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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 the Modern format to take down the top prize.

Showdown winner Jason Drossis

All I can say is wow. I’d be lying if I said I expected to see Abzan atop the Modern standings after weeks of writing recaps about tons of Tron and Scapeshift decks succeeding in the Showdown Series. Jason Drossis took down this event with just that, good old Abzan.

All that said, I think the story of this event has got to be the emergence of U/R Storm in the Toronto Modern scene. If you pay attention to the Magic Online metagame at all, you know this Storm deck is really making waves. Now, as the real-life metagame catches up, Toronto locals are starting to build and master this powerful deck, and clearly that is bad news for other competitors.

I’d also like to highlight Anthony Chernyak’s Naya Evolution masterpiece that sports 14 maindeck singletons which has got to be some kind of record. This Showdown was definitely unique in that a lot of unconventional strategies like this had success. The Top 8 also featured a Ponza player, Sun and Moon and a Mono-Blue Tron deck featuring Torrential Gearhulk.

With his win this weekend Jason qualifies himself for the next Face to Face Games Ultimate Showdown and the rest of the Top 8 have started their march toward the top of the Showdown leaderboard. Join us this weekend at Face to Face Games Toronto for our special Team Trios Showdown. Sign up with two friends and play Legacy, Modern and Standard constructed team Magic to qualify all three of you for the Ultimate Showdown !

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First Place, Jason Drossis, Abzan

[Deck]
[Creatures]
3 Grim Flayer
2 Scavenging Ooze
2 Siege Rhino
4 Tarmogoyf
1 Tireless Tracker
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Lingering Souls
1 Maelstrom Pulse
3 Thoughtseize
2 Abrupt Decay
3 Fatal Push
3 Path to Exile
3 Liliana of the Veil
2 Liliana, the Last Hope
1 Nihil Spellbomb
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Blooming Marsh
1 Forest
1 Godless Shrine
3 Marsh Flats
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Plains
2 Shambling Vent
1 Stirring Wildwood
2 Swamp
1 Temple Garden
4 Verdant Catacombs
2 Windswept Heath
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Collective Brutality
1 Damnation
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Flaying Tendrils
3 Fulminator Mage
1 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
2 Kitchen Finks
2 Stony Silence
2 Surgical Extraction
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Second Place, Sean Yang, Mono-Blue Tron

[Deck]
[Creatures]
1 Emrakul, the Promised End
1 Platinum Angel
1 Snapcaster Mage
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Torrential Gearhulk
2 Treasure Mage
2 Wurmcoil Engine
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Chalice of the Void
4 Expedition Map
2 Mindslaver
1 Oblivion Stone
4 Condescend
1 Cyclonic Rift
3 Remand
3 Repeal
2 Spatial Contortion
4 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Academy Ruins
1 Gemstone Caverns
1 Ghost Quarter
6 Island
1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
1 River of Tears
1 Tectonic Edge
4 Urzas Mine
4 Urzas Power Plant
4 Urzas Tower
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Ceremonious Rejection
3 Dismember
1 Dispel
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Hurkyls Recall
1 Negate
1 Spatial Contortion
2 Spreading Seas
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Tormods Crypt
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Third Place, Sam Shoffner, U/R Storm

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Baral, Chief of Compliance
3 Goblin Electromancer
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Empty the Warrens
2 Grapeshot
2 Past in Flames
4 Serum Visions
4 Sleight of Hand
4 Desperate Ritual
4 Gifts Ungiven
4 Manamorphose
1 Noxious Revival
2 Peer Through Depths
4 Pyretic Ritual
3 Remand
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Flooded Strand
3 Island
1 Mountain
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Spirebluff Canal
3 Steam Vents
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Blood Moon
1 Echoing Truth
2 Empty the Warrens
3 Lightning Bolt
2 Pieces of the Puzzle
2 Shattering Spree
2 Swan Song
1 Wipe Away
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Fourth Place, Liam Kane, U/R Storm

