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Showdown Recap: Legacy

Welcome to another weekly Showdown Recap, where we take a look at what happened at Face to Face Games Toronto’s weekly Sunday Showdown, a series of 1k events feeding into the Ultimate Showdown 5k Invitational. This week, players battled in Legacy for the second time in the last few weeks to see who would take home the top prize.

I’m certainly biased, but I think it’s time we just call it—4C Leovold is public enemy number one in Legacy. There were three copies in the Top 8 of this event and Daniel Fournier came ninth only losing to the mirror all day. Edgar Magalhaes has been working on the deck since before GP Vegas and is someone who helped me get to a good place with my list and had yet another good day on Sunday. Legacy is a complex battleground but if you’re looking to win in this format 4C Leovold better be on your radar.

Alex Craig was the winner of this event with Jeskai Stoneblade, and he and the rest of the Top 4 (Eldrazi, Lands and B/R Reanimator) definitely had 4C in mind when deciding on decks for the event. Three of these four decks are powerful, linear strategies that have their own ways of combatting Force of Will while punishing slow draws immensely. Lands, in particular can pray on 4C if they can’t stick a Deathrite Shaman. Alex’s deck isn’t as linear but instead tries to out-haymaker the Leovold deck, which apparently worked on Sunday.

October’s Eternal Weekend championships will likely be the key decider for what best combats these powerful control decks, but for now Toronto’s metagame is shaping up strongly heading into the Legacy Showdown over Nationals weekend on Oct. 14.

With his win this weekend Alex qualifies himself for the next Face to Face Games Ultimate Showdown and the rest of the Top 8 have started their march toward the top of the Showdown leaderboard. Join us this weekend to try to cement your spot on the leaderboard at our Ixalan Pre-Release Limited Showdown.  That’s right, come out and get your first competitive look at some new cards next Sunday!

First Place, Alex Craig, Jeskai Stoneblade

[Deck]
[Creatures]
2 Snapcaster Mage
4 Stoneforge Mystic
3 True-Name Nemesis
1 Vendilion Clique
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Batterskull
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Umezawas Jitte
4 Brainstorm
2 Counterspell
4 Force of Will
2 Lightning Bolt
1 Spell Pierce
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Ponder
1 Supreme Verdict
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Arid Mesa
4 Flooded Strand
3 Island
1 Karakas
2 Plains
4 Polluted Delta
1 Steam Vents
3 Tundra
1 Volcanic Island
2 Wasteland
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Containment Priest
2 Disenchant
1 Ethersworn Canonist
1 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
1 Hydroblast
1 Meddling Mage
2 Pyroblast
2 Rest in Peace
1 Spell Pierce
1 Supreme Verdict
1 Surgical Extraction
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Second Place, Matthew Dilks, Lands

[Deck]
[Spells]
3 Burning Wish
3 Gamble
3 Life from the Loam
4 Crop Rotation
3 Punishing Fire
4 Exploration
4 Mox Diamond
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Barbarian Ring
1 Bojuka Bog
3 Dark Depths
1 Forest
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Glacial Chasm
4 Grove of the Burnwillows
1 Horizon Canopy
1 Karakas
3 Maze of Ith
3 Rishadan Port
1 Sheltered Thicket
2 Taiga
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
4 Thespians Stage
1 Tranquil Thicket
1 Verdant Catacombs
4 Wasteland
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Devastating Dreams
1 Hull Breach
2 Krosan Grip
1 Life from the Loam
1 Nissa, Vital Force
1 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Sphere of Resistance
1 Thorn of Amethyst
2 Warping Wail
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Third Place, Trevor Cordingley, B/R Reanimator

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Chancellor of the Annex
3 Griselbrand
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
1 Sire Of Insanity
1 Tidespout Tyrant
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Dark Ritual
4 Entomb
2 Chrome Mox
4 Lotus Petal
4 Animate Dead
4 Exhume
4 Faithless Looting
4 Reanimate
4 Thoughtseize
4 Unmask
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Badlands
2 Blood Crypt
1 Godless Shrine
2 Marsh Flats
4 Polluted Delta
2 Swamp
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Blazing Archon
1 Deflecting Palm
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
2 Faerie Macabre
1 Fulminator Mage
1 Grave Titan
1 Griselbrand
1 Inkwell Leviathan
1 Massacre Wurm
2 Pithing Needle
1 Pyroclasm
2 Wear
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Fourth Place, John Fine, Eldrazi

