Modern Tavrod

Managed to squeeze my way into Masters with this one after quite a few days back and forth in Diamond 1.

Tavrod and Bartholo are as strong as they ever were, and the win condition is usually one of those left unmolested for a couple of turns. The deck's performance is unfortunately pretty uneven, which I think is an inevitability for anything with this many weapons in it, but it'd do better if there were worthy Argenport gunslingers to put in place of Hojan and Rhysta. Maybe in the new set.

If you can win the early board with an Instigator or Bartholo into Hideout Pistol, things tend to snowball from there, but there's a bad tendency for Hojans to get hit with Snowballs and things rapidly go downhill from there. I was surprised how often Blackhall Warleaders get 2+ tokens and stick if they survive turn 2; I was less surprised how rarely Yisha survives for more than the same turn in which she's played, to the point that I never actually managed the Yisha + Tavrod + super-weapon combo. Mostly, Yisha was providing me with 7/7 Tavrods and 5/5 Platemakers and little else.

Does well against mid-range and Stonescar, and has surprisingly decent odds against Rakano; if they can't Bulletshaper ramp sufficiently then Bartholo tends to be finishing the game even as Icaria drops in. It can struggle against Skycrag, both the faster types that can dodge removal with Aegis and go under Pristine Light, and super value-heavy decks like Howling Peak.