We are proud to bring you the Top 8 decklists from the GenCon 2012 Legacy Prelim 8pm tournament. Below you will also find a complete metagame breakdown, with a list of what deck type each player played, a metagame breakdown, and a few pictures from the event itself. Enjoy!
Top 8 Decklists
1st Place – David Ho – Naya Assault Loam
Business (32)
3 Sensei’s Divining Top
2 Seismic Assault
4 Life from the Loam
3 Punishing Fire
3 Lightning Bolt
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Qasali Pridemage
2 Scavening Ooze
4 Knight of the Reliquary
1 Maze of Ith
Mana Sources (29)
4 Mox Diamond
4 Forgotten Cave
1 Tranquil Thicket
1 Karakas
3 Grove of the Burnwillows
4 Wooded Foothills
1 Windswept Heath
1 Arid Mesa
2 Taiga
1 Savannah
1 Plateau
1 Forest
1 Mountain
4 Wasteland
Sideboard (15)
2 Gaddock Teeg
2 Thrun, the Last Troll
2 Krosan Grip
2 Red Elemental Blast
1 Pyroblast
2 Engineered Explosives
1 Bojuka Bog
3 Surgical Extraction
2nd Place – David Patwell – URW BladeStill
Business (37)
4 Force of Will
1 Flusterstorm
3 Swords tto Plowshares
4 Brainstorm
3 Standstill
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Grim Lavamancer
4 Spellstutter Sprite
3 Vendilion Clique
4 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Umezawa’s Jitte
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Sowrd of Feast and Famine
1 Batterskull
Mana Sources (23)
3 Wasteland
1 Mutavault
4 Mishra’s Factory
1 Karakas
4 Flooded Strand
2 Scalding Tarn
1 Misty Rainforest
4 Tundra
2 Volcanic Island
1 Island
Sideboard (15)
1 Red Elemental Blast
1 Blue Elemental Blast
1 Pyroblast
2 Hydroblast
2 Divert
1 Mindbreak Trap
3 Tormod’s Crypt
2 Wrath of God
2 Hurkyl’s Recall
3rd Place – Kyle Hutches – RUG Delver
Business (41)
3 Force of Will
4 Daze
3 Spell Pierce
4 Stifle
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Forked Bolt
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Delver of Seacrets
4 Nimble Mongoose
4 Tarmogoyf
1 Scavenging Ooze
Mana Sources (19)
4 Wasteland
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Tropical Island
3 Volcanic Island
Sideboard (15)
4 Submerge
2 Pyroblast
2 Gilded Drake
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Mind Harness
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Krosan Grip
1 Life from the Loam
1 Spell Pierce
4th Place – Steve Guillerm – CounterTop Miracles UW
Business (40)
4 Force of Will
3 Daze
1 Counterspell
3 Counterbalance
4 Sensei’s Divining Top
4 Brainstorm
4 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Land Tax
2 Entreat the Angels
1 S1 Red Elnapcaster Mage
2 Trinket Mage
1 Engineered Explosives
2 Relic of Progenitus
4 Swords to Plowshares
3 Terminus
Mana Sources (20)
3 Misty Rainforest
4 Flooded Strand
4 Tundra
6 Island
3 Plains
Sideboard (15)
2 Path to Exile
1 Disenchant
1 Blue Elemental Blast
1 Moat
1 Humility
2 Vendilion Clique
1 Terminus
1 Llawan, Cephalid Empress
1 Oblivion Ring
1 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Pithing Needle
Top 8 – Chris Sears – Metalworker Forgemaster
Business (33)
4 Chalice of the Void
2 Lightning Greaves
3 Trinisphere
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Staff of Domination
4 Metalworker
4 Lodestone Golem
4 Kuldotha Forgemaster
1 Steel Hellkite
3 Wurmcoil Engine
1 Duplicant
1 Karn Liberated
1 Spine of Ish Sah
1 Sundering Titan
1 Platinum Emperion
1 Blightsteel Colossus
Mana Sources (27)
2 Mox Diamond
2 Mox Opal
4 Grim Monolith
4 Cavern of Souls
4 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Traitors
3 Darksteel Citadel
4 Wasteland
Sideboard (15)
2 Witchbane Orb
2 Tormod’s Crypt
2 Ratchet Bomb
3 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Platinum Emperion
2 Ensnaring Bridge
1 Duplicant
1 Contagion Engine
1 Silent Arbiter
Top 8 – Lam Phan – UR Landstill
Business (36)
4 Force of Will
3 Spell Snare
3 Spell Pierce
4 Stifle
3 Counterspell
4 Lightning Bolt
2 Ratchet Bomb
1 Crucible of Worlds
4 Brainstorm
3 Standstill
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Snapcaster Mage
Business (24)
4 Wasteland
4 Mishra’s Factory
4 Faerie Conclave
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Volcanic Island
3 Island
1 Mountain
Sideboard (15)
4 Pithing Needle
4 Relic of Progenitus
3 Pyroclasm
2 Pyroblast
2 Red Elemental Blast
Top 8 – Bryan Borgardt – Mono Black Control
Business (36)
1 Tombstalker
2 Nether Spirit
