2026 Assorted Animals Tournament Grounds Top 8 Decklists!

The Assorted Animals inaugural Tournament Grounds event was held on May 16, 2026, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, at L'Adversaire - Pub et Boutique Ludiques located at 4303 Rue Sainte-Catherine E, Montréal, QC H1V 1Y1, Canada. The tournament featured 45 players piloting 20 different Avatars in a wide variety of threshold alignments.

The Assorted Animals Tournament Grounds Avatar Breakdown

Below are the number of pilots on each Avatar featured in the event and the threshold of each build:

• Necromancer — Six

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• Elementalist — Five

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• Sorcerer — Four

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• Deathspeaker — Three

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• Geomancer — Three

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• Pathfinder — Three

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• Witch — Three

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• Archimago — Two

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• Battlemage — Two

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• Imposter — Two

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• Savior — Two

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• Waveshaper — Two

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• Avatar of Air — One

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• Corruptor — One

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• Animist — One

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• Druid — One

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• Enchantress — One

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• Harbinger — One

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• Interrogator — One

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• Persecutor — One

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Assorted Animals Tournament Grounds Top 8 Decklists

First Place — Imposter

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Auras (1)

1 The Great Famine

Artifacts (4)

1 Ring of Morrigan
2 Torshammar Trinket
1 Torrid Omphalos

Minions (32)

2 Arjaro Exorcist
3 Kettletop Leprechaun
1 Sister Stefania
3 Vile Imp
3 Autumn Unicorn
3 Colicky Dragonettes
1 Morgana le Fay
3 Order of the White Wing
3 Quarrelsome Kobolds
3 Root Spider
2 Gargantula
2 Paladins of Bazia
1 Archangel Michael
1 Balor of the Evil Eye
1 Death Dealer

Magics (23)

3 Divine Healing
2 Common Sense
1 Dispel
1 Firebolts
2 Gift of the Serpent
1 Bury
2 Disintegrate
1 Gigantism
1 Infiltrate
2 Earthquake
1 Peasant Revolt
3 Poison Nova
1 Day of Judgment
2 Major Explosion

Sites (30)

3 Active Volcano
1 Arid Desert
2 Common Village
3 Fertile Earth
1 Fields of Camlann
3 Gnome Hollows [earth}
2 Humble Village
1 Mirror Realm
1 Mount Ussar Sanctuary
2 Red Desert
3 Remote Desert
1 River of Flame
2 Simple Village
3 Steppe
2 Valley of Delight

Collection (10)

1 Archimago
1 Avatar of Earth
1 Deathspeaker
1 Enchantress
1 Flamecaller
1 Interrogator
1 Ironclad
1 Pathfinder
1 Sorcerer
1 Witch

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Second Place — Necromancer

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Auras (1)

1 Atlantean Fate

Artifacts (6)

1 Ring of Morrigan
1 Pnakotic Manuscript
3 Toolbox
1 Algor Omphalos

Minions (37)

1 Pied Piper of Hameln
1 Aino
3 Coy Nixie
2 Fey Changeling
3 Lugbog Cat
3 Order of the Sacred Oak
1 Sir Pelleas
2 Abaddon Succubus
3 Failed Mutation
2 Mimic
1 Ruler of Thul
2 Sacred Stag
1 Archangel Raphael
2 Lacuna Entity
1 Lilith
1 Maiden, Mother, Crone
3 Gnarled Wendigo
2 Lord of Lies
1 The Green Knight
2 Dormant Monstrosity

Magics (16)

3 Riptide
3 Swap
1 Symmetric Suffering
1 Into the Abyss
1 Mesmerism
2 Shapeshift
3 Whirling Blades
2 Call of the Sea

Sites (30)

3 Babbling Brook
1 Dark Tower
1 Garden of Eden
1 Gilman House
1 Gothic Tower
1 Innsmouth Dock
1 Joyous Garde
3 Lighthouse
1 Lone Tower
1 Maelstrom
2 Mismanaged Mortuary
2 River Rapids
1 Tadpole Pool
3 Thin Ice
1 Tintagel
3 Troll Bridge
1 Undertow
1 Watchtower
2 Wuthering Heights

Collection (10)

1 Zap
1 Disenchant
1 Riptide
1 Drown
1 Grapple Shot
4 Horrible Hybrids
1 Murder of Crows

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Third Place — Elementalist

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Auras (4)

4 Hamlet's Ablaze

Artifacts (6)

3 Torshammar Trinket
3 Toolbox

Minions (38)

