Pioneer metagame · Challenges

The most played Pioneer archetypes in the last 30 days, out of 447 decks from 15 events: Golgari Midrange (10.5%), Leyline Festival (6.5%), Mono-Red Aggro (5.6%).

Updated 29 Oct 2026. How we count Data sources

Archetypes by share of 447 decks, with the change from the 30 days before
Archetype	Decks	Share	Trend	Top 8
UR (unclassified) up7.3	137	30.6%	up7.3	37
Golgari Midrange down3.8	47	10.5%	down3.8	14
BRG (unclassified) up7.8	38	8.5%	up7.8	13
UB (unclassified) up0.9	35	7.8%	up0.9	12
Leyline Festival up6.3	29	6.5%	up6.3	8
Mono-Red Aggro down2.3	25	5.6%	down2.3	4
WUBRG (unclassified) up2.0	16	3.6%	up2.0	6
BG (unclassified) down0.9	15	3.4%	down0.9	3
WG (unclassified) up1.8	15	3.4%	up1.8	2
RG (unclassified) new	14	3.1%	new	4
BR (unclassified) down1.4	13	2.9%	down1.4	4
WU (unclassified) down4.3	11	2.5%	down4.3	0
URG (unclassified) steady	8	1.8%	steady	2
WBG (unclassified) down2.5	8	1.8%	down2.5	2
WR (unclassified) down6.3	8	1.8%	down6.3	4
Mono-Green (unclassified) up0.7	5	1.1%	up0.7	1
UBG (unclassified) down2.9	4	0.9%	down2.9	1
WB (unclassified) down0.9	4	0.9%	down0.9	0
UBRG (unclassified) new	3	0.7%	new	1
WUR (unclassified) down1.8	3	0.7%	down1.8	1
UG (unclassified) new	2	0.4%	new	0
WUG (unclassified) steady	2	0.4%	steady	0
Mono-White (unclassified) down2.2	1	0.2%	down2.2	1
WBRG (unclassified) new	1	0.2%	new	0
WUBG (unclassified) steady	1	0.2%	steady	0
WUBR (unclassified) down1.8	1	0.2%	down1.8	0
WURG (unclassified) new	1	0.2%	new	0

Trend: change in share compared with the 30 days before; under half a point, steady
Top 8: decks that reached the top 8 of a tournament

Recent events

Event	Date	Decks	Players
Pioneer Challenge 32	27 Oct	32	50
Pioneer Challenge 16	25 Oct	30	30
Pioneer Challenge 16	25 Oct	27	27
Pioneer Challenge 32	23 Oct	32	40
Pioneer Challenge 32	20 Oct	32	46
Pioneer Challenge 16	18 Oct	32	32
Pioneer Challenge 16	18 Oct	26	26
Pioneer Challenge 32	16 Oct	32	40
Pioneer Challenge 32	13 Oct	32	40
Pioneer Challenge 16	11 Oct	26	26
Pioneer Challenge 16	11 Oct	25	25
Pioneer Challenge 32	9 Oct	32	44
Pioneer Challenge 32	6 Oct	32	50
Pioneer Challenge 16	4 Oct	25	25
Pioneer Challenge 32	2 Oct	32	40

Tournament calendar

This week

Mon 26 Oct
- 23:00 Pioneer Challenge 32
Tue 27 Oct –
Wed 28 Oct –
Thu 29 Oct
- 22:00
  
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  Calendar file (.ics) Google Calendar
  Pioneer Challenge 32
Fri 30 Oct
- 14:00
  
  ＋
  Calendar file (.ics) Google Calendar
  Pioneer RC Super Qualifier
- 14:05
  
  ＋
  Calendar file (.ics) Google Calendar
  Pioneer RC Super Qualifier
Sat 31 Oct
- 22:00
  
  ＋
  Calendar file (.ics) Google Calendar
  Pioneer Challenge 16
Sun 1 Nov
- 16:00
  
  ＋
  Calendar file (.ics) Google Calendar
  Pioneer Showcase Challenge
- 16:00
  
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  Calendar file (.ics) Google Calendar
  Pioneer Showcase Challenge
- 20:00
  
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  Calendar file (.ics) Google Calendar
  Pioneer Challenge 16

Next week

Mon 2 Nov –
Tue 3 Nov
- 00:00
  
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  Calendar file (.ics) Google Calendar
  Pioneer Challenge 32
Wed 4 Nov
- 17:00 (until 20:00) MTGO downtime
Thu 5 Nov –
Fri 6 Nov –
Sat 7 Nov –
Sun 8 Nov
- 20:00
  
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  Calendar file (.ics) Google Calendar
  Pioneer Challenge (expected)

Times in UTC. Upcoming events come from the official MTGO event calendar, which covers about two weeks. After that, expected tournaments are estimated from the times of the last weeks of MTGO results, and MTGO can change its schedule. Leagues are not listed.

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