From: mbarden@phoenix.princeton.edu (Michael Barden)
Subject: Re: Big Daddy's Type I Tournament report
Date: 7 Apr 1996 19:33:07 GMT

sam1818@aol.com (Sam1818) wrote:

Big Daddy's Comics
Schaumburg, IL
Tournaments every Wednesday and Saturday nights.

This week's type I winner was Max Szlagor, he was playing a 5 color burn
deck.  The original deck design was introduced to the Chicago area by Marc
Aquino ( a top player from the East coast), and this is a slight variation
of his deck.  Max's burn decks are known for being cheesier than Kraft
macaroni, and this deck is no exception.  If you think you can beat this
deck, you should be playing at Big Daddy's.  Here's his deck.

Restricted BS:

1 Timewalk
1 Regrowth
1 Wheel of Fortune
1 Balance
1 Black Lotus
4 Moxes (Sapphire, Pearl, Emerald, Jet)
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Zuran Orb
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Fork
1 Sol Ring

The Goods:
2 Mana Vaults
4 Howling Mines
4 Black Vise
4 Atog
4 Chain Lightning
4 Lightning Bolts
4 Incinerate
4 Storm Seekers

Land:
4 Cities of Brass
4 Taiga
4 Volcanic Islands
4 Badlands

Sideboard:
4 Psychic Purge
2 Illusions of Granduer
2 Tsunami
3 Nevinyrral's Disk
2 Anarchy
2 Hurkyls Recall

	Just to comment on the origins (Marc Aquino) of this deck.  
Marc's deck concept was a little more sophisticated than just to burn his 
opponent to death.  I won't reveal his deck, but I recently played 
against him and we talked about his deck philosophy.  Marc explained that 
burn wasn't enough to defeat good Type I competition.  Instead, he tried 
to gain leverage within an altered game environment.  Not total control 
like a U/W deck might impose, instead Marc created a negative environment 
which he was prepared to play in, but not his opponent.  The key was to 
pressure the opponent into mistakes with direct damage.  I was lucky and 
beat Marc 2 out of 3 games we played, with the help of a mistake on his 
part in one of the games.  I don't think anyone else he played in our 
round-robin tournament was able to come close; just goes to show that 
U/W isn't all that dominant in Type I. 

Mike