Alara Block Constructed Deck lists: 4c Cascade, 5c Control

4c Cascade

1st - Ctrlqg

Main Deck

Sideboard

1 Arcane Sanctum
3 Exotic Orchard
4 Jungle Shrine
4 Savage Lands
5 Swamp
5 Mountain
3 Forest
4 Bloodbraid Elf
3 Broodmate Dragon

3 Enlisted Wurm
4 Putrid Leech
4 Sprouting Thrinax
3 Ajani Vengeant
4 Bituminous Blast
4 Maelstrom Pulse
4 Blightning
2 Terminate

4 Anathemancer
3 Celestial Purge
3 Infest
1 Terminate
2 Path to Exile
2 Magma Spray

5c Control

2nd - Shyft-

Main Deck

Sideboard

3 Swamp
3 Seaside Citadel
2 Rupture Spire
3 Jungle Shrine
4 Arcane Sanctum
1 Island
4 Savage Lands
2 Crumbling Necropolis
4 Exotic Orchard
4 Wall of Denial

4 Ajani Vengeant
4 Bloodbraid Elf
4 Elvish Visionary
3 Cruel Ultimatum
4 Esper Charm
4 Maelstrom Pulse
3 Bituminous Blast
2 Captured Sunlight
2 Celestial Purge

1 Bituminous Blast
2 Captured Sunlight
2 Celestial Purge
2 Enlisted Wurm
4 Blightning
4 Sedraxis Specter

5c Control

3rd - JerB

Main Deck

Sideboard

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

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

2 Ajani Vengeant
1 Maelstrom Pulse
4 Blightning
2 Celestial Purge
3 Deny Reality
2 Qasali Pridemage
1 Infest

by Jacois on 2009-07-18 20:29 EST

what a dumb format.

by Lynolf on 2009-07-18 20:43 EST

OMG CASCADE WON??? NO WAY, NO FUCKING WAY!

OH AND LOOK, 4 BLOODBRAID ELF ON EACH DECK THAT MADE IT TO THE TOP3!!!

Conclusion: In Alara block, unless you play Cascade in your deck, you can never win. Ever!

by just2fierce on 2009-07-18 21:21 EST

guess I shouldn't feel so bad, hugh.....CTRLQG??

grats to all!

And I agree Lynolf, ABC is dumb!

by Mirage on 2009-07-19 02:17 EST

Free spells = deck archetype. Madness, storm, affinity, now cascade. The card advantage is too big for a damn keyword.

by Jacois on 2009-07-19 03:19 EST

The problem isn't cascade it's that non cascade decks are all shit.

by Zeroo on 2009-07-19 06:54 EST

i lost the round 1 to Ctrlqg, first game was mine but mws had an error but ok...
match2 i won without problems
match 3 i screwed
match 4 he won fairly

gg...

by Ctrlqg on 2009-07-19 08:40 EST

Against you Zeroo you were ahead game 1 when you lost your connection but by no means had won the game at that point, our restarted game 1 I won pretty easily on a fair draw by both of us, game 2 I was stuck on 4 lands and lost and game 3 I won on a normal draw by both of us again so I'm not sure what game you lost to screw but, go ahead and keep making stuff up.

by MarkovXII on 2009-07-19 10:53 EST

Bant isnt horrible, most versions of that i've seen dont run any cascade

by Delicious on 2009-07-19 20:21 EST

why hasn't any 5cc picked up double negative?

Double negative>Cascade

by Shooter on 2009-07-19 22:29 EST

by sokenzen34 on 2009-07-19 07:53 PDT

Bant isnt horrible

lies

by Delicious on 2009-07-19 17:21 PDT

why hasn't any 5cc picked up double negative?

It makes cascade worse.

There is 5cCounters, it's good vs 5cCascade and bad vs everything else.

by Delicious on 2009-07-20 09:43 EST

well, shooter if you would have thought for a second:

i meant 5cc=5 color control

and yes double negative is only good against cascade, but which decks DON'T play cascading spells

by Shooter on 2009-07-20 13:47 EST

yeah, cause ALL control decks in mtg history ran counterspells ¬¬