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 the Legacy format at the International Centre during Canadian Nationals to take down the top prize.
Well, all I can say about this Top 8 is that clearly Life from the Loam is a powerful card and that if you’re going to Eternal Weekend you better have a plan for beating Marit Lage. Matthew Dilks and has trusty Lands deck took down the event and he was one of four Dark Depths players in the Top 8. The last time I did a recap for a Legacy event, it was all about 4C Leovold, and clearly this is the natural metagame transition. All of these players have powerful linear gameplans that include a Loam engine that fair midrange decks have a very hard time interacting with. This coupled with the quick depths win and Wasteland effects make this shift make a lot of sense overall.
There was however one Leovold-style deck in Top 8 in Food Chain and a traditional Grixis Delver deck. There was also a straight-up Sultai Midrange deck that was sporting a Loam package of its own which is certainly of interest. Infect and Eldrazi rounded out the elimination round players as the two most linear all-in decks. There’s certainly been a shift in the Showdown Legacy metagame. Now it’s time to see if the fair mages can adjust.
With his win this weekend Matthew 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 at Face to Face Games Toronto for our Modern Showdown because the only thin more fun than casting Brainstorm is casting 10/10 Death’s Shadows!
First Place, Matthew Dilks, Lands
[Deck]
[Spells]
4 Crop Rotation
3 Punishing Fire
4 Gamble
4 Life from the Loam
4 Exploration
1 Manabond
4 Mox Diamond
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Barbarian Ring
1 Bojuka Bog
4 Dark Depths
1 Forest
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Glacial Chasm
4 Grove of the Burnwillows
1 Karakas
3 Maze of Ith
1 Misty Rainforest
3 Rishadan Port
1 Sheltered Thicket
2 Taiga
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
4 Thespians Stage
1 Tranquil Thicket
4 Wasteland
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Chalice of the Void
1 Drop of Honey
4 Krosan Grip
4 Sphere of Resistance
1 Thorn of Amethyst
3 Tireless Tracker
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Second Place, Justin Glanzer, Infect
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Blighted Agent
4 Glistener Elf
4 Noble Hierarch
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Become Immense
2 Berserk
4 Brainstorm
1 Crop Rotation
3 Daze
3 Force of Will
4 Invigorate
1 Piracy Charm
2 Spell Pierce
2 Vines of Vastwood
2 Gitaxian Probe
1 Green Suns Zenith
1 Ponder
1 Sylvan Library
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Forest
4 Inkmoth Nexus
1 Pendelhaven
4 Tropical Island
1 Wasteland
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Crop Rotation
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Will
1 Hydroblast
1 Karakas
1 Krosan Grip
1 Natures Claim
1 Necropede
1 Pithing Needle
1 Spellskite
2 Submerge
1 Surgical Extraction
1 Viridian Corrupter
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Third Place, Steven Liao, Food Chain
[Deck]
[Creatures]
3 Baleful Strix
4 Deathrite Shaman
1 Eternal Scourge
3 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
3 Misthollow Griffin
4 Walking Ballista
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Manipulate Fate
3 Ponder
3 Thoughtseize
3 Abrupt Decay
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Food Chain
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Bayou
1 Forest
2 Island
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Polluted Delta
1 Swamp
2 Tropical Island
2 Underground Sea
1 Verdant Catacombs
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Diabolic Edict
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Engineered Plague
2 Flusterstorm
1 Golgari Charm
2 Hydroblast
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
2 Mindbreak Trap
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Toxic Deluge
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Fourth Place, Edward Chatwoos, Grixis Delver
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Delver of Secrets
2 Gurmag Angler
2 True-Name Nemesis
3 Young Pyromancer
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Forked Bolt
4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Ponder
4 Brainstorm
4 Daze
4 Force of Will
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Spell Pierce
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Tropical Island
2 Underground Sea
3 Volcanic Island
4 Wasteland
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Ancient Grudge
3 Cabal Therapy
1 Diabolic Edict
1 Dismember
1 Flusterstorm
1 Grim Lavamancer
1 Izzet Staticaster
1 Pithing Needle
2 Pyroblast
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Umezawas Jitte
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Fifth Place, Ryan Myers, Lands
[Deck]
[Spells]
4 Crop Rotation
3 Punishing Fire
4 Gamble
4 Life from the Loam
4 Exploration
1 Manabond
4 Mox Diamond
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Barbarian Ring
1 Bojuka Bog
4 Dark Depths
1 Forest
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Glacial Chasm
4 Grove of the Burnwillows
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 Grudge
1 Chalice of the Void
1 Drop of Honey
4 Krosan Grip
4 Sphere of Resistance
1 Thorn of Amethyst
3 Tireless Tracker
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Sixth Place, Niall Wilson, Sultai Loam
[Deck]
[Creatures]
2 Baleful Strix
4 Deathrite Shaman
1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
3 Snapcaster Mage
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Abrupt Decay
4 Brainstorm
3 Crop Rotation
3 Force of Will
3 Stifle
2 Life from the Loam
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Ponder
1 Toxic Deluge
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Liliana of the Veil
1 Nissa, Steward of Elements
1 Pernicious Deed
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Bayou
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Cephalid Coliseum
1 Dark Depths
1 Forest
1 Island
1 Karakas
3 Misty Rainforest
3 Polluted Delta
1 Swamp
1 Thespians Stage
2 Tropical Island
2 Underground Sea
4 Wasteland
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Chill
1 Crop Rotation
1 Diabolic Edict
1 Dread of Night
1 Flusterstorm
1 Golgari Charm
1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
1 Nissa, Vital Force
1 Null Rod
1 Pithing Needle
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Thoughtseize
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Seventh Place, Ethan Meier, Turbo Depths
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Elvish Spirit Guide
1 Spellskite
4 Vampire Hexmage
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Duress
2 Into the North
1 Life from the Loam
2 Sylvan Scrying
3 Thoughtseize
1 Abrupt Decay
4 Crop Rotation
2 Not of This World
4 Lotus Petal
3 Pithing Needle
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Bayou
1 Bojuka Bog
4 Dark Depths
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Karakas
1 Sejiri Steppe
1 Snow-Covered Forest
2 Snow-Covered Swamp
4 Thespians Stage
4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
3 Verdant Catacombs
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Choke
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Engineered Plague
1 Faerie Macabre
1 Glacial Chasm
1 Ground Seal
1 Krosan Grip
1 Massacre
1 Maze of Ith
1 Shizo, Deaths Storehouse
1 Steely Resolve
1 Surgical Extraction
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1 Toxic Deluge
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Eighth Place, Jon Fine, Eldrazi Stompy
[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 Umezawas 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
2 Ratchet Bomb
1 Sorcerous Spyglass
3 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
1 Warping Wail
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]