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Showdown Recap: Modern

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, and let me tell you, there were a lot of Bloodbraid Elfs in the Top 8.

That said, where there’s Bloobraid, there’s also hateful combo strategies and that’s what Jeremy Rubinoff brought to take down the whole event — Dredge.

Jeremy Rubinoff took down our Modern Showdown with Dredge.

This is Rubinoff’s second consecutive Modern Showdown victory with the deck. So yes, that means it is time to put better graveyard hate in your sideboards everyone.

The rest of the Top 8 is almost entirely fair decks, most of which are different iterations of Jund with Bloodbraid Elf. The only exception is Connors Eilerson’s Ponza deck, which also features Bloodbraid.

This is a far cry from the Modern events we used to see a month or two ago filled with Tron lands and storm cards. It seems like players are really starting to tune their fair decks, and it’s showing in the results. You can see that with Liam Kane’s sweet Blue Moon deck featuring maindeck Entrancing Melody. Perfect for nabbing Tarmogoyfs.

The Modern Showdown Top 8.

Modern truly is turning into a fantastic format. Jund and fair midrange decks were the best choice on Sunday and Jeremy capitalized on that for the second straight event. Now it’s time for the format to work to beat Jeremy. Maybe we’ll see some Leyline of the Voids in the Top 8 of the next Modern Showdown, we’ll have to wait and see.

With his win on Sunday Jeremy furthers his climb up the Face to Face Games Ultimate Showdown leaderboard. Next week we’re hosting our first Pauper Showdown, this is sure to be a super fun event so don’t miss it!

First Place, Jeremy Rubinoff- Dredge

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 bloodghast
4 prized amalgam
4 narcomoeba
1 hunted dead
4 stinkweed imp
3 golgari thug
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 darkblast
3 life from the loam
3 conflagrate
4 cathartic reunion
4 faithless looting
2 lightning axe
2 dark deal
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 scalding tarn
3 wooded foothills
4 bloodstained mire
3 copperline gorge
1 sheltered thicket
2 stomping ground
2 blood crypt
1 mountain
1 steam vents
2 dakmor salvage
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 natures claim
1 dark deal
1 vengeful pharoh
1 bojuka bog
1 thoughtseize
2 maelstom pulse
2 engineered explosives
1 gnaw to the bone
2 ancient grudge
3 collective brutality
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Second Place, Bernardo Fava- Jund

[Deck]
[Creatures]
3 scavenging ooze
4 tarmogoyf
4 dark confidant
4 bloodbraid elf
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 inquisition of kozilek
2 thoughtseize
3 lightning bolt
2 fatal push
1 abrupt decay
1 maelstrom pulse
2 kolaghans command
1 liliana, the last hope
4 liliana of the veil
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 verdant catacombs
2 bloodstained mire
1 wooded foothills
2 overgrown tomb
1 blood crypt
1 stomping ground
3 blackcleave cliffs
1 blooming marsh
3 raging ravine
2 swamp
1 forest
1 mountain
1 twilight mire
2 treetop village
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 grafidggers cage
1 thoughtseize
1 grim lavamancer
1 ancient grudge
2 collective brutality
1 liliana, the last hope
1 maelstrom pulse
2 kichen finks
3 fulminator mage
1 hazoret the fervant
1 damnation
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Third Place, Justin Wong- Blue Jund

[Deck]
[Creatures]
3 snapcaster mage
2 bloodbraid elf
4 tarmogoyf
1 tireless tracker
1 kalitas, traitor of ghet
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 collective brutality
3 liliana of the veil
1 liliana the last hope
1 maelstrom pulse
2 fatal push
2 jace, the mind sculpter
3 inquisition of kozilek
4 serum visions
1 abrupt decay
2 thoughtseize
1 to the slaughter
3 lighting bolt
3 kolaghans command
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 watery grave
3 blackcleave cliffs
4 verdant catacombs
2 darkslick shores
1 steam vents
2 misty rainforest
2 overgrown tomb
1 blood crypt
1 polluted delta
1 breeding pool
1 mountain
1 forest
1 swamp
1 island
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 obstinate baloth
1 gonti, lord of luxury
1 disdainful stroke
2 surgical extraction
1 engineered explosives
3 ceremonious rejection
2 negate
1 dispel
1 collective brutality
1 life goes on
1 damnation
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Fourth Place, Hunter Platt- Esper Control

