Hello, and welcome back to Metagame Mentor, your weekly guide to the top decks and latest Constructed developments on the path to the Pro Tour. Through November 3, the current round of Regional Championship Qualifiers (RCQs) features Modern as the Constructed format for in-store events. This RCQ round enables competitive Modern players to qualify for their corresponding Modern Regional Championship in early 2025, which ultimately feeds into the second Pro Tour of 2025.
The Modern format was recently shaken up by the August 26 ban of Nadu, Winged Wisdom and Grief. Two weeks ago, I provided a format primer based on the first week of Modern tournaments after the ban, explaining the game plans, key cards, and metagame positioning of the top fifteen deck archetypes. Since then, we've had two more weeks of Modern events, including several destination qualifiers. Today's article will detail the evolution of the metagame and highlight some spicy combo decks that have found success this month.
The Modern Metagame in September 2024
Modern is a nonrotating 60-card format that allows cards from expansion sets, core sets, and straight-to-Modern sets from Eighth Edition forward. To understand the evolution of the metagame, I focused on decklists published between September 3 and September 17. My analysis combined 704 decklists from scheduled Modern events on Magic Online and 886 decklists from Modern tournaments on Melee.
The biggest tournament was Friday's $10,000 RCQ at SCG CON Tampa, a destination qualifier that awarded eight Regional Championship slots. Having risen to the top of a field of 235 competitors, Ivan Espinosa ultimately took it down with Eldrazi Tron, defeating Corey Baumeister on Grinding Breach in the finals.
To understand what decks to expect at the top tables of Modern tournaments, I awarded points to each deck in my data set equal to its rectified number of net wins. Each archetype's share of total rectified net wins can then be interpreted as its share of the winner's metagame, combining popularity and performance into a single metric.
The "Other" category included Domain Rhinos, Golgari Soultrader, Samwise Gamgee Combo, Izzet Murktide, Four-Color Omnath, Rakdos Shadow, Belcher, Dimir Control, Mono-Blue Artifacts, Rakdos Soultrader, Izzet Wizards, Merfolk, Grixis Frogtide, Golgari Midrange, Domain Valakut, Infect, Naya Energy, Izzet Lutri, and more.
Overall, the metagame is strikingly similar to the one from a few weeks ago, so Modern seems to be evolving slowly. This means that my format primer from two weeks ago remains a valuable introduction to Modern for the RCQs. The biggest change over the past two weeks was that Gruul Breach lost a lot of ground as many Boros Energy players adopted Obsidian Charmaw in their sideboards.
In addition, there were several other notable developments:
- Many successful Ruby Storm players have switched from green to white. This means sacrificing Veil of Summer as a sideboard option, but Static Prison and Silence are superior against the hate cards that most opponents would board against you. For example, Static Prison is an exceptional answer to cards like Magebane Lizard.
- Eldrazi Tron sideboards now typically contain more copies of Haywire Mite and The Stone Brain, which can help against Ruby Storm.
- Gruul Eldrazi lists with Emrakul, the Promised End now typically include more copies of Devourer of Destiny in their main decks. In addition, many have added Soulless Jailer and Magebane Lizard to their sideboards to improve against Ruby Storm.
- Many successful Living End players have added control cards, putting Flare of Denial in the main deck and Commandeer in their sideboard. Having a blue creature to sacrifice for Flare of Denial isn't trivial, but you can generally sacrifice Shardless Agent or Curator of Mysteries after your first Living End, and you can even evoke Subtlety in an emergency.
- Most Esper Goryo's decks have embraced the package of Emperor of Bones and Ulamog, the Defiler, shaving Leyline Binding to make room. If Emperor of Bones puts Ulamog, the Defiler onto the battlefield from exile, then Ulamog will count itself as a 10-mana-value exiled card, becoming a hasty 17/17 with annihilator 10. That's a game-winning combination.
As has been the case for months, the most-played card in Modern is The One Ring. In my data set over the past two weeks, a concerning 48.0% of the field included at least one copy of The One Ring in their main deck or sideboard. While the card is powerful, it is beatable. For example, Consign to Memory is an efficient answer, and Gaddock Teeg is rising in popularity. Furthermore, cards like Bonecrusher Giant and Fear, Fire, Foes! have been adopted to circumvent the damage prevention part of The One Ring's protection trigger. While no one has been playing Notion Thief, Runeflare Trap, Insult // Injury, or Hit // Run just yet, the Modern card pool provides plenty of sweet ways to turn the tables on The One Ring. You just have to look for them.
