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 Modern to find out just how good Jace, the Mind Sculptor and Bloodbraid Elf really are.

The dust has settled, and there were 18 copies of Jace, the Mind Sculptor in the Top 8 of our first Modern event since the powerful planeswalker was unabanned. Now, I don’t think we should be sounding the alarm yet, there were also a way higher than normal amount of players playing blue-based decks in the room. Everyone wanted to try the new hotness, and boy did it show.

Let’s break things down a little more.

Jeremy Rubinoff took down the whole event with Dredge. I think this was a great choice, as you can tell by my fifth place decklist with zero graveyard hate in the sideboard. Jeremy identified a weakness in the format and hit it hard, something that’s always worked in Modern.

The rest of the Top 8, other than my Jund deck, was a smattering of controlling Jace decks and a Bant Eldrazi outlier. Daniel Goetschel has been having a lot of success online with his Blue Moon deck where he goes by Gul_Dukat, and that continued on Sunday. For more on his deck stay tuned to ManaDeprived in the coming days where he’ll have a deck tech for you.

Liam Kane remained somehow unstoppable in every format and this Bant Eldrazi deck has a whole bunch of spice. As for Ben Lu’s U/B Control deck, well, those certainly are some numbers. Truly the old triple Snapcaster, triple Spreading Seas and two Jace special.

Edgar Magalhaes doesn’t lose much as you probably know, and played a sweet deck on Sunday. This is actually something I built and he tuned. The way we see it, Jace works better in a proactive shell, where you trade resources and then slam Jace and watch the life drain out of your opponent. Edgar also won a 1k on Saturday with nearly the same 75. If you’re reading and interested in a deck tech on Sultai in more detail, let me know and I’ll try to write something up.

If you’re looking for any details on my Jund deck, I got you covered here.

I truly had a blast playing new Modern on Sunday, there’s holes to be picked and Modern is still as diverse as ever, but now you can play a little more fair.

With his win on Sunday Jeremy qualifies himself for the Face to Face Games Ultimate Showdown. Next week we’ll be battling Standard with all of those sweet new decklists from Grand Prix Memphis.

There is also a Modern Open+ this coming Saturday. That means 5k in prizes and a couple of trips to the next StarCityGames Invitational will be on the line. Now THE EVENT’S LOCATION HAS CHANGED. The new location is the Montecassino Hotel and Event Centre at 3710 Chesswood Dr.

Registration will still be at 10 a.m., and the event will begin at 11 a.m.!

Interested in how many Showdown Points you have? Click here.

