GP Vegas Top 64 Decks

Unfortunately, Wizards only posted Top 16. Chime in below if you know what any of the following players were on! I'd like to get a better sense of the metagame.

17 Lipp, Scott [US] Hexmage Depths
18 Wood, Alex [US] Aluren
19 Gellert, Kyle [CA] Miracles
20 (21) Tiu, Oliver [US] Czech Pile
21 Koch, Zachary [US] Infect
22 Liao, Albert [US] Elves
23 Roukas, Sam [US] Miracles
24 Caudill, Eddie [US] BR Reanimator
25 Bogucki, Woodrow [US] BUG Delver
26 Ogawa, Satoshi [JP] 4C Loam
27 Dominguez, Javier [ES] Hymn BUG Delver
28 Li, Richard [CA] Grixis Delver
29 Graves, Robert [US] Elves
30 (5) Duke, Reid [US] Elves
31 Huschenbeth, Arne [DE] BUG Delver
32 Phraner, Ryan [US] Grixis Delver
33 Eliatamby, Charles [XE] Grixis Delver
34 Huynh, Anthony [US] BUG Delver
35 Stoute, Terry [US] Grixis Delver
36 Martinez, Mario [US] Bant DeathBlade
37 Houtman, Kyle [US] OmniSneak
38 Naide, Kazutaka [JP] Eldrazi
39 Lundquist, Ben [US] UB Shadow
40 Codausi, Karl-Heinz [DE] Food Chain
41 Fields, Frank [US] Bant DeathBlade
42 Patalano, Christopher [US] Death and Taxes
43 Friedman, Samuel [US] Grixis Delver
44 Vacharat, Alex [US] Grixis Control
45 Wu, Allen [US] Death and Taxes
46 Anderson, Todd [US] BR Reanimator
47 Collard, Ashton [US] Food Chain
48 Smith, Robert [US] Elves
49 Prost, Andrejs [US] Elves
50 Besta, Kevin [CA] Jund Loam
51 Miller, Kyle9111 [US] Grixis Delver
52 Gardner, Max [US] OmniSneak
53 Forsyth, Nathaniel [XE] UR Delver
54 Gomez, John [US] Grixis Delver
55 Bender, Marius Thomas [DE] RUG Delver
56 Sonderland, Drew [US] Grixis Delver
57 Sacks, Neal [US] Jund Loam
58 Mclaughlin, Kevin [US] OmniSneak
59 Kassari, John [US] Merfolk
60 Hummel, Gary [US] Bant DeathBlade
61 Van Brocklin, Hunter [US] Hexmage Depths
62 Ayers, Corey [US] Bant DeathBlade
63 Pecora, Gerald [US]
64 Szabo, Matthew [US] Miracles

Also if you know any of their opponents, please ask them:

http://pairings.channelfireball.com/...17731312323491

http://pairings.channelfireball.com/...46225891649311

http://pairings.channelfireball.com/...80155811090124

http://pairings.channelfireball.com/...64019042157851

64 Szabo, Matthew [US] BUG Leovold

40 Codausi, Karl-Heinz [DE] (janchu88 from the Source) played Food Chain.

Do you think there's a chance they'll release the T64 at a later date? Maybe along with T64 from Modern too? Such a shame if they don't...

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Do you think there's a chance they'll release the T64 at a later date? Maybe along with T64 from Modern too? Such a shame if they don't...

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Historically no

Alex Wood is a local, he was on (BUG?) Aluren.

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Do you think there's a chance they'll release the T64 at a later date? Maybe along with T64 from Modern too? Such a shame if they don't...

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They didn't even post a day 2 metagame breakdown. Very lazy written coverage.

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Historically no

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Didn't they at least post top 32 in previous legacy GPs?

59 Kassari, John [US]- Merfolk

45 Wu, Allen [US] - Death and Taxes
24 Caudill, Eddie [US] - BR Reanimator

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Unfortunately, Wizards only posted Top 16. Chime in below if you know what any of the following players were on! I'd like to get a better sense of the metagame.
55 Bender, Marius Thomas [DE]

59 Kassari, John [US]

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Marius was on canadian. Kassari was on coverage vs lands and played merfolk if i am not mistaken.

Edit: checked and kassari was on merfolk
Edit2: ironclad beat me to it

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64 Szabo, Matthew [US] BUG Leovold

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I was definitely playing Miracles.

Two Austin locals:
- 25 Bogucki, Woodrow: BUG (Delver/Leo? I'll try to confirm.)
- 47 Collard, Ashton: Food Chain

Here's my useful data point:
- 1972: Ziarnik, Stuart: Burn

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Here's my useful data point:
- 1972: Ziarnik, Stuart: Burn

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It's always an ego boost when you look up your finish and think they're listing your birth year at first.

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Two Austin locals:
- 25 Bogucki, Woodrow: BUG (Delver/Leo? I'll try to confirm.)
- 47 Collard, Ashton: Food Chain

Here's my useful data point:
- 1972: Ziarnik, Stuart: Burn

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Awful matchups or bad draws?

31 Huschenbeth, Arne [DE] BUG Delver

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It's always an ego boost when you look up your finish and think they're listing your birth year at first.

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I'm still in my 20s - yay!

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Awful matchups or bad draws?

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Great matchups (all fair decks until Sneak & Show round 7, when I dropped). Draws were fine, I'd just say my opponents outplayed me. Also, I was on tilt all day after losing to Infect round 1 when he Chilled me.

#51 - Grixis Delver w/Stifle

Kassari at 59th was on Merfolk

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I was definitely playing Miracles.

