World Championship competitors flocked to a variety of synergy-driven archetypes, and the resulting metagame is different than what many were expecting. The linear strategies in Explorer are as powerful as they are diverse, and it's easy to go over the top of Rakdos Midrange. Especially when top players are keenly aware of the available instants in Rakdos Midrange and are adept at sequencing their spells around them.Īlthough Rakdos Midrange can theoretically fix all problems after sideboard, there are only 15 slots. Indeed, Rakdos Midrange players may struggle against Parhelion II or Skysovereign, Consul Flagship, have trouble answering Witch's Oven loops, and may see their removal countered by Rattlechains or Spell Pierce. I can only imagine that their pilots tested the matchup against Rakdos Midrange in depth at the highest level of play, tuned their lists, and were satisfied with the results. Instead, the most-played archetypes are Abzan Greasefang, Rakdos Sacrifice, and Mono-Blue Spirits. Yet almost none of the competitors registered it! Hence, many players were expecting that Rakdos Midrange would form a substantial part of the Explorer metagame at the World Championship. It also gained Liliana of the Veil and Sheoldred, the Apocalypse from Dominaria United. Last week in my format primer, I wrote that the Explorer metagame "largely revolves around Rakdos Midrange." It's the most popular deck on the MTG Arena ladder, it's one of the pillars of Pioneer, and it's not missing any critical cards in the online format. The biggest surprise is that only one player registered Rakdos Midrange. The Explorer deck choices of the 32 World Championship competitors break down as follows. For example, Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx is not available on MTG Arena yet. Over time, all the Pioneer cards that matter will be added to MTG Arena, but at the moment, the formats and their metagames differ. Explorer, introduced in April 2022, is a true-to-paper format that features all Pioneer-legal cards on MTG Arena. The World Championship features six rounds of Explorer on Saturday October 29. But the Constructed metagame breakdowns are available today, so let's waste no time and dive right in. Around the same time, decklists will be published on the Magic World Championship XXVIII event page.
Live coverage begins Friday October 28 at 9 a.m. The World Championship is a three-day event featuring Domaria United Draft, Standard, and Explorer.
The eventual winner will take home their share of $500,000 in prizes and the opportunity to have their likeness featured on a future Magic: The Gathering card.
But that's a problem with Arena's economy as a whole, which has been an issue since long before Alchemy was thought of, and isn't something to specifically blame Alchemy for.In total, 32 players are invited: reigning Magic World Champion Yuta Takahashi, top-finishing players from the Innistrad Championship, Neon Dynasty Championship, and New Capenna Championship, and top leaderboard competitors from the 2021–22 season. Should they still give the WCs for nerfed cards? Yes, they probably should, and probably should also have offered WCs for cards like the aforementioned ones that essentially got banned along with the centrepieces of the decks they were played in. I believe that a nerf that keeps the card and deck playable is almost certainly going to be better for the game than banning an entire deck out and only refunding the banned piece. Getting back 4 uncommon WCs for Whelp or 4 Mythics if Tyrant was also hit wouldn't refund your Moonveil Regents, Orbs of Dragonkind, Adult Gold Dragons, Inferno of the Star Mounts or Velomachius Loreholds that might as well be banned for all the use they'd get, depending on if Whelp was still a playable card or not. This wouldn't be any different if say, Fearsome Whelp was rebalanced, no-one would be getting any of their 20+ Mythics back they used to craft their Dragon deck.
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Despite getting 4 Mythic wildcards back they were still out 8 Rares, plus any lands they crafted for it. When Winota was banned, no-one got refunded for their Angrath's Marauders or their Fauna Shamans. Would WC refunds for nerfed cards fix that? Slightly, but not entirely. Alchemy as a format, changing of cards from paper counterparts, and digital-only cards and mechanics as a whole? No, not at all.Įconomy-wise? There are some glaring issues, mainly the heavy skew towards rares and mythic rares in the Alchemy set being a massive drain on wildcards without the ability to obtain them via drafting.Īrena's economy is awful.
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