World Championships are up! Its going to be a mix of formats, so be sure to take the rankings with a grain of salt, just because a player is 7-2, those two losses might be in modern!
That being said, lets see what the pros do! modern starting!
UUU Merfolk UUU "Above the waves you may be mighty indeed, but down here you belong to me."
-Empress Galina
UBR Cruel Control UBR "The essence of every world, every spell, and every thought is power. Nothing else matters, because nothing else exists."
-Nicol Bolas
Bogles is build your own Akroma LOL great commentary
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UUU Merfolk UUU "Above the waves you may be mighty indeed, but down here you belong to me."
-Empress Galina
UBR Cruel Control UBR "The essence of every world, every spell, and every thought is power. Nothing else matters, because nothing else exists."
-Nicol Bolas
World Championships are up! Its going to be a mix of formats, so be sure to take the rankings with a grain of salt, just because a player is 7-2, those two losses might be in modern!
I wouldn't take it with a grain of salt; I wouldn't take it at all. There's only 24 players in this. This tells you about as much about the Modern metagame or what the best decks are as a random Modern FNM would... maybe even less so.
right. All the freakin affinity, and boogles and living end. This is common at worlds. Pros not "really" playing modern. Theyd rather play an off the wall, hard to sideboard against deck.
right. All the freakin affinity, and boogles and living end. This is common at worlds. Pros not "really" playing modern. Theyd rather play an off the wall, hard to sideboard against deck.
I guess it depends on what you're watching for. In many ways Worlds is a glorified FNM. The field is small, and you can make some pretty good guesses as to what certain people are going to play. It's a much different type of strategy than when going into a GP or Open.
Good play by Shaun McLaren. It would have been easy to fold under the pressure of not having a threat when your deck clearly is the beatdown. And Yuuya would definitely take advantage if he could to win the game.
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Legacy - Sneak Show, BR Reanimator, Miracles, UW Stoneblade
Premodern - Trix, RecSur, Enchantress, Reanimator, Elves https://www.facebook.com/groups/PremodernUSA/ Modern - Neobrand, Hogaak Vine, Elves
Standard - Mono Red (6-2 and 5-3 in 2 McQ)
Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
Commander - Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build) (dead format for me)
Value is good. But Dredgevine isn't supposed to be about value. It's supposed to be about V-8; 2000 pounds of nitro boosted war vegetables. The more velocity, the better.
Modern:
DredgeVine EDH:
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Anima Standard:
What a freakin ironic way to die. Yuuya uses the card shane used to win the protour, to take his grim lavamancer, which yuuya cant normally activate, but can because of blood moon, on the last turn of rounds, because he top decked a freakin island...
Guardian of Tazeem 3UU
Flying
Landfall: whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, tap target creature. If the land is an Island, the creature doesn't untap on its controller's untap step
4/5
Edit: fixed Grammar
On camera did martin dang beast within the daybreak cornet instead of the other aura?
What was the other aura ? Destroying Rancor would give his opponenet a beast and he would take back his Aura ... Which seems to be the same ... I don't know
It was Spider Umbra, which let the creature survive and block the 1 point of damage that left him alive. =(. Need to destroy the non-Coronet Aura!.
Here's the breakdown of results as I see it for Modern. Please correct if you see any mistakes:
3-1 Boggles, Manfield, Seth [USA] 18 55.10%
4-0 Living End, Múller, Martin [DNK] 18 50.34%
3-1 U/W Control, Watanabe, Yuuya [JPN] 15 59.86%
2-2 U/R Pyro, McLaren, Shaun [CAN] 15 59.18%
3-1 Affinity, Turtenwald, Owen [USA] 15 51.70%
2-2 Grixis Twin, da Rosa, Paulo V. Damo 12 63.26%
2-2 Living End, Larsson, Joel [SWE] 12 59.18%
3-1 Abzan, Saporito, Thiago [BRA] 12 53.06%
3-1 Affinity, Black, Samuel [USA] 12 49.65%
3-1 W/B Tokens, Froehlich, Eric [USA] 12 46.25%
3-1 Affinity, Hayne, Alexander [CAN] 12 46.25%
3-1 Affinity, Rietzl, Paul [USA] 12 40.13%
0-4 Affinity, Wilson, Jacob [CAN] 9 65.98%
1-3 Living End, Dang, Martin [DNK] 9 61.22%
1-3 Affinity, Sigrist, Mike [USA] 9 55.78%
1-3 Boggles, Rubin, Steve [USA] 9 52.38%
2-2 Hanger Jund, Nelson, Brad [USA] 9 51.02%
2-2 Living End, Lantto, Magnus [SWE] 9 50.34%
2-2 Merfolk, Stráský, Ondrej [CZE] 9 48.97%
0-4 R/W Burn, Lee, Shi Tian [HKG] 6 51.70%
2-2 RUG Twin, Yamamoto, Kentarou [JPN] 6 51.70%
2-2 W/B Tokens, Shenhar, Shahar [ISR] 6 44.89%
1-3 U/R Twin, Del Moral León, Antonio 3 45.57%
0-4 Boggles, Lax, Ari [USA] 3 38.77%
This to me screams everyone expected everyone to bring Grixis, and they brought a deck that had good Grixis Matchups and decent vs the rest of the field.
