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 if Grixis Delver could still reign supreme.
Well if there was ever any question (there wasn’t) about Matthew Dilks command of the Legacy format, they’ve been silenced. Not only did he win yet another Legacy Showdown, but this time he did it with a deck other than R/G Lands. Dilks took down Sunday’s event with a slowed down version of B/G Depths.
Dilks has been boasting about Turbo Depths being the best combo deck in the format for a while and I guess he decided to dust it off to prove it to us. What I’ve noticed throughout his run through the Toronto Legacy scene is his ability to execute patient game plans in a high-powered format.
Dilks has registered a deck that can win in one turn in every Legacy tournament I’ve ever seen him play. But yet, he’s always looking to play for that extra draw step, to play around that one problematic out that his opponent might have. To me, this is what separates his play.
The rest of our Top 8 was, well a little strange. Other than Daniel Goetschel playing Omar Beldon’s Grixis Delver list from Grand Prix Toronto the rest of the Top 8 isn’t what you’d expect from the Legacy metagame.
We had a lot of local staple players having success with decks they’ve been playing for quite a long time. Peter DeVries is always playing something tribal and made the finals, Michael Chan piloted Pox to another Top 8 and Jon Fine dusted off his classic Eldrazi deck.
There’s been a lot of Legacy in Toronto as of late and it’s awesome to see how our own little metagame has developed and how players have been able to tune their favourite decks to beat the expected field.
The Showdown series is really heating up headed into the Ultimate Showdown and Matthew Dilks just padded his point total headed into the event. This coming weekend we’ll be hosting a Battlebond Two-Head Giant Release Showdown. Grab your best friend and get down here to battle with some sweet new cards! Sign up now.
Before you check out these sweet decklists, make sure you’ve got your plans ready for Canadian Nationals. Face to Face Games will be hosting Nats from June 29 – July 1 over the long weekend. Come down early and make a weekend of it! We’ll also be hosting a slew of side events including a 5k Modern FacetoFaceGames.com Open+, a Legacy Eternal Weekend Trial and a Legacy Showdown on the Sunday. Get all the information here.
First Place, Matthew Dilks – B/G Depths
[Deck]
[Creatures]
3 sylvan safekeeper
3 dark confidant
4 deathrite shaman
4 vampire hexmage
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 thoughtseize
4 duress
4 crop rotation
2 sylvan scrying
3 Pithing needle
3 pithing needle
1 sylvan library
[/Spells]
[Lands]
2 Bayou
2 Forest
2 swamp
4 verdant catacombs
1 misty rainforest
3 urborg, tomb of yawgmoth
4 thespian’s stage
4 dark depths
1 sejiri steppe
1 bojuka bog
1 ghost quarter
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 bitterblossom
1 krosan grip
3 surgical extraction
1 grafdigger’s cage
1 karakas
2 liliana the last hope
1 golgari charm
1 garruk relentless
1 choke
1 toxic deluge
2 rite of consumption
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Second Place, Peter DeVries – Merfolk
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 cursecatcher
4 lord of atlantis
4 master of the pearl trident
3 phantasmal image
4 silvergill adept
4 true-name nemesis
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 aether vial
4 chalice of the void
2 smuggler’s copter
2 daze
1 echoing trute
4 force of will
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 cavern of souls
4 mutavault
12 island
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 venser, shaper savant
2 grafdigger’s cage
2 relic of progenitus
1 sorcerous spyglass
2 umezawa’s jitte
2 dismember
1 echoing truth
2 flusterstorm
2 misdirection
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Third Place, Philip Wong – Lantern Control
[Deck]
[Spells]
1 mox opal
4 unexpectedly absent
4 rest in peace
4 energy field
4 codex shredder
4 pyxis of pandemonium
4 lantern of insight
2 field of dream
2 swords to plowshares
3 ensnaring bridge
1 chains of mephistopheles
1 detention sphere
1 runed halo
2 pithing needle
2 enlightened tutor
1 helm of obedience
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 flooded strand
4 marsh flats
2 tundra
1 polluted delta
