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 Iconic Masters Sealed on release weekend to open some sweet value and take down the top prize.

Duncan McGregor continued to absolutely dominate the Limited Showdown scene at Face to Face Games Toronto with his win this weekend. Duncan played a classic U/W Skies deck in his Top 8 draft with a couple of Seeker of the Way standing out in his list.

In my expirience this format is a little less polarizing than we are you used to seeing with Masters sets. There’s not as many hard rules about archetypes and I’m seeing a lot more “good stuff” decks than dedicated archetypal strategies. A good example of this is Taimur Rashid’s Temur deck which is just filled with solid Limited staples rather than doing something very specific.

Andrew Gordon showed up and Top 8’d another Showdown, with that said I’d like to ask the community to band together and stop him from doing well at the next one so we can avoid his subtle brag tweets going forward.

One of my favourite parts of top 8ing events is entering them in my tournament finishes spreadsheet. #spreadsheetnerd

— Andrew Gordon (@agordonandstuff) November 20, 2017

Tyler Nightingale made a triumphant return to the Showdown series with a nice finals appearance which I believe locks him for the Ultimate Showdown. We’re really starting to see a great metagame filled with the city’s top players qualified for the event so if you’re unsure check out the link below to see how many points you have.

With his win on Sunday Duncan moves himself up  Face to Face Games Ultimate Showdown leaderboard in preparation for the Ultimate Showdown in December and the rest of the Top 8 have started their march. Join us this weekend at Face to Face Games Toronto for our Standard Sunday Showdown, brush off that energy counter and and sleeve up your Rogue Refiners and come down to battle !

Interested in how many Showdown Points you have? Click here.

First Place- Duncan McGregor, U/W

[Deck]
[Creatures]
1 Abzan Battle Priest
2 Abzan Falconer
2 Ainok Bond-Kin
2 Ajanis Pridemate
1 Blinding Mage
2 Infantry Veteran
2 Jhessian Thief
1 Phantom Monster
2 Seeker of the Way
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Emerge Unscathed
1 Repeal
2 Thought Scour
1 Great Teachers Decree
2 Survival Cache
1 Path of Bravery
1 Mind Stone
[/Spells]
[Lands]
7 Island
9 Plains
[/Lands]
[/Deck]

Second Place- Tyler Nightingale, U/B/w

[Deck]
[Creatures]
1 Abyssal Persecutor
1 Balustrade Spy
2 Blizzard Specter
3 Dead Reveler
1 Mer-Ek Nightblade
1 Noxious Dragon
2 Rakdos Drake
1 Riverwheel Aerialists
2 Thrill-Kill Assassin
1 Wight of Precinct Six
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Amass the Components
1 Ionas Judgment
1 Reave Soul
1 Butchers Glee
1 Dissolve
1 Mana Leak
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Ulcerate
1 Claustrophobia
1 Star Compass
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Golgari Rot Farm
6 Island
1 Plains
1 Rakdos Carnarium
6 Swamp
[/Lands]
[/Deck]

Third Place- Taimur Rashid, Temur

[Deck]
[Creatures]
1 Doorkeeper
1 Greater Basilisk
1 Hypersonic Dragon
1 Jugan, the Rising Star
2 Jungle Barrier
1 Lotus Cobra
2 Mnemonic Wall
2 Nantuko Shaman
1 Netcaster Spider
1 Riverwheel Aerialists
2 Vent Sentinel
2 Wall of Roots
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Amass the Components
2 Hunt the Weak
1 Rift Bolt
1 Search for Tomorrow
1 Heat Ray
1 Repeal
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Boros Garrison
1 Dimir Aqueduct
2 Evolving Wilds
5 Forest
4 Island
3 Mountain
[/Lands]
[/Deck]

Fourth Place- Darcy Alemany, U/R

[Deck]
[Creatures]
2 Battle-Rattle Shaman
2 Borderland Marauder
1 Elusive Spellfist
1 Furnace Whelp
1 Guttersnipe
1 Jhessian Thief
2 Kiln Fiend
1 Monastery Swiftspear
1 Splatter Thug
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Hammerhand
1 Heat Ray
1 Ojutais Breath
1 Repeal
1 Staggershock
2 Distortion Strike
2 Mark of Mutiny
2 Pillar of Flame
1 Tormenting Voice
[/Spells]
[Lands]
6 Island
10 Mountain
[/Lands]
[/Deck]

Fifth Place- Matthew Dilks, U/B

[Deck]
[Creatures]
1 Frost Lynx
1 Illusory Angel
1 Mahamoti Djinn
1 Balustrade Spy
1 Festering Newt
1 Indulgent Tormentor
1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
1 Lord of the Pit
2 Phyrexian Rager
1 Tavern Swindler
1 Manakin
1 Palladium Myr
1 Blizard Spectre
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Amass the Components
1 Haunting Hymn
2 Grisly Spectacle
1 Foul-Tongue Invocation
1 Wrench mind
1 Star Compass
2 Thran Dynamo
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Dimir Aquaduct
6 Island
9 Swamp
[/Lands]
[/Deck]

Sixth Place- Andrew Gordon, U/W

[Deck]
[Creatures]
2 Angel of Mercy
1 Blinding Mage
1 Elusive Spellfist
1 Fog Bank
1 Frost Lynx
1 Jhessian Thief
1 Manakin
1 Ryusei, the Falling Star
1 Scion of Ugin
1 Sphinx of Uthuun
1 Stalwart Aven
1 Student of Ojutai
2 Sustainer of the Realm
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Bewilder
1 Draconic Roar
1 Emerge Unscathed
1 Guided Strike
1 Mana Leak
1 Amass the Components
1 Austere Command
2 Guard Duty
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Boros Garrison
5 Island
2 Izzet Boilerworks
1 Orzhov Basilica
6 Plains
1 Selesnya Sanctuary
[/Lands]
[/Deck]

Seventh Place- Jason Arsenault, G/R

[Deck]
[Creatures]
1 Battle-Rattle Shaman
1 Borderland Marauder
2 Dragon Egg
1 Furnace Welp
1 Guttersnipe
1 Heat Ray
1 Hoarding Dragon
3 Keldon Halberdier
1 Kiln Fiend
1 Scourge of Valkas
1 Crowned Ceratok
1 Heros bane hydra
1 Netcaster Spider
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Draconic Roar
2 Fireball
1 Wildsize
1 Oblivion stone
1 Aerial Predation
1 Hammerhand
[/Spells]
[Lands]
7 Forest
9 Montain
[/Lands]
[/Deck]

Eighth Place- Simon Yarrow, U/G

[Deck]
[Creatures]
1 Crowned Ceratok
1 Doorkeeper
1 Durkwood Baloth
1 Fog Bank
1 Frost Lynx
1 Greater Basilisk
1 Ivy Elemental
1 Keiga, the Tide Star
1 Netcaster Spider
1 Phantom Monster
1 Runed Servitor
1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
1 Timberland Guide
2 Wall of Roots
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Condescend
1 Hunting Pack
1 Repeal
1 Wildsize
1 Moonglove Extract
1 Star Compass
2 Hunt the Weak
1 Day of the Dragons
[/Spells]
[Lands]
8 Forest
8 Island
[/Lands]
[/Deck]