White Weenie Type II, May '97


Swedish White Weenie:
Martin Eriksson's WW -2nd at Swedish Qualifiers, May '97
2 Mtenda Herder
4 Order of the White Shield
4 White Knight
2 Longbow Archer
4 Freewind Falcon
2 Knight of Valor
1 Unyaro Griffin
1 Zhalfirin Crusader
1 Ivory Gargoyle
3 Pacifism
2 Wrath of God
2 Disenchant
1 Armageddon
4 Crusade

2 Arcane Denial
1 Sleight of Mind

4 Adarkar Wastes
2 Kjeldoran Outpost
18 Plains
Sideboard:
2 Karma
2 Hydroblast
3 Honorable Passage
3 Sleight of Mind
Sideboard (cont):
1 Ivory Gargoyle
2 Armageddon
1 Jesters Cap
1 Wrath of God

This seems to be a straightforward translation of the WW concept using the current card mix. Pacifism has replaced the Swords, but this is not a huge handicap, since there is no fear from a first turn Hypnotic Spectre. The usual disruption strategy, Armageddon, is still left in, but is tempered by the use of the Outposts. The choice of a blue component is typical, with light counter ability (Arcane's) and Sleight for the Knights.

Martin had these comments:

When the Nationals was only a week away I still hadn't come up with any good deck. I could always play counterpost or something but that is NOT very fun. I wanted a fun and simple deck. Then I thought of White Weenie and constructed a basic white weenie. I thought that if the Lightning Bolt AND Swords to Plowshares are gone, what's left to kill my weenies? After playing at the local Magic store I saw why no one played white weenie anymore.. of course, Wildfire Emmisionarys and a huge amount of Counterpost decks. Then I rebuilt my deck and added blue for sleight of minds and Arcane Denial. The next day no one won against me. Arcane Denial suprised most players as they didn't have conterspell backup when they Wrathed. I did consider using Death Speakers in my deck/sideboard but since I already had 8 pro-black creatures in my deck, I thought it was enough with the ones I got. The Ivory Gargoyle worked well against Jokulhaups decks and the Blue/Red damage decks, but most players had disintegrate in their decks as it is the only card that can deal with Ivory Gargoyle. 2 Kjeldoran outpost was perfect, as most defensive decks has plenty of problem dealing with them. The rest of the deck is ordinary white weenie stuff.

At the qualifier tournament and at the nationals almost everybody played with Winter Orb making my Kjeldoran Outpost useless but the rest of the deck was too fast to be trapped in any Winter Orb lock. There was also many blue decks, the counterwall, consisting of Suq' Ata Firewalkers, Big flying creatures and wall of Air. Those decks weren't a problem, one sleight of mind on one of my knights/falcons and it was all over for them. Against other Weenie decks my Wraths were an unpleasant suprise for them. The matches didn't last very long, I usually won before anyone else. Except one time. Then I played against a white weenie deck who used red damage spells and black charms to kill my creatures. We both used Crusade but we were to afraid to play them. The first duel he bolted almost ALL my creatures and he got an early advantage which from I didn't recover. 0-1. Next one was extremely even. I won that one on my Kjeldoran Outposts. When I finally attacked I had over 10 little dudes and two crusades. 1-1. The third duel took very long time. I had sideborded in my gargoyle and the third wrath of god to get creature advantage from the wrath's. In the beginning of the duel we played a lot of creatures and dared not to attack. I thought this was good because I was the one with wrath of gods in the deck. But when I finally got one wrath, and at that time I had two Ivory Gargoyles on the table the judge said time and we had to stop playing. GRUNT!. If I had won that mach I would have won the qualifier tournament. (There was no quarter-finals).

At the nationals the next day the field looked the same. I worked fine in the beginning but the I met the guy from last day who played the R/W weenie, this time his deck worked very well and I lost. Nothing spectacular, I just lost. My next opponent played Counterwall, His deck was better then the others I met yesterday. We played all three duels and he won the third one with ONE life point remaining. He had one card that I never have seen in a tourney deck before, Time Elemental. I lost both duels against him because of that card.

-Martin



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