Pseudo Newb Qualifies for the World Magic Cup Qualifiers

Pseudo Newb Qualifies for the World Magic Cup Qualifiers

. . . and promptly says "Oh!"

The World Magic Cup is a great competition that I really enjoyed being a part of as an observer - it's team based but you earn your spot on your national team by independent play. Which means there are regional qualifiers - The way you qualify is this:

INVITATION CRITERIA
The invitation list for each country's 2013 World Magic Cup Qualifier will consist of the following players:

Players in the Planeswalker Points 2013 Yearly Award Points Season that have accrued the minimum amount of points for that country. The number of points required for each country can be found at the bottom of this page.
Players from that country with 2012-2013 Pro Tour Players Club Silver, Gold, or Platinum level.
Players (from that country) that are members of the Pro Tour Hall of Fame.

Each 2013 World Magic Cup Qualifier will be held according to the follow rules:

FORMAT

Standard Constructed format
Deck lists are required

Needless to say if you keep up with the Pseudo Newb journal you know how I made the list.

My dedication to learning how to be at a tournament while still trying to improve my game has paid off in terms of collection of PWP points.

I legitimately have not played competitive magic at competitive REL since GP Atlantic City. I haven't even touched an FNM - Between the destabilizing effects of watching someone else get DQ'd through accidental misunderstanding of etiquette and the massive quantity of tilt I was operating under I played two of the pre-releases, crashed and burned one and 4-0ed the second one. Then the show I was costuming really, really needed me and I ended up carrying my pre-paid pre-release credit all the way through buying a box on release day instead of using it to play. It took me until the beginning of this month to be able just be able to Booster Smash through the box.

@OriginalOestrus on Twitter (She does The Deck Tease podcast) is the one who hepped me to the fact that there was a list to check. I've been so out of it I was still playing catch up with a month and a half's worth of articles on on my three main go-to sites Daily MtG, LegitMtg and saving GatheringMagic for the last happiest one.

Starcitygames new pay structure meant that my experiment with premium came to an end, which means I'm horrifically out of date on "cutting edge" tech but TCG Player is now filling some of that gap - Jackie Lee and Melissa De Tora write for them as does Craig Wescoe - who works with White Weenie which is my Go To Strategy when I'm too far outside my current knowlege base. And he's testing something - a Reckoner deck and streaming it while he's testing.

So I was working on putting together this list anyway

Boros Champions
Craig WescoeType II

Main Deck:
3 Ajani, Caller of the Pride
4 Boros Reckoner
4 Champion of the Parish
4 Dryad Militant
2 Gideon, Champion of Justice
4 Knight of Glory
2 Precinct Captain
4 Restoration Angel
4 Silverblade Paladin

2 Faith's Shield
4 Searing Spear

4 Clifftop Retreat
2 Mountain
11 Plains
4 Sacred Foundry
2 Slayers' Stronghold

Sideboard:
2 Blind Obedience
3 Boros Charm
2 Flames of the Firebrand
1 Mountain
3 Nearheath Pilgrim
3 Rest in Peace
1 Slayers' Stronghold

I had almost everything but the shocklands and 2 Reckoners and a Blind Obedience.

When I posted to facebook that I had made it onto the invite list the support was very sweet from both my MtG and non-MtG friends but two young men took it a step further and have loaned me all of the cards I didn't have so I could start working with it at FNM right away. They are amazing and I really, really appreciate it. It also ends up that I am only two cards short of the current Jund List that in the meta - I'm building it for people who come visit to play with and proxying those two cards but if the Jund List ends up performing more consistently than my preferred Reckoner build I'll be able to bring that next month as well.

This should be interesting - I put the deck together with their help on Sunday, but it's Passover and school needed me to write massvive amounts of papers so I still haven't been able to play. I had literally just decided to only dabble in standard and work on my vintage deck - I haven't given up on that.

Luckily the best player in our college gaming group is also a Top 8 vintage player - I'm going to see if I can manage to do both - I finished the Taylor Power Nine. - I'm hoping to have some actual competitve journal stuff to post here soon. It's going to be a bumpy ride . . .