Elliott Tzaneteas Wins Modern Sunday Showdown!

Thank you to the players that joined us this past Sunday in Toronto for our Sunday Showdown. Elliott Tzaneteas is on fire! He has now won two-showdowns in a row. Congratulations Elliott. In addition to winning a month’s worth of event entries and a pile of store credit he has a first round bye for the FacetoFacegames.com’s Tournament Series event on January 9th!

1st Elliott Tzaneteas
Deck: Zoo

[deck]
[Lands]
2 Arid Mesa
2 Forest
2 Mountain
1 Sacred Foundry
3 Stomping Ground
1 Temple Garden
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Spells]
4 Atarka’s Command
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Mutagenic Growth
2 Rancor
1 Vines of Vastwood
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
4 Burning-Tree Emissary
4 Experiment One
4 Flinthoof Boar
3 Ghor-Clan Rampager
4 Kird Ape
1 Scavenging Ooze
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Wild Nacatl
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
1 Ancient Grudge
3 Burning-Tree Shaman
3 Destructive Revelry
2 Molten Rain
2 Path to Exile
2 Rending Volley
2 Scavenging Ooze
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]

2nd Omar Beldon
Deck: Grixis Twin

[deck]
[Lands]
1 Blood Crypt
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Desolate Lighthouse
4 Island
1 Mountain
4 Polluted Delta
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Steam Vents
3 Sulfur Falls
1 Swamp
1 Watery Grave
[/Lands]
[Spells]
2 Dispel
3 Kolaghan’s Command
4 Lightning Bolt
1 Murderous Cut
4 Remand
4 Serum Visions
2 Spell Snare
4 Splinter Twin
1 Terminate
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
4 Deceiver Exarch
2 Pestermite
4 Snapcaster Mage
1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
1 Vendilion Clique
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
2 Thoughtseize
1 Negate
1 Terminate
2 Pia and Kiran Nalaar
1 Painful Truths
2 Thundermaw Hellkite
1 Anger of the Gods
2 Blood Moon
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Dispel
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]

Lucas Lim 3rd-4th
Deck: Abzan Midrange

[deck]
[Lands]
1 Forest
2 Ghost Quarter
1 Godless Shrine
4 Marsh Flats
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Plains
1 Shambling Vent
2 Stirring Wildwood
2 Swamp
1 Temple Garden
1 Twilight Mire
4 Verdant Catacombs
2 Windswept Heath
1 Woodland Cemetery
[/Lands]
[Spells]
4 Abrupt Decay
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Liliana of the Veil
3 Lingering Souls
1 Maelstrom Pulse
3 Path to Exile
2 Thoughtseize
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
2 Kitchen Finks
2 Scavenging Ooze
4 Siege Rhino
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
1 Thoughtseize
2 Damnation
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Thragtusk
1 Kitchen Finks
2 Painful Truths
2 Stony Silence
4 Fulminator Mage
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]

3rd-4th Denys Robinson
Deck: Abzan Midrange

[deck]
[Lands]
2 Forest
1 Gavony Township
1 Godless Shrine
2 Marsh Flats
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Plains
2 Shambling Vent
1 Stirring Wildwood
1 Swamp
1 Temple Garden
1 Twilight Mire
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Windswept Heath
[/Lands]
[Spells]
3 Abrupt Decay
3 Inquisition of Kozilek
3 Liliana of the Veil
4 Lingering Souls
2 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Murderous Cut
3 Path to Exile
3 Thoughtseize
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
1 Anafenza, the Foremost
1 Kitchen Finks
2 Noble Hierarch
2 Scavenging Ooze
4 Siege Rhino
4 Tarmogoyf
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
2 Stony Silence
2 Kitchen Finks
2 Duress
1 Painful Truths
1 Curse of Death’s Hold
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Celestial Purge
1 Celestial Purge
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Damnation
1 Zealous Persecution
1 Dromoka’s Command
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]

5th-8th Erik Traikov
Deck: Burn

[deck]
[Lands]
3 Arid Mesa
3 Bloodstained Mire
2 Mountain
3 Sacred Foundry
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Stomping Ground
3 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Spells]
4 Atarka’s Command
4 Boros Charm
4 Lava Spike
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Rift Bolt
4 Searing Blaze
2 Skullcrack
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
4 Eidolon of the Great Revel
4 Goblin Guide
2 Grim Lavamancer
4 Monastery Swiftspear
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
2 Rending Volley
1 Deflecting Palm
2 Path to Exile
4 Kor Firewalker
2 Skullcrack
4 Destructive Revelry
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]

Leslie Walderman 5th-8th
Deck: Grixis

[deck]
[Lands]
1 Blackcleave Cliffs
1 Blood Crypt
1 Bloodstained Mire
2 Creeping Tar Pit
2 Darkslick Shores
2 Island
1 Mountain
4 Polluted Delta
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Steam Vents
1 Sulfur Falls
1 Swamp
1 Watery Grave
[/Lands]
[Spells]
1 Countersquall
1 Damnation
3 Inquisition of Kozilek
3 Kolaghan’s Command
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Mana Leak
1 Rise // Fall
4 Serum Visions
3 Terminate
3 Thought Scour
1 Thoughtseize
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
1 Glen Elendra Archmage
4 Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy
1 Pia and Kiran Nalaar
3 Snapcaster Mage
2 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
1 Surgical Extraction
1 Liliana of the Veil
1 Dreadbore
1 Keranos, God of Storms
2 Anger of the Gods
3 Dispel
1 Vandalblast
1 Painful Truths
1 Blood Moon
3 Fulminator Mage
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]

Matthew Dilks 5th-8th
Deck: B/R Eldrazi

[deck]
[Lands]
4 Blackcleave Cliffs
2 Blood Crypt
2 Bloodstained Mire
4 Cavern of Souls
4 Eldrazi Temple
3 Eye of Ugin
2 Mountain
2 Swamp
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
[/Lands]
[Spells]
1 All Is Dust
2 Go for the Throat
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Lightning Bolt
1 Nihil Spellbomb
4 Oblivion Ring
1 Pillar of Flame
4 Relic of Progenitus
2 Scrabbling Claws
1 Slaughter Pact
1 Thoughtseize
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
1 Barrage Tyrant
4 Blight Herder
2 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
4 Wasteland Strangler
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
1 Dreadbore
2 Slaughter Games
1 Shatterstorm
1 Damnation
2 Anger of the Gods
3 Fulminator Mage
2 Spellskite
1 Duress
2 Vampiric Link
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]

5th-8th Matthew Loong
Deck: Jund

[deck]
[Lands]
4 Blackcleave Cliffs
1 Blood Crypt
3 Bloodstained Mire
2 Forest
2 Overgrown Tomb
4 Raging Ravine
1 Stomping Ground
2 Swamp
4 Verdant Catacombs
1 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Spells]
2 Abrupt Decay
1 Chandra, Pyromaster
3 Inquisition of Kozilek
2 Kolaghan’s Command
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Liliana of the Veil
1 Maelstrom Pulse
3 Terminate
3 Thoughtseize
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
1 Abbot of Keral Keep
1 Courser of Kruphix
3 Dark Confidant
2 Pia and Kiran Nalaar
3 Scavenging Ooze
4 Tarmogoyf
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
2 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Night of Souls’ Betrayal
1 Feed the Clan
1 Thragtusk
2 Painful Truths
2 Kitchen Finks
1 Olivia Voldaren
1 Anger of the Gods
1 Damnation
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Engineered Explosives
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]

Top 8

The Sunday Showdowns are a series of 1K tournaments that take place at the Face to Face Games Toronto store. To keep things fresh, the format rotates every week and the events have been attracting many players, both old and new.