GP Louisville Day 2 Meta Top 100

[ScottW]

I didn't see a thread for GP Louisville. Day 2 Meta link below.

http://magic.wizards.com/en/events/coverage/gplou17/day-two-metagame-breakdown-2017-01-08

[Barook]

I was just about to post the same link. Keen to see if the we get another Top 8 chokeful of Miracles.

[Whitefaces]

Top 8 is

1 (24) Braun-Duin, Brian
2 Hinkle, Charles
3 Majors, Michael
4 Napier, Cody
5 (5) Duke, Reid
6 Sullano, Andrew
7 Barton, Nate
8 Wescoe, Craig

BBD is on Miracles.

I heard Reid Duke is on Bant with Leovold.

Wescoe on DnT, I don't know about the others. Any ideas?

[JamieW89]

Top 8 is

1 (24) Braun-Duin, Brian
2 Hinkle, Charles
3 Majors, Michael
4 Napier, Cody
5 (5) Duke, Reid
6 Sullano, Andrew
7 Barton, Nate
8 Wescoe, Craig

BBD is on Miracles.

I heard Reid Duke is on Bant with Leovold.

Wescoe on DnT, I don't know about the others. Any ideas?

Napier is on Sneak and Show as per the undefeated day-1 article.

[Lemnear]

Miracles vs Decay vs Griselbrand

Nothing to see here.

[Atherion]

Sullano advanced to semis - he is on BR reanimator I think since he play chancellors, Barton and Hinkle on delver.

[Whitefaces]

And Majors apparently has Liliana of the Veil and Grafdigger's Cage, so maybe Shardless?

[AznSeal]

What are they all on?

[Whitefaces]

I think

Bant
Miracles
Shardless (?)
Sneak and Show
Grixis Delver
Grixis Delver
Death and Taxes
BR Reanimator

[Douif]

I think that Majors is on Bug delver.

Edit:

Top 4 is : Miracles, Delver (I think Grixis), Dark Bant and BR reanimator.

[AznSeal]

I hope miracles wins so people will realize how stupid the deck is.

[Whitefaces]

BR Rea beats Delver in the semis.

[l33twash0r]

Miracles vs Decay vs Griselbrand

Nothing to see here.

Seems like Leovold is the new toy everyone wants to play too.

[filln]

The pain of no video coverage is so real now that we're in the Top 8.

[hotlikedimes]

BR reanimator in the finals in either bbd on miracles vs reid on dark bant. whoever called miracles vs decay vs griselbrand is right ;)

Only one copy of miracles in the top 8 with some pretty steep competition is nice. It's not that OP ;)

[twndomn]

Reid Duke is on Shardless I believe, based on this photo taken via Twitter.

https://twitter.com/suzythegnat/status/818118501277822984

This coverage is great, reminds me of the 90s, nostalgic?

[l33twash0r]

Reid Duke is on Shardless I believe, based on this photo taken via Twitter.

https://twitter.com/suzythegnat/status/818118501277822984

This coverage is great, reminds me of the 90s, nostalgic?

The comments had this:


Suzy Q ‏@suzythegnat 6h6 hours ago
@MannyGoulart He's on his own brew called Leovold Sultai. #SuzyText

[Whitefaces]

He's on dark Bant, check out the bant thread, very similar to what's going on there. EDIT: I think...that's what he's been playing in his videos recently, could well be straight BUG too.

He just beat BBD, so BR Rea vs Bant in the finals!

[Barook]

Top 8 decks, but no lists yet (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C1ryTDDVIAAoXH6.jpg:large)

Glad Duke is in the finals.

Also, I wonder why BR Reanimator is so good now. They didn't get any new toys to push its powerlevel.

[ScottW]

Duke is not in finals. It's BBD with miracles.

[Atherion]

Top 8 decks, but no lists yet (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C1ryTDDVIAAoXH6.jpg:large)

Glad Duke is in the finals.

Also, I wonder why BR Reanimator is so good now. They didn't get any new toys to push its powerlevel.

More people play it now, that's why.

[mistercakes]

Duke was streaming on channel fireball twice with that brew. Wonder if he changed much.

[civet five]

Top 8 decks, but no lists yet (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C1ryTDDVIAAoXH6.jpg:large)

Glad Duke is in the finals.

Also, I wonder why BR Reanimator is so good now. They didn't get any new toys to push its powerlevel.

People figured out that it's a pretty consistent turn-1 combo deck that gets it done before getting wrecked by CB and CotV. It is essentially a more consistent, more disruptive form of "Belcher", where Belcher is any balls-to-the-walls all-in, pray they don't have FoW combo deck.

[Whitefaces]

Duke is not in finals. It's BBD with miracles.

Not according to this tweet.

https://twitter.com/magicprotour/status/818230797958311937

[Pilhas]

Duke is not in finals. It's BBD with miracles.

Tweet says Duke, site says BBD..... Best coverage ever

[Morden]

Tweet says Duke, site says BBD..... Best coverage ever

and the link to the lists doesn't work......... :rolleyes:

[hotlikedimes]

https://twitter.com/magicprotour/status/818230797958311937

Reid is also up 1-0,
https://twitter.com/magicprotour/status/818238755395997696

[say no to scurvy]

If you hadn't already gotten your Leovolds...

[CutthroatCasual]

Duke is not in finals. It's BBD with miracles.

Not according to mothership (I guess fixed now).


If you hadn't already gotten your Leovolds...

That moment was months ago when people were trying him in every BUGx deck.

