MCQ – Dark Sphere – 31/8/2019

Winner – E-Tron – James Staples
Runner-up – Jund – Joao Choa
Semi-Finalist – Dredge – Dominic Saunders
Semi-Finalist – Mono Red Prowess – Will Bezzant
Quarter Finalist – Mono Green Tron – Matt Brown
Quarter Finalist – Bant Snow – Joshua Buchan
Quarter Finalist – Jund – Roy Raftery
Quarter Finalist – 4C Creature Aggro – John Feuerstein

Swiss standings in parenthesis
Winner – E-Tron – James Staples (6th)

Creatures (13) 1 Simian Spirit Guide 3 Matter Reshaper 4 Thought-Knot Seer 4 Reality Smasher 1 Endbringer Spells (23) 1 Ugin, the Ineffable 4 Karn, the Great Creator 3 Walking Ballista 2 All is Dust 2 Dismember 1 Warping Wail 4 Expedition Map 4 Chalice of the Void 1 Mind Stone 1 Relic of Progenitus

Lands (24) 4 Urza’s Mine 4 Urza’s Power Plant 4 Urza’s Tower 4 Eldrazi Temple 2 Wastes 2 Blast Zone 1 Ghost Quarter 1 Scavenger Grounds 1 Cavern of Souls 1 Seagate Wreckage Sideboard (15) 1 Ravenous Trap 3 Spatial Contortion 1 Ensnaring Bridge 1 Torpor Orb 1 Liquimetal Coating 1 Mycosynth Lattice 1 Wurmcoil Engine 1 Relic of Progenitus 1 Tormod’s Crypt 1 Mystic Forge 1 Walking Ballista 1 Sorcerous Spyglass 1 Grafdiggers Cage

Runner-Up – Jund – João Choca (1st)

Creatures (11) 4 Tarmogoyf 3 Scavenging Ooze 2 Tireless Tracker 1 Bloodbraid Elf 1 Seasoned Pyromancer Spells (25) 3 Wrenn & 6 4 Liliana of the Veil 1 Vraska, Golgari Queen 4 Lightning Bolt 3 Inquisition of Kozilek 3 Kolaghan’s Command 3 Thoughtseize 2 Fatal Push 1 Assassin’s Trophy 1 Slaughter Pact

Lands (24) 4 Verdant Catacombs 3 Blackcleave Cliffs 3 Bloodstained Mire 2 Nurturing Peatland 2 Overgrown Tomb 2 Swamp 2 Wooded Foothills 1 Blood Crypt 1 Forest 1 Ghost ¼ 1 Mountain 1 Raging Ravine 1 Stomping Ground Sideboard (15) 4 Fulminator Mage 1 Anger of the Gods 1 Ashiok, Dream Render 1 Collector Ouphe 1 Damnation 1 Duress 1 Grafdigger’s Cage 1 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet 1 Liliana, the Last Hope 1 Plague Engineer 1 Shatterstorm 1 Surgical Extraction

Semi-finalist – Dredge – Dominic Saunders (4th)

Creatures (18) 4 Narcomoeba 4 Bloodghast 4 Prized Amalgam 4 Stinkweed Imp 2 Golgari Thug Spells (22) 4 Tome Scour 4 Shriekhorn 4 Life from the Loam 2 Conflagrate 4 Creeping Chill 4 Cathartic Reunion

Lands (20) 2 Bloodstained Mire 2 Arid Mesa 1 Mountain 2 Copperline Gorge 2 Forgotten Cave 2 Stomping Ground 1 Scalding Tarn 1 Gemstone Mine 1 Blood Crypt 1 Steam Vents 2 Wooded Foothills 3 City of Brass Sideboard (15) 1 Blast Zone 1 Thoughtseize 3 Lightning Axe 3 Nature’s Claim 2 Damping Sphere 2 Ancient Grudge 1 Abrupt Decay 2 Ravenous Trap

Semi-finalist – Mono Red Prowess – Will Bezzant (7th)

Creatures (15) 4 Soul-Scar Mage 4 Monastery Swiftspear 4 Runaway Steam-Kin 3 Bedlam Reveler Spells (27) 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Lava Spike 3 Gut Shot 3 Lava Dart 4 Crash Through 4 Manamorphose 4 Light up the Stage 1 Experimental Frenzy

Lands (18) 14 Mountain 2 Sunbaked Canyon 2 Fiery Islet Sideboard (15) 3 Abrade 2 Smash to Smithereens 2 Searing Blood 2 Flame Slash 1 Blood Moon 1 Alpine Moon 2 Seasoned Pyromancer 2 Experimental Frenzy

