MagicFest Nagoya 2019 Top 8 Decklists and Metagame Breakdown

MTG Arena Zone
December 9, 2019
News

MagicFest (or formerly known as Grand Prix) Nagoya is one of the two Standard MagicFest tournaments on this weekend (the other in Lyon), with a total of 1755 competitors gathered in Japan. Thanks to the coverage team at MTG Japan, here we have the top 8 decklists and the metagame breakdown of the tournament.

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Top 8 Decklists

Azorius Control makes its way to the top again in a sea of Oko decks, following another strong result by edmvyrus in his run in the Mythic Championship VII Qualifier last weekend.

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Source: https://mtg-jp.com/coverage/mfnag19/decklist/0033312

Day 2 Metagame Breakdown

339 players made the second day of the Grand Prix out of the 1755 and perhaps not surprisingly, more than half of the decks were based on the Oko Food decks. The expected second tier decks are there in full force, with Azorius Control and Temur Reclamation being the breakout decks in recent times.

Deck Archetype	Number of Decks	% of Decks
Sultai Food	127	37.5%
Simic Food	58	17.1%
Golgari Adventures	19	5.6%
Jeskai Fires	17	5.0%
Temur Reclamation	16	4.7%
Gruul Aggro	12	3.5%
Azorius Control	11	3.2%
Jund Aristocrats	10	2.9%
Other	69	20.4%

The other 20% of the metagame consisted of the following deck archetypes:

Deck Archetype	Number of Decks	% of Decks
Rakdos Aristocrats	8	2.4%
Selesnya Adventures	8	2.4%
Rakdos Knights	8	2.4%
Esper Control	8	2.4%
Bant Food	7	2.1%
Simic Flash	6	1.8%
Mono Black Aristocrats	4	1.2%
Izzet Control	3	0.9%
Grixis Fires	3	0.9%
Mono Black Aggro	2	0.6%
Four-Color Fires	2	0.6%
Four-Color Aristocrats	2	0.6%
Mono Red Aggro	2	0.6%
Sultai Food Flash	1	0.3%
Grixis Aristocrats	1	0.3%
Grixis Control	1	0.3%
Mono Blue Dredge	1	0.3%
Temur Food	1	0.3%
Jund Adventures	1	0.3%