Magic the Gathering: StarCityGames.com Illinois State Championships - Modern

Sunday’s Magic Modern tournament was a blast. Congrats to Justin Kessel on his win!

Here are the winning decks:

1st Place

Name: Justin Kessel

4 Noble Hierarch
4 Glistener Elf
4 Blighted Agent
1 Spellskite
1 Dryad Arbor
4 Might of Old Krosa
4 Vines of Vastwood
4 Groundswell
3 Become Immense
3 Serum Visions
4 Gitaxian Probe
1 Mutagenic Growth
1 Rancor
1 Twisted Image
1 Dismember
3 Breeding Pool
2 Forest
2 Pendelhaven
4 Inkmoth Nexus
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Windswept Heath
1 Verdant Catacombs

Sideboard:
3 Nature’s Claim
1 Viridian Shaman
3 Kitchen Finks
3 Twisted Image
1 Dismember
2 Dispel
1 Spell Pierce
1 Wild Defiance

2nd Place

Name: Joshua Kuntz

4 Cursecatcher
4 Harbinger of the Tides
4 Lord of Atlantis
4 Master of the Pearl Trident
4 Silvergill Adept
2 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
3 Merrow Reejerey
4 Master of Waves
4 Aether Vial
2 Vapor Snag
2 Negate
4 Spreading Seas
2 Cavern of Souls
9 Island
1 Minamo, School at Water’s Edge
4 Mutavault
1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
2 Wanderwine Hub

Sideboard:
2 Tidebinder Mage
2 Chalice of the Void
2 Dispel
2 Relic of Progenitus
1 Echoing Truth
4 Hurkyl’s Recall
2 Dismember

3rd Place

Name: Davis Merced

4 Snapcaster Mage
4 Delver of Secrets
2 Grim Lavamancer
4 Young Pyromancer
1 Dismember
2 Electrolyze
1 Vapor Snag
2 Blood Moon
4 Gitaxian Probe
4 Serum Visions
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Spell Snare
3 Remand
3 Mana Leak
4 Scalding Tarn
2 Polluted Delta
3 Flooded Strand
2 Sulfur Falls
3 Steam Vents
4 Island
1 Mountain

Sideboard:
2 Vandalblast
1 Izzet Staticaster
2 Negate
2 Roast
2 Relic of Progenitus
1 Spellskite
3 Dispel
2 Pia and Kiran Nalaar

4th Place

Name: Patrick Smith

4 Sylvan Scrying
4 Ancient Stirrings
4 Expedition Map
4 Chromatic Star
4 Chromatic Sphere
3 Pyroclasm
3 Oblivion Stone
2 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
4 Karn Liberated
1 Batterskull
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
2 Ring of Three Wishes
1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
3 Wurmcoil Engine
4 Urza’s Tower
4 Urza’s Mine
4 Urza’s Power Plant
4 Grove of the Burnwillows
1 Forest
3 Ghost Quarter

Sideboard:
2 Life from the Loam
1 Crumble to Dust
2 Relic of Progenitus
2 Feed the Clan
2 Warping Wail
1 Thragtusk
2 Nature’s Claim
1 All Is Dust
1 Boil
1 Vandalblast

5th Place

Name: john forsyth

4 Serum Visions
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Remand
2 Izzet Charm
1 Spell Pierce
1 Spell Snare
2 Vendilion Clique
2 Cryptic Command
4 Through the Breach
4 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
4 Snapcaster Mage
1 Breeding Pool
1 Stomping Ground
3 Steam Vents
1 Desolate Lighthouse
1 Cavern of Souls
2 Sulfur Falls
1 Mountain
3 Scalding Tarn
2 Polluted Delta
2 Misty Rainforest
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Flooded Strand
4 Ancestral Vision
1 Electrolyze
4 Island

Sideboard:
1 Ancient Grudge
3 Anger of the Gods
1 Izzet Staticaster
1 Garruk Relentless
2 Huntmaster of the Fells
1 Keranos, God of Storms
1 Thragtusk
1 Negate
1 Counterflux
1 Crumble to Dust

6th Place

Name: Craig Clibum

4 Urza’s Power Plant
4 Urza’s Tower
4 Urza’s Mine
4 Grove of the Burnwillows
2 Forest
2 Sanctum of Ugin
4 Chromatic Star
4 Chromatic Sphere
4 Expedition Map
4 Sylvan Scrying
4 Ancient Stirrings
4 Karn Liberated
4 Pyroclasm
3 Oblivion Stone
1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
3 World Breaker
3 Thought-Knot Seer
2 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger

Sideboard:
1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
1 Thought-Knot Seer
3 Feed the Clan
1 Pithing Needle
2 Spellskite
4 Nature’s Claim
1 Ancient Grudge
1 Oblivion Stone
1 Wurmcoil Engine

7th Place

Name: Bryce Seko

4 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Thoughtseize
2 Abrupt Decay
3 Terminate
4 Dark Confidant
4 Tarmogoyf
3 Scavenging Ooze
4 Liliana of the Veil
2 Kolaghan’s Command
1 Maelstrom Pulse
1 Kitchen Finks
2 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
4 Blackcleave Cliffs
4 Raging Ravine
4 Verdant Catacombs
2 Bloodstained Mire
2 Wooded Foothills
2 Swamp
2 Forest
1 Blood Crypt
1 Stomping Ground
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Ghost Quarter

Sideboard:
2 Kitchen Finks
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Duress
1 Painful Truths
1 Huntmaster of the Fells
2 Ancient Grudge
1 Vandalblast
2 Anger of the Gods
1 Golgari Charm
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Damnation
1 Night of Souls’ Betrayal

8th Place

Name: Steven Parr

4 Blackcleave Cliffs
1 Stomping Ground
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Blood Crypt
2 Swamp
1 Forest
1 Woodland Cemetery
3 Raging Ravine
1 Hissing Quagmire
4 Verdant Catacombs
1 Wooded Foothills
3 Bloodstained Mire
4 Dark Confidant
1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
1 Huntmaster of the Fells
4 Scavenging Ooze
4 Tarmogoyf
3 Liliana of the Veil
1 Maelstrom Pulse
2 Kolaghan’s Command
2 Abrupt Decay
3 Terminate
4 Lightning Bolt
3 Thoughtseize
3 Inquisition of Kozilek
1 Goblin Dark-Dwellers

Sideboard:
1 Bonfire of the Damned
1 Damnation
1 Anger of the Gods
2 Radiant Flames
1 Grim Lavamancer
1 Feed the Clan
1 Olivia Voldaren
2 Abrupt Decay
2 Fulminator Mage
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Ancient Grudge

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