Eternal Weekend Crowns Latest MTG Vintage And Legacy Champions

North America’s Eternal Weekend is in the books after an action-packed handful of days where a new champ was crowned for Legacy and Vintage.

TK Strachan won the Legacy Championship with Four-Color Control.

Four-Color Control

TK Strachan

1st Place at Legacy Champs on 12-09-2023

Legacy

Creatures (10)

• 3 Murktide Regent
• 3 Triumph of Saint Katherine
• 4 Orcish Bowmasters

Lands (18)

• 3 Underground Sea
• 2 Tundra
• 2 Tropical Island
• 1 Savannah
• 1 Bayou
• 4 Flooded Strand
• 4 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Mystic Sanctuary

Spells (32)

• 4 Brainstorm
• 1 Plains
• 4 Force of Will
• 4 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Island
• 4 Ponder
• 1 Terminus
• 2 Force of Negation
• 1 Dress Down
• 4 Leyline Binding
• 2 Lorien Revealed
• 4 Up the Beanstalk

Sideboard

• 2 Hydroblast
• 2 Carpet of Flowers
• 2 Pernicious Deed
• 1 Nihil Spellbomb
• 2 Surgical Extraction
• 1 Flusterstorm
• 1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
• 1 Plague Engineer
• 2 Veil of Summer
• 1 Opposition Agent

Strachan went 10-1 in the Swiss of the 996-person event with his four-color Up the Beanstalk control deck that generates a ton of value by hitting Triumph of Saint Katherine as a miracle with the two-mana enchantment on the battlefield. Strachan entered the Top 8 as the No. 1 seed and carved through the elimination rounds, defeating Jay Wojciechowski on Grixis Delver in the finals. Strachan won $4,000, the Lightning Bolt painting, and the bragging rights of being the Legacy Champ for 2023. Other notable names in the Top 8 included Bryant Cook, Jack Kitchen, and Cass Lynn.

View the Top 16 decklists for the Legacy Championship.

Anthony Valentine won the Vintage Championship with Jewel Shops.

Jewel Shops

Anthony Valentine

1st Place at Vintage Champs on 12-08-2023

Vintage

Creatures (5)

• 4 Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1 Displacer Kitten

Planeswalkers (1)

• 1 Karn, the Great Creator

Lands (14)

• 4 Ancient Tomb
• 4 Mishra's Workshop
• 1 Tolarian Academy
• 4 Urza's Saga
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City

Spells (40)

• 1 Sensei's Divining Top
• 4 Grim Monolith
• 4 Force of Will
• 1 Mana Vault
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Transmute Artifact
• 1 Time Walk
• 1 Ancestral Recall
• 1 Mana Crypt
• 1 Time Vault
• 1 Trinisphere
• 1 Tinker
• 1 Voltaic Key
• 1 Black Lotus
• 1 Mox Emerald
• 1 Mox Jet
• 1 Mox Pearl
• 1 Mox Ruby
• 1 Mox Sapphire
• 2 Mox Opal
• 4 Paradoxical Outcome
• 4 Coveted Jewel
• 1 Manifold Key
• 1 Sea Gate Restoration
• 3 The One Ring

Sideboard

• 1 Hurkyl's Recall
• 1 Mycosynth Lattice
• 1 Chain of Vapor
• 1 Pithing Needle
• 2 Wurmcoil Engine
• 2 Dismember
• 2 Grafdigger's Cage
• 1 Force of Negation
• 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
• 2 Argentum Masticore
• 1 The One Ring

The Vintage Championship saw 385 players shuffling up their Power 9, Mishra’s Workshops, and all the other strongest cards in Magic: The Gathering history. Anthony Valentine took down the event with his unique build of Jewel Shops, featuring cards like Displacer Kitten and Transmute Artifact. This latest version of Shops combines the power of Mishra’s Workshop with Coveted Jewel and Phyrexian Metamorph along with a Paradoxical Outcome engine to have some of the craziest turns imaginable in the game.

Long gone are the days of Shops being a prison or aggro deck, as Paradoxical Outcome plus tons of cheap or free artifact mana allows you to assemble Time Vault and Voltaic Key or Karn, the Great Creator plus Mycosynth Lattice. Actually winning the game usually comes down to Construct tokens from Urza’s Saga. Of course, The One Ring also ties the room together as a draw engine and a way to make sure it doesn’t lose the game if the deck runs out of gas on a turn.

Valentine defeated Tom Basketball, also on Jewel Shops, in the finals to win $2,000 and the Black Lotus painting.

View the Top 16 decklists for the Vintage Championship.

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