Five With Flores

Just a quick shout-out for anyone looking for even more Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour Berlin coverage.

Brian David-Marshall is doing a crazy amount of remote blogging on the new Top8Magic.com right now!

A quick for instance… Brian just did a short feature on our friend Andre Coimbra who made Day Two with a Mono-Blue deck that I helped him with. You can check this story at Top8Magic.com as well as several others featuring Steve Sadin, Gabe Carleton-Barnes, Gavin Verhey, wine, tomato soup, and of course Magic: The Gathering.

Why are you still reading this? Go to Top8Magic.com. Come back of course, but go to Top8Magic.com.

LOVE
MIKE

This is the third video we are doing leading up to PT Berlin 2008 (Extended). The featured deck in question is All-in Red. “Five With Flores: PT Berlin Preview - All-in Red” goes from a brief overview of the deck, to a build from last year’s Extended PTQ format, to an update using Shadowmoor threats Demigod of Revenge and Deus of Calamity, to a pair of quick and brutal matches showcasing the power of Seething Song. Super exciting matches and more fun from FiveWithFlores!

The above is the third deck overview we are planning for this week’s Top Decks on magicthegathering.com.

So big, bad, beautiful Magic: The Gathering preview for you.

I hope you enjoyed it!

There have been requests for deck lists from the comments on the FiveWithFlores YouTube channel… So here are the deck lists I used in this video.

Original All-in Red

4 Chrome Mox

4 Arc-Slogger
4 Blood Moon
4 Desperate Ritual
4 Magus of the Moon
4 Mogg Fanatic
4 Rakdos Pit-Dragon
4 Rite of Flame
2 Rorix Bladewing
4 Seething Song
4 Simian Spirit Guide

18 Mountain

Post-Shadowmoor All-in Red with my changes

4 Chrome Mox

4 Demigod of Revenge
4 Deus of Calamity
4 Manamorphose

4 Blood Moon
4 Desperate Ritual
2 Empty the Warrens
4 Magus of the Moon
4 Rite of Flame
4 Seething Song
4 Simian Spirit Guide

18 Snow-Covered Mountain

Sideboard isn’t set yet but I want to mention something I’ve been thinking about (which isn’t in the video)… I don’t know if Skred would be a reasonable sideboard card in this deck. I think a three mana spell like Firespout is probably more reliable than a one mana Skred because you can always get to three, but you don’t necessarily have more than one Snow-Covered Mountain in play. Just throwing that one out there.

I really like playing this deck (as I said in the video it’s super fun to play) and have game play footage for at least another video if not two. So hopefully they will be coming soon (this week, ideally).

LOVE
MIKE

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This is the second video in anticipation of PT Berlin 2008. The deck in question is Extended Domain Zoo. “Five With Flores: PT Berlin Preview - Domain Zoo” takes us from a brief history of the archetype, to a Magic Online deck editor updating the deck for Shards of Alara, then finally a battle against the other main offensive deck of the format, Ravager Affinity.

The above is another overview video that I am setting up for the Top Decks column on magicthegathering.com later this week.

Enjoy the sneak peek.

LOVE
MIKE