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Standard Archetypes

60 archetypes ranked by meta share

Metagame concentration

How few decks Standard is, month by month, against every ban on record. Each point is the chance that two decks drawn at random from that month's field are the same archetype (the Herfindahl–Hirschman index), shown as the number of decks a field that concentrated is equivalent to. How this is calculated

18.1
effective decks · Oct 2026
0.0553
HHI
+4.2
vs Sep 2026
11.7–18.2
range over 8 months

Lower means more concentrated. Months pooling fewer than 200 classified decks, or fewer than two events, are left blank rather than plotted — below that the reading moves more with how much data the month held than with the format. Decks the classifier could not name are excluded; each point's tooltip reports what share of the field that left.

Tier history — top archetypes

The 8 biggest archetypes by meta share, on one axis. Each line is the score its tier is computed from, so a ban or a set release shows up as the whole field rearranging.

The Y axis is the score each archetype's tier is computed from: for measured points a 60/40 blend of MTGGoldfish meta share and TopDeck top-8 appearances, for reconstructed ones the meta share our classifier derives from standings. Dashed horizontal lines mark the tier thresholds.

Sort within tiers:

Deck costs estimate an average list at each card's cheapest printing across all printings, promos and reprints included.

A

A-Tier

Competitive tier archetypes (5-10% meta share) (7 archetypes)

A

Dimir Midrange

12.4%of meta
~$221
A

Jund Sacrifice

11.8%of meta
~$224
A

Golgari Landfall

11.6%of meta
~$200
A

Lifegain

11.6%of meta
~$217
A

Dimir Reanimator

7.8%of meta
~$404
A

4c Control

3.9%of meta
~$197
A

Mono-Green Landfall

2.6%of meta
~$197
B

B-Tier

Viable archetypes (2-5% meta share) (10 archetypes)

B

Azorius Momo

5.7%of meta
~$273
B

Jeskai Artifacts

4.1%of meta
~$392
B

Boros Dwarves

4.1%of meta
~$393
B

Azorius Control

3.3%of meta
~$339
B

Boros Dragons

2.6%of meta
~$452
B

Dimir Excruciator

1.5%of meta
~$296
B

Izzet Spellementals

1.4%of meta
~$144
B

Izzet Prowess

0.6%of meta
~$171
B

Selesnya Landfall

0.4%of meta
~$272
B

Selesnya Gearhulk

0.2%of meta
~$236
C

C-Tier

Low-meta archetypes (1-2% meta share) (43 archetypes)

C

Rakdos Lizards

2.5%of meta
~$249
C

Dimir Control

2.0%of meta
~$385
C

Jeskai Control

1.2%of meta
~$425
C

4c Reanimator

1.1%of meta
~$492
C

Mono-Black Aggro

1.0%of meta
~$29
C

Mardu Discard

1.0%of meta
~$352
C

Simic Landfall

0.7%of meta
~$227
C

Mono-Red Aggro

0.6%of meta
~$89
C

Boros Tokens

0.5%of meta
~$256
C

Grixis Reanimator

0.4%of meta
~$531
C

Esper Excruciator

0.4%of meta
~$317
C

Gruul Delirium

0.4%of meta
~$111
C

Jund Midrange

0.4%of meta
~$228
C

Izzet Leyline Aggro

0.4%of meta
~$231
C

4c Kona

0.4%of meta
~$650
C

Mardu Cat Pact

0.3%of meta
~$488
C

Sultai Control

0.3%of meta
~$217
C

Selesnya Ouroboroid

0.3%of meta
~$322
C

Izzet Maestro

0.3%of meta
~$205
C

Bant Airbending Combo

0.3%of meta
~$347
C

4c Artifacts

0.2%of meta
~$342
C

Jeskai Momo

0.2%of meta
~$338
C

Izzet Control

0.2%of meta
~$297
C

Temur Prowess

0.2%of meta
~$204
C

5c Omniscience

0.2%of meta
~$555
C

Sultai Reanimator

0.2%of meta
~$375
C

Temur Battlecrier Combo

0.2%of meta
~$345
C

Azorius Tempo

0.2%of meta
~$388
C

Golgari Midrange

0.2%of meta
~$279
C

Mono-Red Prowess

0.2%of meta
~$98
C

Mono-Red Burn

0.2%of meta
~$12
C

Izzet Looting

0.2%of meta
~$366
C

Rakdos Aggro

0.2%of meta
~$290
C

5c Elementals

0.1%of meta
~$525
C

Selesnya Aggro

0.1%of meta
~$247
C

Golgari Self-Mill

0.1%of meta
~$280
C

Jund Delirium

0.1%of meta
~$252
C

Esper Reanimator

0.1%of meta
~$506
C

Boros Control

0.1%of meta
~$632
C

Azorius Enchantments

0.1%of meta
~$21
C

Orzhov Aristocrats

0.1%of meta
~$282
C

Boros Aggro

0.1%of meta
~$502
C

Mono-White Angels

0.1%of meta
~$178