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City Champs 2008: Top 8 Decklists

Thanks to tournament organizer Craving for a Game for the decklists.

Adrian Chan

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Main Deck

60 cards

3 Faerie Conclave
3 Island
4 Mutavault
1 Pendelhaven
4 River of Tears
4 Secluded Glen
1 Swamp
4 Underground River

24 lands

3 Mistbind Clique
4 Pestermite
4 Scion of Oona
4 Spellstutter Sprite
2 Vendilion Clique

17 creatures

4 Bitterblossom
3 Cryptic Command
4 Nameless Inversion
4 Rune Snag
4 Thoughtseize

19 other spells

Sideboard

4 Damnation
4 Flashfreeze
3 Sower of Temptation
4 Terror

15 sideboard cards

Ryan Zowalsky

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Main Deck

60 cards

3 Mouth of Ronom
1 Scrying Sheets
4 Snow-Covered Forest
8 Snow-Covered Island
3 Treetop Village
4 Yavimaya Coast

23 lands

1 Aeon Chronicler
2 Chameleon Colossus
1 Cloudthresher
2 Mulldrifter
4 Mystic Snake
1 Sower of Temptation
2 Venser, Shaper Savant
4 Wall of Roots

17 creatures

4 Ancestral Vision
4 Cryptic Command
4 Into the North
4 Primal Command
4 Rune Snag

20 other spells

Sideboard

2 Cloudthresher
2 Evacuation
2 Hail Storm
2 Krosan Grip
2 Loxodon Warhammer
2 Sower of Temptation
3 Trickbind

15 sideboard cards

Daniel Myers

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Main Deck

60 cards

4 Adarkar Wastes
3 Faerie Conclave
6 Island
4 Nimbus Maze
7 Plains

24 lands

3 Aven Riftwatcher
2 Body Double
2 Mirror Entity
4 Mulldrifter
4 Reveillark
4 Riftwing Cloudskate
3 Sower of Temptation
1 Venser, Shaper Savant

23 creatures

4 Mind Stone
2 Momentary Blink
4 Rune Snag
3 Wrath of God

13 other spells

Sideboard

1 Aven Riftwatcher
2 Crovax, Ascendant Hero
3 Flashfreeze
3 Martyr of Sands
2 Pact of Negation
3 Wispmare
1 Wrath of God

15 sideboard cards

Niko Skartvedt

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Main Deck

60 cards

2 Adarkar Wastes
12 Island
4 Mutavault
1 Plains
4 Wanderwine Hub

23 lands

4 Lord of Atlantis
4 Merrow Reejerey
4 Silvergill Adept
1 Sygg, River Guide
3 Tideshaper Mystic
3 Venser, Shaper Savant
1 Voidmage Prodigy

20 creatures

2 Cryptic Command
4 Oblivion Ring
3 Ponder
4 Psionic Blast
4 Rune Snag

17 other spells

Sideboard

4 Flashfreeze
3 Pithing Needle
3 Teferi's Moat
3 Trickbind
2 Wrath of God

15 sideboard cards

Andy Chen

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Main Deck

60 cards

2 Caves of Koilos
2 Forbidding Watchtower
2 Forest
3 Gilt-Leaf Palace
2 Horizon Canopy
3 Llanowar Wastes
3 Murmuring Bosk
4 Treetop Village
2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

23 lands

4 Birds of Paradise
2 Chameleon Colossus
4 Doran, the Siege Tower
3 Llanowar Elves
3 Ohran Viper
2 Reveillark

18 creatures

2 Creeping Mold
3 Garruk Wildspeaker
1 Liliana Vess
3 Nameless Inversion
2 Profane Command
3 Rain of Tears
2 Slaughter Pact
3 Thoughtseize

19 other spells

Sideboard

2 Cloudthresher
3 Damnation
3 Extirpate
2 Hypnotic Specter
2 Magus of the Tabernacle
2 Patrician's Scorn
1 Reveillark

15 sideboard cards

Markus Thibeau

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Main Deck

60 cards

4 Fungal Reaches
4 Molten Slagheap
8 Mountain
4 Spinerock Knoll

20 lands

0 creatures

4 Empty the Warrens
4 Grapeshot
4 Ignite Memories
4 Incinerate
4 Lotus Bloom
4 Pyromancer's Swath
4 Rift Bolt
4 Rite of Flame
4 Shard Volley
4 Shock

40 other spells

Sideboard

1 Akroma, Angel of Fury
2 Dodecapod
4 Martyr of Ashes
4 Pyroclasm
2 Sulfurous Blast
2 Wheel of Fate

15 sideboard cards

David Chong

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Main Deck

60 cards

2 Faerie Conclave
4 Forest
11 Island
3 Treetop Village
4 Yavimaya Coast

24 lands

4 Mystic Snake
4 Riftwing Cloudskate
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Vendilion Clique
2 Venser, Shaper Savant

18 creatures

4 Ancestral Vision
4 Cryptic Command
2 Ponder
4 Remove Soul
4 Rune Snag

18 other spells

Sideboard

4 Flashfreeze
3 Hurricane
2 Loxodon Warhammer
3 Pithing Needle
3 Sower of Temptation

15 sideboard cards

Iain Cassels

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Main Deck

60 cards

4 Desert
2 Faerie Conclave
3 Island
4 River of Tears
1 Snow-Covered Swamp
5 Swamp
4 Underground River

23 lands

4 Haakon, Stromgald Scourge
4 Merfolk Looter
4 Mulldrifter
4 Oona's Prowler
4 Shadowmage Infiltrator
2 Shriekmaw
2 Sower of Temptation
2 Venser, Shaper Savant

26 creatures

4 Makeshift Mannequin
4 Nameless Inversion
3 Profane Command

11 other spells

Sideboard

4 Damnation
3 Extirpate
2 Sower of Temptation
2 Take Possession
4 Thoughtseize

15 sideboard cards

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