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Oct 27 2008 5:31am
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Top 10 Decks to Beat in the Classic Format

This article supplements the "Eternal Wisdom" Monthly Classic Review articles written by Under_The_Hammer.

Current Top 10 Decks to Beat: Decks in this article will be updated every month to give you a definitive guide to the competitive decks in Classic.

All of these decks have recently made Top8 of the "Daily Events".

The decks appear in no particular order.

 
 
Spiked Necro (Played by m0x 19th October 2008)

Auriok Salvagers

 

Brainstorm
Cabal Ritual
Chrome Mox
Dark Ritual
Demonic Consultation
Duress
Force of Will
Necropotence
Ponder
Soul Spike
Tendrils of Agony


 

Lands
Bloodstained Mire
Polluted Delta
Swamp
Underground Sea
Watery Grave

 
 
 
 
 
Burn (Played by petkos 12th October 2008)

Auriok Salvagers

 

Grim Lavamancer
Keldon Marauders
Spark Elemental
Browbeat
Fireblast
Incinerate
Lava Spike
Lightning Bolt
Rift Bolt
Sulfuric Vortex
Volcanic Hammer

Lands
Mishra's Factory
19  Mountain

 
 
 
 
 

Under_The_Hammer
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9 Comments

Really usefull by TheFriendlyHippo(Unregistered) 90.195.5.32 (not verified) at Mon, 10/27/2008 - 14:24
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This is really useful, it would be great to keep updated with new archetypes, as and when they arise, as well as changes with new sets. Could be a really usefull resource!

by Grozathia(Unregistered) 76.210.118.63 (not verified) at Mon, 10/27/2008 - 15:23
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Some analysis of the decks would be nice. I like seeing the views and opinions of the authors in these articles.

by under_the_hammer at Tue, 10/28/2008 - 03:29
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Hi Grozathia

Thank you for your feedback.  The Top10 Decks to Beat article is only to supplement the main articles for the new classic-related series called "Eternal Wisdom" (rather than have the main articles cluttered with the same/similar decklists each month.  In the main article there will be coverage of the decks. The 1st installement should be up within the week.  If you have any specific questions which are not covered in that article please leave another message and I will try and answer as best I can. Thanks UTH

by under_the_hammer at Tue, 10/28/2008 - 04:27
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Hi Bazaar of Baghdad.

I have submitted the first article of the Eternal Wisdom deck today. In addtion to referencing the decks in this article I also include 3 other complete decklists in the main article.  One of which is your DarkZoo deck, I talk about the merits of this deck post MED2 and go on to say that I feel this deck will be a strong contender in coming weeks.  The reason it did not make the Top10 decks is that the deck has not produced success in the hands of others or with frequency.  For completeness the other two decks listed in the main article are a Black Blue Dreadnought deck and a Rock deck by RenatoAmado. I hope that all will make sense when the first article is published hopefully it will be up within the week.  I wish you success with your deck and I am interested to see it posting future Top8s and making its way into the Top10 decks to beat article. Thanks for the feedback UTH.

by Bazaar of Baghdad at Tue, 10/28/2008 - 04:09
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The only two times I've run Zoo in the last two months of PEs (one post-ME2), I got a perfect score first and a finals loss.

Handy info - by country_hillbilly (not verified) at Mon, 10/27/2008 - 09:43
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For anyone looking for what to test against - gj UTH

how strong is this necrospike by Anonymous (not verified) at Wed, 02/04/2009 - 18:31
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how strong is this necrospike deck compared to Standard decks?(std legal)

NecroSpike would be an by spg at Wed, 02/04/2009 - 18:49
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NecroSpike would be an absolute nightmare matchup for anything in current Standard.

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I think you would have 10x as many complaint thread than we already see for just with classic not to mention std has no way to compete with that kinda speed.