As far as I’m concerned, if you’re a competitive Toronto Magic player, nothing quite tops a Trios Sunday Showdown. It’s a shot to claim some bragging rights over your friends and play Magic in the most fun way possible — as a team.
This past weekend, the team of Brian Ching, Jody Scott and Gengyu Xu claimed the top spot with a mix of Vampires in Standard, Jund in Modern and old school Dimir Reanimator in Legacy.
Shocking I know, but for once the team of Swaluk, Tubello and Andrew Gordon scrubbed out of a Showdown and left some room for the rest of us to win some matches.
In a room full of grindy midrange decks in the Standard seat, Ching was able to do a good job of going underneath his opponents all day. Jund has put up some pretty good results in Modern as of late at the shop, and the fact is that it’s really never a bad time to put [Card]Griselbrand[/Card] into play on turn one in Legacy.
In Legacy we saw the classic battle of combo versus Delver face off all day long at the shop. Temur Delver has really risen to the peak of the metagame over the past couple weeks of action at both SCG Syracuse and GP Atlanta this past weekend, and the deck also performed well at our event.
In Modern we had a bit of everything — as always. A couple midrange decks, Urza and Burn. All that’s missing is a Tron deck for the full appetizer sampler.
Lastly, we had Standard which in a lot of ways is a format that has been passed by. Rotation is a merely a few days away after all. With that said our Top 4 does do a good job of showing off where the format eventually landed after M20. It’s Kethis, Esper and Vampires, these decks are powerful and consistent.
With their win on Sunday, Ching, Scott and Xu cement their 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 it’s pre-release time! We’ll have events celebrating the release of Throne of Eldraine all weekend starting at midnight on Friday and capping off with our pre-release Sealed Showdown on Sunday! Make sure to pre-register and we’ll see you at the shop!
First Place – Ching, Scott and Xu
Standard
[Deck Title= Vampires – Brian Ching]
[Creatures]
3 Vicious Conquistador
3 Skymarcher Aspirant
4 Knight of the Ebon Legion
4 Champion of Dusk
4 Adanto Vanguard
4 Legion’s Lieutenant
4 Sanctum Seeker
[/Creatures
[Spells]
4 Legion’s Landing
4 Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord
2 Legion’s End
1 Mortify
1 Cast Down
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Godless Shrine
4 Isolated Chapel
7 Plains
7 Swamp
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 History of Benalia
1 Cast Down
3 Gideon, Blackblade
2 Legion’s End
1 Mortify
3 Duress
2 Vona, Butcher of Magan
2 Noxious Grasp
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Modern
[Deck Title= Jund – Jody Scott]
[Creatures]
4 Bloodbraid Elf
1 Tireless Tracker
2 Scavenging Ooze
4 Tarmogoyf
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
2 Thoughtseize
1 Maelstrom Pulse
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Fatal Push
2 Kolaghan’s Command
1 Abrupt Decay
2 Assassin’s Trophy
4 Liliana of the Veil
3 Wrenn and Six
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Blackcleave Cliffs
1 Blood Crypt
2 Bloodstained Mire
2 Forest
1 Barren Moor
1 Mountain
2 Nurturing Peatland
2 Overgrown Tomb
2 Raging Ravine
1 Stomping Ground
1 Swamp
4 Verdant Catacombs
2 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Huntmaster of the Fells
2 Plague Engineer
1 Kolaghan’s Command
2 Alpine Moon
1 Ancient Grudge
2 Collector Ouphe
1 Weather the Storm
1 Fulminator Mage
3 Collective Brutality
1 Ashiok, Dream Render
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Legacy
[Deck Title= Dimir Reanimator- Gengyu Xu]
[Creatures]
3 Griselbrand
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
1 Inkwell Leviathan
1 Grave Titan
1 Tidespout Tyrant
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Brainstorm
3 Daze
4 Entomb
4 Force of Will
4 Careful Study
3 Collective Brutality
4 Exhume
2 Ponder
4 Reanimate
2 Animate Dead
3 Lotus Petal
[/Spells]