First Place, Jeremy Rubinoff- Dredge
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Stinkweed Imp
3 Life From the Loam
3 Golgari Thug
2 Darkblast
4 Bloodghast
4 Prized Amalgam
4 Narcomoeba
1 Haunted Dead
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Conflagrate
4 Cathartic Reunion
4 Faithless Looting
2 Lightning Axe
2 Collective Brutality
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Bloodstained Mire
2 Stomping Ground
2 Blood Crypt
1 Mountain
1 Steam Vents
2 Dakmor Salvage
4 Copperline Gorge
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Conflagrate
1 Vengeful Pharoh
1 Thoughtseize
2 Collective Brutality
2 Maelstrom Pulse
2 Engineered Explosives
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Gnaw to the Bone
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Ghost Quarter
[/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 Knot
3 Anger of the god
2 Abrade
2 Pia and Kiran Nalaar
2 Entrancing Melody
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Third Place, Simon Tubello- Jeskai
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Snapcaster Mage
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Path to Exile
2 Lightning Bolt
4 Lightning Helix
3 Supreme Verdict
2 Cryptic Command
2 Mana Leak
2 Logic Knot
1 Negate
2 Electrolyze
1 Spell Snare
2 Opt
4 Jace The Mind Sculpter
2 Engineered Explosives
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Celestial Colonnade
4 Flooded Strand
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Steam Vents
2 Hallowed Fountain
1 Sacred Foundry
3 Island
1 Plains
2 Sulfur Falls
1 Mystic Gate
1 Field of Ruin
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Dispel
1 Celestial Purge
3 Geist of Saint Traft
1 Izzet Staticaster
1 Ceremonious Rejection
2 Stony Silence
2 Relic of Progenitus
1 Negate
1 Wear // Tear
1 Elspeth Suns Champion
1 Search For Azcanta
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Fourth Place, Liam Kane- U/R Pyromancer
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Young Pyromancer
4 Snapcaster Mage
1 Grim Lavamancer
1 Vendillion Clique
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Jace, the Mind Sculpter
4 Serum Visions
4 Opt
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Spell Snare
3 Logic Knot
1 Abrade
1 Roast
1 Negate
2 Electrolyze
3 Cryptic Command
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Polluted Delta
3 Steam Vents
1 Sulfur Falls
3 Field of Ruin
5 Island
2 Mountain
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Anger of the Gods
2 Ceremonious Rejection
2 Crumble to Dust
1 Disdainful Stroke
2 Dispel
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Izzet Staticaster
1 Negate
1 Pia and Kiran Nalaar
1 Roast
1 Search for Azcanta
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Fifth Place, Keith Capstick- Jund
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Dark Confidant
4 Bloodbraid Elf
3 Scavenging Ooze
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Thoughtseize
3 Inquisition of Kozilek
2 Lightning Bolt
2 Fatal Push
2 Kolaghans Command
2 Maelstrom Pulse
4 Liliana of the Veil
1 Liliana, the Last hope
2 Terminate
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Verdant Catacombs
3 Bloodstained Mire
3 Raging Ravine
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Stomping Ground
1 Blood Crypt
1 Twilight Mire
4 Blackcleave Cliffs
1 Blooming Marsh
2 Forest
2 Swamp
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Fulminator Mage
3 Collective Brutality
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
1 Kitchen Finks
1 Grim Lavamancer
1 Kolaghans Command
1 Damnation
2 Bitterblossom
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Sixth Place, Edgar Magalhaes- Sultai
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Dark Confidant
2 Scavenging Ooze
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Abrupt Decay
4 Liliana of the Veil
1 Liliana of the Last Hope
2 Maelstrom Pulse
4 Jace, the Mind Sculpter
1 Collective Brutality
4 Thoughtseize
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Fatal Push
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Polluted Delta
4 Verdant Catacombs
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Watery Grave
1 Breeding Pool
2 Swamp
1 Forest
1 Island
4 Creeping Tar Pit
2 Blooming Marsh
1 Sunken Ruins
1 Twilight Mire
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Nihil Spellbomb
3 Fulminator Mage
2 Damnation
2 Disdainful Stroke
2 Countersquall
1 Liliana the last hope
2 Collective Brutality
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Seventh Place, Andrew Swan- Bant Eldrazi
[Deck]
[Creatures]
1 Birds of Paradise
4 Noble Hierarch
1 Rhonas, The Indomitable
4 Eldrazi Displacer
2 Eldrazi Skyspawner
4 Matter Reshaper
4 Thought-Knot Seer
4 Reality Smasher
2 Drowner of Hope
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Jace, The Mind Sculpter
1 Dromokas Command
2 Engineered Explosives
3 Path to Exile
4 Ancient Stirrings
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Gavony Township
4 Cavern of Souls
4 Eldrazi Temple
3 Windswept Heath
2 Yavimaya Coast
2 Brushland
1 Adarkar Wastes
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Temple Garden
1 Breeding Pool
1 Forest
1 Plains
1 Wastes
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Leyline of Sanctity
2 Stony Silence
2 Relic of Progenitus
1 Settle the Wreckage
1 Gaddock Teeg
2 Natural State
1 Nissa, Vital Force
1 Kitchen Finks
2 Stubborn Denial
1 Negate
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Eighth Place, Ben Lu- U/B Control
[Deck]
[Creatures]
3 Snapcaster Mage
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Fatal Push
2 Jace the Mind Sculpter
1 Liliana, The last hope
1 Jace, Architect of Thought
2 Supreme Will
2 Spell Snare
2 Search For Azcanta
3 Spreading Seas
4 Remand
3 Opt
2 Heros Downfall
2 Damnation
1 Batterskull
3 Cryptic Command
1 Logic Knot
[/Spells]
[Lands]
2 Swamp
2 Drowned Catacomb
4 Field of Ruin
1 Sunken Ruins
3 Creeping Tar Pit
2 Watery Grave
1 Flooded Strand
4 Polluted Delta
5 Island
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Collective Brutality
2 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
1 Hurkyls Recall
1 Flaying Tendrils
1 Damnation
1 Bitterblossom
1 Vendillion Clique
1 Disdainful Stroke
1 Hostage Taker
2 Fulminator Mage
1 Countersquall
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]