MTG Salvation

Clutch is just nice. That's so cool with the red guy, but he's a bit expensive to play in constructed. Nice if he gets out in limited though...

As a quick question, what are all of the changes? I know Aura is one of them, but are there any others?

That makes it a bad choice, abandon ship for Iso-tog.

Yeah, I didn't notice that either. Good thing he did before you made any bad mistakes.

Upheaval-floating is always a fun idea. Though the need for Polluted Deltas is evident, maybe cut a pain-land or two for them.

GRAH, as a query, how much testing have you done with this deck? Seems interesting, though I'd like to see how it compares to Scepter-Tog.

Actually, I see MBC or BG Aggro/Control doing quite well.

I think the name of this thread speaks for itself. If you know the top 8 for a specific Regionals (name it in your post), list what decks were in it. As well, if you can I might add, give a small description of the field. As a final request, give a rough estimate of how many people were in attendance (can tell us if either 4 or 8 invitations were given). At Mid-Atlantic Regionals around 380 players were in attendance (4 invites), and there was an insane amount of Tooth and Nail and red in the field. Some kid was 3-0 with a non-Erayo+Rule of Law based Affinity deck (straight up Affinity with whatever was left), and Tooth was definitely among the top tables.

Edit: An information source has told me that there was around 3 Tooth and Nail decks and he believes 3 red decks in the top 8. The rest was unknown to him.

Flores Red for me as well, though I'm not going to expect a 5-0 start. Take what you can get, know your deck, and hope to have fun and get a few rating points along the way.

It actually did top 8 at two Japanese Regionals, but the lists for the md are different by two or three cards.

Mid-Atlantic Regionals

Has Oblivion Stone been working out better than Culling Scales for you?

Actually, Olivier Ruel has 57 pro points. The one on the Wizards website hasn't been updated since PT: Atlanta. Since then he has a GP Top 16, this GP win, and the PT: Philly Top 4.

I personally use mox affinity:
4 Great Furnace
4 Seat of the Synod
4 Vault of Whispers
3 Blinkmoth Nexus
3 City of Brass
4 Ornithopter
4 Arcbound Ravager
4 Disciple of the Vault
4 Arcbound Worker
4 Frogmite
4 Somber Hoverguard
4 Chrome Mox
4 Thoughtcast
4 Cranial Plating
4 Shrapnel Blast
2 Welding Jar
Sideboard:
4 Mana Leak
4 Seething Song
4 Terror
3 Furnace Dragon

Darksteel is clearly the most powerful because of two cards that would change type 2 (and shape the future of extended) forever:
-Skullclamp
-Arcbound Ravager

Fifth Dawn has a couple of good cards (Eternal Witness and Rude Awakening), but they weren't nearly as ridiculous as Skullclamp and Ravager during Regionals.

Mirrodin has to come in a close 2nd because it made the extended format that year ridiculously fast and caused the Japanese to use Gilded lotus in Twiddle Desire. Thus, the deck today was caused by Mirrodin. Second, the Tinker Stax deck (President Bosh) was simple ridiculous and made the format last only a few turns. Thus, we see a load of bannings.