Pioneer Metagame Tier List

Introduction

Discover the best Magic: The Gathering Arena Pioneer decks and archetypes that the players are using to win tournaments. View and explore our Pioneer metagame tier list as we rank the top decks, as well as our comprehensive analysis and review. Being updated for The Brothers' War(BRO)!

On the tier list, click on the deck archetype name to go to MTG Meta and find detailed statistics on the deck, and the latest decklists representing it from tournaments. The tier list is updated on a real time basis.

Pioneer Tier List

Tier 1

? The premier decks of the format. These are the most likely decks to win challenges or preliminaries on Magic Online and often survive even while being targeted directly by other top decks.

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rakdos midrange

50.1% win rate13.13% metashare682$

Mono Green Devotion

52.5% win rate10.00% metashare445$

Tier 2

? These are very strong decks that are poised to top 8 the challenges and may even win them, but generally have a specific weak matchup either against other A tier decks or against some number of S tier decks, which hold these decks back from the top spot.

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azorius control

52.3% win rate6.42% metashare385$

gruul aggro

51.4% win rate3.36% metashare366$

Lotus Field Combo

49.6% win rate4.50% metashare396$

mono white humans

51.9% win rate5.50% metashare42$

angels

49.6% win rate1.57% metashare418$

abzan greasefang

49.6% win rate5.16% metashare594$

5c enigmatic incarnation

50.6% win rate2.82% metashare729$

izzet phoenix

47.9% win rate5.93% metashare506$

rakdos sacrifice

53.3% win rate4.50% metashare429$

Tier 3

? These are the last of the decks that are likely to put up strong results in the Challenges Online. These decks tend to have skewed matchup spreads, needing to win the matchup lottery to overperform and usually are more like to top 16 a Challenge than top 8.

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4c fires

49.2% win rate0.63% metashare664$

mono red aggro

46.4% win rate3.35% metashare101$

bant spirits

50.1% win rate1.43% metashare391$

mono blue spirits

53.2% win rate1.55% metashare108$

Tier 4

? These are decks that can 5-0 a league and will occasionally spike a larger event, but generally they fall victim to too many bad matchups in the upper tiers of the metagame or lack the consistency outside of a single pilot to put up consistent results.

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jund sacrifice

47.3% win rate0.42% metashare598$

Boros Heroic

51.5% win rate1.39% metashare214$

niv to light

43.2% win rate0.81% metashare679$

Tier 5

? These decks show up often enough to warrant mention outside of FNM tier and can sneak into top 16s some amount of the time, but on a week to week basis, these decks are liable to leave you outside of prizes in competitive events.

