Top MTG And FAB Decks And Winners From SCG CON New Jersey

SCG CON New Jersey is in the books! Check out all the winners over the weekend and the decklists from the Modern $20K, Modern and Legacy $5Ks, as well as the Flesh and Blood Battle Hardened and Pro Quest winner.

Modern $20K

David Nunez came out on top of the two-day, 430-person Modern $20K with Izzet Prowess (Jegantha).

Izzet Prowess (Jegantha)

David Nunez

1st Place at SCG CON Modern 20K on 01-15-2023

Modern

Creatures (16)

• 4 Monastery Swiftspear
• 4 Soul-Scar Mage
• 4 Sprite Dragon
• 4 Dragon's Rage Channeler

Lands (17)

• 3 Wooded Foothills
• 3 Mountain
• 3 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Sacred Foundry
• 4 Steam Vents
• 3 Scalding Tarn

Spells (27)

• 4 Lightning Bolt
• 4 Lava Dart
• 4 Mishra's Bauble
• 4 Manamorphose
• 4 Mutagenic Growth
• 2 Underworld Breach
• 4 Expressive Iteration
• 1 Unholy Heat

Sideboard

• 2 Dragon's Claw
• 1 Path to Exile
• 4 Spell Pierce
• 1 Alpine Moon
• 2 Soul-Guide Lantern
• 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
• 4 Prismatic Ending

Nunez put a deck that had lost its luster back in the spotlight by winning the Modern $20K with Izzet Prowess. Nunez defeated William Thompson on Azorius Control in the finals to take home the $3,000 first-place prize. Nunez, Thompson and the third and fourth-place finishers, Travis Williams and Joseph Cody, all earned invites to the Regional Championship at DreamHack on top of the prize money for making the Top 4.

View the Top 16 decklists from the Modern $20K.

Modern $5K

Adam Snook won the Modern $5K on Sunday with Rakdos Midrange.

Rakdos Midrange

Adam Snook

1st Place at SCG CON Modern 5K Secaucus on 01-15-2023

Modern

Creatures (20)

• 4 Seasoned Pyromancer
• 4 Grief
• 4 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 4 Dauthi Voidwalker
• 4 Fury

Lands (19)

• 3 Swamp
• 1 Mountain
• 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 4 Bloodstained Mire
• 4 Blood Crypt
• 3 Marsh Flats
• 2 Blackcleave Cliffs

Spells (21)

• 2 Lightning Bolt
• 3 Terminate
• 2 Blood Moon
• 3 Thoughtseize
• 1 Kolaghan's Command
• 2 Malakir Rebirth
• 1 Agadeem's Awakening
• 3 Feign Death
• 2 Undying Malice
• 2 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker

Sideboard

• 1 Blood Moon
• 2 Engineered Explosives
• 1 Nihil Spellbomb
• 1 Collective Brutality
• 2 Fatal Push
• 2 Necromentia
• 2 Tourach, Dread Cantor
• 1 Path of Peril
• 1 Hidetsugu Consumes All
• 1 Ob Nixilis, the Adversary
• 1 Unlicensed Hearse

Snook, a longtime SCG regular and midrange enthusiast, beat Robert Seder on Azorius Control to win $1,500 and the qualification to the Regional Championship at DreamHack.

View the Top 16 decklists from the Modern $5K.

Legacy $5K

Garret Hodos and Izzet Delver claimed the top spot in the Legacy $5K on Sunday.

Izzet Delver

Garret Hodos

1st Place at SCG CON Legacy 5K Secaucus on 01-15-2023

Legacy

Creatures (13)

• 4 Delver of Secrets
• 1 Brazen Borrower
• 4 Dragon's Rage Channeler
• 4 Murktide Regent

Lands (19)

• 4 Wasteland
• 1 Island
• 4 Volcanic Island
• 2 Polluted Delta
• 2 Flooded Strand
• 1 Steam Vents
• 2 Misty Rainforest
• 2 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Mystic Sanctuary

Spells (28)

• 4 Brainstorm
• 4 Lightning Bolt
• 4 Force of Will
• 4 Daze
• 1 Pyroblast
• 2 Mishra's Bauble
• 4 Ponder
• 4 Expressive Iteration
• 1 Unholy Heat

Sideboard

• 1 Meltdown
• 1 Price of Progress
• 3 Pyroblast
• 1 Hydroblast
• 1 Submerge
• 2 Counterbalance
• 2 Blood Knight
• 1 Surgical Extraction
• 2 Force of Negation
• 1 Fury

Hodos won an Izzet Delver mirror against Kenta Hiroki to win $1,500 and the trophy. The Top 16 had five white or Boros Initiative decks, but Izzet Delver still took the top two spots in the 92-person event.

View the Top 16 decklists from the Legacy $5K.

Battle Hardened

Jeffrey White won the Classic Constructed Battle Hardened event on Saturday with Oldhim, Grandfather of Eternity.

White won the Saturday Battle Hardened, defeating Michael Jaszczur in the Oldhim mirror. The other top four players were both on Iyslander, Stormbind.

View the Battle Hardened decklists here.

Pro Quest

Hayden Jeanson won the Classic Constructed Pro Quest on Sunday with Oldhim, Grandfather of Eternity.

Decklists aren’t available yet. Check out the Flesh and Blood decklists page for updates.

SCG CON returns with more Magic: The Gathering and Flesh and Blood action in Indianapolis on February 3-5.