Wylde-LaRue, Four-Color Rhythm, Wins Portland Regional Championship

Tristan Wylde-LaRue won the Regional Championship at SCG CON Portland with Four-Color Rhythm on Sunday.

Four-Color Rhythm

Tristan Wylde-LaRue

1st Place at Regional Championship on 01-25-2026

Standard

Creatures (32)

• 4 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
• 4 Mockingbird
• 1 Brightglass Gearhulk
• 1 Marang River Regent
• 4 Quantum Riddler
• 4 Gene Pollinator
• 4 Spider Manifestation
• 4 Badgermole Cub
• 4 Formidable Speaker
• 1 Explosive Prodigy

Lands (22)

• 1 Forest
• 3 Temple Garden
• 4 Breeding Pool
• 4 Hushwood Verge
• 2 Willowrush Verge
• 4 Starting Town
• 4 Multiversal Passage

Spells (6)

• 4 Nature's Rhythm
• 1 Meltstrider's Resolve
• 1 Seam Rip

Sideboard

• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Reclamation Sage
• 2 Soul-Guide Lantern
• 1 Keen-Eyed Curator
• 1 Voice of Victory
• 1 Clarion Conqueror
• 1 Ouroboroid
• 2 Meltstrider's Resolve
• 1 Seam Rip
• 2 Spider-Sense
• 1 Wistfulness
• 1 Glen Elendra Guardian

Wylde-Larue put his mark on the Standard format with his own take on the Simic Ouroboroid deck, moving it away from the namesake creature and shifting it into a more toolbox-style deck dependent on Nature’s Rhythm. While still sporting all the mana acceleration Badgermole Cub and friends can provide, his build of the deck utilized Brightglass Gearhulk, often getting Meltstrider’s Resolve, and Explosive Prodigy to get an edge in the green mirrors. The sideboard offered more tools to showcase how flexible this archetype can be.

Wylde-Larue made the Top 8 as the No. 2 seed with a record of 12-2-1 in the Swiss. He took down Aedan Simons-Rudolph, on Boros Dragons, in the quarterfinals and beat Devon Straub, on Simic Ouroboroid, in the semis to reach the finals. Mason Buonadonna, playing Simic Ouroboroid, pathed his way to the finals with wins against Pierre Smith, on Bant Airbending, and Evan Vetter, on Jeskai Control.

The finalists locked up their invites to the World Championship, along with a Pro Tour invite that the Top 32 players earned, but had to duke it out for the title of Regional Champion. The pair split the first two games, leading to Wylde-LaRue to be on the play for the final game — the biggest edge one can have in the Badgermole Cub matchup. His explosive start was too much for Buonadonna to keep up with and Wylde-LaRue beat down with a wide board to win the deciding game, leaving Craterhoof Behemoth nowhere to be seen in the clinching game.

Simic Ouroboroid

Mason Buonadonna

2nd Place at Regional Championship on 01-25-2026

Standard

Creatures (30)

• 4 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1 Reclamation Sage
• 2 Mockingbird
• 1 Keen-Eyed Curator
• 1 Marang River Regent
• 4 Quantum Riddler
• 3 Ouroboroid
• 4 Gene Pollinator
• 4 Spider Manifestation
• 4 Badgermole Cub
• 1 Formidable Speaker

Planeswalkers (2)

• 2 Oko, Lorwyn Liege

Lands (22)

• 7 Forest
• 4 Breeding Pool
• 4 Botanical Sanctum
• 3 Willowrush Verge
• 4 Multiversal Passage

Spells (6)

• 4 Nature's Rhythm
• 2 Spider-Sense

Sideboard

• 1 Disdainful Stroke
• 2 Soul-Guide Lantern
• 1 Into the Flood Maw
• 2 Pawpatch Formation
• 1 Keen-Eyed Curator
• 1 Unable to Scream
• 1 Surrak, Elusive Hunter
• 2 Meltstrider's Resolve
• 1 Spider-Sense
• 1 Ba Sing Se
• 2 Wistfulness

With the release of Lorwyn Eclipsed, Standard saw some shifts from cards like Formidable Speaker and the new evoke Elementals. Elemental-based decks were entirely new creations, while many green decks took advantage of Jean-Emmanuel Depraz’s World Championship card. Check out the Day 1 metagame breakdown of the 899 total players below.

Day 2 consisted of 214 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 Milwaukee on February 20-22.