Team Open Top 8 Profiles

Noah Walker | Dylan Donegan | Edgar Magalhaes

Age: 23 | 22 | 25

Hometown:
Amherst, MH | NC | Toronto, ON

Archetype:
Temur Delver | Urza Outcome | Bant Golos

How do you beat the Golos decks?
You play it better.

What's the best deck in Modern? Why?
Paradoxical Urza because it's very fast, resilient, and can outgrind anything.

What's the coolest play you saw in Legacy this weekend?
Force of Will your wasteland

Zan Syed | Roshen Eapen | Jeremy Bertarioni

Age: 27 | 21 | 25

Hometown:
Atlanta, GA | Wall, NJ | Wilmington, NC

Archetype:
Naya Loam | Urza Outcome | Golos Fires

How do you beat the Golos decks?
I'm the only one going way over the top with an amazing wishboard.

What's the best deck in Modern? Why?
Urza Outcome because of Emry.

What's the coolest play you saw in Legacy this weekend?
Zan swordsed Marit Lage in response to storm 10 tendrils.

Drake Sasser | Harlan Firer | Zach Allen

Age: 24 | 25 | 29

Hometown:
Huntsville, AL | Charlottesville, VA | Farmington Hills, MI

Archetype:
Jeskai Mentor | Four-Color Whirza | Sultai Golos

How do you beat the Golos decks?
Yarok

What's the best deck in Modern? Why?
Whirza

What's the coolest play you saw in Legacy this weekend?
Blood Moon

Kyle Fitzsimmons | Ryan Gassaway | Dan Staub

Age: 28 | 26 | 24

Hometown:
Freehold, NJ | Freehold | Colts Neck

Archetype:
Storm | Affinity | Bant Golos

How do you beat the Golos decks?
Growth Spiral on turn 2. Hope they don't do the same.

What's the best deck in Modern? Why?
Whichever 75 cards + Mox Opal I put together morning of.

What's the coolest play you saw in Legacy this weekend?
I got to Brainstorm into a Narset to put 2 cards back to go hellbent with an infernal tutor.

Daryl Ayers | Matthew Dilks | Jon Rosum

Age: 26 | 28 | 21

Hometown:
Chesapeake | Burlington, ON | Spencer, MA

Archetype:
Temur Delver | Amulet Titan | Bant Golos

How do you beat the Golos decks?
Play Golos.

What's the best deck in Modern? Why?
Once Upon a Time and Castle Garenbrig lead to a lottttt of turn 3 Titans.

What's the coolest play you saw in Legacy this weekend?
Stifle your fetchland.

Steven Porter | Jamie Miller | Evan Appleton

Age: 22 | 29 | 31

Hometown:
Fairfax, VA | D.C. | Fairfax, VA

Archetype:
Aluren | Titanshift | Bant Golos

How do you beat the Golos decks?
You either just play Golos to beat Golos or early Nissa into Oko into continued pressure. Probably easier to just play Golos.

What's the best deck in Modern? Why?
Something something Urza. I don't know! I'm a simple Mountain Man.

What's the coolest play you saw in Legacy this weekend?
Beginning my combo, getting interrupted, then going off in response.

Andrew Baeckstrom | Josh McClain | Matthew Nass

Age: 30 | 30 | 27

Hometown:
Denver, CO | Iowa City, IA | Denver, CO

Archetype:
Temur Delver | Urza Outcome | Simic Midrange

How do you beat the Golos decks?
Evasive threats.

What's the best deck in Modern? Why?
Urza Outcome, Moxen + card draw.

What's the coolest play you saw in Legacy this weekend?
My Selesnya Depths never letting me have priority when a forest was in play by immediately saccing them to play around submerge.

Dave Long | Robert Long | Jarvis Yu

Age: 35 | 32 | 34

Hometown:
D.C. | D.C. | Rockville

Archetype:
Dredge | Mono-Green Tron | Bant Golos

How do you beat the Golos decks?
What do you mean? I only lost and draw versus those decks.

What's the best deck in Modern? Why?
Some Urza deck?

What's the coolest play you saw in Legacy this weekend?
Draw step? Dredge Golgari - Grave Troll.