Today Feb. 17, 2013 Tom Martell took first place at "Magic: The Gathering" Pro Tour "Gatecrash. "I got very lucky to be honest," remarked Larsson about his first match against Melissa DeTora's Wolf Run Bant deck in the quarter-finals during the Twitch live stream of the event.
Martell went on to defeat Eric Froehlich's Naya deck in the semi-finals and then Joel Larsson playing a blue-white-red deck in the finals. He'll be bringing home bragging rights, a trophy, and a $40,000 check.
Tom Martell - The Aristocrats
Creatures (30)
4 Boros Reckoner
4 Cartel Aristocrat
4 Champion of the Parish
4 Doomed Traveler
4 Falkenrath Aristocrat
3 Knight of Infamy
1 Restoration Angel
2 Silverblade Paladin
2 Skirsdag High Priest
2 Zealous Conscripts
Other Spells (6)
2 Lingering Souls
4 Orzhov Charm
Lands (24)
4 Blood Crypt
3 Cavern of Souls
1 Clifftop Retreat
4 Godless Shrine
4 Isolated Chapel
3 Plains
4 Sacred Foundry
1 Vault of the Archangel
Sideboard (15)
2 Blasphemous Act
2 Lingering Souls
1 Mentor of the Meek
2 Obzedat, Ghost Council
2 Rest in Peace
1 Skirsdag High Priest
2 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
3 Tragic Slip
The deck can have an explosive start thanks to Champion of the Parish. With so many powerful human creatures in the deck, such as Knight of Infamy or Silverblade Paladin, there's plenty of ways to pump both Champion of the Parish and Falkenrath Aristocrat. If all else fails, it can steal permanents from opponents with Zealous Conscripts (and feed them to Falkenrath Aristocrat).
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Catch up on "Gatecrash"
Event decks: "Rally and Rout" and "Thrash and Thrive."
Intro Packs: "Orzhov Oppression," "Boros Battalion," "Gruul Goliaths," "Dimir Dementia," and "Simic Synthesis."
Card lists White, Blue, Black, Red, Green, Orzhov, Dimir, Gruul, Boros, Simic, Hybrid, Artifact, and Land.
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