1 Valki, God of Lies // Tibalt, Cosmic ImpostorĪt the same level of presence, we notice the rise of Amulet Titan, historically strong against red and other big mana decks but weak against creature combo decks.A build with Elvish Reclaimer won the Modern Challenge on April 18, although it later evolved without Reclaimer, such as in Do0mSwitch's list from a Challenge one month later.ĭecklist: BTL Scapeshift by Meltiin, 1st at Modern Challenge on April 19 You can read more about an early version of the deck here. When the "fair" plan of casting removal, planeswalkers, and Omnath, Locus of Creation is not good enough, it can instead go Bring to Light into Scapeshift to close the game ( Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle dealing 18 damage off six Mountains, which you can get from shock lands and Triomes) or get lots of Valakut triggers with Dryad of the Ilysian Grove out (including cracking fetch lands). In fact, the last truly important card for the deck appeared in Kaldheim: Valki, God of Lies // Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor, whose back side you can cast with Bring to Light for five mana, making it even better than Teferi, Hero of Dominaria at this cost. Well, technically, we cannot call it "new." Pretty much all the pieces were here before Strixhaven, but it seems that the deck needed tuning and attention to reach the point where it puts up consistent strong results. Revolving around Bring to Light and a mana base supporting at least four colors, it is the new control/combo/ramp deck of the format. The next deck to appear is BTL Scapeshift, at 5.2%. (Of course, Heliod still has a "fair" beatdown plan, but Eldrazi Tron is pretty good at fair games too.) Indeed, with Chalice of the Void to prey on the low curve of Prowess, Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger to beat infinite life, and Karn, the Great Creator to stop Walking Ballista, Eldrazi Tron has the weapons to take on the other two most represented decks. Heliod is relegated to the third place at 7.5%, with Eldrazi Tron slightly higher at 7.7% in second. Here is an example decklist for Boros Prowess-as always chosen by picking the most recent decklist with the highest number of points:īoros Prowess by mac121711, 3rd at Champ Qualifier on May 3 A few copies of Leonin Lightscribe have also helped complete the arsenal of prowess creatures in some variations of the deck. While the deck misses out on evasive threats such as Stormwing Entity and Sprite Dragon, Luminancer makes the strategy even better at goldfishing, and it gains Lurrus of the Dream-Den for additional grind (though it is to be noted that Luminancer is not the best card to topdeck). Meanwhile, Clever Lumimancer is the card that seemed to be the missing piece for Boros Prowess to work. (It's better when behind and digs deeper.) Here, Expressive Iteration appears as a serious boost to Izzet Prowess, replacing Light Up the Stage in most lists. Instead, Izzet Prowess reigns supreme at 11.2%-and if you add the Boros version, at 5.1%, the total share of prowess decks goes over 16%. Heliod, Sun-Crowned no longer is the most represented deck in the results. Proportion of exact archetypes in Top 32s, based on number of matches Please let me know in the comments if you find it better than the previous one, or if you have any suggestions to improve it. Today, let us introduce a new aesthetic for the presence graph. Number of events in the data: 13 Archetype Presence Number of rounds played (with Top 8): 3254 Number of exact archetypes in the data: 61 Number of different cards in the data: 776 Number of different players in the data: 267
Before seeing how the meta shifted and what those new cards are, let us start with our usual breakdown of the data, five weeks after the release of the set on Magic Online. Moreover, Heliod no longer is on top! Another previously strong archetype stole the crown, carried by the most played Strixhaven card in Modern. It means that those new cards succeeded in hitting a strong record in a competitive event at least once, but many more might have appeared elsewhere. What about their impact? About 10% of those cards appeared at least once in the results of major events (Top 32 of Challenges, Champ Qualifiers, and Super Qualifiers) since, not even accounting for Preliminaries or Leagues. Available as early as the April 15 on Magic Online, Strixhaven brought 274 new cards to Modern.
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