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Ryan Overturf

Digging Delver, the Columbus Classic, and Hidden Herbalists

Digging Delver, the Columbus Classic, and Hidden Herbalists

January 25, 2017 – by Ryan Overturf 16

Given my poor Standard performance in Columbus this weekend, I got to experience my first foray into the new Modern format at the Star City Games Classic. No Gitaxian Probes, no Golgari-Grave Trolls, and some Fatal Pushes peppered into a…

A Blue(ish) Moon on the Rise: Grixis Moon

A Blue(ish) Moon on the Rise: Grixis Moon

January 18, 2017 – by Ryan Overturf 18

At some point last year I was killing time between rounds and a friend of mine asked if I wanted to jam some Modern. I didn’t have a deck on me, but he had both Jund and Blue Moon. “Gimme…

Parsing the Gitaxian Probe & Golgari Grave-Troll Bans

Parsing the Gitaxian Probe & Golgari Grave-Troll Bans

January 12, 2017 – by Ryan Overturf 17

I knew they were going to take actions in Standard with the new banlist update—especially with it being moved up to this week. The pessimist in me expected that Modern would be left untouched. To be fair, I enjoyed Modern…

A New Tool for Control: Evaluating Fatal Push

A New Tool for Control: Evaluating Fatal Push

January 4, 2017 – by Ryan Overturf 32

If you liked “dies to Doom Blade,” you’re gonna love “dies to Fatal Push!” Few are more surprised than I to see a great black removal spell grace the Aether Revolt spoiler page, though initial evaluations largely seem to be…

The State of Delver: Adjusting to Metagame Conditions

The State of Delver: Adjusting to Metagame Conditions

December 28, 2016 – by Ryan Overturf 11

Three of the sixteen players at the Star City Games Players’ Championship piloted Grixis Delver for the Modern portion of the tournament. Kevin Jones was basically a lock to play it, but it’s telling that he was able to get…

The Importance of Identifying Weaknesses

The Importance of Identifying Weaknesses

December 21, 2016 – by Ryan Overturf 8

When you talk to players about their Modern decks, most of them can tell you why they like their deck. Perhaps the play patterns fit their style or they have good things to say about the deck’s relative power level.…

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Current metagame: 12/1 – 12/31

RankDeckMetagame %
1Grixis Shadow5.5%
2Burn5.4%
3Gx Tron5.2%
4Jeskai Tempo4.8%
5RG Valakut4.7%
6Eldrazi Tron4.6%
7Affinity4.5%
8Humans4.5%
9Gifts Storm4.4%
10Counters Company3.7%

NOTE: Metagame % is calculated from the unweighted average of all MTGO leagues, paper T8s/T16s, and GP/PT/Open Day 2s in the date range. Data is tracked in the Top Decks page, which you can browse for more details.

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