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Art: Slawomir Maniak © Wizards of the Coast

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Arclight Phoenix

4 decks from 4 events · 13 Aug – 11 Sep 2026

4Decks0.1% of published lists▾ 0.1 pp vs. the 30 days before
52.6%Win rate 31.7–72.7% · 10–9–0 · 19-match sample▴ 8.6 pp vs. the 30 days before
67.8 of 75 LockedSlots settled24 cards, each in 80% of lists or more
7.2 slotsStill argued overspread over 6 cards, in both boards

Maindeck 60 slots

4 copies in every list 4 copies in 1 list out of 4 1 copy in every list always 1 copy, sometimes 2 Grey means 80% of lists or more. Violet means fewer.

Settled core

20 cards · 57.8 slots
Arclight Phoenix 100% Arclight Phoenix1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100% · 4th 100%
Arid Mesa 100% Arid Mesa1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100%
Artist's Talent 100% Artist's Talent1st 100% · 2nd 100%
Blood Crypt 100% Blood Crypt1st 100%
Bloodstained Mire 100% Bloodstained Mire1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 25% · 4th 25%
Burning Inquiry 100% Burning Inquiry1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100%
Conflagrate 100% Conflagrate1st 100%
Creeping Chill 100% Creeping Chill1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100% · 4th 100%
Exhibition Tidecaller 100% Exhibition Tidecaller1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100% · 4th 100%
Faithless Looting 100% Faithless Looting1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100% · 4th 100%
Golgari Thug 100% Golgari Thug1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100%
Lava Dart 100% Lava Dart1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100% · 4th 100%
Life from the Loam 100% Life from the Loam1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100% · 4th 100%
Mountain 100% Mountain1st 100% · 2nd 100%
Otherworldly Gaze 100% Otherworldly Gaze1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100% · 4th 100%
Steam Vents 100% Steam Vents1st 100% · 2nd 100%
Stinkweed Imp 100% Stinkweed Imp1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100% · 4th 100%
Stomping Ground 100% Stomping Ground1st 100% · 2nd 100%
Thundering Falls 100% Thundering Falls1st 100%
Wooded Foothills 100% Wooded Foothills1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100% · 4th 25%

Still argued over

1 card · 2.2 slots
Scalding Tarn 75% Scalding Tarn1st 75% · 2nd 75% · 3rd 75%

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Sideboard 15 slots

Settled core

4 cards · 10 slots
Boseiju, Who Endures 100% Boseiju, Who Endures1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 25%
Lightning Axe 100% Lightning Axe1st 100% · 2nd 100%
Thoughtseize 100% Thoughtseize1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 75%
Vexing Bauble 100% Vexing Bauble1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100%

Still argued over

5 cards · 5 slots
Meltdown 75% Meltdown1st 75% · 2nd 75% · 3rd 50%
Pick Your Poison 75% Pick Your Poison1st 75% · 2nd 75%
Consign to Memory 25% Consign to Memory1st 25% · 2nd 25% · 3rd 25%
Memory's Journey 25% Memory's Journey1st 25%
Surgical Extraction 25% Surgical Extraction1st 25% · 2nd 25%

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The lists people registered 4 published lists in this window. Pick one. The lists can reach past this window. The numbers above count only this window.

Every list

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#6 MahfuzVanGogh Modern Challenge 64 · 2026-09-10 · 6-2-0 Representative

Maindeck (60)

Creatures (15)
  • 4 Exhibition Tidecaller 100%
  • 3 Golgari Thug 100%
  • 4 Stinkweed Imp 100%
  • 4 Arclight Phoenix 100%
Sorceries (16)
  • 3 Burning Inquiry 100%
  • 1 Conflagrate 100%
  • 4 Faithless Looting 100%
  • 4 Life from the Loam 100%
  • 4 Creeping Chill 100%
Instants (8)
  • 4 Lava Dart 100%
  • 4 Otherworldly Gaze 100%
Enchantments (2)
  • 2 Artist's Talent 100%
Lands (19)
  • 3 Arid Mesa 100%
  • 1 Blood Crypt 100%
  • 2 Bloodstained Mire 100%
  • 2 Mountain 100%
  • 3 Scalding Tarn 75%
  • 2 Steam Vents 100%
  • 2 Stomping Ground 100%
  • 1 Thundering Falls 100%
  • 3 Wooded Foothills 100%

Sideboard (15)

  • 2 Boseiju, Who Endures 100%
  • 2 Lightning Axe 100%
  • 2 Pick Your Poison 75%
  • 2 Surgical Extraction 25%
  • 3 Thoughtseize 100%
  • 3 Vexing Bauble 100%
  • 1 Memory's Journey 25%
Exhibition Tidecaller
Point to a card to read its copies. Bright names are in 80% of lists or more. Dim names are still argued over.
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#6 MahfuzVanGogh Modern Challenge 96 · 2026-09-09 · 6-2-0

Maindeck (60)

