GenCon 2012 Legacy Prelim 8pm Decklists, Metagame Breakdown, & Photo Roundup

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

Photos for this event cannot be found, unfortunately. If you have any please forward them to us and we will be happy to add!

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.