Grand Prix Chicago Top 8 Decks

GP-Chicago-T8-Decklists
The Standard format is back again in the Grand Prix circuit and this time it was held in Chicago IL. The metagame as expected is saturated with Black Devotion decks as well as varieties of Blue White Control. Red Sligh was the star on the previous weekend but didn’t perform quite well to make it to the top 8. The top deck after 15 rounds was Jared Boettcher’s Black Red Devo version, and here is his list:

Maindeck
4 Pack Rat
4 Nightveil Specter
4 Desecration Demon
4 Gray Merchant of Asphodel

4 Thoughtseize
4 Underworld Connections
4 Hero’s Downfall
2 Dreadbore
1 Mizzium Mortars
1 Doom Blade
1 Ultimate Price
1 Rakdos’s Return
1 Whip of Erebos

4 Mutavault
4 Blood Crypt
4 Temple of Malice
1 Mana Confluence
1 Temple of Epiphany
11 Swamp

Sideboard
1 Dreadbore
1 Ultimate Price
1 Rakdos’s Return
3 Lifebane Zombie
3 Duress
1 Sire of Insanity
1 Erebos, God of the Dead
2 Pharika’s Cure
1 Drown in Sorrow
1 Silence the Believers

The rest of the top 8 decklists can be found at the Wizard’s coverage page here.