Episode 135: Modern ManaTraders and Metagamers

This week we do a deep dive into some STATS. We look at the big ManaTraders event from last weekend - what decks made it to the swiss, and how did they perform? We even get a tournament report from the one host who qualified! Following that, we take a look at the evolving Modern metagame from the last 3 weeks of tournament data to see how the format is shaking out. The Break Down: Historic What? The Dive Down: Crashing ManaTraders The Dive Down, cont: Hammer Seems Good Become a citizen of The Dive Down Nation!: http://www.patreon.com/thedivedown Get 15% off your first 2 months of ManaTraders! https://www.manatraders.com/?medium=thedivedown and use code "thedivedown2021" Timestamps: 2:31 - Housekeeping 3:35 - The Break Down begins - Historic Changes are Afoot! 15:15 - The Historic Horizons leak 28:45 - The ManaTraders Modern Event 30:50 - The ManaTraders Modern Meta 44:44 - The MT Top 8 51:40 - Fighting HammerTime 53:40 - Stan's Footfalls Tournament Report 1:08:57 - A Look at the Competitive Modern Meta 1:17:15 - Looking More Closely at the Top Modern Decks 1:31:40 - What's Not at the Top? 1:34:35 - Takes on the Meta 1:41:40 - Closing Ou Links from this week's episode: Bamzing's ManaTraders breakdown: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModernMagic/comments/oqhs4y/manatraders_series_modern_decklists_july_2021/ WIll Krueger's HammerTime writeup: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13NtaEE5xyhElk68kxcI9XYteWw6Je-hlXzik64otj3U/edit Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? Watch us stream our episodes every Sunday night at 8pm Central: https://www.twitch.tv/thedivedown_shane email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown