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Open+ Recap: Modern in Toronto

As you know, Modern has been through quite the shake-up recently. This past Saturday, amidst the Jund-fiesta that was the Magic Online Championship, the Face to Face Games Open Series rolled through Toronto for one of the first large Modern events since the bannings. 188 People battled with Jace and Bloodbraid Elf in our first Open+ of 2018 with 5k in prizes and and two trips to the StarCityGames Invitational on the line.

Now naturally after sweeping changes to the format one deck reigned supreme atop the event — Merfolk.

Our Modern Open+ Champion Aidan Chee.

Despite bursting our bubble by taking down this tournament in a fresh new format with an old classic in Merfolk, Aidan did have to beat some spicy new stuff to get there. There were two copies of Blue Moon in the Top 8 tuned to maximize Jace, the Mind Sculptor. Daniel Goetschel just can’t seem to lose with that deck, and Omar Beldon is no slouch either. If you’re interested in comboing your Jace with Blood Moon, read Daniel’s guide.

Bloodbraid Elf also made her presence felt in the hands of both Andy Robdrup and Robert D’Aurelio. Jund looked like the most popular deck in the room to me, and was certainly a favourite of the pros at the MOCS.

Maybe the most interesting part of this Top 8 though are the multiple copies of Counters Company. Traditionally, Jund has been hated on pretty hard by Eternal Witness decks, and my assumption is that history repeated itself on Saturday.

Your Modern Open+ Top 8.

Modern is definitely just as wide open as ever, but we can even see a little metagame happening in our Top 8. These Company decks clearly were able to hang with Jund all day, and Merfolk has been able to slide past counterspell decks since the beginning of Modern.

Thank you to everyone who came out to jam Modern with us on Saturday, and congratulations to Aidan on his victory. If you’re in the Toronto-area and are looking to play some Magic this coming weekend come on down to Face to Face Games Toronto for our Team Trios Showdown! It’s sure to be a blast.

First Place, Aidan Chee- Merfolk

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 cursecatcher
4 harbinger of the tides
4 lord of atlantis
4 master of the pearl trident
4 master of waves
4 merro reejerey
4 silvergill adept
1 kira, great glass spinner
1 kopala, warder of waves
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 spell pierce
4 spreading seas
4 aether vial
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 cavern of souls
11 island
1 minamo, school at waters edge
4 mutavault
1 oboro, palace in the clouds
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 ceremonious rejection
2 dismember
2 dispel
2 echoing truth
3 negate
3 relic of progenitus
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Second Place, Daniel Goetschel- Blue Moon

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 snapcaster mage
4 thing in the ice
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 cryptic command
2 spell snare
2 blood moon
2 sleight of hand
4 serum visions
4 opt
4 jace, the mind sculpter
2 electrolyze
1 entrancing melody
4 lightning bolt
4 remand
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 snow-covered island
6 island
1 mountain
4 scalding tarn
3 polluted delta
2 spirebluff canal
1 sulfur falls
2 steam vents
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 dispel
3 logic know
3 anger of the gods
2 abrade
2 pia and kiran nalaar
2 entrancing melody
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Third Place, Andy Robdrup- Jund

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 bloodbraid elf
4 tarmogoyf
4 dark confidant
3 scavenging ooze
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 liliana of the veil
1 liliana the last hope
2 inquisition of kozilek
2 thoughtseize
1 collective brutality
2 kolaghans command
1 abrupt decay
2 terminate
2 maelstrom pulse
1 fatal push
3 lightning bolt
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 raging ravine
1 blooming marsh
3 blackcleave cliffs
4 verdant catacombs
3 bloodstained mire
1 wooded foothills
2 overgrown tomb
1 blood crypt
1 stomping ground
2 swamp
2 forest
1 mountain
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 thrun, the lost troll
1 grafdiggers cage
4 fulminator mage
2 ancient grudge
2 nihil spellbomb
1 golgari charm
1 grim lavamancer
1 engineered explosives
2 collective brutality
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Fourth Place, Nolan McDonald- Counters Company

