Top Decks And Winners From North American Eternal Weekend 2024

This past weekend, Magic: The Gathering players descended upon the Steel City for Eternal Weekend 2024 – a three-day event celebrating Magic’s oldest and most powerful formats.

2024 North American Vintage Championship

The first of two main events, the 2024 North American Vintage Championship, kicked things off with nine rounds of swiss on Friday and featured over 400 players.

With Saturday reserved for Legacy, the Vintage Top 8 action picked back up on Sunday morning, with a diverse metagame that featured seven unique decks:

• Esper Midrange (2)
• Esper Control
• Dimir Control
• Doomsday
• Oath of Druids
• Mono-Blue Shops
• Paradoxical Outcome

After battling through the elimination rounds, the finals came down to a control mirror between Max Gilmore playing Esper Control (Lurrus) and Chase Hoppe playing Dimir Control (Lurrus).

Esper Control (Lurrus)

Max Gilmore

1st Place at Eternal Weekend on 11-24-2024

Vintage

Creatures (9)

• 2 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
• 2 Orcish Bowmasters
• 4 Psychic Frog
• 1 Nethergoyf

Lands (18)

• 1 Strip Mine
• 3 Wasteland
• 3 Underground Sea
• 3 Tundra
• 1 Karakas
• 3 Flooded Strand
• 3 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Urza's Saga

Spells (33)

• 1 Brainstorm
• 4 Force of Will
• 4 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Time Walk
• 1 Ancestral Recall
• 1 Black Lotus
• 1 Lotus Petal
• 1 Mox Jet
• 1 Mox Pearl
• 1 Mox Sapphire
• 2 Ponder
• 2 Spell Pierce
• 1 Nihil Spellbomb
• 1 Mental Misstep
• 1 Gitaxian Probe
• 1 Treasure Cruise
• 1 Dig Through Time
• 3 Force of Negation
• 1 Dress Down
• 2 Lorien Revealed
• 1 Vexing Bauble

Sideboard

• 2 Null Rod
• 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
• 1 Pithing Needle
• 1 Mindbreak Trap
• 1 Nihil Spellbomb
• 4 Containment Priest
• 2 Fatal Push
• 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
• 2 Consign to Memory

Dimir Control (Lurrus)

Chase Hoppe

2nd Place at Eternal Weekend on 11-24-2024

Vintage

Creatures (8)

• 4 Orcish Bowmasters
• 4 Psychic Frog

Lands (17)

• 1 Strip Mine
• 4 Wasteland
• 1 Swamp
• 1 Island
• 4 Underground Sea
• 4 Polluted Delta
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Urza's Saga

Spells (35)

• 1 Brainstorm
• 4 Force of Will
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Time Walk
• 1 Ancestral Recall
• 2 Daze
• 1 Timetwister
• 1 Black Lotus
• 1 Mox Jet
• 1 Mox Pearl
• 1 Mox Sapphire
• 3 Mishra's Bauble
• 1 Ponder
• 2 Spell Pierce
• 1 Mental Misstep
• 1 Gitaxian Probe
• 1 Flusterstorm
• 1 Treasure Cruise
• 1 Dig Through Time
• 3 Fatal Push
• 3 Force of Negation
• 1 Lorien Revealed
• 1 Vexing Bauble

Sideboard

• 1 Hurkyl's Recall
• 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
• 1 Annul
• 1 Tormod's Crypt
• 1 Pithing Needle
• 1 Steel Sabotage
• 1 Grafdigger's Cage
• 1 Fatal Push
• 2 Soul-Guide Lantern
• 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
• 1 Dress Down
• 1 Long Goodbye
• 2 Consign to Memory

In the end, Gilmore defeated Hoppe two games to zero to claim the title of 2024 North American Vintage Champion.

View decklists for the entire Top 8 on Melee.

2024 North American Legacy Championship

With the elimination rounds for the Vintage Championship being held Sunday, its participants were able to also play in Saturday’s main event – the North American Legacy Championship. The event featured 11 rounds of swiss and a staggering 1155 players.

Sunday afternoon’s Legacy Championship Top 8 featured six unique decks:

• Mystic Forge Combo (3)
• Bant Nadu
• Cephalid Breakfast
• Rakdos Painter
• Death and Taxes (Yorion)
• Dimir Reanimator

After the dust settled, the finals came down to Kevin Wallace playing Mystic Forge Combo, the most represented deck in the Top 8, against Bailey Sarkis playing Bant Nadu.

Mystic Forge Combo

Kevin Wallace

1st Place at Eternal Weekend on 11-24-2024

Legacy

Creatures (4)

• 4 Glaring Fleshraker

Planeswalkers (4)

• 4 Karn, the Great Creator

Lands (19)

• 4 Ancient Tomb
• 4 Urza's Tower
• 3 Urza's Saga
• 4 Urza's Workshop
• 4 Planar Nexus

Spells (33)

• 4 Grim Monolith
• 1 Basalt Monolith
• 1 Candelabra of Tawnos
• 3 Voltaic Key
• 4 Lotus Petal
• 1 Pithing Needle
• 1 Mox Opal
• 4 Manifold Key
• 2 Mystic Forge
• 4 The One Ring
• 4 Vexing Bauble
• 4 Kozilek's Command

Sideboard

• 1 Ensnaring Bridge
• 1 Mycosynth Lattice
• 1 Pithing Needle
• 1 Faerie Macabre
• 1 Liquimetal Coating
• 2 Dismember
• 1 Paradox Engine
• 2 Silent Gravestone
• 1 Mystic Forge
• 1 Portable Hole
• 3 Boseiju, Who Endures

Bant Nadu

Bailey Sarkis

2nd Place at Eternal Weekend on 11-24-2024

Legacy

Creatures (29)

• 4 Birds of Paradise
• 4 Nomads en-Kor
• 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
• 4 Noble Hierarch
• 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
• 1 Collector Ouphe
• 3 Allosaurus Shepherd
• 2 Endurance
• 1 Atraxa, Grand Unifier
• 4 Nadu, Winged Wisdom
• 3 Springheart Nantuko

Lands (20)

• 2 Forest
• 4 Gaea's Cradle
• 2 Tropical Island
• 2 Savannah
• 1 Bayou
• 4 Windswept Heath
• 2 Dryad Arbor
• 3 Misty Rainforest

Spells (11)

• 3 Natural Order
• 4 Chord of Calling
• 4 Green Sun's Zenith

Sideboard

• 4 Swords to Plowshares
• 3 Faerie Macabre
• 2 Force of Vigor
• 2 Deafening Silence
• 1 Toxicrene
• 3 Consign to Memory

Despite Nadu’s dominance in Modern, the bird was unable to take down the Forge, as Wallace was able to defeat Sarkis two games to zero to claim the title of 2024 North American Legacy champion.

View decklists for the rest of the Top 8 on Melee.