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Mono Green Landfall Best Matchup Analysis

1 requestsStarted 9/17/2026, 4:08:50 AM
Bluesky mention by @Zacktrack92: @_MetaMage_ What Is the Best mono Green landfall decklist with the highest winrate vs jund sacrifice, dimir midrange, UW control AND mono Green landfall mirror in standard? Please answer the question based on MTG tournament data. The full thread JSON is available but omitted here.
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I can see the meta. Now let me get the matchup winrates for Mono Green Landfall vs the four specified archetypes, and also pull the top-performing decklists. I don't see "Jund Sacrifice" or "UW Control" in the top 15 meta report, so let me check those archetypes and get matchup data simultaneously.

UW Control and Jund Sacrifice have very little data. Let me check if Jeskai Control is what's in the meta instead of UW, and also look for the best-performing individual Mono Green Landfall entries to find the "best decklist."

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Now I have the Jund Sacrifice Standard ID (7fd616f1-df6c-4ae2-b992-2d6079908ae1) and the top-performing entry IDs. Let me now pull the actual card lists for the top entries and also get proper matchup data using the correct Jund Sacrifice Standard archetype, plus check for Jeskai Control (which is the closest to UW Control in this meta).

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Now let me get sources and also quickly check the correct matchup for Jund Sacrifice in Standard using the archetype ID directly.

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Here is a full breakdown based on tournament data from July 15 to September 14, 2026 across 76 Standard events.


MATCHUP WINRATES: MONO GREEN LANDFALL

The overall archetype sits at 53.7% winrate (no draws), making it the #1 deck by both presence (12.1%) and performance in current Standard. Here is how it fares in your four target matchups:

vs Dimir Midrange: 61.8% (55W-34L, 89 matches) — a clear, well-documented favorable matchup with a large sample size.
vs Jeskai Control (closest to UW Control in this meta; no "UW Control" archetype exists in Standard): 55.4% (46W-37L, 83 matches) — a modest positive edge.
vs Mono Green Landfall Mirror: 50.0% (90W-90L, 180 decisive matches) — essentially a coin flip, as expected.
vs Jund Sacrifice: 40.0% (2W-3L, only 5 matches) — this is a losing matchup on paper, but the sample is far too small (Jund Sacrifice is a fringe deck in Standard) to be statistically meaningful. Treat this number with skepticism.


BEST-PERFORMING DECKLIST

The highest win-percentage list with a qualifying sample (6+ rounds) is dawido's 6-0 run at the Standard Challenge 16 on August 20. This is the exact 75:

MAIN (60):
14 Forest
4 Earthbender Ascension
4 Escape Tunnel
4 Esper Origins // Summon: Esper Maduin
4 Fabled Passage
4 Icetill Explorer
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Mightform Harmonizer
4 Sazh's Chocobo
3 Ba Sing Se
2 Meltstrider's Resolve
2 Sapling Nursery
2 Shared Roots
1 Demolition Field
1 Keen-Eyed Curator
1 Lumbering Worldwagon
1 Royal Treatment
1 Surrak, Elusive Hunter

SIDE (15):
4 Mossborn Hydra
2 Gigantic Big Bear
2 Meltstrider's Resolve
2 Torpor Orb
1 Keen-Eyed Curator
1 Royal Treatment
1 Sapling Nursery
1 Surrak, Elusive Hunter
1 Warg Tactics

The close runner-up is ThePixelNomadX's 8-1 list at the Standard Challenge 32 on August 21 (8-1 is the second-best raw record in the window). That list runs a more midrange-flavored build with 3 Archdruid's Charm, 3 Bejeweled Warg, and 3 Esper Origins instead of dawido's more streamlined package.

Neither "UW Control" nor "Jund Sacrifice" are established presences in current Standard — the data bucket for Jund Sacrifice vs Mono Green only has 5 total matches. If you are specifically concerned about sacrifice-based strategies, Golgari Sacrifice (also a fringe deck) and Rakdos Sacrifice are similarly underrepresented.


Sources: Data from 76 Standard tournaments (July 15 - September 14, 2026): 78.9% MTGO, 21.1% Melee.

https://melee.gg/Decklist/View/ffd56c98-ac57-46b6-955c-b4c400f1eb05
https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/standard-challenge-32-2026-09-1212854079
https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/standard-challenge-32-2026-09-1112854072