Pro Quest Singapore Week 4 has wrapped. A meta game without Aurora, Shooting Star is something many people have been eagerly lamenting, eagerly awaiting, and all the feelings in between. We've got the run down on which heroes performed best from this week's results compared to past weeks.
With Aurora hitting Living Legend due to Week 3 results, we're at a real marked absence of a meta defining aggro deck.
As such, everyone is registering their pet decks alongside the meta toppers this weekend, and for the final PQ next weekend. With the new set on the rise, as I've said in the past, the desire to innovate might be on the decline.
Pro Quest Singapore Week 4
Summer's Fall
Despite my past predictions about both Earth heroes being the stand out heroes, it's clear that the new king of Candlehold is now king of the meta game. Verdance, Thorn of the Rose and ajv001-rf-jarl-vetreidi-armory-deck-origins-jarl-vetreidi-precon have made results, but not quite to the numbers that I or other commentators of the game were expecting.
Florian, Rotwood Harbinger is achieving the majority of the weekend's wins, but only a fraction of Aurora's numbers. While many will be dooming about the deck that unironically gets to play Looming Doom, his win rate is about as strong as it has always been this season.
There are other decks that have risen up to match the Earth Runeblade, and while his meta dominance is clear, it's not as dominant as other decks that have existed this season.
Intimate Inducement
Nuu, Alluring Desire is maintaining her spot as the second best performing deck this weekend, and my personal pick for what to play if I had played Pro Quest Singapore Week 4.
A skilled Nuu pilot can easily navigate the Florian matchup in a way to reasonably threaten fatigue, even without registering Count Your Blessings.
Comparing Nuu to the other higher performing decks, she has a reasonable matchup into Kano if she's able to run Arcane Barrier 3, which should be the done thing against Florian playing Scepter of Pain and Channel the Millennium Tree.
Other than Prism, Awakener of Sol Nuu has a reasonable matchup into the other top decks if she is able to consistently land disruption multiple turns in a row.
Thanks to this weekend's wins, she's secured herself 3rd place on the Living Legend leader board, with 900 points, as of the time of this article being published. She would need to win more than 33 Pro Quests this weekend to leave the format, which is deeply unlikely, but with Nationals hot on the heels of the release of High Seas, we can probably see her leave the game by the middle of the summer.
Seek and Destroy
The original Ranger being in the meta game top spot was not on my bingo card. I was there during Week 2 in London, when Jacob Clements won at Spellbound Games playing Azalea, Ace in the Hole, but to see her as the third best performing deck is a welcome surprise.
Azalea's place at the top of the metagame makes total sense. The best deck going right now only attacks intermittently, and is comfortable playing and choosing Peace with Warmonger's Diplomacy. That lack of repeatable threat is enough time for the Ranger to find Judge, Jury, Executioner and fill it with so many pump effects that the game is set to end decisively after four turns, far quicker than Florian can get online.
These wins have secured Azalea at the second spot on the leader board. Another hero not especially likely to leave during the final week of Pro Quest, but her leaving the format will have some wider implications for High Seas. Marlynn has been speculated to do some particularly strong effects with the additional draw effect with Death Dealer. When Azalea goes, she takes her bow with her. The new Ranger is set to have strong enough kit on her own, but the powerful plays may be lost to the seas if Azalea leaves the format.
Spark of Genius
It's deeply surprising to see Dash, Inventor Extraordinaire take so many wins during Pro Quest Singapore Week 4.
Dash has truly struggled to find a deck identity after the banning of High Octane. If anyone were to play this particular Mechanologist, or aggressive Mechanologist in general, then they should probably just play aio001-dash-io-armory-deck-dash-io-precon.
There's no published decks for random Pro Quests across the world, but if I had to guess, the 6 Dash, Inventor Extraordinaire winners were all ones that played akin to the list that came third in Battle Hardened Dublin. The extreme fatigue deck that pairs Plasma Mainline with the "Pistol Exodia" package of Teklo Plasma Pistol, Induction Chamber, and Plasma Purifier. By turning multiple Blues into a great deal of damage, alongside effective blocks and Count Your Blessings.
Wrap Up
After the success of Andrew Rothermel at Battle Hardened Minneapolis, we even see a good number of Warrior heroes making wins. Not quite the same numbers as Assassins or Illusionists combined. The presence of Guardian and Brute on Pro Quest Singapore Week 4's results.
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