[Lands]
2 Island
2 Misty Rainforest
4 Polluted Delta
2 Swamp
4 Underground Sea
2 Verdant Catacombs
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Fatal Push
2 Echoing Truth
2 Duress
3 Hymn to Tourach
4 Show and Tell
2 Pithing Needle
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Second Place – Goetschel, Beldon and Nightingale
Standard
[Deck Title= Esper Control – Tyler Nightingale]
[Creatures]
2 Basilica Bell-Haunt
[/Creatures
[Spells]
3 Teferi, Hero Of Dominaria
2 Command the Dreadhorde
1 Search for Azcanta
1 Despark
1 Duress
1 The Elderspell
4 Thought Erasure
2 Legion’s End
2 Tyrant’s Scorn
1 Mortify
2 Oath of Kaya
4 Teferi, Time Raveler
4 Narset, Parter of Veils
1 Vraska’s Contempt
3 Kaya’s Wrath
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Swamp
1 Plains
4 Drowned Catacombs
4 Glacial Fortress
4 Hallowed Fountain
2 Temple of Silence
2 Isolated Chapel
4 Watery Grave
4 Godless Shrine
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Noxious Grasp
2 Devout Decree
2 Ashiok, Dream Render
3 unmoored Ego
1 Cry of the Carnarium
1 The Elderspell
1 Despark
2 Enter the God-Eternals
1 Ugin, the Ineffable
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Modern
[Deck Title= Sultai Urza Sword – Omar Beldon]
[Creatures]
4 Urza, Lord High Artificer
4 Ice-Fang Coatl
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Assassin’s Trophy
4 Arcum’s Astrolab
4 Mox Opal
2 Everflowing Chalice
4 Mishra’s Bauble
4 Thoughtseize
3 Chromatic Star
3 Muddle the Mixture
4 Thopter Foundry
1 Sword of the Meek
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Polluted Delta
1 Watery Grave
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Breeding Pool
1 Prismatic Vista
6 Snow-Covered Island
1 Snow-Covered Forest
1 Snow-Covered Swamp
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
2 Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
3 Fatal Push
3 Collective Brutality
2 Extirpate
2 Ceremonious Rejection
1 Dead of Winter
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Legacy
[Deck Title= Temur Delver – Daniel Goetschel]
[Creatures]
4 Delver of Secrets
3 Hooting Mandrills
4 Tarmogoyf
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Wrenn and Six
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Spell Snare
4 Stifle
4 Daze
4 Force of Will
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
1 Preordain
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Polluted Delta
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Flooded Strand
3 Scalding Tarn
3 Tropical Island
3 Volcanic Island
4 Wasteland
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Submerge
1 Wrenn and Six
1 Winter Orb
2 Force of Negation
2 Flusterstorm
3 Pyroblast
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Ancient Grudge
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Third Place – Sandrin, Hamasoor and Teigesser
Standard
[Deck Title= Kethis Combo – Ryan Sandrin]
[Creatures]
4 Kethis, the Hidden Hand
4 Diligent Excavator
4 Fblthp, the Lost
3 Lazav, the Multifarious
[/Creatures
[Spells]
2 Yawgmoth’s Vile Offering
4 Mox Amber
3 Oath of Kaya
3 Ashiok, Dream Render
4 Teferi, Time Raveler
3 Tamiyo, Collector of Tales
1 Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Breeding Pool
1 Drowned Catacombs
3 Glacial Fortress
1 Godless Shrine
3 Hallowed Fountain
1 Swamp
2 Temple Garden
3 Temple of Malady
1 Temple of Mystery
2 Temple of Silence
4 Watery Grave
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Veil of Summer
4 Assassin’s Trophy
1 The Elderspell
1 Oath of Kaya
1 Tamiyo, Collector of tales
1 Teshar, Ancestor’s Apostle
2 Urza’s Ruinous Blast
1 The Immortal Sun
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Modern
[Deck Title= Mardu Death’s Shadow – Delan Hamasoor]
[Creatures]
1 Hex Parasite
4 Death’s Shadow
4 Tidehollow Sculler
4 Ranger-Captain of Eos
4 Street Wraith
1 Gurmag Angler
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Mishra’s Bauble
4 Thoughtseize
4 Path to Exile
3 Fatal Push
3 Inquisition of Kozilek
2 Kolaghan’s Command
