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MCQ Recap: Standard in Toronto

Andrew Gordon is the first ever Toronto Mythic Championship Qualifier champion!

The Toronto MCQ champ, Andrew Gordon.

Gordon piloted the same deck that dominated the Top 8 of our Montreal MCQ — Mono-Red Aggro — to the winner’s circle on Saturday. He’s a long time Toronto player who has made some significant strides towards becoming a better player over the past year and it truly paid off on Saturday, booking his ticket to Mythic Championship Barcelona.

Red of course has been a lethal force in this Standard metagame since the get-go, using [Card]Experimental Frenzy[/Card] as an unbelievable card advantage engine to go with its natural lightning fast aggression. In recent weeks the metagame has adjusted to Red in a big way however, Esper has been packing a full clip of [Card]Basilica Bell-Haunt[/Card]s and the Gruul Aggro deck has risen to prominence to try and prey on the straight Red decks. That said, Gordon proved Saturday that Red can beat it all.

Your Toronto MCQ Top 8.

Gordon prevailed over Greg Moskal and his Gruul Aggro deck in the finals. In addition to Greg there were two other copies of Gruul in the Top 8. Presumably Greg’s relative Erik Moskal also made the elimination rounds with Gruul and so did Pierre-Pascal Lamarche. Joining this swath of aggro players was old school Toronto grinder Kyle Duncan on Bant Ramp, Jamie Naylor playing a sweet Boros Feather deck and Carson Peters going deep with his Five-Colour Dreadhorde deck.

In addition to all the action in the main event, we had players on-site all day celebrating the release of Modern Horizons with us buying cards at the Face to Face Games booth and drafting nonstop from the beginning of the day until we closed up shop.

Congratulations again to our champion Andrew Gordon from everyone at Face to Face Games! Additionally, we’d like to extend our thanks to our amazing judge staff who ran a smooth event all day long. The next major event for us is coming up this Saturday when we’ll be traveling to Hamilton, Ontario for a Modern Open. Make sure to pre-register and we’ll see you there!