In terms of decks to beat, the energy decks with Guide of Souls and Amped Raptor remain most prominent. Indeed, Boros Energy, Mardu Energy, and Jeskai Energy comprised 29.7% of the winner's metagame over the past two weeks. These decks combine aggressive creatures with efficient interaction, with an overall card quality that supersedes other midrange decks. However, there are still ways to beat them. Pyroclasm and Suncleanser have established themselves as formidable sideboard cards, and many fast combo decks have good matchups. Ruby Storm, for example, is favored against Boros Energy. It's fast and generally unfazed by their interaction in game one.
However, Ruby Storm is vulnerable to sideboard hate, and as the most prominent combo deck in Modern, it is starting to get more and more targeted. So to attack the current Modern metagame, it might be worth looking for an alternative combo deck that opponents may not be ready for. Fortunately, with a card pool as deep as Modern, there's an abundance of options, and they come with the element of surprise.
For example, I discussed Primal Prayers and Gruul Woodland four weeks ago, and I covered Amulet Titan and Grinding Breach two weeks ago. Grinding Breach in particular seems to be doing well against Boros or Mardu Energy. But going deeper, let's take a look at more fringe combo decks that remain under the radar despite having shown promising success at Modern tournaments this month. If you love combo, then perhaps you'll get an idea for a spicy new deck to pick up. In any case, it's always useful to familiarize yourself with their game plans so you know what to expect in your RCQs.
Twiddle Breach
4 Consider
3 Consign to Memory
3 Deserted Temple
4 Dream's Grip
3 Expedition Map
4 Hidden Strings
3 Island
4 Lotus Field
1 Meticulous Archive
2 Otawara, Soaring City
4 Preordain
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Sink into Stupor
4 The One Ring
1 Tolaria West
2 Twiddle
3 Underworld Breach
4 Vizier of Tumbling Sands
4 Wish
4 Defense Grid
2 Drannith Magistrate
3 Into the Flood Maw
2 Strix Serenade
1 Temporary Lockdown
1 Thassa's Oracle
1 Tome Scour
1 Underworld Breach
Twiddle Breach, also known as Twiddle Storm or Lotus Field Combo, uses Twiddle, Dream's Grip, Hidden Strings, and Vizier of Tumbling Sands to repeatedly untap its permanents. When untapping The One Ring, you can quickly rack up activations and churn through your deck. When targeting Lotus Field, you're netting lots of mana. Ultimately, after grabbing Tome Scour from the sideboard with Wish, you can set up a loop with Underworld Breach. Tome Scour yourself twice, then cast Twiddle on Lotus Field once. Each loop is mana-neutral, requires you to exile nine cards from your graveyard, and mills ten cards. Ultimately, after going through your entire library, you can Wish for Thassa's Oracle to win the game.
This deck can race Boros and Mardu Energy, and it doesn't care about their Galvanic Discharge or spot removal. Moreover, an opposing copy of The One Ring doesn't interfere with its game plan. This suggests that it's a well-positioned strategy in the current Modern metagame. Although it's vulnerable to Damping Sphere or Magebane Lizard after sideboard, the list includes Sink into Stupor, Into the Flood Maw, and Wish as suitable answers. NathanOfTheGiltLeaf recently won a Modern Challenge on Magic Online with the deck shown above.
Golgari Soultrader
3 Birthing Ritual
3 Bloodghast
3 Bloodstained Mire
4 Boggart Trawler
1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
2 Chthonian Nightmare
4 Flare of Malice
4 Gravecrawler
4 Marionette Apprentice
4 Orcish Bowmasters
2 Overgrown Tomb
1 Phyrexian Tower
4 Polluted Delta
3 Spymaster's Vault
4 Stitcher's Supplier
4 Swamp
1 Underground Mortuary
4 Unearth
4 Warren Soultrader
1 Zulaport Cutthroat
1 Accursed Marauder
3 Fatal Push
4 Fulminator Mage
1 Haywire Mite
2 Reclamation Sage
2 Soulless Jailer
2 Toxic Deluge
Golgari Soultrader features a three-card creature combo: With Warren Soultrader, Marionette Apprentice, and Gravecrawler on the battlefield, you sacrifice Gravecrawler to Warren Soultrader, creating a Treasure at the cost of 1 life. You then sacrifice the Treasure to cast Gravecrawler from your graveyard, which you can do because Warren Soultrader is a Zombie. Along the way, since you sacrificed a creature and an artifact, Marionette Apprentice would have triggered twice, resulting in your opponent losing two life. So with each loop, you lose one life and your opponent loses 2. In most scenarios, you can repeat this until you win the game.
