1. SCG Players' Championship (Legacy, Modern, Standard)

Prosincový SCG Player's Championship byl posledním ve stávající formě, kdy hraje šestnáctka hráčů, kteří jsou rozděleni do čtyřčlenných skupin, kde se nejprve hrají tři kola legacy a poté tři kola modernu. Z každé skupiny pak jeden hráč vypadne a zbylých dvanáctu hráčů hraje "vyřazováka" (nejlepší z legacy a modernu mají v prvním kole "bye", podobně jako na PT) až do té doby, než zbydou pouze dva finalisti. Ti na závěr hrají na dva vítězné zápasy legacy, modern a standard (pořadí si volil finalista s lepším umístěním po prvním dni).
Na legacy byl shodou okolností pouze jeden hráč, jenž dosáhl na 3:0. Byl to Brad Nelson s klasickou verzí Sneak and Show.
Celkově jsme na legacy mohli vidět jedenáct různých decků, přičemž nejhranější byl 4C Delver, ve kterém ani jeden z této trojice nehrál Young Pyromancery, místo kterých tam byly kusy jako Snapcaster, Leovold a True-Name Nemesis (v podstatě BUG se splashí na Bolt či Kolaghan's Command).
Nejoriginálnější deck hrál Jeff Hoogland, který sáhl po Alurenu. A ačkoli je poslední době čím dál tím poluránější pouze kontrolní trojbarva (BUG), tak Jeff zůstal u klasické čtyřbarevné verze, která se soustředí hlavně na kombo.
- 3× 4C Delver
- 2× Elves
- 2× Lands
- 2× Sneak and Show
- Infect
- 4C Aluren
- 4C Control
- BUG Delver
- Shardless BUG
- Miracles
- Storm
I na modernu byl nejhranějším deckem Delver, tentokráte v Grixis podobě. Hráli ho tři hráči a Kevin Jones s ním dosáhl na perfektní 3:0. Tři výhry si také připsali Caleb Sharer s Dedgem a Gerry Thompson s Boros Burnem.
Celkem jsme v modernové části mohli vidět deset různých decků, mezi kterými byly i některé méně obvyklé, jako například WB Tokeni, Angel Chord, nebo Eldrazi Tron.
- 3× Grixis Delver
- 2× Dredge
- 2× Death's Shadow Zoo
- 2× Gx Tron
- 2× Infect
- Angel Chord
- Boros Burn
- WB Tokens
- Elves
- Eldrazi Tron
V součtu obou formátů se nejlépe vedlo Bradu Nelsonovi, který si spolu s Kevinem Jonesem, Joe Lossettem a Jeffem Hooglandem zajistil s předstihem postup do top8. Z turnajem se naopak po první dni rozloučili Andrew Tenjum, Todd Stevens, Max McVete a Brad Carpenter.
Na standardu bylo k vidění hned devět různých decků, ale nejpopulárnější strategií byly rozhodně různé verze Aetherworks Marvel. Shodně tři hráči hráli Naya verzi s Nahiri a Temur verzi s Whirler Virtuosem.
- 3× Nahiri Aetherworks
- 3× Temur Aetherworks
- 2× UW Aggro
- 2× GB Aggro
- 2× GR Energy Aggo
- UR Control
- Wu Humans
- Jeskai Midrange
- 4C Vehicles
Nejvíce se nakonec dařilo Joe Lossettovi s RG energy (s modrou splashí v sidu) a Calebu Schererovi s Temur Aetherworky, kteří se probojovali až do finále.
Joe Lossett volil, v jakém pořadí se bude hrát a zvolil nejprve legacy, kterou následoval modern. Na legacy s Miracly poměrně s přehledem porazil Calebův Storm a podobné to bylo i na modernu, kde hrál Caleb Dredge, jenž v první hře nestačil na Joeův maindeck Relic of Progenitus a po sidu na Ravenou Trap, kterou hrál Joe dokonce v playsetu.
Joe Lossett je tak pro letošní rok vládcem SCG Tour a navíc si odnáší výhru 20 000$ a vstupné zdarma na všechny letošní SCG Open!

Všechny decklisty rozdělené podle formátů si můžete prohlédnout zde:
2. MTGO Aether Revolt RPTQ #2 (Modern)

Týden před vánoci bylo zajímavých turnajů jako šafránu, což mělo za následek, že na tohle pozdní RPTQ se příhlásilo 165 hráčů, což znamenalo největší RPTQ na PT Dublin (Aether Revolt) vůbec.
Mimo jiné by to znamenalo, že díky účasti nad 128 hráčů by se kvalifikovala celá top8, jenomže na MTGO je výjimka a top8 se tu kvalifikuje vždy, bez ohledu na počet hráčů (to jsem při minulém shrnutí RPTQ výsledků nevěděl).
