The current Major Magic: the Gathering tournament this weekend is the Mythic Championships on the Historic format. This is an exclusive Magic Arena format and I think this is the first time to a major event level that this was held. It is currently being streamed on Wizard’s Twitch channel and also got the text coverage via Twitter on their Magic the Gathering Esports account.

The top tier decks in the format somewhat reflect that of Standard. To be specific, Jund is one of the people’s decks of the choice and the majority of its components are the same as the Standard version prior to the banning of the cat combo. Other decks are Mono Black Gifts, Rakdos Sacrifice, Goblins, and Mono-Green Ramp. Goblins is probably the most aggressive archetype in this metagame.

As of this posting, the upper bracket finals was between Gabriel Nassif’s Jund Sacrifice and Luis Salvatto’s Rakdos Arcanist and Nassif emerged as the winner in a close matchup with a lot of sacrifice triggers resolved. I personally liked the Rakdos Arcanist deck, which have dominated the preliminary rounds in the first and second day of the tournament.

The conclusion and final day of the Historic Mythic Invitational will be done tomorrow so stay tuned on their coverage channel. You can check the postings here.

It was sleepless nights for me recently as I watched the coverage of the recently concluded Mythic Championship V streamed on Twitch. The format was the new Standard and could be the basis of another possible banning of a new card, according to the rumors online. It was a fun and exciting coverage as the casters did their role well in detailing every gameplay and match in the digital Arena, in the Magic Arena platform.

The pattern in bracketing of the Top 8 was also patterned similar to that of most E-Sports tournaments and though I am not quite familiar I liked the concept of the winners and losers bracket, giving more chance to the players to come back from their first loss.

The FInals was between Golos Ramp deck and the straightforward Red Green Aggro. It was an exciting matchup but the final game was quite swift as the Golos player had no answer to the Embercleaved Gruul Spellbreaker which quickly ended the life to zero points.

Congratulations to Javier Dominguez for another Champion finish. Here below is his winning decklist on Gruul Aggro:

Maindeck
23 LANDS
10 Forest
9 Mountain
4 Stomping Ground

28 CREATURES
4 Bonecrusher Giant
4 Gruul Spellbreaker
2 Kraul Harpooner
3 Paradise Druid
4 Pelt Collector
4 Questing Beast
3 Skarrgan Hellkite
4 Zhur-Taa Goblin

9 SPELLS
3 Collision / Colossus
4 Once Upon a Time
2 Embercleave

SIDEBOARD
3 Domri’s Ambush
3 Lovestruck Beast
2 Redcap Melee
1 Shifting Ceratops
2 Shock
2 Thrashing Brontodon
2 Veil of Summer

In the meta of guild-based decks in Ravnica Standard, it was the Mono-Blue Tempo deck that went triumphant and got the championship title of the tournament. It was under the hands of Autumn Burchett which she majestically outlast the other 498 players of the event. All of her Top 8 matchups were iconic and I witnessed the “comeback is real” thing.

Here below is the Mono Blue decklist:

Creature (17)
4 Siren Stormtamer
4 Pteramander
1 Mist-Cloaked Herald
4 Merfolk Trickster
4 Tempest Djinn

Sorcery (2)
1 Chart a Course
1 Entrancing Melody

Instant (18)
4 Opt
4 Dive Down
3 Spell Pierce
2 Essence Capture
1 Negate
4 Wizard’s Retort

Enchantment (4)
4 Curious Obsession

Land (19)
19 Island

Sideboard (15)
1 Essence Capture
3 Negate
3 Entrancing Melody
1 Island
1 Disdainful Stroke
3 Surge Mare
2 Deep Freeze
1 Jace, Cunning Castaway