It’s been a challenging season for Standard, so we were pleased to see a reasonable crowd emerge from the festivities to attend our last Standard win-a-box, and final event, of the year.
Nine players competed over four rounds, with Freddie Barber, Helena Jackson, Nick Lote and Robert Whitehouse making it through to top 4 knockouts, with four very distinct decks.
Helena’s Esper Hero deck lost to Freddie’s Adventure Knights, while Nick’s Simic Flash beat Rob’s Temur Reclamation deck, to see Nick and Freddie through to the final, where Knights won the day for Freddie.
Helena, Rob, Nick and Freddie have kindly shared their decklists from the day:
First Place: Freddie Barber – Adventure Knights (Golgari)
2 Garruk, Cursed Huntsman
4 Lucky Clover
4 Edgewall Inkeeper
2 Lovestruck Beast
2 Beanstalk Giant
4 Midnight Reaper
4 Foulmire Knight
4 Smitten Swordmaster
4 Order of Midnight
4 Murderous Rider
4 Knight of the Ebon Legion
2 Castle Locthwain
4 Overgrown Tomb
4 Temple of Malady
5 Forest
8 Swamp
Sideboard:
2 Assassin’s Trophy
3 Noxious Grasp
2 Legion’s End
2 Bolas’s Citadel
2 Vivien, Arcbow Ranger
4 Drill Bit
Find Freddie’s Arena PTQ winning Gruul Adventure build and commentary here.
2nd Place: Nick Lote – Simic Flash
3 Hydroid Krasis
3 Paradise Druid
1 Brazen Borrower
4 Frilled Mystic
4 Nightpack Ambusher
4 Nissa, Who Shakes the World
2 Aether Gust
4 Growth Spiral
1 Negate
3 Quench
2 Mystical Dispute
3 Sinister Sabotage
4 Breeding Pool
2 Castle Vantress
2 Fabled Passage
7 Forest
7 Island
4 Temple of Mystery
Sideboard:
1 Aether Gust
1 Hydroid Krasis
2 Kenrith’s Transformation
1 Negate
2 Sorcerous Spyglass
1 Crushing Canopy
4 Lovestruck Beast
1 Mystical Dispute
2 Chemister’s Insight
3rd Place: Robert Whitehouse – Temur Reclamation
4 Opt
4 Growth Spiral
4 Chemister’s Insight
4 Expansion // Explosion
4 Wilderness Reclamation
2 Flame Sweep
2 Escape to the Wilds
1 Sinister Sabotage
2 Scorching Dragonfire
2 Niv-Mizzet, Parun
3 Bonecrusher Giant
2 Brazen Borrower
4 Steam Vents
4 Stomping Ground
4 Breeding Pool
4 Temple of Mystery
2 Castle Vantress
3 Fabled Passage
2 Island
2 Mountain
1 Forest
Sideboard
2 Lava Coil
2 Mystical Dispute
2 Aether Gust
3 Nightpack Ambusher
2 Nissa, Who Shakes the World
3 Lovestruck Beast
1 Flame Sweep
4th place: Helena Jackson – Esper Hero
4 Hero of Precinct One
4 Teferi, Time Raveler
4 Mortify
4 Thought Erasure
3 Thief of Sanity
3 Elite Guardmage
3 Tyrant’s Scorn
2 Dovin’s Veto
2 Oath of Kaya
2 Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord
1 Despark
1 Kenrith, the Returned King
1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
1 Seraph of the Scales
4 Watery Grave
4 Godless Shrine
4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Temple of Silence
4 Fabled Passage
2 Island
1 Plains
1 Swamp
Sideboard:
2 Dovin’s Veto
2 Disdainful Stroke
2 Duress
2 Noxious Grasp
1 Kaya, Orzhov Usurper
1 Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage
1 Despark
1 Ethereal Absolution
1 Cry of the Carnarium
1 Citywide Bust
1 Ob Nixilis’ Cruelty
Tell us in the comments which decks have (or haven’t!) been working for you this season.
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