The StarCityGames.com Legacy Open in Seattle has crowned a champion! The entire event was a massive success, with Seattle becoming the Open Series stop with the most players returning to play on Sunday. Counted amongst their numbers? Some of the Open Series’ best players. Luis Scott-Vargas, the Los Angeles Standard Open champion, was fresh off his Finals appearance during Saturday competition. StarCityGames.com columnist Cedric Phillips was also in the house, battling his trademark Goblin Charbelcher deck. And of course, Brad Nelson was here battling for the second day in a row.
The Top 8 was a combination of new faces and old standbys. Scott-Vargas was back again for the third time in the season, cementing him as the leader in the Open Series Player of the Year race. He was taken out early, however, by Kevin Ambler of Dallas, Texas. Kevin returned to his second Top 8 in as many days as well, but his Merfolk strategy wasn’t powerful enough to overtake Seattle hero Kyle Boddy in the Semifinals. That set up a showdown between Kyle’s “Boddy Horizons” list and Matt Smith’s Zoo build, the second week in a row a Zoo decklist had been in the Finals of a StarCityGames.com Legacy Open.
But Matt’s Prices of Progress, Fireblasts, and Lightning Bolts were no match for Kyle’s Knight of the Reliquaries and Terravores. Kyle Boddy is your StarCityGames.com Legacy Open Seattle champion!
The StarCityGames.com Legacy Open in Seattle has crowned a champion! The entire event was a massive success, with Seattle becoming the Open Series stop with the most players returning to play on Sunday. Counted amongst their numbers? Some of the Open Series’ best players. Luis Scott-Vargas, the Los Angeles Standard Open champion, was fresh off his Finals appearance during Saturday competition. StarCityGames.com columnist Cedric Phillips was also in the house, battling his trademark Goblin Charbelcher deck. And of course, Brad Nelson was here battling for the second day in a row.
The Top 8 was a combination of new faces and old standbys. Scott-Vargas was back again for the third time in the season, cementing him as the leader in the Open Series Player of the Year race. He was taken out early, however, by Kevin Ambler of Dallas, Texas. Kevin returned to his second Top 8 in as many days as well, but his Merfolk strategy wasn’t powerful enough to overtake Seattle hero Kyle Boddy in the Semifinals. That set up a showdown between Kyle’s “Boddy Horizons” list and Matt Smith’s Zoo build, the second week in a row a Zoo decklist had been in the Finals of a StarCityGames.com Legacy Open.
But Matt’s Prices of Progress, Fireblasts, and Lightning Bolts were no match for Kyle’s Knight of the Reliquaries and Terravores. Kyle Boddy is your StarCityGames.com Legacy Open Seattle champion!
John MacFadden was the highest ranked player after the Swiss standings were announced, with no losses and a single intentional draw in the very last round.
Luis was just a single day removed from finishing 2nd at the StarCityGames.com Standard Open in Seattle, and whoever won, it was certainly going to be a battle.
It dominated the world of Extended during the most recent Pro Tour Qualifier season, but the Sword of the Meek/Thopter Foundry combo remains a powerful part of Legacy as well.
Jeff Huang entered the second round of competition on the Legacy portion of the day 1-0, but his opponent, StarCityGames.com own Matt “Googs” Gargiulo was definitely no slouch in the Legacy department.
After twelve rounds of competition, Luis Scott-Vargas found himself in the Finals of his second StarCityGames.com Standard Open, after winning the event held in Los Angeles
We talk with James Nguyen and Sean Collins about their Brilliant Ultimatum deck, both of which made Top 8 at the StarCityGames.com Standard Open in Seattle!
“Good luck man, one of us is in!” Ben Park said to his opponent as they sat down to the final match of Standard play on the first day of competition at the StarCityGames.com Open in Seattle.
Luis Scott-Vargas and Brandon Chreptyk sat down to the seventh round of competition in Seattle with unblemished records, one win away from double drawing into the Top 8.
At every tournament the “usual suspects” run into rogue decks. The StarCityGames.com Standard Open in Seattle is no different, and we spent a round walking around the room to see what Next Level Bant, Super Friends, and U/W were up against.
As it rounds its second decade of existence, Magic: The Gathering’s history, both Pro Tour and non, grows long in the tooth. One man who’s been there through almost everything is Canadian Jeff Cunningham.
The fifth round feature match was a behemoth between two of the game’s titans: Jeff Cunningham representing the old school and Brad Nelson representing the new school.
Josh, a former StarCityGames.com writer, was paired up with local Northwest player Jed Dolbeer in the first round of the StarCityGames.com Standard Open in Seattle.
