Three Challenge wins in seven days put PedraStone and Selesnya Cub at the center of a week that also saw Izzet Prowess shed nearly 12 points of meta share.
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PedraStone won three Standard Challenges across the week ending June 28, all three on Selesnya Cub, and placed third in a fourth. That run sits inside a broader meta move: Selesnya Cub reached 20.3% of the week's 301 decks, up from a 12.4% share over the trailing 30 days.
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The week's highest-stakes event drew 176 players on June 28. BERNASTORRES won on Jeskai Control. optivial placed second on Jeskai Lessons and lampalot took third on Selesnya Cub. joaoclaudioms placed 4th on Selesnya Landfall, pete2fiddy placed 5th on Bant Midrange, and Denisevich placed 6th on Mono Green Landfall. Venom01 placed 7th and mei0024 placed 8th, both on Jeskai Control.
BERNASTORRES also won a Standard Challenge earlier in the same week on Jeskai Control, making them the week's other multi-event winner alongside PedraStone.
Venom01 won a Challenge on Jeskai Control and placed second in another, then closed with a 7th-place finish in the Standard RC Super Qualifier. MJ_23 won the June 22 Challenge on Selesnya Landfall and placed 8th in a June 27 event. jtl005 won the June 28 Challenge on Izzet Lessons after placing 6th in a June 26 event on the same archetype.
Izzet Prowess had a consistent Top 8 presence through Arianne, who took second in the June 22 Challenge and placed 5th and 8th in two later events. Dimir Excruciator was equally steady: VitorCarvalho01 reached the Top 8 in four separate Challenges, including a second place finish.
The archetype also went 5-0 across three Standard Leagues, with Patrisio, Tinker_deck, and jomanman each piloting a run. The 36-card shared core includes Badgermole Cub
Izzet Prowess is the week's sharpest story in the share numbers, falling from 25.1% over the trailing 30 days to 13.3% this week — a drop of nearly 12 points. Selesnya Cub moved the other direction, climbing from 12.4% to 20.3%, and Jeskai Control rose from 6.7% to 13.3%.
Selesnya Aggro registered zero decks this week after holding 2.4% of the 30-day field, and Azorius Artifacts also fell to zero from 0.9%. Jeskai Artifacts appeared at 1.3% this week after recording no share at all over the trailing 30 days.
On the 90-day Power Index, Selesnya Aggro climbed 14 places to #14 (tier A) and Mono Red Aggro climbed 13 places to #23 (tier B). Dimir Control slipped 11 places to #27 (tier B). The open question is whether Izzet Prowess's share drop will register on the Power Index in the coming week — that is too early to call from one week's data.
Five players stand out over the rolling 30-day window. MJ_23 leads in conversion with nine Top 8s from 17 events, capped by the June 22 Challenge win. PedraStone has eight Top 8s from 20 events, three of them wins this week alone. Venom01 and SpockVidaLoka each have eight Top 8s from 14 events apiece, and Arianne rounds out the five with eight Top 8s from 24 events.
Among players climbing the points ranking, Kvothe_De_Arrascaeta moved up 1,282 places to #229 and lampalot climbed 993 places to #228, with lampalot's third-place Standard RC Super Qualifier finish at the center of that rise.
Watch the Spider Manifestation counts in Selesnya Cub lists next week — if the shift away from Gene Pollinator holds across more pilots, that will be the clearest signal the archetype's construction has found a new baseline.
Patrisio and jomanman both built around Brightglass Gearhulk, Pawpatch Recruit, Practiced Offense, and Surrak, Elusive Hunter, with Sheltered by Ghosts in the sideboard. Tinker_deck took a different angle, centering the main deck on Aven Interrupter, Enduring Innocence, Gene Pollinator, and Michelangelo's Technique, with Jennifer Walters // The Sensational She-Hulk and High Noon in the sideboard.
SpockVidaLoka and Strongmind both updated their Selesnya Cub lists by replacing Gene Pollinator and Nurturing Pixie in the main deck with Spider Manifestation. Arianne updated Izzet Prowess by swapping Colorstorm Stallion out for Namor the Sub-Mariner in the main deck, and brought Avengers Disassembled and Sear into the sideboard while removing Slagstorm.