Draft Deck Meta

Wilds of Eldraine Draft Deck Metagame

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Jund card breakdown - 41 decks, 1.51% of meta

Creatures

4.0 A three mana 3/3 that makes a Food is already close to a 3.0, so her other abilities are pretty amazing to have. Giving up food for cards is a very good deal, and sometimes buffing your creatures with Food is nice too. Keep in mind that the buff effect is only sorcery speed, while the draw a card effect is not. In the later stage of the game, you can look at this as a 5-mana 3/3 that draws you a card and you lose 1 life, which isn’t too shabby either. This looks like an excellent signpost Uncommon overall, with a great baseline and a very powerful effect on the game 3.6 1x in 24%

3.5 Buffing a creature at instant speed earlier and getting a reasonable 4-drop later means this delivers some serious value for a Common 3.1 1x in 24%

4.5 This looks really good. The combat trick side will alter combat significantly, usually enough for it to be in your favor, and then in the later game you get a reasonably efficient creature. This is another Adventure that has very real 2-for-1 potential. 4.2 1x in 27%

2.5 There is a lot you can do with Food in this format, so paying one mana and like half a card for it is pretty reasonable. Especially when the creature side of this can take advantage of that food and make itself into a pretty sizable attacker 2.8 1x in 27%

3.0 This has decent stats, it offers decent ramp, and it offers decent fixing. None of the things it does are very exciting, but ramp does seem like a real strategy in Green 3.2 1x in 27%

3.0 Giving up food to hurt your opponent can definitely have a place, and even be a win condition, and the base line of the card as a three mana 3/2 that makes a food isn’t a disaster 3.3 1x in 27%

4.5 This is great. Sure, Puny Snack isn’t the best removal spell in the world, but when it’s attached to an efficient creature who also spits out a Food token, it doesn’t really matter. Generating a 2-for-1 with this is going to be really easy, and it’s probably going to be one of the better Uncommons in the entire format 4.3 1x in 27%

2.0 This is pretty beefy, although I think it would be much better if it made the food on ETB. That would allow it to be one of these big creatures that helps slower decks stabilize. It can still help you do that of course, but having to rumble with it in order to get food makes the card a little bit awkward 2.8 1x in 27%

2.5 This offers some nice fixing and ramp and can trigger celebration all on its own. That seems like something worth doing in Red decks in this format 2.7 1x in 27%

3.5 When it has a big enough friend around, it is going to be an intimidating attacker on any board – and that alone is enough for the Ruiner to be relevant almost all game long. This is a case where I think you probably do play this as a two drop when you have it on turn two, because while the Adventure is a nice bit of value to have, making sure you get it isn’t that important. Obviously, like a lot of these, it is fun how it synergizes with itself, as Stolen Goodies is likely to make one of your creatures have 4 or more power so that the Ruiner can do its thing. Basically, if you draw this later you’ll probably cast both halves, but if you have it early, you’re probably just playing it as a creature. Both of those options feel pretty good, though 3.5 1x in 27%

3.0 A 3 mana ⅔ with Menace is passable, and you can augment one of your creatures with this on an earlier turn – or the same turn, if you have happen to have four mana. It just seems like plenty of value to get out of a single card, and it even seems reasonably efficient 3.2 1x in 29%

3.5 I like this a lot because it resembles some of the Adventures from last Eldraine that were huge overperformers. Yes, you’ve got a medicore trick on one side and a mediocre vanilla creature on the other, but you get both on one card, and both halves of this card can conceivably trade with something and that means you’re getting a 2-for-1. 2.6 1x in 37%

3.5 It can ramp your mana quite effectively, and that makes it more likely that you can get a creature with power 4 or great into play quickly, at which point Ruby herself becomes a significantly better attacker. There will also be times in the mid to late game when you draw her and can already trigger her ability, in which case she becomes a two mana ¾ with Haste, which is going to feel pretty good 3 1x in 51%

3.0 I always love a big ol’ green creature that gains me life when it ETBs, because it allows slower decks to stabilize. If this always cost 7 it would be overcosted, but because Bargaining this looks so doable, it will often cost 5 and you won’t have to give up much to make it happen. Red-Green and Blue-Green will both always want at least one copy of this 3.4 1x in 54%
Instant, Sorcery

