The Long Road Home

So...Worlds has come and gone. With it, lots of driving and Magic. Congratulations to the 2008 world champion Antti Malin of Finland and his Faerie deck. Antti defeated resurgent Jaime Parke and his 5-Color deck 3-1 to bring home the trophy. Another congratulations goes out to Team USA who defeated Australia in the team finals. You can find the lists for these decks and the rest of the top 8 at magicthegathering.com. For STD, today was a little trading and a couple of 8-man standard queues. One queue featured Ryan playing Faeries and Will piloting STD's ReveBant build. Both went 1-1 with Ryan losing to Kithkin and Will losing to the Fae. Carlos spent most of his day doing deck techs on the Legacy builds we had intended to play on Saturday for a podcast based out of Memphis whose name escapes me at the moment (sorry guys). I managed to catch the next Standard flight to finally give the River Kelpie deck I had been keeping up wraps a trial run. Unfortunately, the deck is completely cold to Mono-Red and that's what I got paired against first round and went 0-2. Here's the list:
3x Raven's crime
3x Negate
2x Pyroclasm
3x Firespout
4x Cryptic Command
2x Makeshift Mannequin
2x sower of Temptation
3x River Kelpie
4x Mulldrifter
2x Shriekmaw
2x Jace Berelen
3x Ajani Vengeant

4x Vivid Creek
3x Vivid Marsh
2x Vivid Crag
4x Crumbling Necropolis
2x Sunken Ruins
1x Cascade Bluffs
1x Sulfurous Springs
1x Shivan Reef
2x Underground River
4x Reflecting Pool
1x Island

Sideboard:
2x Mind Shatter
2x Glen-Elendra Archmage
3x Remove Soul
4x Fulminator Mage
2x Memory Plunder
1x Counterbore
1x Oona, Queen of the Fae

Admittedly, the sideboard needs loads of work. It was thrown together at the last minute. With a little work I think this deck could be really good.