Manaleak Birmingham Modern PPTQ for Pro Tour Rivals of Ixalan Top 8 Decklists!
This past weekend saw 48 players attending our one and only Modern PPTQ for the year. With GP Birmingham mere days away now, these players are looking to solidify their deck choices and get some last minute practice at Competitive REL. The field was as diverse as ever, with good showings from [c]Death’s Shadow[/c], [c]Devoted Druid[/c] and Affinity. Here are the lists!
Top 8 – Oliver M Taylor, Revolt Zoo
[d]Creatures:
4 Burning-Tree Emissary
3 Dryad Militant
4 Goblin Guide
4 Hidden Herbalists
4 Narnam Renegade
4 Reckless Bushwhacker
3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4 Wild Nacatl
Spells:
4 Atarka’s Command
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Rancor
Lands:
4 Arid Mesa
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Sacred Foundry
2 Stomping Ground
1 Temple Garden
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills
1 Forest
1 Mountain
Sideboard:
4 Boros Charm
4 Chained to the Rocks
3 Destructive Revelry
4 Molten Rain[/d]
Top 8 – Gavin Thacker, Esper Mill
[d]Creatures:
4 Hedron Crab
3 Snapcaster Mage
Spells:
4 Archive Trap
3 Crypt Incursion
2 Damnaton
2 Ensnaring Bridge
2 Fatal Push
4 Glimpse the Unthinkable
3 Mesmeric Orb
3 Mind Funeral
4 Path to Exile
1 Trapmaker’s Snare
4 Visions of Beyond
Lands:
4 Flooded Strand
3 Ghost Quarter
1 Godless Shrine
1 Hallowed Fountain
2 Marsh Flats
1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
3 Polluted Delta
2 Watery Grave
1 Island
1 Plains
2 Swamp
Sideboard:
2 Disenchant
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
3 Leyline of Sanctity
3 Leyline of the Void
2 Liliana’s Defeat
2 Stony Silence
2 Surgical Extraction[/d]
Top 8 – Danny Gough, Azorius Midrange
[d]Creatures:
4 Meddling Mage
1 Reflector Mage
4 Restoration Angel
3 Snapcaster Mage
4 Spell Queller
2 Vendilion Clique
1 Venser, Shaper Savant
Spells:
3 Cryptic Command
1 Dismember
1 Logic Knot
4 Path to Exile
4 Remand
4 Serum Visions
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
Lands:
2 Celestial Colonnade
4 Flooded Strand
1 Glacial Fortress
3 Hallowed Fountain
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Moorland Haunt
3 Polluted Delta
4 Seachrome Coast
3 Island
1 Plains
Sideboard:
3 Ceremonious Rejection
2 Dispel
1 Hurkyl’s Recall
2 Lone Missionary
2 Rest in Peace
1 Spellskite
2 Stony Silence
2 Supreme Verdict[/d]
Top 8 – Roberto Pancrazi, Bant Eldrazi
[d]Creatures:
1 Birds of Paradise
4 Drowner of Hope
4 Eldrazi Displacer
4 Eldrazi Skyspawner
1 Eternal Witness
1 Matter Reshaper
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Reality Smasher
4 Thought-Knot Seer
Spells:
4 Ancient Stirrings
2 Engineered Explosives
4 Path to Exile
Lands:
1 Breeding Pool
3 Brushland
3 Cavern of Souls
4 Eldrazi Temple
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Temple Garden
4 Windswept Heath
4 Yavimaya Coast
1 Forest
1 Plains
Sideboard:
1 Blessed Alliance
2 Celestial Purge
2 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Natural State
2 Rest in Peace
3 Stony Silence
2 Stubborn Denial
1 Thragtusk
1 Worship[/d]
Top 4 – James Lawton, Grixis Shadow
[d]Creatures:
4 Death’s Shadow
2 Gurmag Angler
4 Snapcaster Mage
4 Street Wraith
2 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
Spells:
4 Fatal Push
2 Inquisition of Kozilek
2 Kolaghan’s Commander
1 Lightning Bolt
4 Serum Visions
2 Stubborn Denial
2 Terminate
4 Thought Scour
4 Thoughtseize
Lands:
2 Blood Crypt
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Polluted Delta
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Steam Vents
2 Watery Grave
1 Island
1 Swamp
Sidebaord:
3 Ceremonious Rejection
2 Collective Brutality
2 Kozilek’s Return
2 Liliana, the Last Hope
4 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Stubborn Denial[/d]
Top 4 – Ben Jones, Jund Shadow
[d]Creatures:
4 Death’s Shadow
2 Grim Flayer
1 Ranger of Eos
4 Street Wraith
4 Tarmogoyf
Planeswalkers:
2 Liliana of the Veil
Spells:
1 Dismember
3 Fatal Push
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Kolaghan’s Command
4 Mishra’s Bauble
2 Tarfire
2 Temur Battle Rage
4 Thoughtseize
4 Traverse the Ulvenwald
Lands:
1 Blood Crypt
4 Bloodstained Mire
1 Godless Shrine
1 Overgrown Tomb
4 Polluted Delta
1 Stomping Ground
4 Verdant Catacombs
1 Forest
1 Swamp
Sideboard:
2 Ancient Grudge
2 Collective Brutality
1 Dreadbore
2 Fulminator Mage
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Kataki, War’s Wage
1 Kolaghan’s Command
1 Kozilek’s Return
3 Lingering Souls
1 Temur Battle Rage[/d]
RUNNER UP – Daniel Cheshire, Affinity
[d]Creatures:
4 Arcbound Ravager
2 Etched Champion
2 Glint-Nest Crane
3 Master of Etherium
3 Memnite
4 Ornithopter
4 Signal Pest
3 Steel Overseer
4 Vault Skirge
Spells:
4 Cranial Plating
2 Galvanic Blast
4 Mox Opal
4 Springleaf Drum
Lands:
3 Blinkmoth Nexus
4 Darksteel Citadel
2 Glimmervoid
4 Inkmoth Nexus
3 Spire of Industry
1 Island
Sideboard:
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Blood Moon
2 Dispatch
2 Etched Champion
1 Ghirapur Aether Grid
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Rest in Peace
1 Rule of Law
1 Stubborn Denial
1 Thoughtseize
1 Wear // Tear
1 Whipflare[/d]
WINNER – James Allingham, Counters Company
[d]Creatures:
3 Birds of Paradise
4 Devoted Druid
2 Duskwatch Recruiter
4 Eternal Witness
4 Kitchen Finks
3 Noble Hierarch
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Selfless Spirit
1 Viscera Seer
4 Vizier of Remedies
2 Voice of Resurgence
1 Walking Ballista
Spells:
4 Chord of Calling
4 Collected Company
Lands:
2 Gavony Township
1 Godless Shrine
2 Horizon Canopy
2 Overgrown Tomb
2 Temple Garden
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Windswept Heath
2 Forest
1 Plains
1 Swamp
Sideboard:
1 Chameleon Colossus
1 Fiend Hunter
1 Kataki, War’s Wage
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
1 Maelstrom Pulse
2 Mirran Crusader
1 Orzhov Pontiff
3 Path to Exile
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Scavenging Ooze
2 Sin Collector[/d]
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