Hrálo se osm kol swissu, ve kterých mělo přesně šest hráčů 7:1 a ty v top8 doplnili dva šťastlivci se 6:2. Mezi kvalifikovanými decky byly Dredge, Grixis Delver, Abzan Delirium, RG Breach s Madcap Experimenty, dvoje Bant Eldrazi, Infect a Jund (s Piou a Kiranem na pozici čtyřdropu).
Nejzajímavější z těchto decků byl určitě GR Breach, který kombinoval povícero strategií. Primární byl určitě Primeval Titan s Breachem, ale navíc tu byly i Scapeshifty, Emrakul a Madcap Experiment s Platinum Emperorem. A v podstatě to byl i nejzajímavější deck v celé top32, kde byla z méně hraných decků snad jenom jedna Landdestrukce, shodou okolností také s Madcap Experimentem...
Decklisty Modern
Madcap Breach
nsw1074
Online RPTQ
Sideboard
1 Obstinate Baloth
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1 Ancient Grudge |
2 Anger of the Gods |
1 Crumble to Dust |
1 Harmonize |
3 Molten Rain |
1 Nature's Claim |
1 Reclamation Sage |
1 Shatterstorm |
3 Sudden Shock
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Through the Breach
Put a creature card from your hand into play. That creature has haste. Sacrifice that creature at end of turn. Splice onto Arcane {2}{R}{R} (As you play an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)
Obstinate Baloth
When Obstinate Baloth enters the battlefield, you gain 4 life. If a spell or ability an opponent controls causes you to discard Obstinate Baloth, put it onto the battlefield instead of putting it into your graveyard.
Summoner's Pact
Search your library for a green creature card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library. At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {2}{G}{G}. If you don't, you lose the game.
Scapeshift
Sacrifice any number of lands. Search your library for that many land cards, put them into play tapped, then shuffle your library.
Simian Spirit Guide
Remove Simian Spirit Guide in your hand from the game: Add {R} to your mana pool.
Primeval Titan
Trample Whenever Primeval Titan enters the battlefield or attacks, you may search your library for up to two land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
Farseek
Search your library for a Plains, Island, Swamp, or Mountain card and put it into play tapped. Then shuffle your library.
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn can't be countered. When you cast Emrakul, take an extra turn after this one. Flying, protection from colored spells, annihilator 6 When Emrakul is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library.
Platinum Emperion
Your life total can't change. (You can't gain or lose life. You can't pay any amount of life except 0.)
Search for Tomorrow
Search your library for a basic land card and put it into play. Then shuffle your library. Suspend 2—{G} (Rather than play this card from your hand, you may pay {G} and remove it from the game with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, play it without paying its mana cost.)
Sudden Shock
Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't play spells or activated abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Sudden Shock deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle enters the battlefield tapped. Whenever a Mountain enters the battlefield under your control, if you control at least five other Mountains, you may have Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle deal 3 damage to target creature or player. {T}: Add {R} to your mana pool.
Stomping Ground
({T}: Add {R} or {G}.)
As Stomping Ground enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
3. The Last Sun 2016 (Standard + Modern)

Last Sun je pravidelný premiový turnaj, který se v Japonsku koná vždy na konci roku. V podstatě je to taková obdoba SCG Invitational. Turnaj je také rozdělený na dva dny základní části, kde se hrají dvakrát čtyři kola standardu a modernu. Finálová top8 byla standard, přičemž se hrálo na tři vítězné.
V konkurenci 174 hráčů si nejlépe poradil Naoki Shimizu s poměrně fádní kombinací Temur Aetherworků a Dredge.
O dost zajímavější byly decky poraženého finalisty, kterým byl Kyouhei Miyake. Ten na standardu hrál 4C Zomb-Emerge, kde měl v mainu maximum selfmillu v podobě Perpetual Timepiece a Minister of Inquiries. I proto mi přijde zvláštní, že v decku nebyla ani jedna Emrakul, když se Kyouhei trochu minimalisticky spoléhal pouze na Elder Deep-Fienda v kombinaci s Kozilek's Returnem (po rotaci jde o naprosto zapomenuté "kombo").
Na modernu pak hrál hodně zajímavou verzi Blue Moonu. Šlo spíše o tap-out verzi s kusy jako Goblin Dark-Dwellers, Pia and Kiran Nalaar, nebo Chandra, Torch of Defiance (rodinná idylka). V decku také byla malá bílá splash kvůli hate kartám v sidu na Dredge a Burn.
Tím jsme ale zdaleka nevyčerpali přehled všech zajmavých decků. Na standardu jsme v top8 mohli vidět například agresivní BW s trochu větší křivkou, UW Midrange s vehicly a Glint-Nest Crane, nebo další 4C Zomb-Emerge, tentokrát ale agresivnější s Grim Flayery a celým playsetem Smuggler's Copter. V top16 nám k tomu ještě přibyl 4C Marvel, který splashoval pro Whirler Virtuosa a Nahiri.
