August 19 Pioneer RCQ – Top 8 Deck Lists
Thank you to everyone who joined us this past Saturday for our Regional Championship Qualifier and congratulations to our winners!
The winner, Tal, stood in the corner of the room before the event, quietly surveying his competition. Then, during the matches, the young assassin picked apart his opponents with high-energy and focus. Afterwards, he asked "Do you need me here?" and left; gone as swiftly as he came. Beware his arrival, regional competitors! WOE is he who underestimates him! This kid's on his way to the Pro Tour!
Honorable mention for coolest deck goes to Holly Holtz. Their Boros aggro deck comes with a surprise, and if you don't see it coming, they reckon you'll go extinct a la the dinosaur. Inspired by a guy named Sal from New York, perhaps? (Maybe I'm just hungry for pizza.)
1st Place: Tal B. Berkowitz (Rakdos Aggro)
// Main deck : 60
4 Bonecrusher Giant
3 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
4 Den of the Bugbear
2 Dreadbore
4 Eidolon of the Great Revel
2 Infernal Grasp
4 Kumano Faces Kakkazan
4 Lightning Strike
4 Monastery Swiftspear
4 Play with Fire
2 Rampaging Ferocidon
4 Soul-Scar Mage
4 Blackcleave Cliffs
4 Blood Crypt
7 Mountain
4 Ramunap Ruins
// Sideboard : 15
SB: 2 Rampaging Ferocidon
SB: 1 Elemental Expressionist
SB: 1 Goblin Chainwhirler
SB: 1 Harsh Mentor
SB: 1 Obliterating Bolt
SB: 2 Kari Zev's Expertise
SB: 2 Rending Volley
SB: 2 Roiling Vortex
SB: 3 Scab-Clan Berserker
2nd Place: Sean Sabia (Thassa)
// Main deck : 60
1 Thoughtseize
4 Stitcher's Supplier
4 Fallaji Archaeologist
1 Otherworldly Gaze
1 Agadeem's Awakening
4 Thassa's Oracle
4 Fatal Push
4 Consider
1 Spell Pierce
1 Claim / Fame
1 Village Rites
4 Deadly Dispute
1 Make Disappear
4 Demonic Bargain
4 Treasure Cruise
1 Extinction Event
2 Island
4 Watery Grave
4 Darkslick Shores
1 Swamp
2 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
2 Shipwreck Marsh
4 Clearwater Pathway
1 Otawara, Soaring City
// Sideboard : 15
SB: 1 Thoughtseize
SB: 1 Liliana's Defeat
SB: 1 Path of Peril
SB: 1 Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
SB: 2 Pithing Needle
SB: 4 Ray of Enfeeblement
SB: 4 Mystical Dispute
SB: 1 Ritual of Soot
3rd Place: Justin Ning (UW Control)
// Main deck : 60
3 Temporary Lockdown
2 Jwari Disruption
2 Fateful Absence
4 Hengegate Pathway
1 Behold the Multiverse
1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
1 Castle Ardenvale
1 Castle Vantress
2 Hall of Storm Giants
3 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
4 The Wandering Emperor
1 Narset, Parter of Veils
3 Dovin's Veto
2 Supreme Verdict
1 Sunfall
1 Farewell
1 Absorb
1 Make Disappear
2 Saw It Coming
1 Change the Equation
2 March of Otherworldly Light
2 Memory Deluge
2 Shark Typhoon
4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Deserted Beach
2 Irrigated Farmland
1 Otawara, Soaring City
2 Field of Ruin
2 Island
2 Plains
// Sideboard : 15
SB: 1 Temporary Lockdown
SB: 1 Dovin's Veto
SB: 1 Farewell
SB: 2 Chrome Host Seedshark
SB: 1 Boon-Bringer Valkyrie
SB: 1 Disdainful Stroke
SB: 1 Starnheim Unleashed
SB: 2 Divine Smite
SB: 1 Rest in Peace
SB: 2 Aether Gust
SB: 2 Mystical Dispute
4th Place: Andrew Genussa (Unban Twin)
// Main deck : 60
4 Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
4 Cavalier of Thorns
4 Elvish Mystic
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Karn, the Great Creator
