Meta Report #8 and some meta analysis
There is a new Metareport available. The main difference in popularity is that Brouver and Calveit have exchanged places, but the difference is a lot closer than before.
The rest has only shifted minimaly.
Calveit: 17.8%
Brouver: 15.1%
Crach an Craite: 13.7%
Henselt: 9.5%
Dagon: 9.4%
Eithne: 5.7%
Arachnas Queen: 5.3%
For fun I created some statistics out of the Meta report, that I'd like to share, concerning the popularity of some counter cards at the highest available tier:
And here is the one from the last Meta report:
Lets compare the too. Most obvious is that Mandrakes popularity nearly doubled and now is included in every second deck.
This is a direct consequence of Imlerith Sabbath, who is now included in 28% of all MO decks. Alzur's Thunder has a slighty increased inclusion ratio, too. The same for both Weather Mages with Thunder: Dethmold and Ida, the latter ones popularity increased quite a lot. Also, MO run a lot more Vaedermaker instead of Abaaya, probably for the reason of Thunder, too. And Keira, who also has Thunder is slightly more popular overall, too.
Shackles also became a lot more used, but here the statistics might give the wrong impression, as basically only Hillock runs shackles for unlocking and Cursed NR with Adda, who can tutor them.
Imlerith:Sabbath also has effects on the Scorch effects, Villen and Gigni both decreased a bit, while Scorch and Schirru both increased quite a bit.
Which is further remarkable, is that Schirru while only being available at one factions has nearly the same popularity as Scorch for all factions.
The next card that is affected is Seltkirk, whose popularity increased from 35% to 54.7%.
The biggest other change is that Runestone become a lot more popular.
Moreover at the current state of the Meta, only 40% of all players run at least one direct weather clear. (This does not include boons or Redanian Knights and co).
Ciri:Nova's popularity decreased from 15.1% to 12%, which isn't such a bad place in my opinion.
From the stats we can also compare different faction specific versions of generic concepts.
We can clearly see that MO and SK spies are less popular than the ones of the other factions, which is likely due to the drawbacks those two have.
For Weather Mages, NR and STquite dominate all the other ones, which makes sense as these are the two having Alzur's Thunder included. For this reason 28% of all MO decks run Vaedermaker and only 7.5% Abaya.
Weather-Clearing units are quite unpopular currently. But Kaedweni Sergeant and Vrihedd Brigarde seem to be the most popular ones due to their usefull extra effects.
Runestones are mainly used in SK and NG, the latter mostly due to Alchemy.
Another idea we can get from the statistic is, how many generic (neutral or there exists and equivalent in all factions) silver cards are included in decks.
Over all decks there are 2,2 of these generic silvers per deck, which means players can only include 4 at max cards for their own startegy.
For MO it's 1.8 generic cards, NG 2.9, NR 2.2, ST 2.3, SK 1.8.
There is a new Metareport available. The main difference in popularity is that Brouver and Calveit have exchanged places, but the difference is a lot closer than before.
The rest has only shifted minimaly.
