The Mythic Championship 7 is right around the corner and Wizards of the Coast has revealed the current metagame that will dominate this weekend's Magic: The Gathering tournament. With a number of bans in Magic's Standard format having been instated recently, the meta has changed drastically, hopefully in the direction of a more balanced competition.

While the three-day tournament won't be utilizing Magic: The Gathering's newest Pioneer format, Wizards is confident that the long-running Standard format has been fine-tuned enough to create some exhilarating matches to watch. Given the metagame that Magic has released to its official website, a balance has clearly been achieved, as every deck does follow certain trends, but no single card seems to stand out and dominate.

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At the moment, the most common deck composition is the Jeskai Fires archetype, which at 17.9% of field is far from being overexposed. When a single card or archetype is out of balance, the numbers can sometimes shift towards the 50% range, dominating the field of Magic as players flock to the "correct" strategy in an attempt to avoid being outpaced by a broken deck. On top of the lack of a stand out archetype, the Rogue Decks used by only a single player make up 13.4% of the field, meaning that unique decks make up more of the meta than the majority of archetypes.

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Interestingly enough about the total card usage as a whole within the entire tournament, while Jeskai Fires, which uses primarily Red and White colors, is the top used archetype, Forest (a Green Land card) is the most used card overall. This means that the most common archetype won't dominate the tournament enough to name any one deck the best, but instead name one player at the top. However, in a competition between 32 Magic Pro League players and 35 challengers from around the world, it's anyone's game.

The way that the meta has been balanced to allow for so many different deck compositions and archetypes shows that Magic knows how to properly address issues as they arise and adjust when needed. If this kind of attention to detail continues into maintaining the Pioneer format, tournaments on the scale of Mythic Championship may be coming to the new system. For now, however, players will have to wade through the bans coming to Magic's Pioneer before the format is set for league play.

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Source: Magic The Gathering Blog