Well, I guess all my predictions can’t be on-point. Despite my fortune-telling prowess showing itself prior to Face to Face Toronto’s Team Trios Showdown I wasn’t quite as accurate with my premonitions this time.  With that said, Chris Ha’s ultra-gas team of Face to Face event thrashers did make it all the way to the Top 4 of this event, and Derek Pite, ManaDeprived contributor, and his team took down the whole thing.

The Standard portion of this Top 4 is pretty exemplary of where we are in Standard with three energy decks and a random Hazoret deck. In fact, all three formats are in pretty telling positions. You’ve got Red and Energy, E-Tron, Storm and Death’s Shadow and Grixis decks along with Lands in Legacy. I think that’s what’s great about these events is that the teams can work together to come up with good lists and reduce variance due to the team format. Which begs the question—what happened to my pick of extremely professional players Paul Dean, Rich Hoaen and Ben Rubin? Well, they had a middling finish and I’m chalking it up to probably a little too much brewing.

I’d also like to acknowledge the team of Jeff Swaluk, Andrew Oyen and Jonny Teigesser for being the best looking team in the room and that’s in no way related to the fact that I forgot to include them in my preview. The runner-up team travelled all the way from Buffalo and we had representatives from Kingston in the elimination rounds. More than 150 players showed up, because team Magic is gas.

Now, here’s some decklists:

First Place

Derek Pite, Standard- 4C Energy
[Deck]
[Creatures]
2 Bristling Hydra
2 Glorybringer
4 Longtusk Cub
4 Rogue Refiner
4 Servant of the Conduit
2 The Scarab God
4 Whirler Virtuoso
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
2 Vraska, Relic Seeker
1 Abrade
4 Harnessed Lightning
2 Magma Spray
4 Attune with Aether
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Aether Hub
4 Botanical Sanctum
3 Forest
1 Island
2 Mountain
4 Rootbound Crag
3 Spirebluff Canal
1 Swamp
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Abrade
2 Appetite for the Unnatural
2 Chandras Defeat
2 Confiscation Coup
1 Magma Spray
2 Negate
2 Nissa, Steward of Elements
2 Vizier of Many Faces
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Jack Cooke, Modern- Grixis Death’s Shadow
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Deaths Shadow
3 Gurmag Angler
4 Snapcaster Mage
4 Street Wraith
1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Thoughtseize
2 Dismember
4 Fatal Push
1 Lightning Bolt
4 Opt
3 Stubborn Denial
2 Temur Battle Rage
4 Thought Scour
[/Spells]
[Lands]
2 Blood Crypt
4 Bloodstained Mire
1 Island
4 Polluted Delta
3 Scalding Tarn
1 Steam Vents
1 Swamp
2 Watery Grave
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Ceremonious Rejection
3 Collective Brutality
2 Engineered Explosives
1 Izzet Staticaster
2 Kolaghans Command
1 Kozileks Return
3 Liliana of the Veil
1 Stubborn Denial
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Austin Tully, Legacy- Burn
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Eidolon of the Great Revel
4 Goblin Guide
2 Grim Lavamancer
4 Monastery Swiftspear
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Chain Lightning
4 Lava Spike
4 Rift Bolt
2 Sulfuric Vortex
3 Fireblast
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Price of Progress
3 Searing Blaze
[/Spells]
[Lands]
2 Arid Mesa
2 Bloodstained Mire
10 Mountain
4 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Ashen Rider
1 Blood Moon
3 Grafdiggers Cage
3 Leyline of Sanctity
2 Mindbreak Trap
3 Smash to Smithereens
1 Tormods Crypt
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Second Place

Alex Bianchi, Standard- 4C Black Energy
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Glint-Sleeve Siphoner
2 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
1 Hostage Taker
4 Rogue Refiner
4 Servant of the Conduit
2 The Scarab God
4 Whirler Virtuoso
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
4 Fatal Push
4 Harnessed Lightning
2 Vraskas Contempt
4 Attune with Aether
2 Vraska, Relic Seeker
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Aether Hub
4 Blooming Marsh
4 Botanical Sanctum
1 Canyon Slough
3 Dragonskull Summit
2 Forest
1 Island
1 Mountain
2 Swamp
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Appetite for the Unnatural
2 Chandras Defeat
1 Die Young
3 Duress
4 Gifted Aetherborn
2 Negate
1 Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh
1 Nissa, Steward of Elements
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

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

Matt Ratajczak, Legacy- U/R Delver
[Deck]
[Creatures]
1 Bedlam Reveler
4 Delver of Secrets
2 Grim Lavamancer
4 Monastery Swiftspear
3 Stormchaser Mage
1 True-Name Nemesis
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Brainstorm
4 Daze
1 Fireblast
4 Force of Will
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Price of Progress
1 Forked Bolt
4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Ponder
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Arid Mesa
4 Flooded Strand
2 Island
1 Mountain
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Volcanic Island
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Eidolon of the Great Revel
1 Flusterstorm
2 Grafdiggers Cage
1 Hydroblast
1 Pithing Needle
2 Pyroblast
2 Smash to Smithereens
2 Submerge
1 Sulfur Elemental
1 Umezawas Jitte
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Third Place