The deck features some redundancy for its combo pieces. You can substitute Marionette Apprentice with Zulaport Cutthroat for infinite lifedrain, and you can substitute Gravecrawler for Chatterfang, Squirrel General to go off at instant speed. In any case, since neither Marionette Apprentice or Zulaport Cutthroat target the opponent, this combo loop can win through The One Ring.
It might seem difficult to assemble a three-card combo, especially if Boros/Mardu Energy is disrupting you with Galvanic Discharge. However, thanks to Stitcher's Supplier, Spymaster's Vault, and Birthing Ritual, you will quickly sift through your deck, while Chthonian Nightmare and Unearth can return your combo pieces to the battlefield. Birthing Ritual in particular can sacrifice Bloodghast turn after turn, allowing you to assemble all combo pieces over time. The green splash for Birthing Ritual seems more valuable than a red splash for Goblin Bombardment, and KePs used it to win a recent Modern Challenge on Magic Online.
Samwise Gamgee Combo
4 Amalia Benavides Aguirre
4 Birthing Ritual
2 Blooming Marsh
1 Boseiju, Who Endures
4 Cauldron Familiar
1 Cenote Scout
4 Chord of Calling
1 Concealed Courtyard
2 Delighted Halfling
1 Dewdrop Cure
1 Dryad Arbor
1 Forest
4 Gilded Goose
1 Godless Shrine
1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
2 Orcish Bowmasters
1 Overgrown Tomb
4 Samwise Gamgee
1 Six
1 Swamp
1 Sylvan Safekeeper
2 Temple Garden
1 Underground Mortuary
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Viscera Seer
3 Wildgrowth Walker
4 Windswept Heath
2 Damping Sphere
1 Drannith Magistrate
2 Endurance
2 Fatal Push
1 Gaddock Teeg
2 Haywire Mite
3 Suncleanser
2 Veil of Summer
After Thomas Munk's victory at the Nordic Masters on September 1, his unique creature combo brew has been adopted by several other players, with good success. Hunter Ovington made a few minor tweaks, including the addition of Dewdrop Cure to the main deck and Drannith Magistrate and Gaddock Teeg in the sideboard, taking the deck to a 3rd-place finish at last weekend's NRG Series $10,000 Showdown in Louisville.
The list features multiple different combos. First, it contains the game-winning combo of Amalia Benavides Aguirre plus Wildgrowth Walker, which will be familiar to anyone who has played Pioneer in the first half of this year. Alternatively, you can assemble Samwise Gamgee, Viscera Seer, and Cauldron Familiar for infinite drain. This works even through The One Ring's protection. Thanks to Chord of Calling and Birthing Ritual, you can typically put together one of the two combos, supporting the deck's consistency. There's even some cross-combo synergy: Amalia triggers when Cauldron Familiar enters, providing card selection by exploring, while Samwise Gamgee can return Amalia from the graveyard after she's hit by Galvanic Discharge. Overall, it's an awesome deck.
Naya Energy
2 Aether Hub
4 Ajani, Nacatl Pariah
4 Amped Raptor
2 Arid Mesa
4 Birthing Ritual
1 Commercial District
1 Elegant Parlor
4 Extraction Specialist
1 Forest
3 Galvanic Discharge
4 Goblin Bombardment
4 Guide of Souls
1 Lush Portico
1 Mountain
1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
2 Plains
3 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
2 Renegade Rallier
2 Sacred Foundry
1 Stomping Ground
1 Temple Garden
4 Windswept Heath
1 Witch Enchanter
2 Wooded Foothills
4 Saffi Eriksdotter
1 Stingscourger
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Haywire Mite
2 Magebane Lizard
1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
1 Remorseful Cleric
2 Strict Proctor
2 Suncleanser
2 Veil of Summer
2 Magus of the Moon
1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
Here's yet another Birthing Ritual deck! This one was taken to a 6-2 record by Evan Hughes at Axion Now's MEGA Modern destination RCQ, and it features a spicy combo. To set it up, you first use Extraction Specialist or Renegade Rallier to return Saffi Eriksdotter from the graveyard to the battlefield. Next, use Saffi Eriksdotter's ability on the creature that brought her back. Finally, sacrifice that Extraction Specialist or Renegade Rallier to Goblin Bombardment, dealing one damage to your opponent. Saffi's ability will return that creature, which will return Saffi as well. Loop for infinite damage!
