Draft Deck Meta

Aetherdrift Draft Deck Metagame

Draft deck metagame only consists of decks with the maximum number of wins (3 wins in Traditional and 7 wins in Quick and Premier drafts).
Select an archetype to see the popular cards used in winning decks of that group.

Simic card breakdown - 102 decks, 11.83% of meta

Creatures

2.5 This gives some nice graveyard synergy and can even insure you hit a land drop. 3.5 1x in 27%

4 Adding a 4/4 to the board and bouncing your opponent's best creature or vehicle is a big play, and this can even tamper with speed. 4.2 1x in 28%

2.5 Cycling this is going to be "Plan A" most of the time since it generates a decent amount of value for the cost, and can even sometimes give you a 2-for-1. But, running this out as a 4-mana 3/4 when you have to is nice. 2.4 1x in 29%

2 You get an on-rate creature here, but it doesn't do a whole lot more. If you have Fang-Druid Summoner or Rise from the Wreck, it gets a little better. 2.4 1x in 29%

3.5 Blue creatures that make a token are very frequently the best Common in Limited, and this is definitely in the conversation. You get good stats for what you pay and the artifact upside is nice. 2.8 1x in 30%

3.5 There are lots of good Exhaust abilities at lower rarities in the format, and rebuying them is pretty great. Even on it's own it can put a counter on itself every turn. 4.2 1x in 32%

2 This will never feel especially efficient, but it's nice that it feels fine on turn two and you can Exhaust it late to keep it relevant. 2.7 1x in 32%

3.5 This can trade with anything and the Exhaust ability is a great way to make sure you have mana for your other Exhaust abilities. 4.1 1x in 33%

2 This is a decent two drop, and the ability might be a little more accessible than in most formats since there are several cards that produce mana for abilities. However, only hitting a land with the ability is a very real outcome. 3.2 1x in 34%

3.5 This is a very good Common. If it was always 5-mana for a 2/2 and a 3/3, you'd be pretty happy with that card -- but you can run this out on turn one and still have that upside for later in the game. 3.8 1x in 38%

3 Even if this was always 5-mana for a 3/4 with Vigilance that loots when it enters, it'd be solid -- and this is way better since you can pay in installments. 2.5 1x in 38%

2.5 This can attack surprisingly well for most of the game, and it can of course always trade with anything. Particularly good with Run Over. 3.1 1x in 40%

2.5 This is a solid top-end creature that is pretty good at helping you stabilize between the huge body, reach, and life gain. 3.6 1x in 42%

2.5 You're getting just about you should get for 4 mana, and in the late game it can become the biggest creature on the board. 4.1 1x in 42%
Instant, Sorcery

3.5 The baseline is 5-mana for two 1/1 thopters and you drain your opponent 2 life. That's not good, but it's the baseline. Sometimes this will just end the game, and it will frequently turn the game on it's head. 3.7 1x in 2%

4 This kills most stuff while giving you a very nice loot. 3.7 1x in 5%

1.5 Without Cycling this would be close to unplayable since it involves going down a card for some tempo, making it only good when you're ahead. 1 1x in 5%

1.5 // 3.0 If you're a graveyard-oriented deck with a good mix of Mounts and Vehicles, this'll be pretty good. It gets even better if you have a couple of vanilla creatures. 3.5 1x in 11%

2 This has some serious blowout potential, but it's a little bit too expensive to be a great trick. 2 1x in 12%

2.5 This feels really good when it blanks removal or wins combat, and making a token with it isn't a bad failcase. 2.4 1x in 15%

3 Neither of these modes is that good individually, but when you CAN destroy a vehicle or creature for one mana, it feels pretty good. 4.2 1x in 20%

2.5 This is a powerful draw spell for sure, but not adding to the board on turn three is pretty bad -- meaning this is more of a late game play. 3.6 1x in 22%

3.5 Even if this always cost three mana it would be good, since you can get some nice tempo while drawing a card, so the fact this'll be one mana sometimes is really nice. 3.4 1x in 24%

2 This has enough targets in the format for this to be main deck material, but it'll still be kind of a medium removal spell. 1.9 1x in 27%

