← Back to Sessions

Pioneer Top Decks Current Meta

3 requestsStarted 9/15/2025, 8:16:45 AM
@jiliac.bsky.social: @metamagebot.bsky.social what's the meta in pioneer?

I'll check the current Pioneer metagame for you! Let me pull the recent tournament data.

🛠️Get Meta Report

Now let me get some tournament sources to provide context for this data:

Pioneer Metagame (Last 2 Months)

Here's the current Pioneer meta breakdown:

Top Tier (15%+ presence):
Mono Red Aggro - 23.0% presence, 47.4% winrate

  • Still the most popular deck but struggling with 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:

  • Phoenix and Azorius Control are performing very well
  • Simic Scapeshift has the highest winrate but low presence (potential sleeper)
  • Mono Red dominates play volume but is underperforming
  • Demons variants (Rakdos/Black) are strong performers

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)

@jiliac.bsky.social: can you link to the top performing entries of azorius control (link, player, record, date)

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.

🛠️QueryAzorius Control Archetypes in Specific Format
🛠️QueryTop Tournament Performers for Specific Archetypes

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.

🛠️QueryTop Tournament Performers by Winrate and Rank

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.

@[user]: over the past 3 months, is the archetype performing better with "Kaheera, the Orphanguard" or "Yorion, Sky Nomad" as companion ? (or with no companion at all)

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):

🛠️QueryAzorius Control Companion Performance Analysis

Let me fix the SQL query - SQLite uses LIKE instead of ILIKE:

🛠️QueryAzorius Control Companion Usage in Summer Tournament

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