Grand Prix Vienna was this weekend. Wafo-Tapa made 23rd playing a mono-blue Faerie deck.

Vienna Faeries
by Guillaume Wafo-Tapa

4 Mutavault
2 Riptide Laboratory
1 Tolaria West
2 Snow-Covered Island
15 Island

4 Spellstutter Sprite
4 Vendilion Clique
1 Venser, Shaper Savant
2 Mistbind Clique

4 Counterspell
4 Cryptic Command
2 Force Spike
4 Spell Snare

2 Umezawa's Jitte
4 Ancestral Vision
2 Threads of Disloyalty
3 Vedalken Shackles

SB: 3 Annul
SB: 2 Deep Analysis
SB: 1 Venser, Shaper Savant
SB: 4 Tormod's Crypt
SB: 3 Sower of Temptation
SB: 2 Threads of Disloyalty


Jakub Bakule (CZE/92nd), Gunnar Radzom (DEU/53rd), and Hendrik Brotzmann (DEU/128th) also played Faeries decks to day two. Their versions were not as good.


Here is Wafo-Tapa's round-by-round performance:

round 4 - D, 1-1-1, vs. Gunnar Radzom (Faeries)
round 5 - L, 1-2-0, vs. Christian Mauhart (Zoo)
round 6 - W, 2-0-0, vs. Thomas Schmalfeld
round 7 - W, 2-0-0, vs. Petar Milic
round 8 - W, 2-1-0, vs. Zbigniew Wichlacz
round 9 - W, 2-0-0, vs. Andras Suveges

round 10 - W, 2-1-0, vs. Helmut Summersberger (Zoo)
round 11 - W, 2-0-0, vs. Jan Ruess (TEPS)
round 12 - L, 1-2-0, vs. Robert Darnhofer (Tarmogoyf Red)
round 13 - W, 2-0-0, vs. Jan Doise (TEPS)
round 14 - L, 1-2-0, vs. Selim Creiche (Counterbalance)
round 15 - W, 2-0-0, vs. Joel Calafell (Ideal)

total matches: 8-3-1
total games: 20-9-1


The match against Jan Doise with TEPS was covered by Tobias Henke.

Both games, Wafo-Tapa hit with Vendillion Clique and Doise was left with a lot of Rituals stranded in his hand. In game two he played it in response to Seething Song and made Doise take five mana burn.

Another trick was to use Cryptic Command to bounce Sulfur Vents and Lotus Blooms.


The round 11 match versus Jan Ruess was covered by Timm Gerber at PlanetMTG.de .


[Jan Ruess and Guillaume Wafo-Tapa. Image stolen from PlanetMTG.de.]

"January wins the cube throw and wants accordingly to begin."
-- Timm Gerber via BabelFish

Ruess got a slow start game one, and Wafo-Tapa got the Riptide Laboratory / Spellstutter Sprite combo up and running. Then he won game two with a Vendillion Clique in response to a Ritual. What a fun card.

For his ingenius deck-building and play skills, Wafo-Tapa gets $400 and two pro points. This bring him to 15 pro points, which locks down level three for 2009 - level four if he attends all the pro tours.