Gifts Ungiven

Check out the top eight decks from last weekend's PTQ in San Antonio.

Although the invite was taken down by Andres Suares with Domain Zoo featuring Bant Charm, which is a pretty good call, my eye was caught by the second place deck. Ryan Benito nearly made it there with a U/W Touch-Blink deck featuring Reveillark and Martyr of Sands. It's been a while since there was a last-minute wave of Touch-Blink decks in Standard, so you might want to click through and review those cards and what they do. I'm just fascinated to see such a divergent deck choice make it up to the finals of a PTQ.

In fact, this is a pretty interesting top eight. We have:

1) Andres Suares with Bant Charm Domain Zoo (aka "Charmed Zoo")
2) Ryan Benito with TBML
3) Chet Steinhagen with Scapeshift
4) James Wise with Jund Dudes
5) Sang Jung with Rubin Zoo
6) Drew Dumanski with BB Naya (where BB is Bloodbraid and Boom // Bust)
7) Hal Brady with Dark Depths
8) Andrew Jones with Affinity

This kind of top eight makes me happy about Extended all over again.