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Showdown Recap: Modern LCQ

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 battled a day early, on Saturday, as we hosted a Last Chance Qualifier for Sunday’s Modern Regional Pro Tour Qualifier (RPTQ).

The Top 8 of our Saturday Modern Showdown LCQ.

Affinity has got to be Modern’s version of ‘old faithful’ and David Hall rode the powerful artifact strategy all the way to an invite to the RPTQ on Saturday. As I find myself saying a lot, this Top 8 looks extremely “Modern” in that it’s a bunch of different individually powerful decks but no prevailing theme seems to exist at a cursory glance. With that said, Path to Exile seemed to at least have a little bit of success for the fair decks, and once again colourless was the unfair deck you wanted to be on.

Jamie Naylor jumped out of pseudo-retirement to play an Omar Beldon-influenced pile of U/W cards that Jamie certainly excels at winning with. There were also two, yes two, full copies of Goblin Rabblemaster in this Jund deck which just hits close to my heart. Decks aside I think it must be noted that Quinn Gregg has officially just never missed a Top 8 in Modern ever with Eldrazi Tron.

David will have a short turn-around time for his Sunday RPTQ but I’m sure he kept his Ornithopters close to his pillow that night to attempt to go back-to-back and appease our lord and saviour Drake “drizzy Drake” “The Six” God.

LCQ Modern Showdown winner David Hall.

With his win on Saturday David has qualified himself for the next Face to Face Games Ultimate Showdown and the Modern RPTQ on Sunday, 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 where our Showdown series gets a special Iconic Masters Sealed event come on out and open a Mana Drain!

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First Place- David Hall, Affinity

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Arcbound Ravager
2 Etched Champion
1 Hope of Ghirapur
2 Master of Etherium
2 Memnite
4 Ornithopter
4 Signal Pest
4 Steel Overseer
3 Vault Skirge
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Galvanic Blast
4 Cranial Plating
4 Mox Opal
4 Springleaf Drum
1 Welding Jar
4 Thoughtcast
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Blinkmoth Nexus
4 Darksteel Citadel
4 Inkmoth Nexus
1 Island
4 Spire of Industry
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Blood Moon
1 Duress
1 Eidolon of Rhetoric
1 Etched Champion
1 Galvanic Blast
1 Ghirapur AEther Grid
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Rest in Peace
2 Spell Pierce
1 Thoughtseize
2 Wear
1 Whipflare
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Second Place- Duncan McGregor, U/R Breach

[Deck]
[Creatures]
3 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
4 Snapcaster Mage
1 Vendilion Clique
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Cryptic Command
2 Electrolyze
1 Izzet Charm
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Opt
1 Pull from Tomorrow
4 Remand
1 Spell Snare
4 Through the Breach
2 Blood Moon
4 Serum Visions
[/Spells]
[Lands]
2 Desolate Lighthouse
2 Flooded Strand
7 Island
1 Mountain
2 Polluted Delta
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Steam Vents
2 Sulfur Falls
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Anger of the Gods
1 By Force
3 Dispel
1 Izzet Staticaster
3 Madcap Experiment
2 Platinum Emperion
2 Roast
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

 

Third Place- Quinn Gregg, Eldrazi Tron

[Deck]
[Creatures]
2 Endbringer
4 Matter Reshaper
4 Reality Smasher
4 Thought-Knot Seer
1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
4 Walking Ballista
1 Wurmcoil Engine
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Dismember
1 Warping Wail
1 Basilisk Collar
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Expedition Map
2 Karn Liberated
2 All Is Dust
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Cavern of Souls
4 Eldrazi Temple
3 Ghost Quarter
1 Sanctum of Ugin
1 Sea Gate Wreckage
4 Urzas Mine
4 Urzas Power Plant
4 Urzas Tower
2 Wastes
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Basilisk Collar
1 Crucible of Worlds
2 Grafdiggers Cage
2 Hangarback Walker
1 Pithing Needle
2 Ratchet Bomb
2 Relic of Progenitus
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Warping Wail
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Fourth Place- Joshua Santangelo, Titan Shift

