Top 8 From GTP Pittsburgh 2015

On Saturday November 7th, 30 Players from the Ottawa area gathered at the Wizard Tower to play in a Grand Prix Trial for GP Pittsburgh 2015. This modern event determined who would get buys for Grand Prix Pittsburgh 2015, as well as giving out over $400 Dollars in store credit.

As usual the final standings are determined after a cut to top 8. The players played it out till the bitter end, so here are the decklists for the top players of the event.

8th place Tyler Cook playing Jenny

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Creatures: (13)

1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang

1 Olivia Voldaren

3 Scavenging Ooze

4 Tarmogoyf

4 Dark Confidant

Planeswalkers: (4)

4 Liliana of the Veil

Spells: (19)

2 Thoughtseize

4 Inquisition of Kozilek

2 Abrupt Decay

1 Maelstrom Pulse

3 Terminate

4 Lightning Bolt

3 Kolaghan’s Command

Lands: (24)

1 Twilight Mire

4 Blackcleave Cliffs

3 Bloodstained Mire

2 Wooded Foothills

4 Verdant Catacombs

2 Swamp

1 Forest

1 Stomping Ground

1 Blood Crypt

1 Overgrown Tomb

4 Raging Ravine

Sideboard: (15)

1 Unravel the Aether

1 Ancient Grudge

3 Leyline of the Void

3 Fulminator Mage

1 Outpost Siege

1 Curse of Death’s Hold

1 Huntmaster of the Fells

1 Obstinate Baloth

3 Kitchen Finks

7th place Michael Baranov playing Knightfall

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Creatrures: (25)

4 Noble Hierarch

2 Scavenging Ooze

4 Wild Nacatl

4 Knight of the Reliquary

4 Loxodon Smiter

4 Qasali Pridemage

3 Voice of Resurgence

Spells: (13)

4 Path to Exile

3 Retreat to Coralhlem

3 Lightning Bolt

3 Collected Company

Lands: (22)

1 Breeding Pool

3 Forest

1 Ghost Quarter

1 Kessig Wolf Run

2 Flooded Strand

1 Plains

1 Sacred Foundry

1 Sejiri Steppe

1 Stomping Ground

2 Temple Garden

4 Windswept Heath

4 Wooded Foothills

Sideboard: (15)

1 Ancient Grudge

2 Aven Mindcensor

2 Burrenton Forge-Tender

1 Dromoka’s Command

1 Firespout

2 Negate

1 Spellskite

3 Stony Silence

2 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben

6th Place Ben Curran playing Jund

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Creatures: (14)

4 Tarmogoyf

4 Dark Confidant

2 Scavenging Ooze

2 Fulminator Mage

1 Olivia Voldaren

1 Tasigur, The Golden Fang

Planeswalkers: (4)

3 Liliana of the Veil

1 Chandra, Pyromaster

Spells: (18)

4 Inquisition of Kozilek

2 Thoughtseize

4 Lightning Bolt

2 Abrupt Decay

1 Slaughter Pact

2 Terminate

1 Maelstrom Pulse

2 Kolaghan’s Command

Lands: (24)

4 Verdant Catacombs

3 Bloodstained Mire

1 Wooded Foothills

2 Overgrown Tomb

1 Blood Crypt

1 Stomping Ground

2 Swamp

1 Forest

1 Mountain

3 Blackcleave Cliffs

1 Fire-lit Thicket

4 Raging Ravine

Sideboard: (15)

1 Obstinate Baloth

1 Huntmaster of the Fells

1 Kitchen Finks

1 Grim Lavamancer

1 Ancient Grudge

1 Slaughter Games

1 Deglamer

2 Fulminator Mage

2 Anger of the Gods

1 Thrun, The Last Troll

1 Damnation

1 Golgari Charm

1 Fracturing Gust

5th place Daniel DiGiovanni

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Creatures: (13)

1 Dryad Arbor

4 Gladecover Scout

4 Slippery Bogle

4 Kor Spiritdancer

Spells: (28)

4 Ethereal Armor

4 Hyena Umbra

3 Path To Exile

4 Rancor

4 Spider Umbra

4 Daybreak Coronet

1 Spirit Mantle

1 Unflinching Courage

3 Suppression Field

Lands: (20)

