Deck Superlative Awards: Final Fantasy

It’s time for the start of a new series: Deck Superlatives! For this series, we’re giving 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.

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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, which had a whopping 5 mythic rares, 3 normal rares, and a handful of good uncommons to boot:

A couple of runners-up in this category:

• shyuhe’s WR deck with 3 mythics and 6 rares
• This 5-color Wandering Minstrel deck with 1 mythic and 9 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 mateo with this deck, which was the only deck to trophy with just two uncommons and the rest commons:

There were three runners-up with just three uncommons each:

• This WB deck by uvacpa
• Cosmic__Walrus’s UR deck
• Help’s WU deck

Time Vault

The Time Vault award goes to the grindiest trophy deck - the one that trophied with the most turns played. The winner is kurisu who played a staggering 132 turns with this BR deck across its nine games, including three 20-turn games!

A couple of runners-up in this category:

• Contagion85’s UB deck playing 122 turns
• This WU deck by pcii12 playing 118 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 three decks that trophied with a neighborhood win rate of 74%:

This rareless UR deck by Chord_O_Calls:

This low-curve UR deck by Nope:

This WR equipment deck by ChaoticReaper2:

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 cftsoc with this UB+ deck that managed to trophy despite its nearest neighbors having a win rate of just 35%:

The runner-up in this category is Darcanis with this BR deck that trophied with a neighborhood win rate of 38%.

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 The Land Haver with this BGw deck with a distance of 6.56 to the nearest trophy deck.

The runners-up in this category are the following two 5-color decks, which are both 6.48 away from the nearest trophy deck:

• This deck by Lexabombtastic
• This deck from TheCrypticCommand