4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
4 Drift of Phantasms
1 Maga, Traitor to Mortals
4 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Remand
4 Muddle the Mixture
1 Boomerang
4 Heartbeat of Spring
4 Early Harvest
4 Kodama's Reach
1 Compulsive Research
1 Recollect
1 Weird Harvest
1 Invoke the Firemind
10 Forest
10 Island
1 Swamp
1 Mountain
Sideboard:
1 Umezawa's Jitte
1 Pyroclasm
4 Vinelasher Kudzu
3 Iwamori of the Open Fist
2 Meloku the Clouded Mirror
1 Keiga, the Tide Star
3 Savage Twister |
    Heartbeat
(PTH 2006).
Description of deck byMike Flores @
www.wizards.com
(quoted):
The most surprising archetype to make Top 8
was Maximilian Bracht's Heartbeat of Spring combo. Bracht's deck lacks
the critical mass of four mana card drawing spells that allowed Star War
Kid's Extended Heartbeat to manhandle control so easily; it focuses
instead on card selection and a surprisingly robust permission suite.
Bracht has probably the most extensive -- and versatile -- transmute
deck we have ever seen at a high level. His Drift of Phantasms can
select either of Bracht's primary combination elements, Early Harvest or
Heartbeat of Spring, or either of his kill cards, Invoke the Firemind or
Maga, Traitor to Mortals. What is even more interesting is Maximilian's
Muddle the Mixture suite. The most exciting thing he can find main deck
is Weird Harvest, which in turn finds him four Demonic Tutors (Drift of
Phantasms) and a kill card. After boards, Muddle becomes Pyroclasm, the
deceptively dominating Savage Twister, or a lone (and perfectly
positioned) Umezawa's Jitte. Incidentally, Bracht's Muddles were also
effective at leveraging his mana advantage to protect a combo kill from
permission decks.
If Osyp didn't play the best sideboard in the Honolulu Top 8, then
Bracht did. His transformation into a beatdown deck gave Bracht
considerable game against decks with relevant sideboards, Cranial
Extraction, or no coherent Game Two plan. An effective surprise in most
matches, Bracht's sideboard plan flabbergasted Olivier Ruel in the round
of eight, and was perhaps even more confusing to an opponent who knew
what could be coming. Which deck is he going to play this game?
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