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Just saw this. Heres the thread. Go for it.

24 of the best players in Magic have gathered in Nice, France to duke it out to crown an MTG world champion! The event will have a few rounds of Modern action (back by popular demand after initially being excluded!), and this is the place to discuss the event. Feel free to also discuss the event more generally, especially while waiting for the Modern coverage to start; Vintage Masters draft is awesome.

Official page: http://magic.wizards.com/en/events/coverage/2014WC
Twitch streaming: http://www.twitch.tv/magic

As I'm posting this now, it looks like the Modern coverage has already started with Chapin on UR Delver and Shaun McLaren on (what looks like) his trademark UWR Kiki Control.

That Jeskai Ascendancy looked very unique with Gifts Ungiven. Hopefully we will get the decklists soon.

I saw and remember 13 cards of the SB for Shenhar's Burn deck:



he did a deck tech

WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THIS RELIC. This seems like a SERIOUS misplay in the works.

EDIT: Okay he fixed it. Close one.

Lantern made another thread about Worlds 2014

Edit: But 5 Cruises from Chapin was insane btw.

Greetings,
Kathal

I'm rooting for Chapin. So far so good

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Lantern made another thread about Worlds 2014

Edit: But 5 Cruises from Chapin was insane btw.

Greetings,
Kathal

Yeah Ktken. Get on my level man.


You're post is better. haha.

Ho ho ho
http://magic.wizards.com/en/events/coverage/2014WC/modernmetagame

(11) Sam Black Birthing Pod
(19) Patrick Chapin Blue-Red Delver
(13) Stanislav Cifka Blue-Red Delver
Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa Jeskai Ascendancy
Lars Dam Jeskai Ascendancy
(2) Jeremy Dezani Scapeshift
(3) Reid Duke Pyromancer Ascension
Willy Edel Abzan
(5) Ivan Floch Jeskai Delver
(25) Yuuki Ichikawa Temur Delver
(7) William Jensen Pyromancer Ascension
Raphael Levy Scapeshift
(17) Tom Martell Jeskai Ascendancy
(4) Shaun McLaren Jeskai
Raymond Perez, Jr. Birthing Pod
(16) Paul Pietzl Blue-Red Delver
(14) Shahar Shenhar Burn
(10) Lee Shi Tian Scapeshift
Nam Sung-Wook Burn
(1) Owen Turtenwald Pyromancer Ascension
(20 Josh Utter-Leyton Jeskai Ascendancy
(9) Yuuya Watanabe Temur Delver
(12) Jacob Wilson Birthing Pod
Kentarou Yamamoto Blue-Red Delver

There are people actually playing Jeskai Ascendancy and Pyromancer Ascension (Storm).
The JA players are using Fatestitcher and a Gifts SB.
Storm has Treasure Cruise.

edit: I wanna see that JA deck, from their description it sounds like they just lose to any grave hate. They're not playing green creatures. Fatestitcher, TC and Gifts all use the graveyard.

Edel piloting Junk with his almighty Bloodbraid Rhino. Will update this post as the deck tech reveals more cards.

Went straight to my LGS after the Jeskai Ascendancy match (fortunately I live a block or so away) and bought a set of Fatestitchers before they got scarce.

Seems like a ton of Scalding Tarn decks.

I want those PA lists. Any ETA for decklists? I'd be so happy to see them.

JA Storm should perform much better at Worlds than it did at GP Madrid. With fewer rounds to go through and a more insular metagame, it is much better positioned. It's like the Bogles effect that we have seen in the past.

~1h or at the end of day 1.

Greetings,
Kathal

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~1h or at the end of day 1.

Greetings,
Kathal

Thanks. I'm hyped for this Worlds. Some nice tech all around.

I'll mark this as the day that cruise got banned. Not that its broken, just because how much of it is being played in the above, and how good it is against those same decks, and how everyone will freak upon seeing that.

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I'll mark this as the day that cruise got banned. Not that its broken, just because how much of it is being played in the above, and how good it is against those same decks, and how everyone will freak upon seeing that.

I disagree. The Worlds metagame is just too insular for Wizards to make decisions based on it. The next two GPs will have to follow the Worlds trends for anything to get banned.

For all my Storm junkies out there:

So, Cruise instead of Ravings.



Gonna have to update the Storm primer.

And Thought Scour to fuel it.

Greetings,
Kathal

So jeskai ascendancy is only a $2 card right now... With all these players playing jeskai at worlds what you guys think is going to happen to its price?

And more fetches as well. I like it so far. Those topdeck Manamorphoses tho.

It will spike again, since most people are netdeckers and they want to play something broken.

Greetings,
Kathal

I'm still surprised that nobody plays Twin.

Greetings,
Kathal

lol

JA Storm, most broken deck in the HISTORY OF EVAR, loses to UR Storm, a deck that has been "dead" since 2013.

I will say that the Gifts sideboard plan in JA Storm is awesome.