World Tour Columbus will make for the last events before the release of the first booster set of 2026. Compendium of Rathe, much like sets such as Everfest and Dusk Till Dawn, offers the expansion set experience to offer cards to every class and every hero, for the Classic Constructed and Silver Age.
This double header of tier 3 events gave us the last Calling in the current Classic Constructed format, and the last Silver Age event before the release of the set which will bring the format to how LSS imagined it. Let's dig into the results.
Calling Columbus
This later Super Slam has converged around what could be called the best deck in the format: Florian, Rotwood Harbinger, Gravy Bones, Shipwrecked Looter, and Arakni, Marionette.
After the success Florian had in Akihabara, we get to see how the more aggressively slanted variants perform, by having a versatility of threats to handle the Necromancer's zombies, and to pressure the poor blocking capabilities of the aggressive Assassin.
The smattering of other decks directly below the big showers of Calling Columbus shows just how diverse the metagame is at present.
Conversion Rates
As Day 1 rolled into Day 2, Calling Columbus saw some truly surprising drop off in rates of play.
We can look past the perfect conversion rate of the only Ser Boltyn, Breaker of Dawn because no one expects to play against Decimator Great Axe.
We The telling story is how well Florian and Marionette converted, but the fourth best represented deck, Oscilio, Constella Intelligence having the actual best conversion rate in the whole field. The Lightning Wizard plays on so many different axes that it's hard for a lot of decks to keep up. Most of the time, pure aggression is the name of the game, mowing him down before he can find Gone In a Flash or set up enough Auras and Arcane damage.
The third best finishing deck is the one that's the most puzzling to behold. Pleiades, Superstar is a deck that has had next to no measurable finishes since Super Slam released in September. It's a deck that has a lot of potential with Auras and the potential for tall damage thanks to buffs. This is not how Pleiades plays at present, as seen at the highest tables of this Calling.
Top 8
The top 8 spread is a welcome and expected mixture of all the things we've come to expect from the tail end of the Super Slam metagame, with some absolute head scratchers.
As I mentioned in the RTN Week 3 results, Pleiades is not a tempo Guardian deck, she's a pure Fatigue deck. By fat-decking and using Remembrance, the deck stays relatively healthy throughout the course of the game, while also playing Miller's Grindstone as another source of deck damage. This deck's efficient blocks thanks to Toughness tokens covering breakpoints, generated with Tough Smashup makes it very difficult to defeat if you aren't used to engaging with that play style.
As seasoned as the players are at the highest level, those two decks were not long for their time in Top 8 of Calling Columbus. All my love and sadness to the Katsu, the Wanderer
The final saw Runaways member Lucas Oswald playing Arakni, Marionette against the 2025 World Champion Michael Jaszczur playing Florian. It was Jaszczur's win, coupled with the RTN wins that propelled Florian to the halls of Living Legend.
This has been a characteristically bad matchup for Marionette in the past, due to Florian's efficient defences, coupled with even more oppressive split aggression and inevitability. Now that Florian includes cards like Channel Mount Heroic and other efficient attacks alongside the same suite of 9 Defence Reactions, the Assassin is often out classed, which lead to the Runeblade's victory. There have been sightings of Jaszczur selling those second Marvel Quickdodge Flexors that he won for this event, seeing as he already has his one.
Battle Hardened Columbus
This will be the last rated Silver Age event before the format officially launches during the Compendium of Rathe World Premier.
Despite Chane's initial dominance of the format in Valencia, it's another Runeblade on the top spot. Jonathan Michaud won the Battle Hardened on Briar. It was a good weekend to be an Earth Runeblade.
This deck, as has become the standard build for Briar in this format, is one that's direct and aggressive. Playing a significant number of front pumps like Weave Lightning and Sizzle to generate your Embodiment of Lightning and threaten a pool of Lightning attacks with Go Again.
Wrap Up
World Tour Columbus was the send off a titan of the format truly deserved. It proved that the evolution of decks in Silver Age has only begun, and the Classic Constructed landscape is going to dramatically change in the remaining weeks of the 2026 RTN season.
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