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Valakut Omen in Extended

by Bill Stark | posted at 2010-01-19 13:53:00
tagged: MTG, Magic, Magic the Gathering, Extended, Pro Tour Qualifier, PTQ, San Juan, Evan Erwin, Valakut, Prismatic Omen, Deck


Check out this decklist from a recent Magic Online PTQ:

 

 

1 Engineered Explosives

 

4 Tarmogoyf

 

4 Prismatic Omen

 

1 Condescend

2 Cryptic Command

1 Into the Roil

4 Lightning Bolt

4 Mana Leak

2 Muddle the Mixture

4 Repeal

4 Spell Snare

 

4 Ancestral Vision

 

1 Snow-Covered Forest

4 Snow-Covered Island

3 Breeding Pool

1 Cascade Bluffs

1 Flooded Grove

4 Misty Rainforest

3 Scalding Tarn

1 Steam Vents

3 Tolaria West

4 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

 

Sideboard:

1 Chalice of the Void

2 Sun Droplet

1 Tormod's Crypt

3 Bottle Gnomes

1 Curse of Chains

3 Threads of Disloyalty

4 Ancient Grudge

 

(View the original decklist here.)

 

The deck utilizes Prismatic Omen to turn all its lands into Mountains (as well as everything else), and starts blowing people up with Valakut from there. A blue base provides plenty of disruption to force the late game, and Tarmogoyf provides a solid Plan B. JWay was the Magic Online user who played the deck, finishing in the Top 16 of PTQ #847957 on January 10. The list was good enough for Top 16, but will it be good enough to make the Top 8?

 

(Thanks to Evan Erwin on Twitter for the tip on this article. You can follow him at Twitter.com/misterorange.)

 

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Bill Stark is the founder and editor-in-chief of TheStarkingtonPost.com. He began playing Magic in 1995 after being introduced to the game by his brother. Since then he has competed at all levels of play including the JSS, Grand Prix, Nationals, and Pro Tour. In addition to his career as a pro, Bill began writing about the game early on for TheDojo.com, the first website dedicated to Magic. Since then he has written and edited for nearly every major Magic website on the web. In 2007 he began work as an official coverage reporter for Wizards of the Coast, flying to Grand Prixs, Nationals, and World Championships to record the events happening at each. He was also hired for six months as an R&D intern at Wizards where he worked on the redesign for DailyMTG.com as well as helping to develop multiple Magic sets. After leaving Wizards, he started TheStarkingtonPost.com to utilize his many contacts in the industry to provide a better information solution for fans of TCGs, gaming, and Magic: The Gathering.