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Magic: The Gathering meta

Rotating ~3-year card pool — the entry-point constructed format.

Meta share

Who's eating the meta

  • Izzet Prowess14.8%
  • Izzet Spellementals5.3%
  • Selesnya Landfall5.2%
  • Mono-Green Landfall4.8%
  • Dimir Excruciator4.7%
  • Izzet Lessons4.5%
  • W-U-B-R Control3.7%
  • Jeskai Control2.9%
  • Four-Color Control2.6%
  • Azorius Momo2.4%
Tier 1

Dominant — defines the format.

Izzet Prowess

Izzet Prowess

↘ -7.4%
14.8%342 decks
Tier 2

Established — a real share of results.

Izzet Spellementals

Izzet Spellementals

↗ +4.1%
5.3%123 decks
Selesnya Landfall

Selesnya Landfall

↘ -1.6%
5.2%121 decks
Tier 3

Fringe — present but uncommon.

Mono-Green Landfall

Mono-Green Landfall

↗ +9.9%
4.8%111 decks
Dimir Excruciator

Dimir Excruciator

↗ +5.5%
4.7%109 decks
Izzet Lessons

Izzet Lessons

→ 0%
4.5%105 decks
W-U-B-R Control

W-U-B-R Control

↘ -0.5%
3.7%85 decks
Jeskai Control

Jeskai Control

↗ +0.2%
2.9%68 decks
Four-Color Control

Four-Color Control

→ 0%
WhiteBlueBlackRedGreen
2.6%59 decks
Staples

The staple ladder

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The cards the top archetypes share — buy from the top and they hold their value across decks.

  1. 1
    Island
    Islandin 2 of 3 top archetypes · 465 decks · ×7
  2. 2
    Steam Vents
    Steam Ventsin 2 of 3 top archetypes · 465 decks · ×4
  3. 3
    Burst Lightning
    Burst Lightningin 2 of 3 top archetypes · 464 decks · ×4
  4. 4
    Riverpyre Verge
    Riverpyre Vergein 2 of 3 top archetypes · 464 decks · ×4
  5. 5
    Spirebluff Canal
    Spirebluff Canalin 2 of 3 top archetypes · 464 decks · ×4
Movement

Meta movers

How archetypes' share of tournament decks changed across two equal 30-day windows: 27 Aug – 25 Sep 2026, against the 30 days immediately before it, 28 Jul – 26 Aug 2026. Movement is in percentage points (pp) — the difference between two shares, not a percent change.

No archetype has enough tournament decks in these windows to compare — the floor is 8 decks in the current window.

Counts are tournament decklists only — 113 decks in the current window, 81 decks in the previous one — so these shares can differ slightly from the tier list above, which also counts public player decks. This measures how many lists were recorded, not how they placed and not a win rate. An archetype is listed only if it has at least 8 decks in the current window, and either at least 8 decks in the previous window or none at all: a handful of decks moves too easily to mean anything.

56 other archetypes are not shown: too few tournament decks in one of the two windows to compare — the floor is 8 decks.

Tournaments

Recent tournaments

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