This infinite combo is part of a Naya Energy shell where Amped Raptor helps to assemble the pieces and Ajani, Nacatl Pariah has natural synergy with Goblin Bombardment. You can easily win without the combo, and all cards are perfectly fine on their own. But the potential to combo off provides a new strategic angle to the late game, providing a way to go over the top of an opposing Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury.
Selesnya Heliod
2 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
4 Arbor Elf
4 Auriok Champion
4 Basking Broodscale
2 Boseiju, Who Endures
4 Collected Company
1 Conclave Mentor
2 Forest
1 Haywire Mite
4 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
2 Horizon Canopy
2 Lush Portico
1 Pendelhaven
2 Plains
4 Ranger-Captain of Eos
4 Spike Feeder
4 Temple Garden
4 Utopia Sprawl
2 Verdant Catacombs
2 Walking Ballista
4 Windswept Heath
1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
2 Damping Sphere
1 Gaddock Teeg
2 Soulless Jailer
2 Rest in Peace
2 Suncleanser
4 Veil of Summer
2 Path to Exile
This creature combo deck was taken to a 3rd-place finish at Axion Now's 155-player MEGA Modern event by Philip Railing. Since it doesn't run Gravecrawler, Cauldron Familiar, Cat tokens, or other suitable sacrifice fodder, there is no Birthing Ritual. However, Collected Company helps to assemble the combo pieces consistently enough.
All combos in this deck start with Heliod, Sun Crowned on the battlefield. From there, there are several options. Spike Feeder provides infinite life, as Heliod places a +1/+1 counter when you gain 2 life. Alternatively, Heliod can give a 2/2 or larger Walking Ballista lifelink so that it can ping, regain the +1/+1 counter, and repeat for infinite damage. Finally, a new combo is enabled by Basking Broodscale from Modern Horizons 3: Put a +1/+1 counter on Basking Broodscale, creating an Eldrazi token, which triggers Auriok Champion to gain one life. This prompts Heliod to put a +1/+1 counter on Basking Broodscale, and then you can loop for infinite power, life, and tokens.
Interestingly, this is not the only possible Basking Broodscale combo in Modern—I've also seen Eldrazi decklists using Urza's Saga to grab Blade of the Bloodchief. However, in this Selesnya Heliod shell, Basking Broodscale slots in nicely. You can even exile Walking Ballista with Agatha's Soul Cauldron, granting its ability to Basking Broodscale, and then you can continually adapt it to ping one damage for each mana you have available. Options like these show the depth of the Modern format and that innovation is still possible. Who knows what else might be lurking under the surface?
Belcher
4 Desperate Ritual
4 Disciple of Freyalise
4 Goblin Charbelcher
1 Infernal Plunge
3 Irencrag Feat
4 Manamorphose
4 Pact of Negation
1 Pact of the Titan
4 Pinnacle Monk
4 Pyretic Ritual
4 Recross the Paths
1 Reforge the Soul
2 Ruby Medallion
4 Shatterskull Smashing
4 Strike It Rich
4 Sundering Eruption
4 Turntimber Symbiosis
3 Valakut Awakening
1 Wish
1 Balustrade Spy
2 Force of Vigor
2 Galvanic Discharge
4 Leyline of Sanctity
2 Magus of the Moon
1 Thassa's Oracle
1 Underworld Breach
2 Veil of Summer
Belcher is a combo deck with zero land cards. An activation of Goblin Charbelcher will deal damage to your opponent equal to the number of cards in your library, which is generally enough to win the game. To reach seven mana, the deck uses numerous modal double-faced cards, or MDFCs, alongside a smattering of rituals. For example, after a tapped Valakut Awakening on turn one, you might play Garden of Freyalise untapped on turn two, chain Desperate Ritual into Pyretic Ritual into Irencrag Feat, and win the game with Goblin Charbelcher.
