Standard RCQ March 2nd 2024

Reed Anderson took first place at our Standard RCQ last weekend. He was piloting a bant toxic deck, and earned an invite to Regional Championship Dallas at the beginning of June.

Check out his deck list below

The most played decks at the RCQ follow pretty closely to the larger meta for standard with the top three decks being

Most Common Sideboard Cards

Name% of DecksNumber Played
1 63.64%1.93
2 59.09%1.62
350.00%2.36
440.91%2.33
540.91%1.67
636.36%1.63
731.82%2.14
831.82%1.71
922.73%1.80
1018.18%1.25
1118.18%1.00

Top 8 Deck Lists

Below are all top 8 deck lists from the RCQ

1st Place – Reed Anderson – Bant Toxic

4 Venerated Rotpriest
4 Skrelv, Defector Mite
4 Crawling Chorus
3 Jawbone Duelist
1 Annex Sentry
4 Skrelv’s Hive
4 Serum Snare
4 March of Swirling Mist
4 Experimental Augury
3 Fading Hope
3 Bring the Ending
2 Cavern of Souls
4 Adarkar Wastes
4 The Seedcore
4 Seachrome Coast
3 Mirrex
1 Island (434)
1 Plains (344)
1 Razorverge Thicket
2 Yavimaya Coast

Sideboard
3 Annex Sentry
3 Bloated Contaminator
2 Cankerbloom
3 Charge of the Mites
3 Spell Pierce
1 Sword of Once and Future
 

2nd Place – Will Kowalczyk – Gurkinator

4 Aftermath Analyst
4 Nissa, Resurgent Animist
1 Ertai Resurrected
3 Slogurk, the Overslime
2 Atraxa, Grand Unifier
2 Jace, the Perfected Mind
4 Memory Deluge
2 Go for the Throat
2 Cut Down
3 Splendid Reclamation
1 Path of Peril
2 Terror Tide
2 The Celestus
4 Brokers Hideout
2 Underground Mortuary
2 Echoing Deeps
4 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
3 Otawara, Soaring City
1 Hedge Maze
3 Swamp (353)
1 Plains (344)
3 Island (334)
4 Riveteers Overlook
4 Obscura Storefront
5 Forest (329)

Sideboard
2 Boseiju, Who Endures
2 Cut Down
3 Dreams of Steel and Oil
3 Duress
1 Ertai Resurrected
1 Jace, the Perfected Mind
2 Path of Peril
1 Terror Tide
 

3rd Place – Frank Caputo – Esper Midrange

4 Raffine, Scheming Seer
4 Deep-Cavern Bat
3 Dennick, Pious Apprentice/Dennick, Pious Apparition
1 Lord Skitter, Sewer King
2 Tishana's Tidebinder
2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal/Temple of the Dead
2 The Wandering Emperor
4 Wedding Announcement/Wedding Festivity
2 Virtue of Loyalty/Ardenvale Fealty
3 Cut Down
3 Go for the Throat
3 Make Disappear
2 Seachrome Coast
4 Darkslick Shores
4 Shattered Sanctum
4 Restless Anchorage
2 Underground River
2 Raffine's Tower
3 Caves of Koilos
1 Deserted Beach
1 Plains (344)
1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
1 Otawara, Soaring City

Sideboard
2 Destroy Evil
2 Disdainful Stroke
2 Negate
2 Knockout Blow
2 Temporary Lockdown
1 Kaito Shizuki
1 Path of Peril
1 Loran of the Third Path
1 Duress
1 Anoint with Affliction
 

4th Place – Alex Newton – Domain

4 Archangel of Wrath
4 Topiary Stomper
3 Atraxa, Grand Unifier
1 Nissa, Resurgent Animist
4 Up the Beanstalk
4 Leyline Binding
2 Temporary Lockdown
4 Invasion of Zendikar/Awakened Skyclave
4 Herd Migration
4 Sunfall
1 Swamp (353)
1 Mountain (342)
4 Spara's Headquarters
4 Jetmir's Garden
4 Cavern of Souls
3 Ziatora's Proving Ground
1 Boseiju, Who Endures
1 Island (334)
3 Plains (344)
4 Forest (329)

