Deconstructing Constructed – Standard and Extended Metagames
With the Worlds results in, we now have a brand new Standard metagame to look at featuring a legitimate combo deck. Unfortunately, it’s far smaller than the diversity we saw at Grand Prix: Krakow, to the point where MTGO has become a cesspool with everyone selling their grannies to the local glue factory just to come up with the tix for Pyromancer’s Swath and Dragonstorm. All the B/G and B/G/W players rejoiced, as not only could they copy a better version of the decks they were running, but a bunch of mediocre to even matches left the metagame because they all packed up their ball and went home in the face of “The Gassy Knoll.”
Not one, not two, but three insane Blue rares, all in one little tidal pool. And lo, it is a crazy good deck piloted by a crazy (if not good) player. But how did it perform… And what terror lies underneath The Ferrett’s Christmas tree?
Level 6 Mage Tiago Chan needed a superlative performance at Worlds to reach the dizzy heights of last year’s showing. Unfortunately he fell short this time… but his passion for the game is not in question. Today’s Levelling Up brings us Tiago’s take on his preparation and Day 1 performance at Worlds. For part 2, be sure to return next week!
