Friday, September 23, 2016

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