Over 500 teams descended on San Antonio to play in the Team Unified Modern Grand Prix. In this format if any deck contained a non-Basic Land, no other deck could use copies of that card. The incredible diversity of Modern was put on full display this past weekend and at the end of Sunday there were some familiar decks and faces squaring off for the title.
The Top 4 saw teams of David Ochoa, Matt Severa, and Andrew Baeckstrom and Eli Kassis, Gerard Fabiano, and Ben Lundquist fell by the wayside. The finals pitted Gregory Orange, Adam Jansen, and Andrejs Prost against Owen Turtenwald, William "Huey" Jensen, and Reid Duke.
First, Adam Jansen took his match in three games against Jensen's EldraziTron with his trusty Jund deck. Turtenwald used his Grixis Control deck to win two games against Orange's White-Blue Control. It all rested on a Game 3 between Prost's Affinity and Duke's Abzan Death's Shadow. Duke led off with a fast Stony Silence but it was not enough as Prost's Master of Etherium and Etched Champion got Duke to a life total where Death's Shadow would be a 13/13.
(Corbin) Taking down Peach Garden Oath 2-1, your winners of #GPSanAnt are Greg Orange, Adam Jansen and Andrejs Prost! pic.twitter.com/xOgxqCaben
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Jund ? Team Unified Modern | Adam Jansen, Winner Grand Prix San Antonio
- Creatures (11)
- 3 Scavenging Ooze
- 4 Dark Confidant
- 4 Tarmogoyf
- Planeswalkers (5)
- 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
- 4 Liliana of the Veil
- Instants (12)
- 2 Abrupt Decay
- 2 Fatal Push
- 2 Kolaghan's Command
- 2 Terminate
- 4 Lightning Bolt
- Sorceries (8)
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Maelstrom Pulse
- 3 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 3 Thoughtseize
- Lands (24)
- 2 Forest
- 2 Swamp
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Overgrown Tomb
- 1 Stomping Ground
- 1 Twilight Mire
- 2 Bloodstained Mire
- 2 Wooded Foothills
- 4 Blackcleave Cliffs
- 4 Raging Ravine
- 4 Verdant Catacombs
- Sideboard (15)
- 1 Anger of the Gods
- 1 Bonfire of the Damned
- 1 Huntmaster of the Fells
- 1 Kitchen Finks
- 1 Night of Souls' Betrayal
- 1 Obstinate Baloth
- 1 Painful Truths
- 1 Terminate
- 2 Ancient Grudge
- 2 Feed the Clan
- 3 Fulminator Mage
White-Blue Control ? Team Unified Modern | Gregory Orange, Winner Grand Prix San Antonio
- Creatures (3)
- 3 Snapcaster Mage
- Planeswalkers (2)
- 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
- 1 Jace, Architect of Thought
- Instants (15)
- 1 Blessed Alliance
- 2 Mana Leak
- 2 Spell Snare
- 3 Condemn
- 3 Cryptic Command
- 4 Path to Exile
- Sorceries (10)
- 2 Supreme Verdict
- 4 Ancestral Vision
- 4 Serum Visions
- Enchantments (6)
- 2 Detention Sphere
- 4 Spreading Seas
- Artifacts (1)
- 1 Crucible of Worlds
- Lands (23)
- 4 Island
- 2 Plains
- 2 Hallowed Fountain
- 3 Celestial Colonnade
- 4 Flooded Strand
- 4 Ghost Quarter
- 4 Seachrome Coast
- Sideboard (15)
- 1 Dispel
- 1 Rest in Peace
- 2 Celestial Purge
- 2 Negate
- 2 Porphyry Nodes
- 2 Stony Silence
- 2 Vendilion Clique
- 3 Kor Firewalker
