Mythic Championship VI Richmond
| Mythic Championship VI Richmond | ||||
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| Date | November 8-10, 2019 | |||
| Location |
 Richmond, USA | |||
| Attendance | TBA | |||
| Format | Standard Constructed and Throne of Eldraine Booster draft. | |||
| Prize pool | $500,000 | |||
| Winner | TBA | |||
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Mythic Championship VI, or Mythic Championship Richmond 2019, will take place on November 8-10, 2019, in Richmond, USA.[1]
Format
Standard Constructed and Throne of Eldraine Booster draft.
With the schedule running three Mythic Championships in Standard over three months, the metagame was not expected to be particularly different between them - however, testing for Mythic Championship V showed that the power cards made for a difficult balance. Field of the Dead was banned just after the event, which opened up the format for conventional control decks, but Oko, Thief of Crowns supplying Food to Wicked Wolf and Gilded Goose; making all opposing creatures 3/3s against the endless stream that Nissa, Who Shakes The World also creates; and the consistency boost of Once Upon A Time made the Simic deck the easy frontrunner, which was easily seen already at MCV. With Once Upon A Time giving effectively 10 card hands to look for Pelt Collector in Gruul, Edgewall Inkeeper in Adventures, and smoother mana overall, the metagame was tilted far more to green than any color in any format for years, enough that Noxious Grasp made for a respectable maindeck card.
Course of events
Day 1
Draft 1: Mike Sigrist goes 3-0 with Red/Green; featured drafters Jessica Estephan and Shahar Shenhar went 2-1 with Mono-White and Blue-Black respectively.
The metagame for Standard painted a poor picture for the health of standard; more than 1300 copies of Oko, Thief of Crowns, Once Upon A Time, and Gilded Goose were registered - the total proportion of Oko decks was at 70%, a dominance that was never before seen, even in the world of Mirrodin's Affinity and Hogaak at Barcelona. Sultai Food was most popular, for the black anti-planewalker decks, at 37%, with straight Simic and Bant following at 19% and 7% respectively. The first two non-Oko archetypes were both green, going under with Golgari Adventures (6.7%) and over with Temur Reclaimation (4.2%), and the first two non-green decks being Jeskai Fires of Invention (4.2%) and Azorius Control (2.4%).
The top eight players after day one:
| Rank | Player | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eli Kassis
|
24 |
| 2 | Brad Nelson
|
24 |
| 3 | Maxwell Mick
|
21 |
| 4 |  Stefano Vinci
|
21 |
| 5 | Austin Bursavich
|
21 |
| 6 |  Christian Hauck
|
21 |
| 7 | Dylan Lerch
|
21 |
| 8 | Sam Sherman
|
21 |
Day 2
TBA
Day 3
TBA