Lorwyn/Shadowmoor Block Constructed

One side effect of MODO not having PEs is that Block play has gone no where. Thanks to deckcheck.net a few Block events have been posted. Only one post Shadowmoor event has happened, a GPT for GP Birmingham in Brussels. Only the top three decks are available but they are what I would have expected knowing nothing about the format.

First Place - Alexander Kreuz with Faeries

Mainboard:

4 Scion of Oona
4 Mistbind Clique
4 Pestermite
2 Vendilion Clique
2 Sower of Temptation
4 Spellstutter Sprite
4 Nameless Inversion
4 Cryptic Command
4 Thoughtseize
4 Bitterblossom
4 Sunken Ruins
4 Secluded Glen
4 Mutavault
2 Reflecting Pool
7 Island
3 Swamp

Sideboard:

2 Notorious Throng
4 Peppersmoke
1 Wydwen, the Biting Gale
2 Sower of Temptation
1 Vendilion Clique
2 Profane Command
3 Jace Beleren

A list that I assume will be pretty typical. In Block faeries looses many of its support spells making the 4x Thoughtseize maindeck pretty appealing. This list only runs 24 lands which is wrong.

Second Place - Mono Red Aggro by Maxime Gosse

Mainboard:

4 Tattermunge Maniac
4 Tarfire
4 Lash Out
4 Bloodmark Mentor
4 Boggart Ram-Gang
2 Countryside Crusher
4 Flame Javelin
4 Murderous Redcap
4 Demigod of Revenge
2 Vexing Shusher
24 Mountain

Sideboard:

4 Pyre Charger
2 Deus of Calamity
4 Sootstoke Kindler
4 Ashenmoor Gouger
1 Tyrannize

This is an interesting mono red list. Demigod of Revenge stops the deck from running Mutavault which also helps with Flame Javelin. Honestly, I don't understand the sideboard as it is mostly creatures that are sometimes better than what is in the maindeck. The singleton Tyrannize also doesn't make sense to me, I think that Mind Shatter is generally better even in an aggressive deck. Bloodmark Mentor seems just awful to me. He would be nice in the mirror but in any situation where he is relevant the opponent could burn him out. I think there are better 2 drop options.

Third Place - Elementals by David D.

4 Nameless Inversion
3 Shriekmaw
4 Firespout
4 Chameleon Colossus
4 Incandescent Soulstoke
4 Flamekin Harbinger
4 Smokebraider
3 Cloudthresher
2 Nova Chaser
4 Mulldrifter
4 Forest
6 Mountain
3 Swamp
4 Fire-Lit Thicket
4 Primal Beyond
3 Vivid Grove

Sideboard:

3 Wispmare
2 Reveillark
2 Chandra Nalaar
4 Pyroclast Consul
4 Spitebellows

Zero Reflecting Pool?? Did David know the interaction between it and Vivid lands or Primal Beyond? Aside from that the deck looks pretty sweet. It is clearly aiming for Faeries with several of its maindeck and sideboard cards which makes sense to me.

Block right now seems wide open and I don't think we will have much information on it until GP Birmingham at the end of May. A week later PTQs for PT Berlin start which will be Block constructed. Be interesting to see where this season takes us. There will obviously be other decks, I expect Doran Rock, Elves, Warriors, and Kithkin to all make showings. There might also be a good Rakdos deck as clearly the B/R hybrid cards are some of the most powerful.