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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, on the eve of the potential banning of Deathrite Shaman.

Daniel Goetschel celebrated the long life of Deathrite Shaman in Legacy, by winning the whole event with his Deathrite-empowered Grixis Delver deck. Daniel is a huge Legacy grinder on Magic Online and has had a lot of success in the format.

Legacy Showdown winner Daniel Goetschel!

Now, despite Daniel’s heroic victory in the name of Deathrite Shaman’s last day legal in Legacy. We now know that the little elf survive the B&R announcement. And it also happened to dominate our Top 8 — as usual.

There were five decks featuring Deathrite in the Top 8 and a total of three different archetypes with the powerful one-drop. I for one am happy that it’s staying around, particularly after it carried me to my Top 16 finish at Grand Prix Seattle a couple weekends ago.

I’m excited to see that format can warp itself around Deathrite and the decks that will inevitably crop up to create the healthy cycle of archetypes we’re used to seeing in Legacy.

There are a couple examples of this in our Top 8 in Eldrazi Stompy and B/G Depths. Eldrazi hasn’t been very popular as of late, but if it can find a way to more effectively deal with Baleful Strix, the powerful mono-coloured deck can punish Delver decks. B/G Depths may just be the best combo deck you’ve never heard of. It’s hyper-linear and does not rely on it’s graveyard so it can power past Deathrite decks very fast.

Our Legacy Showdown Top 8.

Andrew Gordon, Chris Ha, Richard Welch and Michael Chan have proven to be four of our top Legacy players over the last few months. They seem to be in almost all of our Top 8s and are often present at our Friday Night Magic Legacy events.

Chan in particular has shown the ability to specialize in the format. He loves these black-based discard-centric decks and had more success with Pox on Sunday.

With his win on Sunday Daniel furthers his climb up the Face to Face Games Ultimate Showdown leader board. Next week we’re hosting a special Dominaria Pre-Release Sealed Showdown! Yeah that’s right, you’ll get to play a full 1k pre-release event with cut to Top 8 with the brand new Sealed format! I’m surely going to be there battling.

First Place, Daniel Goetschel- Grixis Delver

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 deathrite shaman
4 delver of secrets
2 gurmag angler
2 true name nemesis
3 young pyromancer
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 lightning bolt
4 force of will
1 forked bolt
4 gitaxian probe
4 brainstorm
4 daze
4 ponder
2 spell pierce
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 underground sea
3 volcanic island
4 wasteland
1 tropical island
2 flooded strand
1 misty rainforest
2 polluted delta
2 scalding tarn
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 abrade
1 ancient grudge
3 cabal therapy
1 dead // gone
1 diabolic edict
1 dismember
1 flusterstorm
2 liliana, the last hope
2 pyroblast
2 surgical extraction
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Second Place, Richard Welch- U/R Delver

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 monastery swifspear
4 delver of secrets
3 soul-scar mage
2 true-name nemesis
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 brainstorm
4 ponder
4 gitaxian probe
4 preordain
4 daze
4 lightning bolt
4 chain lightning
1 fireblast
1 force of will
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 scalding tarn
3 misty rainforest
2 polluted delta
2 flooded strand
3 volcanic island
2 island
1 mountain
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 force of will
3 blood moon
2 abrade
2 skullcrack
2 surgical extraction
1 sulfuric votex
1 vapor snag
1 relic of progenitus
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Third Place, Andy Liang- Grixis Delver

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 deathrite shaman
4 delver of secrets
2 gurmag angler
3 young pyromancer
2 true-name-nemesis
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 force of will
4 daze
4 gitaxian probe
1 forked bolt
4 ponder
2 spell pierce
4 brainstorm
4 lightning bolt
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 wasteland
3 volcanic island
2 underground sea
1 tropical island
3 polluted delta
3 scalding tarn
2 flooded strand
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 price of progress
2 diabolic edict
1 pithing needle
2 surgical extraction
1 grim lavamancer
2 pyroblast
1 abrade
1 blazing volley
3 cabal therapy
1 ancient grudge
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Fourth Place, Andrew Gordon- Elves

