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.
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: