{"id":76450,"date":"2020-09-17T00:44:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T00:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/magic-gathering-best-performing-decks-first-ever-historic-tournament\/"},"modified":"2020-09-17T00:44:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T00:44:19","slug":"magic-the-gathering-best-performing-decks-at-the-first-ever-historic-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/09\/17\/magic-the-gathering-best-performing-decks-at-the-first-ever-historic-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic: The Gathering – Best Performing Decks at the First Ever Historic Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This weekend was the 2020 Mythic Invitational, one of the biggest\u00a0Magic: The Gathering<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0tournaments of the year. Players from across the globe brought their best decks to battle it out for the championship.\u00a0Despite some delays due to technical difficulties, it was a weekend full of great Magic: The Gathering<\/em><\/a> gameplay that many fans won’t soon forget.<\/p>\n

The Mythic Invitational\u00a0was the first major tournament to use Magic<\/em>‘s\u00a0Historic format,<\/a>\u00a0which\u00a0debuted last year. As such, it was the first opportunity\u00a0to\u00a0get a clear understanding\u00a0of the format’s meta when it comes to high level play. Many Magic<\/em> players paid close attention to the tournament, looking both for ways to improve their own deck building and to see what\u00a0decks they’ll\u00a0likely\u00a0run into\u00a0when playing Historic.<\/p>\n

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First place in the tournament went to\u00a0Hall of Fame\u00a0Magic<\/em>\u00a0player\u00a0Seth Manfield.\u00a0After\u00a0starting top 8 in the losers bracket, he\u00a0expertly piloted a Sultai Midrange deck all the way to\u00a0the finals. There he clinched out a win after a grueling two game series against another Magic<\/em> Hall of Famer, Gabriel Nassif.<\/p>\n

Sultai is a term for a deck that\u00a0uses black, blue, and green\u00a0Magic\u00a0<\/em>cards. Manfield’s Midrange brew proved to be a powerful deck,\u00a0having a\u00a0ton of flexibility in the early game, followed up with huge late game threats. It pulled cards from both Standard legal sets and the new Historic\u00a0Anthologies<\/a>\u00a0to create a powerful, well-rounded deck.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0goal of the deck was to ramp into extra lands, remove all threats the opponent played, and then\u00a0finish the game with powerful creatures and planeswalkers. In the early game, the two key cards were Growth Spiral and Thoughtseize. Growth Spiral costs one green and one blue mana and allows a player to draw a card, and then play an extra land from their hand. It’s a deceptively powerful card that was actually\u00a0banned from Standard for being too efficient<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u00a0gave Manfield an early mana advantage over his opponents,\u00a0allowing him to cast bigger spells faster. Thoughtseize, which costs one black mana and two life, allows a player to look at the\u00a0opponent’s hand and have them discard a card of the player’s choosing. The card did a ton of work for Manfield, as it gave him both information about his opponent’s hand, and allowed him to throw his opponents off their game plan.<\/p>\n

In the\u00a0mid game, the most powerful card in Manfield’s deck was undoubtedly Uro, Titan of Nature’s Wrath. It’s\u00a0one of\u00a0the\u00a0most strongest\u00a0cards from\u00a0Magic<\/em>‘s\u00a0Theros: Beyond Death<\/em> expansion<\/a>, and is a key card in a number of formats. It’s a creature that costs one generic, one green and one blue mana, and upon entering it gains the player three life, draws them a card, and allows them to play an additional land that turn.<\/p>\n

Uro is sacrificed when it enters, but then it can be brought back from the graveyard for two green and two blue mana later in the game. The card pretty much does everything, starting off as a ramp and life gain spell before later becoming a powerful creature.<\/p>\n

Finally at the top end, Manfield could close out games by combining the\u00a0Planeswalker Nissa, Who Shakes the World and the creature Hydroid Krasis. Nissa, who costs 3 generic and two green mana, both turns lands into creatures, and makes each forest tap for two mana instead of one. Hydroid Krasis costs one blue, one green and X mana. Players can pay any amount of mana into the X and the Krasis enters as an X\/X, draws\u00a0the player half of X cards, and gains the player Half of X life.<\/p>\n

With Nissa\u00a0allowing forests\u00a0to tap for two mana each, Manfield was able to create Huge Krasis’ that also gained him life and drew him cards. It’s a powerful combo that was a key part of some of the best performing decks in Standard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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While a number of players brought Sultai Midrange to the tournament, Manfield was the only player who managed to make top 8 with it. Instead, six out of the top eight decks were some form of sacrifice deck. All of these decks used powerful sacrifice and recursion engines in order to create huge amounts of value and kill the opponent using small amounts of incremental damage. The decks were either green red black, black red, or mono-black<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of these three different color combinations, Jund Sacrifice, that is the green red black deck, did the best. Four different Jund lists made top 8, and one of them, piloted by Gabriel Nassif, took second place. The goal of the Jund Sacrifice deck was\u00a0to create huge amounts of value through sacrificing and recurring creatures, while also having the ability to steal opponent’s creatures, attack with them, and then sacrifice them before the opponent gets them back.<\/p>\n

Two key cards in the Jund\u00a0Sacrifice deck\u00a0were Priest of Forgotten Gods and Mayhem Devil. Priest is a creature that costs one generic and one black mana, and it says “Sacrifice two other creatures: Any number of target players each lose 2 life and sacrifice a creature. You add [2 black mana] and draw a card.” Much like Uro, this is a card that does a lot. It removes opponents creatures, drains opponents life, allows its controller to ramp with the extra mana, and draws a card. If not answered right away,\u00a0Priest of Forgotten Gods\u00a0can get very out of hand very quickly.<\/p>\n

Mayhem Devil is another creature, and it costs one\u00a0generic mana, one red mana, and one black mana. It has a passive ability that\u00a0whenever either player sacrifices a permanent, Mayhem Devil does one point of damage to any target. The reciprocal nature of this ability is very powerful, as it both punishes your opponent for playing lands that need to be sacrificed, and it neuters the life gain of a card like Uro. And because the\u00a0damage\u00a0can be pointed at any target, it’s\u00a0can\u00a0both\u00a0remove creatures and\u00a0ping\u00a0down your opponents life total. When combined with Priest of Forgotten Gods\u00a0or the Cat Oven combo<\/a>, Mayhem Devil can start putting out insane amounts of damage per turn.<\/p>\n

One of the big takeaways from the tournament is how good\u00a0multi-color decks are in Historic. While many 1 or 2 color sacrifice decks did well, having access to key green cards like Collected Company and Scavenging Ooze gave the Jund Deck an upper hand.\u00a0There is quite a lot of mana fixing in the Historic format<\/a>,\u00a0and as a result, players are\u00a0rarely punished for playing a three, four or five color deck.<\/p>\n

The Mythic Invitational also reinforced something that most Magic<\/em> players already knew. Cards that do a lot of things are very good. In order for a card to be playable in Historic, it often needs to generate value in more than one way, like Priest of Forgotten Gods, Growth Spiral, or Uro, Titan of Natures Wrath. While big vanilla creatures may have cut it in the old days of Magic<\/em><\/a>, that is not the case any more.<\/p>\n

Overall, it seems like Historic is an exciting format with\u00a0a number of viable strategies. Going into the tournament many players assumed that mono-red goblins was going to be absolutely dominant<\/a>, but in the end only one goblins deck made top 8. This is a good thing for the format, because it means the meta has not yet been solved, and there is still room for new decks to spring up. If Wizards of the Coast continues supporting Historic, there’s a good chance it could become one of the most popular Magic<\/em> Formats.<\/p>\n

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