Everything You Need To Know For Sunday’s SCG Tour Online Championship Qualifier

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.

Temur Reclamation

Yuuki Ichikawa

1st Place at SCG Tour Online Championship on 07-19-2020

Standard

Creatures (3)

• 1 Brazen Borrower
• 2 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath

Lands (23)

• 3 Steam Vents
• 3 Stomping Ground
• 4 Breeding Pool
• 2 Blast Zone
• 3 Castle Vantress
• 4 Fabled Passage
• 4 Ketria Triome

Spells (34)

• 2 Forest
• 1 Mountain
• 2 Island
• 2 Opt
• 3 Negate
• 4 Expansion
• 4 Growth Spiral
• 4 Wilderness Reclamation
• 1 Commence the Endgame
• 3 Aether Gust
• 4 Mystical Dispute
• 4 Shark Typhoon

Sideboard

• 1 Negate
• 1 Chemister's Insight
• 1 Commence the Endgame
• 1 Narset's Reversal
• 1 Aether Gust
• 2 Nightpack Ambusher
• 2 Scorching Dragonfire
• 4 Bonecrusher Giant
• 1 Brazen Borrower
• 1 Elder Gargaroth

Four-Color Reclamation

Nam Dang

4th Place at SCG Tour Online Championship on 07-19-2020

Standard

Creatures (5)

• 1 Bonecrusher Giant
• 1 Brazen Borrower
• 3 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath

Planeswalkers (3)

• 3 Teferi, Time Raveler

Lands (29)

• 1 Forest
• 1 Plains
• 1 Mountain
• 2 Island
• 4 Temple Garden
• 2 Stomping Ground
• 2 Breeding Pool
• 2 Hallowed Fountain
• 2 Castle Vantress
• 4 Fabled Passage
• 4 Ketria Triome
• 4 Raugrin Triome

Spells (23)

• 2 Negate
• 4 Expansion
• 4 Growth Spiral
• 4 Wilderness Reclamation
• 2 Aether Gust
• 3 Mystical Dispute
• 4 Shark Typhoon

Sideboard

• 2 Justice Strike
• 2 Dovin's Veto
• 3 Solar Blaze
• 1 Aether Gust
• 2 Spectral Sailor
• 3 Kenrith, the Returned King
• 1 Glass Casket
• 1 Brazen Borrower

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.

Mono-Red Aggro

Robert McKee

2nd Place at SCG Tour Online Championship on 07-19-2020

Standard

Creatures (28)

• 4 Tin Street Dodger
• 4 Grim Initiate
• 4 Scorch Spitter
• 4 Robber of the Rich
• 4 Fervent Champion
• 2 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
• 4 Anax, Hardened in the Forge
• 2 Bolt Hound

Lands (4)

• 4 Castle Embereth

Spells (28)

• 18 Mountain
• 4 Light Up the Stage
• 4 Embercleave
• 2 Claim the Firstborn

Sideboard

• 1 Shock
• 4 Embereth Shieldbreaker
• 2 Claim the Firstborn
• 4 Bonecrusher Giant
• 4 Redcap Melee

Rakdos Sacrifice (Jegantha)

Michael Bonde

5th Place at SCG Tour Online Championship on 07-19-2020

Standard

Creatures (25)

• 2 Midnight Reaper
• 4 Gutterbones
• 4 Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 4 Dreadhorde Butcher
• 4 Mayhem Devil
• 4 Cauldron Familiar
• 3 Woe Strider

Lands (23)

• 6 Swamp
• 3 Mountain
• 4 Blood Crypt
• 3 Temple of Malice
• 3 Castle Locthwain
• 4 Fabled Passage

Spells (12)

• 4 Witch's Oven
• 4 Claim the Firstborn
• 2 Call of the Death-Dweller
• 2 Village Rites

Sideboard

• 4 Rotting Regisaur
• 2 Noxious Grasp
• 2 Embereth Shieldbreaker
• 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
• 3 Agonizing Remorse
• 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
• 2 Eliminate

Mardu Winota

Michael Jacob

3rd Place at Players Tour Finals on 07-26-2020

Standard

Creatures (31)

