TPDC did not feature a bevy of threshold decks as one might have expected from their success in previous tournaments. Instead, Tuesday night’s event featured the Return of the Burn, with decks such as
Mono-red Burn, URb Grapestorm, RB and UR aggro-burn taking up a quarter of the meta. It was an unfortunate evening for paupers to have left their
Cloaks at home! One of these decks took newcomer
rabblerouser all the way to the finals. His fiery deck was unable to cook
x_Force_of_Will_x’s Blue Fish however, giving the Captain of the Clan Cup 10 much needed points for his Stonecutters.
With the sun finally set on the Morningtide season in all PDC events, paupers will be devoting themselves next week on the new possibilities in the darkness of Shadowmoor. BPDC returns Monday to open its Shadowmoor season, and with its small card pool of Lorwyn-Morningtide-Shadowmoor block, the set is sure to have an impact. Two other events which had been on extended hiatus, FPDC and XPDC, return next week as well. This will triple the number of Future Extended tournaments available to paupers! Meanwhile Standard tourneys may be cut in half, as the venerable SPDC will falter without a host. Will anyone step up to host SPDC? Join me again next week for the answer to this question and more!
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Great article Jack!
thanks for the shout out! Getting that far is just going to make me try harder