One... just one B/x devotion list in the top sixteen completely dominated by various mid range decks and Burn. This is a very strange swing in the meta game.
LOL someone should have made a thread for this like a while ago. But anyways, I am not really happy to see green-based creature decks making up 3 of the top 4. I don't see the lone R/W Burn player in the top 4 doing well against those remaining field. Also, I consider B/W to also be a variant of Mono-Black. It is basically the same deck except a while splash for cards such as Obzedat and Blood Baron.
Meta looks pretty diverse to me. Thoughtseize/Pack Rat continues to be the backbone of all Black strategies, with Sylvan Caryatid/Courser of Kruphix being the core of all Green based midrange decks. Those two card combinations are what other decks need to attack, and given that disparity I imagine its going to be hard for some other decks to nose their into the format. The bonus of all this is despite there being only two primary deck foundations, both of them are extremely mutable which means there will be a wide variety of decks comprising these two game plans. The Green midrange decks especially lend themselves to being able to play pretty much any and all other cards in the format barring some particularly nonbos (Supreme Verdict does not play well with with Caryatid and Courser).
I guess it's fair to say the 3rd strategy looming at the edges of all this is the combination of Supreme Verdict and Sphinx's Revelation, a pairing that forces a heavy Azorius commitment but nonetheless is flexible enough to permit the splash of a third colour. It's hard to really narrow down an archetypal component for decks like Red Burn or GW Aggro; I imagine simply playing the best cards for each archetype makes most of those lists considerably closer in comparison barring a small number of shifting cards.
How did CVM lose the Jund monsters mirror. If there was anyone I wouldn't want to play in a jund monsters mirror it's CVM. And I wonder if people will still consider R/W burn as a tier 1.5 deck considering its been in 9 of the past 11 top 16's. If anything Mono blue is a tier 2 deck now, it hasn't put up any results at all in over a month.
That match CVM had against B/W midrange was insane. What a nail biter.
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Top 16 deck lists are up
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One... just one B/x devotion list in the top sixteen completely dominated by various mid range decks and Burn. This is a very strange swing in the meta game.
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own
It is however a thoughtsieze + pack rat deck.
And the winner is the new deck naya midrange and CVM again fails to take the trophy :(.. so many top 8s.. so few wins.
Pioneer:UR Pheonix
Modern:U Mono U Tron
EDH
GB Glissa, the traitor: Army of Cans
UW Dragonlord Ojutai: Dragonlord NOjutai
UWGDerevi, Empyrial Tactician "you cannot fight the storm"
R Zirilan of the claw. The solution to every problem is dragons
UB Etrata, the Silencer Cloning assassination
Peasant cube: Cards I own
I guess it's fair to say the 3rd strategy looming at the edges of all this is the combination of Supreme Verdict and Sphinx's Revelation, a pairing that forces a heavy Azorius commitment but nonetheless is flexible enough to permit the splash of a third colour. It's hard to really narrow down an archetypal component for decks like Red Burn or GW Aggro; I imagine simply playing the best cards for each archetype makes most of those lists considerably closer in comparison barring a small number of shifting cards.
That match CVM had against B/W midrange was insane. What a nail biter.