3 This 4-mana removal spell always ends up playing pretty well since it's a nice 1-for-1 trade, and this comes with Cycling upside. 2.1 1x in 30%

2 You usually go down a card with this, but it does offer some nice tempo with the upside of occasionally blowing out a combat trick or a crewed vehicle. 2.7 1x in 32%

2.5 This can counter a lot very efficiently, though not hitting most removal spells is a bummer. 2.2 1x in 36%

3.5 If this always cost two it would be a good card, but it will frequently only cost a single green, making it great. There's even a mount with death touch which makes for a particularly devastating combo. 3.7 1x in 39%
Enchantment, Artifact

4.5 Blue has plenty of ways to get Thopter tokens out of this, and a big evasive Vehicle is pretty solid to begin with. 4.7 1x in 10%

2.5 Recursive spells like this have played pretty well lately, and I don't have incidental life gain stapled to it. 3.6 1x in 10%

2 Crew 4 is a lot, especially if you play this early -- and a */4 gets a lot less impressive the later the game goes on. Sure, it's power will be higher, but that toughness staying at 4 still makes it super vulnerable. Meanwhile, the mana ramp just isn't very relevant most of the time. 4.8 1x in 10%

1.5 If you're desperate for removal, this can do the job, but it'll never be efficient. 2 1x in 11%

4 Even though this nerfs the creature you steal, it's still basically a 5-mana 5/5 vehicle that removes a creature, and the creature you steal can probably crew the Engine -- and might even have some abilities. 4.6 1x in 11%

1.5 The risk isn't really worth the reward here. The buff is fairly small, and Reach isn't exactly the most exciting keyword. 1.5 1x in 12%

0 This is just too slow to ever be worthwhile. Drawing cards is nice, but not when you have to spend this much for it, and while it has Max Speed, it doesn't help you get it at all. 3.2 1x in 14%

3 Green decks will be pretty good at setting this up so that you don't have to crew very often, and it hits like a truck. 4.4 1x in 19%

2 Not a terrible defensive card, but it doesn't belong in all decks. 2.3 1x in 21%

3.5 It's great that this is an enabler and a payoff, so you can draw a card with it even without any other Exhaust, and you're going to have other Exhaust around, too. 3.8 1x in 22%

2 If you're in the market for mana fixing and ramp, you could do worse. I'm just not sure how often you're going to want to play an understtated vehicle to gain access to that. 2.8 1x in 23%

2.5 This type of removal is never great because it's a little too expensive and a little too easy for your opponent to deal with. 3.4 1x in 25%

3.5 The Vehicle itself is pretty nice, and getting just one thopter out of this feels good, and it isn't hard to build around. 3.9 1x in 33%

3 This has pretty bad stats for a vehicle that is this hard to crew, but drawing two cards up front is definitely a big deal. 2.3 1x in 35%
Planeswalkers
Lands

3 These offer excellent fixing which you can use to make your mana base more consistent in a two-color deck, or to help you splash. 3.1 1x in 12%

2.5 Gaining a bit of life helps make up for the fact that these always enter tapped, and they are pretty good at fixing your mana. 1.5 1x in 13%

2.5 These will often enter untapped, and they give you a very real body in the mid-to-late-game. 2 1x in 19%

2.5 This style of land is always good for your mana base, and adding Cycling to a land is always nice because it gives you some flood insurance. 3 1x in 28%

2.5 Gaining a bit of life helps make up for the fact that these always enter tapped, and they are pretty good at fixing your mana. 2.6 1x in 36%
Top Rated Cards

4.5 It's tough to cast but it doesn't take much of a board state for this to break the game wide open. Vigilance + Menace + the buff is amazing, because it means you can swing super hard without giving up much on defense. So it isn't just good when it gives you lethal. It's basically always good when you cast it. -0 1x in 1%

4.5 This can augment creatures and rapidly gain loyalty to draw you cards, and importantly -- it's pretty well protected any time it's equipped to a creature 5 1x in 2%

