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Patrick Chapin - Split Level Blue

Grand Prix Philadelphia 2008 - Day 1 record: 9-0

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Main Deck

60 cards

1 Breeding Pool
2 Flooded Strand
1 Forest
1 Godless Shrine
1 Hallowed Fountain
4 Island
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Plains
4 Polluted Delta
1 Swamp
1 Watery Grave
3 Windswept Heath

21 lands

4 Dark Confidant
2 Gaddock Teeg
3 Sower of Temptation
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Vendilion Clique

15 creatures

4 Chrome Mox
3 Counterbalance
4 Counterspell
4 Sensei's Divining Top
3 Spell Snare
2 Threads of Disloyalty
4 Vindicate

24 other spells

Sideboard

2 Circle of Protection: Red
1 Counterbalance
3 Extirpate
1 Gaddock Teeg
2 Krosan Grip
4 Loxodon Hierarch
2 Threads of Disloyalty

15 sideboard cards

Paul Matthews - Paul Matthews

Grand Prix Philadelphia 2008 - Day 1 record: 9-0

Main Deck

60 cards

3 Gemstone Mine
3 Geothermal Crevice
2 Irrigation Ditch
4 Sulfur Vent
4 Tinder Farm

16 lands

0 creatures

4 Burning Wish
4 Cabal Ritual
3 Channel the Suns
4 Chromatic Sphere
4 Chromatic Star
2 Chrome Mox
4 Lotus Bloom
3 Mind's Desire
3 Peer Through Depths
3 Plunge into Darkness
4 Rite of Flame
4 Seething Song
2 Tendrils of Agony

44 other spells

Sideboard

1 Channel the Suns
1 Deathmark
1 Empty the Warrens
1 Hull Breach
1 Mind's Desire
3 Pact of Negation
3 Slaughter Pact
1 Tendrils of Agony
3 Thoughtseize

15 sideboard cards

Dan O’Mahoney-Schwartz - Domain Zoo

Grand Prix Philadelphia 2008 - Day 1 record: 9-0

Main Deck

60 cards

1 Blood Crypt
4 Bloodstained Mire
1 Godless Shrine
1 Mountain
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Steam Vents
1 Stomping Ground
1 Temple Garden
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills

20 lands

4 Dark Confidant
3 Gaddock Teeg
4 Grim Lavamancer
3 Isamaru, Hound of Konda
4 Kird Ape
4 Mogg Fanatic
4 Tarmogoyf

26 creatures

2 Gaea's Might
4 Lightning Helix
4 Tribal Flames
4 Vindicate

14 other spells

Sideboard

3 Ancient Grudge
2 Kami of Ancient Law
1 Ronom Unicorn
3 Terminate
4 Tormod's Crypt
2 Umezawa's Jitte

15 sideboard cards

Adam Yurchick - UW Tron

Grand Prix Philadelphia 2008 - Day 1 record: 8-0-1

Main Deck

60 cards

1 Academy Ruins
4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Skycloud Expanse
4 Tolaria West
4 Urza's Mine
4 Urza's Power Plant
4 Urza's Tower

25 lands

2 Sundering Titan

2 creatures

4 Azorius Signet
2 Chrome Mox
4 Condescend
2 Decree of Justice
1 Engineered Explosives
3 Fact or Fiction
2 Mindslaver
3 Oblivion Ring
4 Remand
4 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Tormod's Crypt
3 Wrath of God

33 other spells

Sideboard

2 Exalted Angel
4 Meddling Mage
3 Sphere of Law
3 Threads of Disloyalty
3 Tormod's Crypt

15 sideboard cards

Brett Blackman - Doran

Grand Prix Philadelphia 2008 - Day 1 record: 8-1

Main Deck

60 cards

2 Bloodstained Mire
1 Forest
1 Godless Shrine
1 Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Plains
1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
2 Swamp
2 Temple Garden
4 Treetop Village
4 Windswept Heath

21 lands

4 Birds of Paradise
4 Dark Confidant
4 Doran, the Siege Tower
3 Eternal Witness
3 Loxodon Hierarch
4 Tarmogoyf

22 creatures

4 Cabal Therapy
2 Chrome Mox
1 Pernicious Deed
2 Profane Command
2 Thoughtseize
2 Umezawa's Jitte
4 Vindicate

17 other spells

Sideboard

3 Extirpate
3 Gaddock Teeg
2 Indrik Stomphowler
1 Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
2 Mystic Enforcer
1 Pernicious Deed
3 Smother

