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, and for once, the unfair side of the format showed up — but not in the winner’s circle.
As per usual, a member of the dynamic trio of Legacy friends: Edgar Magalhaes, Matthew Dilks and Ben Winokur won our Legacy, showdown. Now, since Edgar and Dilks weren’t there, you guessed it, it was Ben. Dilks was busy losing in the finals of the Legacy classic at the StarCity Games Open. Once again 4C Leovold prevailed in a Face to Face Games Toronto Legacy tournament, a story you’re all too familiar with if you read these recaps. I was at the event and played the deck, but I played much too poorly to put up any good results.
What I did notice though, is what I’d like to focus on. The room was much less fair then we’re used to seeing. There were three or four Storm decks, a bunch of Sneak & Show, Eldrazi and some combo Elves. As you can tell by the Top 8 players seem to be honing in on the combo decks that are able to put up high win-rates against Deathrite Shaman decks, like Elves and Sneak. Maybe crazy people like Edgar Magalhaes will have to go back to playing Force of Wills in their 4C Leovold decks.
I’d like to give a special shoutout to Peter de Vries, who finds a way to pilot random stompy aggro decks, like his Legacy Merfolk deck here, to consistent Showdown finishes. Guy can serious sling some 2/2 bears.
With his win on Sunday Ben moves himself up Face to Face Games Ultimate Showdown leaderboard. Next week it’s time for our big Rivals of Ixalan pre-release Showdown. That’s right come out all weekend to Face to Face Games Toronto to battle the new limited format !
I’ve also got one more special announcement about our FaceToFaceGames.com Open Series. This is a travelling series of massive prize pool events that we host all over Canada. Here is this year’s Top 8 playmat that you’ll be able to win by making the elimination rounds of any of our Opens, Open+, or Classics:
Guess it’s time you start practicing if you want to get your hands on one of these ! Our next Toronto Open is on Jan. 27 at Seneca College. Come out and battle Modern in preparation for Grand Prix Toronto in February !
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First Place, Ben Winokur- 4C Leovold
[Deck]
[Creatures]
1 Grim Lavamancer
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
4 Baleful Strix
4 Snapcaster Mage
4 Deathrite Shaman
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Hymn to Tourach
3 Kolaghans Command
2 Diabolic Edict
1 Thoughtseize
1 Toxic Deluge
2 Fatal Push
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Abrupt Decay
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Polluted Delta
3 Scalding Tarn
3 Verdant Catacombs
3 Underground Sea
2 Badlands
1 Tropical Island
1 Bayou
1 Volcanic Island
1 Swamp
1 Island
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Blue Elemental Blast
1 Hydroblast
1 Invasive Surgery
2 Flusterstorm
1 Marsh Casualties
2 Thoughtseize
3 Leyline of the Void
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
1 Grave Titan
1 Pyroblast
1 Red Elemental Blast
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Second Place, Michael Chan- Deadguy Ale
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Dark Confidant
4 Deathrite Shaman
3 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Shriekmaw
1 Tombstalker
1 Sanctum Prelate
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Chrome Mox
1 Batterskull
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Umezawas Jitte
1 Engineered Explosives
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Inquisition of Kozilek
3 Thoughtseize
2 Collective Brutality
3 Lingering Souls
2 Vindicate
3 Liliana of the Veil
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Marsh Flats
2 Verdant Catacombs
2 Polluted Delta
3 Scrubland
2 Swamp
1 Plains
1 Karakas
4 Wasteland
1 Bayou
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Humility
2 Gaddock Teeg
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Path to Exile
1 Sanctum Prelate
1 Zealous Prosecution
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Darkblast
1 Pithing Needle
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Third Place, Boston Schatteman- Grixis Delver
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Delver of Secrets
4 Deathrite Shaman
3 Young Pyromancer
1 True-Name Nemesis
2 Gurmag Angler
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
3 Gitaxian Probe
4 Lightning Bolt
1 Fatal Push
1 Dismember
4 Force of Will
4 Daze
1 Spell Snare
2 Spell Pierce
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Misty Rainforest