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 deathrite shaman
4 heritage druid
4 elvish visionary
4 wirewood symbiote
3 quirion ranger
3 nettle sentinel
2 craterhoof behemoth
1 reclemation sage
1 birchlore ranger
1 fyndhorn elves
1 elvish mystic
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 green suns zenith
4 glimps of nature
3 natural order
1 crop rotation
1 nissa, vital force
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 windswept heath
4 wooded foothills
1 verdant catacombs
4 gaeas cradle
3 forest
2 dryad arbor
2 bayou
1 pendelhaven
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 karakas
1 scavenging ooze
1 choke
3 thoughtseize
2 surgical extraction
2 cabal therapy
1 garruk, relentless
1 progenitus
3 abrupt decay
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Fifth Place, Chris Ha- 4C Leovold

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Deathrite shaman
4 baleful strix
3 snapcaster mage
2 leovold, emissary of trest
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 jace, the mind sculpter
4 brainstorm
4 ponder
1 abrupt decay
1 toxic deluge
1 lightning bolt
2 thoughtseize
2 diabolic edict
3 kolaghans command
2 hymn to tourach
2 fatal push
3 force of will
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 polluted delta
3 verdant catacombs
3 scalding tarn
3 underground sea
1 tropical island
1 volcanic island
1 bayou
2 badlands
1 island
1 swamp
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 hydroblast
1 red elemental blast
2 pyroblast
2 flusterstorm
2 liliana, of the last hope
3 surgical extraction
1 blue elemental blast
1 toxic deluge
1 hymn to tourach
1 pithing needle
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Sixth Place, Connors Eilerson- B/G Depths

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 dark confidant
2 sylvan safekeeper
4 vampire hexmage
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 duress
4 sylvan scrying
4 thoughtseize
4 lotus petal
3 pithing needle
4 crop rotation
2 sylvan library
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 verdant catacombs
2 Bayou
1 bojuka bog
4 dark depths
2 forest
1 ghost quarter
1 misty rainforest
1 sejiri steppe
2 swamp
4 thespians stage
3 urborg, tomb of yawgmoth
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 abrupt decay
1 bitterblossom
1 grafdiggers cage
1 karakas
1 marsh casualties
2 rite of consumption
3 surgical extraction
2 tarmogoyf
1 thorn of amethyst
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Seventh Place, Michael Chan- Mono-Black Pox

[Deck]
[Spells]
1 inquisition of kozilek
3 thoughtseize
3 dark ritual
3 hymn to tourach
4 smallpox
4 liliana of the veil
2 ensnaring bridge
2 fatal push
1 trinisphere
1 relic of progenitus
1 crucible of worlds
1 toxic deluge
1 collective brutality
1 nether spirit
1 nether void
1 liliana, the last hope
1 cursed scroll
1 chains of mephistopheles
1 infernal tutor
1 masterminds acquisition
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 mishras factory
4 urborg, tomb of yawgmoth
4 wasteland
8 snow covered swamp
1 the tabernacle at pendrell vale
1 maze of ith
1 geir reach sanitorium
1 bojuka bog
1 cabal pit
1 bloodstained mire
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
4 leyline of the void
2 surgical extraction
2 pithing needle
1 night of souls betrayel
1 engineered plague
1 ratchet bomb
1 relic of progenitus
1 necropolis fiend
1 the abyss
1 massacre
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Eighth Place, Jon Fine- Eldrazi Stompy

[Deck]
[Creatures]
2 simian spirit guide
2 walking ballista
4 eldrazi mimic
2 endbringer
3 endless one
3 matter reshaper
4 reality smasher
4 thought-knot seer
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 warping wail
2 all is dust
2 dismember
4 chalice of the void
1 umezawas jitte
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 ancient tomb
3 cavern of souls
3 city of traitors
4 eldrazi temple
3 eye of ugin
1 karakas
3 mishras factory
1 urborg, tomb of yawgmoth
3 wasteland
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 faerie macabre
1 grafdiggers cage
1 oblivion sower
2 ratchet bomb
2 sorcerous spyglass
1 soatial contortion
3 thorn of amethyst
1 ulamog, the ceasless hunger
1 warping wail
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

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