Magic: Super Fatty!

Last weekend marked the release of the M12 set. It was also Japanese Nationals, and apparently the set was legal for their event. This is a little odd to me since back in my day they'd actually give you time to possibly acquire cards before making the sets legal but it seems times have changed. The top 8 was very interesting. The winner actually played 4 Ornithopters! I'm going to look into his deck more closely in the future and may end up going with the explosive beatdown option but there was another deck spotlighted in the coverage which just blew my mind.

What!?! There are 15 drops now? It sounds like the guy who played it came 2nd at the most recent Pro Tour and started 4-0 in constructed. His drafts didn't go so hot and he ended up dropping after losing the first standard round after the drafts. If there's one thing I like, it's ludicrously huge creatures! The coverage included a feature match with the deck in round 3 which was interesting and helped clear up a little bit how a different fatty functioned...

What in the world do you target with this? Are you supposed to blow up your own lands? His lands? (Obviously if he has a planeswalker you blow that up.) In the feature match it seemed like Toshiyuki was most targeting his opponent's lands, but he was playing Valakut and therefore land count was a big deal for him.

7 creatures in the deck combined for 78 power! Those are some truly huge men! And definitely very tempting...