Five of eight Top 8 slots in the week's most decisive Challenge went to storm strategies, as TES climbed from 1.6% to 6.8% of the field and reached #3 on the Power Index.
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Five of the eight Top 8 slots in the June 24 Challenge belonged to storm strategies — four to TES and one to Ad Nauseam Tendrils — the sharpest single-bracket concentration of any archetype across the week's five events. That result anchored a broader week-long move: TES's meta share rose from 1.6% across the trailing 30 days to 6.8% of this week's 296 decks, a 5.2-point swing and the largest positive meta move of the period. Doomsday moved in the same direction, rising 3.2 points to 7.8%. On the Power Index, TES climbed 23 places to #3 (tier A).
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Five Legacy Challenges ran across the week, drawing between 39 and 66 players each.
The June 24 Challenge was the week's clearest storm showcase. okarin_ won on Ad Nauseam Tendrils, taku123 placed 3rd and Holy_Schmidt placed 4th on TES, and walkernj25 and Vash963 filled out 6th and 7th, also on TES, giving storm five of the eight Top 8 slots.
Doomsday posted titles in two of the five events. Luvilon won the largest field of the week — 66 players — with gucci_gabe taking second and Arca_de_Karn taking third on Izzet Delver, and John1111 placing 6th on TES. wizardpasta took the 46-player June 27 bracket on Doomsday, with LVGS placing second on Grixis Reanimator and _Grogu_ placing 4th on the same archetype.
Grixis Reanimator won the 39-player June 28 title through Dioferreira, with GoblinK1ng also reaching 6th place in the same bracket. pacoelflaco placed 4th on Grixis Reanimator in the 47-player June 27 bracket, won by nekoyama2 on Azorius Midrange.
Blue Artifacts reached two Top 8s across the week: Harry1232 placed second in the 39-player June 28 bracket after swapping in Loki, God of Mischief and The Fantasticar over Pinnacle Emissary copies and Great Furnace, and adding Consign to Memory to the sideboard over Forth Eorlingas!. MENTALMISSTEP_ placed 7th in the 66-player bracket on the same archetype.
Three pilots — wakame, nevilshute, and Luvilon — posted 5-0 finishes with Doomsday in Legacy Leagues during the week. wakame's Doomsday list moved 14 cards from its previous version: the land base shifted toward Bloodstained Mire and Flooded Strand over Misty Rainforest and Scalding Tarn, dropping Underground Sea, while the sideboard brought in Thoughtseize and Consign to Memory at the cost of Cabal Therapy, Fatal Push
Izzet Delver went 5-0 across five Legacy Leagues, all six pilots sharing a 50-card core built on four copies each of Brainstorm, Dragon's Rage Channeler, Force of Will, Lightning Bolt, Mishra's Bauble, Ponder, Volcanic Island, and Wasteland. The flex slots divided the field: sandahl123, homason, derJurist, mmapson125, and MisterCool all ran four Cori-Steel Cutter, while Wiess skipped it entirely in favour of three Murktide Regent
The week's sharpest drop came from Tron, down 8.9 points to 4.4% against a 13.3% trailing baseline. Show and Tell fell 2.9 points to 4.4%, while Grixis Reanimator gained 2.9 points to 8.8% — the highest meta share of any archetype tracked this week. Izzet Delver slipped from 8.2% over the trailing period to 6.1% this week. Grixis Arclight Phoenix appeared at 2% of the field having registered 0% across the trailing 30 days, making it a newcomer to the tracked meta entirely.
On the Power Index, Necro Storm climbed 25 places to #7 (tier A) and Dimir Delver climbed 11 places to #13 (tier A). Izzet Midrange slipped 14 places to #27 (tier B) and Mono Red Stompy slipped 12 places to #34 (tier B).
nekoyama2 is the week's clearest breakout: three Top 8 finishes across four events in 30 days, including a first-place finish in the June 27 Challenge on Azorius Midrange and an 8th-place finish in the 66-player June 28 bracket.
habsburger leads the 30-day consistency picture with five Top 8 finishes across eight events, placing 3rd and 8th in back-to-back June Challenges on Azorius Midrange. Dioferreira has four Top 8s across 14 events in 30 days, anchored by a Challenge title this week.
Among player-points movers, kthanakit26 climbed 1,596 places to #174 — the largest single-week rise in the data — and Holy_Schmidt's 4th-place finish on TES contributed to a climb of 1,331 places to #379. Zolgia108 climbed 1,082 places to #697, posting two 5-0 League runs with Eldrazi during the week.
Whether TES's meta spike carries forward or reflects the concentration of one extraordinary June 24 bracket is too early to call — watch the archetype's Top 8 conversion rate and meta share across the next cycle of events.
Grixis Reanimator's five 5-0 League runs shared a 65-card core anchored by four copies each of Animate Dead, Dark Ritual, Faithless Looting, Griselbrand, Lotus Petal, Reanimate, Shallow Grave, Thoughtseize, and Unmask, plus four Show and Tell and four Stronghold Gambit. The main split in the remaining 14 cards fell between pilots who added Koma, World-Eater and Snuff Out — He_Qijie, Bonfigs, and AndrewWa — and those who brought in Ancient Tomb and Sneak Attack — Bellosguardo and Darthdog.
Eldrazi also posted five 5-0 League runs on a 46-card core of Chalice of the Void, Eldrazi Linebreaker, Glaring Fleshraker, Kozilek's Command, and Thought-Knot Seer, with Null Rod as a shared disruption piece. The primary sideboard divergence fell between builds running Disruptor Flute and those preferring Dismember and Leyline of the Void.
Luvilon's winning Doomsday list from the 66-player Challenge: