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Meta share numbers continue to spread and flatten as the playerbase scrambles to find the next best deck after the bans. Thankfully, nothing has come out far ahead of the pack, resulting in a nicely balanced Lorcana metagame.
It's important to note that the past weekend's events were pretty small ones, the largest having only 54 players. It might be better to combine its data with the previous one to form a stronger post ban meta report, though it's also interesting how local game stores are adapting.
Check out the latest snapshot of the Lorcana Constructed metagame along with featured decks from the weekend's events below.
Tier List
| Tier | Deck | Meta Share | Top 8s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 |   Amethyst Ruby Bounce | 18% 🔼 | 10 |
 Ruby Sapphire Pawpsicle | 17% 🔼 | 12 | |
  Amber Steel Steelsong | 16% 🔼 | 9 | |
| Tier 2 | Amethyst Sapphire Bounce | 11% 🔼 | 9 |
| Amethyst Steel Bounce | 8% 🔽 | 8 | |
 Emerald Steel Discard | 7% 🔽 | 6 | |
| Tier 3 | Amethyst Emerald Discard | 4% 🔽 | 2 |
| Amber Steel Aggro | 4% | 3 | |
| Amber Amethyst Aggro | 2% 🔽 | 2 | |
| Sapphire Steel Aggro | 2% | 1 |
Meta Overview
Three archetypes have emerged at the top after this past weekend's tourneys. These have very close numbers, signaling the overall diversity and health of the meta.
Ruby Sapphire is now back at Tier 1 after slumping a bit at losing its draw-2 guy. Expect lots of late game battles in your next event with Ruby being this popular.
Amethyst Steel Bounce's meta share has dived at around half of the previous week's. Every Amethyst ink pairing (well, Steel too) is part of the tier list, so expect just as much bounce too.
With smaller and fewer events being included in this report, it makes sense how some of the less popular decks aren't present this week, such as Amber Emerald Chernodog and Emerald Sapphire Songs. Don't count them out yet, though, especially if you prefer going rogue.
Tier 1
Amethyst Ruby Bounce
Ruby's top end cards such as 003-112-madame-medusa-the-boss along with strong challengers like 001-114-maui-hero-to-all provides so much control on which opposing characters get to live. Combined with Amethyst bouncers, it's no wonder the deck is thriving in a Hiram-free environment.
The deck packs plenty of 1-drops for 005-068-the-library-a-gift-for-belle and evasive characters for opposing counterparts. 001-064-friends-on-the-other-side can keep the cards flowing and ensure you have more gas after resetting with 001-128-be-prepared.
Ruby Sapphire Pawpsicle
After dipping in popularity for a week, players seem to have realized Ruby Sapphire is as good as it ever was even without its signature card advantage engine. It's now leaning more on 006-124-maui-half-shark to reuse actions, which can dig for answers as well as race for the win with 004-128-a-pirates-life.
Despite now running way fewer items, 007-162-tamatoa-happy-as-a-clam is still too strong to cut from the deck. 003-169-mcduck-manor-scrooges-mansion also seems to be a must-have passive lore gainer that most opponents will simply ignore until it's too late.
Amber Steel Steelsong
Between singers and shifters, there's a lot of cost-cheating effects in Amber Steel that can feel totally unfair when playing against it. This lets it empty its hand fast for a full reload, which is also great against discard and control archetypes.
Though 007-195-miss-bianca-unwavering-agent and 007-011-the-troubadour-musical-narrator have been in most Steelsong decks, the winning deck below went with 002-026-the-queen-commanding-presence and 002-008-gaston-baritone-bully for more singers for 001-195-a-whole-new-world.
Tier 2
Amethyst Sapphire Bounce
Sapphire Steel players may have transitioned to Blurple since most of the deck's lists are essentially made up of the Amethyst bounce package merged with 007-159-belle-apprentice-inventor, 002-169-pawpsicle, and Sapphire ramp cards.
At the top end is 001-147-hades-infernal-schemer, an amazing answer to the most problematic character on the board. The featured deck below tried out 007-072-anna-ice-breaker for an extra speed bump.
Amethyst Steel Bounce
Strong, cheap threats, card advantage bouncers, and free removal pushed Amethyst Steel as one of the top contenders in the new meta but it stumbled this week in terms of numbers. Whether it bounces back or remains in this tier will depend on how players will adapt their lists.
The deck gains value from bouncing 006-040-the-white-rose-jewel-of-the-garden, 002-051-merlin-goat, and 002-052-merlin-rabbit while its Steel cards provide board control.
This deck went 7-1-1 with a pretty streamlined deck skipping 007-057-giant-cobra-ghostly-serpent as well as 005-193-doc-bold-knight while packing more songs.
Emerald Steel Discard
With 003-091-ursula-deceiver-of-all doubling songs and 002-089-prince-john-greediest-of-all giving you +1 card while they go -1, Emerald Steel has so much card advantage in theory, especially with 004-070-diablo-devoted-herald.
003-081-morph-space-goo does a lot of work in this discard archetype, enabling faster 002-173-beast-tragic-hero, 007-114-pete-space-pirate, or 001-193-tinker-bell-giant-fairy.
Tier 3
Amethyst Emerald Discard
Amber Steel Aggro
Amber Amethyst Aggro
Sapphire Steel Aggro
Final Thoughts
The metagame seems to be settling in place now that the shakeup has weathered. There's certainly more diversity in what's viable, which is a big plus. Clever deckbuilding and testing will have a larger impact on overall results.
We have one more week before the Archazia's Island Set Championships begin. What decks are you thinking of tweaking for your next event?
