Red Bull Untapped Week of Wings Entry Event Thursday Flight Decklists and Metagame

The Red Bull Untapped tournament series is almost coming to a close, as now 15 of the 16 players that will participate in the grand finals have been decided via competitive qualifier events throughout the past several months. The final spot will be decided through the Week of Wings, consisting of 15 free-to-enter daily events, held from Monday to Friday, on both Standard and Historic formats. If you are interesting in participating, visit the official page for more information here.

Players who earn four wins in these entry event flights will proceed to the next stage of the qualifier on the weekend for their share of the $35,000 total prize pool. In this series of articles over the next five days, we will cover the metagame data and standout decklists from each of the flights.

Metagame

Yorion is taking over the tournament in various forms – Azorius, Abzan, Bant, Esper, Jeskai, Orzhov, Selesnya and even Four-Color variations. This has meant that various midrange and control strategies such as Golgari Adventures and Rakdos Midrange are having a hard time keeping up with the value created by the Bird Serpent. At least Kroxa is keeping the Dimir strategies in check, which are still prevalent in the metagame despite having more 80 card decks to mill showing how pushed the synergies were over the past few sets.

Flight 1

Archetype	# of Decks	% of Field	% Win Rate
Dimir Rogues	28	15.4696%	48.5149%
Mono-Red Aggro	18	9.9448%	55.5556%
Rakdos Midrange	17	9.3923%	47.0588%
Gruul Adventures	16	8.8398%	58.0645%
Dimir Control	10	5.5249%	51.4286%
Temur Ramp	10	5.5249%	51.1628%
Azorius Yorion	8	4.4199%	48.2759%
Esper Doom	7	3.8674%	40.9091%
Jeskai Control	7	3.8674%	53.3333%
Dimir Mill	6	3.3149%	46.1538%

Flight 2

Archetype	# of Decks	% of Field	% Win Rate
Dimir Rogues	19	14.2857%	56.7568%
Gruul Adventures	16	12.0301%	53.2258%
Mono-Red Aggro	12	9.0226%	46.1538%
Azorius Yorion	9	6.7669%	45.7143%
Temur Ramp	8	6.015%	62.963%
Esper Doom	7	5.2632%	39.2857%
Dimir Mill	6	4.5113%	41.6667%
Abzan Yorion	5	3.7594%	40%
Jeskai Control	4	3.0075%	75%
Azorius Control	4	3.0075%	69.2308%

Flight 3

Archetype	# of Decks	% of Field	% Win Rate
Dimir Control	14	8.0925%	42.8571%
Dimir Rogues	14	8.0925%	60.3175%
Azorius Yorion	12	6.9364%	56.8966%
Dimir Mill	11	6.3584%	53.1915%
Esper Doom	11	6.3584%	65.1163%
Gruul Adventures	10	5.7803%	34.375%
Temur Ramp	10	5.7803%	40.9091%
Rakdos Midrange	10	5.7803%	52%
Mono-Red Aggro	10	5.7803%	54.0541%
Golgari Adventures	8	4.6243%	30%

Decklists

Below are the decks that represent each unique archetype that got 4 wins or better to proceed to the next stage of the tournament. For the full metagame and decklists, please visit the MTG Melee pages below:

• Week of Wings Entry Event Thursday Flight 1
• Week of Wings Entry Event Thursday Flight 2
• Week of Wings Entry Event Thursday Flight 3