1st Place- Sean Mahoney
Age: 24
Occupation: Project Manager
What deck did you play, and why did you choose it?
Classic GB Turbo Depths. I own all the cards, it’s fast and explosive!
What was the best card in your main deck, and why?
Once Upon a Time – It’s a free spell that helps me dig deeper into the deck.
What was the best card out of your sideboard, and why?
Probably the one I’ve brought in the most is Duress. Helps pick out all the counterspells.
Anything you would like to add?
Sylvan Scrying is a bad Magic card and people should not be playing it.
Sylvan Scrying is Bad and I’m Proving It
1 Sylvan Safekeeper
4 Vampire Hexmage
4 Elvish Spirit Guide
4 Crop Rotation
1 Duress
2 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Thoughtseize
4 Once Upon a Time
4 Not of this World
4 Lotus Petal
4 Pithing Needle
1 Bayou
1 Bojuka Bog
4 Dark Depths
1 Forest
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Sejiri Steppe
1 Swamp
4 Thespian’s Stage
4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 Verdant Catacombs
2 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
Sideboard
1 Karakas
1 Duress
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Sylvan Safekeeper
1 Abrupt Decay
2 Collector Ouphe
2 Rite of Consumption
2 Force of Vigor
3 Leyline of the Void
2nd Place- Adrian
Age: 25
Occupation: Musician
What deck did you play, and why did you choose it?
Grixis Midrange. I like Kolaghan’s Command right now and Hymn to Tourach is one of my favorite cards. Basically I’m playing all of my favorite cards.
What was the best card in your main deck, and why?
In my main deck, probably, Kolaghan’s Command. The utility of it, since there are way too many artifacts that need to be destroyed. Truly all four modes have been really good. I have gone from 2 to 3 to 4 and then settled at 3.
What was the best card out of your sideboard, and why?
Either the 2 Blood Moons or my Ensnaring Bridge. Ensnaring Bridge is another of my favorite cards and I can sideboard out all my creatures and win with just my Planeswalkers.
B/U/R Jeskai Good
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Liliana, the Last Hope
2 Gurmag Angler
3 Snapcaster Mage
1 Brazen Borrower
1 Hullbreacher
4 Baleful Strix
1 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Thoughtseize
2 Hymn to Tourach
1 Cling to Dust
1 Liliana’s Triumph
2 Fatal Push
3 Lightning Bolt
3 Kolaghan’s Command
1 Spell Snare
4 Force of Will
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
1 Volcanic Island
1 Badlands
2 Underground Sea
3 Bloodstained Mire
1 Arid Mesa
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Polluted Delta
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Mountain
2 Swamp
5 Island
Sideboard
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Ensnaring Bridge
2 Blood Moon
1 Red Elemental Blast
2 Pyroblast
2 Blue Elemental Blast
2 Flusterstorm
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Null Rod
3rd Place- Gavin Connor
Age: 21
Occupation: Army
What deck did you play, and why did you choose it?
Jeskai Miracles. Simply a meta call and it’s what I’m most comfortable with.
What was the best card in your main deck, and why?
Expressive Iteration has gotten me out of a lot of games.
What was the best card out of your sideboard, and why?
Honestly, Pyroblast. Because the field was primarily Blue players.
Jeskai Control
3 Snapcaster Mage
2 Monastery Mentor
2 Narset, Parter of Veils
2 Teferi, Time Raveler
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Prismatic Ending
3 Expressive Iteration
2 Force of Negation
1 Supreme Verdict
4 Force of Will
4 Flooded Strand
3 Scalding Tarn
2 Prismatic Vista
2 Tundra
1 Volcanic Island
5 Island
2 Plains
1 Mountain
2 Back to Basics
1 Dress Down
Sideboard
3 Pyroblast
2 Wear//Tear
2 Containment Priest
2 Torpor Orb
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Ethersworn Cannonist
1 Stony Silence
1 Deafening Silence
1 Hydroblast
4th Place- Marlow Case
Age: 24
Occupation: Data Analyst and a Bartender
What deck did you play, and why did you choose it?
