2nd Place Winner

[Keith Katsikas]

Winner: Mike Spiller

Playing: Lady Phe'Ronde

Main Deck:
Vorex x4
Slave Driver x2
Draken x3
Wandering Unicorn x3
Battlemonger x4
Cranial Leech x4
Sworn Defender x3
Illusionist x2
Knyles x3
Corpse Collector x3
Dimensional Menace x2
Bella x3
Charge x2
Heatwave x3
Purify x3
Tranquil Touch x4
Trade Agreement x1
Wizard Battle x4
Earth Elemental x3
Brain Death x3

[spiller]

Wizard Battle, Earth Elemental and Brain Death were Sideboard.

[Deleted]

Ooh, I like this deck. Seems intuitive. Tell me, did you get paired up at all against Blaine's deck?

[spiller]

No, I went 3-0-1. Never got to try it out against his. Blaine's deck is a bit faster than this but I don't have any issues with loyalty other than Vorex. The added healing gives it a chance from any early damage.
Cards I would love to find room for:
Ring of Temporal Manipulation- The ability to overwhelm your opponent while Lady P keeps the hand relatively full.
Fire Elemental- The ability to reset the board if you need to is always a good thing. I felt that I would be able to outrun most decks and wouldn't need it but I think I will find room for it in the next build.
Gossipmonger- It doesn't hurt some decks but the top decks would have been hating this. Forcing your opponent to roll for nearly every creature he controls is just good.
Cards that are missing and why
Goblin Archers- Heatwave doesn't play well with GA. If I changed it into a GA build, Heatwave would come out. I liked the spell balance as I didn't want to add Dec of Wars.
Declaration of War- Great card but wanted to avoid giving my opponent a target for Tranquil Touch. Must play if I had gone the GA route. Sword of Quickness is out for similar reasons.
15+ loyalty creatures- The only creature I feel is worth rolling for is Vorex because you can use him before you have to roll. I saw the effect it had on Chris' game in the finals. I don't want to rely on a 50/50 chance.

[Deleted]

Interesting. Well, of the cards you said you wanted to fit, the only one I would for sure is the Tempo Ring. You draw enough cards that it's essentially free. I would maybe take out 1 Bella, 1 Corpse Collector.

Who did you draw with?

[kevmo]

He tied with me we live close to each and we both built this deck together and decided to play the same deck. We played 2 games against each other in the second round and were tied. We decided that the best chance for both of us to place high was to take an intentional draw. It was actually kind of funny we played a last game for fun and our first 6 turns were exactly the same.lol I placed 5th which actually worked out for both of us because i got 2 1st editiion boxes and he got 2 reckoning boxes so we swapped one for one.

[Deleted]

How old are you two? It didn't hit me until recently that you 2 might be older than some of the others? It'd be good for me cuz I wouldn't feel so creepy hanging out here at 22.

[spiller]

Your just a kid! JK.. I think I get the unfortunate title of the oldest contributor to the boards. 5 days away from 38.

[Deleted]

OMG! I had no idea! But I guess that does explain a few things...

[spiller]

I get sad sometimes when I remember that I have been playing CCG's longer than some of my opponents have been alive LOL.

[CGE]

No need for sadness my friend. I'm only a year younger than you. Lucky us that we still enjoy "the game" regardless of age

[sobrokenjay]

lol my dad is 38....... does that make u feel old or wut =]

[Deleted]

Gosh, Jay, put the saltshaker away!

[sobrokenjay]

lmao

[kevmo]

I am 27 and get beat by the old man most of the time. But i get to brag my wins once in a while against him