UBx control has a slight edge, but beyond that you have mono red and the green-splash variant, a couple of flavours of abzan and a long tail of devotion, dragon and whip decks. I said earlier that the meta might be broken, but this still looks like fairly healthy numbers. This means that the statistics reported here will look sometimes quite a bit different from the ones on the MTGGoldfish site, trust me though - these ones are better! Here's this week's numbers: This is clearly incorrect, so I've gone through all of the lists described by MTGGoldfish and reclassified them as one of the major archetypes where possible. In fact, if you look at the full list there's over 100 "different" standard archetypes listed. These algorithms are easily thrown astray by things such as off-colour temples, a single unusual card choice or a list not including a single card that most other lists are using. Never fear though, I will still be adding some value here! MTGGoldfish automatically characterises archetypes based on its algorithms. That site takes results from all reported online events and high profile offline events over the past couple of weeks, automatically categorises them into broad archetypes and reports the statistics. So until or unless I come up with a better idea, I will be basing this section off the metagame compilation that is displayed at Mtggoldfish. With switching over to standard though, that is no longer feasible due to the sheer volume of events and the fact that a meaningful amount of the metagame is played in offline events too. When this column covered the block constructed format, I compiled metagame statistics based on my own analysis of all of the published MTGO daily events. Reflecting on the relatively diverse field at the pro tour, including among decks with a winning record, I said "this is a diverse Standard format without a clear best deck." Well, testing for today's column made me start to realise how incorrect that statement actually is and there's been an absolute flood of content across the internet as people start to realise that, perhaps, standard is utterly broken even if the numbers haven't quite caught up with that conclusion yet. Last week I said something which, with the advantage of a very short amount of hindsight, is starting to look a little silly.
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