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Frank Karsten’s November 12 breakdown of all 128 World Championship 32 Standard registrations puts Boros Pixie first with 24 players, or 18.8% of the field. It was absent from his comparison of 1,810 decklists from Arena Championship 13 and two Magic Spotlight: Fracture events. All 24 Worlds pilots registered four copies of The Naked Time. That is evidence of a shared construction choice, before a single Worlds match has been played.
The Star Trek Saga gives the deck a burst of speed. Its first chapter fetches a Mountain, and its second rewards deploying cheap fliers on the same turn. Karsten illustrates an opening with Momo, Friendly Flier, a copied Sage of the Skies and Nurturing Pixie that can attack for 14 in the air on turn three. Pixie can return the Saga before its final chapter; Torch the Tower gives the deck a different way to use the enchantment as a resource. In longer games, a warped Starfield Shepherd can find Pixie and be returned for later use. This is a different application of the Saga from the Krenko token combo.
The rest of the room offers a useful check on the headline. Selesnya Landfall brought 19 players to Mono-Green Landfall’s eight, with Erode the main reason for the white splash. Dimir Control rose from below 1% in the comparison data to ten registrations here. Izzet Spellementals went from 7.5% to zero, and Jund Sacrifice registered only seven pilots.
For coverage viewers and players testing Standard, the field makes fast flying starts and landfall worth preparing for. It cannot tell us whether Pixie has a positive matchup spread or whether this mix will persist. The Worlds field is a small invitational cohort, and decklists were due one day after Star Trek arrived on Arena. Match results will answer a different question from these registrations.
The Star Trek Saga gives the deck a burst of speed. Its first chapter fetches a Mountain, and its second rewards deploying cheap fliers on the same turn. Karsten illustrates an opening with Momo, Friendly Flier, a copied Sage of the Skies and Nurturing Pixie that can attack for 14 in the air on turn three. Pixie can return the Saga before its final chapter; Torch the Tower gives the deck a different way to use the enchantment as a resource. In longer games, a warped Starfield Shepherd can find Pixie and be returned for later use. This is a different application of the Saga from the Krenko token combo.
The rest of the room offers a useful check on the headline. Selesnya Landfall brought 19 players to Mono-Green Landfall’s eight, with Erode the main reason for the white splash. Dimir Control rose from below 1% in the comparison data to ten registrations here. Izzet Spellementals went from 7.5% to zero, and Jund Sacrifice registered only seven pilots.
For coverage viewers and players testing Standard, the field makes fast flying starts and landfall worth preparing for. It cannot tell us whether Pixie has a positive matchup spread or whether this mix will persist. The Worlds field is a small invitational cohort, and decklists were due one day after Star Trek arrived on Arena. Match results will answer a different question from these registrations.
Original source: Magic World Championship 32 Standard Metagame Breakdown ↗Magic.gg