Nielsen, Mono-Green Aggro❄, Wins SCG Tour Online $5K Innistrad Championship Qualifier #2

Simon Nielsen won Sunday’s SCG Tour Online Standard $5K Innistrad Championship Qualifier #2 with Mono-Green Aggro❄.

Mono-Green Aggro ❄

Simon Nielsen

1st Place at SCG Tour Online Championship Qualifier on 10-03-2021

Standard

Creatures (18)

• 4 Kazandu Mammoth
• 4 Old-Growth Troll
• 4 Sculptor of Winter
• 4 Werewolf Pack Leader
• 2 Briarbridge Tracker

Lands (25)

• 19 Snow-Covered Forest
• 4 Faceless Haven
• 2 Lair of the Hydra

Spells (17)

• 1 Inscription of Abundance
• 1 Snakeskin Veil
• 4 Esika's Chariot
• 4 Blizzard Brawl
• 4 Ranger Class
• 3 Unnatural Growth

Sideboard

• 2 Tajuru Blightblade
• 1 Snakeskin Veil
• 2 Devouring Tendrils
• 3 Tangletrap
• 3 Wrenn and Seven
• 2 Briarbridge Tracker
• 2 Outland Liberator

Nielsen earned an invite to the Innistrad Championship and $1,500 by winning the 188-person event, only dropping a single match in the Swiss. Nielsen lost Round 6 to Andrea Beatrice on Mono-White Aggro❄, but still entered the elimination rounds as the #4 seed, getting a bye through the Wildcard Playoff round. Nielsen’s path to victory required winning three Mono-Green Aggro❄ mirrors over Marco Wish, Hideaki Muraoka, and Diogo Santos.

Mono-White Aggro ❄

Andrea Beatrice

4th Place at SCG Tour Online Championship Qualifier on 10-03-2021

Standard

Creatures (35)

• 2 Skyclave Apparition
• 4 Luminarch Aspirant
• 4 Usher of the Fallen
• 2 Reidane, God of the Worthy
• 4 Elite Spellbinder
• 4 Stonebinder's Familiar
• 3 Brutal Cathar
• 2 Chaplain of Alms
• 4 Intrepid Adversary
• 4 Sungold Sentinel
• 2 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar

Lands (22)

• 17 Snow-Covered Plains
• 4 Faceless Haven
• 1 Cave of the Frost Dragon

Spells (3)

• 1 Maul of the Skyclaves
• 2 Portable Hole

Sideboard

• 2 Skyclave Apparition
• 1 Maul of the Skyclaves
• 1 Archon of Emeria
• 1 Sigrid, God-Favored
• 2 Reidane, God of the Worthy
• 2 Portable Hole
• 4 Guardian of Faith
• 1 Brutal Cathar
• 1 Cathar Commando

Mono-Green Aggro❄ was positioned as the go-to deck this weekend as the main archetype that could prey on Izzet Epiphany while having game against the rest of the format. Not only was Mono-Green Aggro❄ the most played deck in the event, it put up the highest win rate of 60%, and took seven of the twelve top slots on the weekend. Izzet Epiphany was still the second-most played deck with 42 copies, though only two in the Top 12, with just a 44% win rate. Mono-White Aggro❄ clocked in with seventeen copies to tie Izzet Dragons❄ as the the third most-played deck, but sported a 58% win rate compared to Izzet Dragons❄ lowly 38% win rate.

Izzet Epiphany

Hironori Tanaka

6th Place at SCG Tour Online Championship Qualifier on 10-03-2021

Standard

Creatures (4)

• 4 Smoldering Egg

Lands (21)

• 6 Mountain
• 7 Island
• 4 Riverglide Pathway
• 1 Frostboil Snarl
• 3 Hall of Storm Giants

Spells (35)

• 1 Negate
• 2 Disdainful Stroke
• 4 Spikefield Hazard
• 4 Jwari Disruption
• 4 Alrund's Epiphany
• 2 Demon Bolt
• 3 Expressive Iteration
• 3 Divide by Zero
• 3 Burning Hands
• 2 Galvanic Iteration
• 1 Burn Down the House
• 3 Memory Deluge
• 1 Cathartic Pyre
• 2 Fading Hope

Sideboard

• 1 Dissipate
• 1 Cinderclasm
• 1 Prismari Command
• 1 Environmental Sciences
• 1 Teachings of the Archaics
• 1 Expressive Iteration
• 1 Mascot Exhibition
• 1 Test of Talents
• 1 Burning Hands
• 1 Unexpected Windfall
• 1 Memory Deluge
• 4 Malevolent Hermit

After the four top decks, nothing else broke double digits in entries. The only other deck with more than three pilots with a win rate higher than 50% was Sultai Ramp with four players at 56%.

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

View the Top 12 decklists.