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Pro Tour-San Diego Top 8er Niels Viaene
by Bill Stark | posted at 2010-02-21 01:35:00
tagged: MTG, Magic, Magic the Gathering, Pro Tour, PT, San Diego, Bill Stark, Interview, Video, Niels Viaene, Top 8, T8
Niels Viaene, a Belgian player, came to San Diego for his first Pro Tour ever. He will leave it with his first Pro Tour Top 8, and he did so with a deck that caught many off guard.
Here's the video of the conversation Niels had with Bill:
And here's the decklist that got him to the Top 8:
2 Celestial Colonnade
4 Glacial Fortress
4 Island
2 Kabira Crossroads
2 Marsh Flats
3 Plains
1 Swamp
2 Terramorphic Expanse
4 Architects of Will
4 Filigree Angel
4 Glassdust Hulk
1 Sharuum the Hegemon
4 Sphinx of Lost Truths
3 Courier's Capsule
3 Day of Judgment
2 Fieldmist Borderpost
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Journey to Nowhere
1 Mistvein Borderpost
3 Oblivion Ring
4 Open the Vaults
4 Spreading Seas
Sideboard:
1 Day of Judgment
3 Flashfreeze
2 Hindering Light
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Journey to Nowhere
4 Negate
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Sanguine Bond
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Bill Stark is the founder and editor-in-chief of TheStarkingtonPost.com. He began playing Magic in 1995 after being introduced to the game by his brother. Since then he has competed at all levels of play including the JSS, Grand Prix, Nationals, and Pro Tour. In addition to his career as a pro, Bill began writing about the game early on for TheDojo.com, the first website dedicated to Magic. Since then he has written and edited for nearly every major Magic website on the web. In 2007 he began work as an official coverage reporter for Wizards of the Coast, flying to Grand Prixs, Nationals, and World Championships to record the events happening at each. He was also hired for six months as an R&D intern at Wizards where he worked on the redesign for DailyMTG.com as well as helping to develop multiple Magic sets. After leaving Wizards, he started TheStarkingtonPost.com to utilize his many contacts in the industry to provide a better information solution for fans of TCGs, gaming, and Magic: The Gathering.