I’m playing Mono Brown Storm. One, the deck is hilarious. Two, it is insanely fast. It catches a lot of people off guard going right under the radar.
What was the best card in your main deck, and why?
So, the best is Mystic Forge. Hands down. Because I run eight lands, and 44 artifacts. Helm of Awakening is also the most underrated card in the deck.
What was the best card out of your sideboard, and why?
Uuuh, I didn’t sideboard. Spatial Contortion. It killed an Ouphe.
Anything you would like to add?
Codex Shredder. Been thinking of adding that.
Mono-Brown Storm
1 Aetherflux Reservoir
1 Basalt Monolith
4 Chromatic Sphere
2 Chromatic Star
3 Doubling Cube
4 Grim Monolith
4 Helm of Awakening
3 Jeweled Lotus
4 Lion’s Eye Diamond
4 Lotus Petal
1 Manifold Key
1 Mesmeric Orb
4 Mox Opal
4 Mystic Forge
4 Voltaire Key
1 Birgi, God of StoryTelling
1 Walking Ballista
4 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Traitors
4 Echo of Eons
2 Fabricate
Sideboard
4 Defense Grid
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Expedition Map
1 Shadow Spear
3 Spatial Contortion
4 Urza’s Saga
5th Place- Andy Jackson
Age: Undisclosed
Occupation: Computer Guy
What deck did you play, and why did you choose it?
Aluren – Acererak is wonderful. He’s a cool card and does cool things.
What was the best card in your main deck, and why?
Cabal Therapy – Fights counterspells.
What was the best card out of your sideboard, and why?
Karakas – Because it counters kill spells for the Acererak.
Anything you would like to add?
No comment.
Aluren
4 Aluren
1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
4 Ice-Fang Coatl
3 Acererak, the Archlich
1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
1 Endurance
2 Veteran Explorer
3 Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath
1 Abundant Harvest
4 Ponder
4 Living Wish
3 Cabal Therapy
1 Prismatic Vista
1 Polluted Delta
3 Verdant Catacomb
4 Misty Rainforest
3 Snow-Covered Forest
2 Snow-Covered Island
1 Snow-Covered Swamp
1 Underground Sea
1 Tropical Island
1 Bayou
3 Abrupt Decay
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
Sideboard
1 Acererak the Archlich
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Flusterstorm
1 Assassin’s Trophy
3 Extripate
1 Collector Ouphe
1 Veil of Summer
2 Force of Vigor
1 Karakas
1 Brazen Borrower
1 Cursed Totem
6th Place- Zach Willess
Age: 31
Occupation: Assistant-Manager
What deck did you play, and why did you choose it?
A deck of my creation which I call Pox World. Smallpox is my favorite card.
What was the best card in your main deck, and why?
Liliana, the Last Hope – because it wins the game. You delete their lands, drop Liliana, and they can’t respond.
What was the best card out of your sideboard, and why?
Surgical Extraction – Steals your win-con. Thoughtseize it out of your hand and steal it with Surgical.
Anything you would like to add?
Legacy R Fun.
Pox World
3 Ashiok, Dream Render
2 Crucible of Worlds
4 Dark Ritual
4 Hymn to Tourach
2 Innocent Blood
4 Liliana of the Veil
2 Liliana, the Last Hope
1 Nether Spirit
4 Sinkhole
4 Smallpox
1 Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
4 Thoughtseize
2 Blast Zone
3 Cabal Pit
4 Mishra’s Factory
8 Swamp
4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 Wasteland
Sideboard
2 Chains of Mephistopheles
3 Leyline of the Void
2 Liliana’s Triumph
1 Pithing Needle
2 Plague Engineer
1 Ratchet Bomb
2 Sudden Edict
2 Surgical Extraction
7th Place- Daniel Scott
Age: 27
Occupation: Magic Player
What deck did you play, and why did you choose it?
Azorious Brobots – Because it was cheap. I mean, it went down from 76 bucks to 40!
What was the best card in your main deck, and why?
Ethersworn Canonist, because it is practically a Rule of Law that does not affect me at all.
What was the best card out of your sideboard, and why?
Thorn of Amethyst because it is another taxing effect that does not affect me.
Anything you would like to add?
