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This weekend saw over $2k in prizing given out between Waypoint Games on Saturday and Chimera Gaming on Sunday. Both events had 22 players, some overlap and some different faces making appearances at both places. I will start with each top 8 from the respective events but when it comes to the metagame and points percentages I will discuss both events together.
The Waypoint top 8 brought a wide range of decks having 8 unique lists, and some old pet decks making their appearance. Jim Monolith showed up and made his top 8 run with his pet deck MUD. Jeffery must have been feeling ill or something as he chose to spread some Small Pox to make the top 8. Jacob battled into the top 8 the Wright way, using creatures to get lands playing Cradle Control. Kyle was first at the end of swiss by inspiring some Dread with some sudden large bodies with Stifle Nought. Fernando must have read the last article and found his inspiration to bring out his old baby playing Infect. Scott made his top 4 run by choosing to play with a deck of just 5 cards by playing Doomsday. Elliot is still proving that all you need to add to Stomp all over people is some Wastelands, with his version of Moon Stompy. Troy went into beast mode remaining undefeated all tournament opting to reap what he Sow, playing Eldrazi.
The Chimera top 8 saw some old school decks as well as some of the newer ones. Lam made his way to the top 8, reminding us of the history of Legacy by playing Standstill. Geoff took a look at what the Blue-Black decks were doing by mixing a midrange game with combo and decided to mix that into his list of RB Reanimator. Chris, something of a combo master, decided the way he wanted to go off was with Doomsday. Stefan has been making recent waves with a combo deck of his own, essentially a storm deck using Glaring Fleshraker to kill instead of storm cards with his Fleshraker Wheels deck. Cody decided the threat of a 20/20 would help to slow the game to the pace he really wanted where things could take their time a little and his Lands would bring some value. Richard showed up with the deck he has come to be known for playing his version of Standstill. Aron found his way to the top of the standings through swiss and all the way to finals playing the current top deck in the format using UB Reanimator. Boston got his opportunity to raise the Chimera Hammer and win the whole tournament, deciding the best game is a fair game, dropping the combo, and just playing UB Frog.
We will now flip things a little by discussing the meta as both events combined to get some archetypes put together. The most played archetype was Tempo with 13.64%, UB Frog being the preferred build, but Grixis also made some appearances. The next two archetypes actually had a split of Cradle Control and Reanimator both at 11.36%. This is a major overrepresentation for Cradle Control when compared to MTGGoldfish, and major underrepresentation for Reanimator. Lands is the 4th deck on this list at 9.09% and once again there is a major overrepresentation. Eldrazi and Moon Stompy are two decks that are significantly underrepresented where the Goldfish page has them at 16.0% and 7.6% respectively but only reaching 2.27% of the meta at the events on this weekend.
We can now take a look at the decks that have done well and poorly during this weekend. The top performing decks were actually the previously mentioned underrepresented decks of Eldrazi and Moon Stompy (83.33% and 70.83% points percentage). As for the archetypes that had a larger number of pilots and larger sample size UWx Control led the way with 59.26%, followed by Tempo (57.84%) and Reanimator (57.47%). It appeared to be a rough weekend for those trying to get solid utility out of their lands with both Lands (41.67%) and Cradle Control (36.36%) rounding out the bottom of the pack of decks that had multiple pilots. This makes sense as many of the decks that were coming out were playing a full playset of Wastelands to help deal with the extra value these decks were looking to accrue. This format also appears to be very fast with an increasing amount of hard removal, both of these factors seem to make a perfect storm for Cradle Control to struggle.
As I look towards the spicier side of things there are some interesting choices made and did well. I would say the classic Standstill deck is a bit of a unique choice in the Legacy format we currently live in, but it managed to have both of its players make the top 8. Pox was a deck I have not seen in years, it was able to let Jeffery top 8 and had a second pilot. Finally, the RB Reanimator list that Geoff showed up with may not strike too many people as a spicy list but running the Sheoldreds, Dauthi, and Bowmasters in the main deck are an interesting choice that significantly help against all the UB decks floating around.
If you have made it this far I wanted to say thank you for reading, and I am always happy to hear your feedback of what you would like to see in these articles.
