Horta, Sultai Midrange, Wins SCG Tour Online $5K Kaldheim Championship Qualifier #5

Andre Horta won Sunday’s SCG Tour Online Historic $5K Kaldheim Championship Qualifier #5 with Sultai Midrange.

Sultai Midrange

Andre Horta

1st Place at Kaldheim Championship Qualifier #5 on 12-13-2020

Historic

Creatures (6)

• 2 Hydroid Krasis
• 4 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath

Planeswalkers (6)

• 4 Nissa, Who Shakes the World
• 2 Narset, Parter of Veils

Lands (28)

• 2 Forest
• 1 Swamp
• 2 Island
• 4 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Watery Grave
• 4 Breeding Pool
• 3 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 2 Castle Locthwain
• 4 Fabled Passage
• 4 Zagoth Triome

Spells (20)

• 4 Thoughtseize
• 2 Maelstrom Pulse
• 2 Fatal Push
• 4 Growth Spiral
• 2 Aether Gust
• 1 Tale's End
• 1 Shark Typhoon
• 2 Extinction Event
• 2 Eliminate

Sideboard

• 2 Negate
• 2 Scavenging Ooze
• 1 Disdainful Stroke
• 1 Doom Whisperer
• 2 Cry of the Carnarium
• 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1 Thought Distortion
• 1 Aether Gust
• 1 Witch's Vengeance
• 3 Shark Typhoon

Horta ran the table Sunday without losing a match, capping an 8-0 run through the Swiss with three more wins in the elimination rounds following a bye in the wildcard playoff round. Horta had to win a Sultai Midrange mirror in the quarterfinals against Masahide Moriyama, then took down Adam Snook on Rakdos Arcanist (Lurrus) in the semifinals to set up the final match against Bolun Zhang on Orzhov Auras (Lurrus). The last match went the distance, with Horta winning in three games, earning an invite to the Kaldheim Championship and $1,500.

Sultai Midrange was not only the most-played deck in the 219-person tournament at 46 copies, it was the most represented deck in the Top 12 as well, making up half of the decks in the elimination rounds. The Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath-based good stuff deck was joined by Four-Color Midrange as the third-most played deck at 28 copies, though only one made the Top 12. Goblins was No. 2 on the list at 34 pilots and zero representation in the Top 12.

Sacrifice decks of the Rakdos and Jund varieties are next up with 20 and 13 copies, respectively. The only other deck with double-digit numbers was Azorius Control at 13. If you group all the Paradox Engine decks together, there’d be 12 with eight Simic, two Sultai, and two Temur — all utilizing Jegantha, the Wellspring as a companion. Tooru Horie made the Top 8 with Sultai Paradox Engine, the best finish for the archetype.

Sultai Paradox Engine

Tooru Horie

6th Place at Kaldheim Championship Qualifier #5 on 12-13-2020

Historic

Creatures (16)

• 4 Llanowar Elves
• 4 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
• 3 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
• 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
• 4 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy

Planeswalkers (7)

• 4 Karn, the Great Creator
• 3 Tamiyo, Collector of Tales

Lands (21)

• 3 Forest
• 2 Watery Grave
• 4 Breeding Pool
• 4 Botanical Sanctum
• 4 Blooming Marsh
• 4 Clearwater Pathway

Spells (18)

• 4 Chromatic Sphere
• 4 Mind Stone
• 1 Maelstrom Pulse
• 1 Cultivator's Caravan
• 3 Paradox Engine
• 4 Mox Amber
• 1 Aether Gust

Sideboard

• 1 Gilded Lotus
• 1 Aether Spellbomb
• 1 Tormod's Crypt
• 1 Negate
• 1 Maelstrom Pulse
• 1 Ancestral Statue
• 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
• 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1 Paradox Engine
• 1 The Scarab God
• 1 Sorcerous Spyglass
• 1 Meteor Golem
• 1 Aether Gust
• 1 Mystical Dispute
• 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring

The metagame breakdown for the event of decks with more than one pilot can be seen below.

View the Top 12 decklists.