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The Tier 3 Decks

In addition to all these decks, there were some cute Tier 3 decks that had potential to top if piloted by a strong player. Like a Turbo Fog deck utilizing Dynavolt Tower as a finisher, RG Energy aggro decks utilizing Longtusk Cub and Voltaik Brawler as powerful and efficient beaters, and RG Energy which used efficient 3 drops that replaced themselves to serve as sacrifice fodder for Elder Deep-Fiend, a powerful Tempo threat that can gain wins all by itself.

RG Energy would eventually go on to become a tier 1 deck in its own right months later when it becomes Temur Energy, and like Mardu Vehicles, many of its pieces that made it so scary are still in the format. It’s only downside is that it loses hard to Emrakul, as Emrakul can make you burn all your energy at inopportune times and didn’t have any answer to emrakul since it wasn’t yet splashing blue. Now Energy does have incredibly mana flexibility with both Attune with Aether and Aether Hub, so I could see a Temur midrange energy deck seeing play to counter Temur Aetherworks. It does lack the overwelming power of Aetherworks, but it also doesn’t lose to any of aetherwork’s counters. In fact, Temur Energy may have a unique niche as the one deck in the format with no hard counter at all. This was what cemented it to Tier 1 status months later, when it was able to ignore the artifact hate for Mardu vehicles and punch through control decks with Bristling Hydra.

Now, UR Emerge and Temur Emerge did see strong play at the top of the format during Pro-Tour Kaladesh. But the format was very new and as someone who played a lot of Emerge themselves around that time, it is very glass cannon. It relies on a number of A + B combos that don’t have as high of a ceiling as Aetherworks and are far more fragile and vulnerable to interuption. So as a combo deck, it relies on an incredibly skilled pilot to work out the ins and outs of the list and fine-tune it for your dedicated metagame. It also suffers from the fact that it loses to all the same hate-cards being brought in to deal with Aetherworks marvel, being a combo deck that uses colorless eldrazi spells as your finishers.

I myself tried to make up UR Emerge’s fragility with Fevered Visions, though Temur Emerge would see a bit more potential, utilizing many of the same tricks as BG Delirium to recover resources and trying for a more mid-range combo strategy. Though this version of things suffered from the fast that it lost to both Aetherworks hate and delirium hate.

A Historic Moment

Now, the reason I have thoroughly explained all the intricate diversities of this format is not for no reason. But rather, to correct a common complaint I saw about this format when it was alive and even still to this day by veterans, that this was some unhealthy Tier 0 format. That BG Delirium and Temur Aetherworks were the only good decks and everything else lost to it all. It’s just not true. Yes, these two decks were the BEST decks, but they were not the only decks. In fact, at the end of Pro-Tour Kaladesh, there was only 1 representative of each deck in the top 8.

In my opinion, this was one of the greatest formats in magic’s history, and I would like to petition for magic players to take a page from YGO and give this format another shot.

In YGO, many historic formats from their past have been revisited, much to the fanfare of the players. Formats like GOAT, Edison, and Fire/Water have all been replayed again and again, with new decks and new strategies born from it all. Strategies that never even got a chance to shine in their old days have new eyes put on them and given a chance to really stake their mark in the format.

As I have hinted at in my discussion, both Mardu Vehicles and Temur Energy have the necessary pieces needed to fight against BG Delirium and Temur Aetherworks. The mountains of White decks allow for so much creativity just by relying on Gideon as a powerful anchor. The diversity of Control decks with dozens of different threats and answers. It’s a truly unique format

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Pro-Tour Kaladesh Format is Amazing

Pro Tour Kaladesh is my favorite standard format ever. It’s incredibly diverse, very complicated and suprisingly low power despite having such amazing bombs. This is a format where a 1/2 that makes a clue is one of the strongest cards in the format, sitting next to a literal eldritch titan that warps sanity and threatens to destroy the format.

It is because of that particular Eldrazi, Emrakul the Promised End, that people bemoan this format, but the thing about Emrakul, is that at the highest level of play, people were prepared for her, and there was a LOT of available hate.

But before we get into the hate, we should explain Emrakul and why she was so powerful.

Emrakul, the Boogie-Thing

Emrakul is a 13/13 for 13 mana that costs 1 less to cast for each card type in your graveyard. As a cast trigger, so before she even enters the battlefield, she creates a lingering effect that at the end of your turn, you get to steal your opponent’s turn. Cast their spells, attack with their monsters, draw from their deck. Then, at the end of that turn, your opponent gets a free turn to do whatever they can with their new resources. She also has Flying, Trample, and Protection from Instants, meaning instant cards cannot target her or deal damage to her. Or block, but WotC hasn’t given us an Instant that can attack or block… yet.

Now, because Tribal wasn’t getting printed, and Battles don’t exist yet, the maximum number of card types you can get in your graveyard is 7, meaning the cheapest you can get her out at is 6 mana. Or 4 if you’re an aetherworks deck.

Y’See, there were two different schools of thought when it came to Emrakul, and those ideas came to blows with the final match of Pro-Tour Kaladesh. Black-Green Delirium or Temur Aetherworks.

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