[l33twash0r]

and the link to the lists doesn't work......... :rolleyes:

Top8 works now http://magic.wizards.com/en/events/coverage/gplou17/top-8-decklists-2017-01-08

[meffeo]

Duke hardcasted two Mindbreak Traps? That should have been spectacular.

[hotlikedimes]

Duke hardcasted two Mindbreak Traps? That should have been spectacular.


Would have been awesome to watch. Same with a Leovold with 3 hierarchs by his side. At least they had decent twitter coverage of the finals...

[Barook]

Duke was streaming on channel fireball twice with that brew. Wonder if he changed much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL04lbfeNAaS8-FbbKFXfZsLZV0o67ZID6&v=Aq01iMoCbBA
This one? I have to admit, that list looks pretty sexy.

Edit: So compared to the original list, he cut white and the SFM package.

[meffeo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL04lbfeNAaS8-FbbKFXfZsLZV0o67ZID6&v=Aq01iMoCbBA
This one? I have to admit, that list looks pretty sexy.

It looks like Pikula suggested it, according to wizards website.

[hotlikedimes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL04lbfeNAaS8-FbbKFXfZsLZV0o67ZID6&v=Aq01iMoCbBA
This one? I have to admit, that list looks pretty sexy.

SB was definitely tuned for the meta, hopefully he'll put up a list, or another video series.

I've been playing it online and it's sick. It deals with a lot of stuff really well. Go wide starts are a bit hard for it to deal with, so elves, pyro, and mentor strats (without leovold in play) can be rough, but against a ton of decks it plays really well.

[HSCK]

I might try that and switch out Cut for Push and Tarmo for a Dekve threat.

[Ephemeron]

http://magic.wizards.com/en/events/coverage/gplou17/top-8-decklists-2017-01-08

Top 8 lists. Duke's winning list was straight BUG, pretty interesting list overall.

[mistercakes]

reminds of the 4 tnn/7 mana dorks that popped up on mtggoldfish a while back. pretty ballsy in a field of miracles and sneak and show. having 3 jace and 2 leovold is a pretty great idea though. the original list i remember on goldfish was playing 1 jace, 3 liliana and leovold had not come out yet.

[H]

http://magic.wizards.com/en/events/coverage/gplou17/top-8-decklists-2017-01-08

Top 8 lists. Duke's winning list was straight BUG, pretty interesting list overall.

I just don't quite understand Daze in a non-Tempo shell like that, but the rest of the list looks spectacular.

[Lemnear]

I just don't quite understand Daze in a non-Tempo shell like that, but the rest of the list looks spectacular.

Why not? Its a clear FU if your opponents wants to drop a T2 Counterbalance/S&T and similar stuff. We have seen Storm adapting SB or MB Daze to fight all the Counterbalance/Chalice/Thalia nonsense in the metagame too.

[Julian23]

Daze is great in a deck that's built to drop a high-impact 3-drop on turn2.

[Dice_Box]

2 Lands decks.... :(

[H]

Why not? Its a clear FU if your opponents wants to drop a T2 Counterbalance/S&T and similar stuff. We have seen Storm adapting SB or MB Daze to fight all the Counterbalance/Chalice/Thalia nonsense in the metagame too.

Just seems kind of low impact beyond turn 2, but I'm definitely biased by drawing Daze on turn 6 and have it do nothing too many times.


Daze is great in a deck that's built to drop a high-impact 3-drop on turn2.

Good point. I think what Duke's list does well with 8 mana dorks is not get bottled up on mana as much as "traditional" BUG decks. I've played builds that were similar in principle and often I just couldn't play out everything efficiently enough. This is one of the thing that makes me leery of Daze: you really want your lands in play. But I guess 8 mana-men can help with this, but you still have three 4-drops...

Of course, I think several lists lately have generally disproven that Daze isn't playable outside of Tempo, but it still seems kind of odd to me.

[Ingo]

2 Lands decks.... :(

But of which one just barely missed top8 :)
(Jody Keith, 9th)

[CptHaddock]

But of which one just barely missed top8 :)
(Jody Keith, 9th)

Keith was even playing the ancient tomb tech. Sad day :(

[Mr Miagi]

Keith was even playing the ancient tomb tech. Sad day :(

First time I'm hearing it. What is ancient tomb doing in lands? Can you share few words? Thanks.

[Whitefaces]

First time I'm hearing it. What is ancient tomb doing in lands? Can you share few words? Thanks.

It's so you can Crop Rotate for it T1 to cast a Sphere or Chalice.

[Pilhas]

First time I'm hearing it. What is ancient tomb doing in lands? Can you share few words? Thanks.

post sideboard:
t1 crop for tomb and sphere/chalice
or to quick combo out of nowhere

[ironclad8690]

Regarding duke's dazes: he has been working them in to his midrange bug builds ever since decay and shaman were printed. He has also been an advocate of Noble Hierarch for a long time, even after the great x/1 exodus that occured after the printing of TNN (the splash hate was real, just ask any mother of runes player). I think the meta has stricken a nice balance where some older tech can come back. For example, less and less people on shardless at the moment, perhaps because of the popularity of reanimator or sneak, or maybe recent developments with aluren. This gives some other midrange decks breathing room. Wouldn't be surprised if deathblade or uwr delver made small comebacks. Also eldrazi at an all time low is interesting.

[twndomn]

Columbus 2016 was the event of Legacy Eldrazi, at least that's how I would remember it.
Louisville 2017 was the event of Legacy BUG color decks. Let it be BUG Delver, Shardless BUG, Aluren BUG, TNN-Leovold-BUG.