3 Colicky Dragonettes
3 Headless Haunt
1 Morgana le Fay
2 Mazuj Ifrit
3 Phase Assassin
3 Quarrelsome Kobolds
3 Redcap Powries
4 Screamer
3 Slumbering Giantess
2 Sturmgeist
2 Avenging Angel
3 Gyre Hippogriffs
3 Saracen Raiders
1 Rebecks
1 Sir Pellinore
1 Highland Clansmen

Magics (12)

3 Cast into Exile
2 Grapple Shot
2 Infiltrate
2 Betrayal
3 Whirling Blades

Sites (30)

4 Arid Desert
4 Dark Tower
4 Gothic Tower
4 Lone Tower
4 Red Desert
4 Remote Desert
2 Sinkhole
4 Vast Desert

Collection (10)

1 Zap
1 Dispel
2 Lightning Bolt
1 Magic Missiles
1 Boil
1 Bury
1 Drown
1 Incinerate
1 Highland Clansmen

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Fourth Place — Imposter

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Auras (5)

1 Salt the Earth
1 The Great Famine
3 Wildfire

Artifacts (6)

1 Amethyst Core
1 Amulet of Niniane
1 Onyx Core
1 Philospher's Stone
1 Ring of Morrigan
1 Ruby Core

Minions (25)

3 Town Priest
2 Arjaro Exorcist
1 Highland Princess
2 Mordric Druids
3 Sisters of Avalon
4 Apprentice Wizard
1 Morgana le Fay
3 Root Spider [earth}
1 Bane of Aventis
1 Boudicca
2 Gargantula
2 Grandmaster Wizard

Magics (24)

1 Arcane Barrage
1 Assorted Animals
1 Browse
3 Divine Healing
1 Dream-Quest
3 Blink
2 Call to War
4 Landmass
1 Pact with the Devil
2 Earthquake
3 Poison Nova
1 Guards
1 Day of Judgment

Sites (30)

3 Active Volcano
1 City of Souls
2 Crossroads
1 Dark Tower
2 Fertile Earth
1 Funeral Pyre
3 Gnome Hollows
3 Mountain Peaks
3 Ruins
3 Steppe
1 Temple of Moloch
2 Town
1 Vesuvius
3 Windmill
1 Wormelow Tump

Collection (10)

1 Archimago
1 Avatar of Air
1 Corruptor
1 Deathspeaker
1 Enchantress
1 Ironclad
1 Necromancer
1 Pathfinder
1 Sorcerer
1 Sparkmage

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Fifth Place — Sorcerer

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Auras (1)

1 The Black Plague

Artifacts (8)

1 Amethyst Core
1 Onyx Core
1 Philospher's Stone
1 Ring of Morrigan
1 Torshammar Trinket
3 Toolbox

Minions (34)

2 Arjaro Exorcist
3 Bosk Troll
1 Grim Reaper
2 Highland Falconer
2 Vampire Bats
3 Autumn Unicorn
3 Phase Assassin
1 Sir Bors the Younger
2 Sturmgeist
1 The Hexham Haunts
1 Bane of Aventis
2 Gargantula
1 Sir Perceval
1 Archangel Michael
3 Daperyll Vampire
2 Legion of Gall
2 Renatus Trueblood
1 Sir Galahad

Magics (17)

1 Browse
1 Blink
1 Cast into Exile
1 Dispel
2 Lightning Bolt
1 Bury
1 Grapple Shot
4 Landmass
1 Gigantism
2 Earthquake
2 Whirling Blades

Sites (30)

1 Beacon
4 Common Village
1 Dark Tower
3 Fertile Earth
3 Fields of Phyxis
1 Glastonbury Tor
1 Gothic Tower
1 Merlin's Tower
1 Mirror Realm
1 Mount Ussar Sanctuary
1 Pillar of Zeiros
2 Rift Valley [earth}
1 The Colour Out of Space
1 Treetop Hideout
2 Valley of Delight
3 Windmill
2 Wuthering Heights

Collection (10)

1 Plague Rat
1 Zap
1 Blink
1 Common Sense
1 Dispel
1 Fade
1 Gift of the Raven
1 Bury
1 Murder of Crows
1 Roaming Monster

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Sixth Place — Battlemage

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Auras (1)

1 Atlantean Fate

Artifacts (15)