1 Nissa, Who Shakes the World
4 Oath of Nissa
4 Old-Growth Troll
2 Polukranos Reborn
4 Storm the Festival
4 Wolfwillow Haven
1 Boseiju, Who Endures
14 Forest
2 Lair of the Hydra
4 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
// Sideboard : 15
SB: 1 Woodcaller Automaton
SB: 1 Cityscape Leveler
SB: 1 Damping Sphere
SB: 1 Darksteel Citadel
SB: 1 Esika's Chariot
SB: 1 Haywire Mite
SB: 2 Nylea's Intervention
SB: 1 Pestilent Cauldron
SB: 1 Pithing Needle
SB: 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
SB: 1 The Chain Veil
SB: 1 The Filigree Sylex
SB: 1 The Stone Brain
SB: 1 Tormod's Crypt
5th Place: Keenan Long (Heroic)
// Main deck : 60
4 Needleverge Pathway
3 Sejiri Shelter
4 Defiant Strike
4 Homestead Courage
4 Illuminator Virtuoso
2 Dreadhorde Arcanist
4 Battlefield Forge
4 Inspiring Vantage
4 Sacred Foundry
1 Plains
1 Spikefield Hazard
4 Monastery Swiftspear
4 Ancestral Anger
4 Favored Hoplite
4 Reckless Rage
3 Gods Willing
4 Tenth District Legionnaire
2 Invigorated Rampage
// Sideboard : 15
SB: 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
SB: 4 Rending Volley
SB: 2 Flowstone Infusion
SB: 2 Reidane, God of the Worthy
SB: 1 Destroy Evil
SB: 2 Loran's Escape
SB: 2 Showdown of the Skalds
SB: 1 Rest in Peace
6th Place: Holly Holtz (Reckoner)
// Main deck : 60
4 Ill-Tempered Loner
2 Savai Triome
4 Boros Reckoner
4 Fiery Impulse
4 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker
4 Phyrexian Vindicator
4 Volcanic Spite
4 Irencrag Feat
4 Star of Extinction
3 Take Up the Shield
1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
4 Sundown Pass
4 Inspiring Vantage
4 Battlefield Forge
4 Sacred Foundry
4 Clifftop Retreat
2 Plains
// Sideboard : 15
SB: 2 Chandra, Awakened Inferno
SB: 4 Rending Volley
SB: 2 Destroy Evil
SB: 3 Wedding Announcement
SB: 2 Rest in Peace
SB: 2 Temporary Lockdown
7th Place: Erik Pin (Fixed the Water Heater too!)
// Main deck : 60
3 Copperline Gorge
1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
4 Stomping Ground
4 Karplusan Forest
3 Cragcrown Pathway
3 Mutavault
2 Lair of the Hydra
1 Den of the Bugbear
2 Boseiju, Who Endures
2 Mountain
4 Elvish Mystic
4 Llanowar Elves
2 Scavenging Ooze
2 Reckoner Bankbuster
4 Dragon's Fire
3 Lovestruck Beast
4 Bonecrusher Giant
4 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker
2 Esika's Chariot
2 Glorybringer
4 Terror of the Peaks
// Sideboard : 15
SB: 1 Reckoner Bankbuster
SB: 2 Unlicensed Hearse
SB: 1 Pithing Needle
SB: 1 The Filigree Sylex
SB: 2 Rending Volley
SB: 1 Ratchet Bomb
SB: 2 The Akroan War
SB: 2 Lithomantic Barrage
SB: 3 Tear Asunder
8th Jake Alessandrino (Gruul Midrange)
// Main deck : 60
3 Crater's Claws
2 Migloz, Maze Crusher
2 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
3 Burning-Tree Emissary
4 Ghor-Clan Rampager
2 The Akroan War
4 Rootbound Crag
1 Castle Embereth
2 Rockfall Vale
2 Pelt Collector
2 Llanowar Elves
1 Elvish Mystic
2 Glorybringer
3 Bonecrusher Giant
3 Gruul Spellbreaker
2 Domri Rade
2 Questing Beast
1 Embercleave
4 Scavenging Ooze
4 Forest
4 Stomping Ground
1 Boseiju, Who Endures
2 Mana Vault
3 Mountain
1 Den of the Bugbear
// Sideboard : 14
SB: 1 Reckoner Bankbuster
SB: 3 Klothys, God of Destiny
SB: 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
SB: 1 Cathartic Pyre
SB: 2 Damping Sphere
SB: 2 Shapers' Sanctuary
SB: 2 Esika's Chariot
SB: 2 Fry
