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Open Recap: Modern in Saskatoon

Just a few short hours after Shawn Dhaliwal raised the Hamilton, Ontario Modern Open trophy on the back of the absolutely busted Hogaak Bridgevine. Jeremie Asselin-Maulé was lifting a trophy of his own, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan where we hosted yet another Open.

But Jeremie was playing an entirely different kind of Magic. He took down the event on the back of good old fashion Jund.

Your Open champ, Jeremie Asselin-Maule.

It’s true that with the addition of Modern Horizons, the format has only quickened its blazing fast speed, which has led to cries for bans. With that said, some of Modern’s most fair decks have been able to put up a fight against the [Card]Faithless Looting[/Card] menace and Jeremie showed us that again on Saturday.

Jeremie defeated Geoff Litwin and his also-extremely-fair Jeskai Control deck in the finals.

Joining them in the Top 8 was David Shea Manning on [Card]Living End[/Card], Stéphane Gérard who played a sweet Emeria Control deck, Kyle Gellert in his sixth Face to Face Games Open Top 8 with [Card]Hardened Scales[/Card], Joe Kruppi and Ryan Spence on Humans and Todd Pilling on Izzet Phoenix.

Gellert’s Scales list featured a brand new card in [Card]Scrapyard Recombiner[/Card] from Modern Horizons which looks to slot nicely into this high powered Artifact deck. Gellert is one of the most decorated players in Open Series history, and showed once again on Saturday that if we come out West, he’s gonna be in the Top 8.

Your Saskatoon Open Top 8.

While all the Modern action was going down in the main event, we had players on-site all day battling in side events and buying and selling cards over at the Face to Face Games booth. Our side events were crazy busy all day long, we fired nine Modern Horizons Drafts, six War of the Spark Drafts and 11 Commander flights.

What’s more is our friends at the Commander Cookout podcast were on-site as well gun-slinging games against other Commander players for some sweet free swag.

Congratulations again to our champion Jeremie Asselin-Maulé from everyone at Face to Face Games! Additionally, we’d like to extend our thanks to both our Open Series sponsor — Ultimate Guard — who hooked up everyone in the Top 8 with some awesome swag and to our amazing judge staff! The next stop on the series is coming up on July 22 when we travel to Toronto, Ontario for a special Team Trios Open. Make sure to pre-register and we’ll see you there!

