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Hansard, Mono-Green Aggro, Wins SCG Tour Online Championship Qualifier

Brendon Hansard dethrones Sultai Ramp with Mono-Green Aggro in fourth Championship Qualifier of the season.

Questing Beast, illustrated by Igor Kieryluk

Brendon Hansard won Saturday’s SCG Tour Online Championship Qualifier with Mono-Green Aggro.

Quarterfinals
1
Ari Lax
Sultai Ramp
8
Masatoshi Ota
Sultai Ramp
4
Kenton Stalder
Mono-Green Aggro
5
Ross Merriam
Rakdos Sacrifice
2
Brendon Hansard
Mono-Green Aggro
7
Yuma Koizzumi
Sultai Ramp
3
Richard Zhang
Sultai Ramp
6
Yoshiro Mikami
Sultai Ramp
Semifinals
Ari Lax
2-1
Ross Merriam
2-0
Brendon Hansard
2-0
Yoshiro Mikami
2-1
Finals
Ari Lax
2-0
Brendon Hansard
2-1
Champion
Brendon Hansard
2-1


Sultai Ramp took five of the Top 8 slots of the fourth Championship Qualifier of the season and was poised to win a third straight event on the SCG Tour Online, but Hansard showed the deck was beatable as he sliced through the format’s top deck eight times on Saturday. Hansard went 6-1 in the Swiss and 5-1 against Sultai Ramp, with his only loss coming to Ari Lax in Round 6. After making the Top 8 as the No. 2 seed, Hansard beat the top deck in Core Set 2021 Standard in each of the elimination rounds, including getting revenge on Lax in the finals.

Hansard took down Yuma Koizumi 2-0 in the quarterfinals and Yoshiro Mikami 2-1 in the semifinals to set up his rematch with Lax, the No. 1 seed in the Top 8. Hansard was able to break serve by winning Game 1 on the draw as Lax stumbled on lands early, but was barely able to deal damage to Lax in Game 2. With the tournament on the line, Hansard kept a marginal hand on the play in Game 3 but was able to take the title with a string of hasty and trampling creatures like Questing Beast and Shifting Ceratops.


Richard Zhang and Masatoshi Ota joined Lax, Mikami, and Koizumi in the Top 8 on Sultai Ramp, while the rest of the bracket was filled out with Ross Merriam’s Rakdos Sacrifice and Kenton Stalder’s Mono-Green Aggro. Sultai Ramp made up more than 45% of the field in the 110-person event, improving to 62.5% of the Top 8. Mono-Green Aggro only totaled almost 11% of the field but had a 56.9% win rate compared to Sultai Ramp’s 52.2%.

View the Top 16 decklists. Join the SCG Tour for the fifth Championship Qualifier of Season 2 on September 7.