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Showdown Recap: Modern

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 Modern to see who could take home the top prize!

Someone needs to stop Lucas Worrell. This guy just keeps winning Showdowns.

Prior to Sunday, when we hosted a Modern Showdown, our previous constructed Showdown was Standard last month, and well, Lucas took that one down too. We’ve really watched this kid grow into an unreal player over the course of the past four years at Face to Face Games Toronto, and I’m personally stoked to see how good hes become.

Your Showdown champ, Lucas Worrell.

Worrell obviously played the Bant Spirits deck hes been crushing it with over the past year in Modern. Worrell famously choses not to play [Card]Aether Vial[/Card] in his list, and instead opts for the full play-set of [Card]Path to Exile[/Card]s in order to be a more interactive Game 1 deck. At first, this seemed odd to me, but after a year of watching him pilot the deck I’m starting to think that others should adopt this choice. Especially if you draw [Card]Collected Company[/Card] as often as he does.

Worrell defeated Melissa Grenier and her Burn deck in the finals. Grenier played a pretty sweet take on Burn on Sunday. She was all-in on beating creature decks after moving her Eidolons to the sideboard and packing three copies of [Card]Ensnaring Bridge[/Card] in her maindeck.

Your Modern Showdown Top 8.

The rest of our Top 8 featured Russel Phillips piloting his sweet [Card]Electrodominance[/Card] deck, Erik Traikov who played Affinity which is a deck rising in popularity, Keegan Ferreira and his sweet Saheel Evolution deck, Travis MacDonald on [Card]Hardened Scales[/Card], Seungho Heo who played a cool Azorius deck featuring [Card]Teferi, Time Reveler[/Card] and Farhaad Marounisi who piloted Titanshift.

It’s clear to me that we’ve cycled back into a world where creatures are king in Modern. Humans crushed the most recent Mythic Championship and if you just look at the Top 8 decklists below, you’ll see the kind of creature-dense lists Modern is known for. That said, I’m looking forward to seeing some [Card]Karn, the Great Creator[/Card] pop up over the next few months as players keep brewing the format.

Before I leave you for the week, we at Face to Face Toronto want to remind you about our upcoming 10k Mythic Championship Qualifier taking place on June 15. We’ll be hosting it at the Montecassino Hotel, and every registrant will get a free [Card]Arcbound Ravager[/Card] promo with entry. Make sure to pre-register and we’ll see you there!

With his win on Sunday, Lucas 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 Legacy Sunday Showdown! There have been a lot of sweet new planeswalkers printed since Daniel Goetschel took down MF Niagara Falls so I’m looking forward to seeing what everyone brings to battle. Make sure to pre-register and we’ll see you there!

 

