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%
If those pros can do their own work instead of doing as a "team", we will see a better deck diversity there.
Anyway, this World Championships is just a show, which does nothing in terms of reflecting the Modern META.
We should not expect too much novelty from this show.
I know this is off-topic, but I have someone to root for now; Paul Rietzl. He's such a consummate Pro Player and a wonderful role model for Magic.
I remember playing in the same Pod as him in a M14 Grand Prix a while ago. He drafted a Mono Black deck with Nightmare, among other cards. Part of his success in Limited has to do with going all-in on the color or colors that he wants. There is no hate-drafting here. Eventually he lost to the guy who beat me a round later (and had a BW Angelic Accord, Bubbling Cauldron deck with double Planar Cleansing with double Darksteel Ingot to ramp to it). My match finished early and I was watching who I would possibly play. He was very professional (no salt in the very slightest) and had a very intense face while playing.
I think my top two choices are Paul Rietzl and Yuuya Watanabe (whose Modern deck choice I don't like though). Go Paul!
Does anyone know what format the Top 8 is? It looks like they're on to Standard, which in my opinion, is even more boring than Limited.
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)
Hope Watanabe and Paul will make it to top 8, To at least prove that control is viable.
How the heck would that prove control is viable? Not only is this tournament an extremely warped meta due to its size resulting in a dramatically different metagame than anywhere else, that Top 8 is determined by how they do in four different formats, only one of which is Modern.
The World Championship results say absolutely zilch about what's good or bad in any of the formats involved in it. It may say things about the individual players, but nothing about the formats.
If those pros can do their own work instead of doing as a "team", we will see a better deck diversity there.
Anyway, this World Championships is just a show, which does nothing in terms of reflecting the Modern META.
We should not expect too much novelty from this show.
Anything, but nothing at the moment...
Modern:
WUBRGAmulet Titan, WUBRGHuman
WUBRAd Nauseam, WBRGDeath Shadow, UBRGScapeshift, UBRGDredge
WURJeskai Nahiri, WURCheeri0s, WBGCounter Company, WRGBurn, UBRMadcap Moon, BRGJund Midrange
UBTurn,BRGriselbrand Reanimator, WGKnight Company, RGRG Tron, RGRG Ponza, XAffinity, XEldrazi Tron
I remember playing in the same Pod as him in a M14 Grand Prix a while ago. He drafted a Mono Black deck with Nightmare, among other cards. Part of his success in Limited has to do with going all-in on the color or colors that he wants. There is no hate-drafting here. Eventually he lost to the guy who beat me a round later (and had a BW Angelic Accord, Bubbling Cauldron deck with double Planar Cleansing with double Darksteel Ingot to ramp to it). My match finished early and I was watching who I would possibly play. He was very professional (no salt in the very slightest) and had a very intense face while playing.
I think my top two choices are Paul Rietzl and Yuuya Watanabe (whose Modern deck choice I don't like though). Go Paul!
Does anyone know what format the Top 8 is? It looks like they're on to Standard, which in my opinion, is even more boring than Limited.
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)Hope Watanabe and Paul will make it to top 8, To at least prove that control is viable.
Modern : Huh?
EDH : UBGW Thrasios / Tymna Combo UBGW // GRW Mayael Big Stuff GRW // GU Edric Timewalkers GU
The World Championship results say absolutely zilch about what's good or bad in any of the formats involved in it. It may say things about the individual players, but nothing about the formats.
Paul isn't playing a control deck though.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.