Meta as of Oct 22, 2026 · post-Mihawk ban (OP-17 format)
Showing the post-rotation pool. Rows in red leave Standard on April 1, 2027; decks with a Block 2 leader stop being legal entirely. Rotating cards are not subtracted from the card count, so swap them out before that date.
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Leader
Legal
Win rate by format, OP-01 → OP-17
Click a row for its format-by-format record. Win rate = tracked tournament win rate in each format, averaged across formats weighted by sample size. EB-03 and EB-04 eras are counted but not drawn on the line.
Simulator data, not paper. EB-05 isn't out in English until Oct 30, but OPTCGSim players are already running it. These are 3 online ChinoizeCup events on Limitless (Oct 19 to 21, 317 players, 7 rounds of best-of-one Swiss with no top cut). Three days of Bo1 is a small sample, so read the tiers as an early signal.
Click a leader for its best lists. Score = match win rate pulled toward 50% for small samples, plus a bonus for top-8 finishes and 5-win runs. Tier 1 needs at least 8 players. Lists are each leader's best records, up to 5.
No OP-18 sim results yet. OP-18 releases in English Nov 20 (tournament legal Nov 27). Simulator events usually start a week or two before release, as they did for EB-05, but no event with OP-18 cards had run on Limitless as of Oct 22. Until then, this tab shows the six new leaders and the field they'll have to beat, with each top deck's soft spots from real head-to-head sim games.
Full game simulation. Pick two decks, change any cards you like, and the simulator plays complete games: shuffled decks, opening hands, draws, DON!!, attacks, blockers, counters, Life and triggers. Every card effect in the game is read from its text and played out, including all revealed OP-18, EB-05, ST-37 and ST-38 cards: On Play, When Attacking, Counter, Trigger, End of Turn, continuous effects, "When…" triggers, replacement effects, and Leader rules.