Cheers everyone. I find some of these responses a little odd, in that I'd expect that "true competitors" wouldn't really care about the hybrid playstyle if the deck is good. But then again, Vintage is a weird format and people don't always just want to play what's good, so maybe you're right.

Thieves has now top 8’d both SCGCon and Eternal Weekend, but only makes up 1% of the online meta (according to Mtgtop8). What’s going on here? Why is the deck not getting played in any real numbers, despite putting up very solid results?

Eternal Central's got a full breakdown of the EW decks. I was curious about White Eldrazi, as @diophan and @ChubbyRain have it lumped together with Unpowered. Here's what I found:

• Unpowered Jacodrazi: 12
• Unpowered White: 5
• Powered White: 5
• Powered Colorless: 1

Does anyone who's better at math/less of an idiot than me wanna calculate win percentages for the various archetypes? I'd love to know how White Eldrazi did overall, but don't wanna attempt the numbers and post something incorrect.

(On a semi-related note, I went 6-4 and will have a tournament report up one of these days. The deck performed fine; I was happy with some of my choices while there are changes I'll be making. In short, though, I think White Eldrazi is a solid choice nowadays.)

*Edit: maybe spoke too soon. No White Eldrazi decks went better than 6-4, as far as I can see.

@stuart said in North American Eternal Weekend 2018 Metagame Breakdown:

Amazing work! Thank you guys so much for doing this.

Annoying question: do you have a sense of the Jacodrazi vs Powered split in the “Eldrazi” category? Jacodrazi seems like a deck that was there because it’s affordable, while you’d have to make a specific meta call to play Powered Eldrazi.

Update: Eternal Central is a wonderful resource. For those curious, they show 23 Eldrazi decks (as opposed to the 22 listed above). They break down into:

• Unpowered Jacodrazi: 12
• Unpowered White: 5
• Powered White: 5
• Powered Colorless: 1

I'm not a stats guy and don't wanna falsely report match win percentages, but my impression is that there were some high-performing unpowered decks, but lots of poor performances (which shouldn't be surprising, if there were lots of pilots who never play Vintage and threw the deck together for the hell of it). Powered White seemed solid, would love to know the overall win percentages.

Amazing work! Thank you guys so much for doing this.

Annoying question: do you have a sense of the Jacodrazi vs Powered split in the “Eldrazi” category? Jacodrazi seems like a deck that was there because it’s affordable, while you’d have to make a specific meta call to play Powered Eldrazi.

Great report, and congrats on the run!

This week I'll be writing an (unnecessary) tournament report about my 6-4 finish, and also recording a podcast about the event and thoughts on the meta. But long story short:

• On the ground Vintage felt pretty solid.
• I've been one of those Shops apologists who's spent the past couple years saying people need to build/play better against Shops, and it feels like we're finally reaching the point where people are doing that to very good results.
• Paradoxical Outcome can be a pretty unfun card/deck to play against - if we could restrict it while not grossly changing the meta, I'd like to see it restricted - but it's seemingly contributed to a much more balanced Vintage.
• Great, great, great event. Thanks to all my opponents for some good matches, my buddies for traveling with me, and anyone else I got to say hi to!

And here we are with the first-place playmat! This one's for all you Staxxxy motherfuckers:

Any chance we can merge these threads?

Also, leaving for my flight in like an hour. See yall bright and early. Apologies in advance for the coffee breath.

Yeah, the Revised ones are the highlight, though Arcbosch Ravager and the dual/fetches are also amazing. Great work!