A co se týče modernu, tak tam mne kromě již zmiňovaného Blue Moonu nejvíce zaujal UWR Prowess, který hrál Pyromancer's Ascension jakožto value kartu a dále Monoblue Tron, který na rozdíl od jiných buildů nehrál žádné zbytečné one-ofy a kromě Mindslaver komba měl i Uginy a dvojici Emrakul.
Decklisty Standard
4C Zomb-Emerge
Kyouhei Miyake
The Last Sun 2016
Commencement of Festivities
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Evolving Wilds
{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
Decklisty Standard
WB Aggro
Kensuke Katou
The Last Sun 2016
Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
Decklisty Standard
UW Vehicles
Naoya Okada
The Last Sun 2016
Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Decklisty Standard
4C Aetherworks
Wataru Okada
The Last Sun 2016
Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
Emrakul, the Promised End
Chandra, Torch of Defiance
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Evolving Wilds
{T}, Sacrifice Evolving Wilds: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
Decklisty Modern
Blue Moon
Kyouhei Miyake
The Last Sun 2016
Roast
Roast deals 5 damage to target creature without flying.
Snapcaster Mage
Flash When Snapcaster Mage enters the battlefield, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Harvest Pyre
As an additional cost to cast Harvest Pyre, exile X cards from your graveyard. Harvest Pyre deals X damage to target creature.
Sulfur Falls
Sulfur Falls enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain. {T}: Add {U} or {R} to your mana pool.
Pia and Kiran Nalaar
When Pia and Kiran Nalaar enters the battlefield, put two 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying onto the battlefield. {2}{R}, Sacrifice an artifact: Pia and Kiran Nalaar deals 2 damage to target creature or player.
Spell Snare
Counter target spell with converted mana cost 2.
Serum Visions
Draw a card. Scry 2 (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top of it in any order.)
Electrolyze
Electrolyze deals 2 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players. Draw a card.
Izzet Staticaster
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Haste {T}: Izzet Staticaster deals 1 damage to target creature and each other creature with the same name as that creature.
Rest in Peace
When Rest in Peace enters the battlefield, exile all cards from all graveyards. If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Flame Slash
Flame Slash deals 4 damage to target creature.
Blood Moon
All non-basic lands are now basic mountains.
Anger of the Gods
Anger of the Gods deals 3 damage to each creature. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.
Ancestral Vision
Ancestral Vision is blue. Suspend 4—{U} (Rather than play this card from your hand, pay {U} and remove it from the game with four time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, play it without paying its mana cost.) Target player draws three cards.
Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt does 3 damage to one target.
Rest for the Weary
Target player gains 4 life. Landfall — If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, that player gains 8 life instead.
Chandra, Torch of Defiance
Hallowed Fountain
({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
As Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
Decklisty Modern
UWR Ascendancy
Naoya Okada
The Last Sun 2016
Disrupting Shoal
You may remove a blue card with converted mana cost X in your hand from the game rather than pay Disrupting Shoal's mana cost. Counter target spell if its converted mana cost is X.
Monastery Mentor
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a 1/1 white Monk creature token with prowess onto the battlefield.
Stony Silence
Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.
Sulfur Falls
Sulfur Falls enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain. {T}: Add {U} or {R} to your mana pool.
Thought Scour
Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard. Draw a card.
Visions of Beyond
Draw a card. If a graveyard has twenty or more cards in it, draw three cards instead.
Engineered Explosives
Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) {2}, Sacrifice Engineered Explosives: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Engineered Explosives.
Serum Visions
Draw a card. Scry 2 (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top of it in any order.)
Gitaxian Probe
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Look at target player's hand. Draw a card.
Manamorphose
Add two mana in any combination of colors to your mana pool. Draw a card.
Lightning Helix
Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to target creature or player and you gain 3 life.
Blood Moon
All non-basic lands are now basic mountains.
Anger of the Gods
Anger of the Gods deals 3 damage to each creature. If a creature dealt damage this way would die this turn, exile it instead.
Swan Song
Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller puts a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying onto the battlefield.
Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt does 3 damage to one target.
Path to Exile
Exile target creature. Its controller may search his or her library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle his or her library.
Rest for the Weary
Target player gains 4 life. Landfall — If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, that player gains 8 life instead.
Pyromancer Ascension
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell that has the same name as a card in your graveyard, you may put a quest counter on Pyromancer Ascension. Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell while Pyromancer Ascension has two or more quest counters on it, you may copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Hallowed Fountain
({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
As Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
Decklisty Modern
Monoblue Tron
Wataru Okada
The Last Sun 2016
Commandeer
You may remove two blue cards in your hand from the game rather than pay Commandeer's mana cost. Gain control of target noncreature spell. You may choose new targets for it. (If that spell is an artifact or enchantment, the permanent comes into play under your control.)
Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
+2: Ugin, the Spirit Dragon deals 3 damage to target creature or player. -X: Exile each permanent with converted mana cost X or less that's one or more colors. -10: You gain 7 life, draw seven cards, then put up to seven permanent cards from your hand onto the battlefield.
Condescend
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. Scry 2 (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)
Oblivion Stone
{4}, {T}: Put a fate counter on target permanent. {5}, {T}, Sacrifice Oblivion Stone: Destroy each nonland permanent without a fate counter on it, then remove all fate counters from all permanents.
Serum Visions
Draw a card. Scry 2 (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top of it in any order.)
Thirst for Knowledge
Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact card.
Treasure Mage
When Treasure Mage enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an artifact card with converted mana cost 6 or greater, reveal that card, and put it into your hand. If you do, shuffle your library.
Remand
Counter target spell. If you do, return that spell card to its owner's hand. Draw a card.
Urza's Mine
{T}: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. If you control Urza's Mine, Urza's Tower, and Urza's Power Plant, add two colorless mana to your mana pool instead of one.
Urza's Power Plant
{T}: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. If you control Urza's Mine, Urza's Tower, and Urza's Power Plant, add two colorless mana to your mana pool instead of one.
Urza's Tower
{T}: Add one colorless mana to your mana pool. If you control Urza's Mine, Urza's Tower, and Urza's Power Plant, add three colorless mana to your mana pool instead of one.
Mindslaver
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice Mindslaver: You control target player during that player's next turn. (You see all cards that player could see and make all decisions for the player.)
Ratchet Bomb
{T}: Put a charge counter on Ratchet Bomb. {T}, Sacrifice Ratchet Bomb: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Ratchet Bomb.
Wurmcoil Engine
Deathtouch, lifelink When Wurmcoil Engine is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a 3/3 colorless Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink onto the battlefield.
Hurkyl's Recall
Return all artifacts target player owns to his or her hand.
Platinum Angel
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.) You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game.
Academy Ruins
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {1}{U}, {T}: Put target artifact card in your graveyard on top of your library.
Expedition Map
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Expedition Map: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your library.
Emrakul, the Promised End
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Grafdigger's Cage
Creature cards in graveyards and libraries can't enter the battlefield.
Players can't cast spells from graveyards or libraries.
4. Eternal Festival Tokyo (Legacy)

Nevím, jak tahle tradice vznikla, ale očividně je v Japonsku zvykem pořádat na Štědrý den velký legacy turnaj, kterého se tentokrát účastnilo 321 hráčů.
Nejúspěšnější decky turnaje byly Miracly a Eldrazi, jenž dohromady zabraly pět míst v top8 a tři v top4. Finále bylo mirror Miraclů a zvítězil v něm Tatsuumi Kobayashi (na obrázku je s cenou za první místo).
Zbylé decky v top8 byly Země, 4C Delver (se Stifly a bez Pyromancerů) a Dark Maverick s Dark Depths kombem.
Decklisty Legacy
Dark Maverick
Hironori Tanikawa
Eternal Festival Tokyo
Dark Depths
Dark Depths comes into play with ten ice counters on it. {3}: Remove an ice counter from Dark Depths. When Dark Depths has no ice counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, put an indestructible legendary 20/20 black Avatar creature token with flying named Marit Lage into play.
Toxic Deluge
As an additional cost to cast Toxic Deluge, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
First strike Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.
Dryad Arbor
(Dryad Arbor isn't a spell, it's affected by summoning sickness, and it has "{T}: Add {G} to your mana pool.") Dryad Arbor is green.
Thespian's Stage
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {2}, {T}: Thespian's Stage becomes a copy of target land and gains this ability.
Sylvan Safekeeper
Sacrifice a land: Target creature you control can't be the target of spells or abilities this turn.
Gaddock Teeg
Noncreature spells with converted mana cost 4 or greater can't be played. Noncreature spells with {X} in their mana costs can't be played.
Scavenging Ooze
{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on Scavenging Ooze and you gain 1 life.
Green Sun's Zenith
Search your library for a green creature card with converted mana cost X or less, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library. Shuffle Green Sun's Zenith into its owner's library.
Knight of the Reliquary
Knight of the Reliquary gets +1/+1 for each land card in your graveyard. {T}, Sacrifice a Forest or Plains: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle your library.
Engineered Explosives
Sunburst (This enters the battlefield with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) {2}, Sacrifice Engineered Explosives: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Engineered Explosives.
