Alara Block Constructed Deck lists: 5c Cascade Control, Bant Aggro, 5c Control

5c Cascade Control

1st - sandoiche

Main Deck

Sideboard

3 Seaside Citadel
2 Jungle Shrine
3 Arcane Sanctum
2 Mountain
4 Rupture Spire
4 Exotic Orchard
4 Swamp
3 Island
1 Forest
2 Caldera Hellion
4 Bloodbraid Elf

2 Kathari Remnant
4 Wall of Denial
2 Ajani Vengeant
4 Traumatic Visions
1 Obelisk of Alara
2 Celestial Purge
3 Bituminous Blast
3 Cruel Ultimatum
4 Esper Charm
3 Maelstrom Pulse

2 Celestial Purge
2 Ajani Vengeant
4 Blightning
2 Qasali Pridemage
1 Infest
3 Deny Reality
1 Thought Hemorrhage

Bant Aggro

2nd - IvanDano

Main Deck

Sideboard

4 Seaside Citadel
5 Island
4 Plains
3 Exotic Orchard
4 Forest
3 Jungle Shrine
4 Noble Hierarch
3 Jenara, Asura of War

3 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
4 Rhox War Monk
4 Rafiq of the Many
4 Valeron Outlander
4 Dauntless Escort
4 Path to Exile
4 Bant Charm
3 Oblivion Ring

4 Celestial Purge
3 Hindering Light
2 Qasali Pridemage
2 Martial Coup
4 Deft Duelist

5c Control

3rd - platinum1

Main Deck

Sideboard

4 Arcane Sanctum
3 Crumbling Necropolis
4 Exotic Orchard
3 Mountain
2 Island
3 Swamp
3 Seaside Citadel
4 Rupture Spire
2 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
1 Martial Coup
1 Path to Exile

1 Countersquall
3 Celestial Purge
1 Terminate
2 Offering to Asha
2 Cancel
2 Magma Spray
3 Maelstrom Pulse
4 Esper Charm
4 Cruel Ultimatum
4 Courier's Capsule
4 Double Negative

1 Celestial Purge
3 Countersquall
1 Hindering Light
2 Identity Crisis
1 Path to Exile
4 Wall of Reverence
3 Sedraxis Specter

by JKilla on 2009-07-03 20:53 EST

this format sucks stop having block trials

by Kriman on 2009-07-03 21:23 EST

agree

by Shooter on 2009-07-03 21:37 EST

this format is awesome

sandoiche <3

by [BRAYAN] on 2009-07-04 00:33 EST

This format is so gay! (format to shooter)

by ik on 2009-07-04 01:09 EST

All everyone (myself inclueded) does is netdeck from the t8 of Honolulu haha...

by LordLink on 2009-07-04 01:35 EST

IvanDano's manabase seems off. Surely you want to play more forests and then use the shardlands to make your splash colour, not your 2 main.

by Lynolf on 2009-07-04 05:35 EST

This is just like Lorwyn block: whoever has Bitterblossom wins. In Alara Block, whoever has Bloodbraid Elf wins. :/

by Delicious on 2009-07-04 05:37 EST

by Lynolf on 2009-07-04 05:35 EDT

This is just like Lorwyn block: whoever has Bitterblossom wins. In Alara Block, whoever plays cascade wins. :/

Fixed

by Trotsky1 on 2009-07-04 09:20 EST

Cascade is like affinity but more random.

by Lynolf on 2009-07-04 11:35 EST

That explains why Affinity got a lot of cards banned...

by IvanDano on 2009-07-04 12:32 EST

Lordlink, before I found myself with mana issues going through with the deck w/o the jungle shrines...I thought that may slow my tempo but really helped secure a G/W play of a creature when Hierarch wasn't present. Maybe it should be Arcane Sanctum, but it sure did the trick...

I think I could have won without Cascade...I just needed a way to get around those shroud filled walls...

by Ninja87 on 2009-07-04 14:52 EST

can someone tell me why is there 4 Cruel Ultimatums?

by Duodax on 2009-07-04 15:26 EST

they are good?

by Shyft- on 2009-07-05 01:45 EST

lost to sandoiche on an unlucky cascade (flipped one of 2 celestial purges out of 17 possibilities) and his solid play matching mine =) congrats on finishing it out, figured you probably would.