2009 Regionals : Event Coverage : Daily MTG : Magic: The Gathering

Matt Grandgeorge

1st Place - Illinois - Chicago

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Main Deck

60 cards

4 Arcane Sanctum
4 Caves of Koilos
4 Fetid Heath
2 Mutavault
3 Plains
3 Reflecting Pool
1 Swamp
4 Windbrisk Heights

25 lands

3 Cloudgoat Ranger
4 Kitchen Finks
4 Murderous Redcap
4 Tidehollow Sculler

15 creatures

3 Ajani Goldmane
4 Bitterblossom
3 Glorious Anthem
3 Path to Exile
4 Spectral Procession
3 Zealous Persecution

20 other spells

Sideboard

3 Burrenton Forge-Tender
2 Identity Crisis
3 Thoughtseize
3 Wispmare
3 Wrath of God
1 Zealous Persecution

15 sideboard cards

Charles Hendricks

2nd Place - Illinois - Chicago

Main Deck

60 cards

4 Brushland
3 Forest
4 Plains
4 Treetop Village
4 Windbrisk Heights
4 Wooded Bastion

23 lands

4 Cloudgoat Ranger
3 Dauntless Escort
3 Kitchen Finks
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Steward of Valeron
4 Wilt-Leaf Liege

22 creatures

2 Ajani Goldmane
1 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
2 Fertile Ground
3 Overrun
3 Path to Exile
4 Spectral Procession

15 other spells

Sideboard

2 Austere Command
3 Burrenton Forge-Tender
2 Cloudthresher
3 Guttural Response
2 Lapse of Certainty
3 Relic of Progenitus

15 sideboard cards

Parth Modi

3rd Place - Illinois - Chicago

Main Deck

60 cards

4 Cascade Bluffs
4 Fire-Lit Thicket
4 Ghitu Encampment
4 Graven Cairns
1 Mountain
1 Mutavault
4 Reflecting Pool
4 Rugged Prairie
4 Spinerock Knoll
4 Treetop Village
4 Vivid Crag
4 Vivid Marsh

42 lands

4 Bloodbraid Elf
4 Swans of Bryn Argoll

8 creatures

2 Ad Nauseam
4 Bituminous Blast
4 Seismic Assault

10 other spells

Sideboard

1 Ad Nauseam
2 Ajani Vengeant
2 Aura of Silence
1 Maelstrom Pulse
4 Qasali Pridemage
3 Vexing Shusher
2 Volcanic Fallout

15 sideboard cards

Tyler Passow

4th Place - Illinois - Chicago

Main Deck

60 cards

3 Arcane Sanctum
4 Caves of Koilos
4 Fetid Heath
1 Mutavault
4 Plains
4 Reflecting Pool
1 Swamp
4 Windbrisk Heights

25 lands

2 Cloudgoat Ranger
4 Kitchen Finks
4 Murderous Redcap
4 Tidehollow Sculler

14 creatures

3 Ajani Goldmane
4 Bitterblossom
4 Glorious Anthem
3 Path to Exile
4 Spectral Procession
3 Zealous Persecution

21 other spells

Sideboard

1 Ajani Goldmane
2 Burrenton Forge-Tender
1 Cloudgoat Ranger
2 Identity Crisis
2 Puppeteer Clique
2 Thoughtseize
4 Wrath of God
1 Zealous Persecution

15 sideboard cards

Michael Bernat

5th Place - Illinois - Chicago

Main Deck

60 cards

2 Cascade Bluffs
3 Exotic Orchard
3 Island
2 Mystic Gate
4 Reflecting Pool
1 Sunken Ruins
2 Vivid Crag
4 Vivid Creek
1 Vivid Marsh
3 Vivid Meadow

25 lands

2 Broodmate Dragon
4 Mulldrifter
4 Plumeveil
3 Wall of Reverence

13 creatures

3 Broken Ambitions
2 Cruel Ultimatum
4 Cryptic Command
4 Esper Charm
2 Runed Halo
3 Terror
4 Volcanic Fallout

22 other spells

Sideboard

1 Ajani Vengeant
3 Celestial Purge
2 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
3 Jace Beleren
3 Negate
1 Wall of Reverence
2 Wrath of God

15 sideboard cards

Scott Alshanski

6th Place - Illinois - Chicago

Main Deck

60 cards

2 Fire-Lit Thicket
3 Forest
1 Mountain
1 Reflecting Pool
4 Savage Lands
4 Swamp
3 Treetop Village
3 Twilight Mire
2 Vivid Grove
1 Vivid Marsh

24 lands

4 Broodmate Dragon
4 Kitchen Finks
4 Putrid Leech

12 creatures

4 Firespout
4 Garruk Wildspeaker
2 Lavalanche
2 Loxodon Warhammer
4 Maelstrom Pulse
4 Terror
4 Thoughtseize

24 other spells

Sideboard

4 Anathemancer
4 Guttural Response
3 Jund Charm
3 Primal Command
1 Puppeteer Clique

15 sideboard cards

Collin LaFleur

7th Place - Illinois - Chicago

Main Deck

60 cards

4 Adarkar Wastes
6 Island
4 Mystic Gate
7 Plains

21 lands

2 Glen Elendra Archmage
3 Kitchen Finks
4 Knight of the White Orchid
4 Mulldrifter
2 Plumeveil
4 Reveillark
2 Wall of Reverence

21 creatures

4 Cryptic Command
4 Fieldmist Borderpost
2 Negate
4 Path to Exile
4 Wrath of God

18 other spells

Sideboard

2 Celestial Purge
1 Glen Elendra Archmage
2 Hallowed Burial
1 Kitchen Finks
1 Negate
3 Remove Soul
2 Runed Halo
3 Wispmare

15 sideboard cards

Michael Blanchard

8th Place - ----- United States -----

Main Deck

60 cards

4 Brushland
4 Forest
5 Plains
4 Treetop Village
2 Windbrisk Heights
4 Wooded Bastion

23 lands

3 Cloudgoat Ranger
4 Dauntless Escort
4 Kitchen Finks
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Steward of Valeron
4 Wilt-Leaf Liege

23 creatures

1 Ajani Goldmane
2 Garruk Wildspeaker
1 Martial Coup
2 Overrun
4 Path to Exile
4 Spectral Procession

14 other spells

Sideboard

3 Burrenton Forge-Tender
1 Cloudthresher
3 Guttural Response
2 Martial Coup
3 Qasali Pridemage
3 Sigil Blessing

15 sideboard cards