Catalan Vintage league 2009 breakdown

LCV5 - Metagame breakdown

HI ALL,

After 13 tournaments the 09 edition of CVl has finished, Alex delgado won the final tournament with Steel city vault (top coming soon I hope).
Thanks to Grr!!, we have some interesting information about the metagame which i thought it could be interesting for you, here you have all the stadistic information about our league, I think it can be useful for you and hope you enjoy it.

LCV5 - Metagame breakdown

LCV5 - Metagame breakdown

Tournament winners:

* January 2009, Badalona: David Pla with U/R Stacks
* February 2009, Badalona: Gerard Siles with Merfolks
* March 2009, Barcelona: Toni Garcia with Manaless Ichorid
* April 2009, Badalona: Carles Miñón with Tezzeret Slaver
* May 2009, Cabrera de Mar: Rubén González with Drain Tendrils
* June 2009, Badalona: Marc Sanz with Tezzeret Slaver-less
* July 2009, Berga: Miguel Angel Rodríguez with Mono Blue Tezzeret
* August 2009, Badalona: Joan Anton Mateo with Noble Fish
* September 2009, Badalona: Roger Lladó with ANT (transformist side into Oath)
* October 2009, Badalona: Israel Muñoz with U/R Stacks
* November 2009, Lloret de Mar: Alex Delgado with Steel City Vault
* December 2009, Help by playing: Wette with The Perfect Storm
* December 2009, Final LCV5: Alex Delgado with Steel City Vault
* Winner of the regular ranking: Carles Miñón

Attendance:

* Number of different players LCV09: 190, -6,9% than in LCV08 (204).
* Number of played decks: 810. An average of 4,26 tournaments per player (4,4 in LCV08)
* Attending to all tournaments it has been enough with an average of 8,4 points per tournament in order to be classified for the final (8,9 in LCV08)
* 10 players attended to all tournaments, all of them were classified.
* From the total number of players:
- 10 have attended all tournaments (all them classified by ranking)
- 13 have attended all -1 tournaments (12 were classified for the final)
- 5 have attended all -2 (4 classified)
- 13 have attended all -3 tournaments (6 classified)
- 9 have attended all -4 (1 classified by winning one tournament, no one classified by ranking)
- The rest have not attended 5 or more tournaments (6 classified for the final by winning a tournament)
* Decks unpowered: 143 from 810. Average: 17,7% which was 19,5% in LCV08.
* 81 players from LCV08 have not played during 09, new 67 players have appeared.

Finalists

* 39 players were classified for the final, 37 in LCV 08
* 18 were not classified for the 08 final, the other 21 were also in the final last year.
* 87 players have been classfied for some of the LCV finals (for some of the 5 editions).From those 87, 4 have been classified for the 5 finals: Pablo Ambrojo, Wette, Xavier Hurtado i Xavier Muntada.

Decks

* Top 10 more played decks:
1: Tezzeret Control, 81 participations, 10,9 average points per tournament, 13 Top 8s
2: U/W Fish, 57 participations, 9,6 average points, 4 Top 8s
3: Drain Tendrils, 46 participations, 11,9 average points, 14 Top 8s
4: Manaless Ichorid, 33 participations, 10,5 average points, 5 Top 8s
4: Oath, 33 participations, 10,5 average points, 5 Top 8s
6: Bomberman, 25 participations, 9,8 average points, 1 Top 8
7: The Perfect Storm, 22 participations, 10,5 average points, 1 Top 8
8: Noble Fish, 22 participations, 10,4 average points, 5 Top 8s
9: ANT, 22 participations, 9,4 average points, 2 Top 8s
10: Remora Tendrils, 20 participations, 7,8 average points, 0 Top 8s

* More efficient deck: Tezzeret Slaver, played 10 times, 14,9 average points, 3 Top 8s, 1 win
* Worst deck: U/R Landstill, played 9 times, 5,3 average points
(only taking into account decks played more than 5 times)

* Top 5 decks that have Top 8ed:
1: Drain Tendrils, 14 times
2: Tezzeret Control, 13 times
3: U/R Stacks, 7 times
4: Manaless Ichorid, Aggro MUD, Oath & Noble Fish, 5 times

* Top 5 most played unpowered decks:
1: Manaless Ichorid, 33 participacions, 10,5 points, 5 Top 8s, 1 win
2: U/W Fish, 17 participacions, 7,3 points
3: Mana Ichorid, 14 participacions, 9,7 points, 2 Top 8s
4: Merfolks, 8 participacions, 7,9 points
5: Monoblack, 8 participacions, 5,6 points

(restrictions conditionated this stats)

Most played cards

* Top 10 lands:
1687 Island
1487 Polluted Delta
1288 Flooded Strand
1168 Underground Sea
1091 Wasteland
699 Volcanic Island
496 Swamp
432 Tolarian Academy
427 Tundra
382 Tropical Island

* Top 10 creatures:
592 Dark Confidant
337 Goblin Welder
311 Ninja of the Deep Hours
285 Meddling Mage
267 Sage of Epityr
237 Tarmogoyf
236 Narcomoeba
204 Golgari Grave-Troll
204 Stinkweed Imp
202 Trinket Mage

* Top 10 non-creature spells:
2254 Force of Will
1151 Mana Drain
677 Thirst for Knowledge
649 Duress
627 Mox Sapphire
617 Black Lotus
586 Ancestral Recall
584 Null Rod
554 Mox Jet
539 Mox Pearl

* Top 10 sideboard cards:
1037 Tormod's Crypt
978 Pithing Needle
440 Yixlid Jailer
411 Relic of Progenitus
410 Hurkyl's Recall
401 Extirpate
339 Leyline of the Void
302 Red Elemental Blast
299 Duress
255 Energy Flux

* Top 10 lands played in more decks:
Island in 575 decks
Polluted Delta in 553
Flooded Strand in 517
Tolarian Academy in 433
Undergound Sea in 402
Strip Mine in 329
Wasteland in 304
Library of Alexandria in 296
Volcanic Island in 249
Swamp in 201

* Top 10 creatures played in more decks:
Yixlid Jailer in 207 decks
Inkwell Leviathan en 188
Dark Confidant en 159
Darksteel Colossus en 134
Sundering Titan en 133
Razormane Masticore en 124
Goblin Welder en 116
Gorilla Shaman en 103
Tarmogoyf en 99
Ingot Chewer en 97

* Top 10 non-creature spells played in more decks:
Mox Sapphire in 627 decks
Black Lotus en 617
Ancestral Recall en 586
Force of Will en 564
Mox Jet en 554
Mox Pearl en 539
Mox Emerald en 527
Brainstorm en 523
Mox Ruby en 516
Time Walk en 516
Tormod's Crypt en 516

* Mana Drain decks: 308 (38,0% of the metagame)
* Null Rods decks: 191 (23,6% of the metagame)
* Dark Rituals decks: 94 (11,6% of the metagame)
* Mishra's Workshop decks: 88 (10,9% of the metagame)
* Ichorid decks: 51 (6,3% of the metagame)

* Top 8ed Mana Drain decks: 43 (41,3% from the Top 8 decks)
* Top8ed Null Rod decks: 20 (19,2% from the Top 8)
* Top8ed Mishra's Workshop decks: 15 (14,4% from the Top 8)
* Top8ed Ichorid decks: 8 (7,7% from the Top 8)
* Top 8ed Dark Rituals decks: 6 (5,8% from the Top 8)