Deck Superlative Awards: Edge of Eternities

It’s time for Deck Superlatives: Edge of Eternities! For this series, we give awards to some Premier Draft trophy decks that wound up on the extreme end of some metrics. This is just meant as a fun way to highlight some interesting decks that were submitted to 17Lands, and not as a way to say that these are the best or worst decks.

For the first three awards, all submitted trophy decks are eligible, so long as they used the same deck list for all their games. For the next three awards, which utilize our similarity search functionality, only decks decks submitted by Patrons are eligible.

MTGA account names are listed for deck owners who have “visible on public pages” selected on their 17Lands account settings page.

Villainous Wealth

The Villainous Wealth award goes to the trophy deck with the most rares. We give a bit of a bump for mythics and an additional small edge to bonus sheet cards. The winner is this deck from marcio, which had 3 lands from the bonus sheet, 2 main set rare lands, and 4 additional rares. It also had a couple of Survey Mechans that took advantage of all those lands several times throughout the event!

The runner up here was no joke either. This BG deck got there with 4 mythics and 4 rares.

Vampire Spawn

The Vampire Spawn award is for the opposite end of the spectrum: the trophy deck with the lowest overall rarity. The winner here is Corvus with this deck, which was the only deck to trophy with just three uncommons and the rest commons:

Several decks were just behind this one with four uncommons each.

Time Vault

The Time Vault award goes to the grindiest trophy deck: the one that trophied with the most turns played. The winner is this UB deck that played a whopping 127 total turns across 9 games. Its shortest win came in at 9 turns!

A couple of runners-up in this category:

• Nintendrake’s WB deck playing 125 turns
• This WU deck by Mythmast3r at 124 turns

Jeskai Revelation

Are these the best decks of the format? Our similarity search feature says they might be… The Jeskai Revelation award goes to the trophy deck with the highest average win rate of the decks in its neighborhood, i.e. the 20 most similar decks. In this case, we had a clear winner: KirbyCool’s BR deck that trophied with a neighborhood win rate of 71.3%:

Runners-up in this category include these two decks with neighborhood win rates of 70%:

• TheBurninator’s UB deck
• hyumon’s UG deck

Epitaph Golem

Conversely, the Epitaph Golem award goes to the trophy deck that played it on hard mode, having the lowest average win rate of the decks in its neighborhood. The winner here is our own fjork3 with this UG deck that managed to trophy despite its nearest neighbors having a win rate of just 36.6%. Only two of its neighbors trophied; the rest had win rates of 50% or lower.

The runner-ups here trophied with neighborhood win rates of just over 37%:

• LightningLike with a UB deck
• A WU deck from Josh_531

Ignoble Hierarch

The Ignoble Hierarch award is for the trophy deck that’s least similar to any other trophy deck we had recorded. The winner is Spaghetti_Knows with this mono-W deck sporting only 14 lands and a distance of 6.56 to the nearest trophy deck.

The runner up here is this UG+ deck from twoduckcubed, 6.16 away from its nearest trophy neighbor.