Modern Metagame
We are tracking 3,121 competitive Modern decks from the last 14 days of published tournament results. Izzet Prowess is the most-played deck at 9.5% of the field, ahead of Instant Reanimator (8.1%) and Esper Blink (7.7%). The top three decks account for only 25.3% of the field, so this is an open format — a broad gauntlet rather than a handful of decks to beat.
Modern spans nearly the entire history of the game from 8th Edition on, and its decks are defined less by colour than by what they are trying to do — turn-three combos, efficient interaction, and resilient midrange all coexist. It is the format where knowing the matchup matters most, because the same 60 cards can be a heavy favourite and a heavy underdog depending on what sits across the table.
| # | Archetype | Meta share | Decks | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Izzet Prowess | 9.5% | 295 | Up 2.5 pts |
| 2 | Instant Reanimator | 8.1% | 254 | Up 2.5 pts |
| 3 | Esper Blink | 7.7% | 239 | Up 1.8 pts |
| 4 | Broodscale Bloodchief | 7.4% | 231 | Up 1 pts |
| 5 | Boros Energy | 4.3% | 134 | Down 1.8 pts |
| 6 | Creatures Toolbox | 4.3% | 133 | Down 4.5 pts |
| 7 | Izzet Metalcraft | 4.1% | 127 | Steady |
| 8 | UrzaTron | 3.7% | 114 | Up 0.8 pts |
| 9 | Living End | 3.2% | 100 | Up 1.1 pts |
| 10 | Dimir Control | 2.8% | 88 | Down 0.7 pts |
Share is a deck's percentage of every Modern deck we recorded in the window; trend compares it with the previous window of the same length. Full decklists, matchup win rates and card-level breakdowns are in the browser below.
How these numbers are produced
Each deck counted here comes from a published competitive result — Magic Online leagues and challenges, and paper events whose organisers publish standings and lists. We do not sample, weight or estimate: a deck is in the window because a real player registered it in a real event inside the last 14 days.
Decks are grouped by a rules-driven archetype signature that matches on the cards which actually define a deck, rather than on its colours. Lists the rules cannot confidently place go to a human review queue instead of being guessed at, and when we merge or split an archetype we relabel its history so the trend line stays honest. More detail is on our about page.
