The current top ten by metashare, each with the posture, the boarding and the specific trap.
Meta snapshot · August 2026. Dated starting configurations from the source guide, not live, not auto-updated, and not immutable plans.
vs Goryo’s Vengeance
Your role · Race, and tax the key turnSlickshot Show-Off
12creatures after boarding✓ Stable
810 floor16
12 creatures after boarding · at or above the floor of 10.
＋ Bring in
3×spell / gear
1×spell / gear
4×spell / gear
− Take out
4×spell / gear
2×spell / gear
2×spell / gear
They are the faster deck at combo speed and the slower deck on the battlefield. Your clock has to make their setup turn unaffordable.
answers Goryo’s Vengeance exactly: it costs {1}{B}, which is mana value two.
counters the Goryo exile trigger and the Atraxa entry trigger, so it is live against both halves of what they are doing.
Preserve · · · Their maindeck has almost no way to kill a resolved threat on their own turn, so the clock is what makes their end-step line too slow.
Avoid · Do not hold burn for their creatures. Atraxa is seven mana value and does nothing to it.
Avoid · Do not board in graveyard hate as a plan. One is a tempo card, not an answer to the deck.
Sideboard philosophy in §13 · role assignment in §5.
Memory aids
Keep probabilities: how often the opening seven contains each structure these plans assume, on the exact sixty.
68.6%→At least two lands
65.4%→At least one one-mana threat
65.4%→At least one cantrip
41.6%→Two lands and a one-mana threat
40.6%→A one-mana threat and a cantrip
39.9%→At least one Cori-Steel Cutter
39.9%→At least one Lightning Bolt
24.4%→A one-mana threat and a Cutter
From the guide . §15 Matchup Map
The ten below are the top of the sampled field by metashare, which is the bar this guide holds itself to: a matchup map that skips decks a reader will actually face is a map of somewhere else. Each names the posture, the cards in and out, and the specific trap.
⚠ WarningThese are starting points against an open field, not solved plans, and there are no win rates here because there is no sample worth quoting one from.