The first Championship Qualifier for Season Two of the SCG Tour Online kicks off Sunday morning. This season has more Championship Qualifiers and more prize money than last season along with the addition of a path to qualify for the Zendikar Rising Championship.

Format

We’re still playing Core Set 2021 Standard so prepare for Growth Spiral, Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath, and Wilderness Reclamation. Temur and Four-Color Reclamation took five of the eight spots in the elimination rounds of the Season One Championship with Yuuki Ichikawa taking it down with his Temur build.

Other decks are putting up a fight against the top dog in the format, but other than Bant Ramp, no deck has taken a title yet on the SCG Tour Online. We might see decks like Mono-Black Aggro, Mardu Winota, Mono-Red Aggro, Azorius Control, or Jund/Rakdos Sacrifice continue try to punish the Reclamation decks, but as we’ve seen over the past couple events, the Reclamation decks have all the sideboard tools to combat even the most hateful archetypes in the format.

Players To Watch

The SCG Tour Online continues to get to showcase players around the globe, a rare upside for the current COVID-19 situation.

• Yuuki Ichikawa
• Piotr Glogowski
• Autumn Burchett
• Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
• Yuta Takahashi
• Michael Bonde
• Simon Nielsen
• Eric Froehlich
• Brandon Burton
• Kyle Boggemes
• Eli Kassis
• Ari Lax
• Corey Baumesiter
• Ross Merriam
• Shaheen Soorani

Coverage

Coverage starts at 10 am ET on Sunday. Dom Harvey, Emma Handy, Ryan Overturf, and Todd Anderson will call all the action while I do my usual of picking feature matches, interviewing players, and running things behind the scenes. Watch all the action on twitch.tv/starcitygames and check out the tournament page for the event on MTG Melee.