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Pro Tour March of the Machine

Game: Magic: The Gathering

Organized by: Wizards of the Coast

Tournament Type: Tabletop

Formats are Standard and March of the Machine Booster Draft More information about Pro Tour March of the Machine can be found at https://magic.gg/events/pro-tour-march-of-the-machine-fact-sheet-for-competitors

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Pioneer Pro Tour: Day One Recap

• February 17, 2023

On to Day Two

The first day of the Pioneer Pro Tour has wrapped up, and the Top 8 going into day two has a few surprise inclusions and a notable lack of Green Devotion and Azorius Control. Going into the final round of the day, only Selesnya Auras and Abzan Greasefang were undefeated. To anyone who has been following and playing Pioneer for a while, this is probably a strange sentence to read, but that’s how things tend to play out at these types of events, where metagaming can pay off in a big way.

While Rakdos Midrange represented 15 percent of the decks registered for the Pro Tour and Green Devotion represented 14 percent , Rakdos only put four results into the Top 32 of Day One, and Green Devotion only three.

The Pioneer Meta

Those who advance at this Pro Tour are those who do well in both Draft and Pioneer, skewing the overall Pioneer results. Often, a player who places highly at an event or makes Day Two didn’t necessarily have the best performance in the Pioneer portion. In the following section, we have removed the Draft results to get a better sense of which decks performed best in Pioneer when played by the best players for the highest stakes.

The decks with the highest winrates on the day include the undefeated Azorius Spirits, Gruul Vehicles splashing Blue for Stubborn Denial , Grixis Midrange, Selesnya Auras and Bant Humans. Even in an open decklist event like the Pro Tour where the surprise factor is largely removed, the unfamiliarity factor still exists. I would be willing to bet a fair amount that nobody who was testing for the Pro Tour playtested against Grixis Midrange. Most probably didn’t test against Azorius Spirits or Bant Humans.

Below, Ben “ILOVEAZORIUS” has compiled a series of data detailing the Day One metagame, and will return tomorrow for the Day Two action, so stay tuned!

Day One Top 8

Benton madsen, record: 8-0.

Creatures (17)

Enchantments (24), 60 cards $329.72, 15 cards $66.63, david ingles, record: 7-1.

Creatures (10)

Instants (4), sorceries (12), artifacts (10), enchantments (3), 60 cards $405.3, 15 cards $78.19, tristan wylde-larue.

Sorceries (23)

Enchantments (1), 60 cards $353.08, 15 cards $106.33, shota yasooka.

Planeswalkers (2)

Creatures (15), instants (5), sorceries (7), artifacts (1), enchantments (4), 60 cards $718.28, 15 cards $28.13, takumi matsuura.

Creatures (34)

60 cards $176.08, 15 cards $116.25,  gabriel nassif, record:  7-1.

Creatures (2)

Instants (25), sorceries (4), enchantments (5), 60 cards $362.58, 15 cards $66.93,  chris ferber.

Creatures (12)

Sorceries (21), 60 cards $349.16, 15 cards $90.31, michael martin go, record: 6-1-1.

Planeswalkers (6)

Instants (18), enchantments (6), 60 cards $364.7, 15 cards $47.55.

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MTG Standard meta at Pro Tour Minneapolis healthy mix of old decks and new cards

A healthy mix of Magic: The Gathering Standard Constructed decks were submitted for the second Pro Tour of the 2022-2023 season beginning on May 5, from Aggro to Control. 

The Standard meta within MTG competitive play has reached a healthy spot leading up to fall rotation. Many tried-and-true builds like Rakdos Midrange, Grixis Midrange, and Esper Legends still rank as the best three decks within the format. New cards from MOM and ONE have improved the existing top MTG decks while also supporting less popular Traditional builds like Five-Color Ramp, Mono-White Midrange, Mono-Red Aggro, and a host of reanimator decks. 

Over 200 MTG players from around the globe are competing at Pro Tour Minneapolis , which features MOM Draft and Standard Constructed gameplay. Of those 200-plus players, the most popular submitted deck was Rakdos MIdrange, according to WotC . 

• Rakdos Midrange : 47 players and 18.7 percent of field
• Grixis Midrange : 39 players and 15.5 percent of field
• Esper Legends : 30 players and 11.9 percent of field
• Rakdos Reanimator : 23 players and 9.1 percent of field
• Grixis Reanimator : 18 players and 7.1 percent of field
• Domain Control : 12 players and 4.8 percent of field
• Five-Color Ramp : Nine players and 3.6 percent of field
• Mono-White Midrange : Nine players and 3.6 percent of field
• Jeskai Control: Seven players and 2.8 percent of field
• Rakdos Breach : Seven players and 2.8 percent of field

Roughly half the field at MTG Pro Tour Minneapolis brought decks that have a solid record of performance within a competitive Standard best-of-three format. And no one build is dominating the field over the others. The other half of the players at the second Magic Pro Tour of the season chose to bring decks like Domain Control, Rakdos Breach, Five-Color Ramp, and even Soldiers. 

