Thank
you to the 200+ players who joined us on Saturday for the first FaceToFaceGames.com Toronto Open.
Congratulations to Felix Tse for winning the entire event with his take on RG Scapeshift!
Top 8 Decklists
R/G Scapeshift – Felix Tse [1st]
[deck]
[Lands]
2 Cinder Glade
3 Forest
8 Mountain
4 Stomping Ground
4 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
2 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Spells]
1 Explore
1 Farseek
4 Khalni Heart Expedition
4 Mwonvuli Acid-Moss
2 Nature’s Claim
2 Primal Command
4 Scapeshift
4 Search for Tomorrow
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
3 Courser of Kruphix
4 Primeval Titan
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
4 Obstinate Baloth
2 Relic of Progenitus
2 Engineered Explosives
2 Ancient Grudge
2 Rending Volley
1 Beast Within
2 Anger of the Gods
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]
Grixis Twin – Derek Lansche [2nd]
[deck]
[Lands]
1 Blood Crypt
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Desolate Lighthouse
4 Island
1 Mountain
4 Polluted Delta
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Steam Vents
3 Sulfur Falls
1 Swamp
1 Watery Grave
[/Lands]
[Spells]
2 Dispel
2 Kolaghan’s Command
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Mana Leak
1 Murderous Cut
2 Remand
4 Serum Visions
1 Spell Snare
4 Splinter Twin
1 Terminate
1 Twisted Image
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
4 Deceiver Exarch
2 Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy
2 Pestermite
4 Snapcaster Mage
1 Vendilion Clique
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
2 Anger of the Gods
1 Shattering Spree
1 Deathmark
1 Blood Moon
1 Crumble to Dust
1 Negate
1 Thoughtseize
1 Pia and Kiran Nalaar
1 Jace, Architect of Thought
1 Keranos, God of Storms
1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
1 Painful Truths
1 Kolaghan’s Command
1 Rise // Fall
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]
U/R Twin – Colin Kong [T4]
[deck]
[Lands]
2 Desolate Lighthouse
5 Island
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Mountain
3 Polluted Delta
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Steam Vents
4 Sulfur Falls
[/Lands]
[Spells]
2 Cryptic Command
2 Dispel
2 Electrolyze
1 Harvest Pyre
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Remand
4 Serum Visions
1 Spell Pierce
1 Spell Snare
4 Splinter Twin
1 Twisted Image
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
4 Deceiver Exarch
2 Pestermite
4 Snapcaster Mage
1 Vendilion Clique
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
2 Rending Volley
2 Negate
1 Keranos, God of Storms
2 Jace, Architect of Thought
1 Roast
1 Anger of the Gods
1 Izzet Staticaster
2 Blood Moon
2 Vandalblast
1 Pia and Kiran Nalaar
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]
Infect – David Shillingford [T4]
[deck]
[Lands]
2 Breeding Pool
3 Forest
4 Inkmoth Nexus
2 Pendelhaven
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Spells]
2 Apostle’s Blessing
3 Become Immense
2 Distortion Strike
4 Gitaxian Probe
3 Groundswell
3 Might of Old Krosa
4 Mutagenic Growth
1 Rancor
4 Vines of Vastwood
1 Wild Defiance
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
4 Blighted Agent
4 Glistener Elf
4 Noble Hierarch
2 Spellskite
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
1 Pithing Needle
1 Spellskite
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
2 Twisted Image
2 Dispel
2 Spell Pierce
3 Nature’s Claim
1 Dryad Arbor
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]
Affinity – Brenton Henry – [T8]
[deck]
[Lands]
4 Blinkmoth Nexus
4 Darksteel Citadel
2 Glimmervoid
4 Inkmoth Nexus
1 Mountain
[/Lands]
[Spells]
4 Cranial Plating
4 Galvanic Blast
4 Mox Opal
2 Spell Pierce
4 Springleaf Drum
2 Thoughtcast
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
4 Arcbound Ravager
3 Etched Champion
1 Master of Etherium
2 Memnite
4 Ornithopter
4 Signal Pest
3 Steel Overseer
4 Vault Skirge
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Dismember
1 Etched Champion
2 Ghirapur Æther Grid
1 Hangarback Walker
2 Relic of Progenitus
1 Spell Pierce
1 Spellskite
3 Thoughtseize
1 Whipflare
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]
Abzan Company – Deo Arcega [T8]
[deck]
[Lands]
2 Forest
3 Gavony Township
1 Godless Shrine
3 Horizon Canopy
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Plains
1 Razorverge Thicket
1 Swamp
2 Temple Garden
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Windswept Heath
[/Lands]
[Spells]
4 Chord of Calling
