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 at our special Canadian National Exhibition Showdown!
We held two big Modern events at the CNE this past weekend — and both were won by 5C Humans. The Modern Showdown, our Sunday event, was taken down by Matthew Bradshaw.
Simply put, Humans has been dominating Modern lately, especially in Toronto. There were a full three copies in the Top 8 of the Open on Saturday and Matt was able to win Sunday as well. A proactive gameplan and disruptive creatures? The secret to Modern apparently.
In addition to the Humans menace, we also saw multiple copies of KCI in the Top 8 on Sunday. I’m noticing an uptick in the deck as of late, and I think players are finally starting to complete the painstaking process that is learning how to play this super complicated deck.
I’d also like to give a special shout out to finalist Aiden Vollmer who also Top8’d the Open on Saturday with U/W Spirits. That is quite the weekend of Magic for Aiden and he certainly showed us that Spirits in a legit archetype with the addition of [/Card]Supreme Phantom[/Card].
With his win on Sunday, Matthew 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 Saturday Face to Face Games Toronto will be hosting a Last Chance Qualifier Showdown for Sunday’s Regional Pro Tour Qualifier. Make sure to come on out and battle some Standard to win a chance at playing on the Pro Tour.
First Place, Matthew Bradshaw – 5C Humans
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Champion of the Parish
3 Militia Bugler
1 Restoration Angel
4 Thalia’s Lieutenant
3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
3 Phantasmal Image
4 Kitesail Freebooter
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Mantis Rider
4 Meddling Mage
3 Reflector Mage
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Aether Vial
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Ancient Ziggurat
4 Cavern of Souls
4 Horizon Canopy
1 Island
1 Plains
1 Seachrome Coast
4 Unclaimed Territory
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Auriok Champion
2 Gaddock Teeg
1 Grafdigger’s Teeg
2 Izzet Staticaster
1 Kataki War’s Wage
2 Reclamation Sage
1 Riders of Gavony
2 Sin Collector
1 Damping sphere
1 Dismember
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Second Place, Aiden Vollmer – U/W Spirits
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Mausoleum Wanderer
4 Rattlechains
4 Supreme Verdict
3 Selfless Spirit
2 Phantasmal Image
1 Remorseful Cleric
3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4 Drogkol Captain
4 Spell Queller
2 Geist of Saint Traft
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Aether Vial
4 Path to exile
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Island
3 Plains
4 Flooded strand
1 Moorland Haunt
1 Horizon Canopy
4 Mutavault
4 Seachrome Coast
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Damping Sphere
3 Stony Silence
1 rest in Peace
2 Disenchant
2 Negate
2 Kor Firewalker
1 Eidolon of rhetoric
2 Worship
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Third Place, Daniel Dove – Titan Shift
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
4 Primeval Titan
2 Courser of kruphix
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Summoner’s Pact
1 Bonfire of the Damned
3 Farseek
4 search for tomorrow
2 Anger of the gods
2 Growth Spasm
1 Sweltering suns
4 Scapeshift
4 Lightning Bolt
[/Spells]
[Lands]
6 Mountain
4 Valakut, the molten Pinnacle
4 Cinder Glade
4 Wooded Foothills
3 Stomping Ground
3 Forest
3 Verdant Catacombs
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Relic of progenitus
3 Damping Sphere
1 Reclamation Sage
2 tireless Tracker
2 Slagstorm
2 Obstinate Baloth
1 Vivien Reid
2 Fracturing gust
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Fourth Place, Steve Dove – U/R Breach
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Snapcaster Mage
3 Emrakul, the Aeons torn
1 Vendilion Clique
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Cryptic Command
4 Through the Breach
4 Remand
4 Lightning Bolt
1 Abrade
1 Izzet Charm
2 Blood Moon
1 Electrolyze
3 Opt
4 Serum Visions
1 Spell snare
1 Anger of the Gods
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Mountain
2 Sulfur Falls
2 Steam Vents
2 Desolate Lighthouse
4 Flooded Strand
8 Islands
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Ceremonious Rejection
1 Blood Moon
2 Anger of the Gods
1 Harvest pyre
2 Abrade
1 Izzet staticaster
1 Disdainful stroke
2 Dispel
2 Madcap experiment
2 Platinum Emperion
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Fifth Place, Matt Thurman – KCI
[Deck]
[Creatures]
2 Myr Retriever
4 Scrap Trawler
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Ancient Stirrings
3 Chromatic Sphere
4 Chromatic Star
3 Engineered Explosives
4 Ichor Wellspring
4 Krark-clan Ironworks
4 Mind Stone
4 Mox Opal
2 Pyrite Spellbomb
4 Terrarion
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Darksteel Citadel
2 Forest
4 darksteel Citadel
2 Forest
4 Grove of the Burnwillows
2 Inventor’s Fair
3 Yavimaya Coast
3 Buried Ruin
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
4 Galvanic Blast
2 Ghirapur Aether Grid
4 Nature’s Claim
2 Sai, Master Thopterist
3 Swan Song
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Sixth Place, Franco Pasqualan – Bant Company
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Noble Hierarch
3 Avacyn’s Pilgrim
4 Champion of the Parish
4 Thalia’s Lieutenant
2 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
2 Militia Bugler
1 Mayor of Avabruch
2 Tireless Tracker
4 Refletor Mage
4 Knight of the Reliquary
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Collected Company
3 Path to exile
2 Retreat to Coralhelm
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Breeding Pool
2 Cavern of Souls
2 Flooded Strand
2 Forest
1 Gavony Township
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Horizon Canopy
1 Kessig Wolf Run
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Plains
1 Sacred Foundry
2 Temple Garden
4 Windswept Heath
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Auriok Champion
2 Damping Sphere
2 Rest in Peace
2 Stony Silence
2 Izzet Staticaster
1 Reclamation sage
3 Unified Will
1 Engineered Explosives
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Seventh Place, Liam Kane – Burn
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Goblin Guide
4 Monastery Swiftspear
4 Eidolon of the Great Revel
1 Grim Lavamancer
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Lava Spike
4 Rift Bolt
4 Boros Charm
4 Lightning Helix
4 Searing Blaze
3 Skullcrack
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Inspiring Vantage
3 Mountain
2 Sacred Foundry
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Bloodstained Mire
2 Wooded Foothills
1 Arid Mesa
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Smash to Smithereens
3 Path to Exile
1 Rest in Peace
2 Deflecting Palm
3 Searing Blood
2 Grim Lavamancer
1 Relic of Progenitus
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Eighth Place, Francis Choi – KCI
[Deck]
[Creatures]
2 Myr Retriever
4 Scrap Trawler
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Ancient Stirrings
3 Chromatic Sphere
4 Chromatic Star
3 Engineered Explosives
4 Ichor Wellspring
4 Krark-Clan Ironworks
4 Mind Stone
4 Mox Opal
2 Pyrite Spellbomb
4 Terrarion
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Buried Ruin
4 Darksteel Citadel
2 Forest
4 Grove of the Burnwillows
2 Inventors’ Fair
2 Spire of Industry
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Defense Grid
1 Lightning Bolt
2 Galvanic Blast
4 Nature’s Claim
2 Dispel
2 Sai, Master Thopterist
1 Wurmcoil
2 Nihil SpellBomb
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]