As the title indicates, The End Games hosted a Grand Prix Trial Pittsburgh this past weekend. The players were distilled down to the Top Four, and after all was said and done Matthew Elliot walks away the victor. Here are the lists used by our top contestants. The Eldrazi Menace returns! Thanks to everyone who participated, keep up the competition.
1st Place – Matthew “Doc” Elliot Deck: Bant Eldrazi
Main Deck: 60 cards
- 1 Birds of Paradise
- 4 Noble Hierarch
- 1 Eldrazi Mimic
- 2 Spellskite
- 4 Eldrazi Displacer
- 4 Matter Reshaper
- 4 Thought-Knot Seer
- 4 Reality Smasher
- 4 Drowner of Hope
- 4 Path to Exile
- 4 Ancient Stirrings
- 4 Cavern of Souls
- 4 Eldrazi Temple
- 4 Windswept Heath
- 1 Temple Garden
- 1 Breeding Pool
- 1 Hallowed Fountain
- 2 Yavimaya Coast
- 3 Brushland
- 1 Ghost Quarter
- 2 Forest
- 1 Plains
Sideboard: 15 Cards
- 2 Stubborn Denial
- 2 Engineered Explosives
- 2 Grafdigger’s Cage
- 1 World Breaker
- 1 Eldrazi Mimic
- 2 Stony Silence
- 1 Fracturing Gust
- 1 Gut Shot
- 1 Dismember
- 1 Negate
- 1 Timely Reinforcements
Second Place: Mark “Shooter” Brown Deck: Abzan Company
Main Deck: 60 Cards
- 4 Collected Company
- 4 Chord of Calling
- 4 Eternal Witness
- 4 Kitchen Finks
- 3 Birds of Paradise
- 3 Noble Hierarch
- 2 Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit
- 2 Melira, Sylvok Outcast
- 2 Wall of Roots
- 2 Viscera Seer
- 1 Cartel Aristocrat
- 1 Liliana, Heretical Healer
- 1 Spellskite
- 1 Fiend Hunter
- 1 Murderous Redcap
- 1 Courser of Kruphix
- 1 Orzhov Pontiff
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
- 4 Windswept Heath
- 3 Gavony Township
- 3 Verdant Catacombs
- 3 Razorverge Thicket
- 2 Temple Garden
- 1 Overgrown Tomb
- 1 Godless Shrine
- 1 Horizon Canopy
- 1 Swamp
- 2 Forest
- 1 Plains
Sideboard: 15 Cards
- 1 Pithing Needle
- 2 Abrupt Decay
- 2 Path to Exile
- 1 Mangara of Corondor
- 1 Qasali Pridemage
- 1 Pharika, God of Affliction
- 1 Reclamation Sage
- 1 Eidolon of Rhetoric
- 2 Tidehollow Sculler
- 2 Voice of Resurgence
- 1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
Third Place: Cassidy “Fierce Flow” Nichols Deck: R/G Tron
Main Deck: 60 Cards
- 2 Ulamog, The Ceaseless Hunger
- 4 Wurmcoil Engine
- 4 Karn Liberated
- 1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
- 4 Ancient Stirrings
- 3 Pyroclasm
- 4 Sylvan Scrying
- 4 Chromatic Star
- 4 Chromatic Sphere
- 4 Expedition Map
- 4 Oblivion Stone
- 2 Relic of Progenitus
- 2 Forest
- 1 Ghost Quarter
- 4 Grove of the Burnwillows
- 1 Sanctum of Ugin
- 4 Urza’s Mine
- 4 Urza’s Power Plant
- 4 Urza’s Tower
Sideboard: 15 Cards
Fourth Place: Charles “Charlie” Armentrout Deck: Elvish Company
Main Deck: 60 Cards
- 4 Llanowar Elves
- 4 Elvish Mystic
- 4 Heritage Druid
- 4 Nettle sentinel
- 3 Elvish Visionary
- 4 Elvish Archdruid
- 4 Shaman of the Pack
- 3 Ezuri, Renegade Leader
- 1 Elvish Champion
- 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
- 3 Chord of Calling
- 4 Collected Company
- 1 Harmonize
- 1 Lead the Stampede
- 3 Overgrown Tomb
- 2 Gilt-Leaf Palace
- 1 Woodland Cemetery
- 4 Windswept Heath
- 1 Cavern of Souls
- 2 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
- 5 Forest
- 1 Swamp
Sideboard: 15 Cards