4.5 This feels good whenever it is you cast it, where it's on two or three, and then you use the other abilities later. Getting that dragon is where the most value is. 4.7 1x in 2%

4.5 This is almost always going to net you cards, and if the game is stalled out you can just keep growing it and making into more of a threat as it becomes a more imposing creature on the board too. 4.7 1x in 4%

4.5 This is a great removal spell, and once you have Max Speed it also turns into a pretty amazing value engine. A free counter every turn is massive. 4.8 1x in 5%

4.5 The mana's tough, but that's probably a good thing because a creature that can Lightning Bolt or Ancestral Recall is pretty insane in Limited. Ideally, you want to wait until you have that sixth mana to use one of those exhaust abilities before you play it. 4.6 1x in 6%

4.5 Getting lots of extra counters is a good way to gain a big advantage, and this can even rumble as a tramply vehicle when it has to. 4.9 1x in 8%

4.5 Blue has plenty of ways to get Thopter tokens out of this, and a big evasive Vehicle is pretty solid to begin with. 4.7 1x in 10%

4.5 The combat trick mode is going to be really good in all kinds of situations and give you a 2-for-1 whether you win combat with it or blank removal, and obviously a 5-mana 8/8 trampler is an imposing board presence. 4.8 1x in 12%

5 The floor here is that you pay 4-mana for a 6/6 Vehicle with Crew 2 and you get to ping something. That's a great starting point, and the later the game goes, the more potent that Exhaust ability becomes. 4.6 1x in 1%

5 This is a huge bomb because it Bolts something when it enters and attacks, while smashing in for 6 at the time. It really reshapes the board in a big way. 5 1x in 1%

5 The vehicle token is already worth a card more or less, and she can quite easily draw you even more cards. You'll often get a 3-for-1 when she comes down, and then the value just keeps rolling from there. 4.9 1x in 6%

5 This can easily become a 6/4, and it can also very easily return to the graveyard since green has so much Exhaust. This thing coming back even once is usually going to spell doom for your opponent. The value is just insane. 4.7 1x in 12%

5 So the turn you play this you'll have a huge indestructible body protecting you, on the next turn you add a counter and draw two, and then on the next turn it can attack for 7. Basically you alternate between drawing lots of cards and having a huge creature, and those are great things to have. 5 1x in 14%

Golgari	832 matches	104 decks
12.06% of Metagame
Simic	837 matches	102 decks
11.83% of Metagame
Selesnya	837 matches	102 decks
11.83% of Metagame
Izzet	614 matches	74 decks
8.58% of Metagame
Orzhov	537 matches	66 decks
7.66% of Metagame
Dimir	522 matches	65 decks
7.54% of Metagame
Gruul	535 matches	64 decks
7.42% of Metagame
Rakdos	517 matches	63 decks
7.31% of Metagame
Boros	496 matches	61 decks
7.08% of Metagame
Azorius	491 matches	61 decks
7.08% of Metagame
Naya	145 matches	18 decks
2.09% of Metagame
Sultai	118 matches	15 decks
1.74% of Metagame
Bant	109 matches	14 decks
1.62% of Metagame
Esper	73 matches	10 decks
1.16% of Metagame
Temur	86 matches	10 decks
1.16% of Metagame
Abzan	69 matches	9 decks
1.04% of Metagame
Jund	53 matches	7 decks
0.81% of Metagame
Grixis	48 matches	6 decks
0.70% of Metagame
Mardu	27 matches	3 decks
0.35% of Metagame
Jeskai	17 matches	2 decks
0.23% of Metagame
Colorless	9 matches	1 decks
0.12% of Metagame
Mono Red	8 matches	1 decks
0.12% of Metagame
Mono Black	9 matches	1 decks
0.12% of Metagame
Mono White	9 matches	1 decks
0.12% of Metagame
Mono Green	9 matches	1 decks
0.12% of Metagame
Mono Blue	9 matches	1 decks
0.12% of Metagame

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Aetherdrift Draft Deck Metagame

Simic card breakdown - 102 decks, 11.83% of meta

Creatures

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Enchantment, Artifact

Planeswalkers

Lands

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