Magic 2011 Game Day: Game Empire, San Diego, California : Event Coverage : Daily MTG : Magic: The Gathering

Josh Hoffman

1st Place - San Diego - California - Game Empire

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Main Deck

60 cards

3 Dragonskull Summit
2 Forest
1 Lavaclaw Reaches
4 Mountain
4 Raging Ravine
1 Rootbound Crag
4 Savage Lands
3 Swamp
4 Verdant Catacombs

26 lands

4 Bloodbraid Elf
1 Grave Titan
4 Putrid Leech
1 Siege-Gang Commander
4 Sprouting Thrinax

14 creatures

3 Bituminous Blast
4 Blightning
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Maelstrom Pulse
2 Sarkhan the Mad
3 Terminate

20 other spells

Sideboard

2 Beastbreaker of Bala Ged
2 Duress
3 Goblin Ruinblaster
3 Malakir Bloodwitch
2 Relic of Progenitus
1 Terminate
2 Thought Hemorrhage

15 sideboard cards

Mike Huston

2nd Place - San Diego - California - Game Empire

Main Deck

60 cards

4 Dragonskull Summit
3 Forest
2 Mountain
4 Raging Ravine
4 Rootbound Crag
3 Savage Lands
2 Swamp
4 Verdant Catacombs

26 lands

4 Bloodbraid Elf
4 Putrid Leech
4 Sprouting Thrinax

12 creatures

3 Bituminous Blast
4 Blightning
3 Garruk Wildspeaker
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Maelstrom Pulse
4 Terminate

22 other spells

Sideboard

3 Back to Nature
4 Doom Blade
4 Duress
4 Jund Charm

15 sideboard cards

Cort Ayers

3rd Place - San Diego - California - Game Empire

Main Deck

60 cards

3 Creeping Tar Pit
4 Drowned Catacomb
6 Island
4 Misty Rainforest
2 Scalding Tarn
2 Swamp
1 Verdant Catacombs

22 lands

4 Bloodghast
4 Enclave Cryptologist
4 Extractor Demon
4 Hedron Crab
4 Merfolk Looter
4 Renegade Doppelganger
2 Rotting Rats
4 Sedraxis Alchemist
2 Sphinx of Lost Truths
4 Vengevine

36 creatures

2 Mistvein Borderpost

2 other spells

Sideboard

4 Aether Adept
3 Calcite Snapper
4 Doom Blade
4 Mana Leak

15 sideboard cards

Daniel Ching

4th Place - San Diego - California - Game Empire

Main Deck

61 cards

1 Mystifying Maze
22 Swamp
2 Tectonic Edge

25 lands

3 Abyssal Persecutor
4 Gatekeeper of Malakir
3 Grave Titan
4 Nantuko Shade

14 creatures

1 Consume the Meek
2 Consuming Vapors
1 Corrupt
3 Doom Blade
2 Duress
2 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Liliana Vess
2 Mind Sludge
4 Sign in Blood
4 Tendrils of Corruption

22 other spells

Sideboard

1 Consume the Meek
1 Duress
2 Haunting Echoes
1 Inquisition of Kozilek
2 Malakir Bloodwitch
3 Pithing Needle
3 Smother
2 Vampire Hexmage

15 sideboard cards

Louis Shieh

5th Place - San Diego - California - Game Empire

Main Deck

60 cards

4 Emeria, the Sky Ruin
16 Plains
4 Tectonic Edge

24 lands

1 Baneslayer Angel
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
3 Lone Missionary
4 Pilgrim's Eye
4 Sun Titan
4 Wall of Omens

17 creatures

3 Condemn
4 Day of Judgment
4 Oblivion Ring
4 Path to Exile
4 Survival Cache

19 other spells

Sideboard

3 Celestial Purge
3 Devout Lightcaster
4 Kor Firewalker
1 Leyline of Sanctity
4 Luminarch Ascension

15 sideboard cards

Khoa Do

6th Place - San Diego - California - Game Empire

Main Deck

60 cards

4 Arid Mesa
5 Forest
3 Misty Rainforest
2 Mountain
2 Plains
2 Sejiri Steppe
2 Stirring Wildwood
1 Sunpetal Grove
1 Tectonic Edge
1 Terramorphic Expanse

23 lands

1 Baneslayer Angel
2 Birds of Paradise
4 Bloodbraid Elf
4 Cunning Sparkmage
1 Dauntless Escort
4 Fauna Shaman
2 Goblin Ruinblaster
2 Goblin Ruinblaster
4 Knight of the Reliquary
4 Noble Hierarch
1 Realm Razer
1 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Sun Titan
4 Vengevine

35 creatures

1 Basilisk Collar
1 Elspeth, Knight-Errant

2 other spells

Sideboard

1 Bojuka Bog
3 Celestial Purge
1 Dauntless Escort
3 Kor Firewalker
1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
2 Oblivion Ring
2 Path to Exile
2 Qasali Pridemage

15 sideboard cards

James Shirley

7th Place - San Diego - California - Game Empire

Main Deck

60 cards

6 Island
6 Plains
3 Swamp

15 lands

2 Glassdust Hulk

2 creatures

3 Angelsong
3 Everflowing Chalice
4 Fieldmist Borderpost
4 Howling Mine
3 Kaleidostone
4 Mistvein Borderpost
4 Open the Vaults
4 Prophetic Prism
3 Temple Bell
3 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Thopter Foundry
3 Time Sieve
4 Time Warp

43 other spells

Sideboard

3 Celestial Purge
3 Dragon's Claw
4 Mana Leak
3 Path to Exile
2 Thopter Foundry

15 sideboard cards

Matthew Lopez

8th Place - San Diego - California - Game Empire

Main Deck

62 cards

5 Forest
3 Marsh Flats
5 Plains
4 Sunpetal Grove
3 Swamp
4 Verdant Catacombs

24 lands

3 Baneslayer Angel
2 Elvish Piper
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
2 Iona, Shield of Emeria
3 Knight of the Reliquary
2 Lotus Cobra
3 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
3 Primeval Titan
2 Sun Titan
1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

22 creatures

4 Harrow
4 Path to Exile
4 Rampant Growth
4 Summoning Trap

16 other spells

Sideboard

3 Back to Nature
2 Canopy Cover
3 Consume the Meek
3 Emerge Unscathed
3 Nature's Spiral
1 Vines of Vastwood

15 sideboard cards