• Azorius Soldiers : Three players
• Grixis Incubate : Three players
• Mono-Blue Tempo : Three players
• Four-Color Legends : Two players
• Orzhov Toxic: One player
• Orzhov Phyrexians : One player
• Mono-Black Midrange : One player

Many Pro players likely chose decks they were comfortable playing and have tested at various organized play tournaments prior to the Pro Tour at Minneapolis. But that doesn’t mean the lesser-played decks are bad. Azorius Soldiers has beaten out Control and Midrange builds before and is solid against other Aggro decks. In addition, Orzhov Phyrexians is a new Standard deck following the release of MOM and has proven powerful on the MTG Arena Ranked ladder along with Mono-Black Midrange and Grixis Incubate. 

Fans can watch the action unfold at MTG Pro Tour Minneapolis from May 5 to 7. Six rounds will feature MOM Draft while the remaining Swiss rounds and playoff rounds will showcase Traditional Standard Constructed.

Pro Tour Collector Set

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The best Pro Tour decks of 1996 , eight in total, were released all together in a Pro Tour Collector Set . Only 20,000 of these sets were produced.

• 1 Description
• 2.1 Michael Loconto, Champion
• 2.2 Eric Tam, Quarterfinalist
• 2.3 Bertrand Lestree, Finalist
• 2.4 Shawn "Hammer" Regnier, Quarterfinalist
• 2.5 Leon Lindback, Semifinalist
• 2.6 George Baxter, Quarterfinalist
• 2.7 Preston Poulter, Semifinalist
• 2.8 Mark Justice, Quarterfinalist

Description [ | ]

The set originally retailed for $125 US and became available in May 1996. They were the first of a series of high-profile preconstructed decks for experienced players. Carefully chosen, they are imitations of the eight most successful deck archetypes present at the 1996 Pro Tour in New York. To avoid printing legal top-rated tournament-level cards, all cards were made illegal for tournament play by printing them with a non-standard backside. Additionally, the cards feature a golden border and have a gold signature of the deck's creator. The back of the cards feature the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour logo and are labeled "Inaugural Tournament New York City February 1996."

Part of each deck is a bio card which provides some background of each player and a decklist card that lists the content of each deck. Additionally, blank cards were added to raise the number of cards per deck to 90.

This Pro Tour used an interesting deck construction format, a variation of the Standard or "Type II" format. In addition to the usual restrictions for Standard decks, each deck was required to contain at least five cards from each of the legal expansions. Meeting this requirement without lowering the efficiency of the decks gave the deck-builders an interesting challenge.

These cards were written under Fifth Edition rules.

• Deck I - Michael Loconto (champion)
• Deck II - Eric Tam (quarter-finalist)
• Deck III - Bertrand Lestree (runner-up)
• Deck IV - Shawn "Hammer" Regnier (quarter-finalist)
• Deck V - Leon Lindback (semi-finalist)
• Deck VI - George Baxter (quarter-finalist)
• Deck VII - Preston Poulter (semi-finalist)
• Deck VIII - Mark Justice (quarter-finalist)

These cards are not legal in any DCI -sanctioned tournaments.

1996 Decklists [ | ]

Michael loconto, champion [ | ].

“Loconto, a 26-year-old social worker from Grafton, Massachusetts, played a blue-white Millstone deck that generally defeated his opponents by running them out of cards. One innovative concept was his addition of Hallowed Ground, which he used to protect himself against Armageddon, to activate his Land Tax, and to save his Mishra's Factories from destruction.”

• decklist.org

4 Adarkar Wastes

4 Mishra's Factory

1 Ruins of Trokair

1 Strip Mine

2 Svyelunite Temple

1 Wizard's School

Artifacts (11)

1 Feldon's Cane

2 Fountain of Youth

2 Icy Manipulator

1 Ivory Tower

1 Jayemdae Tome

3 Millstone

1 Zuran Orb

Creatures (2)

2 Blinking Spirit

Other Spells (25)

4 Disenchant

2 Hallowed Ground

4 Swords to Plowshares

4 Wrath of God

2 Control Magic

4 Counterspell

1 Deflection

Sideboard (15)

2 Aeolipile

1 Jester's Cap

2 Serrated Arrows

2 Circle of Protection: Red

1 Divine Offering

1 Control Magic

2 Hydroblast

2 Sea Sprite

2 Steal Artifact

Eric Tam, Quarterfinalist [ | ]

“Tam, an 18-year-old student from Ontario, Canada, played a red-green-white deck with large and unvulnerable creatures, plus a variety of red and white spells for creature suppression. He created a mid-game lock with the only blue card in his deck, Zur's Weirding.”

