Live Coverage of StarCityGames.com Open: St. Louis

Click Here to Go to Complete Coverage! It has been seven months since the 2010 StarCityGames.com Open Series got underway. The city in which it began? St. Louis. The weekend of July 26-27 marked the first time the Open Series had returned to a city it had been to previously and expectations were high. One player who had extremely high expectations was Alex Bertoncini. Why? Because he headed into the weekend the Open Points leader, gunning for the title of Open Player of the Year and the set of Power 9 that comes with it. The Standard day of competition was mediocre for the player, but he powered back on the second day of competition. In the Legacy format, Alex’s Merfolk deck proved tough enough to make the Top 8. There he squared off against Cody Damm in the Quarterfinals. Cody’s Zoo deck was a bad matchup for Bertoncini, but he proved just why he’s the Open Points leader by tearing through in two straight games. Across the bracket Blue-White Control player Josh Guibault was headed to the Finals with all eyes on the prize. His Counterbalance/Thopter Foundry control strategy had a host of silver bullet targets for a powerful Enlightened Tutor engine. That proved key allowing him to fetch up the Foundry or Sword of the Meek for his combo, or occasional bullets like Moat. It was that Legends enchantment which let Josh lock Alex out of attacking in the pivotal game 3 and sent Bertoncini off in the lead for Player of the Year but without the second title he was gunning for. Josh Guibault is your StarCityGames.com Legacy Open champion in St. Louis! new TWTR.Widget({ version: 2, type: 'search', search: '#SCGSTL -JoshJMTG -MTG_Lennox', interval: 6000, title: 'StarCityGames.com Open: St. Louis', subject: '#SCGSTL', width: 330, height: 285, theme: { shell: { background: '#08598c', color: '#ffffff' }, tweets: { background: '#ffffff', color: '#08598c', links: '#1986b5' } }, features: { scrollbar: true, loop: false, live: true, hashtags: true, timestamp: true, avatars: true, behavior: 'all' } }).render().start(); Click Here to Go to Complete Coverage!