See what Pavel and co. played to make the top cut at the Spanish invitational.
Coming at the tail end of the Karazhan Standard, the GameGune metagame was all but expected. Midrange Shaman was present in every single line-up of the top eight finalists, with Druid and Warrior following closely with 7/8 representations each. With the tournament played in a single ban Bo5, the class diversity was also notably small with Paladin, Priest, Rogue and Hunter missing from the playoffs entirely, meaning only five classes were actually played in the last stage.
Barely any innovation was observed either and the only left-field deckbuilding was showcased by Stanislav Cifka. The Czech not only played a RenoLock instead of the much more popular Zoo, but had peculiar twists on his other decks, too, including a [card]frigid snobold[/card] instead of [card]malygos[/card] in his Druid, no old gods in his Control Warrior and just a single [card]thunder bluff valiant[/card] in his Midrange Shaman. Cifka’s unorthodox line-up got him undefeated through the group stage, only to be stopped by eventual champion Pavel Beltukov.
Full list of the decks used can be found below, with more available in our deck archives.
AKAWonder
Ekop
Maverick
Pavel
StanCifka