1 Amethyst Core
1 Philosopher's Stone
1 Ring of Morrigan
2 Torshammar Trinket
1 Flame of the First Ones
1 The Rack
3 Toolbox
1 Crown of the Victor
1 Goswhit Helmet
2 Screaming Skull
1 Rhongomyniad

Minions (31)

1 Highland Princess
1 Pied Piper of Hameln
2 Brobdingnag Bullfrog
2 Coy Nixie
3 Lugbog Cat
3 Order of the Sacred Oak
1 Sir Pelleas
2 Abaddon Succubus
3 Failed Mutation
1 Mimic
1 Ruler of Thul
2 Sacred Stag
3 Daperyll Vampire
1 Hounds of Ondaros
2 Lacuna Entity
1 Lilith
1 Questing Beast
1 Lord of Lies

Magics (13)

3 Shrink
2 Pollimorph
2 Grapple Shot
2 Scatter
3 Swap
1 Mesmerism

Sites (30)

1 City of Plenty
2 Dark Tower
3 Deep Sea
2 Gothic Tower
1 Joyous Garde
3 Lighthouse
2 Lone Tower
3 Mountain Peaks
4 Pond
3 Thin Ice
3 Troll Bridge
2 Undertow
1 Wuthering Heights

Collection (10)

1 Zap
1 Blink
1 Disenchant
1 Led Astray
1 Magic Missiles
1 Power of Flight
1 Rain of Arrows
1 Riptide
1 Grapple Shot
1 Ice Shards

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Seventh Place — Geomancer

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Artifacts (11)

1 Silver Bullet
2 Makeshift Barricade
2 Clay Golem
2 Corpse Catapult
2 Payload Trebuchet
1 Undertaker Engine
1 I Am Colossus

Minions (26)

2 Pit Vipers
2 Frontier Settlers
4 Alvalinne Dryads
3 Field Laborers
1 Tragedy Worrywart
1 Maze Minotaur
1 Escyllion Cyclops
1 Infernal Legion
1 Lord of Destruction
2 Ancient Dragon
1 Dirium Fomorians
1 Hellstar
1 King of the Realm
1 Megalurker
1 Wraetannis Titan
1 Conqueror Worm
1 Midland Army
1 Mountain Giant

Magics (23)

1 Bless
2 Divine Healing
1 Immolation
2 Common Sense
2 Mad Dash
2 Border Militia
2 Bury
4 Landmass
1 Spin Attack
1 Cave-In
1 Earthquake
2 Corpse Explosion
2 Craterize

Sites (30)

3 Active Volcano
2 Arid Desert
2 Common Village
1 Dome of Osiros
3 Fertile Earth
2 Forgotten Tomb
2 Ghost Town
3 Humble Village
1 Kingdom of Agartha
1 Molten Maar
3 Red Desert
3 Remote Desert
2 Rustic Village
2 Steppe

Collection (10)

1 Divine Healing
1 Ferryman's Coin
1 Driftwood Marrows
1 Hellhounds
1 Iron Shackles
1 Root Spider
1 Tragedy Worrywart
1 Cave-In
1 Wyvern
1 Dirium Fomorians

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Eighth Place — Enchantress

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Auras (12)

1 Cursed Iron
3 Mariner's Curse
1 Silence
3 Flood
3 Wildfire
1 Atlantean Fate

Artifacts (6)

1 Ruby Core
1 Torshammar Trinket
1 Shrine of the Dragonlord
3 Meat Hook

Minions (23)

2 Aaj-kegon Ghost Crabs
3 Coy Nixie
3 Lugbog Cat
1 Nelly Longarms
2 Abaddon Succubus
2 Hyperparasite
3 Giant Shark
2 Gloam Toads
2 Lacuna Entity
1 Questing Beast
1 Mester Stoor Worm

Magics (19)

1 Plague of Frogs
4 Riptide
3 Four Fat Frogs
2 Into the Abyss
1 Mesmerism
2 Shatter Strike
3 Stormy Seas
3 Poison Nova

Sites (30)

3 Babbling Brook
1 Caerleon-Upon-Usk
1 Elder Ruins
2 Floodplain
1 Garden of Eden
1 Gilman House
1 Innsmouth Dock
1 Joyous Garde
1 Maelstrom
3 Oasis
2 Pond
2 River Rapids
2 River of Blood
1 River of Flame
1 Tadpole Pool
3 Thin Ice
3 Troll Bridge
1 Watery Grave

Collection (10)

4 Horrible Hybrids
2 Ice Shards
4 Shoggoth

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Featured image: Tournament Grounds by Rodney Matthews