Birrell, Esper Doom Foretold, Wins SCG Tour Online $5K Kaldheim Championship Qualifier #8

Ian Birrell won Sunday’s SCG Tour Online Standard $5K Kaldheim Championship Qualifier #8 with Esper Doom Foretold (Yorion).

Esper Doom Foretold (Yorion)

Ian Birrell

1st Place at Kaldheim Championship Qualifier #8 on 01-10-2021

Standard

Creatures (10)

• 3 Archon of Sun's Grace
• 3 Yorion, Sky Nomad
• 4 Skyclave Apparition

Lands (30)

• 4 Plains
• 3 Swamp
• 3 Island
• 3 Temple of Deceit
• 3 Temple of Enlightenment
• 2 Field of Ruin
• 4 Fabled Passage
• 4 Clearwater Pathway
• 4 Brightclimb Pathway

Spells (40)

• 3 Negate
• 4 Doom Foretold
• 1 Dance of the Manse
• 4 Omen of the Sea
• 2 Treacherous Blessing
• 2 Omen of the Sun
• 4 Elspeth Conquers Death
• 4 Elspeth's Nightmare
• 2 Extinction Event
• 4 Heartless Act
• 2 Eliminate
• 4 Emeria's Call
• 3 Lithoform Blight
• 1 Hagra Mauling

Sideboard

• 1 Duress
• 1 Negate
• 1 Baneslayer Angel
• 1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
• 4 Mystical Dispute
• 1 Treacherous Blessing
• 2 Cling to Dust
• 1 Archon of Sun's Grace
• 2 Extinction Event
• 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad

Birrell earned an invite to the Kaldheim Championship and $1,500 by winning the 282-person event, dropping a single match to the No. 1 seed Urase Ryosuke in the last round of the Swiss. Birrell carved through the elimination rounds with Esper Doom Foretold (Yorion) as nine of the Top 12 decks were either Gruul Adventures or Mono-Green Food.

Birrell’s path to the title required wins over Renato Spinelli (Gruul Adventures), David Steinberg (Mono-Green Food), and Fabian Rogatschnig (Gruul Adventures). The only other non-The Great Henge decks in the Top 12 were Kosuke Nakamoto on Dimir Control (Yorion) and Ronald Muller on Esper Doom Foretold (Yorion), who both lost in the Playoff Wild Card round.

The metagame breakdown for decks with more than three pilots in the event can be seen below.

View the Top 12 decks.