2.0 Each thing this does individually isn’t that impressive but getting them all for three mana seems like a decent enough deal, especially if you’re in the market for fixing. Still, it’s a fairly low impact card that probably won’t always make the cut. 2.8 1x in 15%

2.5 5 mana Sorcery speed removal isn’t anything special. It’s just too expensive and clunky for that to ever be the case. This can go after two card types and it does upgrade your board a tiny bit, but overall it still seems a little too slow to be anything special 3.1 1x in 15%

3.5 I would already be interested in having one copy of this in every Black deck without Bargain. This type of card just always does a great job of helping you win long games by giving you back your two best creatures from the graveyard. So the fact that this can effectively reanimate something small when you do bargain it is pretty amazing. You still probably don’t really want more than one of these because they are so bad early, but I’d value that first copy pretty highly 3.6 1x in 17%

2.0 This is a nice Tormenting Voice variant. Even without the Role token this card is usually in the D+ or C- range, especially in a format with some graveyard stuff and a spell deck, and that’s true in this format. Actually adding to the board while digging deeper into your deck is going to feel pretty nice. You probably don’t desperately want more than one of these, although perhaps if you’re in the spell deck going deeper than that first copy might be worth it 2.2 1x in 17%

2.0 This will never let you trade up, and that’s one of the best things to do with removal spells. With this, you’ll kill something that cost the same or less. Getting that Food helps, but you don’t even always get it. 3.8 1x in 17%

2.0 One green mana to search up a basic land is a borderline playable, especially if you’re playing more than two colors. The upside of animating a land means it can add to the board sometimes too 2.5 1x in 20%

2.0 A three mana 1/1 that rampant growths is a solid enough card, and ramping does look fairly viable in this format. This can also give you food when you reach the part of the game where more lands doesn’t do you any good 1.9 1x in 22%

2.5 A 4-mana deal 4 sorcery isn’t premium removal, and I don’t think adding a Young Hero Role token to the mix gets this there. Still, it can kill a decent number of things and it does add to the board a tiny bit too. 3.7 1x in 24%

4.0 Without the cost reduction effect, this would probably be a B-. 4 mana deal 5 at instant speed is definitely efficient enough to be a great card. And there will be many turns where you can cast it a lot more cheaply. Keep in mind, you can attack and then cast this for a reduced cost before your opponent ever declares blockers. Paying 2 or even 1 for this isn’t far-fetched, and when you’re doing that it’s going to feel pretty nuts because of how effectively you’re going to trade down. 4.4 1x in 27%

3.0 It effectively gives +1/+1 to the thing you fight with, and a stats boost always makes fighting a little more appealing. Now, it does have some significant downsides. Namely, that if your opponent has any way to interact in response you probably get wrecked – whether it’s a removal spell or a combat trick on their creature – and that means you get yourself 2-for-1’d. So you have to pick your spots with this, especially because it’s a Sorcery 3.5 1x in 27%

3.5 The base form of this card is mediocre, but if you can just get it to do 3 damage you’re talking about premium removal. That’s not a huge ask at all, especially in Red decks in the format, and that also means it has a really high ceiling. Basically, this has a bad floor, but it will almost never be that bad, and I think that means it does enough to be premium removal you take highly 2.9 1x in 29%

4.0 This is premium removal. It would be without Bargain. With it it’s even better, as it can become a one mana deal 3. Sure, you do have to give something up, and sometimes that something will have to be real, but this format has a variety of tokens and other expendable things with these types, so Torch the Tower isn’t going to be that hard to get it to do 3 for a very low cost. 4.3 1x in 32%

4.0 Without Bargain this is premium removal, with it, it’s one of Black’s best commons. It can deal with so much when you Bargain, and there’s plenty of fodder around 4.3 1x in 32%

4.0 An instant speed X damage spell is pretty sweet. It scales all game long and can kill pretty much anything, provided you have the mana – or the permanent to Bargain 3.9 1x in 37%
Enchantment, Artifact

5.0 This is amazing. The adventure side is an excellent premium removal spell, and would be a B all on its own. Then, this removal spell turns into a value train in the late game and will definitely win you the game within a few turns 4.9 1x in 5%

