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 the Modern format to see who could qualify themselves for the Ultimate Showdown.

On Sunday all of the Toronto Magic community’s hearts were warmed. Quite possibly the nicest guy on the planet won our Modern Showdown with maybe the coolest deck in Modern. Jonny Teigesser was able to take it down with Grixis Goryo’s Venegeance.

Jonny played a combo deck filled with combos. His deck featured [Card]Goryo’s Vengeance[/Card] and Griselbrand, [Card]Deceiver Exarch[/Card] and [Card]Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker[/Card] and [Card]As Foretold[/Card] with some sweet suspend spells in [Card]Ancestral Vision[/Card] and [Card]Living End[/Card]. If I’m being honest with you, I have no idea how he even won a match, let alone the tournament with this pile. But, this deck is so cool and I could not be more stoked to see it in the winner’s circle. Sometimes you assemble a little bit of this and a little bit of that — and a plan comes together.

If Jonny’s spicy winning decklist isn’t enough for you, there’s even more good stuff for you in the rest of the Top 8. There was an Esper Faeries brew in the semifinals, a flash from the past in RUG Scapeshift in and even Chris Ha played Mono-Green Tron with 0 copies of [Card]Karn Liberated[/Card] as popularized by Autumn Burchett.

In general there were way more blue cards in our elimination rounds than expected. Daniel Fournier showed up with Jeskai (as usual) and Boston Schatteman lost in the Finals to Teigesser with Blue Moon.

Lastly, we had David Rood in the Top 8 as well with Humans. The Modern deck he played at Pro Tour Magic 25.

With his win on Sunday, Jonny cements his spot in the upcoming Ultimate Showdown and the rest of our Top 8 have begun their march up the leader board to qualify. This upcoming Sunday at Face to Face Games Toronto it is Pre-Release time! That’s right Guilds of Ravnica is finally upon us, and spots are filling up. Make sure to register today.

First Place, Jonny Teigesser – Grixis Goryo’s Vengeance

[Deck]
[Creatures]
2 Jace, Vryn’s Prodegy
4 Deceiver Exarch
2 Simian Spirit Guide
3 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
4 Griselbrand
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 As Foretold
3 Living End
4 Ancestral Vision
2 Lightning Axe
4 Faithless Looting
4 Goryo’s Vengeance
1 Conflagrate
4 Izzet Charm
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Polluted Delta
2 Spirebluff Canal
2 Blackcleave Cliffs
2 Steam Vents
1 Blood Crypt
1 Watery Grave
1 Tolaria West
1 Swamp
1 Mountain
1 Island
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Abrade
1 Negate
1 Disdainful Stroke
2 Dispel
1 Bitterblossom
2 Collective Brutality
2 Anger of the Gods
1 Rakdos Charm
1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Restore Balance
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Second Place, Boston Schatteman – Blue Moon

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Snapcaster Mage
4 Thing in the Ice
1 Vendilion Clique
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Serum Visions
4 Opt
4 Remand
4 Cryptic Command
4 Lightning Bolt
1 Flame Slash
1 Harvest Pyre
2 Abrade
2 Electrolyze
2 Blood Moon
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Flooded Strand
2 Sulfur Falls
1 Spirebluff Canal
1 Desolate Lighthouse
2 Steam Vents
6 Island
1 Mountain
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Anger of the Gods
2 Ceremonious Rejection
2 Dispel
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Izzet Staticaster
1 Keranos, God of Storms
2 Logic Knot
1 Negate
1 Pia and Kiran Nalaar
2 Relic of Progenitus
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Third Place, Daniel Fournier – Jeskai Control

[Deck]
[Creatures]
3 Snapcaster Mage
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
4 Cryptic Command
1 Settle the Wreckage
1 Supreme Verdict
2 Electrolyze
3 Search for Azcanta
4 Logic Knot
2 Lightning Bolt
2 Lightning Helix
4 Thought Scour
4 Path to Exile
2 Hieroglyphic Illumination
[/Spells]
[Lands]
2 Glacial Fortress
2 Sulfur Falls
3 Field of Ruin
4 Island
1 Plains
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Flooded Strand
2 Hallowed Fountain
2 Steam Vents
1 Sacred Foundry
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Settle the Wreckage
1 Dispel
2 Negate
1 Ceremonious Rejection
1 Porphyry Nodes
2 Abrade
2 Vendilion Clique
1 Lyra Dawnbringer
2 Stony Silence
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Surgical Extraction
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Fourth Place, Elliott Stanwick – Esper Faeries

