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.
Well it happened. It’s been a long time by all accounts, but once again the Tron menace has taken down an Sunday Showdown.
Fedor Mirkovic was able to triumph on Sunday with the all powerful colourless strategy.
Tron is one of many decks in Modern that feel like they’re always just hanging around. It has a very powerful and redundant game plan and is able to prey on many of the format’s more controlling strategies. This deck is always primed to win a tournament in the right room.
The rest of the Top 8 was a nice glance at what the Toronto Modern scene has to offer. We had two copies of Amulet Titan which has become wildly popular in the city as of late. Tyrell Wildman was one of them and he seems to be playing some good Magic recently and finding himself in Top 8s.
Then we had Jonny “EyesWideOpen” Teigesser who played a spicy [Card]Electrodominance[/Card] brew to a Top 8 finish on the weekend. If you’re looking for something that’ll blow your mind you’re going to want to check out his deck list.
The rest of the Top 8 featured a Boros Prison deck that lost in the finals, an Azorius Control deck, an Azorius Spirits deck and one copy of good old Bogles.
With his win on Sunday, Fedor 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 Team Trios Showdown. These things tend to sell out fast so make sure you pre-register now!
[Deck Title= First Place, Tron – Fedor Mirkovic ]
[Creatures]
2 Walking Ballista
1 Thragtusk
3 Wurmcoil Engine
2 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Expedition Map
4 Ancient Stirrings
4 Sylvan Scrying
4 Chromatic Star
4 Chromatic Sphere
3 Relic of Progenitus
4 Karn Liberated
4 Oblivion Stone
2 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Buried Ruin
1 Sanctum of Ugin
4 Urza’s Tower
4 Urza’s Mine
4 Urza’s Power Plant
4 Forest
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
4 Nature’s Claim
3 Spatial Contortion
2 Thought-Knot Seer
2 Thragtusk
1 Relic of Progenitus
2 Surgical Extraction
1 All is Dust
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
[Deck Title= Second Place, Boros Prison – Matthew Connolly]
[Creatures]
4 Simian Spirit Guide
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Gideon of the Trials
4 Nahiri, the Harbinger
2 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
2 Gideon Jura
3 Deafening Clarion
2 Wrath of God
1 Blessed Alliance
2 Lightning Helix
2 Abrade
1 Settle the Wreckage
4 Blood Moon
1 Cast Out
4 Chalice of the Void
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Arid Mesa
1 Gemstone Cavern
3 Rugged Prairie
2 Clifftop Retreat
4 Temple of Triumph
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Needle Spires
8 Plains
1 Mountain
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Elspeth, Sun’s Champion
1 Boil
3 Rest in Peace
2 Stony Silence
2 Sorcerous Spyglass
3 Leyline of Sanctity
3 Damping Sphere
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
[Deck Title= Third Place, Izzet Electrodominance- Jon Teigesser]
[Creatures]
3 Simian Spirit Guide
4 Greater Gargadon
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 As Foretold
1 Tormod’s Crypt
3 Remand
4 Electrodominance
1 Abrade
4 Serum Visions
4 Opt
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Flame Slash
4 Restore Balance
4 Ancestral Vision
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Tolaria West
1 Sulfur Falls
3 Steam Vents
4 Spirebluff Canal
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Mountain
2 Island
1 Cascade Bluffs
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Anger of the Gods
1 Abrade
1 Magma Spray
1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
1 Dragon’s Claw
1 Shatterstorm
1 Cryptic Command
2 Blood Moon
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
[Deck Title= Fourth Place, Azorius Control – Jyles Macdonell]
[Creatures]
2 Snapcaster Mage
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Cryptic Command
1 Mana Leak
1 Logic Knot
4 Opt
1 Spell Snare
1 Timely Reinforcements
4 Terminus
1 Negate
2 Detention Sphere
1 Condemn
1 Search for Azcanta
1 Ancestral Vision
4 Path to Exile
1 Hieroglyphic Illumination
