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 Death’s Shadow, Devoted Druid and Affinity. Here are the lists!
Top 8 – Oliver M Taylor, Revolt Zoo
Creatures: (30) 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: (11) 4 Atarka’s Command 4 Lightning Bolt 3 Rancor | Lands: (19) 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: (15) 4 Boros Charm 4 Chained to the Rocks 3 Destructive Revelry 4 Molten Rain |
Top 8 – Gavin Thacker, Esper Mill
Creatures: (7) 4 Hedron Crab 3 Snapcaster Mage Spells: (32) 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: (21) 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: (15) 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 |
Top 8 – Danny Gough, Azorius Midrange
Creatures: (19) 4 Meddling Mage 1 Reflector Mage 4 Restoration Angel 3 Snapcaster Mage 4 Spell Queller 2 Vendilion Clique 1 Venser, Shaper Savant Spells: (18) 3 Cryptic Command 1 Dismember 1 Logic Knot 4 Path to Exile 4 Remand 4 Serum Visions 1 Sword of Feast and Famine | Lands: (23) 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: (15) 3 Ceremonious Rejection 2 Dispel 1 Hurkyl’s Recall 2 Lone Missionary 2 Rest in Peace 1 Spellskite 2 Stony Silence 2 Supreme Verdict |
Top 8 – Roberto Pancrazi, Bant Eldrazi
Creatures: (27) 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: (10) 4 Ancient Stirrings 2 Engineered Explosives 4 Path to Exile | Lands: (23) 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: (15) 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 |
Top 4 – James Lawton, Grixis Shadow
Creatures: (16) 4 Death’s Shadow 2 Gurmag Angler 4 Snapcaster Mage 4 Street Wraith 2 Tasigur, the Golden Fang Spells: (25) 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: (19) 2 Blood Crypt 4 Bloodstained Mire 4 Polluted Delta 4 Scalding Tarn 1 Steam Vents 2 Watery Grave 1 Island 1 Swamp Sidebaord: (15) 3 Ceremonious Rejection 2 Collective Brutality 2 Kozilek’s Return 2 Liliana, the Last Hope 4 Nihil Spellbomb 2 Stubborn Denial |
Top 4 – Ben Jones, Jund Shadow
Creatures: (15) 4 Death’s Shadow 2 Grim Flayer 1 Ranger of Eos 4 Street Wraith 4 Tarmogoyf Planeswalkers: (2) 2 Liliana of the Veil Spells: (25) 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: (18) 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: (15) 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 |
RUNNER UP – Daniel Cheshire, Affinity
Creatures: (29) 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: (14) 4 Cranial Plating 2 Galvanic Blast 4 Mox Opal 4 Springleaf Drum | Lands: (17) 3 Blinkmoth Nexus 4 Darksteel Citadel 2 Glimmervoid 4 Inkmoth Nexus 3 Spire of Industry 1 Island Sideboard: (15) 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 |
WINNER – James Allingham, Counters Company

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