8/28/2023 0 Comments Mtg metagameThe big news for this tournament is Grixis Epiphany, a variant of Epiphany decks, designed by the player Gabriel Nassif, who I particularly consider one of the best deckbuilders in the world today.Ī curious fact to mention is that the four lists are exactly the same, with the exact same 75 cards, which proves how confident they feel about each card choice. Some players may disagree with the definition that it is a Combo-Control because its combo doesn't win the game right away, but particularly, playing two extra turns and putting four Bird tokens on the board, if you don't win the game, will put you in such an advantageous position that it will be very difficult for you to lose because your plays during these extra turns will be a huge accumulation of resources and value, it is a situation similar to the combination of Time Warp with Mizzix's Mastery or Velomachus Lorehold that led to Time Warp's banning in Historic: If you don't win the game, you're so far ahead that you've virtually won.Īnd to further reinforce this deck's combo nature, three of the event's four lists rely on the use of a specific card that hasn't been seen previously: While you can't perform the combo and/or prepare the setup to use it, the deck has a multitude of interactions of all kinds to hold the game, such as removals, counterspells and other means of interaction that allow you to prolong the game. Let's start with the format's current best deck, Izzet Epiphany, which is essentially a Combo-Control that seeks to play a combination of Alrund's Epiphany with Galvanic Iteration to play two extra turns, and in then use Burn Down the House copied with Galvanic Iteration's flashback to create six 1/1 tokens with Haste, or it can also win the game with Smoldering Egg (which is transformed with Epiphany's cost), or Hall of the Storm Giants activations. With that said, let's take a look at archetypes and comment on the lists!! Mono-White Aggro may not have the big bodies that Mono-Green cards have, which essentially makes them more vulnerable to red removals from Epiphany decks, but they have the advantage of being able to play fast and with threats that has a strong disruptive effect, such as Reidane, God of the Worthy and Elite Spellbinder.Īmong the players who used different lists, we have Izzet Dragons, Temur and Azorius Tempo, two of these decks are already well known and have some usual results, but they may initially look like worse versions of the other decks (which can say a lot about the current state of Standard), however, the choices from these lists also symbolize from which angles their pilots intend to attack.Īzorius Tempo, meanwhile, is an entirely new archetype, with card choices that were clearly thought to play well against Epiphany decks, and the big question is whether this deck will be able to dodge or do well against Mono-Green and other decks archetypes present in the championship. Speaking of Mono-White Aggro, two competitors choose on the plan to play faster and more evasive than Mono-Green by betting on this archetype. the Rest, where Izzet decks makes an average of 30% of the Metagame, while Mono-Green makes up about 23%, and the third most played deck, Mono-White Aggro, has just 5%. The second most played archetype is the other currently prevalent Standard archetype: Mono-Green Aggro, which many consider to be at the top of the format today as the best predator of Epiphany decks, and I'm particularly surprised that only three players opted to play it, given that if we look at the Standard Metagame for the past fourteen days, we'll see that the format is essentially Epiphany vs. The first thing we can conclude from looking at player choices is that Alrund's Epiphany decks are considered the best decks in the format: when eight of the top sixteen Magic players in the world decide to play with the same archetype (even with the Grixis being a new list, we'll talk more about that in a moment), which makes 50% of the Metagame based on a single strategy, there's no way to say that Epiphany isn't at the top of Standard these days. Without further ado, the World Championship's Metagame is composed of the following decks:
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