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 Legacy to see who could take home the top prize!
There are very few certain things in life, and seemingly even less in Magic. You can prepare for hours and hours, but you can never be certain what the metagame will truly look like. That said, we have to hold on to the things we do know are certain, and let me tell you, if you show up to a Legacy event in Toronto — [Card]Delver of Secrets[/Card] is going to be popular.
This past Sunday Drake Honess triumphed over our previous Legacy Showdown champion Richard Welch in a Delver mirror to take home the top prize.
Drake was playing an old favourite in Temur Delver while Richard stuck to just two colours with Izzet Delver. If you take a look at our Top 8 this matchup looks to be something you’re going to have be familiar with if you’re going to be playing Legacy any time soon. When you play Delver you’re always posed with the question of how many colours to play. A deck like Drake’s gets to splash for a little more power in the form of [Card]Wrenn and Six[/Card] and [Card]Tarmogoyf[/Card] while Richard stays lean with better mana, more burn spells and [Card]Blood Moon[/Card]. One version can grind a little harder while the other has a lean tempo gameplan.
Traditionally, Goyf has been a house in Delver mirrors as a large threat that dodges [Card]Lightning Bolt[/Card] and that proved to remain true on Sunday.
Joining our finalists in the Top 8 was local aristocrat Omar Beldon playing Four-Colour Delver, Marcos Rocha and Geng Yu Xu playing Infect, Tse Shuen Wan on Miracles, Dennis Blair playing Maverick and Hugo Bry on Izzet Delver.
As you can see it was a weekend for tempo decks in Legacy. Since the printing of [Card]Wrenn and Six[/Card] we’ve seen some of the more controlling decks in the format start to prey on Delver, but that wasn’t the case here. From where I’m sitting it looks like players found a way to turn up the aggression and get under those decks. We’ll have to see if this trend continues.
With his win on Sunday, Drake cements his spot in the upcoming Ultimate Showdown, while the rest of our Top 8 have begun their march up the leader board to qualify. If you’re interested in your Ultimate Showdown point total, you can check it out here. If you’d like to inquire about your point total or report a discrepancy, please email Toronto@facetofacegames.com. This upcoming weekend at Face to Face Games Toronto we’ll be hosting a Modern Showdown! Make sure to pre-register and we’ll see you at the shop!
[Deck Title= First Place, Temur Delver – Drake Honess]
[Creatures]
4 Nimble Mongoose
4 Delver of Secrects
2 Tarmogoyf
2 True-Name Nemesis
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Wrenn and Six
4 Ponder
4 Daze
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Lightning Bolt
1 Chain Lightning
3 Stifle
2 Spell Snare
2 Spell Pierce
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Tropical Island
3 Volcanic Island
2 Scalding Tarn
2 Polluted Delta
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Flooded Strand
4 Wasteland
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Flusterstorm
2 Pyroblast
1 Blue Elemental Blast
1 CinderVines
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Winter Orb
1 Null Rod
1 Submerge
1 Rough // Tumble
1 Izzet Staticaster
1 Ancient Grudge
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
[Deck Title= Second Place, Izzet Delver – Richard Welch]
[Creatures]
4 Delver of Secrets
4 Dreadhorde Arcanist
3 Young Pyromancer
2 True-Name Nemesis
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Force of Will
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Preordain
4 Daze
2 Chain Lightning
1 Spell Pierce
1 Abrade
1 Spell Snare
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Wasteland
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
3 Volcanic Island
2 Island
1 Mountain
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
4 Pyroblast
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Narst, Parter of Veils
2 Vapor Snag
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Hydroblast
1 Abrade
1 True-Name Nemesis
1 Blood Moon
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
[Deck Title= Third Place, Four-Colour Delver – Omar Beldon]
[Creatures]
4 Delver of Secrets
2 Dreadhorde Arcanist
3 Tarmogoyf
1 True-Name Nemesis
1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Ponder
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
2 Spell Pierce
2 Spell Sanre
4 Daze
1 Preordain
2 Abrupt Decay
3 Wrenn and Six
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Badlands
1 Underground Sea
3 Tropical Island
3 Volcanic Island
4 Polluted Delta
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Wasteland
