Takahashi, Dimir Rogues (Lurrus), Wins Insight Esports Historic Open

Yuta Takahashi won the Insight Esports Historic Open with Dimir Rogues (Lurrus) on Sunday.

Dimir Rogues (Lurrus)

Yuta Takahashi

1st Place at Insight Esports Open on 04-18-2021

Historic

Creatures (12)

• 4 Thieves' Guild Enforcer
• 4 Merfolk Windrobber
• 4 Soaring Thought-Thief

Lands (23)

• 3 Swamp
• 3 Island
• 4 Watery Grave
• 4 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Castle Locthwain
• 4 Fabled Passage
• 4 Clearwater Pathway

Spells (25)

• 4 Brainstorm
• 4 Memory Lapse
• 4 Inquisition of Kozilek
• 4 Fatal Push
• 4 Into the Story
• 4 Drown in the Loch
• 1 Agadeem's Awakening

Sideboard

• 2 Negate
• 2 Grafdigger's Cage
• 2 Languish
• 2 Tyrant's Scorn
• 2 Aether Gust
• 2 Legion's End
• 2 Mystical Dispute
• 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den

The Rivals League member went 10-1 in the 181-person event, only dropping a single game in the Top 8. Takahashi breezed through the quarterfinals and semifinals with 2-0 wins over Gruul Aggro and Jeskai Control before defeating Francisco Sanchez on Selesnya Company in the finals 2-1.

Dimir Rogues (Lurrus) in Historic is a souped-up version of the Standard deck, benefiting from powerful cards injected into the format through non-Standard sets like Kaladesh Remastered (Fatal Push) and the Mystical Archive from Strixhaven (Inquisition of Kozilek, Brainstorm, and Memory Lapse). Not only did Takahashi win the event with Dimir Rogues, Christian Hauck also made the Top 8 with the deck.

Sanchez’s Selesnya Company list combines powerful and disruptive creatures with the efficiency of Collective Company to flood the battlefield on an opponent’s end step. The deck uses creatures like Archon of Emeria and Elite Spellbinder to slow down an opponent while beating down with large creatures like Lovestruck Beast and Kazandu Mammoth to enable cheap copies of The Great Henge.

Selesnya Company

Francisco Sanchez

2nd Place at Insight Esports Open on 04-18-2021

Historic

Creatures (33)

• 4 Llanowar Elves
• 3 Scavenging Ooze
• 1 Rhonas the Indomitable
• 4 Lovestruck Beast
• 4 Skyclave Apparition
• 4 Archon of Emeria
• 4 Luminarch Aspirant
• 4 Kazandu Mammoth
• 1 Reidane, God of the Worthy
• 4 Elite Spellbinder

Lands (20)

• 4 Forest
• 4 Plains
• 4 Temple Garden
• 2 Sunpetal Grove
• 2 Hashep Oasis
• 4 Branchloft Pathway

Spells (7)

• 4 Collected Company
• 2 The Great Henge
• 1 Emeria's Call

Sideboard

• 2 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
• 2 Rest in Peace
• 3 Declaration in Stone
• 1 Knight of Autumn
• 3 Shifting Ceratops
• 2 Giant Killer
• 2 Reidane, God of the Worthy

Other decks to round out the Top 8 were two copies of Jeskai Control, and lone copies of Goblins, Temur Flash, and Gruul Aggro. Notably, both copies of Jeskai Control, including Kaldheim Championship winner Arne Huschenbeth’s version, played Magma Opus alongside Torrential Gearhulk, something highlighted in the Hooglandia Historic Open the day before.

Jeskai Control

Arne Huschenbeth

6th Place at Insight Esports Open on 04-18-2021

Historic

Creatures (4)

• 4 Torrential Gearhulk

Planeswalkers (6)

• 4 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
• 2 Narset, Parter of Veils

Lands (26)

• 1 Plains
• 1 Mountain
• 1 Island
• 2 Sacred Foundry
• 4 Steam Vents
• 4 Hallowed Fountain
• 4 Glacial Fortress
• 3 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Castle Vantress
• 1 Castle Ardenvale
• 4 Raugrin Triome

Spells (24)

• 1 Wrath of God
• 2 Memory Lapse
• 2 Lightning Helix
• 1 Day of Judgment
• 2 Censor
• 1 Commit
• 1 Abrade
• 2 Soul-Guide Lantern
• 1 Jwari Disruption
• 2 Behold the Multiverse
• 3 Saw It Coming
• 2 Prismari Command
• 4 Magma Opus

Sideboard

• 2 Lightning Helix
• 1 Magma Spray
• 1 Abrade
• 2 Dovin's Veto
• 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1 Fry
• 3 Mystical Dispute
• 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
• 2 Shark Typhoon
• 1 Mystic Subdual

View the Top 8 decklists.