MTG StarCityGames.com IQ Top 8 Deck List - August 22, 2015

Thanks to all who participated in the Magic: The Gathering Modern StarCityGames.com Invitational Qualifier held Saturday, August 22, at Gamer's Gambit in Danbury. Congratulations to our top eight finishers and the first place winner, Matt Ingraffia, who qualified for a StarCityGames.com Invitational and 5 Open Series points! Here are the winning deck lists of the top 8:

1st Place - Matt Ingraffia 4 Goblin Guide 4 Monastery Swiftspear 4 Eidolon of the Great Revel 1 Lightning Helix 4 Boros Charm 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Searing Blaze 4 Atarka's Command 4 Rift Bolt 3 Skullcrack 4 Lava Spike 2 Mountain 3 Sacred Foundry 2 Stomping Ground 1 Copperline Gorge 4 Wooded Foothills 4 Bloodstained Mire 2 Scalding Tarn 2 Arid Mesa Sideboard: 3 Destructive Revelry 1 Leyline of Sanctity 2 Kor Firewalker 2 Lightning Helix 2 Path to Exile 2 Deflecting Palm 2 Molten Rain 1 Skullcrack	2nd Place - Michael Keating 4 Primeval Titan 4 Amulet of Vigor 4 Summer Bloom 4 Summoner's Pact 4 Serum Visions 4 Ancient Stirings 3 Hive Mind 2 Azusa, Lost but Seeking 1 Dragonlord Dromoka 2 Pact of Negation 1 Slaughter Pact 4 Gemstone Mine 1 Tendo Ice Bridge 1 Mana Confluence 4 Simic Growth Chamber 2 Gruul Turf 2 Selesnya Sanctuary 1 Boros Garrison 1 Golgari Rot Farm 1 Vesuva 2 Forest 1 Khalni Garden 1 Radiant Fountain 3 Tolaria West 1 Slayer's Stronghold 1 Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion 1 Cavern of Souls Sideboard: 2 Lotus Cobra 3 Thragtusk 1 Sigarda, Host of Herons 1 Engineered Explosives 1 Bojuka Bog 1 Forest 1 Courser of Kruphix 1 Ghost Quarter 1 Inferno Titan 1 Wurmcoil Engine 1 Cavern of Souls 1 Krosan Grip
3rd Place - Noah Lehman 4 Tarmogoyf 2 Scavenging Ooze 2 Kitchen Finks 4 Siege Rhino 2 Tasigur, the Golden Fang 3 Thoughtseize 3 Inquisition of Kozilek 3 Path to Exile 1 Maelstrom Pulse 3 Abrupt Decay 1 Dromoka's Command 4 Liliana of the Veil 4 Lingering Souls 4 Verdant Catacombs 2 Windswept Heath 3 Marsh Flats 2 Overgrown Tomb 1 Godless Shrine 1 Temple Garden 2 Swamp 1 Plains 1 Forest 2 Treetop Village 1 Stirring Wildwood 1 Vault of the Archangel 1 Twilight Mire 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth 1 Ghost Quarter Sideboard: 1 Timely Reinforcements 2 Feed the Clan 1 Darkblast 1 Engineered Explosives 2 Leyline of the Void 1 Ghostly Prison 1 Languish 3 Fulminator Mage 1 Thrun, the Last Troll 2 Stony Silence	4th Place - Nick Cogley 4 Lava Spike 4 Boros Charm 2 Atarka's Command 4 Monastery Swiftspear 4 Eidolon of the Great Revel 4 Rift Bolt 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Goblin Guide 2 Grim Lavamancer 3 Skullcrack 2 Shard Volley 3 Searing Blaze 1 Stomping Ground 3 Sacred Foundry 4 Wooded Foothills 3 Arid Mesa 5 Mountain 4 Bloodstained Mire Sideboard: 1 Searing Blood 3 Kor Firewalker 1 Skullcrack 2 Path to Exile 3 Rending Volley 3 Destructive Revelry 2 Deflecting Palm
5th Place - Erik Pin 1 Viscera Seer 3 Noble Hierarch 3 Birds of Paradise 1 Cartel Aristocrat 1 Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit 1 Melira, Sylvok Outcast 2 Qasali Pridemage 3 Voice of Resurgence 3 Tarmogoyf 2 Liliana, Heretical Healer 3 Kitchen Finks 4 Loxodon Smiter 2 Wilt-Leaf Liege 2 Path to Exile 2 Abrupt Decay 1 Chord of Calling 4 Collected Company 1 Horizon Canopy 3 Overgrown Tomb 1 Temple Garden 1 Godless Shrine 4 Windswept Heath 3 Verdant Catacomb 1 Marsh Flats 2 Razorverge Thicket 2 Forest 1 Plains 1 Swamp 2 Gavony Township Sideboard: 2 Fulminator Mage 1 Merciless Executioner 1 Murderous Redcap 1 Eternal Witness 1 Orzhov Pontiff 2 Sin Collector 2 Thoughtseize 1 Spellskite 1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence 1 Scavenging Ooze 1 Kor Firewalker 1 Burrenton Forge-Tender	6th Place - Benjamin Albano 4 AEther Vial 4 Spreading Seas 2 Dismember 2 Spell Pierce 2 Vapor Snag 3 Master of Waves 2 Harbringer of the Tides 3 Merrow Reejerey 2 Phantasmal Image 4 Lord of Atlantis 4 Master of the Pearl Trident 4 Silvergill Adept 4 Cursecatcher 4 Mutavault 3 Glacial Fortress 13 Island Sideboard: 2 Spell Pierce 2 Remand 2 Hibernation 2 Monastery Siege 2 Tidebinder Mage 2 Hurkyll's Recall 1 Master of Waves 1 Dismember 1 Relic of Progenitus
7th Place - Andrew Durso 4 Llanowar Elves 4 Elvish Mystic 4 Heritage Druid 4 Nettle Sentinel 3 Elvish Visionary 3 Dwynen's Elite 1 Spellskite 4 Shaman of the Pack 4 Elivish Archdruid 3 Ezuri, Renegade Leader 4 Collected Company 4 Chord of Calling 4 Gilt-Leaf Palace 4 Cavern of Souls 3 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx 2 Overgrown Tomb 5 Forest Sideboard: 2 Scavenging Ooze 1 Phyrexian Revoker 1 Fracturing Gust 1 Melira, Sylvok Outcast 2 Reclamation Sage 2 Golgari Charm 3 Essence Warden 2 Chameleon Colossus 1 Spellskite	8th Place - Matthew DeNove 4 Goblin Guide 4 Monastery Swiftspear 1 Grim Lavamancer 4 Eidolon of the Great Revel 4 Lava Spike 4 Lightning Bolt 2 Shard Volley 4 Boros Charm 4 Skullcrack 3 Searing Blaze 2 Lightning Helix 1 Atarka's Command 4 Rift Bolt 4 Bloodstained Mire 4 Wooded Foothills 1 Arid Mesa 1 Scalding Tarn 4 Mountain 3 Sacred Foundry 2 Stomping Ground Sideboard: 1 Graffdigger's Cage 3 Deflecting Palm 3 Destructive Revelry 2 Path to Exile 2 Kor Firewalker 1 Pyroclasm 3 Rending Volley