4 Collected Company
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
2 Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Eternal Witness
1 Fiend Hunter
4 Kitchen Finks
2 Melira, Sylvok Outcast
1 Murderous Redcap
3 Noble Hierarch
3 Spellskite
3 Viscera Seer
2 Wall of Roots
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
1 Aven Mindcensor
1 Burrenton Forge-Tender
1 Orzhov Pontiff
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Scavenging Ooze
4 Voice of Resurgence
1 Eidolon of Rhetoric
2 Abrupt Decay
2 Path to Exile
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]
Merfolk – Josh Herron – [T8]
[deck]
[Lands]
2 Cavern of Souls
11 Island
1 Minamo, School at Water’s Edge
4 Mutavault
1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
[/Lands]
[Spells]
2 Dismember
2 Spell Pierce
4 Spreading Seas
4 Æther Vial
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
4 Cursecatcher
4 Harbinger of the Tides
1 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
4 Lord of Atlantis
4 Master of the Pearl Trident
4 Master of Waves
4 Merrow Reejerey
4 Silvergill Adept
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
2 Relic of Progenitus
1 Dismember
2 Negate
1 Dispel
2 Ghost Quarter
3 Tidebinder Mage
3 Hurkyl’s Recall
1 Chalice of the Void
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]
Abzan Chord – Paul Dean – [T8]
[deck]
[Lands]
2 Forest
4 Gavony Township
1 Godless Shrine
3 Marsh Flats
1 Overgrown Tomb
2 Plains
2 Temple Garden
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Windswept Heath
[/Lands]
[Spells]
4 Chord of Calling
2 Dismember
4 Lingering Souls
[/Spells]
[Creatures]
4 Archangel of Thune
4 Birds of Paradise
1 Eidolon of Rhetoric
3 Fauna Shaman
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
2 Noble Hierarch
1 Scavenging Ooze
3 Spellskite
4 Spike Feeder
4 Wall of Roots
[/Creatures]
[Sideboard]
1 Burrenton Forge-Tender
1 Kataki, War’s Wage
1 Ethersworn Canonist
1 Faerie Macabre
1 Orzhov Pontiff
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Phyrexian Revoker
2 Sin Collector
2 Kitchen Finks
1 Dismember
2 Thoughtseize
1 Slaughter Pact
[/Sideboard]
[/deck]
Top 8 Player Profiles
Name: Felix Tse [1st]
Age: N/A
Occupation: N/A
Previous Magic Achievements: A “has been”
Deck: G/R Scapeshift
How do you think Oath of the Gatewatch will affect Modern: 4/4 Clique is very good.
Name: Derek Lansche [2nd]
Age: 23
Occupation: QA
Previous Magic Achievements: Mana Deprived Super Series Winner
Deck: Grixis Twin
How do you think Oath of the Gatewatch will affect Modern: It will add to the card pool.
Name: Colin Kong [T4]
Age: 19
Occupation: Student
Previous Magic Achievements: L.A. Moods King of the hill
Deck: U/R Splinter Twin. It was one of the only decks that I can borrow.
How do you think Oath of the Gatewatch will affect Modern:They should have reprinted Siege Rhino.
Name: David Shillingford [T4]
Age: 25
Occupation: Student
Previous Magic Achievements: Win more than I lose
Deck: Infect because it is easier to count to ten.
How do you think Oath of the Gatewatch will affect Modern: It doesn’t effect Infect so I don’t care.
Name: Deo Arcega [T8]
Age: 25
Occupation: Student
Previous Magic Achievements: Gp Top 64
Deck: Abzan Company because it has a strong combo game but can play aggressive as well.
How do you think Oath of the Gatewatch will affect Modern: RG Tron and BW Eldrazi will be better.
Name: Paul Dean [T8]
Age: N/A
Occupation: Insurance
Previous Magic Achievements: Commentators said I “Show a ton of class”
Deck: Abzan Chord Combo. Plays lots of Eidolon of Rhetoric.
How do you think Oath of the Gatewatch will affect Modern: Thought Knot Seer is very good.
Name: Josh Herron [T8]
Age: 25
Occupation: Factory Worker
Previous Magic Achievements: Zero. Scrubbed out in everything else.
Deck: Merfolk. It can do all that aggro can. Master of Waves is the MVP.
How do you think Oath of the Gatewatch will affect Modern: New tools for the B/X Eldrazi Decks. Potentially a new board wipe in Kozilek’s Return for Tron.
Name: Brenton Henry [T8]
Age: 25
Occupation: Stock Broker
Previous Magic Achievements: The most spectacular top 8 miss at GP Quebec City: 9th on breakers. Won an IQ.
Drafted Storm and killed opponents 5 ways on MTGO
Deck: All-Star Tin Man Band AKA Robots AKA Affinity. It’s my first modern deck and never falls out of style.
How do you think Oath of the Gatewatch will affect Modern: Wizards will ban another of our truly loved cards.
Conclusion
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