Metagame Breakdown

Legacy is in a great place right now and our metagame showed its diversity. 20% of the field fell into our Others category, which is significantly more than at our last event, and the Others category itself was made up for many, many one-off or two-off decks. From Jund – Punishing or not – to Painters Servant, every janky Legacy deck that piques your fancy was probably here.

Death & Taxes definitely took the lion’s share of decks, with 10% of the field choosing Aether Vials and Thalia, Guardian of Thraben. While Delver did technically field more decks with 12% of the meta, it was made up of an assortment of Grixis, Temur, and U/R Delver variants. Make no mistake though, U/R Delver was a clear favorite among Delver players and was the 2nd most played deck at the tournament. Next up is Stompy, which consists of Steel, Mono-Red, and Eldrazi Stompy. We’ve consolidated them since all three would have fallen into our Others category had we not. Eldrazi stompy slightly outperformed the other two, but only by a couple pilots. We also grouped Lands and Slow Depths together for similar reasons. Interestingly, Lands managed to secure more pilots than Slow Depths here in Ghent.

Stoneblade managed just as many decks as all three Stompy decks combined, and Show and Tell was, once again, our most-played combo deck. Miracles and Grixis Control, however, fell short of their usual luster with only 5% of our players choosing to rep each of Legacy’s flagship control decks. Perhaps the most interesting occurance here is how many people chose a nice fit. Nic Fit, or more specifically, Rector Fit, was here in force, at least compared to the deck’s usual representation. A lot of people put their faith in Arena Rector, Ugin, the Spirit Dragon, and Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh, and we’re interested to see if it was a one-off occurrence or signs of things to come.