Yu-Gi-Oh! Prize Card Tournament Deck Lists

Thanks to all who participated in our awesome Prize Card Tournament series, the Yu-Gi-Oh! Xbox One Tournament held Saturday, August 15 at Gamer's Gambit in Danbury. Congratulations to our first place winner who walked away with a brand new Xbox One! Here are the winning deck lists of the top 4 finishers.

1st Place: Paulie Aronson – Nekroz Monsters: 24 1x Nekroz of Trishula 2x Nekroz of Valkyrus 2x Nekroz of Brionac 2x Nekroz of Clausolas 3x Nekroz of Unicore 3x Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands 3x Senju of the Thousand Hands 1x Shurit, strategist of the Nekroz 3x Maxx “c” 1x Great Sorcerer of the Nekroz 1x Dance Princess of the Nekroz 1x Nekroz of Gungnir 1x Nekroz of Decisive Armor Spells: 16 2x Nekroz Kaleidoscope 2x Nekroz Cycle 2x Nekroz Mirror 1x Preparation of Rites 3x Reinforcement of the Army 3x Upstart Goblin 3 x Mystical Space Typhoon Side Deck: 15 3x Royal Decree 2x Artifact Lancea 2x Denko Sekka 3x Mind Crush 1x Vanity’s Emptiness 1x Twister 2x Fairy Wind 1x Breakthrough Skill Extra Deck: 15 1x No. 52 Diamond Crab King 1x Star Eater 1x Shooting Quasar Dragon 1x No. 101: Silent Honor Ark 1x No. 80: Rhapsody in Berserk 1x Steelswarm Roach 1x Gagaga Cowboy 2x Abyss Dweller 1x Castel, the Skyblaster Musketeer 1x Diamond Dire Wolf 1x Daigusto Emeral 1x Evilswarm Exciton Knight 2x Herald of the Arc Light