2 Unearth
2 Temur Battle Rage
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Blood Crypt
1 Sacred Foundry
2 Godless Shrine
1 Palins
1 Swamp
4 Silent Clearing
4 Marsh Flats
4 Bloodstained Mire
1 Verdant catacombs
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Plague Engineer
2 Collective Brutality
2 Leyline of Sanctity
1 Kolaghan’s Command
2 Rest in Peace
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
1 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar
1 Wear // Tear
2 Fulminator Mage
1 Celestial Purge
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Legacy
[Deck Title= Temur Delver – Jonny Teigesser ]
[Creatures]
4 Delver of Secrets
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Dreadhorde Arcanist
2 True-Name Nemesis
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
3 Wrenn and Six
1 Spell Pierce
2 Spell Snare
1 Chain Lightning
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
1 Forked Bolt
4 Daze
1 Force of Negation
4 Force of Will
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Flooded Strand
1 Fiery Islet
4 Wasteland
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Tropical Island
3 Volcanic Island
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
1 Karakas
1 Dismember
1 Submerge
1 Vapor Snag
1 Magmatic Sinkhole
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Abrade
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pyroblast
1 Hydroblast
1 Crop Rotation
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Jace, the Mindsculptor
1 Force of Negation
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Fourth Place – Tessis, Silva and Cresswell
Standard
[Deck Title= Jund Dinosaurs – Greg Cresswell]
[Creatures]
4 Marauding Raptor
4 Ranging Raptor
4 Rotting Regisaur
3 Ripjaw Raptor
2 Shifting Ceratops
3 Regisaur Alpha
1 Carnage Tyrant
2 Galta, Primal Hunger
[/Creatures
[Spells]
4 Commune with Dinosaurs
4 Savage Stomp
4 Banefire
2 Find // Finality
[/Spells]
[Lands]
1 Mountain
1 Swamp
5 Forest
1 Woodland Cemetery
1 Dragonskull Summit
2 Blood Crypt
4 Rootbound Crag
4 Stomping Ground
4 Overgrown Tomb
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Shifting Ceratops
2 Tibalt, Rakish Instigator
2 Domri’s Ambush
3 Noxious Grasp
3 Veil of Summer
1 Carnage Tyrant
2 Find // Finality
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Modern
[Deck Title= Burn – Thiago Silva]
[Creatures]
4 Eidolon of the Great Revel
4 Goblin Guide
4 Monastery Swiftspear
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
4 Boros Charm
4 Lightning Helix
4 Lava Spike
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Rift Bolt
4 Searing Blaze
4 Skewer the Critics
2 Skullcrack
[/Spells]
[Lands]
3 Bloodstained Mire
4 Inspiring Vantage
3 Mountain
2 Sacred Foundry
4 Sunbaked Canyon
3 Wooded Foothills
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
3 Path to Exile
2 Rest in Peace
2 Searing Blood
2 Shrine of Burning Rage
2 Skullcrack
4 Smash to Smithereens
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
Legacy
[Deck Title= Four-Colour Control – Eduardo Tessis]
[Creatures]
3 Snapcaster Mage
3 Baleful Strix
2 Plague Engineer
1 Gurmag Angler
[/Creatures]
[Spells]
2 Kolaghan’s Command
1 Liliana’s Triumph
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
2 Hymn to Tourach
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Inquisition of Kozilek
2 Fatal Push
2 Abrupt Decay
4 Arcum’s Astrolab
4 Ponder
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
[/Spells]
[Lands]
4 Polluted Delta
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Verdant Catacombs
2 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island
1 Badlands
1 Bayou
1 Tropical Island
2 Snow-Covered Island
1 Snow-Covered Swamp
[/Lands]
[Sideboard]
2 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Hydroblast
2 Pyroblast
2 Blood Moon
2 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
1 Spell Pierce
1 Liliana’s Triumph
1 Ensnaring Bridge
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Liliana of the Veil
[/Sideboard]
[/Deck]