4 Brushland

2 City of Brass

4 Karplusan Forest

2 Mishra's Factory

Artifacts (8)

3 Fellwar Stone

3 Icy Manipulator

Creatures (11)

1 Blinking Spirit

1 Serra Angel

1 Autumn Willow

3 Birds of Paradise

4 Erhnam Djinn

Other Spells (21)

2 Stormbind

1 Icatian Town

3 Swords to Plowshares

2 Wrath of God

1 Zur's Weirding

1 Earthquake

2 Incinerate

1 Lightning Bolt

1 Apocalypse Chime

1 Disrupting Scepter

2 Nevinyrral's Disk

1 Ring of Renewal

1 Serrated Arrows

1 Circle of Protection: Red

1 Energy Storm

1 Reverse Damage

1 Swords to Plowshares

1 An-Zerrin Ruins

1 Dwarven Catapult

Bertrand Lestree, Finalist [ | ]

“Lestrée, a 25-year-old business development strategist from Pantin, France, played the most popular deck type at the tournament, a green-white Armageddon/Erhnam Djinn deck with strong mass destruction capabilities. Lestrée's most interesting playing quirk was his constant use of extra life (mostly from Ivory Tower and Zuran Orb) to draw extra cards with his Sylvan Library.”

1 Havenwood Battleground

4 Strip Mine

Artifacts (6)

2 Fellwar Stone

Creatures (14)

2 Order of Leitbur

2 Fyndhorn Elves

2 Llanowar Elves

2 Spectral Bears

Other Spells (18)

3 Armageddon

2 Sylvan Library

1 Black Vise

2 Abbey Gargoyles

2 Divine Offering

2 Circle of Protection: Green

1 Order of Leitbur

1 Wrath of God

2 Whirling Dervish

Shawn "Hammer" Regnier, Quarterfinalist [ | ]

“Regnier, a 27-year-old comic bookstore owner from Manchester, New Hampshire, played a blue-white Millstone deck with very heavy permission (including 12 counterspells). A former professional arm wrestler, "Hammer" had a very relaxed, conversational style which he used to unnerve his opponents.”

1 City of Brass

3 Mishra's Factory

4 Svyelunite Temple

Other Spells (29)

4 Power Sink

4 Spell Blast

1 Fountain of Youth

1 Abbey Gargoyles

1 Arenson's Aura

2 Circle of Protection: Black

2 Memory Lapse

1 Sea Sprite

Leon Lindback, Semifinalist [ | ]

“Lindbäck, a 20-year-old electrical engineering student from Stockholm, Sweden, played an all-black speed/discard deck. Most noticeable in his deck were four Necropotences which Lindbäck would play early to continually fill up his hand.”

2 Ebon Stronghold

Artifacts (7)

1 Jalum Tome

Creature (11)

4 Hypnotic Specter

3 Knight of Stromgald

4 Order of the Ebon Hand

Other Spells (19)

1 Dance of the Dead

1 Dark Banishing

4 Dark Ritual

4 Drain Life

4 Hymn to Tourach

4 Necropotence

1 Soul Burn

1 Safe Haven

1 Meekstone

1 Ashes to Ashes

1 Stromgald Cabal

George Baxter, Quarterfinalist [ | ]

“Baxter, a 23-year-old author (of several Magic strategy books) from Dallas, Texas, played an almost all-black speed/burn deck. Baxter included enough red mana to support direct damage and just enough green mana to play with four Erhnam Djinns.”

3 City of Brass

3 Karplusan Forest

1 Lava Tubes

2 Sulfurous Springs

Artifacts (3)

2 Barbed Sextant

Creatures (19)

1 Ihsan's Shade

4 Knight of Stromgald

2 Sengir Vampire

Other Spells (15)

4 Lightning Bolt

2 Dark Banishing

2 Ihsan's Shade

3 Red Elemental Blast

2 Tranquility

Preston Poulter, Semifinalist [ | ]

“Poulter, a 22-year-old chemistry graduate student from Irvine, California, played a variation of the tournament's prevalent green-white decks. With only nine creatures in his deck, Poulter used Aelopiles and Hurricanes for creature suppression and direct damage.”

2 Havenwood Battleground

2 Strip Mine

1 Nevinyrral's Disk

Creatures (10)

2 Autumn Willow

3 Elvish Archers

1 Spectral Bears

Other Spells (17)

2 Armageddon

3 Disenchant

2 Hurricane

1 Sylvan Library

1 Fellwar Stone

1 Armageddon

1 Disenchant

2 Reverse Damage

2 Essence Filter

Mark Justice, Quarterfinalist [ | ]

“Justice, a 25-year-old card shop owner from West Walley City, Utah, played a red/artifact control deck with a touch of white for Balance and Swords to Plowshares. The creatureless deck used Winter Orbs to lock down the opponent until the direct damage could finish them off.”

4 Dwarven Ruins

Artifacts (20)

1 Elkin Bottle

4 Howling Mine

4 Icy Manipulator

3 Winter Orb

3 Serrated Arrows

2 Eron the Relentless

3 Pyroblast

See also [ | ]

• World Championship Decks
• www.magiclibrarities.net
• Warhammer 40,000 Commander Decks
• Holiday Release
• Fallout Commander Decks
• Assassin's Creed
• Final Fantasy
• 1 Outlaws of Thunder Junction/Commander decks
• 2 Outlaws of Thunder Junction
• 3 Outlaws of Thunder Junction/The Big Score