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Affinity Modern Performance Last Fortnight

1 requestsStarted 9/14/2025, 3:15:37 PM
What's the best performing Affinity list in Modern in the last 15 days

I'll help you find the best performing Affinity lists in Modern over the last 15 days. Let me gather the data for you.

🛠️QueryBest Modern Deck Performance in Late August September
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Based on the tournament data from the last 15 days, here are the best performing Affinity lists in Modern:

Top Performance Highlights

Best Individual Results:
Robert Hayes - 2nd place at SCG CON Orlando (5-0-1, 100% winrate)
Bugsy69 - 3rd place in Modern Challenge (5-1-1, 83.3% winrate)
russell_wilson - 2nd place in Modern Challenge (4-1-0, 80% winrate)

Current Affinity Performance

Overall winrate: 45% (72-88-15 record, excluding mirrors)
Meta presence: 3.86% of top 8 appearances but 0 tournament wins
39 tournament entries tracked in the 15-day period

Standard Affinity Core (100% adoption)

4x Mox Opal - The deck's engine
4x Urza's Saga - Construct generation + artifact tutoring
~4x Mishra's Bauble - Free artifact for metalcraft
4x Kappa Cannoneer (97% adoption) - Primary threat
4x Thoughtcast (97% adoption) - Card draw engine

Key Variations

Cranial Plating builds (56% adoption) - More aggressive beatdown
Emry builds (23% adoption) - Grind-focused with recursion
Galvanic Blast (28% adoption) - Removal package

The most successful lists appear to be running the standard artifact suite with Kappa Cannoneer as the primary win condition, supported by Shadowspear (92% adoption) and Lavaspur boots (90% adoption) for protection/evasion.

Sources

Data from 19 tournaments: 84.2% MTGO, 15.8% Melee. Recent events include https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/modern-challenge-32-2025-09-0812813585, https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/modern-challenge-32-2025-09-0712813574, https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/modern-challenge-32-2025-09-0712813570.