The new untapped MDFCs from Modern Horizons 3 were a major boost for the deck, although consistency remains a concern for a deck built around a single card. Fortunately, Belcher gets to exploit Recross the Paths as a tutor that allows you to stack your entire deck. Since the deck contains zero land cards, you'll reveal your entire library and subsequently order it in any way you desire.
As long as you mulligan towards the namesake card or a way to find it, Belcher is generally fast enough to beat the energy decks. Moreover, it doesn't care about their Galvanic Discharge. While the deck has not put up massive results just yet, it is always seeing some play. Cachorrowo went 5-2 at a recent Modern Challenge with the above list.
Domain Valakut
4 Arid Mesa
1 Boseiju, Who Endures
3 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
1 Elegant Parlor
1 Forest
1 Gemstone Caverns
4 Leyline Binding
4 Leyline of the Guildpact
1 Lush Portico
4 Malevolent Rumble
1 Misty Rainforest
3 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
1 Plains
1 Sacred Foundry
4 Scion of Draco
1 Shifting Woodland
1 Sowing Mycospawn
2 Static Prison
1 Stomping Ground
1 Temple Garden
4 The One Ring
4 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
2 Windswept Heath
2 Wooded Foothills
2 Wrath of the Skies
4 Wrenn and Six
1 Xander's Lounge
1 Zagoth Triome
1 Boseiju, Who Endures
1 Consign to Memory
2 Damping Sphere
2 Nihil Spellbomb
4 Obsidian Charmaw
2 Soulless Jailer
2 Veil of Summer
1 Wrath of the Skies
Boros and Mardu Energy decks are generally ill-equipped to deal with the powerful combination of Leyline of the Guildpact and Scion of Draco. With Leyline of the Guildpact on the battlefield, Scion of Draco can come down as early as turn two and grants every one of your creatures vigilance, hexproof, lifelink, first strike, and trample. This combination slots into various decks, including the Domain Rhinos deck that Nam Dang used to win last weekend's Magic Online Champions Showcase.
However, the Domain Valakut deck that Ginp took to a 2nd-place finish at a recent Modern Challenge has a more combo-centric approach. Leyline of the Guildpact turns every land into a Mountain, which means that Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle can trigger easily, with fetch lands, counting as two Valakut triggers. Thanks to Malevolent Rumble, you can easily find Valakut, allowing you to burn out your opponent.
Esper Martyr
3 Martyr of Sands
2 Sorin of House Markov
4 Solitude
4 Teferi, Time Raveler
4 Brought Back
2 Dovin's Veto
4 Reprieve
4 Wrath of the Skies
4 The One Ring
4 Static Prison
4 Flooded Strand
1 Godless Shrine
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Island
4 Marsh Flats
1 Meticulous Archive
1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
3 Monumental Henge
4 Plains
1 Shadowy Backstreet
3 Windswept Heath
1 Arid Mesa
3 Consign to Memory
2 Dovin's Veto
2 Drannith Magistrate
2 Grand Abolisher
2 Suncleanser
3 White Orchid Phantom
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
The final deck highlight is a control strategy at heart, using Wrath of the Skies to defeat Boros and Mardu Energy, so calling it a combo deck is a bit of a stretch. Still, it's capable of combining two cards to win out of nowhere. First, sacrifice Martyr of Sands and reveal seven white cards, gaining 21 life. This transforms Sorin of House Markov into a planeswalker. Next, activate Sorin, Ravenous Neonate's -1 ability and deal 21 damage to your opponent! It's a sweet way to finish the game. With this list, Oscar Pettersson went 11-4 at the Nordic Masters, finishing in 6th place.
The card from this deck that stands out the most to me is Brought Back. It has not seen much play in Modern, but Pettersson used four copies, and it suits the deck very well. If you play fetch lands on turns one and two, then you can crack both on the same turn and use Brought Back as a double Rampant Growth, providing excellent acceleration. Later on, you can return an evoked Solitude and/or a sacrificed Martyr of Sands for ultimate value. Is Brought Back being slept on?
