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Goryo Reanimator Tournament Performance Analysis

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Goryo Reanimator Performance & Matchups

Overall Winrate (Last 60 Days):

  • 51.2% winrate (256-244 record, excluding mirrors)
  • 1,119 tournament entries across 34 tournaments
  • Currently a Tier 2 archetype with solid but not dominant performance

Key Matchup Analysis:

Favorable Matchups:

  • vs Jeskai Control: 100% (5-0) - Excellent matchup
  • vs Boros Energy: 65.3% (47-25) - Strong advantage
  • vs Rakdos Scam: 100% (2-0) - Limited sample but perfect record

Even Matchups:

  • vs Domain Zoo: 51.7% (15-14) - Essentially even

Deck Core:

  • Atraxa, Grand Unifier (4.0 avg) - Primary reanimation target
  • Goryo's Vengeance (4.0 avg) - Key enabler
  • Psychic Frog (4.0 avg) - Support threat/enabler
  • Force of Negation (2.9 avg) - Protection

The deck shows strong game against control and midrange strategies but struggles more against faster combo decks and aggressive strategies that can pressure early.

Sources:
Data from 71 tournaments: 88.7% MTGO, 11.3% Melee. Recent examples: Modern Challenge 32, Modern Challenge 64, Modern Challenge 32