Creatures (15)
  • 4 Exhibition Tidecaller 100%
  • 3 Golgari Thug 100%
  • 4 Stinkweed Imp 100%
  • 4 Arclight Phoenix 100%
Sorceries (16)
  • 3 Burning Inquiry 100%
  • 1 Conflagrate 100%
  • 4 Faithless Looting 100%
  • 4 Life from the Loam 100%
  • 4 Creeping Chill 100%
Instants (8)
  • 4 Lava Dart 100%
  • 4 Otherworldly Gaze 100%
Enchantments (2)
  • 2 Artist's Talent 100%
Lands (19)
  • 3 Arid Mesa 100%
  • 1 Blood Crypt 100%
  • 2 Bloodstained Mire 100%
  • 2 Mountain 100%
  • 3 Scalding Tarn 75%
  • 2 Steam Vents 100%
  • 2 Stomping Ground 100%
  • 1 Thundering Falls 100%
  • 3 Wooded Foothills 100%

Sideboard (15)

  • 2 Boseiju, Who Endures 100%
  • 2 Lightning Axe 100%
  • 3 Meltdown 75%
  • 2 Pick Your Poison 75%
  • 3 Thoughtseize 100%
  • 3 Vexing Bauble 100%
Exhibition Tidecaller
Point to a card to read its copies. Bright names are in 80% of lists or more. Dim names are still argued over.
Show decklist for BulletBombFTW
#19 BulletBombFTW Modern Challenge 64 · 2026-09-05 · 4-3-0

Maindeck (60)

Creatures (15)
  • 4 Exhibition Tidecaller 100%
  • 3 Golgari Thug 100%
  • 4 Stinkweed Imp 100%
  • 4 Arclight Phoenix 100%
Sorceries (16)
  • 3 Burning Inquiry 100%
  • 1 Conflagrate 100%
  • 4 Faithless Looting 100%
  • 4 Life from the Loam 100%
  • 4 Creeping Chill 100%
Instants (8)
  • 4 Lava Dart 100%
  • 4 Otherworldly Gaze 100%
Enchantments (2)
  • 2 Artist's Talent 100%
Lands (19)
  • 3 Arid Mesa 100%
  • 1 Blood Crypt 100%
  • 4 Bloodstained Mire 100%
  • 2 Mountain 100%
  • 2 Steam Vents 100%
  • 2 Stomping Ground 100%
  • 1 Thundering Falls 100%
  • 4 Wooded Foothills 100%

Sideboard (15)

  • 3 Boseiju, Who Endures 100%
  • 3 Consign to Memory 25%
  • 2 Lightning Axe 100%
  • 2 Meltdown 75%
  • 2 Thoughtseize 100%
  • 3 Vexing Bauble 100%
Exhibition Tidecaller
Point to a card to read its copies. Bright names are in 80% of lists or more. Dim names are still argued over.
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#13 MahfuzVanGogh Modern Challenge 64 · 2026-08-13 · 5-2-0

Maindeck (60)

Creatures (15)
  • 4 Exhibition Tidecaller 100%
  • 3 Golgari Thug 100%
  • 4 Stinkweed Imp 100%
  • 4 Arclight Phoenix 100%
Sorceries (16)
  • 3 Burning Inquiry 100%
  • 1 Conflagrate 100%
  • 4 Faithless Looting 100%
  • 4 Life from the Loam 100%
  • 4 Creeping Chill 100%
Instants (8)
  • 4 Lava Dart 100%
  • 4 Otherworldly Gaze 100%
Enchantments (2)
  • 2 Artist's Talent 100%
Lands (19)
  • 3 Arid Mesa 100%
  • 1 Blood Crypt 100%
  • 2 Bloodstained Mire 100%
  • 2 Mountain 100%
  • 3 Scalding Tarn 75%
  • 2 Steam Vents 100%
  • 2 Stomping Ground 100%
  • 1 Thundering Falls 100%
  • 3 Wooded Foothills 100%

Sideboard (15)

  • 2 Boseiju, Who Endures 100%
  • 2 Lightning Axe 100%
  • 3 Meltdown 75%
  • 2 Pick Your Poison 75%
  • 3 Thoughtseize 100%
  • 3 Vexing Bauble 100%
Exhibition Tidecaller
Point to a card to read its copies. Bright names are in 80% of lists or more. Dim names are still argued over.

Who plays it top pilots in this window

Method

A slot is one card in the average list. For each card, we count the lists that play at least one copy, then at least two, then at least three. We add those shares. Add every card and the boards total 60 and 15.

The settled bound is chosen at 80% of published lists. Settled slots are grey. Other slots are violet. Cards in fewer than 10% of lists still count in the argued-over total, but their rows are not shown.

The band bounds are chosen. Locked starts at 60 settled slots out of 75. Consolidated starts at 50. Debated starts at 40. Open is below 40. A locked deck is not a better deck.

Share is share of published decklists, not of the field. MTGO publishes exactly 32 decklists per Challenge, whatever the field size. A 448-player event gives the same 32 lists as a 32-player one. Those 32 lists lean heavily toward the top of the standings.

Leagues publish 5–0 decklists and no match data. They count in the deck total, in the share, in the card slots, and in the pilots, because a registered list is a registered list. They stay out of the win rate, because there is no match to count. So deck counts and shares cover all published decklists, and win rates cover paired events only.

Preliminaries contribute nothing. They publish match records but no decklists, so their matches have no archetype to attach to.

Win rates count only matches where both players published a decklist. The published 32 are the top finishers. Counting their matches against players who did not publish a list would push every archetype's rate up. With both sides counted, every win has a matching loss. So the pool always balances at exactly 50% wins.