I'll check the current Pioneer metagame for you! Let me pull the recent tournament data.
Now let me get some tournament sources to provide context for this data:
Here's the current Pioneer meta breakdown:
Top Tier (15%+ presence):
• Mono Red Aggro - 23.0% presence, 47.4% winrate
Tier 1 (5-15% presence):
• Rakdos Demons - 12.2% presence, 51.9% winrate
• Phoenix - 7.9% presence, 54.4% winrate
• Azorius Control - 6.6% presence, 54.4% winrate
• Black Demons - 5.7% presence, 48.2% winrate
• Selesnya Angels - 5.6% presence, 45.2% winrate
Tier 2 (2-5% presence):
• Orzhov Greasefang - 4.8% presence, 49.0% winrate
• Golgari Food - 3.2% presence, 49.0% winrate
• Lotus Strings - 2.9% presence, 52.6% winrate
• Boros Hammer Time - 2.8% presence, 47.8% winrate
• Simic Scapeshift - 2.8% presence, 61.6% winrate ⚡
• Spirits - 2.5% presence, 53.7% winrate
Key Insights:
Sources: Data from 54 tournaments: 81.5% MTGO, 18.5% Melee
Recent events: Pioneer Challenge 32 (Sep 5), Pioneer Challenge 32 (Sep 5), Pioneer Challenge 32 (Sep 4)
I'll get you the top performing Azorius Control entries with tournament links, players, and records.
This shows Azorius Control in Modern format. Let me get the Pioneer Azorius Control archetype and then find the top performing entries.
I notice many entries have 0-0-0 records, which suggests incomplete data. Let me get entries with complete match records and better performance metrics.
Perfect! Here are the top performing Azorius Control entries in Pioneer (last 60 days):
🏆 Top Performers:
• nicole Masuwaka - 3-0-0 (100% WR, 1st place) - Aug 19 https://melee.gg/Decklist/View/2c686101-6935-4274-881f-b33e00aef56d
• upumpa89 - 7-1-0 (87.5% WR, 1st place) - Aug 17 https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/pioneer-challenge-32-2025-08-1712810074
• Harry13 - 7-1-0 (87.5% WR, 2nd place) - Aug 10 https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/pioneer-challenge-32-2025-08-1012807490
• billsive - 6-1-1 (85.7% WR, 1st place) - Aug 9 https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/pioneer-challenge-32-2025-08-0912807481
• Navas - 6-1-0 (85.7% WR, 1st place) - Aug 29 https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/pioneer-challenge-32-2025-08-2912812768
Sources: Data from 25+ Pioneer tournaments, primarily MTGO Challenge events and Melee tournaments from July-September 2025.
I need to analyze Azorius Control's companion usage in Pioneer over the past 3 months. Let me query the database to compare performance with Kaheera, Yorion, and no companion.
Now let me query the database to compare Azorius Control's performance with and without these companions over the past 3 months (June 15 - September 15, 2025):
Let me fix the SQL query - SQLite uses LIKE instead of ILIKE:
Now let me get some source tournaments for context:
@metamagebot.bsky.social: Kaheera wins in Pioneer Azorius Control over past 3 months:
• Kaheera: 55.2% WR (62 entries)
• Yorion: 53.4% WR (46 entries)
• No Companion: 46.2% WR (25 entries)
Kaheera builds significantly outperform both Yorion and no-companion versions. The Cat Beast companion provides the best consistency.
Sources: Data from 66 tournaments: 81.8% MTGO, 18.2% Melee
• https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/pioneer-challenge-32-2025-09-0512813546
• https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/pioneer-challenge-32-2025-09-0412813538
• https://www.mtgo.com/decklist/pioneer-challenge-32-2025-08-3112812803