2009 Grand Prix Chicago: Top 8 Decks : Daily MTG : Magic: The Gathering

Brian Kowal

GP Chicago 2009 Top 8

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Main Deck

60 cards

4 Bayou
4 Bloodstained Mire
1 Plains
4 Scrubland
1 Swamp
4 Wasteland
4 Windswept Heath

22 lands

4 Dark Confidant
4 Mesmeric Fiend
4 Tarmogoyf
3 Tombstalker

15 creatures

4 Dark Ritual
4 Hymn to Tourach
3 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Thoughtseize
4 Vindicate

23 other spells

Sideboard

4 Duress
4 Engineered Plague
3 Extirpate
4 Pernicious Deed

15 sideboard cards

Paul Rietzl

GP Chicago 2009 Top 8

Main Deck

60 cards

4 Bayou
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Polluted Delta
6 Swamp
4 Wasteland

22 lands

2 Dark Confidant
4 Hypnotic Specter
4 Nantuko Shade
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Tombstalker

16 creatures

4 Dark Ritual
1 Diabolic Edict
2 Duress
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Sinkhole
2 Snuff Out
4 Thoughtseize
1 Umezawa's Jitte

22 other spells

Sideboard

1 Choke
1 Diabolic Edict
1 Dodecapod
4 Engineered Plague
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Pithing Needle
3 Seal of Primordium

15 sideboard cards

Gabriel Nassif

GP Chicago 2009 Top 8

Main Deck

60 cards

4 Flooded Strand
2 Island
4 Polluted Delta
3 Tropical Island
3 Tundra
4 Underground Sea

20 lands

4 Dark Confidant
2 Sower of Temptation
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Trygon Predator

12 creatures

4 Brainstorm
4 Counterbalance
3 Daze
4 Force of Will
1 Krosan Grip
2 Ponder
4 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Vedalken Shackles

28 other spells

Sideboard

1 Blue Elemental Blast
1 Burrenton Forge-Tender
1 Darkblast
1 Energy Flux
1 Engineered Plague
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Hydroblast
1 Kataki, War's Wage
1 Krosan Grip
1 Perish
1 Planar Void
1 Relic of Progenitus
1 Threads of Disloyalty
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Umezawa's Jitte

15 sideboard cards

David Caplan

GP Chicago 2009 Top 8

Main Deck

60 cards

3 Flooded Strand
3 Polluted Delta
4 Tropical Island
4 Volcanic Island
4 Wasteland

18 lands

4 Nimble Mongoose
4 Tarmogoyf

8 creatures

4 Brainstorm
4 Daze
4 Fire // Ice
4 Force of Will
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Ponder
1 Rushing River
4 Spell Snare
4 Stifle
1 Wipe Away

34 other spells

Sideboard

4 Disrupt
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Krosan Grip
2 Pyroblast
1 Pyroclasm
2 Red Elemental Blast
4 Submerge

15 sideboard cards

Tommy Kolowith

GP Chicago 2009 Top 8

Main Deck

60 cards

1 Badlands
3 Bloodstained Mire
4 Gemstone Mine
3 Polluted Delta
2 Underground Sea
1 Volcanic Island

14 lands

0 creatures

2 Ad Nauseam
4 Brainstorm
4 Burning Wish
2 Cabal Ritual
3 Chrome Mox
4 Dark Ritual
4 Duress
1 Ill-Gotten Gains
3 Infernal Tutor
4 Lion's Eye Diamond
4 Lotus Petal
3 Mystical Tutor
1 Orim's Chant
2 Ponder
4 Rite of Flame
1 Tendrils of Agony

46 other spells

Sideboard

1 Empty the Warrens
1 Ill-Gotten Gains
1 Infernal Tutor
2 Meltdown
1 Orim's Chant
2 Pyroclasm
1 Rushing River
1 Telemin Performance
1 Tendrils of Agony
1 Thoughtseize
3 Vexing Shusher

15 sideboard cards

Andy Probasco

GP Chicago 2009 Top 8

Main Deck

60 cards

2 Academy Ruins
4 Flooded Strand
6 Island
4 Polluted Delta
3 Tropical Island
1 Underground Sea
2 Volcanic Island

22 lands

3 Sower of Temptation
4 Tarmogoyf
3 Trinket Mage

10 creatures

4 Brainstorm
4 Counterbalance
1 Engineered Explosives
4 Force of Will
2 Krosan Grip
1 Pithing Needle
3 Ponder
4 Sensei's Divining Top
3 Spell Snare
2 Vedalken Shackles

28 other spells

Sideboard

2 Ancient Grudge
3 Duress
3 Firespout
2 Hydroblast
1 Krosan Grip
1 Pithing Needle
1 Relic of Progenitus
2 Tormod's Crypt

15 sideboard cards

Brian Six

GP Chicago 2009 Top 8

Main Deck

60 cards

4 Bloodstained Mire
3 Mountain
2 Plateau
3 Taiga
3 Wasteland
3 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills

22 lands

3 Grim Lavamancer
4 Kird Ape
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Wild Nacatl

15 creatures

4 Chain Lightning
3 Fireblast
4 Lightning Bolt
1 Lightning Helix
4 Magma Jet
4 Price of Progress
3 Rift Bolt

23 other spells

Sideboard

3 Ethersworn Canonist
3 Krosan Grip
2 Pyroblast
4 Pyroclasm
3 Vexing Shusher

15 sideboard cards

James Mink

GP Chicago 2009 Top 8

Main Deck

60 cards

4 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Traitors
11 Mountain

19 lands

4 Arc-Slogger
4 Gathan Raiders
4 Magus of the Moon
4 Rakdos Pit Dragon
4 Simian Spirit Guide
3 Taurean Mauler

23 creatures

2 Blood Moon
4 Chalice of the Void
4 Chrome Mox
4 Seething Song
4 Trinisphere

18 other spells

Sideboard

1 Blood Moon
4 Boil
1 Pithing Needle
3 Powder Keg
4 Pyroclasm
2 Umezawa's Jitte

15 sideboard cards

2009 Grand Prix Chicago: Top 8 Decks

Saturday, March 07, 2009