Exactly, 'lets hose everyone who brings a real deck to this event'. Even the expected picks are heavily tuned to beat the 'expected' field--look at that junk list for example.
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That being said, lets see what the pros do! modern starting!
Streaming link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUhf0OT-WHE
Level 2 in progress...
UUU Merfolk UUU
"Above the waves you may be mighty indeed, but down here you belong to me."
-Empress Galina
UBR Cruel Control UBR
"The essence of every world, every spell, and every thought is power. Nothing else matters, because nothing else exists."
-Nicol Bolas
Yep. that was fast. I think 1:23...
Merfolk vs boogles.
edit2: Affinity vs twin.
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UUU Merfolk UUU
"Above the waves you may be mighty indeed, but down here you belong to me."
-Empress Galina
UBR Cruel Control UBR
"The essence of every world, every spell, and every thought is power. Nothing else matters, because nothing else exists."
-Nicol Bolas
I guess it depends on what you're watching for. In many ways Worlds is a glorified FNM. The field is small, and you can make some pretty good guesses as to what certain people are going to play. It's a much different type of strategy than when going into a GP or Open.
Premodern - Trix, RecSur, Enchantress, Reanimator, Elves https://www.facebook.com/groups/PremodernUSA/
Modern - Neobrand, Hogaak Vine, Elves
Standard - Mono Red (6-2 and 5-3 in 2 McQ)
Draft - (I wish I had more time for limited...)
Commander -
Norin the Wary, Grimgrin, Adun Oakenshield (taking forever to build)(dead format for me)Modern:
DredgeVine
EDH:
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Anima
Standard:
Flying
Landfall: whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control, tap target creature. If the land is an Island, the creature doesn't untap on its controller's untap step
4/5
Edit: fixed Grammar
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
Modern - Burn
EDH - Neheb the Eternal
3-1 Boggles, Manfield, Seth [USA] 18 55.10%
4-0 Living End, Múller, Martin [DNK] 18 50.34%
3-1 U/W Control, Watanabe, Yuuya [JPN] 15 59.86%
2-2 U/R Pyro, McLaren, Shaun [CAN] 15 59.18%
3-1 Affinity, Turtenwald, Owen [USA] 15 51.70%
2-2 Grixis Twin, da Rosa, Paulo V. Damo 12 63.26%
2-2 Living End, Larsson, Joel [SWE] 12 59.18%
3-1 Abzan, Saporito, Thiago [BRA] 12 53.06%
3-1 Affinity, Black, Samuel [USA] 12 49.65%
3-1 W/B Tokens, Froehlich, Eric [USA] 12 46.25%
3-1 Affinity, Hayne, Alexander [CAN] 12 46.25%
3-1 Affinity, Rietzl, Paul [USA] 12 40.13%
0-4 Affinity, Wilson, Jacob [CAN] 9 65.98%
1-3 Living End, Dang, Martin [DNK] 9 61.22%
1-3 Affinity, Sigrist, Mike [USA] 9 55.78%
1-3 Boggles, Rubin, Steve [USA] 9 52.38%
2-2 Hanger Jund, Nelson, Brad [USA] 9 51.02%
2-2 Living End, Lantto, Magnus [SWE] 9 50.34%
2-2 Merfolk, Stráský, Ondrej [CZE] 9 48.97%
0-4 R/W Burn, Lee, Shi Tian [HKG] 6 51.70%
2-2 RUG Twin, Yamamoto, Kentarou [JPN] 6 51.70%
2-2 W/B Tokens, Shenhar, Shahar [ISR] 6 44.89%
1-3 U/R Twin, Del Moral León, Antonio 3 45.57%
0-4 Boggles, Lax, Ari [USA] 3 38.77%
This to me screams everyone expected everyone to bring Grixis, and they brought a deck that had good Grixis Matchups and decent vs the rest of the field.