Brendon Hansard won Saturday’s SCG Tour Online Championship Qualifier with Mono-Green Aggro.
Creatures (27)
- 4 Scavenging Ooze
- 4 Pelt Collector
- 4 Barkhide Troll
- 4 Lovestruck Beast
- 4 Questing Beast
- 4 Stonecoil Serpent
- 3 Garruk's Harbinger
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (25)
Spells (6)
Sideboard
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.
Creatures (6)
Planeswalkers (8)
Lands (22)
Spells (24)
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%.
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