This weekend only had GP Houston for the premiere tournaments on our calendar. It was won by Adam Yurchick, he had placed second at two previous Grand Prixes and placed 9th at Pro Tour Hollywood. He defeated Shuuhei Nakamura in the Quarterfinals, StarCityGames writer Todd Anderson in the Semifinals and relative unknown Shaun Rodriguez.

Yurchick's Thopter / Depths

[cardlist]1 Academy Ruins

4 Dark Depths

3 Island

4 River of Tears

4 Sunken Ruins

2 Swamp

2 Tolaria West

4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

4 Dark Confidant

4 Vampire Hexmage

1 Boomerang

4 Chrome Mox

3 Compulsive Research

1 Engineered Explosives

2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor

4 Muddle the Mixture

1 Rite of Consumption

1 Slaughter Pact

1 Smother

2 Sword of the Meek

1 Thirst for Knowledge

3 Thopter Foundry

4 Thoughtseize

Sideboard

1 Chalice of the Void

2 Damnation

1 Darkblast

3 Deathmark

2 Duress

3 Extirpate

1 Gatekeeper of Malakir

1 Ghost Quarter

1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor[/cardlist]

Rodriguez's Blood Moon Zoo

[cardlist]4 Arid Mesa

2 Forest

2 Marsh Flats

3 Misty Rainforest

1 Mountain

1 Plains

2 Sacred Foundry

2 Stomping Ground

2 Temple Garden

1 Treetop Village

2 Verdant Catacombs

4 Bloodbraid Elf

4 Knight of the Reliquary

4 Noble Hierarch

2 Qasali Pridemage

4 Tarmogoyf

4 Wild Nacatl

3 Blood Moon

4 Boom // Bust

4 Lightning Bolt

2 Lightning Helix

3 Temporal Isolation

Sideboard

2 Ancient Grudge

2 Damping Matrix

3 Ethersworn Canonist

2 Lightning Helix

2 Path to Exile

1 Ranger of Eos

2 Umezawa's Jitte

1 Volcanic Fallout[/cardlist]

This Weekend

Midwest Masters Qualifier Chicago - A $4,000 prize pool and an invitation to the Midwest Masters Invitational at GenCon in August.