HBMO 2026 Events Recap

Flesh and Blood

The headline FAB event for the weekend was a ProQquest, which featured 29 players, and Aaron Moore took down the invite and picked up a gold foil playing Fai, Rising Rebellion.

Lorcana 2k

Our Lorcana championship boasted 42 players. After 6 rounds of Swiss we were down to our Top 8. Congratulations to our winner, Trevor Fasulo.

Riftbound 2k

In Riftbound, we had 44 players battling it out for a spot in Top 8. Two players separated themselves from the field. William Nguyen finished 6-0-1 with Kai’Sa, Daughter of the Void, claiming the top seed as the only undefeated player. Brandon Qing and Hui Toh both posted 5-0-2 records on Draven, Glorious Executioner, locking up the 2 and 3 seeds. Colby Criswell took the 4-seed at 5-1-1 on Irelia, Blade Dancer. Spiritforged has rewritten the format. Draven showed up in 27% of all registered decks and converted at an even higher rate: four of the eight Top 8 seats belonged to Draven pilots. Irelia placed two pilots in the Top 8 (Criswell and Javi Buentello), and Kai’Sa put up two as well (Nguyen and Jacob Guevara). The rest of the field spread across Viktor, Sivir, Ezreal, Ahri, Fiora, Annie, Ornn, and others, but no other champion matched Draven’s presence or conversion rate. The Spiritforged meta is still taking shape. Congrats to Hui Toh for winning the event and our other competitors for making Top 8.

Pioneer 2k

On Friday we had 67 players joining us in our Pioneer 2k with a belt and bragging rights on the line. We’ve recently had some fantastic support and turnouts for this event showing that there is still a great interest in keeping the format alive! Top 8 breakdown had 3 Cutter decks, with 2 Mono Red along with singletons with Humans, Greasefang, and GW Auras. The Top 8 concluded with Chris Arebalo taking down the event and our 2nd championship belt!

Check out the full top 8 and decklists here.

Ian Jasheway 5k Sealed

Our weekend of Magic kicked off with a very special event as 37 players joined us in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Sealed! At the end of 6 rounds of Sealed plus a Top 8 Draft William Barlen emerged as our winner! Congratulations to William for kicking our weekend off right!

Final standings available here.

HBMO 10k Modern

Our flagship main event was headlined by 374 players vying for their spots on the trophy as well as the honor of being called HBMO Champion. We had energy and life being gained, Primeval Titans hitting the board, all kinds of creatures being blinked, and Supreme Verdicts and Living Ends making boards full or empty of creatures change in a hurry! Our Top 8 consisted of 3 Boros Energy players, 1 Blink, 1 Broodscale Combo, 1 UW Control, 1 Living End, and 1 Domain Zoo as Energy still has a significant presence in the current Modern format. In the end Boros Energy would take down the event piloted by Jason Cornell. Congratulations to him and the rest of Top 8 for going on this journey with us!

cEDH

Our cEDH event was a smash hit! We had a total of 120 players from all over testing their deck prowess and pod navigation skills to find our ultimate winner. Our final pod had Selvala, Explorer Returned, Rog/Thras, Kinnan, and our winner Jase Sanders with his Ishai/Rograkh deck! Congrats to our final pod and winner for their endurance through this event!

Modern 5k

Those that did not have the result they were hoping for in the Main Event (or couldn’t be there Saturday) came out on Sunday for a 5k to hope to bounce back! We had 127 players for this event hoping for a slice of the pie and their own commemorative die! After 7 rounds of Swiss we had our Top 8. Our Top 8 breakdown had 3 Cutter decks, 2 Boros Energy, 1 Amulet Titan, 1 Sultai, and Eldrazi Tron. After the dust settled we had Wesley Hutton claiming one of the last prizes of the weekend! Congrats to him and all of our competitors who spent their weekend with us!

Top 8 Decklists

Legacy 2k

The Legacy event at the Hunter Burton is always a special one for the players, and this year was no exception! We had a staggering 93 players for this Sunday’s event! The Texas Eternal community loves to come to this event and it shows! After 7 rounds of Swiss we had our top 8 players with Johny Angulo with Mardu Energy taking down the event! Congrats to him and all of our wonderful competitors for helping keep Eternal relevant in the South!

Top 8 Decklists

Vintage 1k

Our Vintage event is another special adventure at the HBMO. Legacy and Vintage players juice up their decks with cards from Magic’s past and battle it out year after year. The 36 players this year is the most we have had at any of our Vintage events, and is an impressive showing for the format. After 6 rounds of Swiss we had our Top 8, with Johnny Karate taking the event down! Congrats to all of our winners and competitors!

Top 8 Decklists