Here are the Top 128 as they stand after four rounds, based on a weighted score built from previous matchups and opponents’ strengths. This is a projected measure that estimates which cards are the strongest and which will make the eventual seeded rounds, and of course upsets can happen and bad pairings can lead to it being wrong - but it’s an indication of what the top contenders are right now.



1. Birds of Paradise

2. Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

3. Ancestral Recall

4. Cryptic Command

5. Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker

6. Emrakul, the Aeons Torn

7. Bitterblossom

8. Platinum Angel

9. Young Pyromancer

10. Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

11. Liliana of the Veil

12. Cyclonic Rift

13. Gray Merchant of Asphodel

14. Knight of the Reliquary

15. Dark Confidant

16. Progenitus

17. Eternal Witness

18. Delver of Secrets

19. Crucible of Worlds

20. Fact or Fiction

21. Phyrexian Arena

22. Vindicate

23. Thoughtseize

24. Lightning Bolt

25. Kitchen Finks

26. Swords to Plowshares

27. Karn Liberated

28. Sphinx’s Revelation

29. Mystical Tutor

30. Blood Moon

31. Survival of the Fittest

32. Counterspell

33. Snapcaster Mage

34. Cruel Ultimatum

35. Treasure Cruise

36. Wurmcoil Engine

37. Wheel of Fortune

38. Isochron Scepter

39. Dark Ritual

40. Vedalken Shackles

41. Nicol Bolas

42. Green Sun’s Zenith

43. Rancor

44. Time Spiral

45. Necropotence

46. Doom Blade

47. Phage the Untouchable

48. Dig Through Time

49. Pack Rat

50. Damnation

51. Primeval Titan

52. Doran, the Siege Tower

53. Thought-Knot Seer

54. Time Warp

55. Blood Artist

56. Mother of Runes

57. Remand

58. Force of Will

59. Tolarian Academy

60. Vengevine

61. Monastery Mentor

62. Gilded Lotus

63. Howling Mine

64. Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir

65. Yawgmoth’s Will

66. Wrath of God

67. Stoneforge Mystic

68. Hymn to Tourach

69. Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

70. Channel

71. Aether Vial

72. Llanowar Elves

73. Vendilion Clique

74. Baneslayer Angel

75. Craterhoof Behemoth

76. Show and Tell

77. Terminate

78. Griselbrand

79. Natural Order

80. Mana Drain

81. Laboratory Maniac

82. Path to Exile

83. Birthing Pod

84. Time Walk

85. Sol Ring

86. Astral Slide

87. Geist of Saint Traft

88. Blightsteel Colossus

89. Dark Depths

90. Sword of Feast and Famine

91. Lotus Cobra

92. Bribery

93. Arcbound Ravager

94. Skullclamp

95. Sylvan Library

96. Tooth and Nail

97. Enter the Infinite

98. Sun Titan

99. The Gitrog Monster

100. Scavenging Ooze

101. Baleful Strix

102. Maze of Ith

103. Phantasmal Image

104. Mulldrifter

105. Exhume

106. Deathrite Shaman

107. Mindslaver

108. Chainer’s Edict

109. Vampire Nighthawk

110. Fastbond

111. Batterskull

112. Spellstutter Sprite

113. Balance

114. Scapeshift

115. Mishra’s Workshop

116. Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

117. Mox Ruby

118. Courser of Kruphix

119. Gaddock Teeg

120. Strip Mine

121. Consecrated Sphinx

122. Goblin Guide

123. Pernicious Deed

124. Faithless Looting

125. Tinker

126. Thassa, God of the Sea

127. Jace, Vryn’s Prodigy

128. Prophet of Kruphix

