Aymie, Four-Color Control, Wins Cincinnati Regional Championship

Zach Aymie won the Regional Championship at SCG CON Cincinnati with Four-Color Control on Sunday.

Four-Color Control

Zachary Aymie

1st Place at Regional Championship on 05-17-2026

Standard

Lands (27)

• 1 Plains
• 2 Sacred Foundry
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 3 Steam Vents
• 3 Hallowed Fountain
• 2 Stormcarved Coast
• 1 Sundown Pass
• 2 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Gloomlake Verge
• 2 Riverpyre Verge
• 1 Cori Mountain Monastery
• 2 Mistrise Village
• 1 Multiversal Passage
• 4 Great Hall of the Biblioplex

Spells (33)

• 1 Pyroclasm
• 1 Negate
• 1 Day of Judgment
• 1 Abrade
• 1 Get Lost
• 1 Ill-Timed Explosion
• 1 Three Steps Ahead
• 4 Stock Up
• 3 Inevitable Defeat
• 4 Jeskai Revelation
• 1 Fire Magic
• 3 Thunder Magic
• 3 Consult the Star Charts
• 1 Sear
• 2 Flashback
• 1 Erode
• 4 Tablet of Discovery

Sideboard

• 1 Pyroclasm
• 2 Flashfreeze
• 1 Day of Judgment
• 2 Rest in Peace
• 2 Disdainful Stroke
• 1 Get Lost
• 1 Outrageous Robbery
• 2 High Noon
• 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
• 2 Emeritus of Ideation

Aymie showed that the rise in popularity of Four-Color Control isn’t just a fad, giving the deck another trophy-earning finish in two straight weekends following its performance at the Champions Cup in Tokyo last weekend. He feasted on Izzet decks of all variations across both days, going 7-2 on Day 1 and 5-0-1 on Day 2 to lock up a No. 5 seed in the single-elimination bracket.

Aymie took down Sam Ng on Izzet Prowess in the quarterfinals, leveraging a clutch copy of High Noon to win the deciding third game. In the semis, Aymie fought through a marathon Game 2 where he fell to 1 multiple times before running Jake Baily, on Temur Omniscience, out of action to advance to the finals.

More Izzet Prowess, this time in the hands of Robert Wagner-Krankel, awaited Aymie in the finals. Both players celebrated their Worlds and Pro Tour invites before battling for the championship trophy. Aymie put on a clinic, offering viewers a glimpse at how powerful the Four-Color Control deck is against the varying Izzet Prowess lists. After a quick win in Game 1, Aymie used another High Noon to shut down Wagner-Krankel, leading to an almost anti-climactic finish to the tournament as he resolved Jeskai Revelation after Jeskai Revelation.

Izzet Prowess

Robert Wagner-Krankel

2nd Place at Regional Championship on 05-17-2026

Standard

Creatures (10)

• 4 Elusive Otter
• 4 Slickshot Show-Off
• 2 Colorstorm Stallion

Lands (21)

• 6 Island
• 4 Steam Vents
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 4 Spirebluff Canal
• 1 Willowrush Verge
• 4 Riverpyre Verge
• 1 Multiversal Passage

Spells (29)

• 4 Sleight of Hand
• 4 Opt
• 4 Burst Lightning
• 1 Spell Pierce
• 4 Stormchaser's Talent
• 1 Wild Ride
• 2 Secret Identity
• 4 Boomerang Basics
• 1 Impractical Joke
• 4 Flow State

Sideboard

• 1 Spell Pierce
• 1 Slagstorm
• 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
• 2 Ral, Crackling Wit
• 2 Into the Flood Maw
• 1 Ghost Vacuum
• 3 Get Out
• 1 Roaring Furnace
• 1 Broadside Barrage
• 1 Sear
• 1 Colorstorm Stallion

Aymie took home $20,000 and the title of champion, while Wagner-Krankel earned $10,000. The Top 32 finishers earned invites to the upcoming Pro Tour in Amsterdam.

The metagame was was led by Izzet Prowess, Selesnya Landfall, Izzet Spellementals, and Four-Color Control — with those four decks taking up just under half of the field on Day 1. Three of the four decks converted Top-8 finishes, leaving Selesnya Landfall with a disappointing weekend after its dominance at Pro Tour Secrets of Strixhaven. Temur Omniscience and Sultai Control, two decks that were barely a blip on the radar coming into the weekend, broke into the Top 8 as fan-favorite archetypes.

Day 2 consisted of 222 players that reached 18 match points on Day 1. See how the archetypes converted below.

View the Top 8 decklists from the Regional Championship. For all the decklists from the event and final standings check out the Melee page for the tournament.

SCG CON will be back in action next in Washington DC on May 29-31.