First update: what changed since Oct 11
New results 2026-10-12 – 2026-10-16, compared with 2026-09-29 – 2026-10-11.
What changed
- The two Dimir decks now make up 28% of Challenge lists. Dimir Midrange rose from 8.8% to 14.6% and Dimir Reanimator from 3.5% to 13.5%. Together they took 16 of the 48 Top 8 slots in the six Challenges from Oct 12 to 16, and each won one (_Falcon_ on Oct 14, J4K3ST3R02 on Oct 16). Neither is beating the published-field average in this window (62.0%, z +1.01 and 58.0%, z −0.01).
- Several of last week's most played decks fell off in Challenges. Izzet Spellementals went from 11.2% to 6.2%, Boros Dragons from 7.3% to 2.8%, Rakdos Lizards from 5.0% to 1.1% and Jund Sacrifice from 8.1% to 3.9%. Jund Sacrifice still won the Oct 15 Challenge 16 (pizzangry, 8–1) and Boros Dragons won the other Oct 15 Challenge.
- Mono-Green Landfall doubled and changed shape. It is 9.6% of Challenge lists (from 4.8%) and 9 of 68 League 5–0s. 16 of 26 recent lists (14 players) play Carnivorous Cultivator, usually 3, alongside more Elven Passage and Demolition Field.
- 4c Control rose from 4.4% to 8.4% and won the Oct 12 Challenge 32. A black-heavier build appeared: Fire Magic, Duress, Deadly Cover-Up and Strategic Betrayal in place of No More Lies, Day of Judgment and Plunder the Trollshaws. Four of these lists (5th in two Challenges, plus two 5–0s) are 20+ maindeck cards off the old stock list.
- Orzhov Lifegain leads the League 5–0s (11 of 68, from 14 of 136) but had only 2 Challenge Top 8s. Its lists moved toward main Seam Rip (29% → 64%) and away from main Deep-Cavern Bat (76% → 44%).
- Azorius Momo more than doubled (2.7% → 6.2%) and took 2nd twice. Clarion Conqueror moved out of the maindeck (46% of lists → 0%) and into the sideboard (23% → 80%).
- Dimir sideboards shifted toward counterspells. Dimir Midrange: Negate 33% → 84% and Tishana's Tidebinder 26% → 71% of sideboards, Annul 62% → 19%; Preacher of the Schism nearly left the maindeck (55% → 6%). Dimir Reanimator sideboards added Disdainful Stroke, Deadly Cover-Up, M.O.D.O.K. and Doomsday Excruciator. The Oct 16 winner replaced Superior Spider-Man with 4 Kavaero, Mind-Bitten (8 recent Reanimator lists play Kavaero, from 3).
- Izzet Prowess borrowed from Spellementals. 7 of 11 recent lists play Hearth Elemental and Great Hall of the Biblioplex shows up in 6. The Oct 13 Challenge 32 was won 9–0 by mami with this version. A separate black-splash Prowess list with Callous Sell-Sword and Ancestral Anger took 3rd on Oct 16 (MacIsaac).
- Other new decks with a 5–0 or Top 8: Mono-Black with Tinybones, the Pickpocket and Forsaken Miner (Kerci, 8th Oct 14), Mono-Green Eldrazi with Ugin, Eye of the Storms and Emrakul, the Exigent Doom (narca), Izzet Artifacts with Ironheart, Clever Champion and Legion Extruder (Cubswin45), Jund planeswalkers with Chandra, Torch of Defiance and Way of the Pyromancer (NAP_DARKMAGE_MJM); each is one list so far. Temur Landfall (Comrade1312) also 5–0'd, an older deck that had fallen out of favor posting its first result in a while.
MTGO Challenge results
Six Challenges ran Oct 12–16 (178 published lists, 608–439 in matches). The Oct 12–14 events were in the last doc with placements only; their records are now included, and the Oct 15 and Oct 16 events are new. Winners: 4c Control (Oct 12), Izzet Prowess (Oct 13), Dimir Midrange (Oct 14), Boros Dragons and Jund Sacrifice (the two Oct 15 Challenge 16s), Dimir Reanimator (Oct 16).