Calveit: 17.8%
Brouver: 15.1%
Crach an Craite: 13.7%
Henselt: 9.5%
Dagon: 9.4%
Eithne: 5.7%
Arachnas Queen: 5.3%
For fun I created some statistics out of the Meta report, that I'd like to share, concerning the popularity of some counter cards at the highest available tier:
| #8 | All Factions | Monster | Nilfgaard | Northern Realms | Sc'ioatel | Skellige |
| Silver Spies | 80,3% | 64,6% | 95,3% | 85,6% | 94,2% | 53,5% |
| Weather Mage | 34,8% | 7,5% | 16,7% | 53,7% | 76,3% | 12,8% |
| Silver Lock | 8,2% | 23,3% | 0,5% | 14,7% | 3,7% | 2,2% |
| Runestone | 28,6% | 2% | 80,2% | 2,5% | 5% | 47,6% |
| Scorch | 17,1% | 3,8% | 8,3% | 57,9% | 20,4% | 0% |
| Mandrake | 52% | 75,6% | 84,2% | 6,8% | 28,7% | 64,3% |
| First Light | 2,1% | 1,6% | 0,1% | 3,7% | 3,7% | 1,8% |
| Weather Clearing Unit | 2,5% | 0,8% | 0,6% | 7,7% | 3,9% | 0,2% |
| Alzur's Thunder | 6% | 0,4% | 0% | 12% | 16,4% | 0% |
| Shackles | 1,2% | 2,2% | 0,4% | 4% | 0% | 0% |
| Villen | 7,9% | 0% | 6,9% | 24,2% | 9,6% | 0% |
| Geralt: Igni | 6,2% | 4,1% | 2,3% | 4,4% | 3,9% | 18,7% |
| Schirru | 15,2% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 62,8% | 0% |
| #7 | All Factions | Monster | Nilfgaard | Northern Realms | Sc'ioatel | Skellige |
| Silver Spies | 84,5% | 60,5% | 95,2% | 85,4% | 96,2% | 73,6% |
| Weather Mage | 40,2% | 18,5% | 24,2% | 51,8% | 64,6% | 22,9% |
| Silver Lock | 5,6% | 15,1% | 0,9% | 13,4% | 2,8% | 2,2% |
| Runestone | 20,8% | 2,1% | 69,1% | 4% | 5,2% | 31,2% |
| Scorch | 15% | 3,2% | 12,5% | 46% | 16,3% | 0,2% |
| Mandrake | 28,7% | 38,4% | 68% | 1,7% | 12,7% | 30,3% |
| First Light | 1,6% | 2,1% | 0% | 2,3% | 2,5% | 0,6% |
| Weather Clearing Unit | 2,3% | 1,8% | 1,4% | 4,5% | 3,1% | 0,2% |
| Alzur's Thunder | 4,8% | 0,2% | 0% | 4% | 12,9% | 0% |
| Shackles | 0,1% | 0,1% | 0,3% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Villen | 8,3% | 0% | 12% | 32,4% | 3,8% | 0% |
| Geralt: Igni | 9,7% | 8% | 4,6% | 7,1% | 6,4% | 25% |
| Schirru | 18,7% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 57,5% | 0% |
Lets compare the too. Most obvious is that Mandrakes popularity nearly doubled and now is included in every second deck.
This is a direct consequence of Imlerith Sabbath, who is now included in 28% of all MO decks. Alzur's Thunder has a slighty increased inclusion ratio, too. The same for both Weather Mages with Thunder: Dethmold and Ida, the latter ones popularity increased quite a lot. Also, MO run a lot more Vaedermaker instead of Abaaya, probably for the reason of Thunder, too. And Keira, who also has Thunder is slightly more popular overall, too.
Shackles also became a lot more used, but here the statistics might give the wrong impression, as basically only Hillock runs shackles for unlocking and Cursed NR with Adda, who can tutor them.
Imlerith:Sabbath also has effects on the Scorch effects, Villen and Gigni both decreased a bit, while Scorch and Schirru both increased quite a bit.
Which is further remarkable, is that Schirru while only being available at one factions has nearly the same popularity as Scorch for all factions.
The next card that is affected is Seltkirk, whose popularity increased from 35% to 54.7%.
The biggest other change is that Runestone become a lot more popular.
Moreover at the current state of the Meta, only 40% of all players run at least one direct weather clear. (This does not include boons or Redanian Knights and co).
Ciri:Nova's popularity decreased from 15.1% to 12%, which isn't such a bad place in my opinion.
From the stats we can also compare different faction specific versions of generic concepts.
We can clearly see that MO and SK spies are less popular than the ones of the other factions, which is likely due to the drawbacks those two have.
For Weather Mages, NR and STquite dominate all the other ones, which makes sense as these are the two having Alzur's Thunder included. For this reason 28% of all MO decks run Vaedermaker and only 7.5% Abaya.
Weather-Clearing units are quite unpopular currently. But Kaedweni Sergeant and Vrihedd Brigarde seem to be the most popular ones due to their usefull extra effects.
Runestones are mainly used in SK and NG, the latter mostly due to Alchemy.
Another idea we can get from the statistic is, how many generic (neutral or there exists and equivalent in all factions) silver cards are included in decks.
Over all decks there are 2,2 of these generic silvers per deck, which means players can only include 4 at max cards for their own startegy.
For MO it's 1.8 generic cards, NG 2.9, NR 2.2, ST 2.3, SK 1.8.
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