I would like to congratulate Guillaume Savard, our Mana Deprived Super Series Quebec City Champion! Guillaume ended up winning our inaugural MDSS event with Nic-Fit.
Coverage written by our new official coverage writer Vicente Alvarez de Araya can be found below:
MDSS Quebec City 2012 Coverage
Our next MDSS event will be on Day 2 of GP Toronto (this weekend!!!). For more information on this upcoming tournament, click here.
There were also other tourneys this past weekend, so read on for Alex Lin’s recap of the most recent tournament results.
Alex Lin:
There were three large tournaments this past weekend – SCG Baltimore, The TCG MaxPoint 50K, and GP Lisbon. If you happened to miss any of those results, we’ve collected them here for your convenience!
First up is SCG Baltimore. The top slots were completely dominated by B/R Zombies, making up 10 of the top 16, with 5 more if you extend to the top 25. However, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place were Naya Midrange, Jund Midrange, and Five Color Control. In addition to everyone’s favorite life-gaining Beast, both the Naya and the Jund decks packed the full set of [card]Huntmaster of the Fells[/card] and [card]Pillar of Flame[/card]s, along with 2-4 [card]Bonfire of the Damned[/card] to stymie the rush from the Falkenrath Aristocrat-powered Zombie deck that recently emerged. Ali Aintrazi’s Five Color Control list shows slightly more restraint than the one he played the week previously, though he’s still a fan of curving [card]Garruk, Primal Hunter[/card] into [card]Sphinx’s Revelation[/card] and [card]Nicol Bolas[/card].
Meanwhile in Legacy, BUG decks powered by [card]Deathrite Shaman[/card] swarmed the top 8, although it was Shaheen Soorani’s [card]Lingering Souls[/card] (out of Esper Stoneblade) that took the title down. Soorani’s Spirit tokens singlehandedly won him a number of games against the BUG decks, which seemed ill-equipped to deal with them, so I’d expect that to change going forward. If it wasn’t clear before, [card]Deathrite Shaman[/card] is as powerful in Legacy as it is in Modern, and it is seeing more and more Standard play as well, so don’t expect him to be going anywhere.
SCG Baltimore Standard Decklists
SCG Baltimore Legacy Decklists
The top decks at the TCG MaxPoint 50K were far more varied than those in Baltimore. The top 2 finishers were fairly standard UWR Geist Midrange decks – the deck has largely fallen out of favor in paper events, replaced by UW Flash, though it still maintains a presence online. In third place was Gerry Thompson, playing a UW Flash deck that splashed red for [card]Pillar of Flame[/card] and [card]Izzet Staticaster[/card], to combat the various aggro decks that have been showing up in recent weeks. The top 8 is rounded out by a RB aggro deck, a Bant Control list, the [card]Nightshade Peddler[/card] deck from GP Bochum, and two 4c Rites decks.
TCG MaxPoint 50K Standard Decklists
Finally, Ivan Floch won GP Lisbon, also with a UWR deck, although this time the format was Limited. The all-star of his draft was a [card]Supreme Verdict[/card], and he was able to use Azorius’s many spells to shape the game to a point where the mass removal spell would destroy his opponent. While the top 8 might not contain many names familiar to those of us on this side of the Atlantic, there were a number of Gold level Pros, and almost every competitor had previous GP Top 8 experience. Floch himself is a Team World Champion, as well as having a top 4 finish at the Team Limited GP in San Jose earlier this year (on the same team as Pro Tour Return to Ravnica champion Stanislav Cifka), so if you aren’t familiar with his name yet, you can expect to be hearing it much more often soon, as he is certainly a rising star in Magic.
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