Modern Metagame at the World Championships
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Posted on Dec. 2, 2014, 12:51 p.m. by JWiley129
Here is the metagame breakdown at Worlds, but here are the key points.
Delver decks represent >25% of the 24 decks, with Jeskai Ascendancy combo having the same number of decks as the base U/R Delver deck.
Team Peach Garden Oath (Reid Duke, Huey Jensen, and Owen Turtenwald) are playing Pyromancer Ascension Storm combo and are the only such people doing so.
Behind Delver and Jeskai Ascendancy, the next most popular decks were Pyromancer Ascension Storm and Scapeshift, with Birthing Pod rounding out the top 5 most popular decks.
PepsiAddicted says... #3
Team Peach Garden Oath best name ever :) also Pyromancer Ascension sweet idea
December 2, 2014 2:02 p.m.
I wasn't trying to suggest this was a meta shift ThatBlueMage, but it's an interesting case study of what Modern could look like in a closed environment. I might update this thread at the end of the day once we know how the individual decks did in the swiss.
Spoiler alert, I saw quite a few Jeskai Ascendancy vs Pyromancer Ascension decks on camera, and I think the record is tied 1-1 between them. I'll be waiting to see how the rest of the swiss turns out.
December 2, 2014 2:24 p.m.
Jeskai Ascendancy deck is a matter if the opponent can make the combo fast enough. I haven't played against a modern one, but at local FNM on t2, I have played against them. I have won a few matches when the person took forever to look for the combo, and have lost the matches when he did the combo like on turn 3 or 4.
Meanwhile the Pyromancer Ascension decks looks like a real stable deck I imagine it is a blue/red control deck that kills with fire.
December 2, 2014 2:46 p.m.
Not quite acarmelo1, I've linked my version of the U/R Storm deck. It's a pure Combo deck, not a control element to be seen.
NOTE: this is definitely not the version the Peach Garden Oath guys are playing, but my combination of the CFB and StarCity lists from around the Born of the Gods Pro Tour.
Modern Storm Playtest
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Servo_Token says... #2
I wouldn't guarantee that this sort of meta shift is going to stick, just because it's the worlds where 100% of competitors are trying to get free wins via meta gaming the shit out of everyone, which is why that one team is playing storm.
I wouldn't expect this worlds meta to be the same as say, a modern PTQ or whatever, because there's so few people here, and so many teams to influence what the meta looks like.
This is very interesting to watch though, I haven't seen much storm at all in the last couple months, and it's nice to see ascendency do work.
December 2, 2014 1:57 p.m.