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Face to Face Games Legacy Champs Sept 28
During Commandfest Toronto Face to Face to games ran the Legacy Champs. We saw 58 players come out and compete for prize wall tix as well as a much coveted Badlands (for second) and Mox Diamond (for first). Ben was also able to come out and record some Magic so keep your eyes open for the LazyMTG channel dropping some new content.
As the latest Modern Horizons set has dropped there have been many powerful cards injected to the format, and our top 8 chose to embrace these cards with all of the top 8 playing at least one card from the set. Matthew must have felt Nadu was the way to go since it has seen recent bans in other formats, and made the top 8 with his version of Nadu Breakfast. Kevin and Oliver both decided side with the Psychic Frog although they both chose different builds Kevin kept it with the classic UB Tempo build, whereas Oliver chose to splash an extra colour to fit some more card selection with Grixis Tempo. Jim Monolith stayed true to his name playing his Grim Monoliths but also chose to use Glaring Fleshraker as mana source and pinging machine to earn his way into the top 8 playing MUD. Hudi, previously known for playing Clown Car 8-Cast, has discovered Psychic Frog and Wrath of the Skies so he ran them both in an Esper Midrange deck to earn his way into the top 4. Elliot decided to change things up from the traditional Moon Stompy lists by including Wasteland and Eldrazi Confluence which proved strong enough to make it to the semis. Dom earned himself a new Badlands making his way to the finals using Psychic Frog to discard other powerful cards like Atraxa, in a UB Reanimator build. Jaime found his way to a Mox Diamond, winning it all, showing that playing classic Tempo can beat you combo with his UB Frog deck.
Now for the nitty-gritty numbers, first we can look at the meta. In this step I have found it harder and harder to categorize the decks as Psychic Frog is making more appearances in both Tempo and Combo decks, Ancient Tomb is finding play in not just Stompy Decks but also in Combo, and Eldrazi is ranging from aggro to big mana Post decks. I have made some cut offs to where I feel they make the most sense. The most played Archetype was Painter with a whopping 10 players making up 17.54% of the meta. Second most played was Tempo (5 UB and 2 Grixis) for a 12.28% share. When it comes to combo decks with a fair back up plan Nadu Breakfast made up 10.53% as there were 6 pilots. UB Reanimator comes in 4th with 8.77% with 5 pilots.
Now lets take a look at which decks are archetypes performed best and which ones may need some work or a different meta game. The best performing deck by Points Percentage was a deck that had only one pilot, MUD led the way with 77.78%. When we look at the decks that had multiple pilots that were high performing, UB Reanimator showed up strong with a points percent of 63.64%, followed by Red Stompy (61.11%) and Nadu Breakfast (57.41%). There were a couple players that played a unique deck and had a rough day but I will focus more on the decks/archetypes that had multiple pilots. Eldrazi was a major archetype that had 40.91%, GW Depths 33.33%, Stifle Nought 30.00% and the archetype that had the roughest day with multiple pilots was Storm with just a 16.67%. There is strong representation of blue in the current meta, along with Consign to Memory hitting some Storm Triggers that could have been a reason why storm had such a hard time.
Now for a very quick look at my favourite section, what I like to call the spice corner. I like to point out some notable or unique decks. There are a couple local players that may be known to play these decks at their weeklies, but I would still like to bring some attention to them. First we had a player on a deck that is a classic but seldom seen in the current era, Infect and it wasn’t from Fernando, this time it was piloted by Jesse St. John-Parker. Fernando did bring his own little touch of spice with UG Omni Tell featuring Eureka. Stefan, a Face to Face local, showed off the true power of Fleshraker by combining it with Echo of Eons to wheel free artifacts and get extra triggers.
If you have made it this far I would like to thank you for reading, and as always I am happy to take any feedback you may have, positive or constructive on what you may like to see in these articles in the future. If you would like to read more like this please collect decklists from competitive events you attend and reach out to me.
