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Showdown Recap: Modern

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 Modern to see who could take down the top prize.

This week, Ryan Sandrin achieved his dream. He won a tournament with his pet deck — Turbo [Card]Devoted Druid[/Card] Combo.

Your Modern Showdown champion, Ryan Sandrin.

Sandrin has been piloting this deck to some pretty strong results locally and it has two Grand Prix Top 8s to its name over the past year. Maybe it’s time we start paying closer attention to this blistering fast archetype.

Sandrin defeated Dredge in the finals to claim his prize, a matchup which seems extremely in his favour. The fact is, this deck goes fast, and in Modern that’s the key.

The rest of the Top 8 feature Daniel Fournier and Taimur Rashid on Izzet Phoenix, Jeff Swaluk on KCI, Matt Loog on  Golgari Midrange as usual, Showdown super star Delan Hamasoor on Tron and Keegan Ferreira with his spicy Saheeli Combo deck.

Your Modern Showdown Top 8.

Izzet Phoenix is assuredly the new hotness in Modern. It’s been quite a long time since we’ve had a truly busted [Card]Steam Vents[/Card] in Modern but this might just be that. Toronto local Tariq Patel took the deck all the way to the finals of SCG Worcester this past weekend and both Rashid and Fournier were able to make the Top 8 on Sunday with it.

With his win on Sunday, Ryan 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. This upcoming weekend at Face to Face Games Toronto we’ll be hosting a Sealed Showdown to celebrate Ravnica Allegiance pre-release weekend. There will be events at the shop all weekend starting at midnight on Friday all leading up to the Showdown. Come on out and celebrate!

