The Eldrazi takeover continues. Grand Prix Melbourne was the first stop for Modern this weekend and as the Top 8 was finalized there was hope. Five of the competitors had brought non-Eldrazi decks to the table, including Kentaro Yamamoto, Lee Shi Tian, and Yuuchi Ichikawa with Living End. Jason Chung, fresh off a Top 16 finish at Pro Tour Oath of the Gatewatch, brought Dredge to the party.

Yet the rising tide of dead could do nothing to stop the otherworldly beasts. In the end it was Maitland Cameron and David Mines squaring off in a White-Blue Eldrazi mirror match. Drowner of Hope proved to be the pivotal card as it forced a game three and when ripped from the top of Mines' library, handed Cameron his first mirror loss of the weekend.

W/U Eldrazi ? Modern | David Mines, Winner Grand Prix Melbourne

• Creatures (29)
• 4 Drowner of Hope
• 4 Eldrazi Displacer
• 4 Eldrazi Mimic
• 4 Eldrazi Skyspawner
• 4 Endless One
• 1 Matter Reshaper
• 4 Reality Smasher
• 4 Thought-Knot Seer

• Spells (6)
• 4 Dismember
• 2 Path to Exile

• Lands (25)
• 1 Island
• 1 Plains
• 4 Adarkar Wastes
• 3 Cavern of Souls
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 4 Flooded Strand
• 2 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 4 Eldrazi Temple
• 4 Eye of Ugin

• Sideboard (15)
• 2 Chalice of the Void
• 2 Oblivion Sower
• 1 Oblivion Ring
• 2 Rest in Peace
• 2 Stony Silence
• 3 Hurkyl's Recall
• 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
• 1 All Is Dust
• 1 Vesuva

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W/U Eldrazi ? Modern | Maitland Cameron, Finalist Grand Prix Melbourne

• Creatures (29)
• 4 Eldrazi Mimic
• 4 Thought-Knot Seer
• 4 Reality Smasher
• 4 Endless One
• 4 Eldrazi Displacer
• 4 Eldrazi Skyspawner
• 4 Drowner of Hope
• 1 Ruination Guide

• Spells (7)
• 3 Dismember
• 4 Path to Exile

• Lands (24)
• 4 Flooded Strand
• 4 Adarkar Wastes
• 4 Eldrazi Temple
• 4 Eye of Ugin
• 3 Cavern of Souls
• 2 Plains
• 1 Island
• 2 Hallowed Fountain

• Sideboard (15)
• 3 Stony Silence
• 3 Stubborn Denial
• 2 Gut Shot
• 1 Grafdigger's Cage
• 2 Oblivion Ring
• 2 Rest in Peace
• 1 Hurkyl's Recall
• 1 Ratchet Bomb

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Living End ? Modern | Yuuki Ichikawa, Top 4 Grand Prix Melbourne

• Creatures (27)
• 4 Fulminator Mage
• 4 Street Wraith
• 4 Architects of Will
• 4 Monstrous Carabid
• 4 Deadshot Minotaur
• 2 Jungle Weaver
• 2 Simian Spirit Guide
• 2 Shriekmaw
• 1 Dryad Arbor

• Spells (14)
• 4 Demonic Dread
• 3 Living End
• 4 Violent Outburst
• 3 Beast Within

• Lands (19)
• 4 Copperline Gorge
• 4 Blackcleave Cliffs
• 4 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Forest
• 2 Swamp
• 1 Kessig Wolf Run
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Stomping Ground

• Sideboard (15)
• 2 Shriekmaw
• 2 Brindle Boar
• 4 Ingot Chewer
• 1 Ricochet Trap
• 4 Faerie Macabre
• 2 Olivia Voldaren

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R/G Eldrazi ? Modern | Louis Thomson-Gregg, Top 4 Grand Prix Melbourne

• Creatures (22)
• 4 Endless One
• 4 Matter Reshaper
• 4 Thought-Knot Seer
• 4 Reality Smasher
• 2 Oblivion Sower
• 4 World Breaker

• Spells (14)
• 4 Ancient Stirrings
• 1 Lightning Bolt
• 2 Dismember
• 4 Kozilek's Return
• 3 Mind Stone

• Lands (24)
• 4 Grove of the Burnwillows
• 4 Karplusan Forest
• 4 Eye of Ugin
• 4 Eldrazi Temple
• 3 Forest
• 1 Mountain
• 1 Cavern of Souls
• 2 Ghost Quarter
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

• Sideboard (15)
• 1 Oblivion Sower
• 3 Lightning Bolt
• 3 Ancient Grudge
• 2 Relic of Progenitus
• 2 Chalice of the Void
• 1 Warping Wail
• 1 All Is Dust
• 1 Nature's Claim
• 1 Endbringer

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Abzan Company ? Modern | Chris Cousens, Top 8 Grand Prix Melbourne

• Creatures (29)
• 3 Noble Hierarch
• 4 Birds of Paradise
• 4 Viscera Seer
• 1 Qasali Pridemage
• 2 Wall of Roots
• 3 Spellskite
• 2 Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit
• 2 Melira, Sylvok Outcast
• 4 Kitchen Finks
• 2 Eternal Witness
• 1 Orzhov Pontiff
• 1 Murderous Redcap

• Spells (8)
• 4 Collection Company
• 4 Chord of Calling

• Lands (23)
• 1 Plains
• 2 Forest
• 2 Razorverge Thicket
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 2 Overgrown Tomb
• 2 Temple Garden
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 4 Windswept Heath
• 4 Verdant Catacombs
• 4 Gavony Township

• Sideboard (15)
• 3 Worship
• 2 Path to Exile
• 1 Abrupt Decay
• 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1 Ethersworn Canonist
• 1 Kataki, War's Wage
• 1 Fulminator Mage
• 2 Voice of Resurgence
• 2 Sin Collector
• 1 Scavenging Ooze

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Dredge ? Modern | Jason Chung, Top 8 Grand Prix Melbourne

• Creatures (15)
• 4 Squee, Goblin Nabob
• 4 Bloodghast
• 3 Vengeful Pharaoh
• 1 Golgari Brownscale
• 1 Stinkweed Imp
• 1 Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1 Necroplasm

• Spells (22)
• 1 Deadly Allure
• 4 Faithless Looting
• 4 Life from the Loam
• 3 Conflagrate
• 2 Lingering Souls
• 4 Zombie Infestation
• 4 Darkblast

• Lands (23)
• 1 Mountain
• 1 Swamp
• 1 Forest
• 4 Verdant Catacombs
• 4 Wooded Foothills
• 2 Bloodstained Mire
• 2 Blood Crypt
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Temple Garden
• 4 Ghost Quarter
• 1 Vault of the Archangel

• Sideboard (15)
• 4 Ancient Grudge
• 3 Ray of Revelation
• 2 Memory's Journey
• 4 Thoughtseize
• 2 Raven's Crime

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