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Living End Best Among Four Modern Decks

1 requestsStarted 4/28/2026, 3:28:15 AM
Bluesky mention by @motow: @_MetaMage_ Which is best among Living End, Ramp Eldrazi, Tron, and Esper Goryo's ? Please answer the question based on MTG tournament data. The full thread JSON is available but omitted here.

I'll pull up overview and winrate data for all four archetypes simultaneously. Let me grab their details first.

Let me get winrate data for the three found archetypes and search for the Esper Goryo's archetype simultaneously.

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🛠️QueryArchetypes containing Goryo Esper or Reanimator
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The "Goryo Reanimator" archetype matches - it plays Goryo's Vengeance with Atraxa in Esper colors. Let me get its winrate and add the alias.

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Here is the full breakdown across all four archetypes in Modern over the last ~60 days (Feb 27 - Apr 28, 2026), mirror matches excluded:

RANKING (by 60-day winrate, mirrors excluded):

  1. Living End - 52.9% winrate (208W-185L, 393 matches)
  2. Ramp Eldrazi - 51.3% winrate (122W-116L, 241 matches)
  3. Esper Goryo's (Goryo Reanimator) - 50.1% winrate (268W-267L, 545 matches)
  4. Tron - 44.7% winrate (337W-417L, 763 matches)

Living End is the clear data-backed winner of the four. It holds the highest winrate and has been consistently putting up strong numbers week-to-week, with several weeks above 60% (including a 70.6% spike in mid-March). Its recent trend is volatile but the floor is higher than Tron's ceiling. Ramp Eldrazi is second and has been trending upward sharply in the last two weeks (70.6% and 70.0% in April 6-19), with a small sample caveat. It looks like the rising threat among this group.

Esper Goryo's (tracked as Goryo Reanimator in the database - Goryo's Vengeance + Atraxa, WUB colors) sits at essentially coin-flip 50.1% overall, but has been heating up recently with back-to-back strong weeks (67.9% and 62.5% in the last two weeks of April) and growing presence at 6.8% in the most recent week. It may be underrated right now. Tron is clearly the worst of the four by a significant margin, sitting at 44.7% overall and posting a brutal 33.3% and 25.0% in the last two weeks of April.

Sources: Data from 134 Modern tournaments (Feb 27 - Apr 28, 2026), 75% MTGO / 25% Melee. Recent examples: