{"id":798,"date":"2026-03-02T01:29:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T06:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/?p=798"},"modified":"2026-03-02T01:29:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T06:29:51","slug":"cardmarkets-quest-for-the-best-deck-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/cardmarkets-quest-for-the-best-deck-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"CardMarket&#8217;s &#8220;Quest for the  Best Deck Ever&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2023, CardMarket launched a series on their YouTube channel where they played only the winning World Championship decks against each other. This is a little different than the tournaments we do here, but it&#8217;s close enough that we included the results in our data. The main difference is that several of the World Championships were held at the beginning of a block cycle, when the card pool was not at its largest. Often, although not always, the decks from the summertime, when the card pool is largest, are a little stronger than the decks from the fall. But it was still an interesting exercise. Results shown below. The way they did it is they did a swiss portion, then cut to top 8. They didn&#8217;t share their swiss portion results, so all we have is the top 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winner: 2018 Hazored (Worlds)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2nd place: 2017 Temur Energy (Worlds)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"805\" height=\"407\" src=\"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2023-CardMarket.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-799\" srcset=\"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2023-CardMarket.png 805w, http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2023-CardMarket-300x152.png 300w, http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2023-CardMarket-768x388.png 768w, http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2023-CardMarket-128x65.png 128w, http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2023-CardMarket-32x16.png 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2023, CardMarket launched a series on their YouTube channel where they played only the winning World Championship decks against each other. This is a little different than the tournaments we do here, but it&#8217;s close enough that we included the results in our data. The main difference is that several of the World Championships [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tournament-bracket"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brandonpatton.com\/magic\/ultimatestandard\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}