Standard Challenge 32 · 10-12
61 players · results
| 1 | 4c Control | badgods | 7–2 |
| 2 | Jund Sacrifice | harrowhark | 7–2 |
| 3 | Dimir Reanimator | gazmon48 | 6–2 |
| 4 | Mono-Green Landfall | MagicRaiz | 6–2 |
| 5 | Dimir Midrange | Ale_Mtg | 6–1 |
| 6 | Mono-Green Landfall | jtl005 | 5–2 |
| 7 | Dimir Reanimator | tchuco | 5–2 |
| 8 | Azorius Artifacts | shadow438 | 5–2 |
Standard Challenge 32 · 10-13
63 players · results
| 1 | Izzet Prowess | mami | 9–0 |
| 2 | Dimir Midrange | fazparte | 7–2 |
| 3 | Azorius Control | SoulStrong | 6–2 |
| 4 | Dimir Reanimator | _IlNano_ | 6–2 |
| 5 | Dimir Midrange | Ale_Mtg | 5–2 |
| 6 | Boros Dragons | MattTumavitch13 | 5–2 |
| 7 | Izzet Spellementals | Pompuskaya | 5–2 |
| 8 | Mono-Green Landfall | jtl005 | 4–3 |
Standard Challenge 16 · 10-14
26 players · results
| 1 | Dimir Midrange | _Falcon_ | 7–1 |
| 2 | Azorius Momo | JonDaBill | 6–2 |
| 3 | Izzet Prowess | _IlNano_ | 5–2 |
| 4 | Rakdos Lizards | yeojlil | 4–3 |
| 5 | 4c Control | MarcoBelacca95 | 4–2 |
| 6 | Izzet Prowess | duanceyao | 4–2 |
| 7 | Mono-Green Landfall | crazythursday | 3–3 |
| 8 | Mono-Black Aggro | Kerci | 3–3 |
Standard Challenge 16 · 10-15
24 players · results
| 1 | Boros Dragons | 2360299909 | 6–2 |
| 2 | Dimir Midrange | kthanakit26 | 6–2 |
| 3 | Dimir Reanimator | duanceyao | 5–2 |
| 4 | Azorius Artifacts | Denisevich | 4–3 |
| 5 | Azorius Artifacts | Cachorrowo | 5–1 |
| 6 | Orzhov Lifegain | TheBigBrain | 4–2 |
| 7 | Izzet Spellementals | NerdDadChad | 3–3 |
| 8 | Izzet Prowess | ATmagic | 3–3 |
Standard Challenge 16 · 10-15
39 players · results
| 1 | Jund Sacrifice | pizzangry | 8–1 |
| 2 | Mono-Green Landfall | Varo | 7–2 |
| 3 | Dimir Midrange | _Falcon_ | 5–2 |
| 4 | Izzet Spellementals | 1WizNth | 5–3 |
| 5 | 4c Control | MCScards | 5–2 |
| 6 | Dimir Reanimator | Kampo | 5–2 |
| 7 | Dimir Midrange | O_danielakos | 4–3 |
| 8 | Dimir Midrange | Nunoboo | 4–3 |
Standard Challenge 32 · 10-16
57 players · results
| 1 | Dimir Reanimator | J4K3ST3R02 | 8–1 |
| 2 | Azorius Momo | OafMcNamara | 7–2 |
| 3 | Grixis Prowess | MacIsaac | 6–2 |
| 4 | Azorius Artifacts | Nammersquats | 5–3 |
| 5 | 4c Control | swb110 | 6–1 |
| 6 | Dimir Midrange | kthanakit26 | 5–2 |
| 7 | Orzhov Lifegain | jakobpablo | 5–2 |
| 8 | Dimir Reanimator | tchuco | 5–2 |
Metagame share
Challenges: 178 published lists from 6 events, records include mirrors; the published players won 58.1% of their matches, so z compares each deck with that average. League: 68 published 5–0 lists (presence among trophies, not a win rate).