2 Forest

4 Horizon Canopy

2 Plains

3 Razorverge Thicket

4 Temple Garden

4 Windswept Heath

1 Misty Rainforest

Sideboard: (15)

2 Rest in Peace

1 Dismember

4 Leyline of Sanctity

2 Seal of Primordium

2 Stony Silence

2 Gaddock Teeg

1 Kataki War’s wage

1 Path to Exile

4th place Steven Dunkelman Naya Burn

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Creatures: (16)

4 Goblin Guide

4 Monastery Swiftspear

4 Eidolon of the Great Revel

4 Wild Nacatl

Spells: (24)

4 Lightning Bolt

4 Boros Charm

4 Lava Spike

1 Grim Lavamancer

4 Rift Bolt

4 Atarka’s Command

3 Searing Blaze

Lands: (20)

4 Arid Mesa

4 Wooded Foothills

2 Bloodstained Mire

2 Stomping Ground

3 Sacred Foundry

2 Mountain

3 Copperline Gorge

Sideboard: (15)

2 Molten Rain

1 Searing Blaze

2 Path to Exile

1 Deflecting Palm

3 Destructive Revelry

1 Leave No Trace

2 Skullcrack

1 Blood Moon

2 Kor Firewalker

3rd place Andrew Novaraj

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Creatures: (7)

4 Sakura-Tribe Elder

3 Snapcaster Mage

Spells: (29)

4 Lightning Bolt

4 Serum Visions

4 Explore

4 Remand

1 Prismatic Omen

2 Anticipate

2 Peer Through Depths

4 Cryptic Command

4 Scapeshift

Lands: (24)

3 Valakut, the molten pinnacle

2 Misty Rainforest

2 Flooded Grove

2 Forest

2 Mountain

4 Island

1 Breeding Pool

4 Steam Vents

4 Stomping Ground

Sideboard: (15)

2 Nature’s Claim

3 Obstinate Baloth

2 Ancient Grudge

2 Pyroclasm

2 Rending Volley

1 Negate

2 Dispel

1 Gigadrowse

2nd place Ryan Baker playing Tarmo Twin

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Creatures: (15)

4 Tarmogoyf

4 Snapcaster Mage

3 Bounding Krasis

2 Deceiver Exarch

1 Vendilion Clique

1 Spellskite

Spells: (23)

2 Cryptic Command

4 Lightning Bolt

4 Remand

4 Serum Visions

1 Roast

1 Gitaxian Probe

2 Spell Snare

1 Dispel

1 Electrolyze

3 Splinter Twin

Lands: (22)

2 Steam Vents

1 Breeding Pool

1 Stomping Ground

4 Misty Rainforest

4 Polluted Delta

3 Island

1 Mountain

1 Forest

1 Desolate Lighthouse

3 Sulfur Falls

1 Hinterland Harbor

Sideboard: (15)

2 Ancient Grudge

1 Rending Volley

1 Dispel

1 Negate

1 Destructive Revelry

1 Keranos, God of Storms

1 Roast

2 Pyroclasm

1 Izzet Staticaster

1 Shatterstorm

2 Thragtusk

1 Dismember

1st place Alex Battistelli playing Turn 3 Karn

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Creatures: (7)

3 Wurmcoil Engine

1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger

1 Void Winnower

1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn

1 Spellskite

Planeswalkers: (6)

4 Karn Liberated

2 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Spells: (27)

4 Expedition Map

4 Chromatic Star

4 Chromatic Sphere

4 Sylvan Scrying

4 Oblivion Stone

4 Ancient Stirrings

1 Firespout

1 Pyroclasm

1 Relic of Progenitus

Lands: (20)

4 Grove of the Burnwillows

1 Forest

2 Ghost Quarter

4 Urza’s Tower

4 Urza’s Power plant

4 Urza’s Mine

1 Eye of Ugin

Sideboard: (15)

2 Trading Post

1 Sundering Titan

1 Wurmcoil Engine

2 Rending Volley

3 Nature’s Claim

1 Spellskite

3 Pyroclasm

1 Ancient Grudge

1 Torpor Orb

Congrats to Alex for sweeping the event and taking home 200 dollars in store credit. Looks like "Turn 3 Karn" really lived up to its name. We look forward to seeing how you do in 2 weeks at GP Pittsburgh 2015. Best of luck to him, and all the other local players who are making the trip.