Specifically, 63% of the decks being played at MTG’s Mythic Championship 6 are Food decks, with Sultai Food, Simic Food, and Bant Food being the three most-played decks at the tournament. This is truly a staggering percentage of the metagame, and it makes one thing perfectly clear: Oko, Thief of Crowns is an extremely powerful Magic: The Gathering card.
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Indeed, a primary incentive to play one of the aforementioned Food strategies is Oko, but these are not the only decks at Mythic Championship 6 that are playing the Thief of Crowns, as Sultai/Four-Color Sacrifice, Temur Planeswalkers, Bant Ramp, and Simic Adventure/Quasiduplicate are all playing the powerful Planeswalker in the maindeck. Additionally, a number of Simic Flash decks are playing Magic: The Gathering’s Oko, Thief of Crowns in the sideboard at the event.
All total, this means that 69% of the decks at MC6 are playing Oko, making the Thief of Crowns the third most-played non-land card at the tournament. As many fans would expect, the event’s other top cards are Oko’s supporting cast in Food-based strategies, with MTG’s Once Upon a Time, Gilded Goose, Wicked Wolf, and Paradise Druid rounding out the list of the five most-played cards at Mythic Championship 6.
With respect to the Oko-less decks being played at MC6, Golgari Adventure is the strategy with the highest representation, taking 6.7% of the metagame share. From there, decks like Jeskai Fires, Temur Reclamation, and Azorious Control are all being played at a rate of around 2.5-4%, and there are a smattering of other strategies that are represented at under 2%. While these players deserve some commendation for shirking MTG Food decks for Mythic Championship 6, only time will tell if they are able to overcome a field so heavily dominated by the Thief of Crowns.
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Source: Wizards of the Coast
