Burchett Crushes Competition, Goes 6-0 On First Day Of Grand Finals

With Day 1 of the 2020 Magic: The Gathering Grand Finals in the books, Mythic Champion Autumn Burchett sits alone atop the leaderboard as the sole undefeated player, going 6-0 with Gruul Adventures in Zendikar Rising Standard and Four-Color Ramp in Historic.

Despite 70% of the Zendikar Rising Standard decks for this event containing Omnath, Locus of Creation, testing partners Autumn Burchett, Emma Handy, and Luis Salvatto managed to put up an impressive 8-1 combined record with Gruul Adventures.

Gruul Adventures

Autumn Burchett

5th Place at Grand Finals on 10-09-2020

Standard

Creatures (30)

• 2 Scavenging Ooze
• 4 Lovestruck Beast
• 4 Edgewall Innkeeper
• 4 Bonecrusher Giant
• 4 Stonecoil Serpent
• 4 Gemrazer
• 4 Brushfire Elemental
• 4 Kazandu Mammoth

Lands (20)

• 6 Forest
• 4 Mountain
• 2 Evolving Wilds
• 4 Fabled Passage
• 4 Cragcrown Pathway

Spells (10)

• 4 Embercleave
• 4 Primal Might
• 2 Shatterskull Smashing

Sideboard

• 2 Ranger's Guile
• 3 Embereth Shieldbreaker
• 2 The Great Henge
• 3 Chainweb Aracnir
• 2 Vivien, Monsters' Advocate
• 3 Thundering Rebuke

In second place with a record of 5-1, Magic Hall of Famer, Seth Manfield, also found success in Zendikar Rising Standard with a deck designed to beat Omnath — Dimir Rogues.

Dimir Rogues (Lurrus)

Seth Manfield

7th Place at Grand Finals on 10-09-2020

Standard

Creatures (12)

• 4 Vantress Gargoyle
• 4 Thieves' Guild Enforcer
• 4 Soaring Thought-Thief

Lands (21)

• 3 Swamp
• 4 Island
• 4 Temple of Deceit
• 2 Castle Locthwain
• 4 Zagoth Triome
• 4 Clearwater Pathway

Spells (27)

• 2 Mystical Dispute
• 4 Into the Story
• 4 Drown in the Loch
• 1 Cling to Dust
• 4 Heartless Act
• 4 Frantic Inventory
• 2 Lofty Denial
• 2 Bloodchief's Thirst
• 2 Silundi Vision
• 2 Agadeem's Awakening

Sideboard

• 2 Negate
• 1 Mystical Dispute
• 1 Cling to Dust
• 3 Agonizing Remorse
• 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
• 1 Eliminate
• 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
• 4 Lullmage's Domination
• 1 Skyclave Shade

In a fun twist of fate, Manfield also registered Jund Sacrifice for Historic — a deck which he defeated in the finals of the 2020 Mythic Invitational last month.

Jund Sacrifice

Seth Manfield

7th Place at Grand Finals on 10-09-2020

Historic

Creatures (24)

• 3 Midnight Reaper
• 4 Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 4 Dreadhorde Butcher
• 4 Mayhem Devil
• 1 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
• 4 Cauldron Familiar
• 4 Woe Strider

Lands (24)

• 2 Swamp
• 1 Phyrexian Tower
• 4 Overgrown Tomb
• 4 Stomping Ground
• 4 Blood Crypt
• 4 Dragonskull Summit
• 2 Woodland Cemetery
• 2 Sheltered Thicket
• 1 Cragcrown Pathway

Spells (12)

• 4 Collected Company
• 4 Witch's Oven
• 4 Claim the Firstborn

Sideboard

• 4 Thoughtseize
• 1 Scavenging Ooze
• 2 Reclamation Sage
• 2 Liliana's Defeat
• 1 Kitesail Freebooter
• 1 Midnight Reaper
• 1 Noxious Grasp
• 1 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
• 2 Redcap Melee

Rounding out the Top 3 players from Day 1, Grand Prix Dallas Champion, Austin Bursavich, opted to hop aboard the Omnath train rather than trying to stop it, playing both Four-Color Adventures in Zendikar Rising Standard and Four-Color Ramp in Historic.

Four-Color Adventures

Austin Bursavich

1st Place at Grand Finals on 10-09-2020

Standard

Creatures (26)

• 2 Lotus Cobra
• 4 Beanstalk Giant
• 2 Giant Killer
• 4 Edgewall Innkeeper
• 4 Bonecrusher Giant
• 4 Fae of Wishes
• 2 Brazen Borrower
• 4 Omnath, Locus of Creation

Lands (26)

• 4 Forest
• 1 Plains
• 2 Mountain
• 4 Island
• 3 Fabled Passage
• 4 Ketria Triome
• 2 Raugrin Triome
• 2 Cragcrown Pathway
• 4 Branchloft Pathway

Spells (8)

• 3 Escape to the Wilds
• 4 Lucky Clover
• 1 Shatterskull Smashing

Sideboard

• 1 Fling
• 1 Negate
• 1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
• 1 Blazing Volley
• 1 Return to Nature
• 2 Mystical Dispute
• 1 Once and Future
• 1 Redcap Melee
• 1 Escape to the Wilds
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Storm's Wrath
• 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
• 1 Neutralize
• 1 Primal Might

Four-Color Ramp

Austin Bursavich

1st Place at Grand Finals on 10-09-2020

Historic

Creatures (14)

• 4 Lotus Cobra
• 1 Kenrith, the Returned King
• 3 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
• 4 Omnath, Locus of Creation
• 2 Yasharn, Implacable Earth

Planeswalkers (1)

• 1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Lands (29)

• 3 Forest
• 1 Plains
• 2 Mountain
• 3 Island
• 1 Sacred Foundry
• 3 Temple Garden
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 3 Hinterland Harbor
• 4 Fabled Passage
• 4 Ketria Triome
• 4 Raugrin Triome

Spells (16)

• 4 Explore
• 1 Cultivate
• 2 Growth Spiral
• 4 Escape to the Wilds
• 3 Genesis Ultimatum
• 1 Shatterskull Smashing
• 1 Felidar Retreat

Sideboard

• 1 Pact of Negation
• 2 Scavenging Ooze
• 1 Grafdigger's Cage
• 3 Deafening Clarion
• 1 Dovin's Veto
• 4 Aether Gust
• 2 Mystical Dispute
• 1 Kenrith, the Returned King

Coverage of Day 2 of the 2020 Magic Grand Finals will resume tomorrow, October 10, at 12 PM ET (9 AM PT) on twitch.tv/Magic.