[Deck Title= First Place, Turbo Druid – Ryan Sandrin]
[Creatures]
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Devoted Druid
3 Duskwatch Recruiter
4 Eldritch Evolution
1 Eternal Witness
4 Noble Hierarch
1 Scavenging Ooze
2 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
4 Vizier of Remedies
1 Walking Ballista
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Chord of Calling
3 Commune with Nature
4 Postmortem Lunge
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Windswept Heath
2 Temple Garden
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Plains
3 Razorverge Thicket
3 Forest
3 Horizon Canopy
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Dryad Arbor
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Burrenton Forge-Tender
2 Eidolon of Rhetoric
1 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
2 Knight of Autumn
1 Mark of Asylum
3 Path to Exile
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Sin Collector
1 Tireless Tracker
2 Worship
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Second Place, Dredge – Matthew Hawton]
[Creatures]
4 Bloodghast
2 Golgari Thug
4 Narcomoeba
4 Prized Amalgam
4 Stinkweed Imp
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Cathartic Reunion
2 Conflagrate
4 Creeping Chill
4 Faithless Looting
4 Life from the Loam
1 Lightning Axe
4 Shriekhorn
[/Spells]
[Lands]
2 Stomping Ground
3 Wooded Foothills
1 Scalding Tarn
2 Mountain
3 Bloodstained Mire
2 Blood Crypt
3 Copperline Gorge
1 Dakmor Salvage
2 Gemstone Mine
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Assassin’s Trophy
1 Conflagrate
2 Damping Sphere
2 Darkblast
1 Leyline of the Void
2 Lightning Axe
4 Nature’s Claim
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Third Place, Izzet Phoenix – Daniel Fournier]
[Creatures]
4 Arclight Phoenix
2 Crackling Drake
4 Thing in the Ice
2 Young Pyromancer
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Thought Scour
4 Faithless Looting
2 Flame Slash
3 Gut Shot
3 Island
1 Izzet Charm
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Manamorphose
4 Serum Visions
4 Sleight of Hand
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Spirebluff Canal
2 Steam Vents
2 Sulfur Falls
2 Mountain
2 Polluted Delta
4 Scalding Tarn
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Abrade
2 Anger of the Gods
1 Beacon Bolt
3 Blood Moon
3 Ceremonious Rejection
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Young Pyromancer
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Fourth Place, Ironworks Combo – Jeff Swaluk]
[Creatures]
1 Myr Retriever
2 Sai, Master Thopterist
4 Scrap Trawler
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Chromatic Sphere
4 Chromatic Star
4 Krark-Clan Ironworks
4 Mind Stone
4 Mox Opal
4 Ancient Stirrings
3 Engineered Explosives
4 Ichor Wellspring
1 Pyrite Spellbomb
4 Terrarion
[/Spells]
[Lands]
2 Inventors’ Fair
1 Island
2 Forest
4 Grove of the Burnwillows
2 Buried Ruin
4 Darksteel Citadel
3 Yavimaya Coast
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Delay
1 Firespout
2 Galvanic Blast
2 Lightning Bolt
4 Nature’s Claim
1 Negate
1 Sai, Master Thopterist
2 Swan Song
1 Tormod’s Crypt
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Fifth Place, Golgari Midrange – Matthew Loong]
[Creatures]
4 Dark Confidant
1 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
3 Scavenging Ooze
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Tireless Tracker
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Thoughtseize
3 Liliana of the Veil
2 Liliana, the Last Hope
1 Maelstrom Pulse
4 Fatal Push
4 Assassin’s Trophy
2 Collective Brutality
3 Inquisition of Kozilek
[/Spells]
[Lands]
2 Bloodstained Mire
4 Blooming Marsh
3 Swamp
4 Treetop Village
4 Verdant Catacombs
2 Overgrown Tomb
3 Field of Ruin
2 Forest
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Collective Brutality
2 Damnation
2 Damping Sphere
3 Fulminator Mage
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
1 Nissa, Vital Force
3 Surgical Extraction
1 Tireless Tracker
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Sixth Place, Tron – Delan Hamasoor]
[Creatures]
2 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
2 Walking Ballista
1 World Breaker
3 Wurmcoil Engine
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Sylvan Scrying
2 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
4 Ancient Stirrings
4 Chromatic Sphere
4 Chromatic Star
1 Dismember
4 Expedition Map
4 Karn Liberated
4 Oblivion Stone
2 Relic of Progenitus
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Urza’s Mine
4 Urza’s Power Plant
4 Urza’s Tower
1 Sanctum of Ugin
1 Scavenger Grounds
4 Forest
1 Ghost Quarter
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Dismember
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
3 Nature’s Claim
1 Relic of Progenitus
2 Spatial Contortion
1 Surgical Extraction
3 Thought-Knot Seer
3 Thragtusk
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Seventh Place, Izzet Phoenix – Taimur Rashid]
[Creatures]
4 Arclight Phoenix
4 Kiln Fiend
4 Thing in the Ice
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Apostle’s Blessing
2 Lightning Axe
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Manamorphose
4 Serum Visions
4 Sleight of Hand
4 Faithless Looting
2 Gut Shot
4 Thought Scour
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Wooded Foothills
3 Spirebluff Canal
2 Steam Vents
2 Sulfur Falls
1 Misty Rainforest
2 Mountain
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Breeding Pool
2 Island
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Ancient Grudge
2 Anger of the Gods
1 Beacon Bolt
2 Blood Moon
2 Ceremonious Rejection
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Scab-Clan Berserker
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Threads of Disloyalty
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

[Deck Title= Eighth Place, Saheeli Combo – Keegan Ferreira]
[Creatures]
3 Birds of Paradise
1 Eternal Witness
3 Felidar Guardian
1 Hero of Bladehold
1 Horizon Canopy
1 Knight of Autumn
2 Lotus Cobra
4 Noble Hierarch
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Razorverge Thicket
1 Reflector Mage
1 Renegade Rallier
1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
1 Sun Titan
1 Thragtusk
1 Tireless Tracker
3 Voice of Resurgence
1 Wall of Omens
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Eldritch Evolution
4 Saheeli Rai
4 Oath of Nissa
2 Path to Exile
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills
1 Temple Garden
1 Stomping Ground
3 Flooded Strand
2 Forest
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Breeding Pool
2 Plains

[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Damping Sphere
1 Eidolon of Rhetoric
1 Gaddock Teeg
1 Kataki, War’s Wage
1 Knight of Autumn
1 Magus of the Moon
1 Path to Exile
1 Rest in Peace
1 Runed Halo
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Sigarda, Host of Herons
1 Spellskite
2 Stony Silence
1 Thrun, the Last Troll
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

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