Avacyn Game Day + TCG Qualifier 1K Top 8

Matthew Sebastian takes the top prize last Saturday and qualifies for the TCG Player 1K Tournament.  Jeremy Barbeau takes second and secures his millionth bye, I think.  We have two more chances for you to win TCG points in June.

June 9th – Sealed GPT + TCG Bronze Qualifier
June 23rd – Standard $1,000 Silver Qualifier

Matthew Sebastian
1st Place

2 Doomblade
4 Snapcaster Mage
3 Mana Leak
2 Slagstorm
4 Olivia Voldaren
2 Forbidden Alchemy
4 Desperate Ravings
1 Ancient Grudge
2 Grave Titan
1 Sorin’s Vengeance
4 Pillar of Flame
1 Sever the Bloodline
2 Whipflare
1 Black Sun’s Zenith
1 Go for the Throat
4 Darkslick Shores
1 Copperline Gorge
2 Swamp
3 Island
3 Mountain
1 Ghost Quarter
4 Blackcleave Cliffs
2 Dragonskull Summit
4 Sulfur Falls
1 Drowned Catacomb
1 Shimmering Grotto

Sideboard
2 Cavern of Souls
1 Ghost Quarter
2 Nihil Spellbomb
2 Phantasmal Image
1 Whipflare
1 Ancient Grudge
2 Dissipate
1 Consecrated Sphinx
2 Manic Vandal
1 Slagstorm

Jeremy Barbeau
2nd Place
6 Forest
1 Plains
1 Mountain
4 Razorverge Thicket
4 Copperline Gorge
3 Gavony Township
3 Sunpetal Grove
2 Rootbound Crag
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Garruk Relentless
3 Birthing Pod
1 Borderland Ranger
4 Strangleroot Geist
4 Huntmaster of the Fells
1 Wolfir Silverheart
1 Daybreak Ranger
4 Avacyn’s Pilgrim
3 Blade Splicer
1 Acidic Slime
2 Restoration Angel
4 Birds of Paradise
2 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Fiend Hunter
1 Zealous Conscripts
1 Inferno Titan

Sideboard
2 Incinerate
2 Celestial Purge
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Naturalize
1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
1 Daybreak Ranger
1 Fiend Hunter
1 Slayer of the Wicked
1 Zealous Conscripts
1 Sigarda, Host of Herons
1 Wurmcoil Engine
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Ben Emery
3rd Place
4 Geralf’s Messenger
4 Gravecrawler
4 Diregraf Ghoul
4 Brimstone Volley
4 Falkenrath Aristocrat
4 Blood Artist
3 Fume Spitter
3 Tragic Slip
3 Geth’s Verdict
2 Phyrexian Metamorph
2 Mortapod
4 Dragonskull Summit
4 Blackcleave Cliff
1 Mountain
1 Evolving Wilds
13 Swamps
Sideboard
2 Whipflare
2 Ratchet Bomb
2 Sever the Bloodline
3 Human Frailty
3 Manic Vandal
1 Liliana of the Veil
1 Wrack with Madness
1 Artillerize

Travis Towns
4th Place
2 Runechanter’s Pike
1 Sword of War and Peace
4 Delver of Secrets
3 Invisible Stalker
4 Snapcaster Mage
3 Geist of Saint Traft
1 Dungeon Geist
3 Gitaxian Probe
4 Ponder
2 Gut Shot
4 Vapor Snag
4 Thought Scout
4 Mana Leak
4 Seachrome Coast
4 Glacial Fortress
3 Moorland Haunt
9 Island
1 Plains
Sideboard
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Revoke Existence
2 Celestial Purge
3 Mental Misstep
2 Phantasmal Image
2 Dissipate
2 Dungeon Geists

Danny Weinstock
5th Place
3 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
4 Phyrexian Crusader
4 Whispering Specter
4 Plague Stinger
4 Lashwrithe
4 Dark Favor
4 Predator’s Gambit
4 Doomblade
2 Go for the Throat
4 Tragic Slip
4 Inkmoth Nexus
19 Swamp
Sideboard
4 Nihil Spellbomb
3 Surgical Extraction
4 Spellskite
4 Black Sun’s Zenith

