Modern is back on the Pro Tour schedule and this weekend saw two Grand Prix in the format in Birmingham and São Paulo. The Top 8s of each event helped to showcase the format's diversity.

The Top 8 in Birmingham featured eight different archetypes including current boogeyman Grixis Death's Shadow and crowd "favorite" Lantern Control. In the end, however, it was Loïc Le Briand with his Burn deck featuring Shrine of Infinite Rage who took down the whole tournament.

Burn ? Modern | Loic Le Briand, Winner Grand Prix Birmingham

• Creatures (8)
• 4 Goblin Guide
• 4 Monastery Swiftspear

• Sorceries (8)
• 4 Lava Spike
• 4 Rift Bolt

• Instants (20)
• 4 Boros Charm
• 4 Lightning Bolt
• 4 Lightning Helix
• 4 Searing Blaze
• 4 Skullcrack

• Artifacts (4)
• 4 Shrine of Burning Rage

• Lands (20)
• 3 Mountain
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 2 Sacred Foundry
• 3 Bloodstained Mire
• 3 Inspiring Vantage
• 4 Arid Mesa
• 4 Wooded Foothills

• Sideboard (15)
• 2 Grim Lavamancer
• 2 Kor Firewalker
• 2 Path to Exile
• 2 Shattering Spree
• 3 Relic of Progenitus
• 4 Destructive Revelry

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Over in Brazil the Top 8 featured seven different archetypes, including two copies of Grixis Shadow. It did not triumph in Brazil either as Joao Lelis took down the tournament in São Paulo with Bant Knightfall.

Bant Knightfall ? Modern | Joao Lelis, Winner Grand Prix Sao Paulo

• Creatures (27)
• 1 Qasali Pridemage
• 2 Kitchen Finks
• 2 Selfless Spirit
• 3 Thalia, Heretic Cathar
• 3 Tireless Tracker
• 4 Birds of Paradise
• 4 Knight of the Reliquary
• 4 Noble Hierarch
• 4 Spell Queller

• Instants (7)
• 3 Path to Exile
• 4 Collected Company

• Enchantments (3)
• 3 Retreat to Coralhelm

• Lands (23)
• 1 Island
• 2 Plains
• 4 Forest
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Gavony Township
• 1 Ghost Quarter
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Sejiri Steppe
• 1 Temple Garden
• 2 Misty Rainforest
• 4 Flooded Strand
• 4 Windswept Heath

• Sideboard (15)
• 1 Fracturing Gust
• 1 Qasali Pridemage
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 2 Phyrexian Revoker
• 3 Mirran Crusader
• 3 Flashfreeze
• 3 Ceremonious Rejection

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