| Archetype | Challenge share | Before | Top 8 | Record | Match win | z vs avg | 5–0s | Before |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dimir Midrange | 15% ▲ | 9% | 9 | 101–62 | 62% | +1.01 | 5 | 16 |
| Dimir Reanimator | 13% ▲ | 4% | 7 | 83–60 | 58% | -0.01 | 4 | 6 |
| Mono-Green Landfall | 10% ▲ | 5% | 5 | 58–46 | 56% | -0.48 | 9 | 10 |
| Orzhov Lifegain | 8% | 6% | 2 | 42–32 | 57% | -0.23 | 11 | 14 |
| 4c Control | 8% ▲ | 4% | 4 | 56–35 | 62% | +0.67 | 4 | 8 |
| Azorius Control | 6% | 8% | 1 | 29–26 | 53% | -0.80 | 7 | 13 |
| Azorius Momo | 6% ▲ | 3% | 2 | 35–28 | 56% | -0.40 | 4 | 0 |
| Izzet Spellementals | 6% ▼ | 11% | 3 | 33–30 | 52% | -0.92 | 3 | 5 |
| Azorius Artifacts | 3% | 4% | 4 | 26–14 | 65% | +0.89 | 5 | 11 |
| Jund Sacrifice | 4% ▼ | 8% | 2 | 27–18 | 60% | +0.26 | 4 | 7 |
| Izzet Prowess | 6% | 7% | 4 | 35–21 | 62% | +0.67 | 1 | 3 |
| Sultai Reanimator | 3% | 2% | 0 | 19–16 | 54% | -0.45 | 1 | 3 |
| Boros Dragons | 3% ▼ | 7% | 2 | 22–11 | 67% | +1.00 | 0 | 9 |
| Rakdos Lizards | 1% ▼ | 5% | 1 | 7–5 | 58% | +0.02 | 2 | 4 |
| Dimir Excruciator | 2% | 2% | 0 | 10–7 | 59% | +0.06 | 1 | 2 |
| Grixis Prowess | 1% | 1% | 1 | 8–5 | 62% | +0.25 | 0 | 1 |
| Boros Control | 1% | 1% | 0 | 2–3 | 40% | -0.82 | 1 | 1 |
| Simic Landfall | 1% | 2% | 0 | 0–2 | 0% | -1.66 | 1 | 0 |
| Other: Mardu | 1% | 0% | 0 | 7–5 | 58% | +0.02 | 0 | 0 |
| Boros Dwarves | 1% | 1% | 0 | 1–3 | 25% | -1.34 | 1 | 2 |
“Before” = share of Challenge lists and count of 5–0s in 2026-09-29 – 2026-10-11 (480 Challenge lists, 136 5–0s). ▲/▼ marks a change of 3 points or more.
Card trends in the top 10 decks
Share of the archetype’s lists (Challenges + 5–0s) playing at least one copy, before → now, with average copies. A card is listed when its share moved 25+ points (and at least 3 different players adopted it) or its average copy count moved by a full card.
Dimir Midrange 58 → 31 lists
| Main | Preacher of the Schism | 55% → 6% | 0.6 → 0.1 |
| Main | Shipwreck Marsh | 62% → 97% | 1.1 → 2.0 |
| Main | Theorix Charm | 59% → 87% | 0.6 → 0.9 |
| Side | Negate | 33% → 84% | 0.3 → 0.8 |
| Side | Tishana's Tidebinder | 26% → 71% | 0.3 → 0.7 |
| Side | Annul | 62% → 19% | 0.7 → 0.2 |
Orzhov Lifegain 41 → 25 lists
| Main | Seam Rip | 29% → 64% | 0.6 → 1.0 |
| Main | Deep-Cavern Bat | 76% → 44% | 1.3 → 0.7 |
| Main | Shattered Sanctum | 98% → 84% | 2.6 → 1.6 |
| Side | Requisition Raid | 51% → 84% | 0.5 → 0.8 |
| Side | Enduring Innocence | 39% → 8% | 0.8 → 0.1 |
| Side | Elspeth, Storm Slayer | 22% → 52% | 0.2 → 0.5 |
Mono-Green Landfall 33 → 26 lists
| Main | Demolition Field | 39% → 85% | 0.4 → 0.8 |
| Main | Carnivorous Cultivator | 21% → 62% | 0.8 → 2.2 |
| Main | Elven Passage | 21% → 58% | 0.4 → 1.6 |
Azorius Control 51 → 17 lists
| Main | Stock Up | 45% → 6% | 1.2 → 0.1 |
| Main | Captain Marvel, Earth's Protector | 10% → 41% | 0.1 → 0.6 |
| Main | Countersculpt | 65% → 94% | 2.5 → 3.8 |
| Main | Theorist's Sanctum | 65% → 94% | 1.3 → 1.9 |
