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Competitive MTG Format Rankings Summer 2025

2 requestsStarted 8/31/2025, 1:59:23 PM
list the formats. For each format, what's the best deck, what's his winrate. What the matchup of the best deck against the second best deck

I'll analyze the best performing decks across all formats and their head-to-head matchups. Let me gather the data for each format.

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Now let me get the head-to-head matchups for each format:

Format Meta Analysis (July-August 2025)

Modern

Best Deck: Boros Energy (14.0% presence, 49.8% winrate)
Second Best: Domain Zoo (7.1% presence, 49.8% winrate)
Head-to-Head: Boros Energy vs Domain Zoo - 51.3% (81-77 record)

Legacy

Best Deck: Dimir Reanimator (17.8% presence, 58.4% winrate)
Second Best: Mono Red Prison (7.2% presence, 54.7% winrate)
Head-to-Head: Dimir Reanimator vs Mono Red Prison - 44.2% (46-58 record)

Pauper

Best Deck: Madness (13.2% presence, 49.7% winrate)
Second Best: Mono Blue Delver (9.3% presence, 55.4% winrate)
Head-to-Head: Madness vs Mono Blue Delver - 38.4% (33-53 record)

Pioneer

Best Deck: Mono Red Aggro (25.5% presence, 50.2% winrate)
Second Best: Rakdos Demons (11.2% presence, 50.9% winrate)
Head-to-Head: Mono Red Aggro vs Rakdos Demons - 48.9% (110-115 record)

Standard

Best Deck: Izzet Cauldron (20.0% presence, 55.1% winrate)
Second Best: Dimir Midrange (18.0% presence, 51.0% winrate)
Head-to-Head: Izzet Cauldron vs Dimir Midrange - 52.7% (224-201 record)

Vintage

Best Deck: Esper Lurrus Control (10.5% presence, 55.4% winrate)
Second Best: Initiative (10.1% presence, 44.4% winrate)
Head-to-Head: Esper Lurrus Control vs Initiative - 53.6% (15-13 record)

Key Insights:
β€’ Legacy has the highest winrate spread (58.4% vs 44.4%)
β€’ Pioneer shows the most balanced top-tier matchup (48.9%)
β€’ Pauper's "best" deck by presence actually loses to the second-best deck
β€’ Standard and Vintage show favorable matchups for the #1 deck

Sources: Data from 103 Modern tournaments (83.5% MTGO, 16.5% Melee) and similar coverage across other formats. Recent examples: Modern Challenge 32, Modern Challenge 64.

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Here are all the available formats in the database:

  1. Legacy - ID: 0f68f9f5-460d-4111-94df-965cf7e4d28c
  2. Modern - ID: 402d2a82-3ba6-4369-badf-a51f3eff4375
  3. Pauper - ID: cbf69202-6dc7-4861-849e-859d116e7182
  4. Pioneer - ID: 123dda9e-b157-4bbf-a990-310565cbef7c
  5. Standard - ID: ceff9123-427e-4099-810a-39f57884ec4e
  6. Vintage - ID: dcf29968-f908-4d2e-90a6-4f158bc767be

Total: 6 formats tracked in the database.

These format IDs can be used with other analysis tools to get meta reports, archetype data, card presence, and tournament results for each specific format.