[Deck]
[Creatures]
3 Spellstutter Sprite
4 Snapcaster Mage
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Detention Sphere
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Sorin, Solemn Visitor
1 Damnation
3 Cryptic Command
4 Bitterblossom
2 Thoughtsieze
3 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Serum Visions
2 Path to Exile
3 Fatal Push
3 Revitalize
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Creeping Tar Pit
1 Vault of the Archangel
1 Godless Shrine
2 Watery Grave
2 Hallowed Fountain
3 Island
1 Plains
1 Swamp
2 Marsh Flats
3 Flooded Strand
4 Polluted Delta
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Spellskite
2 Rest in Peace
2 Stony Silence
2 Ceremonious Rejection
2 Supreme Verdict
2 Spell Pierce
2 Countersquall
1 Elspeth, Sun’s Champion
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Fifth Place, Chris Ha – Mono-Green Tron

[Deck]
[Creatures]
3 Walking Ballista
3 World Breaker
2 Ulamog the Ceaseless Hunger
1 Emrakul, the Promised End
3 Wurmcoil Engine
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Chromatic Star
4 Chromatic Sphere
4 Ancient Stirrings
4 Sylvan Scrying
2 Relic of Progenitus
4 Oblivion Stone
4 Expedition Map
1 Karn Liberated
2 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Urza’s Power Plant
4 Urza’s Mine
4 Urza’s Tower
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Sanctum of Ugin
1 Scavenger Grounds
4 Forests
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Thought-Knot Seer
3 Spatial Contortion
1 Dismember
1 Warping Wail
3 Thragtusk
3 Nature’s Claim
1 Surgical Extraction
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Sixth Place, David Rood – Humans

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Phantasmal Image
4 Noble Hierarch
3 Reflector Mage
3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4 Kitesail Freebooter
4 Thalia’s Lieutenant
4 Meddling Mage
4 Champion of the Parish
4 Mantis Rider
3 Militia Budger
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Aether Vial
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Seachrome Coast
1 Plains
1 Island
4 Unclaimed Territory
4 Horizon Canopy
4 Cavern of Souls
4 Ancient Ziggurat
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Riders of Gavony
1 Auriok Champion
2 Reclamation Sage
2 Sin Collector
1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
1 Kataki, War’s Wage
2 Damping Sphere
1 Izzet Staticaster
2 Dismember
1 Gaddock Teeg
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Seventh Place, Russel Phillips – Titan Shift

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Primeval Titan
1 Reclamation Sage
4 Sakura- Tribe Elder
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Scapeshift
4 Search for Tomorrow
2 Summoner’s Pact
2 Prismatic Omen
3 Lightning Bolt
2 Sweltering Suns
2 Explore
4 Farseek
2 Hour of Promise
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Cinder Glade
2 Forest
6 Mountain
1 Sheltered Thicket
4 Stomping Ground
4 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
3 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Abrade
2 Anger of the Gods
3 Damping Sphere
2 Guttural Response
2 Nature’s Claim
3 Relic of Progenitus
1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Eighth Place, Adrien Levesque – R/U/G Scapeshift

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Sakura Tribe Elder
3 Snapcaster Mage
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Scapeshift
1 Electrolyze
4 Search for Tomorrow
3 Cryptic Command
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Repeal
4 Remand
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Search for Azcanta
2 Izzet Charm
[/Spells]
[Lands]
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Scalding Tarn
1 Wooded Foothills
2 Breeding Pool
4 Steam Vents
4 Stomping Ground
2 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
3 Island
3 Mountain
2 Forest
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Keranos, God of Storms
1 Negate
1 Nature’s Claim
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Creeping Corrosion
2 Damping Sphere
2 Tireless Tracker
2 Anger of the Gods
2 Dispel
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]