October 28 Modern RCQ – Top 8 Decks
This event was incredible. Everyone knew Rakdos Scam and Beanstalk were the boogeymen, but play skill and luck get a say on any given Saturday. Edward came prepared with 4 Bowmasters and 3 Sheoldred, along with 4 copies of The One Ring to recover from scam.
The Top 8 had dual copies of Scam, Murktide, and Omnath. Conspicuously absent was Tron.
Special recognition goes out to Chris, who was playing the actual scariest deck in the format, UB Mill, since it wins on a completely different axis. His deck is beautiful, fully foil and sporting Unstable Islands illustrated by John Avon.
1st Place: Edward Barton - BW Control
// Main deck : 60
4 March of Otherworldly Light
4 Thoughtseize
4 Castle Locthwain
4 The One Ring
4 Kaya's Guile
4 Orcish Bowmasters
4 Solitude
1 Damnation
3 Damn
3 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
2 Vindicate
3 Beseech the Mirror
4 Marsh Flats
2 Arid Mesa
1 Flooded Strand
1 Windswept Heath
4 Godless Shrine
3 Swamp
2 Plains
1 Savai Triome
1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
// Sideboard : 15
1 Hour of Revelation
2 Break the Ice
2 Necromentia
2 Hallowed Moonlight
2 Chalice of the Void
1 Leyline of the Void
1 Drana and Linvala
2 Blossoming Calm
2 Patrician's Scorn
2nd Place: Alfredo Barragan - Old Boring Deck
// Main deck : 60
1 Flooded Strand
3 Island
1 Otawara, Soaring City
3 Polluted Delta
2 Scalding Tarn
4 Spirebluff Canal
3 Steam Vents
4 Dragon's Rage Channeler
2 Murktide Regent
4 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
1 Subtlety
2 Consider
4 Counterspell
4 Expressive Iteration
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Preordain
2 Spell Pierce
2 Stern Scolding
4 Unholy Heat
1 Blood Moon
4 Mishra's Bauble
1 Brazen Borrower
// Sideboard : 15
1 Subtlety
1 Blood Moon
2 Annul
1 Brotherhood's End
2 Dress Down
2 Engineered Explosives
2 Flusterstorm
1 Fury
1 Narset, Parter of Veils
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Unlicensed Hearse
3rd Place: Aiden Lum - Rakdos Scam
// Main deck : 60
4 Thoughtseize
4 Orcish Bowmasters
1 Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
3 Terminate
4 Dauthi Voidwalker
4 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker
4 Fury
4 Grief
2 Lightning Bolt
4 Not Dead After All
4 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
2 Undying Evil
4 Blackcleave Cliffs
3 Blood Crypt
2 Bloodstained Mire
1 Castle Locthwain
2 Marsh Flats
1 Mount Doom
3 Polluted Delta
3 Swamp
1 Verdant Catacombs
// Sideboard : 15
2 Blood Moon
2 Chalice of the Void
2 Engineered Explosives
1 Fatal Push
1 Hidetsugu Consumes All
1 Kolaghan's Command
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
4th Place: Adam Cohen - Rakdos Scam
// Main deck : 60
4 Thoughtseize
4 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker
4 Fury
4 Grief
4 Dauthi Voidwalker
1 Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
4 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
4 Orcish Bowmasters
2 Blood Moon
1 Lightning Bolt
1 Fatal Push
2 Terminate
1 Malakir Rebirth
1 Undying Malice
4 Not Dead After All
2 Polluted Delta
2 Marsh Flats
2 Verdant Catacombs
2 Bloodstained Mire
3 Blood Crypt
3 Swamp
4 Blackcleave Cliffs
1 Castle Locthwain
// Sideboard : 15
1 Blood Moon
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Pithing Needle
1 Chalice of the Void
2 Engineered Explosives
2 Tourach, Dread Cantor
1 Hidetsugu Consumes All
2 Bonecrusher Giant
3 Leyline of the Void
5th Place: Jonathan Castagna - Omnath Pile
// Main deck : 60
1 Zagoth Triome
1 Plains
1 Island
1 Forest
3 Flooded Strand
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Windswept Heath
2 Boseiju, Who Endures
1 Raugrin Triome
1 Breeding Pool
1 Steam Vents
1 Stomping Ground
1 Temple Garden
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Lightning Bolt
4 Prismatic Ending
4 Up the Beanstalk
4 Wrenn and Six
4 Teferi, Time Raveler
4 Fury
4 Solitude
4 Omnath, Locus of Creation
4 Leyline Binding
4 The One Ring
// Sideboard : 15
1 Kaheera, the Orphanguard
3 Obsidian Charmaw
2 Flusterstorm
3 Endurance
2 Force of Vigor
1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
2 Dovin's Veto
1 Celestial Purge
6th Place: Matthew Johnson - Temur Murktide
// Main deck : 60
4 Expressive Iteration
3 Counterspell
4 Dragon's Rage Channeler
1 Force of Negation
1 Fury
3 Lightning Bolt
4 Mishra's Bauble
2 Murktide Regent
4 Preordain
4 Questing Druid
4 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
2 Spell Pierce
2 Spell Snare
4 Unholy Heat
1 Breeding Pool
1 Flooded Strand
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Polluted Delta
3 Scalding Tarn
2 Snow-Covered Island
4 Spirebluff Canal
3 Steam Vents
// Sideboard : 15
1 Fury
1 Spell Pierce
1 Alpine Moon
2 Annul
1 Brotherhood's End
1 Cast into the Fire
2 Chalice of the Void
1 Dress Down
2 Engineered Explosives
1 Flusterstorm
2 Stern Scolding
7th Place: Michael Pelaez - 5C Omnath
// Main deck : 70
1 Ziatora's Proving Ground
4 Shardless Agent
2 Endurance
4 Omnath, Locus of Creation
4 Solitude
1 Eagles of the North
1 Fire / Ice
1 Dismember
3 Force of Negation
2 Murderous Cut
3 Time Warp
2 Lórien Revealed
2 Bring to Light
2 Commandeer
4 Up the Beanstalk
4 Ardent Plea
4 Leyline Binding
2 Teferi, Time Raveler
4 Windswept Heath
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Flooded Strand
1 Spara's Headquarters
1 Xander's Lounge
1 Prairie Stream
1 Plains
1 Forest
1 Island
1 Steam Vents
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Breeding Pool
1 Temple Garden
1 Godless Shrine
// Sideboard : 15
2 Dismember
1 Force of Negation
2 Commandeer
1 Dead / Gone
2 Set Adrift
2 Subtlety
4 Force of Vigor
1 Emrakul, the Promised End
8th Place: Chris Siroonian - UB Mill
// Main deck : 60
4 Ruin Crab
4 Hedron Crab
4 Fractured Sanity
4 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
2 Jace, the Perfected Mind
4 Archive Trap
2 Preordain
3 Visions of Beyond
4 Fatal Push
4 Drown in the Loch
1 Echoing Truth
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Watery Grave
4 Island
1 Swamp
4 Polluted Delta
4 Field of Ruin
3 Flooded Strand
1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
1 Shelldock Isle
1 Otawara, Soaring City
// Sideboard : 15
3 Extirpate
1 Crypt Incursion
3 Ensnaring Bridge
1 Baleful Mastery
2 Spell Pierce
3 Soul-Guide Lantern
2 Collective Brutality
