Magic: The Gathering Modern Preliminary Pro Tour Qualifier Dublin $1K Top 8 Decklists

Thanks to all who participated in the MTG Modern PPTQ Dublin $1K held Saturday, September 17, 2016, at Dragon's Den in Poughkeepsie, NY. Congratulations to our top 8 finishers, who all won prizes, and to the first place finisher, Paul Mendez, who won $400 and an invite to the Regional PTQ! Here are the winning deck lists of the top eight finishers:

1st - Paul Mendez Affinity Creatures: 27 4 Orinithopter 2 Memnite 4 Signal Pest 4 Vault Skirge 4 Arcbound Ravager 3 Steel Overseer 1 Spellskite 3 Etched Champion 2 Master of Etherium Spells : 16 4 Mox Opal 1 Welding Jar 4 Springleaf Drum 3 Galvanic Blast 4 Cranial Plating Lands: 17 4 Inkmoth Nexus 4 Blinkmoth Nexus 4 Darksteel Citadel 3 Glimmervoid 1 Island 1 Sea Gate Wreckage SIDEBOARD 15 2 Grafdigger’s Cage 2 Thoughtseize 2 Spell Pierce 2 Ghirapur Aether Grid 1 Vandalblast 1 Whipflare 1 Wear//Tear 1 Blood Moon 1 Ancient Grudge 1 Etched Champion 1 Bitterblossom	2nd - Delury Brendan Infect Creatures: 13 4 Blighted Agent 4 Glistener Elf 4 Noble Hierarch 1 Viridian Corrupter Spells: 27 4 Gitaxian Probe 4 Might of Old Krosa 4 Mutagenic Growth 4 Become Immense 4 Vines of Vastwood 2 Apostle’s Blessing 1 Spell Pierce 1 Distortion Strike 1 Dismember 1 Fog 1 Wild Defiance Lands: 20 4 Inkmoth Nexus 4 Wooded Foothills 4 Windswept Heath 2 Pendelhaven 2 Forest 1 Misty Rainforest 3 Breeding Pool SIDEBOARD 15 1 Dryad Arbor 2 Twisted Image 2 Spellskite 2 Spell Pierce 3 Kitchen Finks 2 Nature’s Claim 2 Dismember 1 Grafdigger’s Cage
3rd - Rich Cali Bring to Light Scapeshift Creatures: 6 4 Sakura Tribe Elder 2 Snapcaster Mage Spells: 28 4 Cryptic Command 4 Remand 4 Bring to Light 4 Search for tomorrow 3 Izzet Charm 2 Farseek 2 Scapeshift 2 Worldly Consul 1 Damnation 1 Maelstrom Pulse 1 Hunting Wilds Lands: 26 4 Stomping Grounds 4 Steam Vents 1 Cinder Glade 1 Mountain 3 Misty Rainforest 1 Watery Grave 1 Overgrown Tomb 1 Swamp 2 Forest 3 Island 2 Breeding Pool 2 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle 1 Flooded Grove SIDEBOARD 15 2 Swan Song 2 Anger of the Gods 2 Nature’s Claim 1 Crumble to Dust 1 Shatterstorm 1 Obstinate Baloth 3 Lightning Bolt 2 Engineered Explosives 1 Slaughter Games	4th - David Haass Bant Eldrazi Creatures: 24 4 Noble Hierarch 3 Matter Reshaper 2 Eldrazi Skyspawner 4 Eldrazi Displacer 4 Thought-Knot Seer 4 Reality Smasher 3 Drowner of Hope Spells: 12 4 Path to Exile 4 Ancient Stirrings 2 Dismember 2 Engineered Explosives Lands: 24 4 Cavern of Souls 4 Windswept Heath 4 Eldrazi Temple 3 Yavimaya Coast 3 Brushland 2 Forest 1 Plains 1 Hallowed Fountain 1 Breeding Pool 1 Temple Garden SIDEBOARD 15 3 Stony Silence 2 Grafdigger’s Cage 2 Elspeth, Sun’s Champion 2 Stubborn Denial 2 Blessed Alliance 1 Engineered Explosives 1 Worship 1 Thragtusk 1 Worldbreaker
5th - Jack Ma Infect Creatures: 14 4 Blighted Agent 4 Glistener Elf 4 Noble Hierarch 2 Spellskite Spells: 26 4 Become Immense 1 Dismember 4 Gitaxian Probe 4 Might of old Krosa 4 Mutagenic Growth 1 Spell Pierce 4 Vines of Vastwood 3 Apostles Blessing 1 Rancor Lands: 20 2 Breeding Pool 1 Dryad Arbor 2 Foest 2 Pendelhaven 4 Inkmoth Nexus 1 Misty Rainforest 4 Windswept Heath 4 Wooded Foothills SIDEBOARD 15 1 Dismember 1 Dispel 1 Rancor 2 Spell Pierce 2 Twisted Image 2 Relic of Progenitus 1 Serum Vision 1 Spellskite 1 Ground Swell 1 Viridian Corrupter 1 Hurkyl’s Recall	6th - Michael Derszo RG Ramp Creatures: 17 4 Arbor Elf 1 Birds of Paradise 2 Obstinate Baloth 1 Pia and Kiran Nalaar 1 Thrun, the Last Troll 4 Stormbreath Dragon 4 Inferno Titan Spells: 21 4 Utopia Sprawl 4 Blood Mon 4 Stone Rain 1 Beast Within 4 Mwonvuli Acid-Moss 1 Chandra, Pyromaster 3 Bonefire of the Damned Lands: 22 4 Wooded Foothills 4 Windswept Heath 9 Forest 1 Mouintain 3 Stomping Ground 1 Kessig Wolf Run SIDEBOARD 15 2 Spellskite 3 Sudden Shock 2 Ancient Grudge 2 Shatterstorm 2 Scavenging Ooze 4 Kitchen Finks
7th - Brian Montero GR Tron Creatures: 7 1 Spellskite 2 Wurmcoil Engine 2 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger 2 World Breaker Spells: 33 4 Ancient Stirring 4 Sylvan Scrying 4 Chromatic Sphere 4 Chromatic Star 4 Expedition Map 4 Oblivion Stone 3 Pyroclasam 4 Karn Liberated 2 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon Lands: 20 4 Grove of the Burnwillow 2 Forest 2 Sanctum of Ugin 4 Urza’s Tower 4 Urza’s Power Plant 4 Urza’s Mine SIDEBOARD 15 1 Platinum Angel 1 Warping Wail 2 Relic of Progenitus 2 Sudden Shock 2 Thragtusk 4 Nature’s Claim 1 Ghost Quarter 2 Spellskite	8th - Anthony Ennis Naya Burn Creatures: 14 4 Goblin Guide 4 Eidolon of the Great Revel 4 Monastery Swiftspear 2 Grim Lavamancer Spells: 26 4 Boros Charm 4 Atarka’s Command 4 Rift Bolt 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Lava Spike 3 Searing Blaze 2 Skullcrack 1 Shard Volley Lands: 20 3 Mountain 2 Sacred Foundry 2 Stomping Ground 3 Copperline Gorge 3 Bloodstained Mire 3 Wooded Foothills 4 Arid Mesa SIDEBOARD 15 3 Kor Firewalker 4 Path to Exile 4 Destructive Revelry 2 Smash to Smitherines 2 Deflecting Palm