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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 get prepped for Grand Prix Toronto on Feb. 10-11.

This past weekend was certainly a big moment for the Modern format. We saw Lantern Control win a Pro Tour and 5C Humans make a big splash at the same event in Bilbao, Spain. Back here in Toronto, 5C Humans also won our Sunday Modern Showdown in the hands of local player Jeff Swaluk.

Modern Showdown champion Jeff Swaluk

If I could be so bold, I think if there’s anything we’ve learned this weekend it’s that you can play anything you want in Modern and have success with it. Additionally, we learned aggro is still the king. In the words of Swaluk himself, “I played like a donkey all day and the deck carried me.”

Chris Flink had a good day in his favourite format piloting his trusty Ad Nauseum deck even as the format gets more hostile toward it by the day.

We saw more blue-based control decks have some success in the hands of Beldon and Sturm showing that maybe last weekend’s Open results weren’t a fluke.

It’s going to be interesting seeing how the metagame adapts to the Pro Tour results this coming weekend at Grand Prix Toronto. My money’s on a big weekend for Traverse Shadow (as it always is).

Your Modern Showdown Top 8.

With his win on Sunday Swaluk moves himself up Face to Face Games Ultimate Showdown leaderboard. Next week we’re taking the week off from the Sunday Showdown series to sell you all the cards you need at the Grand Prix. With that said, be sure not to miss the following weekend where players will be battling some Legacy !

Interested in how many Showdown Points you have? Click here.

First Place, Jeff Swaluk- 5C Humans

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Champion of the Parish
1 Kessig Malcontents
4 Kitesail Freebooter
4 Mantis Rider
4 Meddling Mage
4 Noble Heirarch
4 Phantasmal Image
4 Reflector Mage
4 Thalias Lieutenant
4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Aether Vial
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Horizon Canopy
4 Ancient Ziggurat
4 Cavern of Souls
4 Unclaimed Territory
2 Seachrome Coast
1 Plains
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Auriok Champion
2 Dismember
1 Grafdiggers Cage
2 Izzet Staticaster
2 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
1 Kataki, Wars Wage
1 Mirran Crusader
2 Sin Collector
1 Vithian Renegades
2 Xathrid Necromancer
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Second Place, Chris Flink- Ad Nauseum

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Simian Spirit Guide
1 Laboratory Maniac
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Desperate Ritual
4 Ad Nauseum
4 Angels Grace
4 Phyrexian Unlife
4 Serum Visions
3 Opt
3 Spoils of the Vault
1 Mystical Teachings
2 Pact of Negation
1 Lightning Storm
4 Lotus Bloom
4 Pentad Prism
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Swamp
1 Island
1 Plains
1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Tolaria West
4 Temple of Enlightenment
3 Temple of Deceit
3 Gemstone Mine
3 City of Brass
1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Bontus Last Reckoning
2 Pithing Needle
4 Leyline of Sanctity
2 Pact of Negation
1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
2 Wear // Tear
1 Echoing Truth
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Third Place, Eric Li- Counters Company

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Birds of Paradise
1 Noble Hierarch
1 Walking Ballista
4 Tidehollow Sculler
3 Kitchen Finks
3 Vizier of Remedies
1 Qasali Pridemage
4 Devoted Druid
1 Viscera Seer
3 Eternal Witness
2 Duskwatch Recruiter
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Tireless Tracker
1 Rhonas, the Indomitable
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Collected Company
4 Chord of Calling
[/Spells]
[Lands]
2 Gavony Township
2 Temple Garden
2 Horizon Canopy
1 Blooming Marsh
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Windswept Heath
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Godless Shrine
2 Forest
1 Plains
1 Swamp
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Path to Exile
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Kataki, Wars Wage
1 Voice of Resurgence
1 Eidolon of Rhetoric
1 Tireless Tracker
1 Sin Collector
1 Orzhov Pontiff
2 Thoughtseize
1 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Fourth Place, Eric Sturm- Jeskai

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Snapcaster Mage
2 Spell Queller
2 Vendillion Clique
2 Geist of Saint Traft
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Logic Knot
2 Spell Snare
4 Path to Exile
2 Electrolyze
4 Cryptic Command
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Lightning Helix
4 Opt
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Flooded Strand
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Celestial Colonade
2 Sulfur Falls
2 Steam Vents
2 Hallowed Fountain
3 Island
1 Mountain
1 Plains
1 Sacred Foundry
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Geist of Saint Traft
1 Anger of the Gods
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Relic of Progenitus
2 Disdainful Stroke
2 Ceremonious Rejection
1 Supreme Verdict
1 Dispel
1 Elspeth, Suns Champion
1 Izzet Staticaster
1 Negate
1 Celestial Purge
1 Crumble to Dust
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Fifth Place, Omar Beldon- U/W Mentor

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Snapcaster Mage
1 Vendillion Clique
3 Monastery Mentor
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Condemn
1 Settle the Wreckage
1 Detention Sphere
4 Spreading Seas
4 Cryptic Command
3 Remand
1 Logic Knot
2 Spell Snare
4 Path to Exile
4 Serum Visions
4 Opt
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Celestial Colonnade
2 Seachrome Coast
1 Glacial Fortress
5 Island
2 Plains
4 Field of Ruin
4 Flooded Strand
2 Hallowed Fountain
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Negate
1 Disdainful Stroke
2 Ceremonious Rejection
1 Runed Halo
2 Thing in the Ice
1 Gideon Jura
1 Jace, Architect of Thought
2 Dispel
2 Celestial Purge
1 Porphyry Nodes
1 Supreme Verdict
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Sixth Place, Elliott Tzaneteas- Burn

[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Eidolon of the Great Revel
4 Goblin Guide
1 Grim Lavamancer
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Lava Spike
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Monastery Swiftspear
4 Rift Bolt
3 Searing Blaze
4 Skullcrack
4 Boros Charm
4 Lightning Helix
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Arid Mesa
3 Bloodstained Mire
3 Insipring Vantage
3 Mountain
2 Sacred Foundry
2 Scalding Tarn
1 Stomping Ground
3 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
4 Destructive Revelry
4 Ensnaring Bridge
2 Exquisite Firecraft
2 Path to Exile
2 Rest in Peace
1 Shattering Spree
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Seventh Place, Connors Eilersen- 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]
4 Utopia Sprawl
1 Primal Command
4 Stone Rain
4 Blood Moon
3 Bonfire of the Damned
2 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
3 Madcap Experiment
3 Mwonvuli Acid-Moss
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Verdant Catacombs
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills
3 Stomping Ground
7 Forest
1 Mountain
1 Kessig Wolf Run
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Ancient Grudge
4 Anger of the Gods
2 Choke
1 Fracturing Gust
1 Obstinate Baloth
2 Scavenger Ooze
1 Thragtusk
2 Trinisphere
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Eighth Place, Asha Mills- Eldrazi Tron

[Deck]
[Creatures]
2 Endbringer
4 Matter Reshaper
4 Reality Smasher
4 Thought-Knot Seer
1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
4 Walking Ballista
1 Wurmcoil Engine
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 All Is Dust
2 Dismember
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Expedition Map
2 Karn Liberated
2 Mind Stone
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Cavern of Souls
4 Eldrazi Temple
3 Ghost Quarter
1 Sanctum of Ugin
1 Sea Gate Wreckage
4 Urzas Mine
4 Urzas Power Plant
4 Urzas Tower
2 Wastes
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Basilisk Collar
2 Grafdiggers Cage
2 Hangarback Walker
2 Ratchet Bomb
3 Relic of Progenitus
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Warping Wail
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

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