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HL GP 7: Winnerdeck & report

Jochen Frenster is our new Highlander. And that’s his deck:

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HL GP 7, 10th place: 5c Staxx

The deck that looked most promising to me since Survival had left the format is Staxx. I used to play a 5c-Staxx-variant running Oath of Druids alongside with Empyrial Archangel, Sundering Titan, Filigree Angel and Karn, Silver Golem, but I felt that I’d often end up in a draw in matches since that version of the Staxx deck can hardly win fast.

So, the night before the GP, I started to rebuild the deck from scratch, trying to improve a) the decks ability to win in a timely fashion and b) integrate more life gain so the matchup vs. aggro becomes better.

This was the resulting deck I piloted to 10th place on HL GP 7:

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A deck a day pt. 1: UW Stax Control

From now on until Friday, I will try to introduce a deck a day which I consider viable to be played on HL GP 7 on Saturday.

A friend of mine decided to play UW Control on that GP, but in the last few test games the deck didn’t perform all too well. Especially the matchup vs. Stax didn’t look very promising. But how could the deck be improved? more…

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