This
past Sunday at Face to Face Games Toronto, a full house of 64 players descended to fight for prizes, glory, and byes to Grand Prix Detroit. In the end, one player remained undefeated – Alexei Varakin and his Abzan Company took it down, dropping only a single game in the whole event!
Congratulations to him, and we’ll surely see him around more, as he won free entry into all events for the next month!
Here’s his decklist, as well as those from the rest of the top 8 competitors.
1st – Alexei Varakin – Abzan Company
[deck]
[Lands]
1 Forest
3 Gavony Township
1 Godless Shrine
2 Overgrown Tomb
2 Plains
2 Razorverge Thicket
2 Swamp
1 Temple Garden
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Windswept Heath
[/Lands]
[Spells]
1 Abrupt Decay
3 Chord of Calling
4 Collected Company
2 Path to Exile
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
2 Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit
4 Birds of Paradise
1 Blood Artist
2 Eternal Witness
4 Kitchen Finks
2 Melira, Sylvok Outcast
1 Murderous Redcap
3 Noble Hierarch
1 Orzhov Pontiff
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Reveillark
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Spellskite
3 Viscera Seer
1 Voice of Resurgence
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
2 Thoughtseize
1 Illness in the Ranks
1 Spellskite
1 Golgari Charm
1 Wall of Roots
1 Anafenza, the Foremost
1 Tidehollow Sculler
1 Ratchet Bomb
1 Burrenton Forge-Tender
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Sin Collector
1 Essence Warden
1 Kataki, War’s Wage
1 Path to Exile
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]
2nd – George Soules – Affinity
[deck]
[Lands]
4 Blinkmoth Nexus
4 Darksteel Citadel
3 Glimmervoid
4 Inkmoth Nexus
1 Island
[/Lands]
[Spells]
4 Cranial Plating
4 Galvanic Blast
4 Mox Opal
4 Springleaf Drum
1 Welding Jar
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
4 Arcbound Ravager
2 Etched Champion
2 Master of Etherium
2 Memnite
4 Ornithopter
4 Signal Pest
1 Spellskite
4 Steel Overseer
4 Vault Skirge
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
2 Dismember
2 Etched Champion
2 Wear // Tear
2 Thoughtseize
2 Spellskite
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Torpor Orb
1 Whipflare
1 Blood Moon
1 Ancient Grudge
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]
3rd – Noah Kadish – Tron
[deck]
[Lands]
1 Eye of Ugin
1 Forest
2 Ghost Quarter
4 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
1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
2 Spellskite
2 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
3 Wurmcoil Engine
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
1 Pyroclasm
1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
1 Thragtusk
1 Vandalblast
1 Crumble to Dust
1 Wurmcoil Engine
1 Spellskite
2 Nature’s Claim
2 Rending Volley
2 Torpor Orb
2 Relic of Progenitus
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]
4th – Matthew Loong – Jund
[deck]
[Lands]
4 Blackcleave Cliffs
1 Blood Crypt
3 Bloodstained Mire
2 Forest
2 Overgrown Tomb
4 Raging Ravine
1 Stomping Ground
2 Swamp
4 Verdant Catacombs
1 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Spells]
3 Abrupt Decay
3 Inquisition of Kozilek
2 Kolaghan’s Command
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Liliana of the Veil
1 Maelstrom Pulse
3 Terminate
3 Thoughtseize
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
1 Courser of Kruphix
4 Dark Confidant
2 Pia and Kiran Nalaar
3 Scavenging Ooze
4 Tarmogoyf
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
3 Kitchen Finks
2 Painful Truths
1 Olivia Voldaren
1 Thundermaw Hellkite
1 Ancient Grudge
3 Leyline of the Void
1 Anger of the Gods
1 Duress
1 Damnation
1 Engineered Explosives
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]
5th – Ian Ding – Infect
[deck]
[Lands]
2 Breeding Pool
2 Forest
4 Inkmoth Nexus
4 Misty Rainforest
2 Pendelhaven
1 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Spells]
2 Apostle’s Blessing
3 Become Immense
4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Groundswell
3 Might of Old Krosa
3 Mutagenic Growth
1 Rancor
2 Serum Visions
4 Vines of Vastwood
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
4 Blighted Agent
1 Dryad Arbor
4 Glistener Elf
4 Noble Hierarch
2 Spellskite
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
1 Viridian Corrupter
3 Nature’s Claim
2 Twisted Image
1 Ichorclaw Myr
2 Wild Defiance
2 Spell Pierce
1 Dispel
1 Carrion Call
1 Sylvan Scrying
1 Dismember
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]
6th – Leslie Walderman – Abzan
[deck]
[Lands]
2 Forest
1 Gavony Township
1 Godless Shrine
4 Marsh Flats
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Plains
2 Shambling Vent
2 Swamp
1 Temple Garden
2 Treetop Village
1 Twilight Mire
4 Verdant Catacombs
1 Windswept Heath
1 Woodland Cemetery
[/Lands]
[Spells]
4 Abrupt Decay
1 Duress
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
3 Liliana of the Veil
4 Lingering Souls
3 Path to Exile
1 Slaughter Pact
2 Thoughtseize
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
1 Anafenza, the Foremost
1 Courser of Kruphix
2 Kitchen Finks
2 Scavenging Ooze
3 Siege Rhino
4 Tarmogoyf
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
1 Ob Nixilis Reignited
1 Elspeth, Sun’s Champion
1 Blood Baron of Vizkopa
2 Damnation
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Painful Truths
2 Worship
2 Stony Silence
3 Leyline of the Void
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]
7th – Spencer Barge – Merfolk
[deck]
[Lands]
3 Cavern of Souls
12 Island
4 Mutavault
1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
[/Lands]
[Spells]
2 Dismember
4 Spreading Seas
4 Vapor Snag
4 Æther Vial
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
4 Cursecatcher
2 Harbinger of the Tides
1 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
4 Lord of Atlantis
4 Master of the Pearl Trident
3 Master of Waves
4 Merrow Reejerey
4 Silvergill Adept
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
3 Unified Will
1 Hibernation
3 Spellskite
4 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Dismember
3 Spell Pierce
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]
8th – Eric Dalton – Amulet Bloom
[deck]
[Lands]
1 Boros Garrison
1 Cavern of Souls
1 City of Brass
1 Forest
4 Gemstone Mine
1 Golgari Rot Farm
3 Gruul Turf
1 Khalni Garden
1 Mana Confluence
1 Radiant Fountain
1 Selesnya Sanctuary
4 Simic Growth Chamber
1 Slayers’ Stronghold
1 Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion
1 Tendo Ice Bridge
3 Tolaria West
1 Vesuva
[/Lands]
[Spells]
4 Amulet of Vigor
4 Ancient Stirrings
3 Hive Mind
2 Pact of Negation
4 Serum Visions
1 Slaughter Pact
4 Summer Bloom
4 Summoner’s Pact
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
2 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
4 Primeval Titan
1 Simian Spirit Guide
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
1 Chalice of the Void
2 Engineered Explosives
1 Hornet Queen
1 Seal of Primordium
2 Nature’s Claim
2 Thragtusk
2 Firespout
2 Leyline of Sanctity
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Sigarda, Host of Herons
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]
The Sunday Showdowns are a series of 1K tournaments that take place at the Face to Face Games Toronto store. To keep things fresh, the format rotates every week and the events have been attracting many players, both old and new.
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