That’s a great point Victor, and one I think often slides under the radar in metagame discussions. More than in other formats I’ve played, many Modern players love to hop around to whatever deck is hot or well-positioned at the moment, which keeps things fresh and churning. But the ones who stick with one deck for a year-plus are often the ones who perform best with those piles when the time is right.

Totally agree Ben! These results are showing us that blue is far from unbeatable, even if Uro is a pretty crazy Magic card. Thanks for posting!

As regards “what happened to Humans”, I have been playing the deck since its Inception. I dont really have an explanation for these drops and spikes of our metagame share.
I know for sure that I very often disagree with the metagame perception of the deck some players have.
Right now for instance I dont think the deck has much problems and its in my opinion very well positionned if you have a decent sideboard (including multiple copies of Magus of the Moon), but some players come back to the deck after months, jam a list with outdated cards (Gaddock Teeg, Damping Sphere) and then drop the deck again.
I think the initial popularity of the deck makes it so many players have the deck as a backup plan, but not necessarily the metagame knowledge to make it work, so they pick it up again, see they still cant perform with it, and drop it again. The “core” of very dedicated players isnt that big.
Thats my two cents.

As always, I aim to please.

And don’t give up the fins so soon. Fish does keep showing up in the data. Granted, it’s all Nikachu’s doing. But it does still show up.

Jokes aside, another great breakdown, thanks for handling the legwork for all of us. While I’m not taken with any format that sees Boil (or it’s greener counterpart Choke) as a staple sideboard card. Now, I know how all those poor Affinity felt. Say, what happened to all of them?

Although I’m not personally happy with modern right now, it’s hard to argue with sound statistics and well developed arguments. But I’m a Magic player, as long as there are clouds there’s something to shout at. I guess I’ll just ride this wave and keep my fins low until MH2 when Fish finally becomes relevant again.

Oh, hey Champ, what are you doing out here on the edge of obscurity, so far from your parish?

Thanks again Modern Nexus.