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Showdown Recap: Legacy

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.

Well, it’s happened again. Players from all over the Greater Toronto Area assembled at Face to Face Games to play Legacy, the format that features some of game’s most powerful cards ever printed, only to have the top prize be taken down by a collection of small white creatures.

Indy Zhao reigned victorious on Sunday with Death & Taxes.

Your Legacy Showdown Top 8.

Death & Taxes has this incredible ability to just put you in the squeeze. On paper, it just looks like a pile of mediocre creatures. But, when everything comes together like it did on Sunday for Zhao, the deck has game against every deck in the format.

Zhao was able to defeat Marc Cernele, who was playing Lands, in the finals. Lands feels like it’s always a good choice in Toronto, where in Legacy fair decks seem to be the favourite. The deck is able to pray on [Card]Baleful Strix[/Card] and Delver decks pretty easily.

The rest of the Top 8 featured two copies of Golgari Depths, Jason Drossis on Grixis Control, a four colour control deck, one copy of Miracles and John O’Keefe playing another Toronto Legacy special in Mono-Black Pox.

With his win on Sunday, Indy cements his spot in the upcoming Ultimate Showdown, while the rest of our Top 8 have begun their march up the leader board to qualify. If you’re interested in your Ultimate Showdown point total, you can check it out here. If you’d like to inquire about your point total or report a discrepancy, please email Toronto@facetofacegames.com. This upcoming weekend at Face to Face Games Toronto we’ll be hosting a Modern Showdown. So get your [Card]Noble Hierarch[/Card]s and your [Card]Arclight Phoenix[/Card]s and come on out and battle!

[Deck Title= First Place, Death & Taxes- Indy Zhao]
[Creatures]
4 Stoneforge Mystic
4 Mother of Runes
4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4 Flickerwisp
2 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Serra Avenger
1 Sanctum Prelate
1 Brightling
1 Spirit of the Labyrinth
2 Recruiter of the Guard
1 Palace Jailer
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Aether Vial
4 Swords to Plowshares
1 Umezawa’s Jitte
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Batterskull
[/Spells]
[Lands]
10 Plains
4 Rishadan Port
4 Wasteland
3 Karakas
1 Blinkmoth Nexus
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Flagstones of Trokair
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Chalice of the Void
2 Council’s Judgment
2 Path to Exile
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Cataclysm
1 Ethersworn Canonist
1 Pithing Needle
1 Containment Priest
1 Leolin Relic-Warder
1 Hatchet Bomb
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Second Place, Lands – Marc Cernele]
[Spells]
4 Mox Diamond
4 Gamble
4 Exploration
4 Crop Rotation
4 Life from the Loam
3 Punishing Fire
1 Manabond
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Thespian’s Stage
4 Dark Depths
4 Wasteland
4 Rishadan Port
4 Grove of the Burnwillows
2 Maze of Ith
2 Taiga
1 Tranquil Thicket
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Forest
1 Sheltered Thicket
1 Bojuka Bog
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1 Glacial Chasm
1 Karakas
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Barbarian Ring
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Choke
1 Drop of Honey
3 Krosan Grip
3 Tireless Tracker
4 Sphere of Resistance
2 Surgical Extraction
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Third Place, Mono-Black Pox – John O’Keefe]
[Spells]
2 Chalice of the Void
2 Cursed Scroll
4 Dark Ritual
2 Surgical Extraction
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Smallpox
4 Sinkhole
1 Bitterblossom
1 Nethervoid
[/Spells]
[Lands]
11 Swamp
4 Mishra’s Factory
4 Wasteland
2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Maze of Ith
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Cabal Pit
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Trinisphere
1 Crucible of Worlds
2 Ensnaring Brigde
4 Liliana of the Veil
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
1 Beseech the Queen
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Nether Spirit
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Fourth Place, Golgari Depths – Ethan Meier]
[Creatures]
4 Vampire Hexmage
4 Dark Confidant
3 Sylvan Safekeeper
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Abrupt Decay
1 Assassin’s Trophy
2 Hymn to Tourach
4 Thoughtseize
1 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Sylvan Library
2 Sylvan Scrying
4 Crop Rotation
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Sejiri Steppe
3 Bayou
4 Verdant Catacombs
1 Swamp
1 Forest
4 Dark Depths
3 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Bojuka Bog
4 Mox Diamond
2 Wasteland
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Life from the Loam
4 Thespian’s Stage
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Assassin’s Trophy
1 Karakas
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Chain of Mephistopheles
2 Duress
1 Golgari Charm
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Rite of Consumption
2 Bitterblossom
2 Liliana, the Last Hope
1 Choke
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Fifth Place, Golgari Depths – Elliott Tzaneteas]
[Creatures]
4 Vampire Hexmage
3 Sylvan Safekeeper
4 Dark Confidant
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Abrupt Decay
1 Assassin’s Trophy
4 Crop Rotation
3 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Mox Diamond
1 Sylvan Library
2 Sylvan Scrying
4 Thoughtseize
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Bayou
1 Bojuka Bog
4 Dark Depths
1 Forest
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Seijiri Steppe
1 Swamp
4 Thespian’s Stage
4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 Verdant Catacombs
2 Wasteland
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Assassin’s Trophy
2 Choke
2 Duress
1 Karakas
2 liliana, the Last Hope
1 Marsh Casualties
1 Pithing Needle
2 Rite of Consumption
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Toxic Deluge
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Sixth Place, Grixis Control – Jason Drossis]
[Creatures]
4 Baleful Strix
3 Snapcaster Mage
2 Gurmag Angler
1 Kess, Dissident Mage
[/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 Jace the Mind Sculptor
2 Diabolic Edict
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Polluted Delta
3 Scalding Tarn
3 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 Dread of Night
1 Dreadbore
3 Surgical Extraction
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Seventh Place, Four-Colour Control – Anthony Evangelista]
[Creatures]
4 Baleful Stryx
4 Snapcaster Mage
2 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Force of Will
3 Thoughtseize
2 Hymn to Tourach
3 Fatal Push
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Assassin’s Trophy
3 Kolaghan’s Command
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
1 Preordain
2 Jace the Mind Sculptor
2 Liliana, the Last Hope
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Polluted Delta
2 Scalding Tarn
2 Bloodstained Mire
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Verdant Catacombs
2 Underground Sea
2 Bayou
2 Tropical Island
2 Volcanic Island
1 Badlands
1 Island
1 Swamp
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Marsh Casualties
1 Engineered Plague
1 Diabolic Edict
1 Assassin’s Trophy
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Pithing Needle
3 Surgical Extraction
3 Flusterstorm
1 Spell Pierce
2 Pyroblast
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Eighth Place, Azorius Miracles – Andy Liang]
[Creatures]
2 Snapcaster Mage
1 Vendillion Clique
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Brainstorm
2 Council’s Judgement
1 Counterspell
1 Entreat the Angels
4 Force of Will
2 Mission Briefing
4 Ponder
2 Portent
2 Predict
1 Preordain
1 Spell Pierce
4 Swords to Plowshares
3 Terminus
1 Back to Basics
2 Counterbalance
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Arid Mesa
4 Flooded Strand
3 Island
2 Plains
1 Scalding Tarn
3 Misty Rainforest
2 Tundra
2 Volcanic Island
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Back to Basics
1 Celestial Purge
1 Disenchant
2 Flusterstorm
1 Hydroblast
1 Pyroblast
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Supreme Veredict
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
1 Containment Priest
2 Monastery Mentor
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

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