1.5 Giving a creature firebereathing isn’t particularly useful unless that creature was also pretty good, but this does replace itself, so that makes the floor on it pretty reasonable, especially for a one mana card. It isn’t a bad thing to sacrifice to Bargain either, since it will have already giving you a card 2.6 1x in 5%

2.5 Making it so this draws all on its own is a pretty big deal, because it means it’s never entirely useless. Then if you have enough big spells in your deck – something Red/Green and Blue/Green both want to do, this will turn into a pretty awesome value engine 3.8 1x in 7%

1.0 A 4-mana Threaten isn’t amazing, but as usual, if you can sacrifice the thing that you steal we’re talking about a potentially powerful card. But the apple’s other two effects aren’t particularly good either 2.7 1x in 7%

2.5 The Red/Green and Blue/Green decks in this format can probably make decent use of this. One of the nice things about it is that it rewards you some for already having big things in play and then rewards you as well when you play them afterward, that means most of the time it will do something 2.1 1x in 7%

1.0 +2/+2 is a nice boost for the cost, but you still set yourself up for an ugly 2-for-1, and even though this can come back from your graveyard the cost is so high that it is only something you do when you have absolutely nothing else you can do. And even then, it isn’t going to feel great 1.3 1x in 7%

2.0 The Scry effect alone isn’t enough to run this, but the good news is there are several green cards in the set that will trigger this, even at lower rarities. They are combat tricks of course, but this also works pretty well with all the fight and bite spells, as it will make them into 2-for-1s, which is actually pretty nuts. So, I think you can actually play one of these in most Green decks and have it do something, and in some of them it might be really nuts 2.5 1x in 10%

3.0 This has been a nice Limited card every time we’ve seen it. It feels good to outright kill something with it, but it feels even better to put it on a creature that doesn’t die because the Aura usually does enough to make that creature irrelevant while it also starts quickly pressuring your opponent’s life 3.7 1x in 12%

1.5 Scry 2 on turn one doesn’t sound like a bad idea in a lot of situations, although using up a whole card to do it definitely isn’t appealing. However, the fact you can cash this in for a card and life later means you don’t use up a whole card. Still, in a format without a big artifact theme, these artifacts that have tiny effects have been fairly underwhelming 2.2 1x in 15%

3.0 This offers nice fixing and ramp at a very efficient rate. It lets you play three mana things on turn two which is always nice. It does only Enchant forests, which comes up sometimes, but this is still a pretty great way to get a mana advantage early. It does get worse later in the game when mana is less meaningful, but that early game upside is enough for this to be pretty good 3.8 1x in 20%

2.5 One mana to make your opponent discard and lose 2 life is an acceptable rate, and after that point the Nightmare is great fodder for cards with Bargain. It’s definitely a role-player, but something you probably want one of in Black if you have a few cards that Bargain 3.4 1x in 22%

3.5 This looks really good to me as it delivers so much value for the cost. You get to add to the board up front, then you get some food, and then you get a very real permanent buff 4.1 1x in 22%

2.0 This is pretty solid every time we see it. It’s not going to be as good here as it would be an artifact-heavy set, but it replaces itself and does an okay job of fixing your mana 2.8 1x in 24%

4.0 This looks strong. Sure, the three things it does are kind of small – but it’s almost always going to feel like you get two cards worth of value out of it. There will be situations where chapter 1 can’t kill something, but most of the time it will, and the Food and Role are going to feel like the cherry on top of a two-mana removal spell, which is pretty awesome 4.4 1x in 24%
Planeswalkers

5.0 This looks amazing. You’re not exactly going to trigger the pay life effect, but the +1 and -2 are both so good that it doesn’t really matter. The +1 is a great card draw effect, especially because it will help grow the two 1/1s that the -2 makes. And that -2 is good on its own too, as having Ashiok come down and make those two bodies will often do enough to keep Ashiok around for a while, especially because those tokens are just going to grow every turn going forward – and they do it during combat so it will happen quickly. The ultimate is kind of an afterthought here, mostly because you will want to get real cards with the +1, so the mana value of the cards you exile won’t be that high, but there will be situations where you look at the board and just using Ashiok’s +1 twice to exile two expensive things, and then fire off the -7 will make sense. So, it is upside on a card that is already nuts without it. The total package here is an insane bomb 5 1x in 10%
Lands