4 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Hymn to Tourach
4 Smallpox
1 Pox
3 Sinkhole
1 Ratchet Bomb
1 Nether Void
3 Innocent Blood
3 Cursed Scroll
3 Liliana of the Veil
1 Crucible of Worlds
3 Sensei’s Divining Top
2 Thawing Glaciers
Mana Sources (24)
3 Dark Ritual
4 Mishra’s Factory
4 Wasteland
3 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
10 Swamp
Sideboard (15)
1 Spinning Darkness
3 Tormod’s Crypt
3 Ravenous Trap
1 Tombstalker
3 Perish
1 Ratchet Bomb
3 Engineered Plague
Top 8 – Nicholas Rouse – RUG Delver
Business (42)
4 Force of Will
4 Daze
4 Spell Pierce
4 Lightning Bolt
1 Forked Bolt
1 Fire/Ice
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
2 Thought Scour
4 Delver of Seacrets
4 Nimble Mongoose
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Grim Lavamancer
Mana Sources (18)
4 Wasteland
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Misty Rainforest
3 Tropical Island
3 Volcanic Island
Sideboard (15)
4 Submerge
2 Sulfur Elmental
1 Nature’s Claim
1 Life from the Loam
1 Gilded Drake
3 Faerie Macabre
2 Pyroblast
1 Ancient Grudge
Decks Played (Alphabetically, by Player)
Tyson Abraham – Merfolk
Jon Acton – Sneak and Show
Joseph Alana – Omniscience
Rand Aquino – Painter UB
Bryan Borgardt – Mono Black Control
Justin Brisentine – RUG Delver
Josh Bristow – Goblin Charbelcher RG
Shawn Clark – Maverick GW
Ben Cretens – EsperBlade
Patrick Crowe – EsperBlade
Confesor Davila – Hypergenesis
Alex DeStefano – BG Control
Melissa DeTora – RUG Delver
Korbin Friend – Dredge
Stephane Gerard – Cephalid Breakfast
Daryl Scott Gessler – Merfolk
Steve Guillerm – CounterTop Miracles UW
Tom Gustafson – Merfolk
Ryan Haines – Dredge
Bryan Halls – Burn
Adam Hartzler – CounterTop Miracles UW
Sean Hettich – Misthollow Griffin Food Chain Combo
Matt Hetzner – Maverick GW
David Ho – Naya Assault Loam
Eric Hoffman – Goblins RB
Stephen Hudak – RUG Delver
Scott Hughes – Candelabra Cloudpost UG
Kyle Hutches – RUG Delver
Bryan Jerger – Goblin Charbelcher RG
Kayvan Koie – Lands.dec
Corey Krause – Spiral Tide
Joseph Krause – Goblins R
Daniel Kwiatkowski – Ad Nauseam Tendrils UBR
Joshua Landree – Elves
Binghan Li – RUG Delver
Steven Liao – Merfolk
Brian Liebrecht – CounterTop Miracles UW
Jesse Liu – EsperBlade
Phillip Lyons – CounterTop Miracles UW
Ramy Mansour – Junk BGW
Raymond Mitchell – Goblins R
Steven Moerke – Goblin Charbelcher RGB
Daniel Nowak – Bant StoneBlade
David Patwell – URW BladeStill
Lam Phan – UR Landstill
John Piazza – Goblins RG
Michael A. Rabey – Goblin Charbelcher RG
Ryan Reeves – Dredge
Warren Regnier – Goblin Charbelcher RG
Corbin Renslaw – Reanimator
James Risner – Imperial Painter
Brian Robbins – EsperBlade
Torsta Rou – Maverick GW
Bobby Rouse – Ad Nauseam Tendrils UBR
Nicholas Rouse – RUG Delver
Jim Schmitze – Burn
Chris Sears – Metalworker Forgemaster
David Silver – StoneBlade UW
Alex Smith – EsperBlade
Phil Spinella – UB Control
Zach Sprague – Sneak and Show
Todd Stivers – Maverick GW
Thomas Swindell – StoneBlade URW
Justin Uppal – EsperBlade
Jerry S. Vance – Spiral Tide
Naveen Vemuri – Shardless BUG Control
Rene Villeneuve – EsperBlade
Andrew Wagner – RUG Delver
Vince Walla – Merfolk
Mark Williams – Mono Black Control
Stacy Winchell – CounterTop Miracles UW
Mark Wood – BUG Control
Graig Wymer – RUG Delver
Tinac Xing – EsperBlade
Total Players: 74
Metagame Breakdown
Ad Nauseam Tendrils UBR – 2
Bant StoneBlade – 1
BG Control – 1
BUG Control – 1
Burn – 2
Candelabra Cloudpost UG – 1
Cephalid Breakfast – 1
CounterTop Miracles UW – 5
Dredge -3
Elves – 1
EsperBlade – 8
Goblin Charbelcher – 5 (RG – 3, RGB -1)
Goblins –4 (Goblins R -2, Gobins RG – 1, Goblins RB – 1)
Hypergenesis – 1
Imperial Painter – 1
Junk BGW – 1
Lands.dec – 1
Maverick GW – 4
Merfolk -5
Metalworker Forgemaster – 1
Misthollow Griffin Food Chain Combo – 1
Mono Black Control -2
Naya Assault Loam – 1
Painter UB – 1
Reanimator – 1
RUG Delver – 8
Shardless BUG Control – 1
Sneak and Show – 2
Spiral Tide – 2
StoneBlade UW – 1
StoneBlade URW – 1
UB Control – 1
URW BladeStill – 1
Photos From Legacy Prelim 8pm
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Special thanks for this information goes out to Monty Ashley from Wizards of the Coast, head judge Ingrid Lin-Jan, along with Dan, Rob, and Alan from Pastimes. We are grateful for them allowing access to this information for us to share with the world.