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Primeval Titan
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
1 Wood Elves
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Engineered Explosives
4 Farseek
2 Hour of Promise
4 Scapeshift
4 Search for Tomorrow
1 Sweltering Suns
3 Lightning Bolt
2 Summoners Pact
2 Prismatic Omen
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Breeding Pool
3 Cinder Glade
2 Forest
3 Misty Rainforest
6 Mountain
1 Steam Vents
3 Stomping Ground
4 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
4 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Acidic Slime
1 Ancient Grudge
2 Anger of the Gods
2 Disdainful Stroke
3 Negate
3 Obstinate Baloth
1 Reclamation Sage
2 Relic of Progenitus
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Fifth Place- Shayne Hall, B/G Tron

[Deck]
[Creatures]
1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
4 Wurmcoil Engine
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Karn Liberated
1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
2 Fatal Push
4 Chromatic Sphere
4 Chromatic Star
4 Expedition Map
4 Oblivion Stone
1 Relic of Progenitus
4 Ancient Stirrings
3 Collective Brutality
4 Sylvan Scrying
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Blooming Marsh
2 Forest
1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Llanowar Wastes
4 Urzas Mine
4 Urzas Power Plant
4 Urzas Tower
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Collective Brutality
2 Duress
2 Fatal Push
3 Natures Claim
1 Orbs of Warding
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
1 Unravel the Aether
2 Warping Wail
1 Witchbane Orb
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Sixth Place- Jamie Naylor, U/W Control

[Deck]
[Creatures]
3 Snapcaster Mage
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Supreme Verdict
4 Cryptic Command
1 Disdainful Stroke
3 Mana Leak
4 Opt
4 Path to Exile
2 Detention Sphere
1 Runed Halo
2 Search for Azcanta
4 Spreading Seas
1 Gideon Jura
2 Gideon of the Trials
1 Jace, Architect of Thought
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Celestial Colonnade
4 Field of Ruin
4 Flooded Strand
1 Ghost Quarter
2 Glacial Fortress
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Irrigated Farmland
5 Island
1 Mystic Gate
2 Plains
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Celestial Purge
1 Crucible of Worlds
3 Dispel
1 Elspeth, Suns Champion
2 Kitchen Finks
1 Runed Halo
2 Spell Queller
2 Stony Silence
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Wrath of God
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Seventh Place- Michael Van Vaals, Affinity

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Dark Confidant
3 Goblin Rabblemaster
2 Scavenging Ooze
4 Tarmogoyf
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Abrupt Decay
3 Fatal Push
2 Kolaghans Command
3 Lightning Bolt
3 Terminate
3 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Maelstrom Pulse
3 Thoughtseize
3 Liliana of the Veil
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Blackcleave Cliffs
1 Blood Crypt
3 Bloodstained Mire
2 Forest
2 Overgrown Tomb
3 Raging Ravine
1 Stomping Ground
2 Swamp
4 Verdant Catacombs
1 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Anger of the Gods
3 Blood Moon
1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
3 Collective Brutality
1 Grafdiggers Cage
2 Huntmaster of the Fells
1 Kozileks Return
1 Nihil Spellbomb
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Eighth Place- Justin Wong, Abzan

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Dark Confidant
3 Grim Flayer
2 Scavenging Ooze
4 Tarmogoyf
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Collective Brutality
3 Inquisition of Kozilek
3 Lingering Souls
1 Maelstrom Pulse
3 Thoughtseize
2 Abrupt Decay
3 Fatal Push
3 Path to Exile
4 Liliana of the Veil
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Blooming Marsh
1 Forest
1 Gavony Township
1 Godless Shrine
3 Marsh Flats
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Plains
2 Shambling Vent
1 Stirring Wildwood
2 Swamp
1 Temple Garden
4 Verdant Catacombs
1 Windswept Heath
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Damnation
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Flaying Tendrils
2 Fulminator Mage
1 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
2 Kitchen Finks
1 Maelstrom Pulse
2 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Stony Silence
2 Surgical Extraction
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

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