15 sideboard cards

Steven Sadin - Split Level Blue

Grand Prix Philadelphia 2008 - Day 1 record: 8-1

Main Deck

60 cards

1 Breeding Pool
2 Flooded Strand
1 Forest
1 Godless Shrine
1 Hallowed Fountain
4 Island
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Plains
4 Polluted Delta
1 Swamp
1 Watery Grave
3 Windswept Heath

21 lands

4 Dark Confidant
2 Gaddock Teeg
3 Sower of Temptation
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Vendilion Clique

15 creatures

4 Chrome Mox
3 Counterbalance
4 Counterspell
4 Sensei's Divining Top
3 Spell Snare
2 Threads of Disloyalty
4 Vindicate

24 other spells

Sideboard

2 Circle of Protection: Red
1 Counterbalance
3 Extirpate
1 Gaddock Teeg
3 Krosan Grip
3 Loxodon Hierarch
2 Threads of Disloyalty

15 sideboard cards

Matt Hansen - Tallowisp

Grand Prix Philadelphia 2008 - Day 1 record: 8-1

Main Deck

60 cards

2 Forest
1 Plains
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Stomping Ground
2 Sungrass Prairie
2 Temple Garden
4 Treetop Village
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills

21 lands

3 Chameleon Colossus
4 Gaddock Teeg
1 Intrepid Hero
4 Kami of Ancient Law
3 Phantom Centaur
4 Tallowisp
3 Tarmogoyf
4 Troll Ascetic

26 creatures

4 Armadillo Cloak
3 Chrome Mox
2 Eladamri's Call
1 Griffin Guide
2 Orim's Chant
1 Temporal Isolation

13 other spells

Sideboard

2 Ancient Grudge
4 Choke
4 Dwarven Blastminer
1 Thornscape Battlemage
4 Tormod's Crypt

15 sideboard cards

Jonathan Sonne - Death Cloud

Grand Prix Philadelphia 2008 - Day 1 record: 8-1

Main Deck

60 cards

1 Bloodstained Mire
4 Forest
3 Overgrown Tomb
4 Polluted Delta
5 Swamp
3 Treetop Village
3 Windswept Heath

23 lands

2 Eternal Witness
4 Ravenous Baloth
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
4 Tarmogoyf

14 creatures

2 Damnation
3 Death Cloud
4 Garruk Wildspeaker
4 Pernicious Deed
2 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Smother
4 Thoughtseize

23 other spells

Sideboard

4 Duress
1 Eternal Witness
3 Extirpate
3 Indrik Stomphowler
4 Leyline of the Void

15 sideboard cards

Jarvis Yu - Goblins

Grand Prix Philadelphia 2008 - Day 1 record: 8-1

Main Deck

61 cards

4 Auntie's Hovel
1 Blood Crypt
3 Bloodstained Mire
2 Ghost Quarter
5 Mountain
1 Pendelhaven
1 Stomping Ground
3 Wooded Foothills

20 lands

4 Gempalm Incinerator
1 Goblin King
4 Goblin Matron
4 Goblin Piledriver
1 Goblin Pyromancer
4 Goblin Ringleader
1 Goblin Sharpshooter
4 Goblin Warchief
4 Mogg Fanatic
4 Mogg War Marshal
4 Skirk Prospector
1 Sparksmith
1 Tin Street Hooligan

37 creatures

4 Chrome Mox

4 other spells

Sideboard

3 Cabal Therapy
2 Dralnu's Crusade
3 Earwig Squad
4 Extirpate
3 Krosan Grip

15 sideboard cards

Guillaume Cardin - Balancing Act

Grand Prix Philadelphia 2008 - Day 1 record: 8-1

Main Deck

60 cards

4 Ancient Spring
4 Archaeological Dig
4 Geothermal Crevice
4 Irrigation Ditch
3 Sulfur Vent
4 Tinder Farm
1 Vesuva

24 lands

1 Draco
2 Nihilith
1 Simian Spirit Guide
2 Terravore

6 creatures

4 Balancing Act
3 Chromatic Star
1 Erratic Explosion
4 Fire // Ice
4 Insidious Dreams
4 Lotus Bloom
2 Obliterate
2 Orim's Chant
1 Quicken
1 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Terrarion

30 other spells

Sideboard

1 Extirpate
3 Krosan Grip
3 Moment's Peace
1 Obliterate
2 Orim's Chant
1 Shock
1 Sulfur Vent
3 Tormod's Crypt

15 sideboard cards

Zack Hall - UW Tron

Grand Prix Philadelphia 2008 - Day 1 record: 8-1

Main Deck

57 cards

1 Academy Ruins
3 Hallowed Fountain
4 Skycloud Expanse
1 Snow-Covered Island
4 Tolaria West
4 Urza's Mine
4 Urza's Power Plant
4 Urza's Tower

