I’ll be covering all rarities and all card types in this article, as well as the possible financial impact of HOU on Frontier cards. Now that I’ve introduced you to my sample sizes, let’s take a look at how Ixalan could and has impacted Frontier this season. It’s still a little too hard to guess which decks will come out on top, but with an ever increasing number of participants, the metagame is getting better and better. Saheeli Combo decks seem to be about even with Bant Company decks, but Rally decks are nowhere to be seen. Control has a solid foothold in the 36 person, season 2 tournament currently going on, and there is also a solid number of red based aggro decks vying for the top 8. The online metagame of the Untap League is a little bit different from the one in Tokyo, but not by much. The format is incredibly deep now, and there are dozens of playable choices if you’re looking to get into it. Considering just a few seasons ago control was non-existent, It’s amazing to see how well its done for itself. When it comes down to consistency, aggro decks might have the slight edge, but control has an incredible amount of answers to deal with various parts of the meta game. If you add those to the top 16, you have 7 control decks, 3 Aggro, and 5 Combo decks. In reality, it was 2 aggro decks in the top 8, a burn deck, 3 Combo decks, and 2 control decks. While aggro gained the upper hand in the top 8, you only need to look as far as the top 16 to see how close control was to taking over. The tournament scene continues to be strong (but not great), with 72 players attending this recent event. If you want to read over the results, you can find them here. Lucky for me, Hareruya’s 10th Frontier Challenge happened last weekend in Tokyo and it gave me a lot of data to work from on top of the league information. Before I had to make guesses myself or use data from small tournaments to evaluate cards, but with the league it’s become a lot easier. Today, I’d rather talk about how the Untap Frontier League has been a boon for helping me to put together this article about Ixalan’s impact on the format. There are tons of details to get into as to how to use the software, but I’ll have to leave that for another day. Also, just to be clear, Untap is for various types of CCGs, not only Magic the Gathering, and it can run all formats. That all changed when I was introduced to Untap by the organizer of the Frontier Untap League. Without these web based software programs, there was literally no way for me to fire up a game other than real life. I’ve been a fan of Frontier forever, but I don’t have a new enough computer to run Cockatrice, and MTGO isn’t on Mac OS. Other browsers such as Internet Explorer, Edge, and Opera will most likely have broken features as we don’t have the time to fully support them. Offically we only support the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari. You can fund by clicking on your account panel in the top right corner. We are community funded and rely on your help to keep going. No downloads, installations, or plugins required! Welcome to UnTap.in, the multiplayer CCG deck tester you can play in your web browser! UnTap runs completely in your browser. Quoting from their website (explains it best. While I haven’t really had a chance to put the beat down on anybody in Nagoya other than store staff (I was the only person showing up recently), what’s kept me going in Frontier has been the introduction of the Untap Online League. I was actually planning on writing another article on Frontier before writing this one, but due to the amount of time I have to put into the other one, this seemed a lot easier. It could end up doing very well and develop a following like EDH has, or become just another footnote like Tiny Leaders. Please keep in mind that these are merely exploratory articles and that the Frontier format is still trying to find its footing. I hope to do at least an article each month with updates on the format, results, as well as the current status of its popularity. In these articles I plan on follow the results from tournaments, talk about viable decks in the format, as well as powerful cards. “A New Frontier” is a new series of articles based around the recently created MTG format that uses only cards with the new border from the M15 set and onward.
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