• 3 Kitesail Freebooter
• 4 Venerated Loxodon
• 1 Tajic, Legion's Edge
• 3 Judith, the Scourge Diva
• 3 Lazotep Reaver
• 1 Knight of the Ebon Legion
• 3 Woe Strider
• 1 General's Enforcer
• 4 Winota, Joiner of Forces
• 4 Basri's Lieutenant
• 4 Selfless Savior

Lands (22)

• 1 Swamp
• 4 Sacred Foundry
• 4 Godless Shrine
• 4 Blood Crypt
• 1 Temple of Silence
• 1 Temple of Triumph
• 1 Castle Embereth
• 2 Fabled Passage
• 4 Savai Triome

Spells (7)

• 2 Plains
• 1 Mountain
• 4 Raise the Alarm

Sideboard

• 1 Kitesail Freebooter
• 2 Legion Warboss
• 1 Despark
• 2 Devout Decree
• 2 Blightbeetle
• 1 Noxious Grasp
• 1 Giant Killer
• 1 Kenrith, the Returned King
• 1 General's Enforcer
• 1 General Kudro of Drannith
• 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
• 1 Eliminate

Mono-Black Aggro

Riku Kumagai

2nd Place at Players Tour Finals on 07-26-2020

Standard

Creatures (28)

• 4 Kitesail Freebooter
• 4 Spawn of Mayhem
• 4 Gutterbones
• 4 Knight of the Ebon Legion
• 3 Rankle, Master of Pranks
• 1 Murderous Rider
• 2 Blacklance Paragon
• 2 Tymaret, Chosen from Death
• 4 Hunted Nightmare

Lands (25)

• 19 Swamp
• 2 Mobilized District
• 4 Castle Locthwain

Spells (7)

• 3 Duress
• 4 Heartless Act

Sideboard

• 3 Grasp of Darkness
• 4 Cry of the Carnarium
• 3 Noxious Grasp
• 1 Murderous Rider
• 3 Agonizing Remorse
• 1 Kaervek, the Spiteful

Jund Sacrifice

Christoffer Larsen

6th Place at Players Tour Finals on 07-26-2020

Standard

Creatures (24)

• 3 Solemn Simulacrum
• 3 Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 4 Mayhem Devil
• 4 Gilded Goose
• 2 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
• 4 Cauldron Familiar
• 4 Woe Strider

Lands (20)

• 3 Swamp
• 4 Overgrown Tomb
• 4 Stomping Ground
• 4 Blood Crypt
• 1 Castle Locthwain
• 4 Fabled Passage

Spells (16)

• 3 Forest
• 1 Mountain
• 2 Bolas's Citadel
• 4 Witch's Oven
• 2 Claim the Firstborn
• 4 Trail of Crumbs

Sideboard

• 1 Duress
• 2 Lava Coil
• 1 Cindervines
• 1 Bolas's Citadel
• 2 Return to Nature
• 2 Noxious Grasp
• 2 Claim the Firstborn
• 4 Agonizing Remorse

Azorius Control (Yorion)

Raphael Levy

8th Place at Players Tour Finals on 07-26-2020

Standard

Creatures (4)

• 2 Archon of Sun's Grace
• 2 Yorion, Sky Nomad

Planeswalkers (8)

• 4 Teferi, Time Raveler
• 4 Narset, Parter of Veils

Lands (19)

• 4 Hallowed Fountain
• 4 Temple of Enlightenment
• 2 Field of Ruin
• 2 Castle Vantress
• 1 Castle Ardenvale
• 4 Fabled Passage
• 2 Raugrin Triome

Spells (49)

• 7 Plains
• 9 Island
• 4 Dovin's Veto
• 2 Aether Gust
• 2 Mystical Dispute
• 3 Glass Casket
• 4 Omen of the Sea
• 2 Thirst for Meaning
• 3 The Birth of Meletis
• 2 Omen of the Sun
• 4 Elspeth Conquers Death
• 3 Shatter the Sky
• 4 Shark Typhoon

Sideboard

• 1 Disdainful Stroke
• 2 Sky Tether
• 1 Commence the Endgame
• 1 Narset's Reversal
• 2 Aether Gust
• 1 Spectral Sailor
• 1 Giant Killer
• 1 Glass Casket
• 1 Brazen Borrower
• 1 Archon of Sun's Grace
• 1 Shatter the Sky
• 1 Heliod's Intervention
• 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad

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.