Season 13 By the Numbers

With playoffs starting and Foundations on the horizon, let’s take a look at the stats from season 13’s regular play! (Including interactive charts! On each chart, you can click on a deck’s name in the legend to highlight it.)

Deck Archetypes

This cluster chart shows the overall popularity of each archetype. The size of the circle correlates to the number of decks within an archetype.

Out of the 824 decks played this season, there were 81 unique archetypes, 16 of which were played at least 10 times! Black was the most common color, in 46% of decks this season, while Red was the least common, in only 31% of decks.

Top 10 Most Popular Archetypes

• Golgari Midrange: 109 decks, 13.23% metashare
• Gruul Prowess: 93 decks, 11.29% metashare
• Domain Ramp: 85 decks, 10.32% metashare
• Dimir Midrange: 83 decks, 10.07% metashare
• Mono-White Token Control: 54 decks, 6.55% metashare
• Azorius Tempo: 40 decks, 4.85% metashare
• Rakdos Lizards: 31 decks, 3.76% metashare
• Orzhov Midrange: 27 decks, 3.28% metashare
• Jeskai Convoke: 27 decks, 3.28% metashare
• Azorius Control: 25 decks, 3.03% metashare

Deck Popularity by Week

Most Copies of a Deck Submitted in One Week

• Golgari Midrange: 25 decks in week 3, 21 in week 2, 19 in week 1
• Dimir Midrange: 19 decks in week 1
• Gruul Prowess: 18 decks in week 4
• Mono-White Token Control: 17 decks in week 6

Win Rates

Overall, there were 988 games played across 412 matches, about 2.4 games per match.

This chart shows archetype win rates compared to the number of decks. The circle size is relative to the number of decks within each archetype, and the height of the circle is the win rate.

Top 10 Decks by Win Rate

This section only includes decks that were played 5 or more times this season, and only accounts for non-mirror match game win rate.

• Dimir Control: 80% win rate, 5 total decks, 2 weeks in the meta
• Boros Prowess (aka Boros Enchantments): 77.8% win rate, 9 total decks, 4 weeks in the meta
• Boros Token Control: 75% win rate, 12 total decks, 5 weeks in the meta
• Azorius Tokens: 75% win rate, 8 total decks, 6 weeks in the meta
• Jeskai Convoke: 70.4% win rate, 27 total decks, 7 weeks in the meta
• Domain Ramp: 64.9% win rate, 85 total decks, 7 weeks in the meta
• Dimir Midrange: 63.4% win rate, 83 total decks, 7 weeks in the meta
• Orzhov Midrange: 59.3% win rate, 27 total decks, 7 weeks in the meta
• Azorius Tempo: 52.8% win rate, 40 decks, 7 weeks in the meta
• Mono-White Token Control: 50% win rate, 54 decks, 7 weeks in the meta

How Did Duskmourn Affect the Meta?

Here are some of the biggest changes to deck popularity and win rates pre- and post-Duskmourn release:

• Domain Ramp: 34 decks, 53.9% win rate in BLB meta. 50 decks, 65.3% win rate in DSK meta. Overall, +11.4% win rate increase; turns out Overlord of the Hauntwoods Overlord of the Hauntwoods is really good for this deck!
• Golgari Midrange: 65 decks, 52.3% win rate in BLB meta. 44 decks, 42.4% win rate in DSK meta. Overall, -9.9% win rate decrease; this deck didn’t pick up anything immediately obvious in DSK, which led to it having the biggest fall in popularity. That said, the demon package with Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber Unholy Annex Ritual Chamber
  is looking promising.
• Mono-White Token Control: 8 decks, 70.8% win rate in BLB meta. 46 decks, 49.3% win rate in DSK meta. Overall, -21.6% win rate decrease; a huge increase in popularity, especially for a control deck, often means lower win rates, and this was the biggest increase in a deck’s popularity between the two metas (yes, even more of an increase than Azorius Tempo!).
• Orzhov Midrange: 18 decks, 66.7% win rate in BLB meta. 9 decks, 25.9% win rate in DSK meta. Overall, -40.7% win rate decrease; struggling along in the battle for “best midrange”, Orzhov fell off when Dimir Midrange got Enduring Curiosity Enduring Curiosity .

Best Counterpicks for Popular Decks

Continuing the “Top Decks vs Top 3” segment, here are the best decks to play (based on VML stats alone) if you find yourself in a match against the five most popular decks:

Golgari Midrange

Overall, Golgari Midrange had a 48.5% game win rate in non-mirror matches. The decks with the best record against Golgari Midrange are:

• Domain Ramp: 72.2% game win rate, 18 matches
• Jeskai Convoke: 70.8% win rate, 8 matches
• Azorius Tempo: 66.7% win rate, 4 matches
• Dimir Midrange: 60% win rate, 15 matches

Gruul Prowess

Overall, Gruul Prowess had a 44.3% game win rate in non-mirror matches. The decks with the best record against Gruul Prowess are:

• Orzhov Midrange: 91.7% game win rate, 4 matches
• Dimir Midrange: 77.8% win rate, 6 matches
• Golgari Midrange: 62.5% win rate, 8 matches
• Mono-White Token Control: 58.3% win rate, 8 matches
• Domain Ramp: 55.6% win rate, 9 matches

Domain Ramp

Overall, Domain Ramp had a 64.9% game win rate in non-mirror matches. The decks with the best record against Domain Ramp are:

• Azorius Control: 55.6% game win rate, 3 matches
• Temur Storm: 55.6% game win rate, 3 matches
• Azorius Tempo: 53.5% win rate, 5 matches

Dimir Midrange

Overall, Dimir Midrange had a 63.4% game win rate in non-mirror matches. The decks with the best record against Dimir Midrange are:

• Azorius Tempo: 75% game win rate, 4 matches
• Rakdos Lizards: 66.7% win rate, 3 matches
• Domain Ramp: 59.3% win rate, 9 matches

Mono-White Token Control

Overall, Mono-White Token Control had a 50% game win rate in non-mirror matches. The decks with the best record against Mono-White Token Control are:

• Domain Ramp: 83.3% game win rate, 6 matches
• Dimir Midrange: 60% win rate, 5 matches
• Jeskai Convoke: 55.6% win rate, 3 matches

All the weekly stats can be found here. If you’re a playoff player interested in matchup data for any deck, please feel free to DM me on Discord (username: nohrg, VML server: Noah R-G (he/they)), and I’ll be happy to provide that for you.