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 Legacy to see who could take down the top prize.
If there’s one thing I’m starting to learn while writing these recaps, it’s that when it comes to Legacy, the same players seem to be in the Top 8 of all of our Showdowns. This past Sunday was no different, where Showdown series staple Andrew Gordon picked up a win with Grixis Control.
Andrew has been crushing in Toronto as of late with Grixis in Legacy and obviously Sunday was no exception. Gordon played a similar list to what Platinum Pro Reid Duke played at Grand Prix Richmond earlier this year but added two copies of [Card]Blood Moon[/Card] to his sideboard to counteract some of the popular [Card]Dark Depths[/Card] strategies in Legacy.
And, if you look at this Top 8, that decision seemed to pay off.
Matthew Dilks Top 8’d yet another Legacy event riding high off his Top 8 at the Eternal Weekend Championship with Golgari Depths. Dilks’ partner in [Card]Dark Depths[/Card] crime Ryan Myers made it all the way to the finals with his version of the classic Lands archetype, notably featuring three copies of the card [Card]Choke[/Card] in his sideboard that Gordon was able to navigate through in the finals.
The remainder of our Top 8 featured Legacy Showdown regulars Richard Welch — who played an awesome U/W Standstill brew — Pox aficionado James Everson, Sam Shoffner on Elves, Jason Drossis on Grixis Control and Lisa Seelye playing Maverick.
A diverse Top 8 for one of Magic’s most diverse formats. Legacy is great right now and I can’t recommend it enough.
With his win on Sunday, Andrew 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 a Modern Sunday Showdown. Sleeve up your favourite deck, pre-register and come on out!
First Place, Andrew Gordon – Grixis Control
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Baleful Strix
3 Snapcaster Mage
2 Gurmag Angler
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
4 Ponder
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
3 Hymn to Tourach
3 Kolaghan’s Command
2 Fatal Push
2 Diabolic Edict
2 Thoughtseize
2 Lightning Bolt
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Polluted Delta
3 Bloodstained Mire
3 Scalding Tarn
3 Underground Sea
2 Badlands
2 Volcanic Island
2 Island
2 Swamp
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Flusterstorm
3 Surgical Extraction
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Engineered Plague
3 Pyroblast
2 Blood Moon
1 Pithing Needle
1 Dreadbore
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Second Place, Ryan Myers – Lands
[Deck]
[Spells]
1 Manabond
3 Punishing Fire
4 Mox Diamond
4 Gamble
4 Life From the Loam
4 Crop Rotation
4 Exploration
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Dark Depths
4 Thespian Stage
4 Grove of the Burnwillows
4 Wasteland
3 Rishadan Port
2 Maze of Ith
2 Taiga
2 Tranquil Thicket
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Glacial Chasm
1 Forest
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Windswept Heath
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1 Sheltered Thicket
1 Karakas
1 Barbarian Ring
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Sylvan Safekeeper
3 Tireless Tracker
4 Krosan Grip
3 Choke
3 Surgical Extraction
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Third Place, Lisa Seelye – Maverick
[Deck]
[Creatures]
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Scryb Ranger
1 Tireless Tracker
4 Knight of the Reliquary
4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4 Mother of Runes
4 Noble Hierarch
3 Stoneforge Mystic
2 Qasali Pridemage
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Umezawa’s Jitte
1 Batterskull
1 Sylvan Library
4 Green Sun’s Zenith
4 Swords to Plowshares
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Gaea’s Cradle
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Karakas
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Maze of Ith
1 Horizon Canopy
1 Plains
2 Forest
3 Misty Rainforest
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wasteland
4 Savannah
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Faerie Macabre
2 Ethersworn Canonist
2 Kitchen Finks
1 Pithing Needle
2 Gaddock Teeg
2 Choke
1 Sanctum Prelate
1 Ramunap Excavator
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Council’s Judgement
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Fourth Place, Richard Welch – U/W Standstill
[Deck]
[Creatures]
3 Snapcaster Mage
2 Monastery Mentor
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Force of Will
4 Swords to Plowshares
3 Standstill
3 Spell Snare
2 Council’s Judgement
2 Counterspell
2 Supreme Verdict
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Path to Exile
1 Flusterstorm
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
2 Arid Mesa
1 Scalding Tarn
4 Mishra’s Factory
2 Tundra
1 Volcanic Island
5 Island
2 Plains
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Pithing Needle
3 Delver of Secrets
2 Pyroblast
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Relic of Progenitus
2 Disenchant
1 Flusterstorm
1 Supreme Verdict
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Fifth Place, Matthew Dilks – Golgari Depths
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Dark Confidant
4 Vampire Hexmage
3 Sylvan Safekeeper
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Mox Diamond
4 Crop Rotation
4 Thoughtseize
2 Sylvan Scrying
1 Sylvan Library
2 Duress
3 Abrupt Decay
1 Assassin’s Trophy
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Bayou
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Forest
1 Swamp
4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 Thespian Stage
4 Dark Depths
1 Sejiri Steppe
1 Bojuka Bog
2 Wasteland
1 Ghost Quarter
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Choke
2 Liliana, the Last Hope
2 Bitterblossom
1 Assassin’s Trophy
1 Krosan Grip
3 Surgical Extraction
2 Duress
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Marsh Casualties
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Sixth Place, James Everson – Mono-Black Pox
[Deck]
[Creatures]
1 Nether Spirit
4 Bloodghast
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Dark Ritual
4 Collective Brutality
4 Smallpox
1 Crucible of Worlds
2 Liliana, the Last Hope
2 Nether Void
2 Diabolic Edict
2 Thoughtseize
4 Liliana of the Veil
3 Hymn to Tourach
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Mishra’s Factory
1 Bloodstained Mire
2 Polluted Delta
1 Maze of Ith
1 Ghost Quarter
4 Wasteland
3 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
7 Swamp
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Underworld Dreams
1 Ensnaring Bridge
1 Bitterblossom
2 Pithing Needle
2 Ratchet Bomb
1 Chains of Mephistopheles
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
2 Helm of Obedience
4 Leyline of the Void
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Seventh Place, Sam Shoffner – Elves
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Quirion Ranger
4 Wirewood Symbiote
4 Nettle Sentinel
3 Heritage Druid
2 Birchlore Rangers
4 Elvish Visionary
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Fyndhorn Elves
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Archon of Valor’s Reach
1 Craterhoof Behemoth
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Glimpse of Nature
4 Green Sun’s Zenith
3 Natural Order
1 Sylvan Library
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Gaea’s Cradle
3 Forest
2 Bayou
1 Savannah
2 Dryad Arbor
1 Pendelhaven
2 Verdant Catacombs
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Thoughtseize
2 Assassin’s Trophy
2 Choke
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Gaddock Teeg
1 Progenitus
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Eighth Place, Jason Drossis – Grixis Control
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Baleful Strix
3 Snapcaster Mage
2 Gurmag Angler
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 True-Name Nemesis
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Ponder
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
3 Hymn to Tourach
2 Lightning Bolt
2 Thoughtseize
3 Kolaghan’s Command
2 Fatal Push
2 Diabolic Edict
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Wasteland
4 Polluted Delta
3 Scalding Tarn
2 Bloodstained Mire
3 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
2 Badlands
2 Island
2 Swamp
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Pithing Needle
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Marsh Casualties
1 Toxic Deluge
2 Pyroblast
1 Hydroblast
2 Flusterstorm
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Bitterblossom
3 Surgical Extraction
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
