This top 8

is awesome.
And not just because it's the first statistically relevant top 8 on DeckCheck in like a month.

Here's a link to the neatest deck in it; you can click through for the other seven.

That's right; it's a motherfucking Show and Tell deck. That top 8'd a 40-man. It cheats Progenitus or Empyrial Archangel in on turn 2, usually with FOW or Daze backup, and runs 4 Mystical Tutors just to be certain. And if you're thinking of racing it, the guy effectively runs 8 Control Magics.
Holy shit that looks fun.

Then there's a competent if uninspired WW/u list, though I'd probably drop the fourth Avenger in favor of a fourth Mom. The sideboard Enlightened Tutor package is cute, if not tech, and it's always nice to see a WW/u/x list that doesn't think it has to include the whole FOW/Brainstorm/Standstill/WTFever package.

What else? Enlightened Tutor is less sexy in the Enchantress list that placed second... I just can't see tolerating the loss of card advantage being worth the potential consistency boost when you already have access to Sterling Grove.

Oh, and the Merfolk list that won it is fucking clean and beautiful at a perfect 20/20/20. And he boards Back to Basics like a champ which redeems the lack of catch-all temporary solution to permanents like Echoing Truth anywhere in the 75.

So yeah, lots of fun shit to think about, other than what fail it is to wish Gaddock Teeg and Cataclysm could play together, which is what I usually do lately.

In other news, come to the drunkdraft at Andrew's next weekend.

And blow me.

-D