Sideboard
3 Lithomantic Barrage
3 Depopulate
2 Knockout Blow
2 Jace, the Perfected Mind
2 Chrome Host Seedshark
2 Negate
1 Obstinate Baloth
 

5th Place – Cris Smith – Blue/White Control

1 Hullbreaker Horror
3 The Wandering Emperor
4 No More Lies
4 Deduce
4 Memory Deluge
3 March of Otherworldly Light
3 Disruption Protocol
2 Depopulate
3 Get Lost
3 Sunfall
3 Temporary Lockdown
3 Restless Anchorage
4 Deserted Beach
4 Field of Ruin
2 Sunken Citadel
2 Seachrome Coast
2 Meticulous Archive
1 Mirrex
1 Demolition Field
1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
1 Otawara, Soaring City
3 Plains (344)
3 Island (334)

Sideboard
4 Knockout Blow
2 Tishana's Tidebinder
3 Negate
2 Dennick, Pious Apprentice/Dennick, Pious Apparition
1 Hullbreaker Horror
1 Chrome Host Seedshark
1 Disdainful Stroke
1 Elspeth's Smite
 

6th Place – Christopher Townsend – Domain

4 Topiary Stomper
4 Archangel of Wrath
3 Atraxa, Grand Unifier
1 Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines
2 Etali, Primal Conqueror/Etali, Primal Sickness
1 Invasion of Tolvada/The Broken Sky
4 Invasion of Zendikar/Awakened Skyclave
1 One with the Multiverse
4 Leyline Binding
2 Up the Beanstalk
1 Nahiri's Resolve
4 Herd Migration
2 White Sun's Twilight
2 Depopulate
2 Breach the Multiverse
3 Jetmir's Garden
3 Ziatora's Proving Ground
1 Boseiju, Who Endures
3 Cavern of Souls
2 Spara's Headquarters
2 Raffine's Tower
2 Plains (344)
2 Swamp (353)
2 Mountain (342)
2 Island (316)
2 Forest (329)

Sideboard
3 Virtue of Persistence/Locthwain Scorn
2 Duress
2 Sheoldred's Edict
2 Negate
1 Tyrranax Rex
1 Etali, Primal Conqueror/Etali, Primal Sickness
1 Depopulate
1 Farewell
1 Up the Beanstalk
1 Commence the Endgame
 

7th Place – Franco Faustino – Blue/White Control

3 The Wandering Emperor
1 Jace, the Perfected Mind
4 Memory Deluge
4 Deduce
4 No More Lies
2 Depopulate
2 Disruption Protocol
3 Get Lost
1 Farewell
3 Sunfall
3 March of Otherworldly Light
3 Temporary Lockdown
3 Restless Anchorage
4 Seachrome Coast
4 Field of Ruin
4 Deserted Beach
2 Sunken Citadel
2 Mirrex
1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
1 Otawara, Soaring City
3 Plains (344)
3 Island (334)

Sideboard
3 Knockout Blow
2 Negate
2 Tishana's Tidebinder
2 Dennick, Pious Apprentice/Dennick, Pious Apparition
2 Disdainful Stroke
2 Jace, the Perfected Mind
1 Farewell
1 Temporary Lockdown
 

8th Place – Greg Meier – Esper Midrange

4 Deep-Cavern Bat
4 Raffine, Scheming Seer
2 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal/Temple of the Dead
2 Tishana's Tidebinder
2 Faerie Mastermind
2 Dennick, Pious Apprentice/Dennick, Pious Apparition
4 Wedding Announcement/Wedding Festivity
2 The Wandering Emperor
2 Virtue of Loyalty/Ardenvale Fealty
4 Go for the Throat
3 Cut Down
3 Make Disappear
2 Raffine's Tower
4 Shattered Sanctum
4 Restless Anchorage
4 Darkslick Shores
3 Underground River
3 Caves of Koilos
2 Seachrome Coast
1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
1 Otawara, Soaring City
1 Plains (344)

Sideboard
1 Anoint with Affliction
1 Tishana's Tidebinder
1 Cut Down
1 Parasitic Grasp
1 Negate
1 Faerie Mastermind
2 Disdainful Stroke
3 Destroy Evil
2 Loran of the Third Path
2 Knockout Blow
 

Todd Silvia