Honnay, Jund Food (Jegantha), Wins SCG Tour Online $5K Strixhaven Championship Qualifier #8

Lukas Honnay won Sunday’s SCG Tour Online Historic $5K Strixhaven Championship Qualifier #8 with Jund Food (Jegantha).

Jund Food (Jegantha)

Lukas Honnay

1st Place at Strixhaven Championship Qualifier #8 on 05-02-2021

Historic

Creatures (20)

• 4 Mayhem Devil
• 4 Gilded Goose
• 4 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
• 4 Cauldron Familiar
• 4 Woe Strider

Lands (22)

• 2 Swamp
• 1 Phyrexian Tower
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 4 Fabled Passage
• 4 Cragcrown Pathway
• 4 Blightstep Pathway
• 4 Darkbore Pathway

Spells (18)

• 2 Forest
• 1 Mountain
• 4 Witch's Oven
• 4 Claim the Firstborn
• 4 Trail of Crumbs
• 3 Binding the Old Gods

Sideboard

• 4 Leyline of the Void
• 4 Thoughtseize
• 2 Fatal Push
• 3 Abrade
• 1 Klothys, God of Destiny
• 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring

Honnay earned an invite to the Strixhaven Championship and $1,500 by winning the 247-person event only dropping a single match in the Swiss. Honnay entered the elimination rounds as the No. 3 seed and faced three distinct archetypes en route to the title. Honnay took the quarterfinals match 2-0 over Admassu Williams on Dimir Tainted Pact (Lurrus) and beat Andre Santos on Jund Company (Jegantha) 2-1. Chase Masters on Jeskai Control awaited in the finals, but Honnay clinched the finals in the third game.

Tainted Pact decks of Dimir and Grixis variants were the breakout decks of the tournament, accounting for four of the Top 12 decks and each boasted a 56 percent win rate or better. Tainted Pact from the Mystical Archive super-charged the new combo/control hybrid deck almost entirely made of one-ofs to utilize the two-mana sorcery. With tutors, card drawing, and plenty of tools to extend the game, the Tainted Pact decks can reliably find Tainted Pact and Thassa’s Oracle to win the game via two cards.

Dimir Tainted Pact (Lurrus)

Admassu Williams

6th Place at Strixhaven Championship Qualifier #8 on 05-02-2021

Historic

Creatures (4)

• 1 Augur of Bolas
• 1 Fae of Wishes
• 2 Thassa's Oracle

Lands (23)

• 1 Swamp
• 1 Island
• 1 Snow-Covered Island
• 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Temple of Deceit
• 1 Radiant Fountain
• 1 Dismal Backwater
• 1 Fetid Pools
• 1 Castle Vantress
• 1 Castle Locthwain
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Zagoth Triome
• 1 Clearwater Pathway
• 1 Brightclimb Pathway
• 1 Riverglide Pathway
• 1 Barkchannel Pathway
• 1 Blightstep Pathway
• 1 Hengegate Pathway
• 1 Ice Tunnel

Spells (33)

• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Grim Tutor
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Opt
• 2 Tainted Pact
• 1 Thoughtseize
• 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
• 1 Languish
• 1 Yahenni's Expertise
• 1 Fatal Push
• 1 Censor
• 1 Supreme Will
• 1 Search for Azcanta
• 1 Mastermind's Acquisition
• 1 Thought Erasure
• 1 Cry of the Carnarium
• 1 Shimmer of Possibility
• 1 Tyrant's Scorn
• 1 Wishclaw Talisman
• 1 Drown in the Loch
• 1 Omen of the Sea
• 1 Cling to Dust
• 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
• 1 Agonizing Remorse
• 1 Heartless Act
• 1 Eliminate
• 1 Mazemind Tome
• 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
• 1 Jwari Disruption
• 1 Silundi Vision
• 1 Agadeem's Awakening
• 1 Solve the Equation

