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 see who could take down the top prize.

This week on the Showdown Series, one of our weekly Legacy specialists dipped his toes into Modern to take down the event. Boston Schatteman won it all with Blue Moon.

Blue Moon obviously isn’t the king of Modern, but is an interesting way to attack the format in its current form. [Card]Thing in the Ice[/Card] is very well positioned against some of the format’s prominent beat down decks and we all know that [Card]Blood Moon[/Card] can be the great equalizer in this format.

Facing off against Boston in the finals was Showdown stalwart Chris Ha, who personally told me after the match that he left himself a little too suceptible to [Card]Blood Moon[/Card] and was promptly punished.

Tyrell Wildman also returned to our Top 8 after finishing with the same result at two weeks ago with his Amulet Titan deck. Amulet is just a super powerful deck, but can be tricky to pilot. Tyrell is showing that he has the skills to play a deck with this many [Card]Demonic Tutor[/Card]s and make the winning decisions.

I’d also like to highlight that there were once again two copies of Bant Spirits in our Top 8. This deck just keeps putting up consistent results and is really proving itself to be one of Modern’s top decks. If you’re planning on playing the Modern LCQ or RPTQ next weekend you better have a plan for this tribal deck, because it is the real deal.

With his win on Sunday, Boston cements his spot in the upcoming Ultimate Showdown and also puts himself in first place on our Showdown leaderboard, while the rest of our Top 8 have begun their march up the leader board to qualify. This upcoming weekend at Face to Face Games Toronto we’ll be hosting our Showdown on Saturday as a Last Chance Qualifier for Sunday’s Regional Pro Tour Qualifier. The LCQ will be Modern and award 1K in prizes as usual along with giving you a shot to qualify for the Pro Tour! Sleeve up your favourite deck, pre-register and come on out!

First Place, Boston Schatteman – Blue Moon

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Snapcaster Mage
3 Thing in the Ice
1 Torrential Gearhulk
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Serum Visions
4 Opt
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Flame Slash
2 Abrade
1 Harvest Pyre
3 Spell Snare
4 Remand
4 Cryptic Command
2 Blood Moon
2 Ral, Izzet Viceroy
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Desolate Lighthouse
1 Spirebluff Canal
2 Sulfur Falls
2 Steam Vents
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Misty Rainforest
7 Snow-Covered Island
1 Snow-Covered Mountain
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Anger of the Gods
1 Ceremonious Rejection
2 Dispel
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Entrancing Melody
1 Izzet Staticaster
1 Keranos, God of Storms
2 Logic Knot
2 Relic of Progenitus
1 Surgical Extraction
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Second Place, Chris Ha – Golgari Midrange

[Deck]
[Creatures]
3 Scavenging Ooze
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Dark Confidant
2 Tireless Tracker
1 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Inquisition of Kozelik
3 Thoughtseize
4 Assassin’s Trophy
2 Collective Brutality
4 Fatal Push
4 Liliana of the Veil
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Verdant Catacombs
1 Bloodstained Mire
2 Overgrown Tomb
4 Blooming Marsh
2 Treetop Village
2 Hissing Quagmire
2 Forest
4 Swamp
3 Field of Ruin
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Leyline of the Void
1 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
1 Deathmark
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
2 Damnation
1 Collective Brutality
3 Fulminator Mage
2 Surgical Extraction
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Third Place, Andrew Gordon – Ironworks Combo

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Scrap Trawler
1 Myr Retriever
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Mishra’s Bauble
1 Pyrite Spellbomb
4 Ancient Stirrings
4 Mox Opal
4 Krark-Clan Ironworks
4 Terrarion
4 Chromatic Star
4 Ichor Wellspring
4 Mind Stone
3 Chromatic Sphere
3 Engineered Explosives
1 Spine of Ish Sah
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Grove of the Burnwillow
4 Darksteel Citadel
3 Yavimaya Coast
2 Forest
2 Buried Ruin
2 Inventor’s Fain
1 Island
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Galvanic Blast
4 Nature’s Claim
3 Sai, Master Thopterist
2 Negate
1 Swan Song
3 Lightning Bolt
1 Tormod’s Crypt
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Fourth Place, Tyrell Wildman – Amulet Titan