Surgical Extraction
({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
Umezawa's Jitte
Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage, put two charge counters on Umezawa's Jitte. Remove a charge counter from Umezawa's Jitte: Choose one — Equipped creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn; or target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn; or you gain 2 life. Equip {2}
Glissa, the Traitor
First strike, deathtouch Whenever a creature an opponent controls is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
Qasali Pridemage
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {1}, Sacrifice Qasali Pridemage: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Sword of Fire and Ice
Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from red and from blue. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, Sword of Fire and Ice deals 2 damage to target creature or player and you draw a card.
Karakas
{T}: Add {W} to your mana pool. {T}: Return target legendary creature to its owner's hand.
Batterskull
Living weapon (When this Equipment enters the battlefield, put a 0/0 black Germ creature token onto the battlefield, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +4/+4 and has vigilance and lifelink. {3}: Return Batterskull to its owner's hand. Equip {5}
Sylvan Library
You may draw two extra cards during your draw phase. If you do so, put two of the cards drawn this turn back on top of your library (in any order) or pay 4 life per card not replaced. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life.
Abrupt Decay
Abrupt Decay can't be countered by spells or abilities. Destroy target nonland permanent with converted mana cost 3 or less.
Deathrite Shaman
{T}: Exile target land card from a graveyard. Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. {B}, {T}: Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Each opponent loses 2 life. {G}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. You gain 2 life.
Choke
Islands do not untap during their controllers' untap phases.
Pithing Needle
As Pithing Needle comes into play, name a card. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be played unless they're mana abilities.
Thoughtseize
Target player reveals his or her hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
Scryb Ranger
Flash (You may play this spell any time you could play an instant.) Flying, protection from blue Return a Forest you control to its owner's hand: Untap target creature. Play this ability only once each turn.
Bayou
Counts as both swamp and forest and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {B} or {G} to your mana pool.
Savannah
Counts as both plains and forest and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {W} or {G} to your mana pool.
Birds of Paradise
Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. This ability is played as an interrupt.
Swords to Plowshares
Target creature is removed from game entirely; return to owner's deck only when game is over. Creature's controller gains life points equal to creature's power.
Scrubland
Counts as both plains and swamp and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {W} or {B} to your mana pool.
Mother of Runes
{T}: Target creature you control gains protection from a color of your choice until end of turn.
Oblivion Ring
When Oblivion Ring enters the battlefield, exile another target nonland permanent. When Oblivion Ring leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Stoneforge Mystic
When Stoneforge Mystic enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library. {1}{W}, {T}: You may put an Equipment card from your hand onto the battlefield.
5. Online PTQ (Standard & Modern)

Mezi svátky se příliš mnoho velkých turnajů konalo, takže ve zbytku Flash News se už budeme věnovat pouze výsledkům z magic online.
Prvním větším tunajem bylo dvojkové PTQ, kterého se účastnilo 88 hráčů. Na turnaji dominovaly decky s Aetherworks Marvel, které obsadily tři místa ve finálové top4. Všechny tři verze, včetně vítězné, kterou pilotoval Watchwolf92, hrály shodně modrou splash pro Whirler Virtuosa a kántrování v sidu.
Velká úspěšnost Aetherworků také vedla ke zvýšené popularitě UR Controlu, který by s Aetherworky měl mít dobrý matchup, nicméně nejlépe umístěný UR Control v top8 vypadl přávě s Aetherworky, takže to asi nebude zase tak horké (URko nemá žádnou rychlou winkondici, takže si dovedu představit, že často prohraje na hardcast Emrakul).
Další zajímavý deck v top8 byla agresivní verze Humanů, která místo obvyklé černé splashovala modrou pro Reflector Mage, Revolutionary Rebuff a další kántrování v sidu (což mělo pomoct hlavně proti Aetherworkům).
Decklisty Standard
UR Control
reisenza
Online PTQ
Sideboard
1 Dragonmaster Outcast
|
2 Summary Dismissal |
1 Ceremonious Rejection |
1 Confiscation Coup |
1 Dispel |
2 Incendiary Flow |
3 Kozilek's Return |
2 Tears of Valakut |
2 Thing in the Ice |
Highland Lake
Highland Lake enters the battlefield tapped.
{T}: Add {U} or {R}.
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Anticipate
Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Decklisty Standard
Wu Humans
petomartinez
Online PTQ
Modernové PTQ se konalo na silvestra, ale i přesto se ho zúčastnilo 107 hráčů.
Panovala tu velmi rozmanitá metagame, kdy v top16 bylo hned třináct různých decků!
Celkovým vítězem se stal Steve Mann alias RandomDrooler s Grixis Controlem ve stylu Coreyho Burkharta.
Na druhém místě skončila Affinita s Bomat Couriery a ve zbytku top8 jsme mohli vidět ještě Boros Burn, dvoje Bant Eldrazi, další Grixis, Bring to Light Scapeshift a Dredge.
