He came, he saw, he burned his way through the purple haze.

Dean Sohnle’s homemade Fantastic Four Equipment deck has solved the Curve Sentinels/Teen Titans metagame question. He tricked his way through ten rounds of hard-fought Vs. System games in London to reach the Top 8.

In the Top 8, he was faced with a curious situation. His side of the bracket included all of the non-Sentinels decks, while on the other side, it was all about his best matchup—Curve Sentinels.

Still, he hardly slowed down. He scorched through his opponents like there was no tomorrow to reach the finals. His final opponent was Richard Edbury, the man who outdrew Hans Joachim Hoeh in the last game of their Curve Sentinels mirror match in the semifinals.

If anyone feared a long final match, that person clearly hadn’t seen Dean at work. Edbury did the best he could, but he really didn’t have a chance.

Dean Sohnle was both the story of the tournament and the winner. He turned what at first looked like a big pile of wacky rares into a mean, lean, Sentinels-eating machine. Was Dean’s strategy the solution to the metagame, or just a brand new problem?

One thing is for sure—he’ll make a lot of people pull Antarctic Research Base and Thinking Outside the Box out of their junk rare binders.

Congratulations to Dean Sohnle!