Wozniak Wins Nerd Rage Gaming Series Championship

Wozniak wins NRG Series Championship! View the Decklists!

By John Hall

December 23, 2019January 6, 2020

Image Courtesy of Nerd Rage Gaming

The Nerd Rage Gaming (NRG) Series featured 16 players, with a prize pool of $20,000 and three invites to the 2020 Players Tour being hosted in Phoenix this February.

Grant Wozniak, who piloted Five-Color Niv-Mizzet in Pioneer, Grixis Death’s Shadow in Modern and Five-Color Control in Legacy, was conceded to by Sam Black (Simic Company in Pioneer, Urza Control in Modern, and Bant Loam in Legacy) in the finals, as Black is already qualified for the February 2020 Players Tour Regionals in Phoenix.

Grixis Death's Shadow Grant Wozniak

Modern

1st

NRG Series Championship

Buffalo Grove, IL

Dec 20, 2019

Creature (15)

4

4

3

Snapcaster Mage

4

Planeswalker (1)

1

The Royal Scions

Artifact (4)

4

Mishra's Bauble

Sorcery (6)

2

Inquisition of Kozilek

4

Instant (17)

1

1

Drown in the Loch

4

1

Kolaghan's Command

4

Stubborn Denial

2

Temur Battle Rage

4

Land (17)

2

4

Bloodstained Mire

1

4

2

1

1

Swamp

2

Sideboard

2

Collective Brutality

1

Disdainful Stroke

1

1

Drown in the Loch

1

Engineered Explosives

1

Force of Negation

2

Fulminator Mage

1

Grim Lavamancer

1

Jace, the Mind Sculptor

1

Mystical Dispute

1

Nihil Spellbomb

1

Plague Engineer

1

The Royal Scions

Five-Color Niv-Mizzet Grant Wozniak

Pioneer

1st

NRG Series Championship

Buffalo Grove, IL

Dec 20, 2019

Creature (13)

2

1

1

Knight of Autumn

4

Niv-Mizzet Reborn

1

Obzedat, Ghost Council

4

Sylvan Caryatid

Planeswalker (4)

4

Teferi, Time Raveler

Enchantment (3)

1

Detention Sphere

2

Sorcery (8)

4

1

Deafening Clarion

1

Supreme Verdict

1

Thought Erasure

1

Instant (6)

2

1

Assassin's Trophy

2

Drown in the Loch

1

Kolaghan's Command

Land (26)

1

1

2

Botanical Sanctum

1

4

1

1

2

Hallowed Fountain

1

1

2

1

1

1

2

Stomping Ground

1

Swamp

1

2

Woodland Cemetery

Sideboard

1

Anger of the Gods

1

Ashiok, Dream Render

1

3

2

1

Knight of Autumn

1

1

Supreme Verdict

2

Thought Erasure

1

Tolsimir, Friend to Wolves

1

Five-Color Control Grant Wozniak

Legacy

1st

NRG Series Championship

Buffalo Grove, IL

Dec 20, 2019

Creature (5)

3

2

Snapcaster Mage

Planeswalker (8)

2

Jace, the Mind Sculptor

3

Oko, Thief of Crowns

3

Teferi, Time Raveler

Artifact (3)

3

Arcum's Astrolabe

Sorcery (10)

3

Hymn to Tourach

2

Inquisition of Kozilek

4

1

Instant (14)

2

4

2

Drown in the Loch

4

2

Swords to Plowshares

Land (20)

1

Bayou

3

2

Misty Rainforest

4

1

1

Snow-Covered Island

1

Snow-Covered Swamp

1

Tropical Island

1

2

Underground Sea

2

Verdant Catacombs

1

Volcanic Island

Sideboard

2

Force of Negation

1

1

Leovold, Emissary of Trest

2

Leyline of the Void

1

Liliana, the Last Hope

1

Nihil Spellbomb

1

Plague Engineer

2

2

Swords to Plowshares

1

1

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