Another weekend means another chance to compete in Magic: the Gathering tournaments, whether in your local game store if they are now allowing face-to-face gameplay or on online platforms like Magic Online and Arena for their scheduled events. Our local Magic Iloilo also held an Arena tournament last night though I was not able to check on the results from our TO Rei.

For today’s Standard deck top finishers, we have a list from the recently uploaded Magic Online Challenge at the Starcity Games website. The Finalist was Gruul Adventures and Sultai Ramp (Yorion) deck archetypes while the rest of the top 8 are composed of Mono-Red, Naya Adventures, and Dimir Control. It looks like that these are the trending deck archetypes in the metagame and with a good reason to be so.

The first placer was piloted by Bielzito, and here below is the decklist.

Gruul Adventures Maindeck
Lands (22)
5 Forest
1 Mountain
4 Barkchannel Pathway
4 Cragcrown Pathway
3 Den of the Bugbear
2 Lair of the Hydra
3 Riverglide Pathway

Creatures (26)
4 Bonecrusher Giant
4 Edgewall Innkeeper
2 Goldspan Dragon
4 Jaspera Sentinel
4 Lovestruck Beast
4 Rimrock Knight
4 Magda, Brazen Outlaw

Spells (12)
2 Embercleave
4 Esika’s Chariot
2 The Great Henge
4 Shatterskull Smashing

Sideboard
1 Elder Gargaroth
2 Ox of Agonas
2 Ranger Class
2 The Akroan War
3 Disdainful Stroke
2 Redcap Melee
2 Wilt
1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets

As for the Sultai Ramp deck with the end-game Emergent Ultimatum, the decklist is below. It was played by username Patxi.

Sultai Ramp Maindeck
Lands (32)
3 Forest
2 Island
2 Swamp
4 Barkchannel Pathway
4 Clearwater Pathway
4 Darkbore Pathway
4 Fabled Passage
1 Ketria Triome
4 Temple of Malady
4 Zagoth Triome

Creatures (8)
4 Elder Gargaroth
2 Polukranos, Unchained
1 Valki, God of Lies
1 Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider

Spells (40)
4 Binding the Old Gods
1 Kiora Bests the Sea God
4 Omen of the Sea
4 Wolfwillow Haven
4 Heartless Act
3 Jwari Disruption
3 Power Word Kill
2 Alrund’s Epiphany
2 Check for Traps
1 Crippling Fear
4 Cultivate
4 Emergent Ultimatum
1 Extinction Event
1 Pestilent Haze
1 Sea Gate Restoration
1 Shadows’ Verdict

Sideboard
1 Mazemind Tome
2 Elspeth’s Nightmare
2 Mystical Dispute
1 Power Word Kill
1 Test of Talents
2 Kaervek, the Spiteful
2 Koma, Cosmos Serpent
1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
3 Duress

See the rest of the Top 8 decks on this link.