Today, I will talk about a particular decklist from the recent Grand Prix in San Antonio. The deck was made by Conley Woods and it got in the top 4 of the event. The list has similar features to the Naya Midrange I piloted last time on a local Saturday tournament. The decklist after the cut.

4C Rites by Conley Woods
Format: Standard – RTR
Location: 2012 Grand Prix San Antonio – 11/24
Finished: 3rd – 4th Place

Maindeck
2 Armada Wurm
4 Avacyn’s Pilgrim
1 Borderland Ranger
4 Huntmaster of the Fells
4 Loxodon Smiter
4 Restoration Angel
4 Thragtusk
Creatures [23]

3 Bonfire of the Damned
4 Farseek
1 Mizzium Mortars
2 Ultimate Price
3 Unburial Rites
Spells [13]

2 Blood Crypt
3 Clifftop Retreat
3 Forest
1 Isolated Chapel
2 Kessig Wolf Run
1 Mountain
4 Overgrown Tomb
1 Plains
2 Rootbound Crag
1 Swamp
4 Temple Garden
Lands [24]

Sideboard
1 Acidic Slime
2 Golgari Charm
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Olivia Voldaren
1 Rakdos’s Return
1 Rest in Peace
1 Sever the Bloodline
3 Slaughter Games
1 Terminus
2 Triumph of Ferocity
1 Zealous Conscripts
Sideboard [15]

The deck finished 8-1 on Day One and has continued to perform well on the second day of the Grand Prix. Its blunders were probably on missing landdrops, which became relevant when it faced Zombies in the semifinals. Anyhow, I’d still test pilot the deck this coming FNM and maybe do some edits like adding more removals in the main and removing one Unburial Rites. I’d also include Pillar of Flames to deal with Zombies, as I expect that archetype to be popular in the local meta.

Until the next post.