| Side | Emeritus of Ideation | 57% → 6% | 0.7 → 0.1 |
| Side | Ultima | 18% → 53% | 0.4 → 0.9 |
| Side | Riverchurn Monument | 2% → 29% | 0.0 → 0.3 |
| Side | Torpor Orb | 2% → 29% | 0.0 → 0.6 |
| Side | Rest in Peace | 49% → 76% | 1.0 → 1.4 |
Dimir Reanimator 23 → 28 lists
| Main | Spell Snare | 9% → 46% | 0.1 → 0.6 |
| Main | The Theorist, Jace Beleren | 30% → 61% | 1.0 → 1.4 |
| Main | Uldaros Theorix | 65% → 93% | 1.7 → 2.0 |
| Side | Disdainful Stroke | 30% → 82% | 0.3 → 0.9 |
| Side | Deadly Cover-Up | 13% → 64% | 0.1 → 0.7 |
| Side | M.O.D.O.K. | 17% → 64% | 0.2 → 0.6 |
| Side | Duress | 48% → 93% | 0.7 → 1.2 |
| Side | Doomsday Excruciator | 22% → 64% | 0.4 → 1.2 |
| Side | Oildeep Gearhulk | 43% → 11% | 0.9 → 0.1 |
| Side | Qarsi Revenant | 57% → 82% | 1.2 → 1.6 |
Jund Sacrifice 46 → 11 lists
| Main | Rottenmouth Viper | 85% → 45% | 2.6 → 1.0 |
| Main | Mountain | 48% → 9% | 0.5 → 0.1 |
| Main | Callous Inspector | 72% → 100% | 2.1 → 2.5 |
| Side | Vicious Rivalry | 17% → 55% | 0.2 → 0.7 |
| Side | Sentinel of the Nameless City | 0% → 36% | 0.0 → 0.5 |
| Side | Leatherhead, Swamp Stalker | 26% → 55% | 0.3 → 0.5 |
| Side | Seedship Impact | 20% → 45% | 0.3 → 0.9 |
4c Control 29 → 19 lists
| Main | Swamp | 10% → 37% | 0.1 → 0.4 |
| Side | Price of Freedom | 0% → 32% | 0.0 → 0.3 |
| Side | Ultima | 31% → 58% | 0.3 → 0.6 |
| Side | Disdainful Stroke | 21% → 47% | 0.3 → 0.5 |
Izzet Prowess 35 → 11 lists
| Main | Hearth Elemental | 3% → 64% | 0.1 → 1.4 |
| Main | Unsummon | 3% → 45% | 0.1 → 0.9 |
| Main | Great Hall of the Biblioplex | 14% → 55% | 0.2 → 1.1 |
| Main | Prismari Charm | 6% → 45% | 0.1 → 0.5 |
| Main | Spell Snare | 74% → 36% | 0.8 → 0.4 |
| Main | Mountain | 91% → 55% | 2.3 → 0.5 |
| Main | Vibrant Outburst | 80% → 45% | 0.9 → 0.5 |
| Main | Starting Town | 69% → 36% | 0.7 → 0.4 |
| Main | Stingcaster Mage | 9% → 36% | 0.2 → 0.4 |
| Main | Eddymurk Crab | 74% → 100% | 1.6 → 1.5 |
| Main | Island | 91% → 100% | 3.8 → 4.9 |
| Side | Sear | 80% → 36% | 0.8 → 0.4 |
| Side | Ral, Crackling Wit | 20% → 64% | 0.3 → 1.3 |
| Side | Into the Flood Maw | 6% → 45% | 0.1 → 0.8 |
| Side | Impractical Joke | 0% → 36% | 0.0 → 0.4 |
| Side | Colorstorm Stallion | 74% → 100% | 1.5 → 2.5 |
Azorius Artifacts 32 → 11 lists
| Main | Authority of the Consuls | 69% → 27% | 1.3 → 0.5 |
| Main | Adagia, Windswept Bastion | 0% → 36% | 0.0 → 0.4 |
| Main | Sunbillow Verge | 0% → 36% | 0.0 → 0.4 |
| Main | Meticulous Archive | 88% → 55% | 1.2 → 0.8 |
| Main | Erode | 69% → 36% | 0.7 → 0.5 |
| Main | Steam Vents | 9% → 36% | 0.3 → 0.4 |
| Main | Fomori Vault | 66% → 91% | 0.7 → 0.9 |
| Side | Astelli Reclaimer | 69% → 27% | 0.7 → 0.3 |
| Side | Krang, Master Mind | 66% → 27% | 0.7 → 0.3 |
| Side | Spell Pierce | 9% → 45% | 0.1 → 0.8 |
New lists that did well
League 5–0s and Challenge Top 8s whose maindeck is 20 or more cards away from their archetype’s stock list, or from archetypes with no stock list yet. Pictured: the cards that set each list apart. Full 75 grouped by card type.
