A Tale of Two Cities: SCG Con Baltimore & SCG Con Houston

January 2, 2026

These events help set the early meta and deck ecosystem. A lot is going on between all of these decks and the ways each of their pilots was able to utilize them. I have included the top 4 from each event as well as a breakdown of the Vanilla Swirl deck by American Texan. These lists are all from the constructed events.

SCG Con Baltimore Top 4

1st Abel Jacoby – “UG aggro

2x Ashenleaf
2x Caelith Leaftracker
1x Clearsky Eyrie
2x Ethereal Grove
3x Fungolith Colossus
1x Murkmire Incarnate
1x Raziya Balakai
2x Rylan Windstrider
3x Seer’s Gaze
2x Thought Tempest
1x Tony Fortune Hunter Thickfur
1x War’rinoco, Nature’s Firstborn
2x Vobb Stalker
2x The Betrayer of Ironskin Clan
2x Wave Whisperer Bay
3x Wren Arbor
3x Oakthorn’s Elysium
1x Whirlpool Bay
2x Indra’s Citadel
1x Market of Lost Wonders
2x Ranidae Hopmaster
3x Moonfire Crystal Mouse
3x Glacium Keep
2x The Crimson Marauder
1x Gorrash, The Dreadful
1x Galen Mosspaw
1x The Blazing Phoenix Pub

2nd Stephen Bernsdorf – “SCG Baltimore 2025 – 1000”

2x Reforged Summoning Platform
1x Wretched Mirror of Requiem
2x Staff of the Eldritch Tribesmen
1x Galactic Sovereign Throne
3x Moonfire Crystal Mouse
1x Baron, the Unstable
1x Autumn, Essence Animated
2x Fortune Dealer
2x Flying Suzzer
2x Cairnvox Soulforger
3x Cryptreach Province
1x Darkiron City
2x Twilight Marsh
1x Witch Warden
2x Fortress Orcscar
1x Cedarshade Ruins
1x Clearsky Eyrie
1x Indra’s Citadel
1x Market of Lost Wonders
1x Mystic Albeala
1x Shaka Bok III, Well Favored
1x The Great Usurper
2x The Power of Three
1x Blasting Duel
1x Deconstruct
2x Omnis Quantum
1x Sirius Aetherblade
1x Ward of Serendipity
2x Arcane Grasp
1x The First
1x Blackthorne Banshee
1x Eternitum the Space Lich
1x Lunar Empowerment
1x Aetherion of Boundless
1x Glasswing Cockatrice
1x Noctarum the Lost

3rd Ken Adams – “Tea Set

3x Stellar Harmony Tea Set
3x Seer’s Gaze
2x Carrionys Moth
2x Ward of Serendipity
2x Deconstruct
2x Azure Vault
2x Galactic Sovereign Throne
2x Kishral Vivasynth, ChronoTitan
1x Power of Bloodlines
3x The Power of Three
2x Indra’s Citadel
1x Market of Lost Wonders
2x Ethereal Grove
1x The First
3x Volcanic Wastes
3x Serpent’s Embrace
1x Baron, the Unstable
2x Twilight Marsh
3x Oakthorn’s Elysium
3x Celestium Heights
2x Resonance Reach
1x The Great Usurper
1x The Lamp of Luferia
1x The Remains of Barnabus
1x Caroline Candole
1x High Inquisitor Epsilon Tolaris

4th Matthew Gargiulo – “Googs Deck”

1x Galen Mosspaw
2x Commanding Croak, the Leader
2x Caelith Leaftracker
1x The Betrayer of Ironskin Clan
1x War’rinoco, Nature’s Firstborn
2x Kanevil Wayfarer
2x Aetherium Arc Launcher
1x Utterly Complex Compound Bow
3x Seer’s Gaze
1x Raziya Balakai
2x Sirius Aetherblade
3x Onglepod
1x Cosmic Cataclysm
1x Divine Conduit
2x Cast Out
2x Mechalion
1x Carrionys Moth
1x Cedarshade Ruins
2x Ethereal Grove
3x Oakthorn’s Elysium
1x The First
2x Resonance Reach
2x Gearheart Enclave Inner
3x Bio-Circuit Plant
2x Indra’s Citadel
1x Market of Lost Wonders
3x Celestium Heights
2x Twilight Marsh

SCG Con Houston Top 4

1st Keith Bellante – “Raziya’s Onslaught”