25 lands

2 Sundering Titan

2 creatures

4 Azorius Signet
2 Chrome Mox
4 Condescend
2 Decree of Justice
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Mindslaver
3 Oblivion Ring
4 Remand
4 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Tormod's Crypt
3 Wrath of God

30 other spells

Sideboard

1 Academy Ruins
4 Meddling Mage
2 Negate
3 Sphere of Law
3 Threads of Disloyalty
2 Tormod's Crypt

15 sideboard cards

Stephen Nagy - Domain Zoo

Grand Prix Philadelphia 2008 - Day 1 record: 8-1

Main Deck

60 cards

1 Blood Crypt
4 Bloodstained Mire
1 Godless Shrine
1 Mountain
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Steam Vents
1 Stomping Ground
1 Temple Garden
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills

20 lands

4 Dark Confidant
2 Gaddock Teeg
4 Grim Lavamancer
3 Isamaru, Hound of Konda
4 Kird Ape
4 Mogg Fanatic
4 Tarmogoyf

25 creatures

3 Gaea's Might
4 Lightning Helix
4 Tribal Flames
4 Vindicate

15 other spells

Sideboard

3 Ancient Grudge
3 Engineered Plague
3 Extirpate
1 Gaddock Teeg
2 Kami of Ancient Law
3 Terminate

15 sideboard cards

Ben Rasmussen - Rock

Grand Prix Philadelphia 2008 - Day 1 record: 8-1

Main Deck

60 cards

3 Bloodstained Mire
4 Forest
1 Godless Shrine
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Plains
1 Polluted Delta
3 Swamp
1 Temple Garden
3 Treetop Village
4 Windswept Heath

23 lands

2 Eternal Witness
3 Loxodon Hierarch
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
3 Tarmogoyf

12 creatures

3 Duress
2 Extirpate
4 Living Wish
4 Pernicious Deed
1 Profane Command
2 Putrefy
3 Sensei's Divining Top
2 Thoughtseize
4 Vindicate

25 other spells

Sideboard

1 Chameleon Colossus
2 Damnation
1 Eternal Witness
2 Extirpate
1 Gaddock Teeg
1 Genesis
1 Harmonic Sliver
1 Kataki, War's Wage
1 Loxodon Hierarch
1 Orzhov Basilica
1 Shriekmaw
1 Tarmogoyf
1 Yixlid Jailer

15 sideboard cards

Alex Nezin - TEPS

Grand Prix Philadelphia 2008 - Day 1 record: 8-1

Main Deck

60 cards

3 Gemstone Mine
3 Geothermal Crevice
2 Irrigation Ditch
4 Sulfur Vent
4 Tinder Farm

16 lands

0 creatures

4 Burning Wish
4 Cabal Ritual
2 Channel the Suns
4 Chromatic Star
2 Chrome Mox
4 Darkwater Egg
3 Desperate Ritual
2 Infernal Tutor
4 Lotus Bloom
3 Mind's Desire
3 Plunge into Darkness
4 Rite of Flame
4 Seething Song
1 Tendrils of Agony

44 other spells

Sideboard

1 Channel the Suns
2 Ignorant Bliss
1 Mind's Desire
3 Orim's Chant
3 Pact of Negation
1 Pyroclasm
3 Slaughter Pact
1 Tendrils of Agony

15 sideboard cards

Ben Moir - Ideal

Grand Prix Philadelphia 2008 - Day 1 record: 8-1

Main Deck

60 cards

3 Ancient Spring
1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
1 City of Brass
2 Godless Shrine
1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
1 Plains
3 Sacred Foundry
3 Sulfur Vent
4 Tinder Farm
4 Windswept Heath

23 lands

0 creatures

4 Burning Wish
2 Dovescape
3 Enduring Ideal
3 Form of the Dragon
1 Honden of Seeing Winds
4 Lotus Bloom
4 Orim's Chant
4 Pentad Prism
1 Pernicious Deed
4 Seething Song
4 Sensei's Divining Top
3 Solitary Confinement

37 other spells

Sideboard

1 Cranial Extraction
1 Enduring Ideal
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Morningtide
1 Pyroclasm
1 Shatterstorm
3 Sphere of Law
2 Tormod's Crypt
1 Vindicate

