Tournament results, not popularity. Every figure below is bounded by the
current ban window and by events of 48+ players —
smaller events mostly never publish decklists, so including them would
add standings with nothing attached.
Post February 2026 updatefrom 9 Feb 2026 · 48+ players
Lift is the package's cut rate divided by the field's: every published decklist
in the window, which made a cut at 19.2%. A package can
sit in a third of all decks and still be exactly average — 1.00 means the room.
Package
Kind
Lists
Cuts
Wins
Cut rate
Lift
Marvin + Ioreth untap loop
engine
415
100
9
24.1%
1.26
Underworld Breach + Sevinne's Reclamation
engine
2,322
520
34
22.4%
1.17
Emiel + Derevi blink loop
engine
877
191
16
21.8%
1.14
Activated-ability cost reduction
mana suite
1,551
331
22
21.3%
1.11
Underworld Breach + Brain Freeze
win line
4,107
850
61
20.7%
1.08
Thassa's Oracle + Consultation
win line
3,625
732
47
20.2%
1.05
Food Chain commander loop
engine
100
20
1
20.0%
1.04
Turbo draw engine
engine
3,835
746
41
19.5%
1.02
Oboro Breezecaller land loop
engine
1,152
222
11
19.3%
1.01
Underworld Breach + Grinding Station
engine
1,369
256
15
18.7%
0.98
Kinnan + Basalt Monolith
engine
837
148
14
17.7%
0.92
Rings of Brighthearth + Basalt Monolith
engine
170
30
3
17.7%
0.92
Protean Hulk lines
win line
168
29
3
17.3%
0.90
Underworld Breach + Wheel of Fortune
engine
2,479
413
25
16.7%
0.87
Food Chain
engine
473
78
3
16.5%
0.86
Dramatic Reversal engines
engine
256
32
3
12.5%
0.65
Hermit Druid
win line
52
6
0
11.5%
0.60
Forsaken Monument + Basalt Monolith
engine
55
6
0
10.9%
0.57
Forensic Gadgeteer + Basalt Monolith
engine
134
12
1
9.0%
0.47
Doomsday piles
win line
119
10
0
8.4%
0.44
Power Artifact + Grim Monolith
engine
66
4
1
6.1%
0.32
Winning combos
fully assembled in 25+ lists
Kogla, the Titan Ape + Hyrax Tower Scout + Circle of Dreams Druid1.93×
Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite green mana, Infinite mana creatures you control can pr…
Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh / Silas Renn, Seeker Adept
593
5.1%
93
15.7%
16.2%
144
Sisay, Weatherlight Captain
536
4.6%
134
25.0%
19.5%
149
Thrasios, Triton Hero / Tymna the Weaver
415
3.6%
96
23.1%
17.9%
135
Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy
266
2.3%
52
19.6%
17.5%
120
Dargo, the Shipwrecker / Tymna the Weaver
266
2.3%
42
15.8%
17.2%
111
Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker / Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh
247
2.1%
45
18.2%
17.0%
107
Vivi Ornitier
244
2.1%
49
20.1%
17.0%
116
Magda, Brazen Outlaw
228
2.0%
47
20.6%
19.1%
114
Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
218
1.9%
61
28.0%
21.0%
94
Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
218
1.9%
29
13.3%
13.9%
107
Thrasios, Triton Hero / Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful
208
1.8%
30
14.4%
16.5%
111
Crystal, Inhuman Princess
205
1.8%
48
23.4%
18.8%
100
Tayam, Luminous Enigma
184
1.6%
34
18.5%
18.9%
104
Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
168
1.4%
22
13.1%
14.5%
97
Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin
137
1.2%
17
12.4%
14.7%
93
Tivit, Seller of Secrets
114
1.0%
18
15.8%
17.7%
78
Winota, Joiner of Forces
110
1.0%
18
16.4%
16.2%
84
Conversion is the share of a commander's entries that made a cut, so it is
only meaningful against the field it is drawn from: the
11,629 entries with a named commander,
which made a cut at 19.2%. The meta column is a share of
the same entries. Entries without a named commander make a cut less often, so
a rate over all entries would flatter every commander. A rate is coloured only
when a two-sided test at 5% can tell it apart from that field: green above it,
red below. The events column is there because one player's pet deck at one
tournament should not read as a trend.
Seat advantage
14,682 four-player Swiss pods
Turn order matters more than any one card. If it didn't, every seat would win
18.1% of pods: the ones that ended with a winner, split four ways,
since 26.4% end in a draw.
Seat 1, first24.0%
1.33×
Seat 219.7%
1.09×
Seat 316.1%
0.89×
Seat 412.7%
0.70×
Seating and results from
TopDeck.gg,
matched to entries from
EDHTop16.
Events of 48+ players, Swiss rounds, current ban window.
Matchups that hold up
3 of 395 pairs tested
Every pair of commanders that shared at least 30 Swiss pods is
tested on the pods one of them won. Across 395 pairs, some lopsided
records are luck, so a matchup appears here only if it survives a
5% false-discovery correction.
With Etali in the pod, Kinnan wins 30.1%
of pods against 22.0% of its others; Etali
drops to 10.7% from 16.7%. Each side is
compared with itself, which separates a matchup from one deck simply being
stronger.
216 shared pods · 41 drawn
Kraum, Ludevic's Opus / Tymna the Weaver over Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh / Silas Renn, Seeker Adept170–105
With Rograkh / Silas Renn in the pod, Kraum / Tymna the Weaver wins 26.5%
of pods against 24.2% of its others; Rograkh / Silas Renn
drops to 16.4% from 19.3%. Each side is
compared with itself, which separates a matchup from one deck simply being
stronger.
641 shared pods · 177 drawn
Kraum, Ludevic's Opus / Tymna the Weaver over Glarb, Calamity's Augur25–5
With Glarb in the pod, Kraum / Tymna the Weaver wins 31.3%
of pods against 24.4% of its others; Glarb
drops to 6.3% from 14.6%. Each side is
compared with itself, which separates a matchup from one deck simply being
stronger.