MTG Update - Extended Tournament - Deck Domain (Part 1)

The MTG Extended scene is sometimes even more deadly than the normal Standard one. With cards from sets long past their prime, Jonny (Combo Players) can have any pick they want and bring back deadly decks like Affinity, Madness, Threshold, Psychotog, Fires, Ninja, Goblins, Tooth and Nail, as well as the new Greater Gifts, Red Deck Wins, Grull, Zoo, and so on.

I'll be playing a Domain deck design by Kai Budde (Magic's highest paid Pro Tor Champion). Design to lockdown and control the game from the mid game, the Domain deck was used to win the 2001 London Pro Tour so its only fitting that it makes its reoccurance in London.

Deck analysis of Domain

Str-
- Able to cope with huge creatures with hardly any problems
- Able to cope with enchantments and combo decks
- Able to deal with top game metagame decks such as Greater Gifts and Heartbeat

Threats-
- Vulnerable to fast decks such as Goblin, Elves, White Weenies
- Vulnerable to decks with more land destruction than Domain
- Vulnerable to milling decks that remove threats from Domain

Match 1 Domain vs Green Weenie

My opponent David was playing an un-tuned Green weenie deck which I though I could pass through with no problems. The first steps of the match was normal as he build creatures and I struggle to get mana. I was beaten down with weenies and Collective Restrains came too late and got burned to death

Round 1 Domain 0 - 1 Green Weenie

Second round started much better with search lands and 3 basic lands in opening hand. Turn 2 counterspell helped kill a War Elemental and by turn 4 Domain was achieved and by turn 5 Collective Restrains was on the table. Turn 8 saw a Legacy weapon and by turn 13 my opponent was land-less. Green Weenie was by then defenceless and conceded to 5 1/1 flying tokens.

Round 2 Domain 1 - 1 Green Weenie

Third round caused Domain to mulligan down to 6 and kept a hand with 2 Forest, 2 Swamps, Collective Restrains and Chromatic Sphere. This was a hand that was doomed from the start, but with 12 mana fixers I thought I could survive at lest 3-4 rounds before dropping the Restrains. Unfortunately all I top-decked were 3 more Collective Restrains to lose by the 8th round.

Round 3 Domain 1 - 2 Green Weenie

Match Analysis - A very bad start seeing that Domain was working fine and even with the sideboarded Oblivion Stone it didn't help. Hopefully the future matches will be much more eventful.

Part Two will be up soon :)


Anti-weenie and creature lockdown




A card that came more than once thanks to the multiple copies of snakes in David's deck