The results of Grand Prix Miami have signaled a changing of the guard. Naya Aggro decks have been on the rise for weeks and now are in second place for total Top 16 finishes in the last month. Reanimator is still alive and kicking in third place, however. Five Top 16 finishes in Miami has propelled Bant Auras into a close fourth.

Here are the Top 16 decks from Grand Prix Miami.

Decks worth Noting:

• The first-place Jund Midrange deck includes two Ruric Thar, the Unbowed in the sideboard.
• The tenth-place Bant Auras deck includes two copies of Spell Rupture in the main deck and one in the sideboard.
• The twelfth-place Naya Midrange deck includes two Aurelia, the Warleader in the main deck and two Ruric Thar, the Unbowed in the sideboard.

Here’s a look at the most-played cards in the Top 16 decks of Grand Prix Miami.

Voice of Resurgence saw a whopping forty-one copies played in eleven of the Top 16 decks. Avacyn's Pilgrim wasn’t far behind and had a home in many of the same lists.

In this section, I shine the light on cards that were included in a Top 16 deck last weekend but have seen little to no play in Standard Top 16 decks prior to then.

Mending Touch appeared in three of the five Bant Aura Top 16 decks in Miami and is a sideboard card against Jund Midrange and against decks with Supreme Verdict.

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New Reanimator strategies have been popping up on Magic Online the last week or two. Here is Bant Reanimator with Forbidden Alchemy, Supreme Verdict, and Alchemist's Refuge. Here is an Esper version with Sorin, Lord of Innistrad, Syncopate, Sphinx's Revelation, and Far // Away. Four-colored Reanimator decks are pretty common now, but this one plays Luminate Primordial and Heartless Summoning in the main deck and Sepulchral Primordial in the sideboard. Finally, there have been several Humanimator decks of late, including this one with Vizkopa Guildmage and Obzedat's Aid and this one with Cathedral Sanctifier and Jarad's Orders.

There is a new Blood Artist deck taking shape online, a variant of the Junk Varolz decks that have been finding a lot of success lately. The deck runs Cartel Aristocrat and an assortment of easily sacrificed creatures. Three copies of Immortal Servitude provide an opportunity to restock the battlefield for cheap since none of the creatures cost more than 2. Grisly Salvage is a four-of in the deck to help dig and to set up the graveyard. This version of the deck includes a couple copies of Tracker's Instincts as well as four Deathrite Shamans to provide additional graveyard choices.

Thundermaw Hellkite was once the scourge of Standard and is making a comeback in a variety of decks, including The Aristocrats alongside four Falkenrath Noble, UWR Midrange with everybody’s favorite flashy Angel, Naya Midrange with Aurelia and Domri Rade, and Jund with Gyre Sage and Ghor-Clan Rampager.

Nivix Cyclops has seen some success online: In this UWR deck, it joins Snapcaster Mage, Guttersnipe, and twenty-eight instant and sorcery spells. This more recent version includes Geist of Saint Traft.

That’s it for this week’s article on Grand Prix Miami. Join me next week as I continue tracking the metagame and highlighting the cards and decks played in Standard. Thanks for reading!

Nick Vigabool

@MrVigabool