[Deck Title= First Place, Bant Spirits – Lucas Worrell]
[Creatures]
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Mausoleum Wanderer
1 Rattle Chains
4 Supreme Phantom
4 Spell Queller
4 Drogskol Captain
3 Deputy of Detention
3 Selfless Spirit
2 Phantasmal Image
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Geist of Saint Traft
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Collected Company
4 Path to Exile
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Forest
1 Island
1 Plains
4 Windswept Heath
3 Flooded Strand
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Temple Garden
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Breeding Pool
1 Moorland Haunt
4 Botanical Sanctum
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
2 Damping Sphere
2 Unified Will
2 Knight of Autumn
3 Rest in Peace
2 Stony Silence
1 Teferi, Time Traveler
1 Dovin’s Veto
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Second Place, Burn – Melissa Grenier]
[Creatures]
4 Goblin Guide
3 Grim Lavamancer
4 Monastery Swiftspear
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Searing Blaze
3 Shardvolley
4 Skewer the Critics
4 Rift Bolt
4 Lava Spike
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Lightning Helix
3 Ensnaring Bridge
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Sacred Foundry
3 Scalding Tarn
4 Wooded Foothills
8 Mountain
1 Arid Mesa
4 Bloodstained Mire
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Blood Moon
4 Eidolon of the Great Revel
1 Ensnaring Bridge
1 Grim Lavamancer
3 Rest in Peace
2 Shattering Spree
2 Skullcrack
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Third Place, Affinity – Erik Traikov]
[Creatures]
2 Master of Etherium
4 Arcbound Ravager
4 Vault Skirge
4 Steel Overseer
4 Signal Pest
4 Ornithopter
3 Memnite
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Mox Opal
4 Cranial Plating
4 Springleaf Drum
2 Experimental Frenzy
4 Galvanic Blast
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Inkmoth Nexus
4 Blinkmoth Nexus
1 Mountain
1 Island
4 Darksteel Citadel
3 Spire of Industry
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Ghirapur Aether Grid
2 Ancient Grudge
2 Thoughtseize
2 Damping Sphere
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Etched Champion
1 Rest in Peace
1 Karn, Scion of Urza
1 Experimental Frenzy
2 Dispatch
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Fourth Place, Izzet Electrodominance – Russel Phillips]
[Creatures]
4 Greater Gargadon
2 Simian Spirit Guide
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
1 Search for Azcanta
1 Flame Slash
1 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Echoing Truth
1 Abrade
1 Blood Moon
4 Opt
4 Serum Visions
3 Remand
4 Ancestral Vision
4 Restore Balance
4 As Foretold
3 Eletrodominance
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Misty Rainforest
2 Polluted Delta
3 Steam Vents
1 Hallowed Fountain
4 Spirebluff Canal
3 Tolaria West
1 Cascade Bluffs
2 Islands
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Rest in Peace
1 Blood Moon
1 Ghostly Prison
4 Leyline of Sanctity
2 Spell Pierce
1 Abrade
1 Echoing Truth
1 Anger of the Gods
1 Shatterstorm
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Fifth Place, Saheeli Evolution – Keegan Ferreira]
[Creatures]
2 Birds of Paradise
4 Noble Hierarch
2 Lotus Cobra
3 Voice of Resurgence
3 Felidar Guardian
1 Thragtusk
1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
1 Reflector Mage
1 Knight of Autumn
1 Renegade Rallier
1 Hero of Bladehold
1 Sun Titan
1 Tireless Tracker
1 Wall of Omens
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Teferi, Time Raveler
1 Nissa, Stewart of Elements
2 Path to Exile
4 Saheeli Rai
4 Eldritch Evolution
4 Oath of Nissa
[/Spells]
[Lands]
2 Plains
2 Forest
3 Flooded Strand
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Windswept Heath
1 Horizon Canopy
1 Razorverge Thicket
1 Stomping Ground
1 Temple Garden
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Breeding Pool
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Path to Exile
1 Stony Silence
2 Rest in Peace
1 Runed Halo
1 Thalia, Heretic Cathar
1 Eidolon of Rhetoric
1 Damping Sphere
1 Gaddoc Teeg
1 Knight of Autumn
1 Teferi, Time Raveler
1 Sigarda, Host of Herons
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Thrun, the Last Troll
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Sixth Place, Hardened Scales – Travis MacDonald]
[Creatures]
4 Steel Overseer
4 Arcbound Worker
4 Arcbound Ravager
4 Walking Ballista
4 Hangarback Walker
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Welding Jar
1 Dismember
1 Basilisk Collar
4 Mox Opal
3 Animation Module
4 Hardened Scales
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Phyrexia’s Core
1 Llanowar Reborn
2 Horizon Canopy
1 Inventor’s Fair
1 Pendelhaven
4 Darksteel Citadel
6 Forest
4 Inkmoth Nexus
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Karn, Scion of Urza
2 Dismember
1 Ensnaring Bridge
1 Spellskite
1 Relic of Progenitus
2 Grefdigger’s Cage
3 Damping Sphere
4 Nature’s Claim
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Seventh Place, Titanshift – Farhaad Marounisi]
[Creatures]
4 Primeval Titan
4 Sakura Tribe Elder
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Anger of the Gods
1 Sweltering Suns
2 Mwonvuli Acid-moss
3 Farseek
2 Lightning Bolt
2 Flame Slash
2 Engineered Explosives
2 Relic of Progenitus
2 Summoner’s Pact
4 Scapeshift
4 Search for Tomorrow
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Wooded Foothills
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Windswept Heath
3 Cinder Glade
4 Stomping Grounds
6 Mountain
3 Forest
4 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Anger of the Gods
1 Beast Within
1 Obstinate Baloth
2 Tireless Tracker
1 Chalice of the Void
1 Reclamation Sage
2 Damping Sphere
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Nature’s Claim
1 Destructive Revelry
1 Fracturing Gust
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Eighth Place, Azorius Midrange – Seungho Heo]
[Creatures]
3 Wall of Omens
4 Spell Queller
4 Restoration Angel
1 Vendillion Clique
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Spell Snare
1 Oust
1 Surgical Extraction
1 Dovin’s Veto
4 Serum Vision
1 Spell Pierce
2 Supreme Veredict
3 Teferi, Time Raveler
4 Path to Exile
3 Cryptic Command
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Blast Zone
4 Field of Ruin
4 Flooded Strand
2 Glacial Fortress
4 Celestial Colonnade
2 Hallowed Fountain
5 Island
2 Plains
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Vendillion Clique
1 Dovin’s Veto
2 Celestial Purge
1 Kitchen Finks
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Geist of Saint Traft
2 Disdainful Stroke
2 Rest in Peace
1 Cataclysmic Gearhulk
1 Settle the Wreckage
1 Surgical Extraction
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

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