May TC Meta Analysis

[HSCK]

Hey everyone, I think the last of May's results are in on The Council, I went through all the 33+ player tournaments as usual and compiled it by the number of top 8s. May had 158 deck results from these tournaments:


SCG Cincinati (300 players)
BoM 10 Legacy Trial (80 players)
SCG Knoxville (218 players)
Raffa BS Olympus (62 players)
Danish Legacy Masters (90 players)
Flipside Gaming KDM (142 players)
Trader Liga Legacy April (46 players)
Win a Dual 7 Tubingen (40 players)
MagicChianti 4 seasons (33 players)
Vancouver Legacy Championship (69 players)
LCL May (92 players) LLB May (78 players)
Hannover Legacy League (57 players)
Magic Corporation Paris (38 players)
Big Magic Open (365 players)
SCG Somerset (426 players)
GBL Tappa 9 (68 players)
Mesterligaen (42 players)
Legacy da Rhino Parma (37 players)
5 Torneo Legacy Gipuzkoa (35 players)
Geneva Legacy 2 (40 players)

Top performing decks:

Miracles 12 top 8s
Team America 10 top 8s
Deathblade and D'n'T 9 top 8s
ANT and UWR Delver 8 top 8s
Sneak and Show, RUG, Reanimator 7 top 8s
Elves, Shardless BUG, UR Delver 6 top 8s
Jund, Maverick, Fish, Aggro Loam 5 top 8s
Painter 4 top 8s

These 12 decks:

Team America
UWR
Miracles
Elves
DeathBlade
Esper Blade
Sneak and Show
Jund
Death N Taxes
RUG
ANT
Shardless BUG

Are typically the best performing ones over the last 8 months or so and have a 56.33% share of top 8s surveyed, maybe a record low in terms of frequency. This is the 7th month of data I've collected and every month or so it seems more and more decks outside this top tier are placing.

[death]

Very good young Padawan, btw, is Nihil Credo your father?

[HSCK]

I think I'm missing something, haha.

[ESG]

I think I'm missing something, haha.

Nihil Credo is a moderator. He was one of the main people who updated the Decks to Beat section. I assume that's the reference.

[lyracian]

Not sure how easy it is to do with the data you have but if you chance the totals to be tournaments with 65+ rather than 33+ players does it make those 12 decks have a larger share?

[HSCK]

Goes up to 65% of the meta, still well short of the +80% it had before November 2013.

[lyracian]

Goes up to 65% of the meta, still well short of the +80% it had before November 2013.

Thanks