Mimo top8 byly nejzajímavější decky UWR Control s Kiki-Jiki kombem, Esper Control ve stylu Wapo-Tapy, jenž hrál kusy jako Esper Charm, Think Twice a Sphinx's Revelation. Hlavní winkondice decku byly Kolonáda a Secure the Wates a konečně GW Hatebeaři, kteří byli tak trochu mix mezi klasickými Eldrazi and Taxes a GW Company.
Decklisty Modern
Jeskai Kiki
_demian
Online PTQ
Sideboard
1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
|
2 Anger of the Gods |
1 Celestial Purge |
2 Dispel |
1 Izzet Staticaster |
1 Negate |
2 Rest in Peace |
2 Stony Silence |
1 Supreme Verdict |
1 Vendilion Clique |
1 Wear // Tear |
Snapcaster Mage
Flash When Snapcaster Mage enters the battlefield, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sulfur Falls
Sulfur Falls enters the battlefield tapped unless you control an Island or a Mountain. {T}: Add {U} or {R} to your mana pool.
Spell Snare
Counter target spell with converted mana cost 2.
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
Haste {T}: Put a token that's a copy of target nonlegendary creature you control onto the battlefield. That token has haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.
Electrolyze
Electrolyze deals 2 damage divided as you choose among any number of target creatures and/or players. Draw a card.
Restoration Angel
Flash Flying When Restoration Angel enters the battlefield, you may exile target non-Angel creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.
Remand
Counter target spell. If you do, return that spell card to its owner's hand. Draw a card.
Sphinx's Revelation
You gain X life and draw X cards.
Ajani Vengeant
+1: Target permanent doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step. -2: Ajani Vengeant deals 3 damage to target creature or player and you gain 3 life. -7: Destroy all lands target player controls.
Wall of Omens
Defender When Wall of Omens enters the battlefield, draw a card.
Lightning Helix
Lightning Helix deals 3 damage to target creature or player and you gain 3 life.
Mana Leak
Counter target spell unless its caster pays an additional {3}.
Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt does 3 damage to one target.
Path to Exile
Exile target creature. Its controller may search his or her library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle his or her library.
Celestial Colonnade
Celestial Colonnade enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U} to your mana pool. {3}{W}{U}: Until end of turn, Celestial Colonnade becomes a 4/4 white and blue Elemental creature with flying and vigilance. It's still a land.
Hallowed Fountain
({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
As Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
Decklisty Modern
Esper Control
Zult
Online PTQ
Secure the Wastes
Put X 1/1 white Warrior creature tokens onto the battlefield.
Snapcaster Mage
Flash When Snapcaster Mage enters the battlefield, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Timely Reinforcements
If you have less life than an opponent, you gain 6 life. If you control fewer creatures than an opponent, put three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield.
Logic Knot
Delve (You may exile any number of cards from your graveyard as you cast this spell. It costs {1} less to cast for each card exiled this way.) Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}.
Spell Snare
Counter target spell with converted mana cost 2.
Serum Visions
Draw a card. Scry 2 (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top of it in any order.)
Remand
Counter target spell. If you do, return that spell card to its owner's hand. Draw a card.
Sphinx's Revelation
You gain X life and draw X cards.
Supreme Verdict
Supreme Verdict can't be countered. Destroy all creatures.
Esper Charm
Choose one — Destroy target enchantment; or draw two cards; or target player discards two cards.
Mana Leak
Counter target spell unless its caster pays an additional {3}.
Think Twice
Draw a card. Flashback {2}{U} (You may play this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then remove it from the game.)
Path to Exile
Exile target creature. Its controller may search his or her library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle his or her library.
Celestial Colonnade
Celestial Colonnade enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {U} to your mana pool. {3}{W}{U}: Until end of turn, Celestial Colonnade becomes a 4/4 white and blue Elemental creature with flying and vigilance. It's still a land.
Hallowed Fountain
({T}: Add {W} or {U}.)
As Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.
Decklisty Modern
GW Hatebears
SpiderSpace
Online PTQ
Sideboard
2 Blessed Alliance
|
2 Burrenton Forge-Tender |
2 Ghostly Prison |
1 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar |
1 Reclamation Sage |
2 Rest in Peace |
2 Stony Silence |
2 Surgical Extraction |
1 Worship
|
Courser of Kruphix
Play with the top card of your library revealed. You may play the top card of your library if it's a land card. Whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, you gain 1 life.
Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
First strike Noncreature spells cost {1} more to cast.
Collected Company
Look at the top six cards of your library. Put up to two creature cards with converted mana cost 3 or less from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Gavony Township
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {2}{G}{W}, {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Scavenging Ooze
{G}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a creature card, put a +1/+1 counter on Scavenging Ooze and you gain 1 life.
Flickerwisp
Flying When Flickerwisp enters the battlefield, exile another target permanent. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.
