Claudinei Brasil Jr. won Sunday’s SCG Tour Online Standard $5K Strixhaven Championship Qualifier #1 with Jeskai Cycling (Lurrus).
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Lands (19)
Spells (25)
Brasil Jr. earned an invite to the Strixhaven Championship and $1,500 by winning the 342-person event while only dropping a single match in the Swiss. Brasil Jr. sliced through the elimination rounds only losing a single game in the quarterfinals to Karl Sarap on Mono-Red Aggro❄. He beat Tomohiro Nakagawa in the semis in pseudo-mirror match, though Nakagawa opted for cards like Irencrag Pyromancer and Rielle, the Everwise without a companion. Brasil Jr. defeated Toni Ramis Pascual on Dimir Rogues (Lurrus) in the finals to take the crown.
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Lands (24)
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Despite Sultai Ramp (Yorion) being the most played deck by a wide margin, only one copy of the deck made the elimination rounds in the hands of Alexander Flynn. Jeskai Cycling — with or without Lurrus of the Dream-Den — has moved up to the second-most played deck, followed closely by Naya Adventures, though it can be subdivided into traditional builds, a more token-based build, and even the evolution of the deck built around a combo kill with Unleash Fury and Kazuul’s Fury in the aptly named Naya Fury.
Creatures (26)
- 4 Lovestruck Beast
- 4 Giant Killer
- 4 Edgewall Innkeeper
- 4 Bonecrusher Giant
- 2 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
- 4 Clarion Spirit
- 4 Jaspera Sentinel
Lands (23)
Spells (11)
The metagame breakdown for decks with more than two pilots in the event can be seen below.
| Archetype | Copies |
|---|---|
| Sultai Ramp (Yorion) | 81 |
| Jeskai Cycling (w/ or w/out Lurrus) | 45 |
| Naya Adventures | 40 |
| Mono-Red Aggro❄ | 31 |
| Dimir Rogues (Lurrus) | 30 |
| Temur Adventures (Obosh) | 23 |
| Naya Fury | 12 |
| Temur Adventures | 10 |
| Mono-Green Aggro | 7 |
| Gruul Adventures | 6 |
| Rakdos Sacrifice | 6 |
| Mono-White Aggro❄ | 5 |
| Four-Color Blink (Yorion) | 5 |
| Mono-Blue Snow❄ | 4 |
| Dimir Control | 4 |
| Boros Aggro | 3 |
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