The Pro Tour Secrets of Strixhaven Top 8 is set, and the Standard meta has flipped on its head. Sunday's finals at MagicCon: Las Vegas kick off at 10am PT, which is 6pm BST for anyone on this side of the Atlantic. Five of the eight pilots are running Landfall, the mechanic that triggers ability payoffs whenever a land enters play. That was not the deck people expected to see five times.
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Find events near youThe headline upset is what didn't make it. Izzet Prowess came in as the heavy meta favourite at 30 percent share and posted a flat 50 percent win rate across Day 1, with zero representatives surviving to Sunday. The format ate the favourite alive and Landfall ate everything else.
Christoffer Larsen, who took the trophy at Pro Tour Lorwyn Eclipsed back in February, is one of three Selesnya Landfall players in the bracket alongside Nathan Steuer (who went 8-0 on Day 1) and Mono-Green Landfall pilots Stefan Schütz and Matthew Stefansson. Larsen is now hunting back-to-back Pro Tour wins, which has only been done a handful of times in MTG history.
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See how it worksRui Zhang takes the lone Izzet slot in Top 8 with an Izzet Lessons brew, his first ever Pro Tour Top 8. The remaining slots go to Matt Nass on Selesnya Ouroboroid, Maxx Kominowski on Izzet Spellementals and Zevin Faust on Azorius Tempo, the only blue-white deck to break through.
If you've got Sunday evening free, coverage is on Twitch and the Play MTG YouTube channel. And if watching the world's best Magic players reminds you that you've been meaning to find a regular Magic group, see who's playing locally and pull a few people together for Friday night.
Sources: Magic.gg Day Two | Magic.gg Top 8 | Pro Tour Viewer's Guide