Affinity ? Team Unified Modern | Andrejs Prost, Winner Grand Prix San Antonio
- Creatures (26)
- 2 Memnite
- 4 Arcbound Ravager
- 4 Master of Etherium
- 4 Ornithopter
- 4 Signal Pest
- 4 Steel Overseer
- 4 Vault Skirge
- Instants (4)
- 4 Galvanic Blast
- Artifacts (17)
- 1 Welding Jar
- 4 Cranial Plating
- 4 Darksteel Citadel
- 4 Mox Opal
- 4 Springleaf Drum
- Lands (13)
- 1 Island
- 2 Glimmervoid
- 2 Spire of Industry
- 4 Blinkmoth Nexus
- 4 Inkmoth Nexus
- Sideboard (15)
- 1 Dismember
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
- 1 Spellskite
- 1 Wear // Tear
- 2 Ghirapur Aether Grid
- 2 Hurkyl's Recall
- 3 Etched Champion
- 4 Spell Pierce
Eldrazi Tron ? Team Unified Modern | William "Huey" Jensen, Finalist Grand Prix San Antonio
- Creatures (19)
- 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
- 2 Endbringer
- 4 Matter Reshaper
- 4 Reality Smasher
- 4 Thought-Knot Seer
- 4 Walking Ballista
- Planeswalkers (1)
- 1 Karn Liberated
- Instants (3)
- 3 Dismember
- Sorceries (1)
- 1 All Is Dust
- Enchantments (6)
- 2 Detention Sphere
- 4 Spreading Seas
- Artifacts (11)
- 1 Batterskull
- 2 Mind Stone
- 4 Chalice of the Void
- 4 Expedition Map
- Lands (24)
- 2 Wastes
- 1 Buried Ruin
- 1 Sea Gate Wreckage
- 2 Cavern of Souls
- 2 Ghost Quarter
- 4 Eldrazi Temple
- 4 Urza's Mine
- 4 Urza's Power Plant
- 4 Urza's Tower
- Sideboard (15)
- 1 Basilisk Collar
- 1 Batterskull
- 1 Dismember
- 1 Pithing Needle
- 2 All Is Dust
- 3 Ratchet Bomb
- 3 Relic of Progenitus
- 3 Spatial Contortion
Grixis Control ? Team Unified Modern | Owen Turtenwald, Finalist Grand Prix San Antonio
- Creatures (7)
- 3 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
- 4 Snapcaster Mage
- Instants (23)
- 2 Countersquall
- 2 Spell Snare
- 3 Kolaghan's Command
- 4 Cryptic Command
- 4 Lightning Bolt
- 4 Terminate
- 4 Thought Scour
- Sorceries (8)
- 4 Ancestral Vision
- 4 Serum Visions
- Lands (22)
- 2 Island
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 2 Creeping Tar Pit
- 2 Spirebluff Canal
- 2 Steam Vents
- 2 Watery Grave
- 4 Polluted Delta
- 4 Scalding Tarn
- Sideboard (15)
- 1 Countersquall
- 1 Damnation
- 1 Vendilion Clique
- 2 Anger of the Gods
- 2 Dispel
- 2 Engineered Explosives
- 3 Molten Rain
- 3 Surgical Extraction
Abzan Death's Shadow ? Team Unified Modern | Reid Duke, Finalist Grand Prix San Antonio
- Creatures (14)
- 2 Grim Flayer
- 4 Death's Shadow
- 4 Street Wraith
- 4 Tarmogoyf
- Planeswalkers (4)
- 4 Liliana of the Veil
- Instants (8)
- 1 Murderous Cut
- 3 Abrupt Decay
- 4 Fatal Push
- Sorceries (12)
- 4 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 4 Thoughtseize
- 4 Traverse the Ulvenwald
- Artifacts (4)
- 4 Mishra's Bauble
- Lands (18)
- 1 Forest
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Godless Shrine
- 1 Temple Garden
- 2 Overgrown Tomb
- 4 Marsh Flats
- 4 Verdant Catacombs
- 4 Windswept Heath
- Sideboard (15)
- 1 Ranger of Eos
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
- 1 Yixlid Jailer
- 2 Collective Brutality
- 2 Fulminator Mage
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
- 3 Lingering Souls
- 3 Stony Silence