15 sideboard cards

Bruce Brewington - Burn

Grand Prix Philadelphia 2008 - Day 1 record: 8-1

Main Deck

60 cards

4 Barbarian Ring
3 Blinkmoth Nexus
2 Darksteel Citadel
4 Great Furnace
9 Mountain

22 lands

4 Keldon Marauders
4 Mogg Fanatic
4 Spark Elemental

12 creatures

2 Flames of the Blood Hand
4 Incinerate
4 Lava Spike
4 Magma Jet
4 Rift Bolt
4 Shard Volley
4 Shrapnel Blast

26 other spells

Sideboard

3 Dragon's Claw
3 Ensnaring Bridge
3 Pyrostatic Pillar
2 Sulfuric Vortex
4 Tormod's Crypt

15 sideboard cards

Todd Davis - Domain Zoo

Grand Prix Philadelphia 2008 - Day 1 record: 8-1

Main Deck

59 cards

1 Blood Crypt
4 Bloodstained Mire
1 Godless Shrine
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Steam Vents
1 Stomping Ground
1 Temple Garden
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills

19 lands

4 Dark Confidant
3 Grim Lavamancer
3 Isamaru, Hound of Konda
4 Kird Ape
4 Mogg Fanatic
4 Tarmogoyf

22 creatures

3 Gaea's Might
4 Lightning Helix
3 Molten Rain
4 Tribal Flames
4 Vindicate

18 other spells

Sideboard

3 Armadillo Cloak
4 Gaddock Teeg
2 Kataki, War's Wage
2 Tin Street Hooligan
4 Tormod's Crypt

15 sideboard cards

Joshua Schneier - Previous Level Blue

Grand Prix Philadelphia 2008 - Day 1 record: 8-1

Main Deck

60 cards

1 Academy Ruins
2 Breeding Pool
4 Flooded Strand
1 Hallowed Fountain
8 Island
1 Miren, the Moaning Well
4 Polluted Delta
1 Steam Vents
1 Watery Grave

23 lands

1 Meloku the Clouded Mirror
4 Spire Golem
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Venser, Shaper Savant

11 creatures

4 Counterspell
2 Cryptic Command
4 Force Spike
3 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Spell Snare
4 Thirst for Knowledge
2 Umezawa's Jitte
3 Vedalken Shackles

26 other spells

Sideboard

2 Ancient Grudge
3 Engineered Plague
3 Extirpate
3 Gaddock Teeg
2 Krosan Grip
2 Loxodon Hierarch

15 sideboard cards

Brandon Nelson - Previous Level Blue

Grand Prix Philadelphia 2008 - Day 1 record: 8-1

Main Deck

60 cards

1 Academy Ruins
1 Breeding Pool
4 Flooded Strand
1 Miren, the Moaning Well
1 Overgrown Tomb
4 Polluted Delta
8 Snow-Covered Island
1 Snow-Covered Swamp
2 Steam Vents
1 Watery Grave

24 lands

4 Tarmogoyf

4 creatures

4 Ancestral Vision
4 Counterspell
4 Cryptic Command
2 Engineered Explosives
3 Force Spike
1 Rude Awakening
3 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Smother
4 Spell Snare
3 Vedalken Shackles

32 other spells

Sideboard

3 Ancient Grudge
4 Dwarven Blastminer
3 Engineered Plague
3 Extirpate
2 Sower of Temptation

15 sideboard cards

Jason Wallace - RDW

Grand Prix Philadelphia 2008 - Day 1 record: 8-1

Main Deck

60 cards

2 Barbarian Ring
3 Bloodstained Mire
1 Forest
7 Mountain
4 Stomping Ground
4 Wooded Foothills

21 lands

3 Blistering Firecat
4 Grim Lavamancer
3 Keldon Marauders
4 Kird Ape
4 Mogg Fanatic
4 Tarmogoyf

22 creatures

4 Incinerate
3 Magma Jet
4 Rift Bolt
3 Seal of Fire
3 Tarfire

17 other spells

Sideboard

3 Krosan Grip
3 Shattering Spree
3 Sulfuric Vortex
3 Tormod's Crypt
3 Umezawa's Jitte

15 sideboard cards

DJ Kastner - Next Level Blue

Grand Prix Philadelphia 2008 - Day 1 record: 8-1

Main Deck

60 cards

1 Academy Ruins
2 Breeding Pool
4 Flooded Strand
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Miren, the Moaning Well
4 Polluted Delta
6 Snow-Covered Island
1 Tree of Tales
1 Watery Grave

21 lands

4 Tarmogoyf
2 Trinket Mage

6 creatures

4 Chrome Mox
4 Counterbalance
4 Counterspell
3 Cryptic Command
1 Engineered Explosives
4 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Spell Snare
3 Thirst for Knowledge
3 Threads of Disloyalty
3 Vedalken Shackles

