The event coverage team of the MKM Series was kind enough to give me all the decklists of their 437-player Legacy Main Event that took place in Frankfurt this Sunday (since this apparently was a question a lot of people had asked me: I only got them after the event was over.) Because this was the first giant tournament following the ban of Sensei’s Divining Top I thought it would be really important to post more than just the Top8 decklists MKM usually provides, so let’s do this! It took me something like forever to type (let alone read some players’ writing..) these out but it’s totally worth it. I decided to go with all 8-2 lists instead of the arbitrary Top32 cut we often see; the latter doesn’t really make sense since it also has a lot of 7-3 players, which basically extend all the way down to 63rd place. Another thing I also want to look into is the conversion rate into an 8-2 finish or better. Later this week/month, Bob Huang and I are working on actually getting a complete matchup analysis, providing matchup%s based on all matches played in the tournament. No promises yet, since that information hinges on the scorekeeper sending me the digital pairings for all of the 10 rounds, which is something we’re still working on.

Top 32 decklists Legacy Main Event

Without further ado, here are all decklists of players finishing 8-2 or better:

1st — Johannes Gutbrod — Sneak Show

2nd — Walter Wölfler — BR Reanimator

3rd — Dalibor Szegho — Food Chain

4th — Matthias Schubert — Grixis Delver

5th — Christopher Wilhelm — Bant Deathblade

6th — Felix Bolland — 4c Loam

7th — Robert Swiecki — ANT

8th — Julian Knab — Elves

(excluding decks with fewer than 9 players; most prominently Eldrazi, Merfolk, Goblins and Aluren)

The thing that stands out here is how badly Death & Taxes and Elves did, considering they were the 3rd and 5th most played deck, only putting a combined single person at an 8-2 or better record. Death & Taxes in generally looks to continue its downswing it already started experiencing a couple of months ago. The deck is probably still playable but might need to make a couple of changes; but without knowing where the format is actually headed we should probably just wait and see how things play out. Something else I want to point out is that Stoneblade decks (most of them of the Bant Deathblade variety; one of them Griselbrand-Blade) not only had a ton of players, but also the second-best conversion rate of all the decks in the format, greatly outperforming Death & Taxes and Elves which had a similar number of players. Only Grixis Delver managed to perform even better, making it the hottest claimant to the currently vacant throne of Legacy. Whether it will actually live up to to it, only time will tell. I strongly disagree with all the theorycrafting that had been going on for most of last week, with people claiming to already know how the metagame will develop and how one needed to adapt to that. Without wanting to offend anyone of you, but people who at best play like 5-10 matches a week yet claim deeper understanding of not only the status quo but also the status futurus are always suspect to me. It’s no problem if you don’t have the time or resources to play a ton of Magic, but don’t act like anyone of us definitely knew where the format was headed; that’s not only boring and misleading but also embarrassing. Anyway, that was a ton of typing, but at least it gave me an opportunity with the Broodwar ASL Round of 16 groups! It’s 4am right now and I have to work tomorrow, so I guess I better get to bed now. As I mentioned, we’re currently working on also getting all the pairings in digital form, so that we can calculate matchup%s, similar to the way the Hatfield brothers used to do it with their “Too Much Information” articles. Really looking forward to that data!



JulianPS: When the head judged announced So long,JulianPS: When the head judged announced Sensei’s Diving Top was banned:

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