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Baral, Chief of Compliance
4 Goblin Electromancer
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Desperate Ritual
4 Gifts Ungiven
4 Manamorphose
1 Noxious Revival
1 Opt
4 Pyretic Ritual
3 Remand
1 Empty the Warrens
3 Grapeshot
2 Past in Flames
4 Serum Visions
3 Sleight of Hand
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Island
4 Polluted Delta
3 Scalding Tarn
1 Snow-Covered Mountain
4 Spirebluff Canal
3 Steam Vents
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
4 Blood Moon
2 Echoing Truth
2 Empty the Warrens
2 Lightning Bolt
3 Pieces of the Puzzle
2 Shattering Spree
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Fifth Place, Connors Eilerson, G/R Ponza

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Arbor Elf
1 Birds of Paradise
3 Inferno Titan
3 Kitchen Finks
2 Platinum Emperion
1 Stormbreath Dragon
1 Thrun, the Last Troll
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Bonfire of the Damned
3 Madcap Experiment
3 Mwonvuli Acid-Moss
1 Primal Command
4 Stone Rain
4 Blood Moon
4 Utopia Sprawl
2 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
[/Spells]
[Lands]
7 Forest
1 Kessig Wolf Run
1 Mountain
3 Stomping Ground
1 Verdant Catacombs
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Ancient Grudge
4 Anger of the Gods
2 Choke
1 Fracturing Gust
3 Obstinate Baloth
2 Scavenging Ooze
1 Thragtusk
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Sixth Place, Anthony Chernyak, Naya Evolution

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Birds of Paradise
1 Eidolon of Rhetoric
3 Eternal Witness
1 Keranos, God of Storms
1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
1 Kitchen Finks
1 Magus of the Moon
1 Mystic Snake
1 Phantasmal Image
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Renegade Rallier
2 Restoration Angel
1 Reveillark
1 Saffi Eriksdotter
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Spellskite
3 Voice of Resurgence
2 Wall of Omens
1 Wall of Roots
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Chord of Calling
3 Path to Exile
2 Eldritch Evolution
[/Spells]
[Lands]
2 Breeding Pool
3 Forest
1 Gavony Township
1 Mountain
1 Plains
2 Razorverge Thicket
1 Sacred Foundry
2 Stomping Ground
2 Temple Garden
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Archangel of Thune
1 Burrenton Forge-Tender
1 Fulminator Mage
1 Intrepid Hero
1 Izzet Staticaster
1 Kataki, Wars Wage
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
1 Loaming Shaman
1 Mana Tithe
1 Prowling Serpopard
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Reflector Mage
1 Spike Feeder
2 Stony Silence
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Seventh Place, Dylan Harkness, Affinity

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Arcbound Ravager
4 Master of Etherium
3 Memnite
4 Ornithopter
4 Signal Pest
4 Steel Overseer
4 Vault Skirge
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Cranial Plating
4 Mox Opal
4 Springleaf Drum
4 Galvanic Blast
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Blinkmoth Nexus
4 Darksteel Citadel
3 Glimmervoid
4 Inkmoth Nexus
1 Mountain
2 Spire of Industry
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Blood Moon
1 Dismember
3 Etched Champion
2 Ghirapur AEther Grid
1 Grafdiggers Cage
1 Rest in Peace
1 Spell Pierce
2 Thoughtseize
1 Wear
1 Whipflare
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Eighth Place, Philip Wong, Sun and Moon

[Deck]
[Creatures]
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
4 Simian Spirit Guide
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Blood Moon
2 Cast Out
1 Journey to Nowhere
2 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
2 Gideon Jura
2 Gideon of the Trials
4 Nahiri, the Harbinger
2 Anger of the Gods
1 Sweltering Suns
3 Wrath of God
1 Blessed Alliance
3 Lightning Helix
4 Chalice of the Void
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Arid Mesa
2 Gemstone Caverns
1 Mountain
8 Plains
2 Rugged Prairie
3 Sacred Foundry
4 Temple of Triumph
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Damping Matrix
1 Elspeth, Suns Champion
1 Hazoret the Fervent
3 Leyline of Sanctity
3 Molten Rain
3 Rest in Peace
3 Stony Silence
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Want to get out and battle at a Showdown and cement your spot in our Ultimate Showdown? This Sunday we’ve got a very special Team Trios Showdown. Grab two friends and come out to battle Modern, Standard and Legacy for 1k in prizes !

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