Sideboard

• 1 Duress
• 1 Scrabbling Claws
• 1 Tainted Pact
• 1 Pact of Negation
• 1 Grafdigger's Cage
• 1 Pack Rat
• 1 Cast Down
• 1 Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• 1 Thought Distortion
• 1 Mystical Dispute
• 1 Extinction Event
• 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
• 1 Necromentia
• 1 Shadows' Verdict
• 1 Test of Talents

Grixis Tainted Pact

Takashi Fukuda

9th Place at Strixhaven Championship Qualifier #8 on 05-02-2021

Historic

Creatures (6)

• 1 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager
• 1 Bonecrusher Giant
• 1 Fae of Wishes
• 2 Thassa's Oracle
• 1 Valki, God of Lies

Planeswalkers (1)

• 1 Narset, Parter of Veils

Lands (21)

• 1 Swamp
• 1 Snow-Covered Island
• 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Temple of Deceit
• 1 Spirebluff Canal
• 1 Fetid Pools
• 1 Canyon Slough
• 1 Castle Locthwain
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Zagoth Triome
• 1 Ketria Triome
• 1 Clearwater Pathway
• 1 Riverglide Pathway
• 1 Blightstep Pathway

Spells (32)

• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Mountain
• 1 Island
• 1 Grim Tutor
• 1 Memory Lapse
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Opt
• 2 Tainted Pact
• 1 Coldsteel Heart
• 1 Thoughtseize
• 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
• 1 Grafdigger's Cage
• 1 Anger of the Gods
• 1 Languish
• 1 Fatal Push
• 1 Censor
• 1 Search for Azcanta
• 1 Mastermind's Acquisition
• 1 Wishclaw Talisman
• 1 Underworld Breach
• 1 Cling to Dust
• 1 Extinction Event
• 1 Heartless Act
• 1 Eliminate
• 1 Mazemind Tome
• 1 Jwari Disruption
• 1 Silundi Vision
• 1 Saw It Coming
• 1 Prismari Command
• 1 Solve the Equation
• 1 Baleful Mastery

Sideboard

• 1 Duress
• 1 Tainted Pact
• 1 Pact of Negation
• 1 Negate
• 1 Sweltering Suns
• 1 Unmoored Ego
• 1 Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
• 1 Thought Distortion
• 1 Aether Gust
• 1 Tale's End
• 1 Mystical Dispute
• 1 Ox of Agonas
• 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
• 1 Agonizing Remorse
• 1 Shadows' Verdict

Selesnya Company shot up to the most played deck in the tournament following back-to-back second-place finishes in Insight Esports Historic Opens. Despite its popularity, Selesnya Company failed to put any player in the Top 12. Gruul Aggro, the next most played deck, managed to put two copies in the elimination rounds.

Gruul Aggro

Brandon Burton

7th Place at Strixhaven Championship Qualifier #8 on 05-02-2021

Historic

Creatures (33)

• 4 Llanowar Elves
• 4 Scavenging Ooze
• 4 Burning-Tree Emissary
• 4 Voltaic Brawler
• 3 Ahn-Crop Crasher
• 4 Pelt Collector
• 4 Gruul Spellbreaker
• 1 Questing Beast
• 4 Bonecrusher Giant
• 1 Kazandu Mammoth

Lands (13)

• 4 Stomping Ground
• 2 Ramunap Ruins
• 3 Hashep Oasis
• 4 Cragcrown Pathway

Spells (14)

• 4 Forest
• 3 Mountain
• 1 Collected Company
• 4 Embercleave
• 2 Shatterskull Smashing

Sideboard

• 2 Magma Spray
• 2 Grafdigger's Cage
• 2 Collected Company
• 1 Ahn-Crop Crasher
• 2 Abrade
• 2 Lava Coil
• 2 Redcap Melee
• 2 Ox of Agonas

The metagame breakdown for decks with more than two pilots in the event can be seen below.

View the Top 12 decks.