[Deck Title= First Place, Jund – Jeremie Asselin-Maulé]
[Creatures]
4 Tarmogoyf
3 Scavenging Ooze
1 Seasoned Pyyromancer
2 Bloodbraid Elf
3 Dark Confidant
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Thoughtseize
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
2 Assassin’s Trophy
1 Kolaghan’s Command
3 Liliana of the Veil
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
1 Abrupt Decay
2 Wrenn and Six
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Fatal Push
1 Unearth
1 Maelstrom Pulse
[/Spells]
[Lands]
2 Swamp
1 Mountain
1 Forest
3 Verdant Catacombs
4 Blackcleave Cliffs
1 Blood Crypt
1 Stomping Ground
1 Nurturing Peatland
2 Raging Ravine
2 Overgrown Tomb
3 Bloodstained Mire
2 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Plague Engineer
2 Fulminator Mage
1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
1 Damnation
1 Weather the Storm
1 Collective Brutality
1 Anger of the Gods
1 Ancient Grudge
2 Collector Ouphe
3 Surgical Extraction
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Second Place, Jeskai Control – Geoff Litwin]
[Creatures]
4 Snapcaster Mage
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Electrolyze
2 Lightning Bolt
2 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
1 Fact or Fiction
4 Path to Exile
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Force of Negation
4 Opt
2 Narset, Parter of Veils
2 Supreme Verdict
4 Lightning Helix
1 Absorb
3 Cryptic Command
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Field of Ruin
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Glacial Fortress
2 Celestial Colonnade
1 Plains
1 Mountain
2 Sulfur Falls
2 Hallowed Fountain
2 Steam Vents
4 Flooded Strand
3 Island
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Wear // Tear
2 Celestial Purge
1 Timely Reinforcements
2 Dovin’s Veto
1 Surgical Extraction
1 Vendilion Clique
3 Rest in Peace
1 Teferi, Time Raveler
2 Engineered Explosives
1 Keranos, God of Storms
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Third Place, Living End – David Shea Manning]
[Creatures]
4 Desert Cerodon
4 Archfiend of Ifnir
4 Horror of the Broken Lands
4 Street Wraith
4 Viashino Sandsprinter
2 Bloodbraid Elf
2 Shriekmaw
2 Faerie Macabre
3 Fulminator Mage
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Beast Within
1 Kolaghan’s Command
3 Demonic Dread
4 Violent Outburst
3 Living End
[/Spells]
[Lands]
2 Swamp
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Blackcleave Cliffs
3 Grove of the Burnwillows
1 Blood Crypt
1 Stomping Ground
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Blooming Marsh
1 Forest
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Richochet Trap
2 Ingot Chewer
2 Gnaw to the Bone
2 Choke
2 Blood Moon
2 Anger of the Gods
3 Leyline of the Void
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Fourth Place, Azorius Emeria – Stéphane Gérard]
[Creatures]
3 Emeria, the Sky Ruin
4 Wall of Omens
3 Lone Missionary
4 Pilgrim’s Eye
3 Court Hussar
2 Geist-Honored Monk
3 Sun Titan
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Mortarpod
3 Detention Sphere
1 Crucible of Worlds
3 Supreme Verdict
2 Wrath of God
1 Settle the Wreckage
4 Path to Exile
[/Spells]
[Lands]
7 Plains
3 Field of Ruin
2 Ghost Quarter
1 Prairie Stream
1 Island
1 Mistveil Plains
4 Flooded Strand
2 Hallowed Fountain
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Remorseful Cleric
1 Glen Elendra Archmage
1 Stonecloaker
1 Lone Missionary
1 Lavinia of the Tenth
2 Pithing Needle
1 Sorcerous Spyglass
2 Celestial Purge
1 Blessed Alliance
1 Disenchant
1 Aura of Silence
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Fifth Place, Hardened Scales – Kyle Gellert]
[Creatures]
3 Scrapyard Recombiner
1 Throne of Geth
2 Steel Overseer
4 Hangarback Walker
4 Walking Ballista
4 Arcbound Ravager
3 Animation Module
4 Arcbound Worker
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Hardened Scales
4 Ancient Stirrings
3 Welding Jar
4 Mox Opal
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Phyrexia’s Core
4 Darksteel Citadel
4 Inkmoth Nexus
6 Forest
1 Pendelhaven
2 Llanowar Reborn
2 Nurturing Peatland
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Karn, Scion of Urza
2 Damping Sphere
3 Dismember
4 Grafdigger’s Cage
4 Nature’s Claim
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Sixth Place, Humans – Joe Kruppi]
[Creatures]
4 Reflector Mage
3 Kitesail Freebooter
4 Mantis Rider
4 Thalia’s Lieutenant
4 Meddling Mage
4 Champion of the Parish
4 Phantasmal Image
4 Noble Hierarch
2 Militia Bugler
4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Aether Vial
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Cavern of Souls
4 Unclaimed Territory
4 Ancient Ziggurat
1 Island
1 Plains
4 Horizon Canopy
1 Waterlogged Grove
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Izzet Staticaster
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Auriok Champion
2 Collector Ouphe
2 Deputy of Detention
2 Dismember
2 Gaddock Teeg
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Seventh Place, Izzet Phoenix – Todd Pilling]
[Creatures]
4 Arclight Phoenix
4 Thing in the Ice
2 Crackling Drake
1 Snapcaster Mage
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Pyromancer Ascension
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Set Adrift
4 Serum Visions
4 Thought Scour
4 Opt
2 Lightning Axe
4 Manamorphose
4 Faithless Looting
4 Lightning Bolt
[/Spells]
[Lands]
2 Flooded Strand
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Steam Vents
2 Fiery Islet
2 Spirebluff Canal
3 Island
2 Mountain
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Ravenous Trap
2 Spell Pierce
2 Abrade
2 Blood Moon
1 Anger of the Gods
2 Dragon Claw
2 Ceremonious Rejection
1 Surgical Extraction
1 Shatterstorm
1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Eighth Place, Humans – Ryan Spence]
[Creatures]
4 Giver of Runes
4 Champion of the Parish
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Kitesail Freebooter
4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4 Thalia’s Lieutenant
4 Meddling Mage
4 Phantasmal Image
4 Mantis Rider
2 Thalia, Heretic Cathar
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Aether Vial
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Cavern of Souls
3 Unclaimed Territory
1 Plains
2 Seachrome Coast
4 Ancient Ziggurat
4 Horizon Canopy
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Dismember
3 Auriok Champion
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Damping Sphere
2 Deputy of Detention
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

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