Hi everyone! If you want up to date stats on the decks doing well in Magic, you have come to the right place. In this article, I am going to break down the stats from Magic Online and have a look at what decks are doing the best, and what you should prepare for.

An important note - this article is aimed at people playing in Magic Online Leagues (or Dailies for Vintage) and does not take into account results from Grand Prix and other paper events. The statistics presented her are based on the decks that Wizards of the Coast publishes, and only includes the previous week's results. It includes decks that went 5-0 in Leagues (or 3-1 or better in Dailies).

Also, if you want to compare the current stats to those of last time, click here.

STANDARD

Do you like Humans, and/or white decks? If so, Standard is the format for you! Standard is absolutely dominated by these two things at the moment. Take a look:

Mono White Aggro (25.37%)

Bant Humans (14.93%)

Green/White Tokens (8.96%)

White/Black Control (7.46%)

As you can see, the Human based decks make up a massive chunk of the metagame (41.79%; there was a single red/white humans deck that went 5-0), and the top 4 decks all include white (and none of them including red). In fact, I decided to run the numbers on how dominant white is: it shows up in 73.13% of this weeks decks, with the next closest being green which shows up in just under half the decks. Red is the worst; it was only represented in 17.91% of the decks. Moral of the story seems to be to play white and ignore red in this format.

The other thing happening with the format at the moment is the diversity is being slowly eroded as people work it out - out of 67 published decks, there were only 20 unique ones, which is down a little from previous weeks.

We had a look at the white aggro deck last week, so this week let's look at Bant Humans:

MODERN

Modern is, by far, the most diverse Magic format right now. Every time I take a snap shot of the meta for these articles, the top decks have changed. In fact, there were 34 unique decks out of the 68, 5-0 decks that Wizards of the Coast published this week. This is a fantastic state of affairs.

Last time it was Jund, Elves, and Affinity that were the top decks. This week:

Suicide Zoo (11.76%)

Infect (10.29%)

Burn (7.35%)

Jund, Bant Eldrazi, Affinity, Abzan, Zoo, and Dredge (4.41%)

For most of the week Infect was the top deck, but Suicide Zoo overtook it at the last minute to take the number one spot.

It's hard to come prepared for any one particular deck in Modern at the moment, but on the flip side there are many strategies that have the potential of winning, so playing what you want has never been truer.

PAUPER

Well here's a bit of a surprise: Delver has been knocked off the number 1 spot!

Stompy (26.79%)

Delver (14.29%)

Murasa Tron (10.71%)

Mono Black Control (8.93%)

Kuldotha Jeskai (5.36%)

It's probably really no surprise that Stompy has stolen first position and become the dominant deck, as it has a good match up against Delver. Things will change as the meta adjusts to fight Stompy, then Delver will likely make its return to the top - although, it should be said, the pending release of Eternal Masters could shake up the format a bit.

The Murasa Tron deck is a blue/red control deck that uses Pulse of Murasa for added value.

One interesting stat that I want to bring up is that Pauper is actually slightly more diverse than Standard right now, with 18 unique decks out of the 56 decks Wizards published this week.

LEGACY

Not much changed in Legacy this week, with the top 3 decks still being the same as last time. And although Delver of Secrets saw a decline in Pauper, it made up a bit of ground here:

Miracles (24.56%)

Eldrazi Stompy (15.79%)

Shardless BUG (8.77%)

UR Delver and Grixis Delver (7.02%)

BUG Delver (5.26%)

There was also a RUG Delver deck that was published twice during the week. But the story of Legacy is still the dominance of the Miracles deck, and it actually was up 3.5% on last time, bouncing back a bit as I predicted.

VINTAGE

As it was before, so it was again: Jeskai Mentor is still the best deck in the format. However, we did have a new deck enter the top decks this week:

Jeskai Mentor (25%)

White Eldrazi (16.67%)

Dredge (10.42%)

Grixis Therapy (8.33%)

I featured the White Eldrazi deck in my Sweet Brews column last week, but it seems like it is definitely the new hot deck in Vintage. It had 8 appearances in the 3-1 or better decks (out of 48 decks) and seems like it is the real deal. Whether it is being highly played at the moment due to it being new, or whether it will remain powerful, is still to be seen.

I want to finish with a stat that I found quite interesting and which I have alluded to already. I like diversity in formats; to me, it is the sign of a healthy game. Let's take a look at which formats are the most diverse:

Standard - 20 unique decks out of 67 published

Modern - 34 unique decks out of 68 published

Pauper - 18 unique decks out of 56 published

Legacy - 19 unique decks out of 57 published

Vintage - 17 unique decks out of 48 published

If we break this down into the average number of appearances per deck, we can get a look at which format is the most diverse. The less amount of appearances per deck, the more diverse the format:

Standard - 3.35

Modern - 2.00

Pauper - 3.11

Legacy - 3.00

Vintange - 2.83

This actually means that Standard is the least diverse format right now, based on the number of 'good' decks in the format. It indicates that unless you are playing one of the top decks, you don't stand much of a chance. It is probably the reason I am not in love with the format right now and have gravitated towards Modern.

That's it for this week. Join me again in two weeks when we re-examine what is happening on MTGO! Until then, leave any comments below or follow me on Twitter: @The_Wolf_MTG