Le penseur à Montréal

Prologue

In the weeks leading up to Calling Montreal, the AGE Pro Team were focused on Silver Age for Calling San Diego. Luckily, Valentine’s Day fell on the same weekend as the Calling, so I had a pretty good excuse not to go even though the event was quite close to me geographically. I spent a good amount of time brewing in the SAGE format, but overlooked Kayo, assuming that the Majestics from Classic Constructed carried a good amount of weight and that consistency alone wasn’t enough to push through the fatigue decks. Before I move on to my report, I would like to congratulate three teammates, Evan Bridges, Alex Vore, and Jonah Overholt, for making top 8 of the Calling in SD. With San Diego in the books, it was just me and Alex from the team who were headed to Montreal (and then Jonah decided to join us after his top 8 finish).

We realistically only spent a little over a week preparing for Calling Montreal since it was all SAGE prior. For most of the week after San Diego, I tried to build a strong Fai deck. He was my hero of choice back in Uprising and I have a soft spot for him in my heart. Although Marionette, Verdance, and Oscilio were obvious top contenders of the format, I felt like Fai should have a good matchup into Verdance and Oscilio with Marionette being slightly unfavored. I ran a few games into Jonah’s Kayo and quickly realized that Bloodrush Bellow was just Art of the Phoenix: War without having to include worse cards in my deck, and also that Scowling Flesh Bag was incredibly difficult to play through as an aggro-combo deck. I was also losing to Alex’s Oscilio, unsurprisingly. I spent some time dabbling with various decks such as Oscilio and Prism, two incredibly powerful and unfair decks. Ultimately, I felt like the learning curve for these two decks was too high for the upcoming tournament.