Affinity sucks.
Azorius Brobots
4 Ancient Den
4 Ancient Tomb
4 Arcbound Ravager
3 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
4 Esper Sentinel
4 Ethersworn Canonist
4 Mox Opal
4 Nettlecyst
4 Plains
1 Retrofitter Foundry
2 Sai, Master Thopterist
4 Seat of the Synod
4 Stonecoil Serpent
4 Thought Monitor
1 Thoughtcast
4 Urza’s Saga
4 Walking Ballista
1 Zabaz, the Glimmerwasp
Sideboard
3 Disenchant
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
3 Surgical Extraction
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Thorn of Amethyst
8th Place- Heath Terry
Age: 36
Occupation: Stay-at-Home Dad
What deck did you play, and why did you choose it?
Bant Control – Good in the meta where it’s at.
What was the best card in your main deck, and why?
Sylvan Library – I brainstorm every time!
What was the best card out of your sideboard, and why?
Stony Silence – Because of the artifact decks. I played against three of them.
Bant Control
1 Snapcaster Mage
2 Ice-Fang Coatl
2 Endurance
3 Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Brainstorms
2 Force of Negation
4 Force of Will
3 Prismatic Ending
4 Ponder
1 Life from the Loam
2 Terminus
1 Sylvan Library
2 Teferi, Time Raveler
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Wasteland
1 Karakas
1 Tundra
2 Prismatic Vista
3 Flooded Strand
3 Misty Rainforest
1 Mystic Sanctuary
2 Snow-Covered Forest
3 Snow-Covered Islands
1 Snow-Covered Plains
2 Tropical Island
1 Savannah
1 Field of the Dead
1 Raugrin Triome
Sideboard
2 Flusterstorm
1 Surgical Extraction
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Containment Priest
1 Kataki, War’s Wage
2 Meddling Mage
1 Stony Silence
1 Rest in Peace
1 Collector Ouphe
1 Back to Basics
2 Force of Vigor
1 Terminus
9th Place- Brandon Newman
4 Thoughtseize
4 Dark Ritual
2 Liliana of the Veil
1 Kaya, Orzhov Usurper
1 Umazawa’s Jitte
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Batterskull
1 Kaldra Compleat
2 Sedgemoor Witch
4 Stoneforge Mystic
2 Dauthi Voidwalker
2 Opposition Agent
4 Dark Confidant
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Hymn to Tourach
2 Damn
2 Silent Clearing
2 Karakas
1 Plains
1 Prismatic Vista
4 Wasteland
4 Swamp
4 Scrubland
4 Marsh Flats
1 Verdant Catacombs
Sideboard
2 Liliana of the Veil
1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
1 Hymn to Tourach
1 Kaya, Orzhov Usurper
1 Council’s Judgement
3 Prismatic Ending
1 Fracture
1 Vindicate
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Necromentia
Honorable Mentions
Riley Connor
Glimpse of Nature Affinity
4 Tree of Tales
4 Seat of the Synod
4 Frogmite
4 Memnite
4 Ornithopter
4 Phyrexian Walker
4 Thought Monitor
4 Sojourner’s Companion
4 Shield Sphere
3 Myr Enforcer
2 Foundry Assembler
2 Barricade Breaker
1 Thassa’s Oracle
4 Mox Opal
4 Lotus Petal
4 Thoughtcast
4 Glimpse of Nature
Sideboard
4 Tormod’s Crypt
3 Carpet of Flowers
4 Nettlecyst
4 Salvage Titan
Patrick Wainscott
Landless Black Belcher
4 Phyrexian Walker
4 Shield Sphere
4 Culling the Weak
4 Dark Ritual
4 Cabal Ritual
4 Lion’s Eye Diamond
4 Lotus Petal
4 Chrome Mox
4 Simian Spirit Guide
4 Infernal Tutor
4 Ad Nauseam
4 Goblin Charbelcher
4 Mox Opal
2 Ornithopter
1 Tendrils of Agony
2 Elvish Spirit Guide
3 Wishclaw Talisman
Sidboard
3 Force of Despair
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Faerie Macabre
2 Plague Engineer
2 Chalice of the Void
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