Excellent post and great insights! P&K are definitely showing up a lot more.

Burn almost always uses Atarka’s Command and Eidolon. Nacatl builds are frequent as well (Command + Boros Charm).

There is a 2nd place list with 2x Pia and Kiran! (Yasunori Baba – Tokyo). Pia &K are loosely seen as an experiment.

Jiachin Tao (Vancouver) made 2nd with an interesting b/w tokens using bblossom in the board.

Dromoka’s Command, Noble Heirarch and Voice of Resurgence are played in multiple decks. Spellskite being an obvious answer to Twin and Boggles is seen sprinkled throughout.

A common theme emerges on 2nd place finishers. Toronto (Andrew Van Leeuwen) has a cool creatureless (okay Snaps is a critter) control. Modern has historically lacked a true control deck.

CoCo is played side by side with Chord frequently. Chord might be a good call right now.

There are some fun fringe decks. Sometimes they make it because of player skill more than the deck lending itself to wins. But there is also the chance one of the lesser represented decks could be a breakout. Vexing Devil in a burn deck is strange. I don’t give any weight to that. But seeing Pia &K does raise my attention.

Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle seems like another great call, it has been slowly growing all year.

True, Path is going to give you more mileage against Tron’s and Amulet’s big dogs, but the tradeoff is heavy against the aggressive decks. It also doesn’t give you the same kind of reach as Bolt, which is important in closing out games.

The metagame statistics also attest to this, with Jund enjoying significantly more play than its Path-using cousin, Abzan. Abzan is seeing more play now than it was a few months ago, but Jund is still the clear frontrunner based largely on its use of Bolt.