I won first place and a really cool play mat in DKA Game Day at my local store with my Bant Pod Deck
For any of you interested this was my actual build:
As you can see my goal was to have a strong T2 play, being it a birthing pod , blade splicer or any of the 2 swords. It worked out really good as I didn't lose a single game, the deck it's sooo resourcefull, my matches where:
1st Round: Esper Delver Deck, he was using Sorin too. (2-0) Birthing Pod turn 2 on first game and after taking some serious damage and facing a 6 loyal sorin I started the Stonehorn Dignitary lock and took the win with Archon of Justice and spirits from Monk, Afetr siding in the 2 SoFaF for game 2 and Ratchet bombs for his dozens of spirit tokens game 2 was assured.
2nd Round: Monoblack Zombies (2-0)
This was a really Easy match As i got my one maindeck SoFaF, and after Sideboard, the other two came in, ;D a little unfair on my part.
3rd Round: Tezzeret Control (the one from pro tour) (2-0)
This is such a though matchup for us, specially because the build i Faced Played me T1 Graffdigger's Cage and then he started dropping Spellskites as if there were no tomorrow, tezzeret also proved to be a huge problem, but i took the game with lots of little creatures and a Gavony Township ;D
Game 2 is ever worse as he played Cage T1. Torpor orb T2 and at some point i'm Facing 2 orbs and 2 cages :S and Tezzeret. I finally get to draw my Sylvok Replica from the side, clone him and get rid of the orbs and started dropping slimes to get rid of the cages and a wurmcoil engine followed by an image took the game.
4th round: (1-1) We decided to draw as we were at first place and get to top 8.
5th round: UB infect (2-0)
Never thought about this matchup, he got me to 9 poison game 1, but stonehorn lock stopped the 10th poison from comming while he got overruned. Game two wal very similar as i got to 8 poison with 2 blighted agents on the opposite side of the field and again stonehorn (mvp) avoided lethal.
6th round: Spirits Delver (2-0)
He got me to one life game 1 and i got to put down wurmcoil engine, had his next card been an instant or sorcery his delver would have flipped and dealt lethal, his next card Drogskol Captain. Even vapor snag would have killed me.
Game 2: after siding in thurn, SoFaF, daybreak ranger and ratchet bombs this matchup ended up really easy.
7th round (final): Wolf Run Ravager
Playing around slagstorms and whipflares game one i got to draw my only SoFaF and steal game one.
Afetr sideboard i expected lots of artifact hate, but it never came and again SoFaF but beast within on the equipping creature stopped me in the spot. Followed up by inferno titan, thinks looked good for him, but the sunblast angel in my hand had another oppinion. He followed with primeval Titan and i followed with stonehorn dignitary, and the angel with the sword looked totally menacing against him, who was chumpblocking with his nexuses. Next turn i finally get to play the reason y started to like this deck, comming directly from my sb and top deck Venser, the Sojourner he just saw venser and stonehorn and we knew it was over, as he was unable to attack next turn and my unblocable creatures went to town next turn pumped by gavony township.
REally good performers that i wouldnt try bant without:
Stonehorn dignitary (mvp)
Sunblast Angel
Strangleroot Geist
Phantasmal Image
I was thinking of trying the third image and wing splicer but couldn't find room for them, besides i prefer not to cdraw the images too often as they're more like lategame targets.
For any of you interested this was my actual build:
8x Forest
2x Plains
1x Island
3x Seachrome Coast
4x Razorverge Thicket
2x Gavony township
2x Sunpetal Grove
1x Hinterland Harbor
Creatures
4x Birds of Paradise
4x Avacyn's Pilgrim
1x Llanowar Elves
1x Strangleroot Geist
2x Viridian Emissary
2x Phantasmal Image
3x Blade Splicer
1x Fiend Hunter
1x Viridian Corrupter
2x Solemn Simulacrum
1x Stonehorn Dignaiary
1x Phyrexian Metamorph
1x Acidic Slime
1x Geist Honored Monk
1x Archon of Justice
1x Wurmcoil Engine
2x Sun Titan
1x Sunblast Angel
1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
4x Birthing Pod
1x Sword of Feast and Famine
1x Sword of War and Peace
2x Sword of Feast and Famine
2x Venser, the Sojourner
2x Thrun, the Last Troll
1x Sun Titan
2x Ratchet Bomb
1x Daybreak Ranger
1x Acidic Slime
1x Ray of Revelation
1x Stonehorn Dignitary
1x Sylvok Replica
As you can see my goal was to have a strong T2 play, being it a birthing pod , blade splicer or any of the 2 swords. It worked out really good as I didn't lose a single game, the deck it's sooo resourcefull, my matches where:
1st Round: Esper Delver Deck, he was using Sorin too. (2-0)
Birthing Pod turn 2 on first game and after taking some serious damage and facing a 6 loyal sorin I started the Stonehorn Dignitary lock and took the win with Archon of Justice and spirits from Monk, Afetr siding in the 2 SoFaF for game 2 and Ratchet bombs for his dozens of spirit tokens game 2 was assured.
2nd Round: Monoblack Zombies (2-0)
This was a really Easy match As i got my one maindeck SoFaF, and after Sideboard, the other two came in, ;D a little unfair on my part.
3rd Round: Tezzeret Control (the one from pro tour) (2-0)
This is such a though matchup for us, specially because the build i Faced Played me T1 Graffdigger's Cage and then he started dropping Spellskites as if there were no tomorrow, tezzeret also proved to be a huge problem, but i took the game with lots of little creatures and a Gavony Township ;D
Game 2 is ever worse as he played Cage T1. Torpor orb T2 and at some point i'm Facing 2 orbs and 2 cages :S and Tezzeret. I finally get to draw my Sylvok Replica from the side, clone him and get rid of the orbs and started dropping slimes to get rid of the cages and a wurmcoil engine followed by an image took the game.
4th round: (1-1) We decided to draw as we were at first place and get to top 8.
5th round: UB infect (2-0)
Never thought about this matchup, he got me to 9 poison game 1, but stonehorn lock stopped the 10th poison from comming while he got overruned. Game two wal very similar as i got to 8 poison with 2 blighted agents on the opposite side of the field and again stonehorn (mvp) avoided lethal.
6th round: Spirits Delver (2-0)
He got me to one life game 1 and i got to put down wurmcoil engine, had his next card been an instant or sorcery his delver would have flipped and dealt lethal, his next card Drogskol Captain. Even vapor snag would have killed me.
Game 2: after siding in thurn, SoFaF, daybreak ranger and ratchet bombs this matchup ended up really easy.
7th round (final): Wolf Run Ravager
Playing around slagstorms and whipflares game one i got to draw my only SoFaF and steal game one.
Afetr sideboard i expected lots of artifact hate, but it never came and again SoFaF but beast within on the equipping creature stopped me in the spot. Followed up by inferno titan, thinks looked good for him, but the sunblast angel in my hand had another oppinion. He followed with primeval Titan and i followed with stonehorn dignitary, and the angel with the sword looked totally menacing against him, who was chumpblocking with his nexuses. Next turn i finally get to play the reason y started to like this deck, comming directly from my sb and top deck Venser, the Sojourner he just saw venser and stonehorn and we knew it was over, as he was unable to attack next turn and my unblocable creatures went to town next turn pumped by gavony township.
REally good performers that i wouldnt try bant without:
Stonehorn dignitary (mvp)
Sunblast Angel
Strangleroot Geist
Phantasmal Image
I was thinking of trying the third image and wing splicer but couldn't find room for them, besides i prefer not to cdraw the images too often as they're more like lategame targets.