Portalcraft Fades as Runecraft and Abysscraft Tie for the Shadowverse Wins Lead

Portalcraft's run at the top of the Shadowverse Wins ladder is over, at least for now. It held the lead comfortably last check-in with roughly a third of the sample, but this time it fell all the way to a tie for fourth. Runecraft and Abysscraft now share the top spot, each showing up in about a quarter of the decks players posted.

Runecraft's share is built on the same Crystal deck it's leaned on for weeks. Cards like Advent of the Eld Crystals, Bewitching Eld Crystals, and Calge-Danthla, Eld Crystals appear in almost most of its lists, supported by spells such Foresight and Stormy Blast that do the early removal work. Abysscraft's decks seem to follow the Midrange archetype. Cards like Lilith, Devilish Cutie, Raz, Demon on the Drums, Adahime, Anathema of Death, and Rulenye & Valnareik all show up in every copy in the sample.

Swordcraft's data points that Loot Sword is viable in the current meta. Some of the lists include the Usurpation package, alongside Sinciro and Mars, Conflagrant Commander to end the game. It also produced the best individual result of the window: @saikopasumn ran that deck to 16 wins.

Havencraft, which had doubled its own showing just a few days ago, gave most of that back, falling from six decks to one.

This is a smaller sample than last check-in's, so treat Portalcraft's drop rather than a settled shift. This data looks at decks players chose to share on the ladder, not the full field.

Source: Shadowverse Wins lists.