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Showdown Recap: RNA Sealed

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 brand new Ravnica Allegiance Sealed format to see who could take home the top prize.

Well, we’re two weeks into Ravnica Allegiance Limited and Lucas Worrel has won BOTH of our Limited Sunday Showdowns.

Your back to back Ravnica Allegiance Limited Showdown champ, Lucas Worrell.

Lucas drafted an extremely powerful Gruul deck in the Top 8 featuring two copies of [card]Rhythm of the Wild[/card]. This deck looks to pack a punch and Lucas has certainly shown in the first two weeks of this format that he knows his way around a game of Limited.

Your Limited Showdown Top 8.

In addition to Lucas’ repeat performance, his opponent was also the same person he’d beat the previous week Sascha Thomsen. Thomsen played a controlling version of Esper in to the finals this week.

Looking at the Top 8 overall, red seems to be one of the stronger colours in Limited. Cost reduction mechanics like Spectacle have always been extremely powerful by default and this one is no exception. It’s also worth noting that the Guildgate sub-theme in this format seems to be real. Jeff Swaluk had a nice Rakdos Draft deck featuring multiple copies of [Card]Gates Ablaze[/Card] which is a really nice payoff for going deep on gates.

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. This upcoming weekend at Face to Face Games Toronto we’ll be hosting a Standard Last Chance Qualifier on Saturday which qualifies you for the Standard RPTQ which we are also hosting on Sunday. Get you Standard testing started and come on out!

[Deck Title= First Place, Gruul – Lucas Worrell]
[Creatures]
1 Clan Guildmage
1 Nikya of the Old Ways
1 Rubblebelt Runner
2 Dagger Caster
1 Gravel-Hidden Goblin
3 Rubblebelt Recluse
1 Enraged Ceratok
1 Gruul Beastmaster
1 Sylvan Brushstrider
2 Wrecking Beast
1 Amplifire
1 Rumbling Ruin
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Titanic Brawl
1 Gruul Locket
2 Rhythm of the Wild
1 Stony Strength
1 Gift of Strength
1 Scorchmark
[/Spells]
[Lands]
8 Forest
8 Mountain
1 Gruul Guildgate
[/Lands]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Second Place, Esper – Sascha Thomsen]
[Creatures]
1 Ministrant of Obligation
1 Syndicate Messenger
1 Twilight Panther
2 Blade Juggler
1 Orzhov Enforcer
1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
1 Spawn of Mayhem
1 Vindictive Vampire
2 Basilica Bell-Haunt
2 Grasping Thrull
1 Pitiless Pontiff
2 Syndicate Guildmage
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Depose // Deploy
1 Arrester’s Zeal
1 Justiciar’s Portal
1 Kaya, Orzhov Usurper
1 Undercity’s Embrace
2 Consign to the Pit
1 Summary Judgment
[/Spells]
[Lands]
7 Plains
7 Island
1 Godless Shrine
2 Orzhov Guildgate
[/Lands]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Third Place, Mardu – Liam Kane]
[Creatures]
1 Syndicate Messenger
2 Blade Juggler
2 Plague Wight
1 Clamor Shaman
1 Rubblebelt Recluse
1 Fireblade Artist
1 Grasping Thrull
2 Hackrobat
1 Pitiless Pontiff
1 Rakdos Firewheeler
1 Rakdos Roustabout
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Consecrate // Consume
1 Sentinel’s Mark
2 Get the Point
1 Skewer the Critics
1 Electrodominance
1 Gates Ablaze
1 Debtor’s Transport
1 Captive Audience
[/Spells]
[Lands]
6 Mountain
2 Plains
2 Swamp
[/Lands]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Fourth Place, Rakdos – Jeff Swaluk]
[Creatures]
1 Gate Colossus
1 Cult Guildmage
1 Gruul Spellbreaker
2 Rafter Demon
1 Rakdos Firewheeler
1 Rakdos Roustabout
1 Archway Angel
1 Blade Juggler
1 Carrion Imp
1 Catacomb Crocodile
1 Orzhov Enforcer
2 Rakdos Trumpeter
1 Ghor-Clan Wrecker
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Scorchmark
1 Skewer the Critics
2 Gates Ablaze
1 Flames of the Raze-Boar
1 Bedevil
1 Bedeck // Bedazzle
1 Collision // Colossus
[/Spells]
[Lands]
5 Mountian
5 Swamp
1 Gateway Plaza
1 Gruul Guildgate
2 Orzhov Guildgate
3 Rakdos Guildgate
[/Lands]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Fifth Place, Temur – Omar Beldon]
[Creatures]
1 Aeromunculus
1 Rubble Slinger
1 Benthic Biomancer
1 Chillbringer
1 Humongulus
1 Sage’s Row Savant
1 Skitter Eel
2 Rumbling Ruin
1 Steeple Creeper
1 Sylvan Brushstrider
2 Territorial Boar
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Collision // Colossus
1 Thrash // Threat
1 Gruul Locket
1 Simic Locket
1 Guardian Project
1 Open the Gates
1 Slimebind
1 Flames of the Raze-Boar
1 Mass Manipulation
1 Precognitive Perception
[/Spells]
[Lands]
5 Forest
6 Island
3 Mountain
1 Gruul Guildgate
2 Simic Guildgate
[/Lands]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Sixth Place, Gruul – James Everson]
[Creatures]
1 Frenzied Arynx
3 Zhur-Taa Goblin
1 Footlight Fiend
2 Ghor-Clan Wrecker
1 Gravel-Hide Goblin
3 Spikewheel Acrobat
1 Gruul Beastmaster
1 Rampaging Rendhorn
1 Territorial Boar
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Savage Smash
3 Goblin Gathering
1 Domri, Chaos Bringer
1 Scorchmark
1 Burn Bright
[/Spells]
[Lands]
8 Forest
8 Mountain
[/Lands]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Seventh Place, Azorious- John O’Keefe]
[Creatures]
1 Forbidding Spirit
1 Impassioned Orator
1 Ministrant of Obligation
1 Syndicate Messenger
1 Tenth District Veteran
1 Chillbringer
1 Faerie Duelist
1 Humongulus
1 Azorius Knight-Arbiter
2 Deputy of Detention
1 Senate Griffin
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Warrant // Warden
1 Arrester’s Zeal
1 Bring to Trial
1 Dovin’s Acuity
1 Sphinx’s Insight
1 Quench
2 Slimebind
1 Thought Collapse
1 Arrester’s Admonition
1 Sky Tether
[/Spells]
[Lands]
7 Island
8 Plains
1 Azorius Guildgate
[/Lands]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Eighth Place, Simic – Melissa Grenier]
[Creatures]
3 Chillbringer
1 Coral Commando
1 Faerie Duelist
1 Pteramander
2 Sage’s Row Savant
1 Senate Courier
2 Skatewing Spy
1 Skitter Eel
1 Steeple Creeper
1 Sylvan Brushstrider
1 Territorial Boar
1 Combine Guildmage
1 Frilled Mystic
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Code of Constraint
3 Applied Biomancy
1 Slimebind
1 Gift of Strength
[/Spells]
[Lands]
8 Forest
8 Island
1 Simic Guildgate
[/Lands]
[/Deck]

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