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Magic World Championship XXIX Metagame Breakdown (magic.gg)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Aside from Esper variations making up a huge chunk of the field, the metagame looks fairly spread out!

Deck Archetype	Number of Players	Percentage of Field
1. Esper Midrange	20	19.0%
2. Mono-Red Aggro	10	9.5%
3. Esper Legends	9	8.6%
4. Domain Ramp	9	8.6%
5. Golgari Midrange	8	7.6%
6. Mono-White Humans	7	6.7%
7. Rakdos Reanimator	7	6.7%
8. Esper Control	5	4.8%
9. Azorius Soldiers	4	3.8%
10. Invasion of Alara	3	2.9%
11. Mono-Blue Cauldron	3	2.9%
12. Sultai Midrange	3	2.9%
13. Selesnya Enchantments	3	2.9%
14. Grixis Midrange	2	1.9%
15. Rakdos Sacrifice	2	1.9%
16. Bant Control	1	1.0%
17. Rakdos Breach	1	1.0%
18. Azorius Control	1	1.0%
19. Sultai Faeries	1	1.0%
20. Simic Cauldron	1	1.0%
21. Domain Control	1	1.0%
22. Five-color Reanimator	1	1.0%
23. Dimir Faeries	1	1.0%
24. Azorius Tokens	1	1.0%
25. Rakdos Burn	1	1.0%

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Surprised to see mono-red aggro with the second largest share; I guess Goddric must have helped it more than I realized. Mono-red is maybe the one archetype that will never be absent from any metagame, but prior to WOE I would not have said it was in a good place in Standard.