Aether Vial
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on ?ther Vial. {T}: You may put a creature card with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on ?ther Vial from your hand onto the battlefield.
Spellskite
{U/P}: Change a target of target spell or ability to Spellskite. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Restoration Angel
Flash Flying When Restoration Angel enters the battlefield, you may exile target non-Angel creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.
Noble Hierarch
Exalted (Whenever a creature you control attacks alone, that creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) {T}: Add {G}, {W}, or {U} to your mana pool.
Leonin Arbiter
Players can't search libraries. Any player may pay {2} for that player to ignore this effect until end of turn.
Razorverge Thicket
Razorverge Thicket enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or fewer other lands. {T}: Add {G} or {W} to your mana pool.
Brushland
{T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. {T}: Add {G} or {W} to your mana pool. Brushland deals 1 damage to you.
Gemstone Caverns
If Gemstone Caverns is in your opening hand and you're not playing first, you may begin the game with Gemstone Caverns in play with a luck counter on it. If you do, remove a card in your hand from the game. {T}: Add {1} to your mana pool. If Gemstone Caverns has a luck counter on it, instead add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
Worship
Damage that would reduce your life total to less than 1 instead reduces it to 1 if you control a creature.
Path to Exile
Exile target creature. Its controller may search his or her library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle his or her library.
Stirring Wildwood
Stirring Wildwood enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {G} or {W} to your mana pool. {1}{G}{W}: Until end of turn, Stirring Wildwood becomes a 3/4 green and white Elemental creature with reach. It's still a land.
6. MTGO Power Nine Challenge (Vintage)

Další silvestrovský turnaj, kterého se zúčastnilo 41 hráčů. Na turnaji dominovala nová verze UWr Mentora, která byla specificky zaměřená na kombodecky s Paradoxical Outcomem. V mainu hrála Stony Silence, Fragmentize a hlavně Mindbreak Trapy.
Tenhle deck obsadil hned čtyři místa v top8 a Rich Shay (The Atog Lord) s ním celý turnaj vyhrál.
V top8 byly také dvoje White Eldrazi, což byli zároveň dva jediné White Eldrazi decky na turnaji. Jejich kombinovaný win rate byl přes 85%, což je dost nekompromisní. Osobně mám ten dojem, že pokaždé, když vidím hrát Mentora proti Eldrazi, tak Eldrazi decky suverénně zvítězí. Z nějakého neznámého důvodu ale tyhle decky nejsou mezi hráči příliš populární.
Jeden z Mentorů v top8 hrál konkrétně kvůli Eldrazi Mystical Tutor a Balanci a evidentně to fungovalo, jejikož právě jeden z Eldrazi decků prazil v top4.
Celá top16 měla následující složení:
- 1. UWr Vryn's Mentor
- 2. UWr Vryn's Mentor
- 3. White Eldrazi
- 4. White Eldrazi
- 5. UW Mentor
- 6. UW EmraStill
- 7. UWr Vryn's Mentor
- 8. UWr Vryn's Mentor
- 9. Paradoxical Storm
- 10. UWr Vryn's Mentor
- 11. Ravager/Eldrazi Shops
- 12. UR Delver
- 13. Paradoxical Mentor
- 14. Dark Petition Storm
- 15. Demonic Oath
- 16. Blue Dredge
Mimo top16 byl nejzvláštnější deck asi Demonic Oath, ale osobně nevidím žádný důvod, proč hrát Rune-Scarred Demony, když můžeme hrát Griselbranda. Jediné malé plus je možná, že bez Griselbranda můžeme lépe využít méně obvyklé hate karty jako Trinisphere, In the Eye of Chaos, nebo Arcane Laboratory.
Decklisty Vintage
UWr Mentor
The Atog Lord
MTGO Power Nine Challenge
Sideboard
1 Wasteland
|
2 Fragmentize |
1 Mindbreak Trap |
1 Pyroblast |
1 Stony Silence |
1 Swords to Plowshares |
2 Containment Priest |
1 Disenchant |
2 Grafdigger's Cage |
1 Pithing Needle |
1 Plains |
1 Rest in Peace
|
Force of Will
You may pay 1 life and remove a blue card in your hand from the game instead of paying Force of Will's casting cost. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Counter target spell.
Dack Fayden
+1: Target player draws two cards, then discards two cards. -2: Gain control of target artifact. -6: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell that targets one or more permanents, gain control of those permanents."
Monastery Mentor
Prowess (Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.) Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, put a 1/1 white Monk creature token with prowess onto the battlefield.
Pyroblast
Counter target spell if it is blue or destroy target permanent if it is blue.
Stony Silence
Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.
Dig Through Time
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Treasure Cruise
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Draw three cards.
Gush
You may return two islands you control to their owner's hand instead of paying Gush's mana cost. Draw two cards.
Mental Misstep
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Counter target spell with converted mana cost 1.
