Favored Hoplite representative art for Boros Heroic

Art: Winona Nelson © Wizards of the Coast

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Boros Heroic

1 deck from 1 event · 12 Aug – 10 Sep 2026

1Decks0.1% of published lists▾ 0.5 pp vs. the 30 days before
66.7%Win rate 30.0–90.3% · 4–2–0 · 6-match sample▴ 25.8 pp vs. the 30 days before
75 of 75 LockedSlots settled29 cards, each in 80% of lists or more
0 slotsStill argued overspread over 0 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

19 cards · 60 slots
Academic Dispute 100% Academic Dispute1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100% · 4th 100%
Ancestral Anger 100% Ancestral Anger1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100% · 4th 100%
Battlefield Forge 100% Battlefield Forge1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100% · 4th 100%
Favored Hoplite 100% Favored Hoplite1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100% · 4th 100%
Guiding Voice 100% Guiding Voice1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100% · 4th 100%
Illuminator Virtuoso 100% Illuminator Virtuoso1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100% · 4th 100%
Inspiring Vantage 100% Inspiring Vantage1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100% · 4th 100%
Mana Confluence 100% Mana Confluence1st 100% · 2nd 100%
Monastery Swiftspear 100% Monastery Swiftspear1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100% · 4th 100%
Monstrous Rage 100% Monstrous Rage1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100% · 4th 100%
Mountain 100% Mountain1st 100%
Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway 100% Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100% · 4th 100%
Plains 100% Plains1st 100%
Practiced Offense 100% Practiced Offense1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100%
Reckless Rage 100% Reckless Rage1st 100% · 2nd 100%
Sacred Foundry 100% Sacred Foundry1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100% · 4th 100%
Sheltered by Ghosts 100% Sheltered by Ghosts1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100% · 4th 100%
Speedball, New Warrior 100% Speedball, New Warrior1st 100% · 2nd 100%
Spikefield Hazard // Spikefield Cave 100% Spikefield Hazard // Spikefield Cave1st 100%

Still argued over

0 cards · 0 slots

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Sideboard 15 slots

Settled core

10 cards · 15 slots
Abandon Attachments 100% Abandon Attachments1st 100%
Enter the Avatar State 100% Enter the Avatar State1st 100% · 2nd 100%
Firebending Lesson 100% Firebending Lesson1st 100%
Iroh's Demonstration 100% Iroh's Demonstration1st 100%
Reckless Rage 100% Reckless Rage1st 100% · 2nd 100%
Redirect Lightning 100% Redirect Lightning1st 100%
Spirit Summoning 100% Spirit Summoning1st 100%
The Legend of Roku // Avatar Roku 100% The Legend of Roku // Avatar Roku1st 100% · 2nd 100% · 3rd 100%
Voice of Victory 100% Voice of Victory1st 100% · 2nd 100%
Yip Yip! 100% Yip Yip!1st 100%

Still argued over

0 cards · 0 slots

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#6 olbeda Pioneer Challenge 32 · 2026-08-20 · 5-2-0 Representative

Maindeck (60)

Creatures (14)
  • 4 Favored Hoplite 100%
  • 4 Monastery Swiftspear 100%
  • 4 Illuminator Virtuoso 100%
  • 2 Speedball, New Warrior 100%
Sorceries (11)
  • 4 Ancestral Anger 100%
  • 4 Guiding Voice 100%
  • 3 Practiced Offense 100%
Instants (11)
  • 4 Academic Dispute 100%
  • 4 Monstrous Rage 100%
  • 2 Reckless Rage 100%
  • 1 Spikefield Hazard // Spikefield Cave 100%
Enchantments (4)
  • 4 Sheltered by Ghosts 100%
Lands (20)
  • 4 Battlefield Forge 100%
  • 4 Inspiring Vantage 100%
  • 2 Mana Confluence 100%
  • 1 Mountain 100%
  • 4 Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway 100%
  • 1 Plains 100%
  • 4 Sacred Foundry 100%

Sideboard (15)

  • 2 Enter the Avatar State 100%
  • 1 Firebending Lesson 100%
  • 2 Reckless Rage 100%
  • 1 Redirect Lightning 100%
  • 1 Yip Yip! 100%
  • 1 Abandon Attachments 100%
  • 1 Iroh's Demonstration 100%
  • 2 Voice of Victory 100%
  • 1 Spirit Summoning 100%
  • 3 The Legend of Roku // Avatar Roku 100%
Favored Hoplite
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.