Regional Championship Qualifier - Pioneer - Top 8 Decklists [September 10, 2022]

On September 10th we hosted our first Regional Championship Qualifier Tournament, which was Pioneer format. Below are the decklist for the Top 8 Winners. Gamers Grove would like to thank everyone who came to participate and also to our judge, Rob, who helped make the tournament run smoothly. 

1^st Place – Ricky Linn

4 Arclight Phoenix
3 Ledger Shredder
2 Thing in the Ice
4 Opt
4 Consider
4 Pieces of the Puzzle
4 Treasure Cruise
2 Chart a Course
2 Fiery Impulse
1 Flame-Blessed Bolt
2 Lightning Axe
1 Temporal Trespass
1 Spell Pierce
1 Izzet Charm
1 Sweltering Sun
2 Abrade
2 Galvanic Iteration
1 Spikefield Hazard
4 Steam Vents
4 Riverglide Pathway
3 Spirebluff Canal
3 Stormcarved Coast
2 Hall of the Storm Giant
1 Island
1 Mountain
1 Otawara, Soaring City

Sideboard:
2 Jaya, Fiery Negotiator
2 Unlicensed Hearse
2 Negate
2 Mystical Dispute
1 Rending Volley
1 Thing in the Ice
1 Crackling Drake
1 Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
1 Aether Gust
1 Sweltering Suns
1 Spell Pierce

2^nd Place – Michael Cieszinski

4 Thalia’s Lieutenant
2 General Kudro of Drannith
2 Kytheon, Hero of Akros
4 Luminarch Aspirant
2 Soldier of the Pantheon
2 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
4 Bloodsoaked Champion
3 Extortion Specialist
4 Dauntless Bodyguard
2 Thraben Inspector
3 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4 Dire Tactics
2 Declaration in Stone
4 Mutavault
4 Caves of Koilos
4 Godless Shrine
4 Concealed Courtyard
4 Brightclimb Pathway
1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
1 Plains

Sideboard:
3 Fatal Push
2 Graveyard Inspector
4 Thoughtseize
2 Tithe Taker
2 Archon of Emeria
2 Night Clubber

3rd/ 4th – Gabriel Nicholas

1 Shatterskull Smashing
1 Stangle
2 Kroxa, Titan of Death’s Hunger
4 Bonecrusher Giant
4 Bloodtithe Harvester
2 Kalitas, Traitor of Get
4 Fatal Push
4 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker
4 Thoughtseize
4 Graveyard Trespasser
1 Cut// Ribbons
2 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
3 Dreadbore
2 Hive of the Eye Tyrant
1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
2 Swamp
2 Mountain
4 Haunted Ridge
1 Castle Locthwain
2 Den of the Bigbear
4 Blood Crypt
4 Blightstep Pathway

Sideboard:
1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
1 Hidetsugu Consumes All
3 Leyline of the Void
1 Lava Coil
2 Lifebane Zombie
1 Invoke Despair
2 Extinction Event
2 Epic Downfall
2 Abrade

3^rd/4^th – Grayson Shadwick

1 Voracious Hydra
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
4 Oath of Nissa
4 Wolfwillow Haven
4 Polukranos, World Eater
4 Old-Growth Troll
4 Karn, Great Creator
2 Sylvan Caryatid
4 Cavalier of Thorns
4 Elvish Mystic
2 Lair of the Hydra
4 Storm the Festival
3 Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
2 Boseiju, Who Endures
13 Forest

Sideboard:
1 Meteor Golem
1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
1 Pithing Needle
1 Damping Sphere
1 God-Pharaoh’s Statue
1 Pestilent Cauldron
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Tormod’s Crypt
1 Immortal Sun
1 Treasure Vault
3 Skylasher
2 Voracious Hydra

5^th – 8^th – Umar Babar

4 Supreme Phantom
4 Shacklegeist
4 Mausoleum Wanderer
4 Rattlechains
4 Spell Queller
3 Spectral Sailor
3 Skyclave Apparition
3 Empyrean Eagle
2 Selfless Spirit
1 Remourseful Cleric
1 Katilda, Dawnhart Prime
4 Collected Company
4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Hengegate Pathway
3 Branchloft Pathway
2 Barkchannel Pathway
2 Botanical Pathway
2 Temple Garden
2 Secluded Courtyard
1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
1 Breeding Pool
1 Otawara, Soaring City
1 Island

Sideboard:
1 Cemetery Illuminator
1 Spirit of the Labyrinth
1 Katilda, Dawnhart Prime
1 Reidane, God of the Worthy
1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
2 Extraction Specialists
2 Unlicensed Hearse
3 Lofty Denial
3 Portable Hole

5^th – 8^th: Garner Johnson

4 Arboreal Grazer
2 Fae of Wishes
1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
4 Vizier of Tumbling Sands
3 Bala Ged Recovery
1 Dark Petition
3 Emergent Ultimatum
4 Hidden Strings
1 Mastermind’s Acquisition
1 Path of Peril
1 Peer into the Abyss
4 Pore Over the Pages
4 Sylvan Scrying
4 Impulse
1 Omniscience
1 Blast Zone
2 Boseiju, Who Endures
1 Botanical Sanctum
1 Breeding Pool
1 Island
4 Lotus Field
2 Otawara, Soaring City
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Temple of Mystery
4 Thespian’s Stage
4 Yavimaya Coast

Sideboard:
1 Approach of the Second Sun
1 Cyclonic Rift
1 Emergent Ultimatum
1 Into the Roil
1 Languish
1 Mazemind Tome
1 Nine Lives
1 Path of Peril
1 Pithing Needle
2 Swan Song
2 Thought Distortion
2 Leyline of Sanctity

5^th – 8^th: Maclean Ayerite

4 Elvish Mystic
4 Llanowar Elves
2 Dwynen’s Elite
4 Elvish Warmaster
4 Elvish Clancaller
4 Leaf-Crowned Visionary
2 Realmwalker
3 Circle of Dreams Druid
4 Steel Leaf Champion
4 Shaman of the Pack
4 Collected Company
1 Jaspera Sentinel
1 Elvish Reclaimer
4 Blooming Marsh
2 Boseiju, Who Endures
2 Forest
1 Lair of the Hydra
4 Llanwar Wastes
2 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
4 Overgrown Tomb

Sideboard:
4 Leyline of the Void
2 Masked Vandal
2 Epic Downfall
3 Shaper Sanctuary
4 Thoughtseize

5^th – 8^th: Pablo Vera

4 Bonecrusher Giant
2 Chandra, Dressed to Kill
4 Eidolon of the Great Revel
2 Goblin Chainwhirler
4 Kumano Faces Kakkazan
4 Light Up the Stage
1 Lightning Strike
4 Monastery Swiftspear
4 Play with Fire
4 Skewer the Critics
4 Soul-Scar Mage
2 Spikefield Hazard
1 Wild Slash
4 Den of the Bugbear
11 Mountain
4 Ramunap Ruins
1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance

Sideboard:
2 Burning Hands
1 Rampaging Ferocidon
1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
2 Hazoret the Fervent
2 Lava Coil
1 Redcap Melee
4 Rending Volley
2 Unlicensed Hearse