Gitaxian Probe
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Look at target player's hand. Draw a card.
Rest in Peace
When Rest in Peace enters the battlefield, exile all cards from all graveyards. If a card or token would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
Volcanic Island
Counts as both islands and mountains and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {U} or {R} to your mana pool.
Mox Sapphire
Add 1 blue mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Time Walk
Take an extra turn after this one.
Tundra
Counts as both islands and plains and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {U} or {W} to your mana pool.
Mox Ruby
Add 1 red mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Mox Pearl
Add 1 white mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Ancestral Recall
Draw 3 cards or force opponent to draw 3 cards.
Swords to Plowshares
Target creature is removed from game entirely; return to owner's deck only when game is over. Creature's controller gains life points equal to creature's power.
Black Lotus
Adds 3 mana of any single color of your choice to your mana pool, then is discarded. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Mindbreak Trap
If an opponent cast three or more spells this turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay Mindbreak Trap's mana cost. Exile any number of target spells.
Decklisty Vintage
Demonic Oath
MRP900
MTGO Vintage Challenge
Sideboard
1 Abrupt Decay
|
1 Flusterstorm |
1 Pernicious Deed |
1 Arcane Laboratory |
1 Forest |
1 In the Eye of Chaos |
3 Nature's Claim |
1 Pithing Needle |
4 Ravenous Trap |
1 Tormod's Crypt
|
Force of Will
You may pay 1 life and remove a blue card in your hand from the game instead of paying Force of Will's casting cost. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life. Counter target spell.
Trinisphere
As long as Trinisphere is untapped, each spell that would cost less than three mana to cast costs three mana to cast. (Additional mana in the cost may be paid with any color of mana or colorless mana. For example, a spell that would cost {1}{B} to cast costs {2}{B} to cast instead.)
Dig Through Time
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for {1}.) Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Rune-Scarred Demon
Flying When Rune-Scarred Demon enters the battlefield, search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
Mental Misstep
({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Counter target spell with converted mana cost 1.
Oath of Druids
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if that player controls fewer creatures than an opponent, the player may reveal cards from the top of his of her library until he or she reveals a creature card. The player puts that card into play and all other cards revealed this way into his or her graveyard.
Pernicious Deed
{X}, Sacrifice Pernicious Deed: Destroy each artifact, creature, and enchantment with converted mana cost X or less.
Thirst for Knowledge
Draw three cards. Then discard two cards unless you discard an artifact card.
Flusterstorm
Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Sylvan Library
You may draw two extra cards during your draw phase. If you do so, put two of the cards drawn this turn back on top of your library (in any order) or pay 4 life per card not replaced. Effects that prevent or redirect damage cannot be used to counter this loss of life.
Abrupt Decay
Abrupt Decay can't be countered by spells or abilities. Destroy target nonland permanent with converted mana cost 3 or less.
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
Emrakul, the Aeons Torn can't be countered. When you cast Emrakul, take an extra turn after this one. Flying, protection from colored spells, annihilator 6 When Emrakul is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library.
Tormod's Crypt
{T}, Sacrifice Tormod's Crypt: Remove target player's graveyard from the game.
Mox Emerald
Add 1 green mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Mox Sapphire
Add 1 blue mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Underground Sea
Counts as both swamp and islands and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {B} or {U} to your mana pool.
Time Walk
Take an extra turn after this one.
Tropical Island
Counts as both forest and islands and is affected by spells that affect either. Tap to add either {G} or {U} to your mana pool.
Mox Jet
Add 1 black mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Mox Ruby
Add 1 red mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Mox Pearl
Add 1 white mana to your mana pool. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Ancestral Recall
Draw 3 cards or force opponent to draw 3 cards.
Black Lotus
Adds 3 mana of any single color of your choice to your mana pool, then is discarded. Tapping this artifact can be played as an interrupt.
Demonic Tutor
You may search your library for one card and take it into your hand. Reshuffle your library afterwards.
Vampiric Tutor
Pay 2 life: Search your library for any one card. Shuffle your library, then put that card on top of your library.
Jace, the Mind Sculptor
+2: Look at the top card of target player's library. You may put that card on the bottom of that player's library. 0: Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order. -1: Return target creature to its owner's hand. -12: Exile all cards from target player's library, then that player shuffles his or her hand into his or her library.
Mindbreak Trap
If an opponent cast three or more spells this turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay Mindbreak Trap's mana cost. Exile any number of target spells.
Gaea's Blessing
Target player shuffles up to three target cards from their graveyard into their library. Draw a card. When Gaea's Blessing is put into your graveyard from your library, shuffle your graveyard into your library.
A to je pro dnešek, a také pro rok 2016, co se Flash News týče, vše. Už brzo se ale můžete těšit na velký rozbor Aether Revolt!
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