Paul Totzke
6th Place
4 Rootbound Craig
4 Copperline Gorge
2 Kessig Wolf Run
3 Inkmoth Nexus
4 Glimerpost
3 Mountains
5 Forest
4 Sphere of the Suns
4 Rampant Growth
4 Green Sun’s Zenith
2 Beast Within
4 Slagstorm
4 Solemn Simulacrum
2 Huntmaster of the Fells
4 Primeval Titan
3 Inferno Titan
1 Wurmcoil Engine
1 Garruk Relentless
1 Viridan Corrupter
1 Birds of Paradise

Sideboard
1 Karn Liberated
1 Devil’s Play
3 Cavern of Souls
1 Beast Within
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Tree of Redemption
1 Natural End
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Whipflare
1 Batterskull

Andrew Wagner
7th Place
1 Thought Scour
9 Island
3 Restoration Angel
1 Phantasmal Angel
2 Plains
2 Sword of War and Peace
4 Geist of Saint Traft
3 Moorland Haunt
4 Seachrome Coast
4 Snapcaster Mage
4 Mana Leak
1 Divine Offering
4 Ponder
2 Gutshot
3 Gixatian Probe
4 Vapor Snag
4 Glacial Fortress
4 Delver of Secrets
1 Sword of Feast and Famine

Sideboard
2 Timely Reinforcements

2 Consecrated Sphinx
1 Mutegenic Growth
1 Flashfreeze
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Celestial Purge
1 Divine Offering
1 Batterskull
2 Phantasmal Image
2 Rachet Bomb

Bryan Cole
8th Place
3 Mortapod
3 Cemetery Reaper
3 Fume Spitter
4 Geralf’s Messenger
3 Tragic Slip
2 Black Sun’s Zenith
4 Diregraf Ghoul
4 Gravecrawler
1 Geth’s Verdict
4 Diregraf Captain
3 Phyrexian Metaporph
10 Swamp
4 Darkslick Shores
4 Caraven of Souls
4 Drowned Catacomb
3 Blood Artist
1 Distress

Sideboard
2 Porcelain Legionaries
2 Geth’s Verdict
2 Highborn Ghoul
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Black Sun’s Zenith
2 Perilous Myr
2 Sever the Bloodline
2 Distress

TCG Player Qualifier – Modern 1K

Saturday 40 players battled to qualifier for the TCGPlayers $50,000 Championship in December.  Jeremy Barbeau took the top prize and won his seat at the big event.  So far, three people have qualified by playing at Atomic.  Two others are only a few points away!

Here are your list for the top 8 Modern decks.

Jeremy Barbeau

1st Place
4 Urza’s Powerplant
4 Urza’s Tower
4 Urza’s Mine
4 Grove of Burnwillows
1 Eye of Ugin
1 Acedemy Ruins
4 Karn Liberated
4 Mindslaver
4 Prophetic Prism
4 Sylvan Scrying
4 Tailsman of Impulse
4 Expedition Map
1 Emrakul, the Aeon’s Torn
1 Wurmcoil Engine
1 All is Dust
3 Explore
4 Ancient Stirrings
4 Chromatic Star
4 Chromatic Sphere

Sideboard
2 Wurmcoil Engine
2 Ancient Grudge
2 Combust
3 Pyroclams
2 Spellskite
2 Seal of Primordium
2 Graffdigger’s Cage

Chris Benzinger

2nd Place
4 Birds of Parasize
1 Eternal Witness
1 Harmonic Sliver
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
3 Melira, Syluok Outcast
1 Murderous Redcap
4 Noble Hierarch
1 Orzhov Pontif
1 Phantasmal Image
1 Ranger of Eos
1 Reveilark
1 Spellskite
1 Strangleroot Geist
1 Suntitan
3 Viscera Seer
4 Birthing Pod
4 Chord of Calling
1 Dryad Arbor
4 Forest
2 Gavony Township
1 Godless Shrine
4 Misty Rainforest
2 Overgrown Tomb
2 Razorverge Thicket
1 Swamp
1 Temple Garden
4 Verdant Catacomb
1 Watery Grave
4 Kitchen Finks

Sideboard
1 Ghostly Prison
1 Aven Mindsensor
1 Ethersworn Cannonist
1 Gel-elandra Archmage
2 Maelstrom Pulse
2 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Obstinate Baloth
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Shriekmaw
1 Thrun, the last Troll
1 Wurmcoil Engine
1 Norn’s Annex
1 Acidic Slime