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Primeval Titan
4 Sakura-Tribe Scout
3 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
1 Walking Ballista
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Nissa, Steward of Elements
1 Nissa, Vital Force
4 Amulet of Vigor
4 Ancient Stirrings
3 Oath of Nissa
1 Engineered Explosives
4 Summoner’s Pact
2 Explore
1 Pact of Negation
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Ghost Quarter
4 Simic Growth Chamber
3 Gruul Turf
1 Selesnya Sanctuary
1 Boros Garrison
1 Slayers’ Stronghold
1 Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion
3 Gemstone Mine
3 Tolaria West
1 Radiant Fountain
1 Grove of the Burnwillows
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Vesuva
1 Khalni Garden
1 Cavern of Souls
3 Forest
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Spell Pierce
1 World Breaker
1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
1 Hornet Queen
1 Dragonlord Dromoka
1 Obstinate Baloth
1 Emrakul, the Promised End
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Abrade
2 Firespout
1 Reclamation Sage
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Fifth Place, Ryan Armstrong – Bant Spirits

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Spell Queller
4 Drogskol Captain
3 Reflector Mage
4 Supreme Phantom
1 Rattlechains
4 Mausoleum Wanderer
4 Noble Hierarch
2 Selfless Spirit
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Path to Exile
3 Aether Vial
4 Collected Company
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Temple Garden
3 Windswept Heath
3 Horizon Canopy
2 Hallowed Fountain
3 Botanical Sanctum
1 Breeding Pool
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Plains
1 Forest
1 Island
1 Moorland Haunt
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Disdainful Stroke
2 Unified Will
2 Stony Silence
2 Damping Sphere
2 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
2 Knight of Autumn
1 Settle the Wreckage
3 Rest in Peace
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Sixth Place, Nicholas Bonnay – Ad Nauseum

[Deck]
[Creatures]
1 Laboratory Maniac
4 Simian Spirit Guide
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Angel’s Grace
1 Gideon of the Trials
3 Phyrexian Unlife
1 Censor
1 Echoing Truth
1 Mystical Teachings
2 Pact of Negation
1 Peer Through Depths
4 Serum Visions
4 Sleight of hand
4 Ad Nauseam
1 Lightning Storm
4 Lotus Bloom
4 Pentad Prism
[/Spells]
[Lands]
2 City of Brass
4 Darkslick Shores
3 Gemstone Mine
1 Island
1 Plains
4 Seachrome Coast
3 Temple of Deceit
2 Temple of Enlightenment
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Bontu’s Last Reckoning
1 Disenchant
4 Leyline of Sanctity
1 Pact of Negation
2 Path to Exile
1 Slaughter Pact
1 Supreme Verdict
2 Thoughtseize
2 Vendilion Clique
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Seventh Place, Chris Dockrill – Burn

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Eidolon of the Great Revel
4 Monastery Swiftspear
2 Grim Lavamancer
4 Goblin Guide
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Skullcrack
4 Lava Spike
4 Searing Blaze
4 Rift Bolt
4 Boros Charm
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Lightning Helix
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Mountain
2 Arid Mesa
2 Sacred Foundry
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Inspiring Vantage
4 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Risk Factor
1 Exquisite Firecraft
2 Kor Firewalker
2 Rest in Peace
2 Path to Exile
3 Searing Blood
4 Smash to Smithereens
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Eighth Place, Lucas Worrell – Bant Spirits

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Mausoleum Wanderer
4 Rattlechains
4 Supreme Phantom
4 Spell Queller
4 Drogskol Captain
3 Selfless Spirit
2 Phantasmal Image
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Geist of Saint Traft
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Collected Company
4 Path to Exile
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Forest
1 Island
1 Plains
4 Windswept Heath
3 Flooded Stand
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Temple Garden
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Breeding Pool
1 Moorland Haunt
4 Botanical Sanctum
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
2 Unified Will
2 Knight of Autumn
1 Geist of Saint Traft
3 Rest in Peace
3 Stony Silence
2 Worship
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]