Team Open Top 8 Profiles

Tomas San Miguel/Brandon He/Griffin Van de Venne

Age: 21/20/21

Hometown:
Madison/Latrobe/Pittsburgh

Archetype:
Esper Control/Grixis Death's Shadow/4-Color Loam

What's the best deck in Standard? Why?
Esper, Obviously

How would you rate the health of Modern following the banning of Krark-Clan Ironworks?
No Difference, Still Unhealthy

What was the craziest moment to happen in legacy this weekend?
Getting T2 Marit Lage'd

Cain Rianhard/Evan Whitehouse/Casey Lancaster

Age: 23/21/28

Hometown:
East Lyme/Storrs/Cape Elizabeth

Archetype:
Esper Control/Dredge/Lands

What's the best deck in Standard? Why?
This Weekend, Esper. Great match up spread.

How would you rate the health of Modern following the banning of Krark-Clan Ironworks?
It is diverse but overly linear, so medium overall.

What was the craziest moment to happen in legacy this weekend?
T2 Marit Lage

Matt Tumavitch/Gerard Fabiano/Ryan Phraner

Age: 24/35/28

Hometown:
Clarks Summit/Bellville/Pocohnos

Archetype:
Bant Tokens/Grixis Death's Shadow/Grixis Delver

What's the best deck in Standard? Why?
Some collection of Bant Cards

How would you rate the health of Modern following the banning of Krark-Clan Ironworks?
Magic in general is the best card game ever. Try to be nice to others, enjoy the game, KCI getting banned is something that helped the game become more fun.

What was the craziest moment to happen in legacy this weekend?
I top decked my opponent and he said wow nice top deck!

Ian Bosley/Jeff Carr/Joshua Everly

Age: 28/21/28

Hometown:
Baltimore/Linthicum/Pasadena

Archetype:
Sultai Midrange/Mono-Red Phoenix/Grixis Delver

What's the best deck in Standard? Why?
Sultai, once it decides it wants to beat Esper. Hostage Taker is unreal against the field.

How would you rate the health of Modern following the banning of Krark-Clan Ironworks?
It's Fantastic, I can still turn three people without having to play narrow sideboard cards like Shattering Spree

What was the craziest moment to happen in legacy this weekend?
2-0 Jarvis you, timely fashion

Karthik Vemulapalli/Michael Liu/Alex Lien

Age: 24/23/25

Hometown:
San Jose/Mountain View/Los Altos Hills

Archetype:
Bant Nexus/Mono-Green Tron/Colorless Eldrazi

What's the best deck in Standard? Why?
Sultai Midrange, It beats everything

How would you rate the health of Modern following the banning of Krark-Clan Ironworks?
Terrible, tron is awful now. Lost my best matchup

What was the craziest moment to happen in legacy this weekend?
Not playing chalice on one and winning anyways

Kris McCord/Brian Feria/Keaton Wood

Age: 28/25/18

Hometown:
Lugano, Switzerland/Bayamon, Puerto Rico/San Diego

Archetype:
Esper Control/Burn/Miracles

What's the best deck in Standard? Why?
Esper Control, because Kaya, Orzhov Usurper is busted.

How would you rate the health of Modern following the banning of Krark-Clan Ironworks?
Great, there are many different archetypes that are good!

What was the craziest moment to happen in legacy this weekend?
I blind flipped a force of will on counter balance to counter a force.

Jacob Hagen/Ryan Overturf/Liz Lynn

Age: 28/29/24

Hometown:
Minneapolis/Minneapolis/Fairfax

Archetype:
Azorius Aggro/Temur Phoenix/Dimir Death's Shadow

What's the best deck in Standard? Why?
Azorius Aggro. Unlike most other decks, it can actually close the game.

How would you rate the health of Modern following the banning of Krark-Clan Ironworks?
Not banning faithless looting is a farce.

What was the craziest moment to happen in legacy this weekend?
Proliferated 2 Chalices on 1 to 2 against my opponents hand of two drops.

Edgar Magalhaes/Daryl Ayers/Matthew Dilks

Age: 24/25/28

Hometown:
Burlington, Ontario/Chesapeake/Burlington, Ontario

Archetype:
Esper Control/Amulet Titan/Golgari Depths

What's the best deck in Standard? Why?
Not completely sure, but Sultai feels like it's way overhped and Teferi is still messed up.

How would you rate the health of Modern following the banning of Krark-Clan Ironworks?
Looting probably needs to go eventually. Seems ok right now

What was the craziest moment to happen in legacy this weekend?
I dunno, I lost a lot, I'm all set