Friday Night Magic – October 9, 2009

This week saw a wide variety of decks reach the Top 8, a nice break from the dominating Kithkin and Faeries of weeks past. Monoblack vampires and monowhite soldiers were joined by Grixis control, Jund midrange and 4 color-cascade, among others. Check out the full deck lists below.

Melvin Bernard Conyers - Vampires
Creatures
4 Gatekeeper of Malakir
4 Bloodghast
4 Vampire Lacerator
4 Vampire Nocturnus
3 Malakir Bloodwitch
1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
4 Vampire Nighthawk
2 Vampire Aristocrat

Spells
4 Sign in Blood
4 Doom Blade
4 Tendrils of Corruption

Lands
3 Verdant Catacombs
19 Swamp

Sideboard
15 Swamp

Andre Garcia - Cruel Truths
Creatures
4 Sphinx of Lost Truths

Spells
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Sign in Blood
1 Essence Scatter
1 Negate
4 Terminate
1 Jace Beleren
4 Blightning
2 Volcanic Fallout
1 Traumatic Visions
1 Chandra Nalaar
3 Cruel Ultimatum
1 Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker
1 Banefire
2 Earthquake

Land
3 Crumbling Necropolis
3 Dragonskull Summit
2 Drowned Catacomb
1 Scalding Tarn
6 Mountain
6 Swamp
6 Island

Sideboard
2 Pithing Needle
2 Essence Scatter
2 Into the Roil
1 Negate
3 Pyroclasm
3 Anathemancer
1 Volcanic Fallout
1 Thought Hemorrhage

David Sharffman
Creatures
4 Steppe Lynx
4 Goblin Guide
3 Elite Vanguard
4 Plated Geopede
4 White Knight
3 Ranger of Eos

Spells
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Harm's Way
4 Path to Exile
3 Ajani Vengeant

Land
4 Arid Mesa
3 Scalding Tarn
4 Marsh Flats
7 Plains
5 Mountain
2 Jungle Shrine

Sideboard
4 Oblivion Ring
2 Banefire
2 Pyroclasm
2 Luminarch Ascension
2 Kor Sanctifiers
3 Celestial Purge

Cliff Weixler - 4 Color Cascade
Creatures
4 Bloodbraid Elf
4 Sprouting Thrinax
4 Baneslayer Angel
2 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
2 Enlisted Wurm

Spells
4 Maelstrom Pulse
4 Terminate
3 Bituminous Blast
4 Captured Sunlight
2 Ajani Vengeant
2 Day of Judgment

Lands
4 Marsh Flats
3 Arid Mesa
2 Verdant Catacombs
3 Plains
2 Forest
2 Mountain
2 Swamp
3 Savage Lands
2 Jungle Shrine
2 Sunpetal Grove
1 Dragonskull Summit

Sideboard
3 Celestial Purge
3 Pyroclasm
1 Day of Judgment
4 Blightning
4 Mind Rot

Kean Tran - R/G Jank
Spells
4 Garruk Wildspeaker
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Nissa Revane
2 Overrun
1 Sarkhan Vol
1 Fireball

Creatures
4 Bloodbraid Elf
4 Nissa's Chosen
4 Elvish Archdruid
4 Elvish Visionary
4 Llanowar Elves
3 Birds of Paradise

Lands
4 Terramorphic Expanse
4 Rootbound Crag
2 Mountain
12 Forest

Sideboard
4 Great Sable Stag
2 Windstorm
2 Pithing Needle
7 Mountain

Chris Lewis - The Unknown Soldier
Creatures
4 Akrasan Squire
4 Elite Vanguard
4 Veteran Swordsmith
4 Kazandu Blademaster
4 Kor Aeronaut

Spells
4 Honor of the Pure
4 Path to Exile
4 Conquerors Pledge
2 Ajani Goldmane
2 Elspeth, Knight Errant
2 Gargoyle Castle

Lands
2 Emeria, the Sky Ruin
20 Plains

Sideboard
4 Devout Lightcaster
4 Harm's Way
4 Brave the Elements
3 Oblivion Ring

Cory Hall - Fire Down Below
Creatures
4 Bloodbraid Elf
4 Sprouting Thrinax
3 Broodmate Dragon

Spells
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Jund Charm
4 Bituminous Blast
3 Maelstrom Pulse
3 Terminate
3 Garruk Wildspeaker
2 Sarkhan Vol
2 Violent Ultimatum

Lands
4 Savage Lands
2 Rootbound Crag
2 Dragonskull Summit
6 Mountain
4 Swamp
2 Forest
2 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
2 Akoum Refuge
1 Kazandu Refuge

Sideboard
4 Anathemancer
3 Goblin Assault
3 Duress
3 Volcanic Fallout
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Terminate

Maxwell Bryant - The Path to Justice
Creatures
4 Baneslayer Angel

Spells
4 Day of Judgment
4 Martial Coup
4 Qasali Pridemage
4 Harrow
2 Path to Exile
1 Conqueror's Pledge
3 Luminarch Ascension
4 Garruk Wildspeaker
2 Journey to Nowhere

Land
4 Terramorphic Expanse
4 Bant Panorama
7 Forest
9 Plains