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Tyler Milmine Wins the Face to Face Games Toronto Open!

Wow! What a weekend. With the Pro Tour streaming in the background, we kicked off the Modern Open to the excitement of everyone in the room. 169 players joined us for a day of slinging spells. The Pro Tour may have been swarmed by the Eldrazi menace but there were many different decks at the Open.

The finals saw Thomas Sims paired up against Tyler Milmine. The two played in the Swiss with Tom emerging victorious after three hard fought games. While Tom finished the Swiss at 7 wins/1 draw, Tyler finished at 6 wins/1 loss/1 draw. The finals was a different story from the Swiss with Tyler Milmine and his legions of elves taking down the Eldrazi menace. This wrapped up an exhilarating day. We look forward to seeing everyone again in March.

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Name: Tyler Milmine
Age: 22
Occupation: Student studying accounting
Favorite card: Disciple of Bolas
Best Magic memory: When I ripped a Chord of Calling, played it, and said I am going to get Craterhoof Behemoth in the finals of a Face to Face Open.

Elves – Tyler Milmine (1st)

[deck]
[Lands]
2 Cavern of Souls
5 Forest
4 Horizon Canopy
2 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
2 Razorverge Thicket
2 Temple Garden
[/Lands]
[Spells]
4 Chord of Calling
4 Collected Company
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
4 Dwynen’s Elite
4 Elvish Archdruid
1 Elvish Champion
4 Elvish Mystic
3 Elvish Visionary
1 Eternal Witness
2 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
1 Fauna Shaman
4 Heritage Druid
4 Llanowar Elves
1 Mirror Entity
4 Nettle Sentinel
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Spellskite
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
1 Fracturing Gust
1 Kataki, War’s Wage
1 Fecundity
1 Rhys the Exiled
1 Chameleon Colossus
1 Dauntless Escort
1 Melira, Sylvok Outcast
1 Orzhov Pontiff
1 Craterhoof Behemoth
1 Gaddock Teeg
2 Burrenton Forge-Tender
2 Stony Silence
1 Creeping Corrosion
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]

Name: Thomas Sims
Age: 31
Occupation: Digital Marketing Specialist
Favorite card: Reality Smasher
Best MTG memory: This tournament

Eltronzi – Thomas Sims (2nd)

[deck]
[Lands]
4 Eldrazi Temple
3 Eye of Ugin
4 Urza’s Mine
4 Urza’s Power Plant
4 Urza’s Tower
3 Wastes
[/Lands]
[Spells]
2 All Is Dust
4 Expedition Map
3 Spatial Contortion
2 Titan’s Presence
3 Warping Wail
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
4 Eldrazi Mimic
1 Kozilek, the Great Distortion
3 Matter Reshaper
3 Oblivion Sower
3 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Reality Smasher
4 Thought-Knot Seer
2 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
1 All Is Dust
3 Relic of Progenitus
2 Dismember
3 Chalice of the Void
3 Sun Droplet
2 Pithing Needle
1 Spellskite
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]

Name: John Wasson
Age: 31
Occupation: Magic retail
Favorite card: Geist of Saint Traft
Best Magic memory: Winning a PTQ

Burn – John Wasson (T4)

[deck]
[Lands]
4 Arid Mesa
2 Blood Crypt
4 Bloodstained Mire
3 Mountain
2 Sacred Foundry
1 Scalding Tarn
4 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Spells]
4 Boros Charm
4 Bump in the Night
4 Lava Spike
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Rift Bolt
4 Searing Blaze
2 Skullcrack
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
4 Eidolon of the Great Revel
4 Goblin Guide
2 Grim Lavamancer
4 Monastery Swiftspear
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
3 Ensnaring Bridge
2 Dragon’s Claw
2 Kor Firewalker
2 Reality Hemorrhage
2 Wear // Tear
2 Stony Silence
1 Path to Exile
1 Skullcrack
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]

Name: Joseph Carino
Age: 26
Occupation: Software Developer
Favorite card: Boldwyr Intimidator
Best Magic memory: GP Boston 2014

Affinity – Joseph Carino (T4)