[Deck]
[Creatures]

4 devoted druid
2 viscera seer
4 birds of paradise
4 kitchen finks
3 eternal witness
2 noble hierarch
1 scavenging ooze
1 selfless spirit
4 vizier of remedies
1 tireless tracker
1 walking ballista
3 duskwatch recruiter
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 chord of calling
4 collected company
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 windswept heath
2 gavony township
4 verdant catacombs
2 forest
1 plain
2 horizon canopy
1 godless shrine
2 temple garden
2 overgrown tomb
2 razorverge thicket
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 path to exile
2 abrupt decay
2 orzhov pontiff
1 qasali pridemage
1 sin collector
1 kataki wars wage
1 emrakul aeons torn
1 eidolon of rhetoric
1 loaming shaman
3 tidehollow sculler
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Fifth Place, Omar Beldon- Blue Moon

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 thing in the ice
4 snapcaster mage
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 remand
3 blood moon
4 lightning bolt
1 electrolyze
1 abrade
2 sleight of hand
4 opt
4 serum visions
3 jace, the mind sculptor
2 spell snare
2 cryptic command
[/Spells]
[Lands]
7 island
1 mountain
1 desolate lighthouse
4 flooded strain
4 scalding tarn
2 steam vents
2 sulfur falls
1 spirebluff canal
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 entrancing melody
2 relic of progenitus
1 grim lavamancer
2 dispel
2 logic knot
2 pia and kiran nalaar
2 anger of the gods
1 abrade
1 magma spray
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Sixth Place, Eric Li- Counters Company

[Deck]
[Creatures]
2 walking ballista
4 birds of paradise
1 noble hierarch
1 viscera seer
4 devoted druid
4 duskwatch recruiter
1 scavenging ooze
4 vizier of remedies
1 tireless tracker
3 eternal witness
4 kitchen finks
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 path to exile
4 chord of calling
4 collected company
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 forest
2 gavony townshipp
2 horizon canopy
2 overgrown tomb
1 plains
1 swamp
2 temple garden
4 verdant catacombs
4 windswept heath
1 blooming marsh
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 tidehollow sculler
2 path to exile
2 abrupt decay
1 orzhov pontiff
2 voice of resurgence
1 sin collector
1 eidolon of rhetoric
1 katakai wars wage
1 Liliana, the last hope
1 aven mindcensor
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Seventh Place, Michael Fengler- 8-Rack

[Deck]
[Spells]
2 thoughtseize
4 inquisition of kozilek
4 ravens crime
4 wrench mind
4 the rack
4 smallpox
4 shrieking affliction
4 liliana of the veil
2 dismember
1 murderous cut
1 funeral charm
1 collective brutality
1 fatal push
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 ghost quarter
4 mutavault
4 urborg, tomb of yawgmoth
14 swamp
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 surgical extraction
3 delirium skeins
1 ensnaring bridge
1 fatal push
1 collective brutality
2 ratchet bomb
2 asylum visitor
1 ghost quarter
1 nihil spellbomb
1 waste not
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Eighth Place, Robert D’Aurelio- G/R Eldrazi

[Deck]
[Creatures]
1 Birds of paradise
4 noble hierarch
2 scavenging ooze
4 eldrazi obligator
4 matter reshaper
4 bloodbraid elf
4 thought-knot seer
4 reality smasher
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 ancient stirrings
4 lightning bolt
1 mind stone
1 talisman of impulse
1 dismember
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 cavern of souls
4 eldrazi temple
1 forest
4 grove of the burnwillows
4 karplusian forest
1 mountain
1 kessig wolf run
1 stomping ground
2 wooded foothills
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 chalice of the void
2 engineered explosives
2 grafdiggers cage
2 natural state
2 relic of progenitus
2 ancient grudge
1 kozileks return
2 crumble to dust
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

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