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Pyroblast
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Hydroblast
1 Return to Nature
1 Ancient Grudge
2 Plague Engineer
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Liliana’s Triumph
1 Graffdigger’s Cage
1 Winter Orb
1 Veil of Summer
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
[Deck Title= Fourth Place, Infect – Marcos Rocha]
[Creatures]
4 Glistener Elf
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Blighted Agent
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Teferi, Time Raveler
2 Berserk
4 Brainstorm
1 Crop Rotation
2 Ponder
1 Scale Up
2 Spell Pierce
3 Vines of Vastwood
3 Daze
4 Invigorate
3 Force of Will
1 Become Immense
1 Sylvan Library
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Forest
4 Inkmoth Nexus
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Pendelhaven
1 Temple Garden
3 Tropical Island
1 Wasteland
3 Windswept Heath
3 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Karakas
1 Crop Rotation
1 Flusterstorm
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
3 Veil of Summer
2 Chill
2 Spellskte
2 Viridian Corrupter
1 Force of Vigor
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
[Deck Title= Fifth Place, Miracles – Tse Shuen Wan]
[Creatures]
3 Snapcaster Mage
2 Monastery Mentor
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Portent
4 Ponder
4 Brainstorm
4 Swords to Plowshares
3 Terminus
1 Council’s Judgement
2 Predict
2 Counterbalance
2 Back to Basics
2 Narset, Parter of Veils
1 Teferi, Time Raveler
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Dovin’s Veto
4 Force of Will
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Flooded Strand
4 Prismatic Vista
1 Polluted Delta
1 Scalding Tarn
2 Tundra
1 Volcanic Island
5 Island
2 Plains
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Rest in Peace
1 Celestial Purge
1 Disenchant
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Palace Jailer
1 Hydroblast
2 Flusterstorm
2 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pyroblast
1 Mountain
1 Vendilion Clique
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
[Deck Title= Sixth Place, Infect – Geng Yu Xu]
[Creatures]
4 Blighted Agent
4 Glistener Elf
4 Noble Hierarch
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Become Immense
2 Berserk
4 Brainstorm
1 Crop Rotation
3 Daze
3 Force of Will
4 Invigorate
2 Spell Pierce
3 Vines of Vastwood
2 Ponder
1 Scale Up
1 Sylvan Library
2 Teferi, Time Raveler
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Forest
4 Inkmoth Nexus
4 Misty Rainforest
1 Pendelhaven
1 Savannah
3 Tropical Island
2 Verdant Catacombs
1 Wasteland
2 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Spellskite
1 Viridian Corrupter
1 Crop Rotation
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Vigor
1 Force of Will
1 Hydroblast
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Absolute Law
1 Karakas
1 Rest in Peace
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
[Deck Title= Seventh Place, Maverick – Dennis Blair]
[Creatures]
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Gaddock Teeg
1 Knight of Autumn
4 Knight of the Reliquary
3 Mother of Runes
4 Noble Hierarch
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Ramunap Excavator
1 Sanctum Prelate
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Scryb Ranger
2 Stoneforge Mystic
4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 Umezawa’s Jitte
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
4 Swords to Plowshares
1 Sylvan Library
4 Green Sun’s Zenith
1 Abrupt Decay
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Bayou
2 Forest
1 Gaea’s Cradle
1 Horizon’s Canopy
1 Karakas
1 Marsh Flats
1 Plains
2 Savannah
1 Scrubland
3 Verdant Catacombs
4 Wasteland
4 Windswept Heath
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Chalice of the Void
2 Choke
1 Collector Ouphe
1 Council’s Judgment
1 Ethersworn Canonist
2 Faerie Macabre
1 Palace Jalier
2 Plague Engineer
2 Sanctum Prelate
1 Scavenging Ooze
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
[Deck Title= Eighth Place, Izzet Delver – Hugo Bry]
[Creatures]
4 Delver of Secrets
3 True-Name Nemesis
3 Young Pyromancer
4 Dreadhorde Arcanist
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Spell Pierce
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Daze
4 Force of Will
4 Preordain
2 Chain Lightning
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Wasteland
1 Polluted Delta
2 Flooded Strand
1 Mountain
3 Island
3 Volcanic Island
4 Scalding Tarn
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Winter Orb
2 Narset, Parter of Veils
2 Flusterstorm
3 Pyroblast
3 Hydroblast
3 Abrade
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
