This past weekend StarCityGames.com hosted their first of two Invitational events scheduled for this year. The event featured 140 players in their Invitational event, 363 for the Standard Open and 334 for the Legacy Open. The Invitational featured a number of well known faces such as Patrick Chapin, Michael Jacob, and more!
Invitational
Patrick Cox won the event, taking home the $10,000 prize! Read the full decks for both Standard and Legacy for the Invitational's Top 8 here.
"Patrick Cox - Standard RUG"
- Creatures (11)
- 2 Consecrated Sphinx
- 4 Inferno Titan
- 4 Lotus Cobra
- 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
- Planeswalkers (4)
- 4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
- Spells (18)
- 3 Beast Within
- 1 Dismember
- 4 Explore
- 2 Lightning Bolt
- 4 Mana Leak
- 4 Preordain
- Lands (27)
- 3 Copperline Gorge
- 4 Forest
- 2 Halimar Depths
- 4 Island
- 4 Misty Rainforest
- 2 Mountain
- 4 Raging Ravine
- 4 Scalding Tarn
- Sideboard (15)
- 3 Obstinate Baloth
- 1 Deprive
- 1 Dismember
- 3 Flashfreeze
- 1 Lightning Bolt
- 3 Nature's Claim
- 3 Pyroclasm
"Patrick Cox - Legacy - Zoo"
- Creatures (24)
- 3 Grim Lavamancer
- 4 Kird Ape
- 4 Loam Lion
- 3 Qasali Pridemage
- 2 Stoneforge Mystic
- 4 Tarmogoyf
- 4 Wild Nacatl
- Spells (16)
- 3 Chain Lightning
- 4 Lightning Bolt
- 4 Lightning Helix
- 3 Path to Exile
- 1 Sword of Body and Mind
- 1 Umezawa's Jitte
- Lands (20)
- 4 Arid Mesa
- 1 Forest
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Plains
- 2 Plateau
- 1 Savannah
- 2 Taiga
- 4 Windswept Heath
- 4 Wooded Foothills
- Sideboard (15)
- 1 Sword of Fire and Ice
- 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
- 1 Ranger of Eos
- 2 Choke
- 1 Krosan Grip
- 1 Path to Exile
- 2 Pyroblast
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
- 3 Gaddock Teeg
- 1 Thrun, the Last Troll
- 1 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
Standard Open
"1st. Matthew Landstrom - Vampires"
- Creatures (26)
- 4 Bloodghast
- 4 Gatekeeper of Malakir
- 4 Kalastria Highborn
- 3 Manic Vandal
- 4 Pulse Tracker
- 4 Vampire Lacerator
- 3 Viscera Seer
- Spells (11)
- 3 Dismember
- 4 Go for the Throat
- 4 Lightning Bolt
- Lands (23)
- 4 Blackcleave Cliffs
- 4 Dragonskull Summit
- 4 Lavaclaw Reaches
- 3 Marsh Flats
- 6 Swamp
- 2 Verdant Catacombs
- Sideboard (15)
- 2 Batterskull
- 2 Skinrender
- 2 Dark Tutelage
- 2 Act of Aggression
- 2 Crush
- 1 Doom Blade
- 4 Arc Trail
"2nd. Wes Murphy - Caw-Blade"
- Creatures (9)
- 4 Squadron Hawk
- 4 Stoneforge Mystic
- 1 Sun Titan
- Planeswalkers (5)
- 1 Jace Beleren
- 4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
- Spells (19)
- 2 Batterskull
- 1 Day of Judgment
- 2 Dismember
- 1 Divine Offering
- 1 Into the Roil
- 3 Mana Leak
- 4 Preordain
- 3 Spell Pierce
- 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
- 1 Sword of War and Peace
- Lands (27)
- 4 Celestial Colonnade
- 3 Glacial Fortress
- 2 Inkmoth Nexus
- 4 Island
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 4 Plains
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 4 Seachrome Coast
- 4 Tectonic Edge
- Sideboard (15)
- 2 Spellskite
- 2 Celestial Purge
- 2 Condemn
- 1 Dismember
- 2 Divine Offering
- 1 Into the Roil
- 2 Mental Misstep
- 2 Gideon Jura
- 1 Day of Judgment
"3rd. Isaac Davis - U/R Twin Exarch"
- Creatures (10)
- 4 Deceiver Exarch
- 1 Inferno Titan
- 4 Sea Gate Oracle
- 1 Sphinx of Jwar Isle
- Spells (0)
- Planeswalkers (24)
- 2 Jace Beleren
- 4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
- 1 Flame Slash
- 4 Into the Roil
- 3 Mana Leak
- 4 Preordain
- 2 Spell Pierce
- 4 Splinter Twin
- Lands (26)
- 10 Island
- 8 Mountain
- 4 Scalding Tarn
- 4 Tectonic Edge
- Sideboard (15)
- 3 Spellskite
- 3 Manic Vandal
- 2 Dispel
- 2 Spell Pierce
- 2 Twisted Image
- 3 Pyroclasm
Legacy Open
"1st. Thomas Graves - No R/U/G"
- Creatures (13)
- 1 Grim Lavamancer
- 4 Noble Hierarch
- 1 Progenitus
- 4 Tarmogoyf
- 3 Vendilion Clique
- Spells (28)
- 4 Brainstorm
- 3 Daze
- 4 Force of Will
- 3 Green Sun's Zenith
- 4 Lightning Bolt
- 4 Mental Misstep
- 4 Natural Order
- 2 Ponder
- Lands (19)
- 1 Forest
- 1 Island
- 4 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Taiga
- 3 Tropical Island
- 3 Volcanic Island
- 4 Wooded Foothills
- 1 Dryad Arbor
- Sideboard (15)
- 2 Relic of Progenitus
- 2 Grim Lavamancer
- 2 Ancient Grudge
- 2 Pyroblast
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
- 2 Umezawa's Jitte
- 2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
- 1 Mountain
"2nd. Kyle Kloster - Reanimator"
- Creatures (11)
- 1 Blazing Archon
- 3 Putrid Imp
- 1 Inkwell Leviathan
- 1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
- 3 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
- 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
- 1 Stormtide Leviathan
- Spells (32)
- 3 Animate Dead
- 2 Brainstorm
- 4 Careful Study
- 4 Daze
- 4 Entomb
- 4 Exhume
- 4 Force of Will
- 3 Mental Misstep
- 4 Reanimate
- Lands (17)
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 3 Island
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 4 Polluted Delta
- 4 Swamp
- 4 Underground Sea
- Sideboard (15)
- 4 Pithing Needle
- 1 Empyrial Archangel
- 1 Putrid Imp
- 1 Terastodon
- 2 Brainstorm
- 1 Mental Misstep
- 4 Spell Pierce
- 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
"3rd. Scott Muir - Merfolk"
- Creatures (23)
- 4 Coralhelm Commander
- 4 Cursecatcher
- 2 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
- 4 Lord of Atlantis
- 4 Merrow Reejerey
- 4 Silvergill Adept
- 1 Sower of Temptation
- Spells (17)
- 4 Aether Vial
- 3 Daze
- 1 Echoing Truth
- 4 Force of Will
- 4 Mental Misstep
- 1 Umezawa's Jitte
- Sideboard (15)
- 3 Null Rod
- 3 Pithing Needle
- 4 Relic of Progenitus
- 3 Mind Harness
- 1 Echoing Truth
- 1 Umezawa's Jitte