Here are the top 8 deck archetypes and MTG Grand Prix Taipei champion

Taipei hosted the largest Magic: The Gathering Grand Prix tournament the city has ever seen this weekend and Kim Seok Hyun won the $35,000 prize pool with a Bant Ramp deck.

With over a 1,000 MTG players showing up to MagicFest in Taipei and competing in the $35,000 Grand Prix Standard tournament, Hyun edged out the competition and the most popular archetype deck brought to the event. Playing a Bant Ramp deck, Hyun relied on Hydroid Krasis to overpower Atsuki Kihara’s Esper Superfriends Control deck.

Gruul Midrange dominated the archetype popularity contest, but not a single player who brought it to the Grand Prix in Taipei ended up in the top eight.

Here are the top eight finishers and their deck archetypes at the Magic: The Gathering Grand Prix in Taipei.

• First place: Hyun playing Bant Ramp
• Second place: Kihara playing Esper Superfriends Control
• Third place: Teruya Kakumae playing Boros Feather
• Fourth place: Shota Takano playing Jund Warriors
• Fifth place: Ruey Jer Yeh playing Grixis Bolas
• Sixth place: Kazuki Yada playing Simic Nexus
• Seventh place: Yuya Sugiyama playing Bant Ramp
• Eighth place: Du Xuetong playing Grixis Bolas

Of all the archetypes in the top eight, Boros Feather is the most surprising. Kakumae and his unique Feather build could revive a deck many thought would never evolve past tier-two status.

Here’s Kakumae’s Boros Feather deck:

Main deck

• Four Adanto Vanguard
• Four Tenth District Legionnaire
• Four Dreadhorde Arcanist
• Three Legion Warboss
• Four Feather, the Redeemed
• Dire Fleet Daredevil
• Ajani, Adversary of Tyrants
• Three Sheltering Light
• Four Shock
• Four Reckless Rage
• Two Gideon Blackblade
• Four Defiant Strike

Sideboard

• Three Prison Realm
• Two of Ixalan’s Binding
• Three Tocatli Honor Guard
• Two Dire Fleet Daredevil
• Two Ajani, Adversary of Tyrants
• Two Lava Coil
• Demystify

As for the champion of the MTG Taipei Grand Prix, here’s Hyun’s winning Bant Ramp deck:

Main deck

• Four Llanowar Elves
• Four Paradise Druid
• Four Incubation Druid
• Three Hydroid Krasis
• Two Frilled Mystic
• Two Shalai, Voice of Plenty
• Four Teferi, Time Raveler
• Four Nissa, Who Shakes the World
• Three Mass Manipulation
• Two Entrancing Melody
• Finale of Glory
• The Immortal Sun
• Time Wipe

Sideboard

• Two Entrancing Melody
• Two Negate
• Two Trostani Discordant
• Two Ripjaw Raptor
• Two Tolsimir, Friend to Wolves
• Two of Ixalan’s Binding
• The Immortal Sun
• Thrashing Brontodon

The next Magic: The Gathering MagicFest and Grand Prix tournaments are in Copenhagen and Washington D.C. from June 14 to 16. Both Grand Prix events will be played in the Limited format.