Quater-finalist – Mono Green Tron – Matt Brown (5th)

Creatures (8) 2 Walking Ballista 3 Wurmcoil Engine 1 Worldbreaker 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger 1 Emrakul, the Promised End Spells (33) 4 Karn Liberated 1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon 3 Karn, the Great Creator 4 Ancient Stirrings 4 Sylvan Scrying 1 Dismember 4 Expedition Map 4 Chromatic Star 4 Chromatic Sphere 4 Oblivion Stone

Lands (19) 4 Urza’s Tower 4 Urza’s Mine 4 Urza’s Power Plant 5 Forest 1 Blast Zone 1 Sanctum of Ugin Sideboard (15) 1 Mycosynth Lattice 1 Walking Ballista 1 Tormod’s Crypt 1 Witchbane Orb 1 Trinisphere 1 Relic of Progenitus 1 Mystic Forge 1 Liquimetal Coating 1 Ensnaring Bridge 2 Thragtusk 2 Nature’s Claim 2 Veil of Summer

Quater-finalist – Bant Snow – Joshua Buchan (3rd)

Creatures (24) 4 Ice Fang Coatl 4 Coiling Oracle 1 Wall of Omens 1 Wall of Blossoms 4 Soulherder 3 Eternal Witness 2 Watcher for Tomorrow 1 Deputy of Detention 1 Knight of Autumn 1 Reflector Mage 1 Venser, Shaper Savant 1 Thragtusk Spells (14) 3 Path to Exile 4 Ephemerate 4 Force of Negation 1 Time Warp 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor 1 Teferi, Time Render

Lands (22) 1 x Snow-Covered Plains 2 x Snow-Covered Island 3 x Snow-Covered Forest 3 Windswept Heath 3 Flooded Strand 3 Misty Rainforest 2 Prismatic Vista 1 Breeding Pol 1 Temple Garden 1 Hallowed Fountain 1 Prairie Stream 1 Canopy Vista Sideboard (15) 1 Grafdigger’s Cage 1 Path to Exile 2 Ceremonious Rejection 1 Weather the Storm 2 Celestial Purge 1 Stony Silence 2 Disdainful Stroke 1 Teferi, Time Raveler 1 Deputy of Detention 1 Knight of Autumn 1 Ashiok, Dream Render 1 Thragtusk

Quater-finalist – Jund – Roy Raftery (2nd)

Creatures (12) 2 Scavenging Ooze 4 Tarmogoyf 4 Bloodbraid Elf 2 Seasoned Pyromancer Spells (24) 4 Liliana of the Veil 3 Wrenn & Six 4 Lightning Bolt 2 Fatal Push 4 Inquisition of Kozilek 2 Thoughtseize 2 Assassin’s Trophy 1 Maelstrom Pulse 2 Kolaghan’s Command

Lands (24) 2 Swamp 1 Mountain 1 Forest 4 Verdant Catacombs 1 Blood Crypt 1 Stomping Ground 2 Overgrown Tomb 3 Blackcleave Cliffs 2 Wooden Foothills 3 Bloodstained Mine 2 Nurturing Peatland 2 Raging Ravine Sideboard (15) 1 Huntmaster of the Fells 2 Nihil Spellbomb 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance 3 Fulminator Mage 1 Ancient Grudge 2 Surgical Extraction 2 Plague Engineer 2 Collective Brutality 1 Liliana, the Last Hope

Quater-finalist – 4C Creature Aggro – John Feuerstein (8th)

Creatures (28) 2 Hexdrinker 4 Wild Nacatl 4 Noble Hierarch 3 Tarmogoyf 2 Qasali Pridemage 4 Voltaic Brawler 1 Gruul Spellbreaker 4 Mantis Rider 4 Bloodbraid Elf Spells (10) 3 Path to Exile 4 Lightning Bolt 2 Lightning Helix 1 Domri, Anarch of Bolas

Lands (22) 2 Sunbaked Canyon 2 Flooded Strand 4 windswept Heath 4 wooded foothills 2 stomping grounds 1 Steam Vents 1 Breeding Pool 1 Temple Garden 1 Sacred Foundry 1 Plains 1 Forest 1 Copperline Gorge 1 Botanical Sanctum Sideboard (15) 1 Hazoret the Fervent 1 Chandra Torch of Defiance 1 Engineered Explosives 1 Cindervines 2 Spell Pierce 2 Negate 2 Scavenging Ooze 2 Knight of Autumn 1 Dromoka’s Command 1 Declaration in Stone 1 Collector Ouphe