What Binkabi really played in Madrid

In the end, my fellow Swede, Binkabi, changed his mind about what to play in Madrid.

Binkabi:  This was the deck I ended up playing in Madrid. Zombie Pod felt great until I tested alot of games against delver and concluded it to be a tad to slow.

I went with Jeskai since I have plenty of experience with the deck and asumed that it would be a decent choice against UR Delver and Burn. 

I finished with 5 wins, 1 draw and 2 loses and was eliminated in round 8. I'm pleased with the results, mainly because I had to play alot of strange and unusual decks. Not until round 7 I got to play against something that I had been preparing for, crucshing a UR Delver. 

In round 8 I played against UR Delver again, but this version played around 12 counterspells in the main and having a perfect answer all the time. Not much to do about it! 

I also played the Super Sunday Series, finishing 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 loses. I thought that maybe the players would be slightly worse here, but oh my, I was wrong. Every oneof my opponents told me about results like "last 2 top 8s in the PTQs" or "Well, I top 8 the last 2 Super Sunday Series"... Anyway, I had a blast there to and overall, my weeked was great! Decklist 4 Celestial Colonnade 3 hallowed Fountain 2 Steam Vents 2 Sacred Foundry 4 Flooded Strand 4 Scalding Tarn 2 Island 1 Plains 1 Mountain 2 Tectonic Edge 4 Lightning Bolt 3 Path to Exile 2 Spell Snare 4 Mana Leak 4 Lightning Helix 2 Snapcaster Mage 3 Kitchen Finks 3 Electrolyze 3 Cryptic Command 2 Restoration Angel 1 Ajani Vengeant 1 Batterskull 3 Dig Through Time Sideboard 2 Celestial Flare 2 Shadow of Doubt 1 Timely Reinforcements 1 Keranos, God of Storms 1 Batterskull 3 Wear // Tear 1 Counterflux 1 Path to Exile 2 Pyroclasm 1 Twisted Image

Deck tech video




Sample match against Delver

Playing Zombie Pod in Modern

My buddy Binkabi has decided to play this deck in Madrid. Given a few last minute changes, this is pretty much the exact 75, but he has a few more days to test it. After an amazin 16 win in a row, he feels that the deck has impressed him alot. I hope that it will show it in these videos, but only time will tell, let's go! Decklist 3 Overgrown Tomb 4 Verdant Catacombs 14 Swamp 4 Gravecrawler 4 Thoughtseize 4 Bloodghast 4 Gatekeeper of Malakir 2 Abrupt Decay 2 Phyrexian Arena 1 Vampire Nighthawk 4 Geralf's Messenger 1 Disciple of Bolas 1 Skinrender 4 Phyrexian Obliterator 4 Birthing Pod 1 Shriekmaw 2 Gray Merchant of Asphodel 1 Massacre Wurm Sideboard 1 Disfigure 3 Devour Flesh 1 Illness in the Ranks 2 Abrupt decay 1 Dismember 2 Drown in Sorrow 4 Leyline of the Void 1 Golgari Charm

Deck tech video #2



Deck tech video #1



Sample match (there are seven more on the MagicGatheringStrat channel on YouTube)