Breaking Down the Pro Teams of Pro Tour: Eldritch Moon Day 1

Day 1 of PT: EMN is in the books and as expected, many of the pro “superteams” performed quite well. I threw together a quick visualization breaking down each pro team's performance:

Led by Yuuya Watanabe (whose induction into the HoF was announced at lunchtime) the Japanese team Cygames paced the field with a 68.75% win rate. Cygames is actually quite small for a superteam, at only 4 players, and Yuuya himself went 7-1, so they may be benefiting from having a smaller team there; one outlier such as Yuuya can really drag up their win rate.

Switching the match filter to constructed reveals something interesting – team Face to Face sure seems to have a good handle on the constructed format, posting an dominant 70% win rate. Quite impressive considering the number of players on their team. If F2F can sustain this performance in Day 2, it will be very interesting to take a look at their “team decks.” Perhaps they found an edge in the format?

Team Ultra Pro/CFB meanwhile, are struggling in the constructed format. Shockingly for a pro team with so many proven and consistent performers, their win rate is below that of the field at large. Team member Sam Black mentioned in coverage that he thinks his deck is very poorly positioned in the metagame that was revealed today, so perhaps the team as a whole has whiffed on their read this rotation?