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Showdown Recap: Modern on New Year’s Day

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 Modern format for the top prize — and a familiar face took it down.

Your Modern Showdown champ.

That’s right Edgar “no-bad-matchups” Magalhaes had success at yet another showdown, this time with his favourite Amulet Titan deck. The Top 8 of this event was pretty unique for a Toronto Modern event. Aside from Edgar’s unique deck choice there were also a full two copies of Lantern Control in the elimination rounds. From my perspective this shows a lack of B/G archetypes and Abrupt Decay decks in the room, which is a big shift for the city. Maybe people are starting to wise-up to the notion that interaction isn’t where you want to be in Modern. The cycles in the metagame keep on coming, and Edgar’s linear strategy was the best on Monday.

Your Modern Top 8.

The rest of the Top 8 was about what you’d expect from Modern, a Burn deck, a Storm deck a random control deck or two. Matthew Dilks, our recent Ultimate Showdown champion ran it back with Temur Moon and made yet another Top 8. Dilks is certainly fired up to defend that title.

With his win on Sunday Edgar moves himself up Face to Face Games Ultimate Showdown leaderboard. Next weekend we’ll be hosting a Legacy Showdown on Sunday in addition to our Magic Open House on Saturday. The week after is Rivals of Ixalan Pre-Release. Needless to say there’s a lot of Showdown points to be had over the next little while, so come on down to Face to Face Games Toronto and battle!

