrewHP and AndrewHP is a very good stallin player.

DarkenRahl
Name, age and nationality: Iuri Pombinho, 18, Portuguese.
What deck are you playing and why? Mono Red, because it is a game that beats too fast and have a lot of burn. :D
What's your favorite thing about Magic? My favourite thing about Magic is a Top deck :D
From a flavor perspective, who's your favorite planeswalker? Gideon Jura.
Anything else you'll like to add? No, thanks.

MitchMachine
Name, age and nationality: Mitchell Manders, 21 The Netherlands.
What deck are you playing and why? Classic Delver, I was clueless than saw Matthew Costa in the feature match I choose to run classic delver
What's your favorite thing about Magic? The fact that it's more than just a game.
From a flavor perspective, who's your favorite planeswalker? Jace, the Mind Sculptor. Elspeth is a pretty close second.
Anything else you'll like to add? Thank your for tcing the master perfectly! and shout out to #metalcraft

Xerocious
Name, age and nationality: Florian F Feyand, 25, Germany.
What deck are you playing and why? Bu Zombies, I was looking for an agressive deck and this seemed sweet :)
What's your favorite thing about Magic? It never gets old, and there's so much to learn.
From a flavor perspective, who's your favorite planeswalker? Nicol Bolas, you gotta hate that guy :D epic stuff happens.
Anything else you'll like to add? Hope to meet some ml-people in Lille. So if you happen to see me strolling round, say "hi" :D

BandaBear
Name, age and nationality: Austin Downs, 19, American.
What deck are you playing and why? Wu Humans, because i havent played INN standard, so I copied an MTGO list.
What's your favorite thing about Magic? Traveling and the people.
From a flavor perspective, who's your favorite planeswalker? Lilliana, for the sexism.
Anything else you'll like to add? I got meet axman yesterday, best day of my life. And http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWS-FoXbjVI

DSD-Steve
Name, age and nationality: Steve Kempe, 24, Germany, Jena.
What deck are you playing and why? Zombies, because they are like Vampires.
What's your favorite thing about Magic? If you playing and playing, you will become a good player - so Magic is a sport like e-sport.
From a flavor perspective, who's your favorite planeswalker? Karn Liberated.
Anything else you'll like to add? DonDiggy, dunkle_stille, Duodax, Mishra and my mom.

Ameni
Name, age and nationality: Vitor Martins , 21 , Portuguese.
What deck are you playing and why? UB Control , is a solid deck with more than one ways to kill your opponent , if u know how to play it u can normally won any match , also was expecting a lot delver / spirits and tokens decks and Mono Green with their Dungrove's .
What's your favorite thing about Magic? Talking all about magic is amazing , seeing good '' fight's '' about different points of view is very cool , and magic is simply the best game of cards for sure , and other games anyway of all time eheh.
From a flavor perspective, who's your favorite planeswalker? Well if it's from all time i would say Jace, the Mind Sculptor , he was just that card.
Anything else you'll like to add? Na it's cool i guess xD

KnowN
Name, age and nationality: Ike Mamiye, 23, American.
What deck are you playing and why? UB Control, because I was in the mood.
What's your favorite thing about Magic? It is free on ML.
From a flavor perspective, who's your favorite planeswalker? Jace looks the coolest I guess.
Anything else you'll like to add? I am the best.

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