Metagame Breakdown

Another MKMS tournament, another Modern main event, and for the first time in a long while, one of our decks has managed to crack the 10% mark in our breakdown. W/U(x) control decks dominated here in Prague, at least by Modern standards, with 37 players occupying a little less than 13% of the Modern metagame. Admittedly, these were divided between W/U and Jeskai control shells, but clearly blue control decks are popular at our events, given their prevalence both here and in MKMS Hamburg. Jund and its B/G(x) counterparts made up the second largest chunk of decks, with 24 players electing to sleeve up their Tarmogoyfs and Thoughtseizes. Given the general tendency toward Blue control decks at these events, one would expect their natural predator, Tron, to also show up in force. And it did, with 20 players electing to sleeve up the Urza lands to take on the wide field of fair decks.

Moving down the list, Death's Shadow and Burn both clocked in with 19 decks, showing that these decks won't be held down, even if the meta has started adapting to them. Burn and Affinity continued to bring a strong showing, with 16 people choosing the former and 14 choosing the latter. Hatebears, an ever-popular choice at our events, made out with 12 pilots and we had a whopping four decks in the eight-pilot category: Elves, Hollow One, U/R Moon, and Collected Company. Storm and Infect close out our named decks with a respectable seven pilots each. As always, the Modern metagame is far too diverse to discuss every deck with a whopping 72 decks making it into our other category. Notable entries here include Amulet Titan, which does not seem to have picked up in popularity after its recent GP Top 8, and KCI, which, much to our surprise, only managed to convince five of our players that it was the right choice for MKM Series Prague.