Tournament Report for Friday Night Magic
After attending the Apocalypse draft last Friday night
and having a change to get a good look at the set,
and I have been able to form some opinions about some of the new power cards.
Some of these are obvious; vindicate and
spirit monger are both incredible, as are new power cards
like suffocating blast and pernicious
deed. But even when powerful new cards rotate into a
type two environment, they may not necessarily see tournament play unless they
can find a home in the right deck. One such deck that I have been
considering is black/white rebels.
Black/white rebels have seen extremely limited play,
and only around the time of pro tour chicago, at which time
rebels made up nearly half of the field.
Although the craze has died down around aggressive rebels,
counter-rebel has stepped up to secure a spot as one of the
top decks. Black/white rebels is an exciting possibility, though,
because of the new powerful card vindicate. For those of you
who have been sleeping in a cave for awhile, vindicate destroys
any target permanent for 1BW. This card is rare, making it tough to get
four of, but it should be worth it for those who are
able to. A sample version of the deck that I have been
working on looks like this:
Black/White Rebels
creatures
4 ramosian sargeant
3 defiant falcon
3 steadfast guard
3 lin sivvi
2 defiant vanguard
1 thermal glider
1 rebel informer
1 ramosian sky marshall
4 chimeric idol
other
4 vindicate
4 parallax wave
2 disenchant
2 glorious anthem
land
4 rishadan port
2 dustbowl
4 caves of koilos
2 dromar's caverns
1 swamp
13 plains
sideboard
3 reverant mantra
2 disenchant
3 wrath of god
2 last breath
2 story circle
2 tsabo's decree
1 lightbringer
The deck is very similar to Kai Budde's Aggressive G/W Rebel deck that
won him Pro Tour Chicago.
The major difference is the removal of longbow archers
(who really just aren't
powerful anymore due to the lack of blue skies decks
and other weenie decks) and the addition of the black cards. Glorious
anthem replaces the crusades
of old rebel decks, and Kai Budde's feelings on not
using crusade due to the weakness in the mirror
matchup don't apply for glorious anthem. Against an opposing rebel deck,
glorious anthem will always swing
the game in its caster's favor. The deck's
sideboard is made to beat tough matchups, and rebels
in the mirror match with both decree and last breath.
I feel that with the inclusion of
direct multi-purpose removal in the
form of vindicate, this new deck should have what
it takes to compete.
-Logan McHenry, New New Wave Kid Net deck player 2001
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