[deck]
[Lands]
4 Blinkmoth Nexus
4 Darksteel Citadel
4 Glimmervoid
4 Inkmoth Nexus
1 Island
[/Lands]
[Spells]
4 Cranial Plating
1 Ensoul Artifact
4 Mox Opal
4 Springleaf Drum
3 Thoughtcast
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
4 Arcbound Ravager
4 Master of Etherium
2 Memnite
4 Ornithopter
4 Signal Pest
1 Spellskite
4 Steel Overseer
4 Vault Skirge
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
1 Sea Gate Wreckage
3 Thoughtseize
1 Stubborn Denial
2 Etched Champion
2 Whipflare
2 Ghirapur Aether Grid
3 Ancient Grudge
1 Mountain
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]

Name: Alex Ireland
Age: 23
Occupation: Maintenance
Favorite card: Jeskai Ascendancy
Best Magic memory: Winning a PTQ while sick with pneumonia

Burn – Alex Ireland (T8)

[deck]
[Lands]
2 Arid Mesa
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Mountain
2 Sacred Foundry
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Stomping Ground
1 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Spells]
4 Atarka’s Command
4 Boros Charm
4 Lava Spike
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Lightning Helix
4 Rift Bolt
1 Searing Blaze
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
4 Eidolon of the Great Revel
4 Goblin Guide
2 Grim Lavamancer
4 Monastery Swiftspear
4 Wild Nacatl
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
3 Destructive Revelry
2 Kor Firewalker
2 Smash to Smithereens
2 Path to Exile
1 Searing Blaze
1 Skullcrack
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
3 Molten Rain
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]

Name: Matt Perantinos
Age: 22
Occupation: N/A
Favorite card: Emrakul
Best Magic memory: Won a PPTQ, and beat Colin Kong at an FNM

RG Tron – Matt Perantinos (T8)

[deck]
[Lands]
1 Eye of Ugin
2 Forest
2 Ghost Quarter
3 Grove of the Burnwillows
4 Urza’s Mine
4 Urza’s Power Plant
4 Urza’s Tower
[/Lands]
[Spells]
4 Ancient Stirrings
4 Chromatic Sphere
4 Chromatic Star
4 Expedition Map
4 Karn Liberated
4 Oblivion Stone
3 Pyroclasm
4 Sylvan Scrying
2 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
2 Warping Wail
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
3 Wurmcoil Engine
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
2 Sudden Shock
1 Relic of Progenitus
2 Pithing Needle
2 Feed the Clan
3 Nature’s Claim
1 Crucible of Worlds
2 Thragtusk
1 Firespout
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]

Name: Steven Whitsitt
Age: 23
Occupation: Cook at East Side Mario’s
Favorite Card: Wurmcoil Engine
Best Magic Memory: Making top 8 of a Face to Face 3K

Burn – Steven Whitsitt (T8)

[deck]
[Lands]
1 Arid Mesa
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Mountain
4 Sacred Foundry
2 Stomping Ground
4 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Spells]
4 Boros Charm
4 Lava Spike
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Lightning Helix
2 Mutagenic Growth
4 Rift Bolt
4 Searing Blaze
4 Skullcrack
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
4 Eidolon of the Great Revel
4 Goblin Guide
4 Monastery Swiftspear
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
2 Molten Rain
3 Path to Exile
3 Kor Firewalker
3 Destructive Revelry
1 Stony Silence
1 Shatterstorm
2 Deflecting Palm
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]

Name: Richard Welch
Deck: Big Tempo Temur
Age: 31
Occupation: PhD Student/Teaching Assistant
Favourite card: Vendilion Clique
Best Magic memory: Winning my first tournament circa 1999 with a RW Dwarven Miner deck

Big Tempo Temur – Richard Welch (T8)

[deck]
[Lands]
2 Breeding Pool
1 Forest
2 Island
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Mountain
2 Raging Ravine
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Steam Vents
1 Stomping Ground
1 Sulfur Falls
3 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Spells]
2 Cryptic Command
1 Electrolyze
4 Lightning Bolt
1 Mana Leak
2 Remand
4 Serum Visions
3 Spell Pierce
2 Vapor Snag
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
4 Noble Hierarch
1 Pia and Kiran Nalaar
4 Savage Knuckleblade
4 Snapcaster Mage
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Vendilion Clique
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
3 Spreading Seas
3 Kitchen Finks
2 Ancient Grudge
2 Deprive
1 Grim Lavamancer
1 Izzet Staticaster
1 Pia and Kiran Nalaar
1 Shatterstorm
1 Roast
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]

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