Black Dominates the ShoeCityShowdown3: Land Grant!

Sixty-four players clashed at the ShoeCityShowdown3: Land Grant at Webway Games in Marlborough, MA, and it was a bloodbath for decks!

The podium was mono- as Phil Lorrain's Mono Rack claimed gold, Devon O'Donnell's Mono Aggro caught silver, and Christopher Semisch's Money Ball took bronze.

Top 8 Decklists

1st Place — Mono Rack | Phil Lorrain

Creatures (13)

2 Bane of the Living
4 Hypnotic Specter
2 Knight of Stromgald
4 Ravenous Rats
1 Withered Wretch

Instants (10)

2 Diabolic Edict
4 Funeral Charm
2 Skeletal Scrying
1 Smother
1 Snuff Out

Sorceries (9)

3 Cabal Therapy
2 Chain of Smog
4 Duress

Artifacts (4)

4 The Rack

Lands (24)

4 Mishra's Factory
2 Rishadan Port
14 Swamp
4 Wasteland

Sideboard

1 Cursed Scroll
3 Dystopia
3 Engineered Plague
1 Gloom
1 Perish
2 Phyrexian Furnace
1 Plaguebearer
1 Powder Keg
1 Skeletal Scrying
1 Smother

2nd Place — Mono Aggro | Devon O'Donnell

Creatures (16)

2 Graveborn Muse
4 Hypnotic Specter
3 Knight of Stromgald
3 Nantuko Shade
4 Withered Wretch

Instants (9)

2 Diabolic Edict
3 Smother
4 Dark Ritual

Sorceries (9)

4 Cabal Therapy
1 Chainer's Edict
4 Duress

Artifacts (2)

2 Cursed Scroll

Enchantments (1)

1 Phyrexian Arena

Lands (23)

4 Mishra's Factory
17 Swamp
2 Wasteland

Sideboard

3 Dystopia
4 Engineered Plague
3 Gloom
1 Powder Keg
2 Spinning Darkness
2 Tormod's Crypt

3rd Place — Money Ball | Christopher Semisch

Creatures (17)

1 Graveborn Muse
4 Hypnotic Specter
1 Knight of Stromgald
3 Nantuko Shade
4 Ravenous Rats
4 Withered Wretch

Instants (9)

4 Dark Ritual
2 Diabolic Edict
2 Smother
1 Snuff Out

Sorceries (8)

4 Cabal Therapy
4 Duress

Artifacts

2 Cursed Scroll

Lands (24)

4 Mishra's Factory
1 Spawning Pool
17 Swamp
2 Wasteland

Sideboard

1 Cursed Scroll
1 Drain Life
4 Dystopia
4 Engineered Plague
1 Graveborn Muse
1 Plaguebearer
1 Smother
1 Vendetta
1 Tormod's Crypt

4th Place — Enchantress | Rich Shay

Creatures (4)

4 Argothian Enchantress

Instants (3)

2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Abeyance

Sorceries (1)

1 Replenish

Enchantments (30)

4 Wild Growth
4 Mirri's Guile
3 Exploration
3 Sterling Grove
1 Sylvan Library
2 Seal of Cleansing
2 Solitary Confinement
4 Enchantress's Presence
3 Opalescence
3 Parallax Wave

Lands (22)

4 Brushland
1 City of Brass
6 Forest
2 Plains
4 Serra's Sanctum
4 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills

Sideboard

1 Abeyance
2 Gaea's Blessing
1 Replenish
1 Solitary Confinement
2 Swords to Plowshares
3 Tormod's Crypt
2 Tsabo's Web
3 Xantid Swarm

5th Place — Stiflenought | James Hodge

Creatures (4)

4 Phyrexian Dreadnought

Instants (34)

4 Stifle
4 Vision Charm
2 Peek
4 Accumulated Knowledge
4 Counterspell
3 Impulse
2 Flash of Insight
1 Brain Freeze
4 Foil
3 Gush

Sorceries (4)

4 Portent

Artifacts (2)

Powder Keg

Lands (18)

18 Island

Sideboard

3 Annul
2 Blue Elemental Blast
1 Brain Freeze
2 Dominate
3 Essence Flare
1 Phyrexian Furnace
1 Powder Keg
2 Tsabo's Web

6th Place — Burn | Neal Sacks

Creatures (20)

4 Ball Lightning
4 Goblin Cadets
4 Grim Lavamancer
4 Jackal Pup
4 Mogg Fanatic

Instants (12)

4 Fireblast
4 Incinerate
4 Lightning Bolt

Artifacts (3)

3 Cursed Scroll

Enchantments (4)

4 Seal of Fire

Lands (21)

3 Barbarian Ring
4 Bloodstained Mire
4 Wooded Foothills
2 Mishra's Factory
8 Mountain

Sideboard

3 Earthquake
4 Overload
4 Price of Progress
2 Pyroblast
2 Red Elemental Blast

7th Place — Full English Breakfast | Will Holland

Creatures (23)

1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath
4 Birds of Paradise
1 Elvish Spirit Guide
4 Hermit Druid
1 Karmic Guide
1 Mesmeric Fiend
1 Palinchron
1 Phyrexian Devourer
1 Psychatog
1 Squee, Goblin Nabob
1 Triskelion
2 Volrath's Shapeshifter
4 Wall of Roots

Instants (2)

1 Coffin Purge
1 Krosan Reclamation 1]<i class=

Sorceries (9)

4 {Cabal Therapy" data-game="mtg">1]

Sorceries (9)

4 {Cabal Therapy
4 Unearth
1 Duress

Enchantments (4)

4 Survival of the Fittest

Lands (22)

4 City of Brass
4 Gemstone Mine
4 Llanowar Wastes
3 Reflecting Pool
1 Treva's Ruins
1 Underground River
1 Undiscovered Paradise
4 Yavimaya Coast

Sideboard

1 Animate Dead
1 Auramancer
1 Battlefield Scrounger
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Ghitu Slinger
1 Gorilla Shaman
1 Meddling Mage
2 Naturalize
2 Pyroclasm
1 Ray of Revelation
1 Uktabi Orangutan
2 Xantid Swarm

8th Place — Terrageddon | Sam Higgins

Creatures (14)

1 Exalted Angel
4 Meddling Mage
1 Sylvan Safekeeper
4 Terravore
4 Weathered Wayfarer

Instants (7)

4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Naturalize
1 Fire / Ice /

Sorceries (6)

3 Armageddon
3 Call of the Herd 2]<i class=

Artifacts (4)

4 {Mox Diamond" data-game="mtg">2]

Artifacts (4)

4 {Mox Diamond

Enchantments (3)

3 Sylvan Library

Lands (26)

1 Adarkar Wastes
1 City of Brass
2 Forest
4 Gemstone Mine
1 Karplusan Forest
2 Plains
2 Rishadan Port
1 Rith's Grove
2 Treetop Village
1 Treva's Ruins
4 Wasteland
4 Windswept Heath
1 Yavimaya Coast

Sideboard

1 Aura of Silence
1 Cataclysm
1 Cursed Totem
1 Phyrexian Furnace
3 Pyroblast
3 Pyroclasm
2 Ray of Revelation
1 Thornscape Battlemage 2 {Zuran Orb" data-game="mtg">2]2 {Zuran Orb