3.5 A 2/1 with First Strike can attack on a whole lot of boards, and the fact that this one is so cheap to animate is pretty amazing. Adding Scry as the attack trigger is definitely a nice addition 3.6 1x in 2%

4.0 This one transforms into a really beefy creature when you need it to. Even without the attack trigger I would love this, but hating on the graveyard and getting a Food makes this thing even more amazing 4.4 1x in 12%

3.0 This looks like a very nice land. Sure it enters tapped, but unlike a lot of utility lands we see, this one can produce colored mana so it isn’t a liability for your mana base. And that’s great, because the late game ability this has is pretty big. Getting back an Adventure late is going to be something that really helps you grind out a long game, since you often get a card that gives you impressive value when you do. You don’t really want more than one, but I think most decks will have enough adventures to make that first copy pretty nice 4 1x in 20%

1.0 Mana filter lands usually aren’t very good in Limited. It’s just really costly to have to tap two lands for one mana, and that’s effectively what happens when you need to filter using a land. The fact that Prophetic Prism and that Scarecrow are in the set probably also means that the demand for this will be even lower, as those two can filter your mana and you only have to tap one land to do it. Crystal Grotto is usually a 1.5, and with better Common colorless fixing around, this will probably drop down to a 1.0 2.3 1x in 24%

2.5 As usual, this provides nice fixing. Makes it pretty easy to splash a single card if you have one Evolving Wilds, since it effectively gives you two sources of your splash color 3 1x in 44%
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4.5 Obviously, the idea is that her food token can help set her up later in the game, and the format has plenty of other Food around too – so, casting the Poisoner and giving something -2/-2 until end of turn really isn’t going to be that difficult. You do need to spend extra mana to gain that life usually, but that type of turn is still going to feel powerful. 4.9 1x in 12%

4.5 This is great. Sure, Puny Snack isn’t the best removal spell in the world, but when it’s attached to an efficient creature who also spits out a Food token, it doesn’t really matter. Generating a 2-for-1 with this is going to be really easy, and it’s probably going to be one of the better Uncommons in the entire format 4.3 1x in 27%

4.5 This looks really good. The combat trick side will alter combat significantly, usually enough for it to be in your favor, and then in the later game you get a reasonably efficient creature. This is another Adventure that has very real 2-for-1 potential. 4.2 1x in 27%

5.0 This is utterly unbeatable on turn two, and no matter when you draw it, it represents a significant threat that will allow you to really snowball your advantage. It gets even sillier if you happen to be in the Faerie deck and can get extra value out of it 5 1x in 2%

5.0 On turn two it cranks out a solid creature, and then when you cast Virtue later it will make your board into an increasingly unbeatable thing. You do need to have something on your board of course, but that’s going to be the case most of the time. The fact it untaps those creature isn’t a small thing either, as it really means your opponent has no hope in beating you in a race 5 1x in 2%

5.0 Like the Gingerbread Hunter we just looked at, this is removal on one side and that’s amazing – in fact, in this case the removal is far more efficient! On its own, that card is usually premium removal. The creature side is a little more underwhelming, but still not too shabby for two mana 4.6 1x in 2%

5.0 A 6-mana 4/6 with Flying and Haste is already pretty impressive, and this activated ability is really strong and a great place to sink your mana. It can pick off creatures or finish off your opponent quite impressively, and because of Bargain, you have the option of giving up something to get four mana right away that you can use to do 1 damage twice the turn it comes down! Most of the time, that’s going to be a deal worth taking, especially if you have some Treasure or Food lying around. This thing will basically always give you an immediate impact that is powerful and then if it sticks around the game is well and truly over for your opponent 4.9 1x in 2%

5.0 If you can exile two things and pick off a bunch of stuff with this it’s going to feel pretty good, especially if it hurts your opponent more than it hurts you. Then, this will have the upside of allowing you to sweep the board of everything apart from the Specter, which is an absurdly powerful effect 4.7 1x in 2%

5.0 This is amazing. The adventure side is an excellent premium removal spell, and would be a B all on its own. Then, this removal spell turns into a value train in the late game and will definitely win you the game within a few turns 4.9 1x in 5%