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auras

46.7% win rate0.88% metashare341$

dimir control

43.4% win rate1.46% metashare307$

4c humans

48.4% win rate0.03% metashare436$

Izzet Tempo

45% win rate0.15% metashare34$

esper control

47.3% win rate0.46% metashare747$

Pyre Humans

47.6% win rate0.22% metashare439$

grixis phoenix

57.1% win rate0.05% metashare500$

Mardu Greasefang

47.3% win rate0.15% metashare791$

Vampires

52.8% win rate0.10% metashare652$

esper greasefang

40.8% win rate0.29% metashare527$

neoform

48.8% win rate0.71% metashare491$

mono black aggro

48% win rate1.02% metashare550$

jeskai control

37.1% win rate0.05% metashare415$

izzet control

42.9% win rate0.21% metashare243$

5c humans

48.6% win rate0.09% metashare419$

bant humans

37% win rate0.12% metashare285$

esper humans

33.3% win rate0.00% metashare221$

gruul ramp

55.3% win rate0.05% metashare509$

izzet transmogrify

54.4% win rate0.09% metashare295$

creativity

47.5% win rate3.58% metashare385$

jeskai fires

40.9% win rate0.03% metashare648$

orzhov humans

45.5% win rate0.11% metashare404$

Selesnya Company

49.2% win rate0.35% metashare258$

azorius spirits

53.8% win rate2.37% metashare387$

elves

50.5% win rate0.48% metashare430$

goblins

52.9% win rate0.78% metashare344$

grinning ignus combo

42.8% win rate0.16% metashare97$

orzhov greasefang

0% win rate0.00% metashare504$

azorius soldiers

45.7% win rate0.06% metashare242$

dimir shredder

52% win rate0.06% metashare628$

32% win rate0.90% metashare860$

acererak combo

39.4% win rate0.07% metashare581$

azorious metalwork colossus

45.9% win rate0.04% metashare191$

bant company

41.9% win rate0.06% metashare338$

big red

48.8% win rate0.04% metashare307$

boros hammer

40.7% win rate0.08% metashare318$

boros midrange

47.1% win rate0.05% metashare159$

demonic bargain combo

54.1% win rate0.10% metashare379$

dimir rogues

48.1% win rate0.81% metashare656$

dread presence lands

20% win rate0.02% metashare646$

ensoul artifact

38.9% win rate0.16% metashare210$

golgari sacrifice

49.3% win rate0.14% metashare377$

grixis midrange

50.9% win rate0.41% metashare1027$

gyruda

36.4% win rate0.04% metashare261$

jeskai ascendancy

44.2% win rate0.42% metashare312$

merfolk

44.4% win rate0.07% metashare605$

mono black discard

45.6% win rate0.57% metashare589$

mono blue devotion

44% win rate0.04% metashare279$

mono white midrange

53.6% win rate0.16% metashare453$

orzhov midrange

48.3% win rate0.22% metashare703$

possibility storm

46.6% win rate0.06% metashare453$

soulflayer

52.8% win rate0.04% metashare500$

storm herald combo

39.1% win rate0.08% metashare522$

4c omnath

50% win rate0.06% metashare568$

abzan sacrifice

45.8% win rate0.01% metashare315$

azorius artifacts

50% win rate0.01% metashare338$

azorious midrange

45.2% win rate0.03% metashare324$

azorius yorion

52.9% win rate0.01% metashare473$

birthing pod

37.5% win rate0.02% metashare557$

boros aggro

45.5% win rate0.32% metashare462$

boros convoke

50.6% win rate2.23% metashare316$

doom foretold

34.1% win rate0.04% metashare690$

dredgeless dredge

50% win rate0.01% metashare399$

elementals

45.8% win rate0.03% metashare621$

esper legends

55.7% win rate0.11% metashare646$

gates

35.7% win rate0.02% metashare40$

golgari midrange

39.3% win rate0.18% metashare600$

golgari vehicles

46.9% win rate0.11% metashare472$

grixis tempo

45% win rate0.02% metashare387$

hardened scales

17.4% win rate0.03% metashare399$

izzet apparatus

23.1% win rate0.01% metashare167$

jeskai transmogrify

57.1% win rate0.10% metashare694$

jund midrange

37.8% win rate0.09% metashare756$

jund transmogrify

52.2% win rate0.37% metashare541$

lotus field control

54% win rate1.38% metashare435$

mardu midrange

38.5% win rate0.03% metashare392$

mono black midrange

48.4% win rate0.16% metashare686$

naya aggro

41.7% win rate0.04% metashare431$

naya tokens

33.3% win rate0.02% metashare567$

omnath to light

49.5% win rate1.18% metashare609$

paradox engine combo

50% win rate0.02% metashare642$

rona combo

51.3% win rate0.74% metashare674$

selesnya heroic

43.8% win rate0.02% metashare116$

stompy

41.5% win rate0.06% metashare562$

5c transmogrify

48.1% win rate0.09% metashare623$

Legend

• Tier 1: Decks are selected by their strong win rate versus other decks (greater than 50%), the probability of encountering them, and a minimum meta share and threshold being met.
• Tier 2: Tier 2 follows the same parameters as the tier 1 decks, but don’t have as high of a win rate (less than 50%) and/or meta share.
• Tier 3: Decks that either have a low meta share or a low win rate.
• Tier 4: Off-meta decks – not enough meta share to be reliable or a low win rate.