2 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Supreme Verdict
1 Spell Pierce
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Field of Ruin
1 Ghost Quarter
2 Hallowed Fountain
9 Island
2 Plains
2 Glacial Fortress
4 Flooded Strand
4 Celestial Colonnade
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Settle the Wreckage
3 Rest in Peace
1 Celestial Purge
2 Dispel
2 Negate
2 Stony Silence
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Baneslayer Angel
1 Lyra Dawnbringer
1 Timely Reinforcements
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
[Deck Title= Fifth Place, Azorius Spirits – Dimitri Nikoletsos]
[Creatures]
4 Drogskol Captain
4 Mausoleum Wanderer
4 Rattlechains
3 Selfless Spirit
1 Phantasmal Image
4 Spell Queller
3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
2 Smuggler’s Copter
3 Deputy of Detention
4 Supreme Phantom
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Aether Vial
3 Path to Exile
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Cavern of Souls
4 Flooded Strand
2 Hallowed Fountain
2 Horizon Canopy
2 Island
3 Mutavault
1 Plains
2 Polluted Delta
4 Seachrome Coast
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
1 Eidolon of Rhetoric
1 Field of Ruin
2 Damping Sphere
3 Chalice of the Void
2 Delay
2 Blessed Alliance
3 Rest in Peace
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
[Deck Title= Sixth Place, Bogles – Jeremie Lemaire]
[Creatures]
4 Gladecover Scout
4 Kor Spiritdancer
4 Slippery Bogle
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Path to Exile
4 Daybreak Coronet
4 Ethereal Armor
1 Gryff’s Boon
2 Hyena Umbra
4 Leyline of Sanctity
4 Rancor
3 Spider Umbra
1 Spirit Link
2 Spirit Mantle
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Dryad Arbor
4 Windswept Heath
1 Flooded Strand
1 Forest
4 Horizon Canopy
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Plains
4 Razorverge Thicket
3 Temple Garden
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Blessed Alliance
2 Gaddock Teeg
2 Heroic Intervention
1 Path to Exile
3 Rest in Peace
2 Seal of Primordium
2 Stony Silence
1 Worship
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
[Deck Title= Seventh Place, Amulet Titan- Tyrell Wildman]
[Creatures]
4 Primeval Titan
4 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
4 Sakura-Tribe Scout
1 Walking Ballista
1 Thragtusk
2 Trinket Mage
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Ancient Stirrings
4 Amulet of Vigor
2 Coalition Relic
1 Engineered Explosives
4 Summoner’s Pact
1 Pact of Negation
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Forest
4 Simic Growth Chamber
4 Selesnya Sanctuary
1 Boros Garrison
1 Vesuva
1 Slayers’ Stronghold
1 Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion
3 Tolaria West
4 Gemstone Mine
1 Kabira Crossroads
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Grove of the Burnwillows
1 Khalni Garden
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
4 Path to Exile
2 Spell Pierce
2 Negate
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Chameleon Colossus
1 Hornet Queen
1 Ramunap Excavator
1 Emrakul, the Promised End
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
[Deck Title= Eighth Place, Amulet Titan- Ben Lu]
[Creatures]
4 Sakura-Tribe Scout
4 Primeval Titan
4 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
1 Walking Ballista
1 Obstinate Baloth
2 Trinket Mage
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Ancient Stirrings
4 Amulet of Vigor
4 Summoner’s Pact
1 Pact of Negation
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Coalition Relic
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Forest
1 Bojuka Bog
2 Cavern of Souls
4 Gemstone Mine
1 Ghost Quarter
4 Selesnya Sanctuary
1 Khalni Garden
4 Simic Growth Chamber
1 Slayers’ Stronghold
1 Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion
1 Vesuva
3 Tolaria West
1 Kabira Crossroads
1 Grove of the Burnwillows
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Emrakul, the Promised End
4 Path to Exile
1 Relic of Progenitus
3 Negate
1 Ramunap Excavator
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Thragtusk
1 Chameleon Colossus
1 Hornet Queen
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]