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 Legacy format to see who could qualify themselves for the Ultimate Showdown.
Maybe the nicest person in the entire Toronto Legacy scene has been crowned a Face to Face Games Legacy Showdown champion. This past Sunday Chris Anderson took took down our Showdown with Esper Stoneblade.
To be honest, if you told me Esper Stoneblade would have been the deck to take down this event, I probably would have laughed. But Chris seems to have made a few upgrades to traditional versions of this deck. In particular, the addition of [Card]Teferi, Hero of Dominaria[/Card] looks nice in this deck, and gives it a nice alternate win-condition in the late game.
As for the rest of the Top 8, there was a lot more linear combo decks than you’d usually expect from a Toronto Legacy event.
We had an Eldrazi Stompy deck, one copy of Storm and Dredge respectively, Jason Drossis playing Elves, a Burn deck, one Miracles player and Andrew Abela playing Death’s Shadow.
Abela also piloted Death’s Shadow at Grand Prix Richmond last month, so it’s no surprise to see him have some success here.
As for Legacy in general, we still don’t have a stable metagame after the banning of [Card]Gitaxian Probe[/Card] and [Card]Deathrite Shaman[/Card]. Miracles showed at Grand Prix Richmond that it can compete with the various Grixis strategies in the format, and combo has really been kept down as of late. But there’s still no consensus “best” Delver deck, which is something we haven’t had in Legacy in a long time.
With his win on Sunday, Chris cements his spot in the upcoming Ultimate Showdown and the rest of our Top 8 have begun their march up the leader board to qualify. This upcoming Sunday at Face to Face Games Toronto we will be hosting a Modern Sunday Showdown. Come out and see if Humans is the real deal, or if KCI is the deck to beat!
First Place, Chris Anderson – Esper Stoneblade
[Deck]
[Creatures]
3 Stoneforge Mystic
3 Baleful Strix
3 Snapcaster Mage
2 True-Name Nemesis
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Force of Will
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Spell Pierce
1 Teferi, Hero of Dominara
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
1 Batterskull
1 Umezawa’s Jitte
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Hymn to Tourach
2 Thoughtseize
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Polluted Delta
4 Flooded Strand
3 Tundra
3 Underground Sea
2 Island
1 Marsh Flats
1 Scrubland
1 Swamp
1 Plains
1 Academy Ruins
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Flusterstorm
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
1 Council’s Judgement
1 Disenchant
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Supreme Verdict
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Pithing Needle
1 Containment Priest
1 To the Slaughter
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Second Place, Justin Glanzer – Eldrazi Stompy
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Eldrazi Mimic
4 Endless One
4 Matter Reshaper
4 Thought-Knot Seer
4 Reality Smasher
2 Endbringer
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Dismember
2 Warping Wail
2 Umezawa’s Jitte
2 All Is Dust
4 Chalice of the Void
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Eldrazi Temple
4 Wasteland
3 Cavern of Souls
3 Eye of Ugin
3 Mishra’s Factory
2 City of Traitors
1 Karakas
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
4 Leyline of the Void
3 Thorn of Amethyst
2 Ratchet Bomb
2 Sorcerous Spyglass
1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
1 Dismember
1 Warping Wail
1 Crucible of Worlds
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Third Place, Jason Drossis – Elves
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Quirion Ranger
4 Nettle Sentinel
4 Wirewood Symbiote
4 Elvish Visionary
3 Heritage Druid
2 Birchlore Rangers
2 Llanowar Elves
2 Craterhoof Behemoth
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Scavenging Ooze
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Sylvan Library
4 Glimpse of Nature
4 Green Sun’s Zenith
3 Natural Order
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Gaea’s Cradle
3 Wooded Foothills
3 Misty Rainforest
3 Forest
2 Windswept Heath
2 Taiga
2 Dryad Arbor
1 Verdant Catacombs
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Surgical Extraction
2 Blood Moon
2 Nissa, Vital Force
2 Pyroblast
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Choke
1 Pithing Needle
1 Progenitus
1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Fourth Place, Delan Hamasoor – Dredge
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Narcomoeba
4 Golgari Thug
4 Stinkweed Imp
4 Ichorid
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
4 Street Wraith
3 Putrid Imp
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Careful Study
3 Breakthrough
4 Lion’s Eye Diamond
4 Bridge From Below
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Faithless Looting
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Mana Confluence
4 Cephalid Coliseum
3 Gemstone Mine
2 City of Brass
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Silent Gravestone
3 Flusterstorm
2 Serenity
2 Dread Return
1 Wear // Tear
1 Flame-Kin Zealot
1 Ashen Rider
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Fifth Place, Trevor Cordingley – Burn
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Goblin Guide
4 Monastery Swiftspear
4 Eidolon of the Great Revel
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Lava Spike
4 Chain Lightning
4 Price of Progress
4 Rift Bolt
4 Fireblast
3 Searing Blaze
1 Sulfuric Vortex
[/Spells]
[Lands]
9 Mountain
4 Wooded Foothills
3 Bloodstained Mire
2 Arid Mesa
1 Scalding Tarn
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Exquisite Firecraft
2 Pyroblast
2 Ensnaring Bridge
2 Smash to Smithereens
2 Faerie Macabre
1 Pyrostatic Pillar
1 Searing Blood
1 Sulfuric Vortex
1 Shattering Spree
1 Surgical Extraction
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Sixth Place, Andrew Abela – Death’s Shadow
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Death’s Shadow
4 Delver of Secrets
4 Street Wraith
2 Gurmag Angler
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Fatal Push
2 Reanimate
2 Stubborn Denial
1 Dismember
1 Preordain
1 Snuff Out
4 Brainstorm
4 Daze
4 Force of Will
4 Thoughtseize
3 Ponder
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Wasteland
3 Bloodstained Mire
3 Flooded Strand
3 Polluted Delta
3 Watery Grave
2 Underground Sea
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Surgical Extraction
2 Diabolic Edict
2 Dread of Night
2 Hymn to Tourach
2 Liliana’ the Last Hope
2 Ratchet Bomb
1 Flusterstorm
1 Marsh Casualties
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Seventh Place, Kelvin Wallace – Storm
[Deck]
[Spells]
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Preordain
4 Thoughtseize
4 Dark Ritual
4 Cabal Ritual
4 Infernal Tutor
4 Lion’s Eye Diamond
4 Lotus Petal
3 Duress
2 Dark Petition
1 Past in Flames
1 Ad Nauseam
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Rain of Filth
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Polluted Delta
2 Bloodstained Mire
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Underground Sea
1 Volcanic Island
1 Tropical Island
1 Bayou
1 Island
1 Swamp
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Abrupt Decay
2 Xantid Swarm
2 Massacre
2 Hurkyl’s Recall
2 Chain of Vapor
1 Echoing Truth
1 Duress
1 Empty the Warrens
1 Flusterstorm
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Eighth Place, Anthony Evangelista –
[Deck]
[Creatures]
3 Monastery Mentor
3 Snapcaster Mage
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Force of Will
4 Accumulated Knowledge
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
3 Terminus
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Counterbalance
2 Counterspell
2 Portent
1 Spell Pierce
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Council’s Judgement
[/Spells]
[Lands]
5 Island
4 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
2 Tundra
2 Volcanic Island
2 Plains
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Arid Mesa
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Flusterstorm
3 Pyroblast
2 Vendilion Clique
2 Containment Priest
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Disenchant
1 Back to Basics
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]