Pro Tour–Hollywood Qualifying Season: Top 8 Decklists : Event Coverage : Daily MTG : Magic: The Gathering

Mehran Latif

1st Place - Illinois - Chicago - 2/23

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Main Deck

62 cards

1 Academy Ruins
4 Flooded Strand
13 Island
1 Riptide Laboratory
1 Seat of the Synod
1 Steam Vents
1 Tolaria West
1 Urza's Factory
1 Watery Grave

24 lands

1 Meloku the Clouded Mirror
2 Sower of Temptation
2 Spire Golem
3 Trinket Mage
4 Venser, Shaper Savant

12 creatures

4 Counterspell
2 Cryptic Command
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Pithing Needle
1 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Spell Snare
4 Stifle
4 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Tormod's Crypt
2 Umezawa's Jitte
2 Vedalken Shackles

26 other spells

Sideboard

1 Engineered Explosives
4 Force Spike
3 Hurkyl's Recall
1 Pithing Needle
1 Sower of Temptation
3 Threads of Disloyalty
2 Tormod's Crypt

15 sideboard cards

Gaudenis Vidugiris

2nd Place - Illinois - Chicago - 2/23

Main Deck

60 cards

4 Cephalid Coliseum
3 Flooded Strand
1 Island
3 Polluted Delta
4 Watery Grave

15 lands

2 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
1 Cephalid Sage
1 Flame-Kin Zealot
4 Golgari Grave-Troll
2 Golgari Thug
3 Ichorid
4 Narcomoeba
4 Putrid Imp
4 Stinkweed Imp

25 creatures

4 Breakthrough
4 Bridge from Below
2 Cabal Therapy
4 Careful Study
1 Darkblast
3 Dread Return
2 Tolarian Winds

20 other spells

Sideboard

1 Cabal Therapy
4 Chain of Vapor
2 Darkblast
4 Leyline of the Void
4 Pithing Needle

15 sideboard cards

Michael Day

3rd Place - Illinois - Chicago - 2/23

Main Deck

60 cards

3 Blinkmoth Nexus
4 Darksteel Citadel
4 Great Furnace
4 Seat of the Synod
4 Vault of Whispers

19 lands

4 Arcbound Ravager
4 Arcbound Worker
4 Atog
4 Frogmite
4 Myr Enforcer
4 Ornithopter

24 creatures

4 Cranial Plating
3 Fatal Frenzy
2 Pithing Needle
4 Springleaf Drum
4 Thoughtcast

17 other spells

Sideboard

4 Cabal Therapy
1 Greater Gargadon
2 Pithing Needle
4 Smother
4 Tormod's Crypt

15 sideboard cards

Jeff Blyden

4th Place - Illinois - Chicago - 2/23

Main Deck

60 cards

1 Blood Crypt
2 Bloodstained Mire
4 Contested Cliffs
3 Forest
1 Godless Shrine
1 Mountain
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Plains
1 Stomping Ground
1 Swamp
1 Temple Garden
4 Wooded Foothills

22 lands

4 Birds of Paradise
2 Eternal Witness
1 Loxodon Hierarch
4 Ravenous Baloth
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
3 Spiritmonger
4 Tarmogoyf

22 creatures

4 Cabal Therapy
4 Living Wish
4 Pernicious Deed
4 Putrefy

16 other spells

Sideboard

1 Eternal Witness
4 Extirpate
1 Gaddock Teeg
1 Genesis
1 Harmonic Sliver
1 Indrik Stomphowler
1 Kataki, War's Wage
1 Loxodon Hierarch
1 Offalsnout
1 Shriekmaw
1 Spiritmonger
1 Yixlid Jailer

15 sideboard cards

Brad Campbell

5th Place - Illinois - Chicago - 2/23

Main Deck

61 cards

4 Auntie's Hovel
1 Blood Crypt
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Mountain
2 Mutavault
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Pendelhaven
3 Wooded Foothills

20 lands

3 Gempalm Incinerator
4 Goblin Matron
4 Goblin Piledriver
4 Goblin Ringleader
1 Goblin Sharpshooter
4 Goblin Warchief
4 Mogg Fanatic
4 Mogg War Marshal
1 Siege-Gang Commander
4 Skirk Prospector
2 Tin Street Hooligan

35 creatures

4 Chrome Mox
2 Patriarch's Bidding

6 other spells

Sideboard

3 Ancient Grudge
4 Cabal Therapy
1 Gempalm Incinerator
2 Krosan Grip
1 Patriarch's Bidding
4 Tormod's Crypt

15 sideboard cards

Adrian Sullivan

6th Place - Illinois - Chicago - 2/23

Main Deck

61 cards

4 Bloodstained Mire
6 Forest
2 Mountain
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Stomping Ground
4 Swamp
4 Wooded Foothills

22 lands

4 Birds of Paradise
2 Eternal Witness
3 Ravenous Baloth
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
3 Tarmogoyf

16 creatures

3 Destructive Flow
4 Duress
2 Extirpate
4 Living Wish
4 Pernicious Deed
1 Profane Command
2 Putrefy
2 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Terminate

23 other spells

Sideboard

1 Damnation
2 Darkblast
1 Eternal Witness
1 Extirpate
1 Flametongue Kavu
1 Genesis
2 Krosan Grip
1 Magus of the Moon
1 Spiritmonger
1 Tarmogoyf
1 Vesuva
1 Viridian Zealot
1 Yixlid Jailer

15 sideboard cards

James Bush

7th Place - Illinois - Chicago - 2/23

Main Deck

60 cards

1 Forbidding Watchtower
1 Forest
2 Godless Shrine
1 Miren, the Moaning Well
2 Murmuring Bosk
3 Overgrown Tomb
1 Plains
1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
1 Swamp
2 Temple Garden
3 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
3 Pernicious Deed
1 Profane Command
2 Putrefy
1 Smother
3 Thoughtseize
3 Vindicate

17 other spells

Sideboard

3 Engineered Explosives
4 Extirpate
2 Krosan Grip
2 Mystic Enforcer
1 Putrefy
2 Smother
1 Thoughtseize

15 sideboard cards

Michael Pinnegar

8th Place - Illinois - Chicago - 2/23

Main Deck

60 cards

4 Bloodstained Mire
3 Forest
4 Golgari Rot Farm
3 Overgrown Tomb
1 Polluted Delta
5 Swamp
1 Windswept Heath
2 Wooded Foothills

23 lands

4 Ravenous Baloth
4 Sakura-Tribe Elder
4 Tarmogoyf

12 creatures

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

25 other spells

Sideboard

1 Damnation
3 Duress
1 Haunting Echoes
4 Indrik Stomphowler
4 Leyline of the Void
1 Smother
1 Tsabo's Decree

15 sideboard cards