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Eldrazi Mimic
2 Endbringer
4 Endless One
4 Matter Reshaper
4 Reality Smasher
2 Simian Spirit Guide
4 Thought-Knot Seer
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Chalice of the Void
1 Umezawa’s Jitte
2 Dismember
2 Warping Wail
2 All Is Dust
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Ancient Tomb
3 Cavern of Souls
2 City of Traitors
4 Eldrazi Temple
4 Eye of Ugin
1 Karakas
3 Mishras Factory
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
3 Wasteland
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Faerie Macabre
1 Grafdiggers Cage
1 Null Rod
2 Oblivion Sower
1 Pithing Needle
2 Ratchet Bomb
3 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
1 Warping Wail
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Fifth Place, Edgar Magalhaes, 4C Leovold

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Baleful Strix
4 Deathrite Shaman
2 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
4 Snapcaster Mage
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Hymn to Tourach
4 Ponder
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Abrupt Decay
4 Brainstorm
1 Diabolic Edict
3 Fatal Push
4 Force of Will
3 Kolaghans Command
1 Lightning Bolt
2 Jace, The Mind Sculptor
[/Spells]
[Lands]
2 Badlands
1 Bayou
1 Island
4 Polluted Delta
3 Scalding Tarn
1 Swamp
1 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea
3 Verdant Catacombs
1 Volcanic Island
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Diabolic Edict
3 Flusterstorm
1 Forked Bolt
1 Hydroblast
2 Hymn to Tourach
1 Invasive Surgery
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
1 Marsh Casualties
1 Pyroblast
1 Red Elemental Blast
2 Surgical Extraction
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Sixth Place, Joseph Barbero, Burn

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Eidolon of the Great Revel
4 Goblin Guide
1 Grim Lavamancer
4 Monastery Swiftspear
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Fireblast
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Price of Progress
2 Searing Blaze
4 Chain Lightning
4 Lava Spike
4 Rift Bolt
3 Pyrostatic Pillar
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Bloodstained Mire
10 Mountain
4 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Grafdiggers Cage
4 Pithing Needle
4 Red Elemental Blast
3 Smash to Smithereens
2 Sulfuric Vortex
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Seventh Place, Daniel Goetschel, 4C Leovold

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Baleful Strix
4 Deathrite Shaman
2 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
2 Snapcaster Mage
2 True-Name Nemesis
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Brainstorm
1 Diabolic Edict
2 Fatal Push
4 Force of Will
2 Kolaghans Command
2 Lightning Bolt
2 Hymn to Tourach
4 Ponder
2 Thoughtseize
1 Toxic Deluge
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Badlands
1 Bayou
2 Bloodstained Mire
2 Flooded Strand
1 Island
2 Misty Rainforest
4 Polluted Delta
1 Swamp
1 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Diabolic Edict
2 Flusterstorm
2 Hydroblast
1 Invasive Surgery
1 Kolaghans Command
3 Leyline of the Void
2 Marsh Casualties
3 Pyroblast
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Eighth Place, Jason Drossis, 4C Leovold

[Deck]
[Creatures]
3 Baleful Strix
4 Deathrite Shaman
2 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
4 Snapcaster Mage
1 True-Name Nemesis
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Hymn to Tourach
4 Ponder
1 Thoughtseize
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Abrupt Decay
4 Brainstorm
1 Diabolic Edict
2 Fatal Push
4 Force of Will
2 Kolaghan’s Command
1 Lightning Bolt
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Badlands
1 Bayou
1 Island
1 Misty Rainforest
4 Polluted Delta
3 Scalding Tarn
1 Swamp
1 Tropical Island
3 Underground Sea
2 Verdant Catacombs
2 Volcanic Island
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Diabolic Edict
2 Flusterstorm
1 Hydroblast
2 Hymn to Tourach
1 Marsh Casualties
1 Painful Truths
1 Pithing Needle
2 Pyroblast
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Thoughtseize
1 Wasteland
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

 

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