5.0 6 mana for three 3/3s is already a pretty nice rate – it adds a ton to the board and makes removal look bad, but things get even sillier thanks to this death trigger, which will make your other triplets larger and larger,a nd because they have trample that isn’t something your opponent can just ignore. The biggest downside here is the triple green as in limited it can sometimes be hard to produce that exactly when you need to 5 1x in 7%

5.0 5/5 worth of stats for 4 mana is a great starting point, and the Gutter-Dweller also happens to be able to grow and draw you cards using the expendable bodies he gives you. This can really snowball out of control in a big way 4.7 1x in 7%

5.0 This looks amazing. You’re not exactly going to trigger the pay life effect, but the +1 and -2 are both so good that it doesn’t really matter. The +1 is a great card draw effect, especially because it will help grow the two 1/1s that the -2 makes. And that -2 is good on its own too, as having Ashiok come down and make those two bodies will often do enough to keep Ashiok around for a while, especially because those tokens are just going to grow every turn going forward – and they do it during combat so it will happen quickly. The ultimate is kind of an afterthought here, mostly because you will want to get real cards with the +1, so the mana value of the cards you exile won’t be that high, but there will be situations where you look at the board and just using Ashiok’s +1 twice to exile two expensive things, and then fire off the -7 will make sense. So, it is upside on a card that is already nuts without it. The total package here is an insane bomb 5 1x in 10%

5.0 A 4-mana 4/4 with Flying and Trample that spits out treasure is already an excellent card. So, the fact you can cast this as an adventure at some point too is great, especially because an instant speed Divination-like effect is itself probably already playable. When you have the time to cast both halves, this is going to generate a 3-for-1 for you. 4.7 1x in 12%

5.0 The Adventure side gives you a full card, and the creature side usually will too. Sometimes more, because if you trade and get to cast an Adventure we’re talking about a 3-for-1 here. I can’t imagine you normally want to play this on turn two, as a creature, although I suppose if you’ve got a really nasty curve out it can do the trick. But even treating this as a 4-mana 3/2 that draws you a card sounds really good, and you can obviously divide up when you cast the two halves to make it feel even better and if you always have the mana available when it dies, it will just keep coming back 4.7 1x in 15%

Golgari	3846 matches	467 decks
17.24% of Metagame
Rakdos	3409 matches	421 decks
15.54% of Metagame
Boros	2642 matches	323 decks
11.92% of Metagame
Dimir	1861 matches	224 decks
8.27% of Metagame
Orzhov	1821 matches	223 decks
8.23% of Metagame
Selesnya	1821 matches	220 decks
8.12% of Metagame
Gruul	1642 matches	201 decks
7.42% of Metagame
Izzet	1187 matches	145 decks
5.35% of Metagame
Simic	713 matches	84 decks
3.10% of Metagame
Azorius	656 matches	83 decks
3.06% of Metagame
Abzan	583 matches	70 decks
2.58% of Metagame
Jund	347 matches	41 decks
1.51% of Metagame
Naya	247 matches	29 decks
1.07% of Metagame
Sultai	224 matches	27 decks
1.00% of Metagame
Temur	180 matches	23 decks
0.85% of Metagame
Esper	175 matches	22 decks
0.81% of Metagame
Mono Red	141 matches	17 decks
0.63% of Metagame
Bant	127 matches	16 decks
0.59% of Metagame
Grixis	130 matches	15 decks
0.55% of Metagame
Mardu	108 matches	13 decks
0.48% of Metagame
Jeskai	71 matches	9 decks
0.33% of Metagame
Mono White	65 matches	8 decks
0.30% of Metagame
Mono Black	67 matches	8 decks
0.30% of Metagame
Mono Blue	65 matches	8 decks
0.30% of Metagame
Mono Green	52 matches	6 decks
0.22% of Metagame
Four Color (Non-white)	27 matches	3 decks
0.11% of Metagame
Four Color (Non-red)	9 matches	1 decks
0.04% of Metagame
Four Color (Non-blue)	9 matches	1 decks
0.04% of Metagame
Colorless	8 matches	1 decks
0.04% of Metagame

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Wilds of Eldraine Draft Deck Metagame

Jund card breakdown - 41 decks, 1.51% of meta

Creatures

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Planeswalkers

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