1 island
1 swamp
1 plains
1 seat of the synod
1 ancient den
1 karakas
1 underground sea
1 scrubland
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 pithing needle
1 necrogen mists
1 search for azcanta
2 collective brutality
4 thoughtseize
1 duress
1 porphyry nodes
2 ethersworn canonist
1 containment priest
1 seal of cleansing
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Fourth Place, Richard Welch – U/W Miracles
[Deck]
[Creatures]
3 snapcaster mage
2 monastary mentor
1 true-name nemesis
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 ponder
4 brainstorm
4 force of will
4 swords to plowshares
4 terminus
2 daze
3 gitaxian probe
2 predict
2 portent
2 counterspell
1 unexpectedly absent
3 jace, the mind sculptor
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 flooded strand
1 polluted delta
2 scalding tarn
3 wasteland
2 tundra
5 island
2 plains
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 surgical extraction
2 flusterstorm
2 disenchant
2 counterbalance
1 containment priest
1 spell pierce
1 vendillion clique
1 true-name nemesis
1 councils’s judgement
1 path to exile
1 entreat the angels
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Fifth Place, Jon Fine – Eldrazi Stompy
[Deck]
[Creatures]
2 Simian Spirit Guide
2 walking ballista
4 eldrazi mimic
2 endbringer
3 endless one
4 matter reshaper
4 reality smasher
4 thought-knot seer
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 warping wail
2 spatial contortion
1 all is dust
4 Chalice of the Void
1 umezawa’s jitte
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 ancient tomb
3 cavern of souls
3 city of traitors
4 eldrazi temple
3 eye of ugin
1 karakas
3 mishra’s factory
1 urborg, tomb of yawgmoth
3 wasteland
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 all is dust
1 crucible of worlds
1 dismember
3 faerie macabre
1 grafdigger’s cage
2 ratchet bomb
2 sorcerous spyglass
3 thorn of amethyst
1 ulamog, the ceasless hunger
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Sixth Place, Michael Chan – Mono-Black Pox
[Deck]
[Creatures]
1 necropolis fiend
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
1 crucible of worlds
1 chains of mephistopholes
1 ratchet bomb
3 dark ritual
1 inquisition of kozilek
3 thoughtseize
4 fatal push
4 smallpox
1 collective brutality
3 hymn to tourach
4 liliana of the veil
2 liliana the last hope
2 cursed scroll
2 ensnaring bridge
1 infernal tutor
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 wasteland
4 mishra’s factory
4 urborg, tomb of yawgmoth
1 the tabernacle of pendrell vale
1 maze of ith
1 cabal pit
1 geier reach sanitorium
10 snow-covered swamp
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
4 leyline of void
3 surgical extraction
2 pithing needle
1 damping sphere
1 engineered plague
1 relic of progenitus
1 collective brutality
1 chains of mephistopholes
1 contagion
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Seventh Place, Daniel Goetschel – Lands
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 delver of secrets
4 deathrite shaman
2 gurmag angler
2 true-name nemesis
2 young pyromancer
1 grim lavamancer
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 gitaxian probe
4 ponder
4 brainstorm
4 daze
4 force of will
4 lightning bolt
2 spell pierce
1 dead // gone
[/Spells]
[Lands]
2 flooded strand
2 scalding tarn
2 polluted delta
1 misty rainforest
3 underground sea
3 volcanic island
1 tropical island
4 wasteland
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 island
2 spell pierce
2 pyroblast
2 liliana the last hope
1 abrade
1 ancient grudge
1 dead // gone
3 cabal therapy
2 surgical extraction
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Eighth Place, Benson Lau – Ad Nauseam Tendrils
[Deck]
[Spells]
4 Brainstorm
4 Gitaxian probe
4 ponder
1 ad nauseum
3 cabal therapy
4 dark ritual
3 duress
4 infernal tutor
4 burning wish
1 empty the warrens
4 rite of flame
4 chrome mox
4 lion’s eye diamond
4 lotus petal
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 badlands
3 bloodstained mire
1 island
4 polluted delta
1 swamp
1 underground sea
1 volcanic island
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 bayou
1 cabal therapy
2 chain of vapor
1 dark petition
3 echoing truth
2 empty the warrens
1 grapeshot
1 past in flames
1 tendrils of agony
2 xantid swarm
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]