Monday, January 5, 2009

The Extended metagame according to Portland

So I walked around the room Round 3 of the PTQ (since I was not playing anymore) and wrote down what decks I saw.

Top Tables (2-0 at the time)
6 Mono Red Burn
5 Zoo
3 Affinity
2 Faeries (I lump Mono Blue as Faeries even if you might call it Wizards... most Faeries decks were of this variety)
2 Tezzerator
1 Swans
1 Proclamation
1 GB
1 UB Tron

All Tables (presumably all decks not 0-2 drop)
12 Mono Red Burn
10 Zoo
10 Faeries
9 Affinity
7 UB Tron
6 GB
4 Swans
3 TEPS
3 Tezzerator
And then the fringe decks...
2 Proclamation
2 Bant
1 All In
1 Dredge
1 UW Cloudpost
1 Beach House
1 Mono Red Beats (think Arc-Slogger)

The top 8 ended up being
3 Mono Red Burn
1 Tezzerator
1 Proclamation
1 Zoo
1 GB Death Cloud
1 Faeries

In the quarters, Burn beat Burn, Faeries beat Zoo, GB beat Proclamation (in 108 minutes), and Burn beat Tezzerator. In the semis, Burn beat Burn and GB beat Proclamation. Burn beat GB in the Finals. (Congratulations Eric Shaller!)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

does anyone have the top 8 decklists?

Daniel said...

I expect they will be on magicthegathering.com on Thursday, since that's the day they post Decks of the Week.

Anonymous said...

so the decklist were not on the decks of the week. anyone else know of them?