1x Raziya Balakai
1x Plant Terror of Ethereal Grove
1x Murkmire Incarnate
1x John Breakbang
1x Galen Mosspaw
1x Eye of Petraia
1x War’rinoco, Nature’s Firstborn
2x Ashenleaf
2x Caelith Leaftracker
2x Lynx Pawsong
2x Mountain Ridge Mammoth
2x Pathfinding Kli
2x Tony Fortune Hunter Thickfur
3x Fungolith Colossus
1x The Great Veridan
1x Cedarshade Ruins
2x Ethereal Grove
3x Quiet Creek
2x Oakthorn’s Elysium
3x Solaris Stormcaster
1x Utterly Complex Compound Bow
1x Clearsky Eyrie
1x Bio-Circuit Plant
1x Gearheart Enclave Inner
1x Harmonic Canyon Refuge
2x Resonance Reach
1x Phoenix Quill
3x Path of Light
2x Seer’s Gaze
1x The Blazing Phoenix Pub
1x Sunfire City
1x Scouting Barnale

2nd Richie Downs – “Full Collapse”

2x Ashenleaf
2x Caelith Leaftracker
1x The Betrayer of Ironskin Clan
1x Galen Mosspaw
3x Lumina Scarab
1x The Crimson Marauder
1x War’rinoco, Nature’s Firstborn
1x Blauzophel
3x Giant Hydrojelly
2x Scarlet Devourer
1x Cedarshade Ruins
1x Clearsky Eyrie
2x Ethereal Grove
2x Oakthorn’s Elysium
1x Glacium Keep
1x The Blazing Phoenix Pub
1x Market of Lost Wonders
3x Thought Tempest
1x Phoenix Quill
2x Indra’s Citadel
3x Moonfire Crystal Mouse
1x Raziya Balakai
1x The Windreaver
1x Eternitum the Space Lich
1x Commanding Croak, the Leader
2x Arcane Grasp
1x Nexus Phasebringer
1x The First
1x Eye of Petraia
1x Lynx Pawsong
1x Stellar Harmony Tea Set
2x Frostfire Citadel
1x Starburst Mallet
1x Sirius Aetherblade

3rd Zachary Bellante – “Tidal Winds”

1x Princess Aurora Waveheart
2x Noctarum the Lost
1x War’rinoco, Nature’s Firstborn
2x Wave Whisperer Bay
2x Cast Out
2x Omnis Quantum
1x Quadritusk Etherphant
1x Divine Conduit
2x Lunar Empowerment
1x Eye of Petraia
1x Sirius Aetherblade
1x Seafly Nests
2x Sunfire City
2x Starhorn Capra
2x Caelith Leaftracker
1x Phoenix Quill
1x John Breakbang
1x Cedarshade Ruins
2x Ethereal Grove
1x Clearsky Eyrie
2x Indra’s Citadel
2x Iron Citadel
1x Market of Lost Wonders
1x The Light Forge
2x Starburst Mallet
1x Divine Breach
1x Captain Rostar Corewind
3x Moonfire Crystal Mouse
2x Nexus Phasebringer
1x Old Man Rocket Ricker
2x Pastel Bloom Drake
1x Valkeria Velorum
1x The First
1x Seer’s Gaze
Tokens
3x Bella
3x Aooou’la
3x Aooou’la of Brine
2x Ancient Sky Sword
2x Aooou’la the Calico
2x Sky Sword
12x Aether

4th American Texan – “Vanilla Swirl“

3x Abyssal Sand Leviathan
3x Aethereal Enigmyst
3x Patch Squibbler
3x Iggling Wrotch
1x The First
2x Indra’s Citadel
1x Market of Lost Wonders
2x Resonance Reach
1x Cedarshade Ruins
2x Ethereal Grove
3x Wave Whisperer Bay
3x Stellar Harmony Tea Set
2x Azure Vault
2x Galactic Sovereign Throne
2x The Lamp of Luferia
2x Ward of Serendipity
3x Seer’s Gaze
2x Caelith Leaftracker
2x Arcane Grasp
1x Raziya Balakai
2x Tony Fortune Hunter Thickfur
1x Lumina Scarab
2x Giant Hydrojelly
1x Harmonic Canyon Refuge
1x Sunfire City

Final Thoughts

I personally enjoyed seeing the deck-building prowess on display with these individuals. They were able to take some interesting concepts from their head to the table to an event and succeed at a high level. Hopefully, we see an evolution of some decks as the meta gets shaken up with a future DBS update.

Romall