The Cursed Artifact cake is a crucial part of the tournaments “Swedish fika” that is the namesake of Kafferep (the name hails from 18th century when women were not allowed in coffee houses and had their own “Kafferep” at home instead). Coffee and fika (cakes and sweet things) is like a religion in Sweden.
It’s a tradition to take a proper picture when you earn a Rag Man. You can find Sebs other Ram Man pics here.
So I won a Rag Man once again! It’s my fifth one. I am not even trying. Last time around I became a Cosmic Horror due to it being my fourth one. My second one is a “The Fallen” but then the “BSK” old school event claimed it so we went back to Rag Men. It’s a bit of a participation Trophy that says "well, at least you tried”. It seems I have been trying a while now and I wonder what the future Rag Mans have in store for me…
What horrific creature would Rag Man number six be!?
The tournament, is just a small recurring thing “Paddan” got going a few years back. I actually won it last year. I tend to try to brew something spicy and that might be why I keep Rag Manning. Last years brew “Voodoo Geist” consisted of Xentrid Poltergeists animating Mines and picking off Moxen in a Parfait shell. I did not get the pet card “Voodoo Doll” in time for the tournament though. But there are many fun synergies going on: animating and attacking with a Howling Mine, animating an opponents tapped 0> cmc artifact and killing it off with Royal Assassin. I got to Maze of Ith, untapping an animated Winter Orb end of combat also.
I started tinkering with Voodoo Doll and how to make use of it and trying to avoid the downside of having to activate it each turn not to take damage yourself. You have your Relic Barriers as a backup I guess. It’s mostly cute but since it is where I started I kept it in the deck name. The parfait shell is great in so many different color combinations and I keep going back to it.
Sebs winning deck “Voodoo Geist” from Kafferep 2022.
This year I started off with making GW work in some capacity. I have always loved the card Gaea’s Touch and tried fitting it in many different brews. This time around I tried accompany it with Land Tax. Land Tax get you going with all those basic forests you need to make use of it. Pumping out a few Gaea’s Touch also let you sit and wait for your opponent to either let you tax or when you go off the tax you get to put in multiple lands, hopefully getting you ahead a bit. The problem is that you can’t splash other powerful stuff. The main goal of the deck is to draw cards with Sylvan getting some help from Ivory Towers. Then Ifh-Bíff Efreet with a Spirit Link or you having enough life gained let you pull the Hurricane trigger. Swosh!
Sebs “Hurricane Control” earning him a Rag Man at Kafferep 2023
I actually made the January ODOL finals with another Tax deck. It’s way better of course. I started brewing it when I got my second Moat and asked Åland what decks usually make use of two Moats. He sent this Tax Control version he build 2020 (you can see the decklist to the right). It was my baseline for getting the correct mana base that could work for my build. I won’t linger too long on it, it’s basicly The Deck with Land tax and Blood Moons in the SB. Sorry for the bad deck pic btw, was too dark when I took the pic...
Sebs “Pink Taxes”, 2nd Place ODOL January 2023
This is why we love Old School. Just look at that stack! Anti-Magic Aura on the Control Magic under the Djinn.
I’ll end this little blog post with Martin Berlins winning deck! I’ll be sure to test it myself in the future. Berlin has allways been a great Brewer and player and this was his third Kafferep win! Me Myself will have to go back to the drawing board and reset for next year. That’s all kids! Keep on brewin’ in the free world.
Martin Berlins RUG deck 1st place Kafferep 2023
The happy winner Martin Berlin with the winner card Cursed Artifact and a glass of swedish Punsch in his hands.
Slanfan, the runner up of Kafferep 2023 teching some Black Ward against Abyss. His deck consisted of Angels, Eggs and Vampires.
The organizer Paddan contemplating his life choices playing UW control or as Berlin put it: “Spelar du en klassisk blåhora Paddan!?” (will prob be lost in translation so I wont give it a try)