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Hello everybody,

I just wanted to share my list from GP Lille with you.

4 Delver of Secrets 4 Nimble Mongoose 4 Tarmogoyf

4 Ponder 2 Forked Bolt

4 Brainstorm 4 Daze 4 Force of Will 2 Dismember 2 Spell Pierce 4 Stifle 4 Lightning Bolt

1 Flooded Strand 2 Misty Rainforest 3 Polluted Delta 3 Tropical Island 3 Volcanic Island 4 Wasteland 2 Wooded Foothills

Sideboard (15) 2 Destructive Revelry 2 Flusterstorm 1 Grafdigger's Cage 2 Red Elemental Blast 2 Rough // Tumble 2 Submerge 1 Sulfur Elemental 1 Surgical Extraction 1 Sylvan Library 1 Vendilion Clique

http://magic.wizards.com/en/events/coverage/gplil15/top-16-decklists-2015-07-05#th_susann_heidemuellers_temur_delver

I ended up in 11th place with 1 bye.

My only real loss happened on day 1 in round 4. I was up against UWr Delver and in the third game mulligan down to 4 cards, against an opponent who dropped a turn 2 Stoneforge and put a batterskull into play on turn 3. In round 2 I was up against foodchain. A slow player paired with a grindy deck, so we ended up in a draw. He did not want to concede to me, even though my board state was better but I can't really blame him, since it wasn't guaranteed that I would have won the game but I really did not want to pick up the draw in the second round and play miracles and slow players all day, so I begrudgingly conceded to him.

In round 11 i picked up a draw against death and taxes. the last 6 minutes or so were on camera. I told him that a draw most likely gets us out of top 8 contention and I was asking if we just play the last 5 round and who ever has the better board state concedes to the other. He was not thrilled at the idea since he believed his tie breakers to be good. Fair enough, we drew a game that I would have most likely won.

I played the following decks: Day 1 1 Foodchain 2 Jeskai delver 2 Miracles 1 RUG Delver 1 Merfolk 1 Grixis Control

Day 2 Round 10 Infect Round 11 Death and Taxes Round 12 UR Delver Round 13 BUG Delver Round 14 Dark Maverick Round 15 Grixis Delver

My main take away from the weekend (feel free to disagree)

Nimble mongoose is still the all star of the deck

Playing 2 dismember in the main was correct for the current meta

Forked Bolt still has a place at the moment

siding out two wastelands against miracles was great

Sulfur Elemental is amazing, but I think 1 is the correct number

Destructive Revelry is better than Krosan Grip

I think it's still correct to never side out Goyf

Standard last night in the small LGS I go to from time to time.

Went undefeated against the boys with my RDW.

Melissa DeTora is a female pro-Magic player that writes for TCGPlayer.com! Here's an except from her article on Mono-Red in Standard:

Lauren here! Sorry I haven't posted anything until now, and SUPER sorry for the horrible webcam quality (I'm on my old computer while my nice one's in the shop x.x) I hope it's not too distracting!

Then home for dinner

Then hopefully going to Sam's Club to get an iPad to replace this computer, which is becoming more and more bitcy (You're gonna use your mom's laptop? IMA RESTART MYSELF AGAIN SO THE WHOLE HOUSE CAN HEAR IT!!!) Yeah.

I went to this draft at my local card shop. This kid that was next to me was opening a fat pack...the strange thing about it was the fact that he was getting three rares a pack. Something told me to buy one too. Sure enough i was getting three a pack too.

We had some that were loaded.

I got 17 rares out of a 9 pack fat pack.

Only one packaged set of packs had the multiples but overall id say it was completely worth buying