One way or another, this overview of successful, fringe combo decks suggests that a lot of innovation remains possible in Modern. Whether you like aggro, midrange, control, ramp, or combo—especially combo—there are plenty of great options available in the format.
The Road to Magic World Championship 30
While the ongoing Modern RCQs are a perfect first step in your competitive Magic journey, the World Championship has always been the yearly crown jewel of organized play. As Corbin Hosler and I count down the weeks leading up to Magic World Championship 30 at MagicCon: Las Vegas in late October, each week I've been taking a look at a great deck from a past Magic World Championship.
Although the first 25 World Championships were named after their year, the naming scheme changed to numerals with Magic World Championship XXVI. On February 14, 2020, a field of sixteen players came to Honolulu, Hawaii to compete for $1,000,000 in prizes, including the largest single event prize in Magic history at $300,000 for the champion. It was the first World Championship played entirely on MTG Arena.
In the end, Hall of Famer Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa, a champion of multiple Pro Tours and one of the best to ever play the game, claimed the only title in Magic he had yet to claim.
4 Teferi, Time Raveler
3 Plains
7 Island
2 Mystical Dispute
3 Elspeth Conquers Death
3 Shatter the Sky
4 Absorb
3 Thirst for Meaning
1 Field of Ruin
3 Dovin's Veto
1 Dream Trawler
4 Temple of Enlightenment
4 Hallowed Fountain
1 Castle Vantress
3 Castle Ardenvale
2 Narset, Parter of Veils
4 Omen of the Sea
2 Banishing Light
3 The Birth of Meletis
2 Fabled Passage
1 Archon of Sun's Grace
1 Glass Casket
2 Archon of Sun's Grace
4 Aether Gust
1 Dovin's Veto
2 Mystical Dispute
1 Narset, Parter of Veils
2 Commence the Endgame
2 Cerulean Drake
The Standard metagame at Magic World Championship XXVI featured a variety of decks, including Temur Reclamation, Mono-Red Aggro, Jeskai Fires, and Azorius Control. In this metagame, the winning Azorius Control deck had the right tools to defeat the competition. Teferi, Time Raveler was arguably the best card in the format against Temur Reclamation, while countermagic was the best way to stop Jeskai Fires. Finally, lifegain and sweepers gave the deck what it needed to fight Mono-Red Aggro.
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The basic make-up of the deck is similar to the Azorius/Jeskai Control decks we would see nowadays in Standard, Pioneer, or Modern. Sure, the sweeper of choice in 2020's Standard metagame was Shatter the Sky, whereas we would use Sunfall in today's Standard, Supreme Verdict in today's Pioneer, or Wrath of the Skies in today's Modern. But such a board wipe is a control staple, and three copies is a typical number for control decks even today.
Likewise, the exact choice of countermagic and card draw depends on the card pool, but Damo da Rosa's nine pieces of countermagic and three card draw spells provide an excellent framework. In today's Standard, Pioneer, or Modern, control decks run similar numbers of these types of effects. Another customary strategy is to board in creatures after opponents board out their removal spells, and indeed Damo da Rosa had a pair of Archon of Sun's Grace in his sideboard to pivot. Many control players today employ similar transformational sideboards.
All in all, Azorius Control is a classic deck archetype that transcends formats and decades. Throughout the years, it has been the perfect choice for players who like to say "no" and dictate the pace of the game. All you need is the right mix of spot removal, countermagic, card draw, sweepers, planeswalkers, lands, and sideboard cards. For this, Damo da Rosa's numbers provide an ideal framework to start from. And for Damo da Rosa himself, his victory in 2020 meant everything to him.
Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa, Magic World Champion XXVI
"I started playing Magic when I was 8 years old, and you have no idea how many times I dreamed of this moment," an ecstatic Damo da Rosa said after winning the finals. "I've gotten everything else but this moment, but finally I'm the world champion. Even people who don't play Magic know what that means. It's incredible."
The upcoming Magic World Championship 30 features Standard and Duskmourn Draft, with $1,000,000 in prizing up for grabs. It will be an awesome celebration of competitive Magic and the stories it creates, so don't miss it on October 25–27, 2024. Even if you aren't at MagicCon: Las Vegas to see the action unfold from the sidelines in person, all three days of the event will be broadcast live on twitch.tv/magic as well as on the Play MTG YouTube channel!
