The one highlight in Magic this summer was French Nationals, and even that one is tainted by the fact that Christophe Peyronnel was the winner. Mono-red decks are boring. What the world needs is Mystical Teachings decks.
Noir Bleu Control
by Guillaume Wafo-Tapa
4 Remove Soul
4 Rune Snag
4 Cryptic Command
2 Pact of Negation
3 Terror
1 Nameless Inversion
1 Slaughter Pact
3 Damnation
4 Ancestral Vision
3 Mystical Teachings
2 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
2 Oona, Queen of the Fae
1 Platinum Angel
3 Desert
4 Dreadship Reef
3 Secluded Glen
3 Underground River
3 Sunken Ruins
2 Reflecting Pool
8 Island
SB: 4 Consign to Dream
SB: 2 Flashfreeze
SB: 1 Damnation
SB: 1 Oona, Queen of the Fae
SB: 1 Eyeblight's Ending
SB: 1 Mind Shatter
SB: 2 Vendilion Clique
SB: 1 Extirpate
SB: 1 Haunting Hymn
SB: 1 Pact of Negation
The deck and the picture are from this article, which can be seen here in English. The most important thing it says is to warn people that Mono-Red is a bad match-up.
Also I have noticed recently a lot of bad Quick 'n Toast decks circulating on the Internet. I have some changes that I recommend for everyone who might play one of these decks.
Fixing Olivier Ruel's deck from GP Buenos Aires:
+ 1 Kitchen Finks
+ 1 Oona, Queen of the Fae
+ 1 Crpytic Command
+ 1 Makeshift Mannequin
+ 1 Mystic Gate
- 1 Platinum Angel
- 2 Mind Shatter
- 2 Pact of Negation
- 1 Dreadship Reef
+ SB: 2 Mind Shatter
+ SB: 1 Detritivore
+ SB: 1 Murderous Redcap
+ SB: 3 Wispmare
+ SB: 2 Primal Command
+ SB: 1 Shriekmaw
+ SB: 1 Teferi's Moat
- SB: 2 Crovax, Ascendant Hero
- SB: 3 Faerie Macabre
- SB: 2 Damnation
- SB: 1 Firespout
- SB: 1 Pact of Negation
- SB: 1 Platinum Angel
- SB: 1 Slaughter Pact
Fixing Mark Herberholz's deck from US Nationals:
+ 1 Kitchen Finks
+ 1 Mulldrifter
+ 1 Makeshift Mannequin
+ 1 Slaughter Pact
+ 1 Careful Consideration
- 1 Nucklavee
- 1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
- 1 Murderous Redcap
- 1 Firespout
- 1 Damnation
+ 2 Fungal Reaches
+ 4 Yavimaya Coast
+ 2 Mystic Gate
- 1 Adarkar Wastes
- 4 Flooded Grove
- 2 Grove of the Burnwillows
- 1 Dreadship Reef
+ SB: 2 Teferi's Moat
+ SB: 2 Primal Command
+ SB: 1 Wispmare
+ SB: 1 Murderous Redcap
+ SB: 1 Detritivore
+ SB: 3 Mind Shatter
+ SB: 1 Shriekmaw
- SB: 4 Condemn
- SB: 1 Damnation
- SB: 3 Extirpate
- SB: 1 Slaughter Pact
- SB: 1 Pact of Negation
- SB: 1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
Fixing Olivier Ruel's deck from French Nationals:
+ 1 Kitchen Finks
+ 2 Mulldrifter
+ 1 Oona, Queen of the Fae
+ 1 Cryptic Command
+ 3 Makeshift Mannequin
- 1 Platinum Angel
- 1 Coalition Relic
- 2 Condemn
- 1 Firespout
- 1 Mystical Teachings
- 2 Pact of the Negation
+ 1 Dreadship Reef
+ 1 Mystic Gate
+ 1 Yavimaya Coast
+ 2 Sunken Ruins
- 2 Calciform Pools
- 2 Flooded Grove
- 1 Tolaria West
- 1 Urza's Factory
+ SB: 1 Detritivore
+ SB: 1 Mind Shatter
+ SB: 1 Murderous Redcap
+ SB: 2 Primal Command
+ SB: 1 Shriekmaw
+ SB: 3 Teferi's Moat
+ SB: 3 Wispmare
- SB: 1 Arbiter of Knollridge
- SB: 1 Condemn
- SB: 2 Crovax, Ascendant Hero
- SB: 2 Extirpate
- SB: 2 Luminesce
- SB: 1 Mystical Teachings
- SB: 1 Pact of Negation
- SB: 2 Wrath of God
Fixing Gerry Thompson's deck from GP Denver:
+ 1 Plumeveil
+ 1 Broken Ambitions
+ 1 Makeshift Mannequin
+ 3 Mind Spring
- 2 Archon of Justice
- 1 Firespout
- 2 Runed Halo
- 1 Oona's Grace
+ 1 Fire-lit Thicket
+ 2 Forest
+ 2 Sunken Ruins
+ 1 Vivid Grove
+ 1 Wooded Bastion
- 1 Cascade Bluffs
- 3 Flooded Grove
- 1 Mystic Gates
- 2 Vivid Meadow
+ SB: 1 Firespout
+ SB: 3 Jace Beleren
+ SB: 2 Mind Shatter
+ SB: 1 Plumeveil
+ SB: 2 Primal Command
+ SB: 2 Twilight Shepherd
- SB: 3 Chameleon Colossus
- SB: 2 Hallowed Burial
- SB: 2 Runed Halo
- SB: 4 Wispmare
Grand Prix Copenhagen is next week. Assuming Wafo-Tapa wins, it will give him ten pro points, which will tie him for first in the Player of the Year race.