1 Polluted DElta
3 Volcanic Island
2 Underground Sea
1 Tropical Island
4 Wasteland
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Baleful Strix
2 Cabal THerapy
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Relic of Progenitus
2 Pyroblast
1 Diabolic Edict
1 Izzet Staticaster
1 Flusterstorm
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Abrade
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Fourth Place, Nick Cummings- Food Chain
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Baleful Strix
4 Shardless Agent
2 Fierce Empath
2 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
1 Eternal Scourge
1 Gurmag Angler
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
3 Misthollow Griffin
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Brainstorm
3 Abrupt Decay
3 Manipulate Fate
4 Food Chain
4 Force of Will
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Polluted Delta
4 Misty Rainforest
3 Verdant Catacombs
2 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
1 Bayou
1 Swamp
1 Forest
2 Island
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Collective Brutality
2 Flusterstorm
2 Fatal Push
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Golgari Charm
1 Umezawas Jitte
2 Grafdiggers Cage
1 Hostage Taker
1 Diabolic Edict
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Fifth Place, Peter de Vries- Merfolk
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Cursecatcher
2 Harbinger of the Tides
4 Lord of Atlantis
4 Master of the Pearl Trident
3 Phantasmal Image
4 Silvergill Adept
4 True-Name Nemesis
1 Venser, Shaper Savant
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Smugglers Copter
4 Aether Vial
3 Chalice of the Void
1 Echoing Truth
4 Force of Will
[/Spells]
[Lands]
12 Island
4 Mutavault
4 Cavern of Souls
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Kopala, Warden of Waves
1 Chalice of the Void
1 Manriki-Gusari
2 Sorcerous Spyglass
2 Tormods Crypt
2 Umezawas Jitte
2 Dismember
1 Echoing Truth
2 Surgical Extraction
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Sixth Place, Andrew Gordon- Elves
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Elvish Visionary
4 Nettle Sentinel
4 Wirewood Symbiote
4 Quirion Ranger
4 Heritage Druid
2 Craterhoof Behemoth
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Birchlore Ranger
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Glimpse of Nature
4 Green Suns Zenith
2 Natural Order
2 Nissa, Vital Force
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Gaeas Cradle
2 Dryad Arbor
2 Bayou
2 Forest
4 Wooded Foothills
3 Windswept Heath
1 Pendelhaven
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Verdant Catacombs
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Umezawas Jitte
3 Abrupt Decay
3 Thoughtseize
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Cabal THerapy
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Shapers Sanctuary
1 Karakas
1 Garruk Relentless
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Seventh Place, Taimur Rashid- Sneak & Show
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Griselbrand
4 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Force of Will
4 Sneak Attack
4 Lotus Petal
4 Show and Tell
4 Preordain
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
2 Spell Pierce
2 Omniscience
1 Flusterstorm
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Misty Rainforest
4 Scalding Tarn
2 City of Traitors
3 Ancient Tomb
3 Volcanic Island
3 Island
1 Mountain
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Blood Moon
2 Through the Breach
2 Grafdiggers Cage
1 Misdirection
2 Arcane Laboratory
2 Pyroclasm
1 Kozileks Return
2 Red Elemental Blast
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Eighth Place, Travis McDonald- Eldrazi
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Matter Reshaper
4 Eldrazi Mimic
4 Thought-Knot Seer
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Dismember
2 All is Dust
2 Umezawas Jitte
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Endless One
4 Reality Smasher
2 Endbringer
2 Simian Spirit Guide
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Cavern of Souls
4 Eldrazi Temple
4 Wasteland
3 Mishras Factory
1 Karakas
1 Wastes
4 Ancient Tomb
2 City of Traitors
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
3 Eye of Ugin
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Ratchet Bomb
2 Warping Wail
2 Oblivion Sower
2 Walking Ballista
3 Thorn of Amethyst
1 Grafdiggers Cage
2 Faerie Macabre
1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]