Aurelio, Vintage Pro Player

Cuando me he leído el artículo de Stephen Menendian hoy en Starcitygames.com algo raro he sentido, algo raro ha pasado...No suelo poner fragmentos de texto, pero siendo una excepción lo haré...

Díos mio, Menendian está analizando un mazo de Aurelio, y habla de él!

Then someone noticed that someone in Europe had the exact same idea. And suddenly the meme was out. The jig was up. Our cover was blown.

Aurelio Crespo made Top 16 with this decklist in a massive European Vintage tournament:


GushPlatinum
Suggested by Aurelio Crespo on 2008-02-17 as a potential deck for Vintage

Maindeck:

Artifacts
1 Black Lotus
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire

Artifact Creatures
2 Platinum Angel

Enchantments
1 Fastbond
4 Oath Of Druids


Instants
1 Ancestral Recall
4 Brainstorm
1 Echoing Truth
4 Force Of Will
4 Gush
3 Mana Drain
1 Misdirection
1 Mystical Tutor
4 Pact Of Negation
1 Vampiric Tutor

Sorceries
1 Demonic Tutor
3 Duress
1 Gaea's Blessing
2 Merchant Scroll
1 Time Walk
1 Tinker

Basic Lands
2 Island

Lands
3 Flooded Strand
3 Forbidden Orchard
2 Polluted Delta
2 Tropical Island
2 Underground Sea
1 Volcanic Island
Sideboard:

1 Engineered Explosives
1 Sundering Titan
4 Leyline Of The Void
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Darkblast
2 Oxidize
2 Pyroblast
1 Red Elemental Blast

It’s not the same shell as Owen’s deck, but it’s the same finisher with the same tactical notion of using Platinum Angel to support Pact of Negation as a control weapon. Instead, Aurelio tried to be too cute, in my view. He played the Gush engine with no actual way to just combo out with it. It’s like using a cannon to swat a fly. It’s too much firepower for what it is you are trying to accomplish, and I think misses the target.

Enhorabuena Auripower...Pero...

¿Que pensarán Duke y Pablo de todo esto?