FNM Fun
with Robert Blum
Hey everyone, so it's been a crazy couple of weeks for me I have been working, traveling for work and working some more. I did however get to have an awesome experience last week for FNM.
I was traveling for business in the Ft. Lauderdale, FL area and had my Friday night free. I decided to stuff a deck in my suitcase since I was going to be all alone and free Friday night. I did some research and found that cool stuff inc. Had a huge store about 15 minutes from where I was staying.
I swing in and found the store absolutely packed at 5pm. After talking to the employees I found out the store drafts all day long on Fridays from open till close as many pods of 8 as they can fill.
I asked about FNM and was told it started at 7 and that it was $5 to enter. I also asked about prize support and was told top four split the promos and first gets a box, 2nd-4th split a second box 18, 9 & 9. I was also told everyone else from 9th-16th gets 5 packs.
After being at home in our 25-30 person FNMs this felt like a ton of prize support but man was I cool with it.
The deck I brought with me was my UR Aggro deck I write about a few weeks ago.
So it's now 7 and I couldn't believe my eyes the store had 60+ for FNM and all for standard. I know stores that pull 50-60 on Fridays but they are split between draft standard and legacy not here. I asked a local player if this was normal, his response was, no it's small tonight there is a PTQ in Orlando tomorrow I couldn't believe my ears.
We started playing and after 6 grueling rounds we hit the top 8 cut I was in as the two seed and the one seed was playing the deck below.
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Creatures [23]
Planeswalkers [7]
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Spells [7]
19 Plains
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I saw this deck a few weeks earlier on an article by Craig Wescoe but I never imagined it was anywhere near as good as it was.
Gideon is a beat stick and making him a huge creature with cavalry Pegasus on board is just nuts if your opponent can't kill Pegasus they just die.
I can't tell you how many games guys had to kill other creatures to stay in the game only to have a Pegasus dropped on them with a huge Gideon on board.
I don't have round by round details but they all went about the same way. Swarm with weenies, give your dudes pro color with brave and beat face or fly over with Gideon and kick their teeth in.
John who was playing the deck and I both ended up in the finals it was 3am and we both decided splitting and going home was a great idea!!
I love this deck and am probably going to tweak it for the new M15 meta next week with preeminent captain.
What other M15 tweaks would you guys make to the deck?
I wish you all the best at your pre-release events tomorrow.
Rob
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