Liam Kane, Standard- Hazoret Red
[Deck]
[Creatures]
1 Ahn-Crop Crasher
4 Bomat Courier
4 Earthshaker Khenra
2 Harsh Mentor
4 Hazoret the Fervent
3 Kari Zev, Skyship Raider
4 Rampaging Ferocidon
4 Soul-Scar Mage
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Abrade
4 Lightning Strike
4 Shock
[/Spells]
[Lands]
15 Mountain
4 Ramunap Ruins
1 Scavenger Grounds
4 Sunscorched Desert
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Abrade
3 Aethersphere Harvester
2 Chandras Defeat
2 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
2 Glorybringer
2 Harsh Mentor
2 Pia Nalaar
1 Scavenger Grounds
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Chris Ha, Modern- Abzan
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Dark Confidant
2 Scavenging Ooze
2 Siege Rhino
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Tireless Tracker
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Liliana of the Veil
2 Abrupt Decay
3 Fatal Push
3 Path to Exile
1 Collective Brutality
2 Inquisition of Kozilek
3 Lingering Souls
1 Maelstrom Pulse
4 Thoughtseize
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Blooming Marsh
1 Concealed Courtyard
1 Forest
2 Ghost Quarter
1 Godless Shrine
3 Marsh Flats
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Plains
2 Shambling Vent
1 Swamp
1 Temple Garden
4 Verdant Catacombs
1 Windswept Heath
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Collective Brutality
2 Damnation
3 Fulminator Mage
1 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
3 Leyline of the Void
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
1 Maelstrom Pulse
2 Stony Silence
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Ryan Myers, Legacy- Lands
[Deck]
[Spells]
4 Crop Rotation
4 Punishing Fire
4 Gamble
4 Life from the Loam
4 Exploration
1 Manabond
4 Mox Diamond
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Barbarian Ring
1 Bojuka Bog
4 Dark Depths
1 Forest
3 Ghost Quarter
1 Glacial Chasm
4 Grove of the Burnwillows
1 Karakas
2 Maze of Ith
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Sheltered Thicket
2 Taiga
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
4 Thespians Stage
2 Tranquil Thicket
4 Wasteland
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Chalice of the Void
1 Drop of Honey
4 Krosan Grip
4 Sphere of Resistance
1 Thorn of Amethyst
3 Tireless Tracker
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Fourth Place

Andy Robdrup, Standard- Temur Energy
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Servant of the Conduit
4 Longtusk Cub
4 Whirler Virtuoso
4 Rogue Refiner
3 Bristling Hydra
1 Vizier of Many Faces
3 Glorybringer
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Attune with Aether
4 Harnessed Lightning
2 Abrade
1 Magma Spray
2 Confiscation Coup
2 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Forest
2 Mountain
1 Island
1 Sheltered Thicket
3 Rootbound Crag
4 Aether Hub
3 Spirebluff Canal
4 Botanical Sanctum
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Vizier of Many Faces
1 Supreme Will
1 Rivers Rebuke
1 Confiscation Coup
1 Essence Scatter
1 Nissa, Steward of elements
1 Chandras Defeat
1 Magma Spray
1 Appetite for the Unnatural
4 Negate
2 Deathgorge Scavenger
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Spencer Mazur, Modern- Affinity
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Steel Overseer
2 Memnite
4 Hope of Ghirapur
4 Signal Pest
4 Vault Skirge
4 Archbound Ravager
2 Etched Champion
3 Master of Etherium
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Galvanic Blast
4 Springleaf Drum
4 Mox Opal
4 Cranial Plating
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Mountain
4 Darksteel Citadel
4 Spire of industry
4 inkmoth Nexus
4 Blinkmoth Nexus
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Dispatch
2 Thoughtseize
1 Wear // Tear
1 Ancient Grudge
2 Rest in Peace
1 Etched Champion
2 Blood Moon
2 Ghirapur Aether Grid
2 Rule of law
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Devin Giles, Legacy- Grixis Delver
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Delver of Secrets
1 Snapcaster Mage
2 Young Pyromancer
2 True-Name Nemesis
2 Gurmag Angeler
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Brainstorm
3 Cabal Therapy
4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Ponder
4 Daze
4 Force of Will
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Flooded Strand
4 Polluted Delta
4 wasteland
1Tropical Island
2 volcanic Island
3 Underground sea
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Price of Progress
2 Kolaghans Command
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Diabolic Eddict
1 Liliana, the last Hope
2 Flusterstorm
1 grim lavamancer
2 Pyroblast
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Thoughtseize
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]