[Deck Title= First Place, Mono-Red Aggro – Andrew Gordon]
[Creatures]
4 Fanatical Firebrand
4 Runaway Steam-Kin
4 Goblin Chainwhirler
4 Ghitu Lavarunner
4 Viashino Pyromancer
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Experimental Frenzy
4 Light up the Stage
4 Shock
4 Lightning Strike
3 Wizard’s Lightning
1 Chandra, Fire Artisan
[/Spells]
[Lands]
20 Mountain
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Chandra, Fire Artisan
4 Lava Coil
2 Fight with Fire
3 Dire Fleet Daredevil
2 Rekindling Phoenix
3 Tibalt, Rakish Instigator
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Second Place, Greg Moskal – Gruul]
[Creatures]
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Growth-Chamber Guardian
4 Thorn Lieutenant
3 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
1 Legion Warboss
4 Gruul Spellbreaker
3 Ripjaw Raptor
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Nissa, Who Shakes the World
3 Lava Coil
3 Collision // Colossus
3 Domri, Anarch of Bolas
2 Shivan Fire
[/Spells]
[Lands]
9 Forest
6 Mountain
4 Stomping Ground
4 Rootbound Crag
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
4 Cindervines
2 Dire Fleet Daredevil
1 Shivan Fire
1 Lava Coil
2 Domri, Chaos Bringer
1 Living Twister
2 Fight with Fire
2 Legion Warboss
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Third Place, Five-Colour Command the Dreadhorde – Carson Peters]
[Creatures]
4 Paradise Druid
4 Wildgrowth Walker
4 Jadelight Ranger
4 Merfolk Branchwalker
1 Massacre Girl
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Teferi, Time Raveler
4 Tamiyo, Collector of Tales
2 Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord
2 Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God
4 Command the Dreadhorde
2 Vraska, Golgari Queen
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Stomping Ground
4 Interplanar Beacon
1 Isolated Chapel
1 Drowned Catacomb
1 Godless Shrine
2 Hinterland Harbor
2 Temple Garden
2 Breeding Pool
1 Rootbound Crag
4 Woodland Cemetery
2 Watery Grave
4 Overgrown Tomb
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Cast Down
1 Ob Nixilis’s Cruelty
2 Cry of the Carnarium
1 Massacre Girl
2 Narset, Parter of Veils
2 The Elderspell
4 Duress
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Fourth Place, Bant Ramp – Kyle Duncan]
[Creatures]
2 Jadelight Ranger
4 Hydroid Krasis
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Paradise Druid
2 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
1 Lyra Dawnbringer
2 Incubation Druid
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Growth Spiral
2 Prison Realm
1 Ugin, the Ineffable
3 Teferi, Time Raveler
3 Mass Manipulation
4 Nissa, Who Shakes the World
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Glacial Fortress
4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Temple Garden
4 Breeding Pool
4 Hinterland Harbor
1 Sunpetal Grove
5 Forest
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Negate
3 Baffling End
3 Thrashing Brontodon
2 Ixalan’s Binding
3 Ripjaw Raptor
1 Lyra Dawnbringer
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Fifth Place, Boros Feather – Jamie Naylor]
[Creatures]
4 Tenth Street Legionnaire
1 Dire Fleet Daredevil
3 Adanto Vanguard
4 Dreadhorde Arcanist
4 Feather, the Redeemed
3 Legion Warboss
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Gideon Blackblade
1 Ajani, Adversary of Tyrants
4 Sheltering Light
4 Shock
4 Reckless Rage
4 Defiant Strike
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Sacred Foundry
4 Clifftop Retreat
8 Plains
6 Mountain
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Ixalan’s Binding
2 Dire Fleet Daredevil
2 Thrash // Threaten
3 Prison Realm
1 Ajani, Adversary of Tyrants
2 Lava Coil
3 Tocatli Honour Guard
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Sixth Place, Gruul – Pierre-Pascal Lamarche]
[Creatures]
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Growth-Chamber Guardian
3 Thorn Lieutenant
1 Thrashing Brontodon
4 Legion Warboss
4 Gruul Spellbreaker
4 Rekindling Phoenix
1 Skarrgan Hellkite
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Nissa, Who Shakes the World
2 Shock
3 Lightning Strike
1 Collision // Colossus
3 Domri, Anarch of Bolas
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Mobilized District
4 Rootbound Crag
4 Stomping Ground
7 Forest
7 Mountain
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Thrashing Brontodon
1 Carnage Tyrant
2 Dire Fleet Daredevil
3 Cindervines
2 Sarkhan the Masterless
1 Deathgorge Scavenger
3 Lava Coil
1 Collision // Colossus
1 Shock
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Seventh Place, Gruul – Erik Moskal]
[Creatures]
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Growth-Chamber Guardian
4 Thorn Lieutenant
3 Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
1 Legion Warboss
4 Gruul Spellbreaker
3 Ripjaw Raptor
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Nissa, Who Shakes the World
2 Shivan Fire
3 Lava Coil
3 Collision // Colossus
3 Domri, Anarch of Bolas
[/Spells]
[Lands]
9 Forest
6 Mountain
4 Stomping Ground
4 Rootbound Crag
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
4 Cindervines
2 Dire Fleet Daredevil
1 Shivan Fire
1 Lava Coil
2 Domri, Chaos Bringer
1 Living Twister
2 Fight with Fire
2 Legion Warboss
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Eighth Place, Izzet Wizards – Hayden Auterhoff]
[Creatures]
4 Burning Prophet
4 Dreadhorde Arcanist
3 Adeliz, the Cinder Wind
1 God-Eternal Kefnet
2 Kasmina, Enigmatic Mentor
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Maximize Velocity
3 Spell Pierce
4 Crash Through
4 Opt
4 Shock
4 Chart a Course
3 Lava Coil
2 Lightning Strike
2 Finale of Promise
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Steam Vents
4 Sulfur Falls
1 Izzet Guildgate
6 Mountain
4 Island
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Shivan Fire
1 Beacon Bolt
3 Legion Warboss
3 Narset, Parter of Veils
2 Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
2 Sarkhan the Masterless
2 Entrancing Melody
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

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