Grand-Prix Los Angeles: Top 8 Decklists


Saturday, October 18, 2008
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Michael Jacob
2009 Grand Prix Los Angeles - Top 8
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Main Deck

60 cards

4  Barren Moor
2  Bloodstained Mire
2  Forest
2  Ghost Quarter
1  Golgari Rot Farm
1  Mutavault
2  Overgrown Tomb
2  Polluted Delta
3  Swamp
2  Tranquil Thicket
2  Twilight Mire
3  Windswept Heath
26 lands


4  Kitchen Finks
4  Tarmogoyf
8 creatures		 3  Bitterblossom
4  Darkblast
4  Life from the Loam
3  Putrefy
3  Raven's Crime
2  Slaughter Pact
3  Thoughtseize
3  Umezawa's Jitte
1  Worm Harvest
26 other spells

Sideboard
3  Choke
3  Damnation
1  Engineered Explosives
3  Extirpate
1  Pithing Needle
2  Ravenous Baloth
2  Seal of Primordium
15 sideboard cards


Brett Piazza
2009 Grand Prix Los Angeles - Top 8
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Main Deck

60 cards

2  Blinkmoth Nexus
4  Great Furnace
4  Seat of the Synod
4  Tree of Tales
4  Vault of Whispers
18 lands


4  Arcbound Ravager
4  Arcbound Worker
2  Atog
4  Frogmite
4  Master of Etherium
3  Myr Enforcer
4  Ornithopter
25 creatures		 4  Chromatic Star
4  Cranial Plating
2  Fatal Frenzy
4  Springleaf Drum
3  Thoughtcast
17 other spells

Sideboard
1  Ancient Grudge
4  Krark-Clan Shaman
3  Relic of Progenitus
3  Terror
4  Thoughtseize
15 sideboard cards


Mark Herberholz
2009 Grand Prix Los Angeles - Top 8
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Main Deck

60 cards

1  Breeding Pool
1  Hallowed Fountain
8  Island
1  Izzet Boilerworks
4  Mutavault
4  Riptide Laboratory
1  River of Tears
2  Seat of the Synod
1  Steam Vents
23 lands


2  Glen Elendra Archmage
4  Spellstutter Sprite
2  Trinket Mage
3  Vendilion Clique
2  Venser, Shaper Savant
13 creatures		 3  Chrome Mox
2  Engineered Explosives
4  Mana Leak
1  Repeal
4  Spell Snare
4  Thirst for Knowledge
1  Threads of Disloyalty
3  Umezawa's Jitte
2  Vedalken Shackles
24 other spells

Sideboard
1  Academy Ruins
1  Aether Spellbomb
1  Annul
2  Flashfreeze
1  Glen Elendra Archmage
2  Negate
2  Sower of Temptation
1  Sword of Fire and Ice
2  Threads of Disloyalty
1  Tormod's Crypt
1  Vedalken Shackles
15 sideboard cards


Saul Alvarado
2009 Grand Prix Los Angeles - Top 8
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Main Deck

60 cards

1  Academy Ruins
3  Breeding Pool
2  Flooded Grove
4  Flooded Strand
1  Hallowed Fountain
1  Miren, the Moaning Well
4  Polluted Delta
7  Snow-Covered Island
1  Steam Vents
24 lands


4  Tarmogoyf
4  Vendilion Clique
8 creatures		 4  Ancestral Vision
4  Cryptic Command
3  Engineered Explosives
1  Firespout
4  Mana Leak
2  Repeal
1  Rude Awakening
4  Spell Snare
2  Umezawa's Jitte
3  Vedalken Shackles
28 other spells

Sideboard
1  Academy Ruins
3  Ancient Grudge
3  Arashi, the Sky Asunder
3  Echoing Truth
1  Firespout
4  Kitchen Finks
15 sideboard cards


Asher Hecht
2009 Grand Prix Los Angeles - Top 8
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Main Deck

60 cards

1  Bloodstained Mire
3  Cascade Bluffs
3  Dreadship Reef
2  Flooded Strand
2  Island
1  Mountain
1  Polluted Delta
4  Steam Vents
1  Wooded Foothills
18 lands


0 creatures		 4  Desperate Ritual
1  Gigadrowse
3  Grapeshot
4  Lotus Bloom
4  Manamorphose
4  Mind's Desire
4  Peer Through Depths
4  Ponder
2  Pyromancer's Swath
4  Remand
4  Rite of Flame
4  Seething Song
42 other spells

Sideboard
2  Brain Freeze
2  Chain of Vapor
2  Echoing Truth
3  Gigadrowse
1  Pact of Negation
3  Relic of Progenitus
2  Trickbind
15 sideboard cards


Luis Scott-Vargas
2009 Grand Prix Los Angeles - Top 8
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Main Deck

60 cards

3  Cascade Bluffs
4  Dreadship Reef
3  Flooded Strand
2  Island
3  Polluted Delta
3  Steam Vents
18 lands


0 creatures		 4  Desperate Ritual
2  Electrolyze
4  Lotus Bloom
4  Manamorphose
4  Mind's Desire
4  Peer Through Depths
4  Ponder
4  Remand
4  Rite of Flame
4  Seething Song
2  Sleight of Hand
2  Tendrils of Agony
42 other spells

Sideboard
2  Ad Nauseam
3  Brain Freeze
3  Echoing Truth
2  Gigadrowse
3  Pact of Negation
2  Shattering Spree
15 sideboard cards


Carl Hendrix
2009 Grand Prix Los Angeles - Top 8
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Main Deck

60 cards

4  Ancient Den
2  Blinkmoth Nexus
4  Great Furnace
4  Seat of the Synod
4  Vault of Whispers
18 lands


4  Arcbound Ravager
4  Arcbound Worker
4  Frogmite
3  Master of Etherium
4  Myr Enforcer
4  Ornithopter
23 creatures		 4  Chromatic Star
4  Cranial Plating
2  Fatal Frenzy
1  Soul's Fire
4  Springleaf Drum
4  Thoughtcast
19 other spells

Sideboard
4  Darkblast
4  Delay
3  Ethersworn Canonist
4  Thoughtseize
15 sideboard cards


Mat Marr
2009 Grand Prix Los Angeles - Top 8
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Main Deck

60 cards

1  Academy Ruins
1  Breeding Pool
3  Flooded Strand
4  Mutavault
4  Polluted Delta
3  Riptide Laboratory
6  Snow-Covered Island
2  Steam Vents
24 lands


3  Glen Elendra Archmage
4  Spellstutter Sprite
3  Vendilion Clique
2  Venser, Shaper Savant
12 creatures		 4  Ancestral Vision
1  Chrome Mox
3  Engineered Explosives
1  Firespout
4  Rune Snag
4  Spell Snare
1  Thirst for Knowledge
3  Umezawa's Jitte
3  Vedalken Shackles
24 other spells

Sideboard
3  Ancient Grudge
2  Firespout
1  Flashfreeze
2  Goblin Sharpshooter
1  Negate
3  Relic of Progenitus
3  Stifle
15 sideboard cards