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You 100% were. Thought you were my round 2 opponent for some reason.

19 Gellert, Kyle [CA] Miracles

He was a trial winner so his list has been previously posted.

I've made a post about it on Twitter too, hopefully that helps a bit.

They released T32 for Modern, but only T16 for us...quite frustrating.

From Twitter

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29 Graves, Robert [US] Elves
42 Patalano, Christopher [US] DnT w/black splash

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37 Houtman, Kyle [US] was on OmniSneak

19 Gellert, Kyle [CA] - Miracles

Zachary Koch was 9-0 so his list was released. He's also pretty active so I'm sure he'll follow-up at some point.

Some awesome info from /u/bradleyjx over on reddit:
19 Gellert, Kyle [CA] - Miracles
26 Ogawa, Satoshi [JP] - 4c Punishing Loam
28 Li, Richard [CA] - Grixis Delver
29 Graves, Robert [US] - Elves
32 Phraner, Ryan [US] - Grixis Delver
33 Eliatamby, Charles [XE] - Grixis Delver
34 Huynh, Anthony [US] - BUG Leovold/Delver
35 Stoute, Terry [US] - Grixis Delver
36 Martinez, Mario [US] - 4c Leovold Control (w/Stoneforge Package)
37 Houtman, Kyle [US] - Show and Tell / Omniscience
38 Naide, Kazutaka [JP] - Colorless Eldrazi
41 Fields, Frank [US] - 4c Leovold Control (w/Stoneforge Package)
42 Patalano, Christopher [US] - D&T
44 Vacharat, Alex [US] - Grixis Control
49 Prost, Andrejs [US] - Elves
50 Besta, Kevin [CA] - Jund Loam
53 Forsyth, Nathaniel [XE] - U/R Delver
54 Gomez, John [US] - Grixis Delver
57 Sacks, Neal [US] - Jund Loam
58 Mclaughlin, Kevin [US] - Show and Tell / Omniscience

Albert Liao Elves.

52nd, Max Gardner, on Sneak and Know.

I might have counted a couple of these wrong, but I think it's breaking down like this (inc T16, so full T64 of what we know so far)

11 Grixis Delver
5 Show and Tell
5 Bant Deathblade
5 Elves
4 BUG Delver
3 Miracles
3 4c Loam
3 DnT
2 Czech Pile
2 Food Chain
2 BR Reanimator
2 BG Depths
2 Lands
2 RUG Delver
2 UW Stoneblade
2 UR Delver
2 Grixis Control
1 UB Shadow
1 Eldrazi
1 Infect
1 Aluren
1 Merfolk
1 BUG Lands

Good effort people, thanks for this.

I was playing against Corey Ayers in round 11. He was on 4-color Deathblade. I also know the guy who played against Robert Smith in round 13 so I've asked him what he was playing.

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I was playing against Corey Ayers in round 11. He was on 4-color Deathblade. I also know the guy who played against Robert Smith in round 13 so I've asked him what he was playing.

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Great, thanks!

Love this community metagame compilation.

OK, so the counts are, modulo the two remaining unknowns:

Delver variants (19):
Grixis Delver 11
BUG Delver 4
UR Delver 2
RUG Delver 2

Control decks (21):
Deathblade 5
Grixis/4c Control 4
Miracles 3
Death and Taxes 3
Jund 2
UW Stoneblade 2
4c Loam 1
BUG Control with Stage/Depths 1

Combo (19)
Sneak/Show 5
Elves 4
Turbo depths 2
Food Chain 2
Lands 2
BR Reanmiator 2
Aluren 1
Infect 1

Assorted aggressive decks (3)
Eldrazi 1
Merfolk 1
UB Shadow 1

Unknown (2)

Chalice of the Void and Storm variants seem like the biggest losers here, which I think is surprising given how the banning of Miracles was supposed to open up the metagame to decks like Storm, which should have in turn made Chalice a bit better positioned. Anyone else have opinions about the interpretation of these data?

Hey Bob, what did you play at the event?

Just got word that the final player (Robert Smith) was on Elves, which means our T64 is.

11 Grixis Delver
5 Show and Tell
5 Bant Deathblade
5 Elves
4 BUG Delver
3 Miracles
3 4c Loam
3 DnT
2 Czech Pile
2 Food Chain
2 BR Reanimator
2 BG Depths
2 Lands
2 RUG Delver
2 UW Stoneblade
2 UR Delver
2 Grixis Control
1 UB Shadow
1 Eldrazi
1 Infect
1 Aluren
1 Merfolk
1 BUG Lands

Thanks everyone for your help. And thanks Bob for starting this thread.

Thanks for adding them up.

I think that's 63, though, and we're missing one.

So, either 68-70% decks that have Brainstorm. I've seen worse.

Anyone have a decklist for either of Jund Loam players? Is it something like Jund Depths or more like Aggro-Loam?

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Chalice of the Void and Storm variants seem like the biggest losers here, which I think is surprising given how the banning of Miracles was supposed to open up the metagame to decks like Storm, which should have in turn made Chalice a bit better positioned. Anyone else have opinions about the interpretation of these data?

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I think you have to factor in, that at a GP (especially at one with 2 other main events) alot of people are not Legacy specialist. And honesstly if someone comes from Modern and wants to play in the GP what deck would you recommend? For me its Grixis delver since it's somewhat close in playstyle and the typical "50% agaisnt everything"-deck.

There are only so many skilled Storm pilots tbh, and as the field gets bigger their percentage drops.

While this is true, you can also fill in that blank with "Lands" and we can see how that deck did.