Grand Prix Pittsburgh was the final Grand Prix event before a break for the World Magic Cup and closing out the season was Modern. Modern has a reputation for being incredibly diverse but the finals of the event featured some familiar archetypes.

Aaron Webster took Affinity to the ultimate match and squared off against Alex Bianchi and Jeskai Twin. These are two established decks and ones that anyone looking at Modern would need to know. Webster took game one in lightning fashion, his machine menace holding Bianchi's combo at bay. Game two was a longer affair with Bianchi landing an early Stony Silence which through a wrench into Webster's works and it was too much for the Affinity deck to overcome. Game three had Aaron with a board full of lands, but three of them were Inkmoth Nexus. Alex was slowly getting poisoned but had Deceiver Exarch on the board. It was only a matter of time until Splinter Twin made an appearance and secured the title for Alex Bianchi.

Congratulations to Alex Bianchi, your Grand Prix Pittsburgh champion! Check out the full coverage of Grand Prix Pittsburgh here.

Jeskai Twin ? Modern | Alex Bianchi, Winner Grand Prix Pittsburgh

• Creatures (14)
• 1 Wall of Omens
• 4 Snapcaster Mage
• 4 Deceiver Exarch
• 1 Pestermite
• 1 Vendilion Clique
• 2 Restoration Angel
• 1 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker

• Spells (23)
• 4 Serum Visions
• 3 Splinter Twin
• 4 Lightning Bolt
• 4 Path to Exile
• 2 Spell Snare
• 1 Dispel
• 3 Remand
• 1 Electrolyze
• 1 Cryptic Command

• Lands (23)
• 4 Scalding Tarn
• 4 Flooded Strand
• 3 Steam Vents
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Sacred Foundry
• 3 Island
• 1 Mountain
• 1 Plains
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Cascade Bluffs
• 3 Celestial Colonnade

• Sideboard (15)
• 2 Dispel
• 1 Wear // Tear
• 1 Stony Silence
• 1 Pia and Kiran Nalaar
• 1 Engineered Explosives
• 1 Celestial Purge
• 1 Keranos, God of Storms
• 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 2 Blood Moon
• 1 Flashfreeze
• 1 Negate
• 2 Timely Reinforcements

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Affinity ? Modern | Aaron Webster, Finalist Grand Prix Pittsburgh

• Creatures (27)
• 4 Ornithopter
• 2 Memnite
• 4 Signal Pest
• 4 Vault Skirge
• 4 Steel Overseer
• 4 Arcbound Ravager
• 2 Spellskite
• 3 Etched Champion

• Spells (16)
• 4 Cranial Plating
• 4 Springleaf Drum
• 4 Mox Opal
• 4 Galvanic Blast

• Lands (17)
• 4 Glimmervoid
• 4 Blinkmoth Nexus
• 4 Inkmoth Nexus
• 4 Darksteel Citadel
• 1 Mountain

• Sideboard (15)
• 1 Etched Champion
• 2 Grafdigger's Cage
• 2 Stubborn Denial
• 2 Thoughtseize
• 2 Blood Moon
• 2 Ghirapur Æther Grid
• 3 Ancient Grudge
• 1 Whipflare

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