Revolution, June 2024

Cybaros's inaugural season in Revolution is in full swing! This month's tournament, Grand Prix Magdalena Bay, had 16 players bringing decks spanning 10 different archetypes to vie for glory and a coveted World Championship 2025 invite. On the back of RickyRister's win with a multicolored Grand Consonance ramp deck last month a full quarter of the field brought a version of the strategy to battle. Other highlights among the field were a few "Superfriends" planeswalker-heavy decks utilizing some of Cybaros's excellent additions like Illustrious Sheng Fa and Celise, Syndicate Pariah, an evolution of the green-based counters deck adding Decavolt Reactor for more pressure, and a strong first showing for a black-colorless Integrate strategy that wins by stealing its opponent's best cards or through sheer grind with Tithe to the Machine.

While Grand Consonance was the most plentiful ramp/midrange strategy in the tournament, the strategy that found the most success was a Sultai ramp/midrange deck. Two twists on that core faced off in a mirror match of sorts for the finals. Both decks had a strong core of Keeper of the Scale and Marilye, Dreaming Big to get on board early and generate mana to cast a plethora of finisher spells including Hoarding Culebre, Malicious Skycleaver, and Field Test. Where the two decks diverge is on prioritization. Kayiu's build focuses on raw power and mana generation, borrowing Wildcourt Seeker from Consonance lists and playing Vibrant Vengeance to go way over the top with multiple haymakers packed into a single turn. platypeople's build focuses on consistency, saving green for splashing top-end threats and unlocking Undercroft Poisoner as a great early play that also maintains relevance as the game continues.

These two players actually met in the last round of swiss play as well, and in that match for "home field advantage" in the top cut Kayiu won handily. Powerful late-game combos and the inclusion of Xarr of the Eternal Cycle overwhelmed platypeople's threat-lite deck. In the rematch in the finals, however, platypeople's color consistency pulled out the win. A big piece of playtpeople's success in the finals and throughout the tournament was the card Resign to Progress. In this top-heavy metagame the cards in your opponent's decks will almost always generate a ton of value, and you can save the spell for when you've nearly exhausted your first grip of cards so it almost always generates a sizeable amount of card advantage.

Congratulations to platypeople, well fought to Kayiu, and if any of the cards or gameplay described above caught your eye, the best time to join the Revolution is now!

And don't forget to check out this month's Revolution Roundup podcast, going into more detail on coverage for this month's tournament and some sneak peaks on things to come!

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