33 other spells

Sideboard

2 Extirpate
3 Gaddock Teeg
3 Krosan Grip
1 Pithing Needle
2 Sower of Temptation
2 Sphere of Law
1 Threads of Disloyalty
1 Tormod's Crypt

15 sideboard cards

Jaroslav Nachtigall - Next Level Blue

Grand Prix Philadelphia 2008 - Day 1 record: 8-1

Main Deck

60 cards

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

24 lands

4 Tarmogoyf
2 Venser, Shaper Savant

6 creatures

4 Ancestral Vision
2 Counterbalance
4 Counterspell
4 Cryptic Command
3 Force Spike
3 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Spell Snare
3 Threads of Disloyalty
3 Vedalken Shackles

30 other spells

Sideboard

3 Ancient Grudge
4 Meddling Mage
2 Sower of Temptation
2 Sphere of Law
4 Tormod's Crypt

15 sideboard cards

Tyler Mantey - Doran

Grand Prix Philadelphia 2008 - Day 1 record: 8-1

Main Deck

60 cards

2 Bloodstained Mire
2 Forest
1 Godless Shrine
1 Murmuring Bosk
1 Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Plains
1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
1 Swamp
2 Temple Garden
4 Treetop Village
4 Windswept Heath

22 lands

4 Birds of Paradise
4 Dark Confidant
4 Doran, the Siege Tower
2 Eternal Witness
3 Loxodon Hierarch
4 Tarmogoyf

21 creatures

4 Cabal Therapy
1 Chrome Mox
1 Mortify
2 Profane Command
2 Putrefy
2 Thoughtseize
2 Umezawa's Jitte
3 Vindicate

17 other spells

Sideboard

1 Duress
3 Engineered Plague
3 Gaddock Teeg
2 Indrik Stomphowler
3 Offalsnout
3 Pernicious Deed

15 sideboard cards

Ben Wienburg - Domain Zoo

Grand Prix Philadelphia 2008 - Day 1 record: 8-1

Main Deck

60 cards

1 Blood Crypt
4 Bloodstained Mire
1 Godless Shrine
1 Mountain
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Sacred Foundry
1 Steam Vents
1 Stomping Ground
1 Temple Garden
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills

20 lands

4 Dark Confidant
3 Gaddock Teeg
4 Grim Lavamancer
2 Isamaru, Hound of Konda
4 Kird Ape
4 Mogg Fanatic
4 Tarmogoyf

25 creatures

3 Gaea's Might
4 Lightning Helix
4 Tribal Flames
4 Vindicate

15 other spells

Sideboard

3 Ancient Grudge
4 Burrenton Forge-Tender
1 Gaddock Teeg
3 Kami of Ancient Law
4 Terminate

15 sideboard cards

Eddie Gamble - UG Tron

Grand Prix Philadelphia 2008 - Day 1 record: 8-1

Main Deck

60 cards

1 Academy Ruins
3 Breeding Pool
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Island
1 Lonely Sandbar
1 Polluted Delta
1 Snow-Covered Island
2 Tolaria West
4 Urza's Mine
4 Urza's Power Plant
4 Urza's Tower

23 lands

1 Platinum Angel
1 Sundering Titan
2 Triskelion

4 creatures

3 Chrome Mox
4 Condescend
4 Gifts Ungiven
1 Life from the Loam
2 Mindslaver
3 Moment's Peace
4 Remand
3 Repeal
4 Simic Signet
4 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Tormod's Crypt

33 other spells

Sideboard

3 Chalice of the Void
4 Tarmogoyf
3 Threads of Disloyalty
3 Tormod's Crypt
2 Triskelion

15 sideboard cards

Demetri Xenidis - RDW

Grand Prix Philadelphia 2008 - Day 1 record: 8-1

Main Deck

60 cards

3 Barbarian Ring
1 Blood Crypt
4 Bloodstained Mire
1 Forest
5 Mountain
3 Stomping Ground
4 Wooded Foothills

21 lands

4 Blistering Firecat
4 Grim Lavamancer
4 Kird Ape
4 Mogg Fanatic
4 Tarmogoyf

20 creatures

4 Incinerate
2 Lava Dart
4 Molten Rain
1 Pulse of the Forge
4 Rift Bolt
4 Seal of Fire

19 other spells

Sideboard

3 Ancient Grudge
3 Magus of the Moon
3 Seal of Primordium
3 Sulfuric Vortex
3 Terminate

15 sideboard cards