Team Open Top 8 Profiles

Steve Rubin|Pete Ingram|Frank Skarren

Age: 27|28|28

Hometown:
LA|Long Island|Long Island

Archetype:
Death and Taxes|Izzet Phoenix|Mono-Red Aggro

What's the best deck in Standard? Why?
Simic Nexus

How would you rate the health of Modern?
Comically bad

What was the craziest moment to happen in Legacy this weekend?
Turn one Griselbrand twice.

Matthew Dilks|Daryl Ayers|Edgar Magalhaes

Age: 28|25|24

Hometown:
Burlington, ON|Cheapeake|Burlington, ON

Archetype:
Golgari Depths|Amulet Titan|Esper Control

What's the best deck in Standard? Why?
Esper Control. You have so many powerful cards, don't really get why you would chose not to.

How would you rate the health of Modern?
Seems fine.

What was the craziest moment to happen in Legacy this weekend?
Winning without depths against Delver.

Chris Minor|Joesph Ambrosio|Freddie Crespo Jr.

Age: 29|31|36

Hometown:
Charleston, SC|Massapequa, NY|Brooklyn, NY

Archetype:
Four-Color Loam|Mono-Green Tron|Mono-Red Aggro

What's the best deck in Standard? Why?
Mono-Red because we feel the only true bad matchup for it is Esper Control.

How would you rate the health of Modern?
Although it is dominated by Izzet Phoenix and Dredge it is still very diverse in the decks that have risen to combat these decks.

What was the craziest moment to happen in Legacy this weekend?
My opponent swung with a Gideon equipped with Batterskull, Palace Jailer equipped with Sword of FIre and Ice, and a Mother of Runes, so I Karakas the Gideon, Cindervines the Sword, and cabal pitted the Jailer and took 1 from the Mother of Runes. Then fetched for Dryad Arbor at end step to take back the Monarch and my two Knights of the Reliquary to win the game.

Ethan Gaieski|Abe Corrigan|Kellen Pastore

Age: 21|20|28

Hometown:
Philadelphia|Brooklyn|Philadelphia

Archetype:
Death and Taxes|Dredge|Azorius Aggro

What's the best deck in Standard? Why?
White weenie piloted by Kellen Pastore.

How would you rate the health of Modern?
Paging Dr. Edge!

What was the craziest moment to happen in Legacy this weekend?
Double plow, bounce Thalia to steal back the Monarchy.

Austin Collins|Zan Syed| Brad Carpenter

Age: 16|27|26

Hometown:
Kansas City|Atlanta|St. Petersburg

Archetype:
Izzet Delver|Whir Prison|Selesnya Tokens

What's the best deck in Standard? Why?
There isn't one.

How would you rate the health of Modern?
Phoenix is too good.

What was the craziest moment to happen in Legacy this weekend?
Won a game after Mono-Red Prison opponent top decked Chandra, Chandra, Fiery Confluence, Chandra

Min Hoq|Chase Masters|Jake Tilk

Age: 25|19|25

Hometown:
Columbus, OH|Erie, PA|Grosse Ile, MI

Archetype:
Miracles|Eldrazi Taxes|Azorius Aggro

What's the best deck in Standard? Why?
Azorius Aggro, it's only bad matchup is Mono-Red which isn't playable except on Arena.

How would you rate the health of Modern?
Poor, Faithless Looting and Manamorphose are considerable design mistakes that cause non-games and do little to diversify the format. #freespellsarebad

What was the craziest moment to happen in Legacy this weekend?
Game 3, beating Izzet Delver on turn 5 of turns managing a low life total and 1 Jace and 1 Mentor left in my deck.

Jeff Jao|Mason Clark|Teresa Pho

Age: 34|26|26

Hometown:

Archetype:
Brooklyn, NY|Nashville, TN|Mission Viejo, CA

What's the best deck in Standard? Why?
Gruul because it's hot and dangerous.

How would you rate the health of Modern?
If you're one of us, then roll with us. (Arclight & Amulet = Busted)

What was the craziest moment to happen in Legacy this weekend?
Beat Storm on Lands Game 1 twice.

Tannon Grace|Jim Davis|Ross Merriam

Age: 34|34|30

Hometown:
Baton Rogue, LA|Long Island, NY|Middleton, CT

Archetype:
Izzet Delver|Mono-Green Tron|Temur Reclamation

What's the best deck in Standard? Why?
I have no idea because I don't win with any of them.

How would you rate the health of Modern?
Fine, read my article on Coolstuffinc.com about Faithless Looting.

What was the craziest moment to happen in Legacy this weekend?
Using two counters on two Chrome Moxes.