Episode 234: PT Barcelona Takeaways: What Happened, What it Might Mean

This week Dave, Shane, and Stan go through the biggest things we learned from the Modern PT last week in Barcelona. It might feel like Rakdos and Tron led the story (and they did) but there's a lot of other things to be learned from what happened. What do we think about The One Ring's win rate? How many decks out of the top 80% of the meta had winning records? How much more can we talk about Rhinos? The answers and what we think they mean might surprise you.

• Only 10 Decks Had 50%+ Win Rate
• The One Ring Might Not Be Broken
• But Grief Probably Is

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Timestamps:
3:52 - Stan reps Heavy Play
5:28 - Housekeeping
7:33 - Headlines from the Modern Pro Tour
9:39 - 1: Rakdos was everywhere (and also won)
22:21 - 2: Five decks made up the top 57% of the meta
31:30 - 3: Tron is ... good. Right?
43:15 - 4: The less-represented decks were Not Good
50:02 - 5: Small Sample Size Theater
54:34 - 6: Only 10 deck archetypes had a 50+% winrate
56:15 - 7: The most popular cards might not have been the best
1:04:35 - 8: The top 32 had 13 different decks
1:09:12 - 9: The top 8 was stacked
1:12:34 - 10: What's next for Modern
1:20:48 - Does the PT impact Casual Spikes?
1:24:13 - Wrapping up

Links from this week's episode:
The decks of the Pro Tour: https://melee.gg/Tournament/View/16429

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