2nd Place – Daniel Carlisto  - Shadoll Monsters: 21 3x Shaddoll Beast 2x Shaddoll Dragon 2x Shaddoll Falco 2x Shaddoll Hedgehog 2x Shaddoll Squamata 2x Effect Veiler 1x Artifact Moralltach 1x Artifact Scythe 1x Artifact Lancea 2x Fire Hand 2x Ice Hand 1x Black Luster Soldier – Envoy of the Beginning Spells: 11 3x Shaddoll Fusion 3x El Shaddoll Fusion 1x Soul Charge 2x Mystical Space Typhoon 1x Foolish Burial 1x Raigeki Traps: 8 3x Sinister Shadow Games 1x Vanity’s Emptiness 2x Artifact Sanctum 1x Shaddoll Core 1x Jar of Avarice Side Deck: 15 2x Black Horn of Heaven 1x Solemn Warning 1x Twister 2x Mistake 2x Light-Imprisoning Mirror 3x Maxx “c” 2x Mind Drain Extra Deck: 15 3x El Shaddoll Construct 3x El Shaddoll Winda 1x El Shaddoll Amaryllis 1x El Shaddoll Grysta 1x Leo, Keeper of the Sacred Tree 1x Black Rose Dragon 1x Arcanite Magician 1x Goyo Guardian 1x Artifact Durandal 1x Castel, the Skyblaster Musketeer 1x Armades, Keeper of Boundaries

3rd Place – Patrick Jones – Ritual Beasts Monsters: 16 3x Ritual Beast Tamer Elder 1x Ritual Beast Tamer Wen 1x Ritual Beast Tamer Lara 1x Ritual Beast Tamer Zefrapilica 1x Spiritual Beast Pettlephin 3x Spiritual Beast Cannhawk 3x Spiritual Beast Apelio 3x Spiritual Beast Rampengu Spells: 12 3x Upstart Goblin 3x Chicken Game 2x Forbidden Lance 1x Ritual Beast Bonds 1x Soul Charge 1x Raigeki 1x Dimensional Fissure Traps: 12 3x Ritual Beast Steeds 3x Ritual Beast Ambush 2x Fiendish Chain 1x Solemn Warning 1x Vanity’s Emptiness 1x Torrential Tribute 1x Macro Cosmos Side Deck: 15 2x Trap Stun 1x Wiretap 2x Mind Crush 3x Stygian Dirge 3x Mystical Space Typhoon 3x Artifact Lancea 1x Soul Drain Extra Deck: 15 3x Ritual Beast-Ulti Cannahawk 3x Ritual Beast-Ulti Apelio 2x Ritual Beast-Ulti Pettlephin 2x Ritual Beast-Ulti Gaiapelio 1x Castel, the Skyblaster Musketeer 1x Evilswarm Exciton Knight 1x Gagaga Cowboy 1x Number 101: Silent Honor Ark 1x Leviair the Sea Dragon

4th Place – Kevin Iwuagwu – Igknights Monsters: 18 3x Igknight Paladin 3x Igknight Gallant 3x Igknight Margrave 3x Igknight Crusader 3x Igknight Templar 3x Royal Magical Library Spells: 15 3x Reinforcement of the Army 3x Summoner’s Art 3x Upstart Goblin 3x Into the Void 3x Chicken Game Traps: 7 3x Tyrant’s Throes 3x Tyrant’s Tirade 1x Vanity’s Emptiness Side Deck: 15 3x Denko Sekka 2x Wavering Eyes 1x Archfiend Eccentrick 2x Heat Wave 1x Raigeki 2x Droll and Lock Bird 2x Ice Hand 2x Fire Hand Extra Deck: 1x Photon Strike Bounzer 1x Gaia Dragon, the Thunder Charger 1x Shark Fortress 1x Stellarknight Constellar Diamond 1x Artifact Durendal 1x No. 61: Volcasaurus 1x Castel, the Skyblaster Musketeer 1x Daigusto Emeral 1x Gagaga Cowboy 1x Tellarknight Ptolemaeus 1x Heroic Challenger – Gandiva 1x Heroic Champion – Excalibur 1x Evilswarm Exciton Knight 1x Cairngorgon, Antiluminescent Knight 1x Abyss Dweller