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 snapcaster mage
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 engineered explosives
1 negate
2 jace the mind sculpter
1 gideon ally of zendikar
3 logic knot
3 cryptic command
3 fatal push
2 search for azcanta
4 path to exile
2 gideon of the trials
2 supreme verdict
4 serum visions
3 lingering souls
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 watery grave
4 polluted delta
3 island
4 flooded strand
3 celestial colonnade
2 hallowed fountain
1 mystic gate
4 field of ruin
1 plains
1 swamp
1 godless shrine
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 celestial purge
1 blessed alliance
1 runed halo
1 wrath of god
1 dispel
1 negate
2 surgical extraction
2 thoughtseize
1 the scarab god
2 collective brutality
1 notion thief
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Fifth Place, Liam Kane- Blue Moon

[Deck]
[Creatures]
1 Vendillion Clique
3 thing in the ice
4 snapcaster mage
2 young pyromancer
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 spell snare
1 entrancing melody
3 logic knot
1 negate
1 abrade
1 roast
2 electrolyze
4 crytic command
2 jace the mind sculpter
4 serum visions
4 opt
4 lightning bolt
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 scalding tarn
4 polluted delta
3 steam vents
5 islands
2 mountain
3 field of ruin
1 sulfur falls
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 anger of the gods
2 ceremonious rejection
2 crumble to dust
1 disdainful stroke
2 dispel
1 entrancing melody
1 engineered explosives
1 grom lavamancer
1 izzet staticaster
1 negate
1 pia and kiran nalaar
1 roast
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Sixth Place, Matt Long- Jund

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 dark confidant
4 tarmogoyf
2 scavenging ooze
4 bloodbraid elf
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 kolaghans command
2 maelstrom pulse
1 abrupt decay
3 lightning bolt
2 fatal push
3 inquisition of kozilek
3 thoughtseize
4 liliana of the veil
1 liliana the last hope
1 terminate
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 bloodstained mire
1 wooded foothills
2 overgrown tomb
1 blood crypt
1 stomping ground
2 swamp
1 forest
3 raging ravine
1 treetop village
4 blackcleave cliffs
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 kitchen finks
2 collective brutality
2 ancient grudge
1 liliana the last hope
1 grim lavamancer
1 nihil spellbomb
3 fulminator mage
1 anger of the gods
1 damnation
1 huntmaster of the fells
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Seventh Place, Richard Smith- The Rock

[Deck]
[Creatures]
3 dark confidant
4 tarmogoyf
2 scavenging ooze
1 grim flayer
4 tireless tracker
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 liliana of the veil
2 maelstrom pulse
1 ramunap excavator
2 abrupt decay
4 inquisition of kozilek
2 thoughtseize
4 fatal push
2 nihil spellbomb
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 forest
4 swamp
4 field of ruin
1 urborg, tomb of yawgmoth
3 blooming marsh
1 windswept heath
3 verdant catacombs
4 treetop village
2 overgrown tomb
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 pithing needle
2 kitchen finks
1 ramunap excavator
2 collective bruatality
1 engineered explosives
1 golgari charm
1 liliana the last hope
2 fulminator mage
1 flaying tendrils
1 damnation
1 surgical extraction
1 obstinate baloth
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Eighth Place, Connors Eilerson- Ponza

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Arbor elf
2 birds of paradise
4 bloodbraid elf
1 courser of kruphix
3 inferno titan
1 pia and kiran nalaar
1 stormbreath dragon
3 tireless tracker
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 blood moon
4 utopia sprawl
1 chandra, torch of defiance
1 nissa, voice of zendikar
4 molten rain
4 stone rain
2 lightning bolt
[/Spells]
[Lands]
7 forest
1 kessig wolf run
1 misty rainforest
1 mountain
3 stomping ground
4 windswept heath
4 wooded foothills
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 ancient grudge
3 anger of the gods
1 chandra, torch of defiance
2 kitchen finks
1 obstinate baloth
2 scavenging ooze
1 shatterstorm
1 thrun, the last troll
2 trinisphere
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

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