Hello everyone. Interested in the Magic Online metagame? If you want to know the decks to play or the decks to beat, this is the article for you.

Every second week, I take a look at the data published by Wizards of the Coast for their competitive leagues (or daily events for Vintage) and crunch the numbers to find out what decks have been performing well. This gives to critical pieces of information - what, in general, the best decks are, and what to prepare to face.

Now this only uses Magic Online data - it does not include the results of SCG Opens, Grand Prix, etc. It's purely for Magic Online! It also only includes the last weeks' worth of decks, to give you a current, up to date look.

If you want to compare this week with the previous one, click here.

STANDARD

As always, we start with Standard. We had 69 decklists published this week, with only 16 unique decks amongst them. I think a lot of people will be glad that Eldritch Moon is due for release soon - the meta is very stale for the format, and has been for a while. The top decks continue to be the top decks:

Bant Humans (26.09%)

Mono White Humans (15.94%)

Bant Company (11.59%)

Green White Tokens (8,7%)

UR Eldrazi Control, and Temur Midrange (7.25%)

Comparing this with last time, the top decks basically haven't changed. People are very much looking forward to Eldritch Moon shaking up the format but, from what has been spoiled so far, the new set might not be doing a lot to help:

These are all some of the more powerful cards we have seen so far and they slot into the top decks quite easily. Hopefully this week of spoilers brings us something spicy for colours like red or black.

MODERN

Modern continues to be the format of choice for those who like diversity, although this week saw a clear winner at the top of the published decklists. I know a lot of Standard players in my area are preferring to play Modern right now - compare this with Standard: there were 66 Modern decks published this week, with 28 unique decks among them.

So, what were the top decks this week? Take a look:

Suicide Zoo (19.7%)

Dredge (12.12%)

Jund (7.58%)

Burn (6.06%)

Infect, Abzan Company and Grixis Control, all of which were top decks last time, have fallen away, with Infect the only one to have any decks published this week at all. This is a pretty common occurrence in this format, which is a healthy thing to have. Modern really is a format where playing what you want to play is a viable option while still being competitive.

Our top deck this week, Suicide Zoo, managed to pull a large share of the metagame. This is mostly due to it having 6 5-0 decklists published in one day! I would expect it to drop back down again next time, though it has been a consistent performer.

PAUPER

Pauper had 61 deck lists published this week, with 20 unique decks amongst them. Surprisingly, there has been a big shake up of the meta right now, since the release of Eternal Masters. Many of this week's top decks got a shot in the arm from the rarity shifts in the set, while a brand new deck also arose with the printing of Peregrine Drake:

Elves (13.11%)

Affinity, Izzet Drake, and Bogles (9.84%)

Delver (8.2%)

Stompy, Murasa Tron (6.56%)

Elves, one of the most fun decks in the format, sits on top. Elvish Vanguard was the card it got rarity shifted in Eternal Masters, and it seems to have helped. Bogles got a reprint of Ancestral Mask, which bought the price of the card down. Izzet Drake is our new deck - it's a combo deck that works by casting infinite burn spells on your opponent.

LEGACY

Legacy was our smallest sample size this week, with 41 decks published, which included 17 unique decks (so, still more than Standard). There were two clearly dominant decks this week:

Grixis Delver (19.51%)

Miracles (17.07%)

Sneak and Show, Elves, UR Delver, and Reanimator (7.32%)

While Miracles continues to be the most consistently good deck in the format, Grixis Delver was the most popular this week. Four of the top five decks from last time dropped off the radar, though all of them (with the exception of Merfolk) still had lists published.

VINTAGE

Finally, let's take a look at Vintage. The Vintage Challenge happened during the sample period, so we have more decks than usual to look at - 46 published lists (with 16 unique decks).

As predicted last time, Jeskai Mentor bounced back to the top of the standings, where it was joined by another deck:

Jeskai Mentor, Ravager Shops (15.22%)

White Eldrazi (10.87%)

Reanimator, Grixis Therapy (8.7%)

UB Storm Rat, Storm, Esper Mentor (6.52%)

Ravager Shops has been around for a while, and this week, it was one of the most popular decks again. The White Eldrazi deck, which went completely missing last time, is back, while the top deck from last time, Grixis Therapy, fell away slightly.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, brings this edition of Main Deck to a close. Join me again in two weeks to revisit the metagame.