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First Place, Edgar Magalhaes- Amulet Titan 
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Sakura-Tribe Scout
4 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
4 Primeval Titan
1 Walking Ballista
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Ancient Stirrings
4 Amulet of Vigor
3 Explore
1 Dismember
4 Summoners Pact
1 Pact of Negation
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Hive Mind
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Slayers Stronghold
1 Selesnya Sanctuary
4 Simic Growth Chamber
3 Gruul Turf
1 Boros Garrison
4 Gemstone Mine
2 Forest
2 Grove of the Burnwillows
3 tolaria West
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Vesuva
1 Khalni Garden
1 Radiant Fountain
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Hornet Queen
1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
2 Tireless Tracker
2 Kozileks Return
1 Chameleon Colossus
2 Swan Song
1 Pact of Negation
4 Leyline of Sanctity
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Second Place, Austin Matthews- Lantern Control
[Deck]
[Spells]
4 Ancient Stirrings
4 Whir of Invention
4 Mox Opal
4 Lantern of Insight
4 Codex Shredder
3 Ensnaring Bridge
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Mishras Bauble
3 Thoughtsieze
2 Pithing Needle
1 Grafdiggers Cage
1 Witchbane Orb
1 Pyrite Spellbomb
1 Pyxis of Pandemonium
1 Abrupt Decay
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Botanical Sanctum
4 Darkslick Shores
2 Island
4 Glimmervoid
4 Spire of Industry
1 Academy Ruins
1 River of tears
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Ghirapur Aether
1 Search for Azcanta
1 Natures Claim
1 seal of Primordium
1 Ancient Grudge
2 Welding Jar
1 Pithing Needle
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Grafdiggers Cage
2 Pyroclasm
2 Leyline of Sanctity
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Third Place, Peter Howe- U/R Storm 
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Goblin Electromancer
4 Baral, Chief of Compliance
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Sleight of Hand
4 Serum Visions
3 Opt
4 Pyretic Ritual
4 Desperate Ritual
4 Manamorphose
3 Grapeshot
4 Gifts Ungiven
2 Past in Flames
3 Remand
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Steam Vents
4 Spirebluff Canal
4 Shivan Reef
2 Snow-covered Island
2 Island
1 Mountain
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Lightning Bolt
1 Dismember
1 Wipe Away
1 Gigadrowse
4 Pieces of the Puzzle
2 Empty the Warrens
2 Shattering Spree
1 Dispel
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Fourth Place, Elliot Tzaneteas- Burn 
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Eidolon of the great Revel
4 Goblin Guide
4 Monastery Swiftspear
1 Grim Lavamancer
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Lava Spike
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Rift Bolt
3 Searing Blaze
4 Skullcrack
4 Boros Charm
4 Lightning Helix
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Arid Mesa
3 Bloodstained Mire
3 Inspiring Vantage
3 Mountain
2 Sacred Foundry
2 Scalding Tarn
1 Stomping Ground
3 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Deflecting Palm
4 Destructive revelry
1 Grafdiggers Cage
3 PAth to Exile
2 Rest in Peace
1 Searing Blaze
2 Searing Blood
1 Shattering Spree
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Fifth Place, Stefan De Lassa- Bogles
[Deck]
[Creatures]
4 Kor Spiritdancer
4 Slippery Bogle
4 Gladecover Scout
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Path exile
4 Daybreak Coronet
1 Catouche of solidarity
3 Leyline of Sanctity
2 Spirit Mantle
4 Ethereal Armor
4 Spider Umbra
2 Hyena Umbra
2 Gryffs Boon
4 Rancor
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Temple Garden
4 Razorverge Thicket
4 Windswept Heath
3 Plains
4 Forest
1 Dryad Arbor
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
4 Seal of Primordium
1 Kataki, Wars Wage
2 Stony Silence
2 Rest in Peace
2 Path to Exile
1 Grafdiggers Cage
1 Spirit Link
1 Eidolon of Rhetoric
1 Nevermore
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Sixth Place,Les Walderman- U/B Control
[Deck]
[Creatures]
2 Torrential Gearhulk
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Liliana, the Last Hope
2 Jace, Architect of Thought
1 Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
4 Serum Visions
4 Fatal Push
3 Spreading Seas
3 Cryptic Command
2 Opt
2 Mana Leak
2 Damnation
2 Supreme Will
2 Dismember
1 Tribute to Hunger
1 Logic Knot
1 Heros downfall
1 Vraskas Contempt
[/Spells]
[Lands]
5 Island
3 Swamp
2 Watery Grave
4 Drowned Catacomb
4 Field of ruin
4 Polluted Delta
2 Bloodstained Mire
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Flaying Tendrils
3 Rain of Tears
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
2 Dispel
1 Summary Dismissal
1 Echoing Truth
1 Heros Downfall
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Seventh Place, Ryan Sandrin- Lantern Control
[Deck]
[Spells]
4 Ancient Stirrings
4 Whir of Invention
4 Mox Opal
4 Lantern of Insight
4 Codex Shredder
3 Ensnaring Bridge
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Mishras Bauble
3 Thoughtsieze
2 Pithing Needle
1 Grafdiggers Cage
1 Witchbane Orb
1 Pyrite Spellbomb
1 Ghoulcallers Bell
1 Pyxis of Pandemonium
1 Abrupt Decay
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Botanical Sanctum
4 Darkslick Shores
2 Island
4 Glimmervoid
4 Spire of Industry
1 Academy Ruins
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Welding Jar
1 Search For Azcanta
2 Leyline of Sanctity
1 Abrupt Decay
2 Tezzeret, the Seeker
1 Grafdiggers Cage
1 Porphyry Nodes
1 Pyroclasm
1 Natures claim
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Pithing Needle
1 Maelstrom Pulse
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

Eighth Place, Matthew Dilks- Temur Moon
[Deck]
[Creatures]
1 Pia and Kiran Naalar
1 Vendilion Clique
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Snapcaster Mage
3 Tireless tracker
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Engineered Explosives
2 Blood Moon
3 Mana Leak
4 opt
4 Serum Visions
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Cryptic Command
2 Spell Snare
[/Spells]
[Lands]
6 Island
1 Mountain
1 Forest
2 Steam Vent
1 Breeding Pool
1 stomping Ground
4 Misty Rainforrest
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Ancient Grudge
2 Surgical Extraction
3 Dispel
2 Disdainful Stroke
2 Ceremonious Rejection
1 Pulse of Murasa
1 Jace, architect of Thought
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]

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