Nine lists qualify. The four black 4c Control lists are shown as one card under the best finish.
MarcoBelacca95
The 4c Control shell goes black-heavy: Fire Magic, Duress, Deadly Cover-Up and Strategic Betrayal come in for the white sweepers and No More Lies. Four players posted it in two days, with two Challenge Top 8s.
Added +2 Fire Magic, +2 Multiply by Zero, +2 Deadly Cover-Up, +2 Duress, +2 Strategic Betrayal, +1 Stock Up
Cut −1 North Wind Avatar, −2 Lightning Helix, −2 No More Lies, −2 Plunder the Trollshaws, −1 Consult the Star Charts, −2 Day of Judgment
Lands: +3 Blood Crypt, +2 Bleachbone Verge, +2 Riverpyre Verge, +2 Starting Town, +1 Meticulous Archive, +1 Shattered Sanctum, +1 Swamp, +1 Undercity Sewers, −2 Gloomlake Verge, −2 Godless Shrine, −2 Hallowed Fountain, −2 Steam Vents, −1 Cori Mountain Monastery, −1 Deserted Beach, −1 Island, −1 Stormcarved Coast, −1 Sunbillow Verge, −1 Sundown Pass
Same build also did well
Kerci
Mono-Black built around Tinybones, the Pickpocket, Forsaken Miner and Corpses of the Lost, with Gollum and Sephiroth in the curve. The only list like it in a Challenge Top 8.
Creatures 20
Artifacts 1
Added +4 Tinybones, the Pickpocket, +2 Luis, Pompous Pillager, +2 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER, +2 Timeline Culler, +1 Gollum the Abandoned, +1 Mai, Scornful Striker, +2 Bitter Triumph, +1 Strategic Betrayal, +1 Vraska's Final Mercy, +3 Case of the Stashed Skeleton, +2 Tinybones Joins Up
Cut −2 Iridescent Vinelasher, −2 Dissection Practice, −2 Requiting Hex, −2 Lich's Relic, −4 Desolation Prowler, −4 Nighthowl Pursuer, −4 Sunset Saboteur
Lands: −1 Soulstone Sanctuary
Comrade1312
Not a new deck: Temur Landfall was played earlier and fell out of favor, and this 5–0 is its first result in a while. Landfall creatures splashing blue and red for Consult the Star Charts, Stock Up and Full Bore.
narca
Mono-Green ramp into Ugin, Eye of the Storms and Emrakul, the Exigent Doom, with The Echoverse Fulcrum and Heartwood Crafter. A one-off 5–0.
Creatures 24
Planeswalkers 4
NAP_DARKMAGE_MJM
Jund planeswalkers: Chandra, Torch of Defiance, Ajani Unrelenting and Way of the Pyromancer alongside Torch the Tower. A one-off 5–0.
Cubswin45
Izzet Artifacts with Ironheart, Clever Champion, Legion Extruder, Weapons Manufacturing and Armor Wars. Nothing like it in the comparison window.
Stock lists used for comparison
For each archetype: the median copy count of every card across its lists in the comparison window, trimmed to 60 + 15. Later updates compare against a stock list rebuilt from the trailing two weeks.
Dimir Midrange · built from 58 lists
Orzhov Lifegain · built from 41 lists
Mono-Green Landfall · built from 33 lists
Creatures 22
Azorius Control · built from 51 lists
Method
Source: every Standard Challenge and League page on mtgo.com from Sept 29 to Oct 16 (22 Challenges, 204 League 5–0s). The comparison window is Sept 29 – Oct 11, the period the Reality Fracture doc covered. Archetypes come from the same signature-card rules as that doc, with four refinements: Iridescent Vinelasher lists without red are Mono-Black Aggro rather than Rakdos Lizards, Ugin/Emrakul lists are Mono-Green Eldrazi, and three-colour Golgari Midrange, Prowess and Jeskai Control lists are named by their colours. Because of that, a few base shares differ slightly from the earlier doc (Izzet Spellementals 11.2% here versus 10.8% there). Challenge records include mirror matches and only the top 32 of each Challenge is published, so z compares each deck with the average of the published players (58.1% in Oct 12–16). With 6 events and 178 lists, the new-window win rates are small samples; no deck is beyond |z| 2. A new list is one whose 60-card maindeck differs from its archetype's stock list by 20 or more cards (Collins's threshold). No Elo check (MTGO handles cannot be matched to ratings).