Tim Sarri

3rd-4th Place
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
1 Emrakul the Aeons Torn
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
1 Ulamog the Infinite Gyre
4 Azorius Signet
1 Day of Judgment
3 Expedition Map
4 Gifts Ungiven
1 Oblivion Ring
4 Path to Exile
4 Remand
1 Repeal
1 Tailsman of Progress
1 Unburial Rites
1 Wrath of God
4 Thirst of Knowledge
2 Timely Reinforcements
1 Island
1 Plains
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Eye of Ugin
4 Celestial Colonnade
2 Hallowed Fountain
3 Seachrome Coast
4 Urza’s Tower
4 Urza’s Power Plant
4 Urza’s Mine

Sideboard
1 Surgical Extraction
1 Disenchant
2 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Suppression Field
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Wurmcoil Engine
1 Kataki Wars Wage
1 Ghostly Prison
2 Celestial Purge
1 Spell Burst
1 Chalice of the Void
1 Jin-Gitaxias Core Augur

Taylor Laehn

3rd-4th Place
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Dark Confident
4 Kitchen Finks
4 Bloodbraid Elf
2 Grim Lavamancer
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Duress
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Liliana of the Veil
3 Maelstrom Pulse
2 Terminate
4 Verdant Catacombs
2 Twilight Mire
3 Blackcleave Cliffs
2 Copperline Gorge
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Blood Crypt
1 Stomping Ground
1 Graven Cains
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Marsh Flats
4 Treetop Villege
1 Forest
3 Swamp

Sideboard
2 Thoughtseize
2 Combust
2 Seal of Primordium
1 Anathemancer
1 Torpor Orb
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Huntsmaster of the Fells
4 Ancient Grudge

Mark Jaeger

5th-8th Place
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Inquisition of Kozilek
3 Thoughtseize
4 Dark Confidant
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Terminate
4 Liliana of the Veil
3 Maelstrom Pulse
3 Kitchen Finks
2 Jund Charm
4 Bloodbraid Elf
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Blackcleave Cliffs
3 Treetop Village
2 Stomping Ground
2 Overgrown Tomb
2 Swamp
2 Copperline Gorge
1 Twilight Mire
1 Blood Crypt
1 Raging Ravine

Sideboard
3 Ancient Grudge
3 Grafdigger’s Cage
2 Obstinate Baloth
2 Combust
2 Torpor Orb
1 Terminate
1 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Duress

Antwane Robertson

5th-8th Place
4 Delver of Secrets
4 Tarmogoyf
4 Snapcaster Mage
2 Vendillion Clique
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Serum Visions
3 Mana Leak
2 Burst Lightning
2 Spell Pierce
2 Deprive
2 Vedalken Shackles
2 Cryptic Command
1 Spellsnare
1 Electrolyze
1 Garruk Relentless
1 Stomping Ground
2 Breeding Pool
2 Steam Vents
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Forest
1 Mountain
6 Island

Sideboard
3 Blood Moon
2 Relic of Progenitus
2 Ancient Grudge
2 Combust
2 Threads of Disloyalty
2 Huntsmaster of the Fells
1 Spell Pierce
1 Negate

Sam Karls

5th-8th Place
Sideboard
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Misty Rainforest
2 Arid Mesa
4 Island
2 Mountain
4 Sulfur Falls
2 Steam Vents
1 Breeding Pool
1 Stomping Ground
4 Pestermite
4 Deceiver Exarch
4 Splinter Twin
2 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
1 Thirst for Knowledge
2 Electrostatic Bolt
2 Echoing Truth
2 Gitaxian Probe
4 Dispel
4 Scrum Visions
4 Slight of Hand
3 Spellskite

Sideboard
3 Blood Moon
4 Relic of Progenitus
2 Ancient Grudge
2 Vines of the Vastwood
2 Gigadrowse
2 Forked Bolt

Adam Joseph

5th-8th Place
3 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Raven’s Crime
4 Life from the Loam
4 Countryside Crusher
4 Dark Confident
4 Seismic Assault
4 Tarmogoyf
3 Liliana of the Veil
3 Flame Jab
1 Forest
1 Woodland Cemetery
1 Fire-lit Thicket
2 Misty Rainforest
2 Ghost Quarter
4 Blackcleave Cliffs
4 Graven Cairns
4 Verdant Catacombs
1 Lavaclaw Reaches
2 Blood Crypt
1 Mountain
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Swamp
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Stomping Ground
1 Bojoka Bog

Sideboard
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Obstinate Baloth
3 Nature’s Claim
2 Ancient Grudge
2 Torpor Orb
1 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Darkblast
2 Pyroclams