How many players borrowed a TES to play it without any practice just because it was a good meta choice? TES needs some playskill.
What does 58% tell you if the data may are from 40 player-tournaments? I have no idea how these numbers were calculated. A rumor as base for descision-making!? That goes on and on and wildfired into such things like "Survival has 58%+ against TES and 73% against deck X" Then that quote evolved into "Survival made 7 Spots in a T8!" which spread around the net and some guys (we won't name them again) took that to ask Pro's and popular Standard-faces like Nelson or Chapin about their opinion on that, which resulted that Nelson (without knowledge of Legacy) really claimed on TheMagicShow that the 7/8 tournaments shows that action is needed. I'm pretty sure it startet as someone said "Do we need Survival to make up 7 spots in T8 until it get's the hammer?" on a very popular site right after the first SCG's 5k where survival made 4 spots. the whole discussion if Survival needs to be banned got ridiculous weeks ago. Judging by the names of the T8 players, I'm guessing most of them were local/from Japan. None of the players playing in that tournament were professional. This side event took place on Thursday.Īny player Q'ed for Worlds was not playiing in this side event. Worlds is a four day event, beginning Thursday, and ending Sunday. Having a quarter of people (who are some of the best in the world) in a tournament pick Survival shows that this is regarded as the best deck above and beyond all else by these players.Er.that's not entirely accurate. Third, due to the aforementioned, the players playing at a tournament like this are some of the best players in the world.Īdditionally, as many of the players in this tournament are professionals or have some sort of support system, they can play any deck they want unlike many of us who may not always be able to afford the best deck at a given time. Worlds is the biggest event in the Magic universe. He's really good, fun to play, and he awards playskill, who wouldn't play him if they thought they had the skill to do so.įirst, this is an event supported by Wizards rather than a third party the way an SCG tournament would be. There are still plenty of viable decks that don't run Jace and have just as good a shot of winning any tournament but good players like playing decks that award playskill instead of no-skill decks like Vampires, so of course Jace is going to show up at the top of a lot of top 8's. Jace is strong but fair, and without him blue decks wouldn't be able to win pretty much at all. It didn't win the entire thing true but the data suggests that people will keep playing vengevival because it is quite absurd how it can win out of nowhere with a topdecked survival.Can we have one result without people crying about banning something. 20th since it took a quarter of the field approximately. Keep the cycle going wizards lol.Īlso it seems like with survival dominating worlds it will likely be banned Dec. Since in '08 it was faeries, in '09 it was jund, and in '10 it was U/x control. Is this the plan for standard? Have a jund like deck dominate for a while, then have a blue based control deck dominate a while, and keep switching back and forth between the 2? It seems like it. 6 of the top 8 decks ran 4 of him? Yeah, that's not format warping at all wizards. Merfolk was a surprise to me I thought vengevival crushed merfolk? Although I guess if the merfolk pilots all MD'ed spell pierces and played black/perish in the board they would have a decent shot since spell pierce usually counters survival on turn 2 very easily.Īnd as for Jace, TMS in standard I agree he should be banned. Tendrils being the third most popular deck suggests people metagaming. I'm amazed there were 3 countertop decks there with their bad MU coming in force (vengevival). The rest of the decks had 1 deck in the field/2%: burn, threshold, sneak attack, Elves!, and goblins. Tendrils esque decks took 6 spots or 12% of the field.Ĭountertop, belcher, dredge, and zoo had 3 decks in the field or 6% apiece. The next deck was merfolk with 16% of the field or 8 decks. Well in the legacy metagame breakdown for the Saturday teams legacy worlds event 24% of the meta were survival decks/12 out of the 50 decks there.
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