Vintage Metagame
We are tracking 425 competitive Vintage decks from the last 14 days of published tournament results. Dimir Control is the most-played deck at 14.6% of the field, ahead of Initiative Hatebear (13.6%) and Oath of Druids (10.1%). The top three decks account for only 38.3% of the field, so this is an open format — a broad gauntlet rather than a handful of decks to beat.
Vintage permits nearly every card ever printed, restricting the most broken to a single copy rather than banning them. Games are short and decisions are dense. Sample sizes in Vintage are smaller than in other formats, so treat small share differences here as noise unless the deck count behind them is substantial.
| # | Archetype | Meta share | Decks | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dimir Control | 14.6% | 62 | Up 4.6 pts |
| 2 | Initiative Hatebear | 13.6% | 58 | Up 3.6 pts |
| 3 | Oath of Druids | 10.1% | 43 | Up 2.8 pts |
| 4 | Dredge | 7.3% | 31 | Down 1.2 pts |
| 5 | Coveted Jewel | 7.3% | 31 | Up 2.2 pts |
| 6 | Fleshraker MUD | 6.8% | 29 | Down 5.6 pts |
| 7 | MUD | 4.9% | 21 | Up 1.3 pts |
| 8 | Jeskai Control | 4% | 17 | New |
| 9 | Golos MUD | 3.8% | 16 | Steady |
| 10 | Underworld Breach | 3.5% | 15 | New |
Share is a deck's percentage of every Vintage 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.
