WUBRG For Fun and Profit

This Sunday Prismatic players have been graced with (sarcasm) a second 3x Premiere Event. I forget my exact results from the last event but I think I went x-2 loosing to Flash, and Control. A few of us on the WOTC forums had been quite loud in demanding another Prismatic PE, and honestly I'm happy Wizards gave it to us. Much like last weekend's Classic event this will be for a lame-duck format. Next week we see the release of Master's Edition sure to give many new options to Prismatic players, and two weeks later Flash is banned in the format. This is the deck I ran last time, which was not ideal but I don't own every card so it was the best I could put together (click on image for full-size). It is a very Red and burn heavy Prismatic aggro deck. I figured Flash would be the strongest deck at the event but I lacked the cards to build it. It is very much a Zoo deck, 1/3 land, 1/3 creatures, 1/3 burn or other enhancements. I played 4x Aven Mindcensor main deck to combat Flash. The fifteen cards on the right hand side of the image is the sideboard with Swords and Baloths for creature decks and Cranial Extraction, Stifle, and Swords for Flash decks. Didn't feel I needed help versus control and was pretty disappointed to loose to one control deck.

I have not had much time to playtest Prismatic but I plan to change that over the next few days. Not going to talk too much about that though needless to say Xth added alot of nice cards for aggro. I think after the banning of Flash the Prismatic format will revert to aggro being the only viable deck. It gains alot of cards and options from MED while control also gains some I think it still gets the short-end of the stick. Of course I think many of these smaller, online formats just become inbred. If aggro does become the only viable tournament deck a mid-range deck loaded with 4/4s and lifegain should be able to keep it in check. Tolaria West and Trinket Mage however both improve a great deal in the aggro matchup with the addition of MED. Ivory Tower and Zuran Orb are both fine additions to an anti-aggro suite. Tolaria West is an incredibly powerful card at the moment with Pacts, man-lands, ect and I wouldn't be shocked to see it banned at some point. I don't think it should be but that is another topic. Anyone interested in testing Prismatic shoot me a PM in game.

I really enjoy Prismatic both competitive and casual (feel free to PM me for a casual game also). I hope that Wizards continues with doing one 3x event per month, this will ensure decent attendance and keep people interested in the format. I'd love to see weekly events but I don't think the Prismatic community can support that.

A short note on WUBRG: In case you did not know it is pronounced woo-berg and is the five colors of Magic.

For more info on Prismatic and some (better) decklists check out this article by Shaver/Little Shaves/Scott Tucker* on StarCity Games.

*Note to selfc get more aliases.