While I was busy finishing a respectable 3-3 at the April Los Angeles AGE Open the weekend of April 17, the best in Flesh and Blood were competing in Pro Tour: Yokohama.  The Pro Tour would give us 10 swiss rounds of Classic Constructed and 6 rounds of FAB’s newest format, Silver Age (or SAGE).  

PT Yokohama was the first Tier 4 event to feature SAGE.  As card game players know, formats have a tendency to become “solved” once the incentives line up for the best players in the world.  Would our brightest find a new, unexplored best deck (like, Florian, maybe)?  Or would they fall back on the decks that consistently provide the best rate (like Kayo or Briar)?  Before we could get into the weeds of FAB’s newest format, we were treated to five rounds of FAB’s ol’ reliable—Classic Constructed.

DAY ONE

We have existed in this current Classic Constructed metagame relatively undisturbed for some time now.  Most were expecting two decks to show up in the largest numbers: Arakni, Marionette (“Mario”) and Oscilio, Constella Intelligence.