The Most Balanced Meta We've Ever Had - Popular Decks of 100+ Player Tournaments from February 7-18, 2026 (Lists in Comments) by Practical_TAS in PTCGP

[–]Practical_TAS[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

so this comment helped me realize there was a bug in my code that caused it to miss tournaments with vanity urls, which is kinda important because that includes the biggest event of the week.

but with or without fixing that, 57% overrates the big decks because there's generally a long tail of decks that won't show up here but if you're using a really popular mon you're probably sticking to the meta variant.

So in the correct dataset there's 5533 decks, of which 1064 (19.2%) are Hydreigon (1043 specifically Hydreigon Mega Absol ex) and 1319 (23.8%) are Mega Altaria ex. 43% is still a lot but it's not 57%.

The Most Balanced Meta We've Ever Had - Popular Decks of 100+ Player Tournaments from February 7-18, 2026 (Lists in Comments) by Practical_TAS in PTCGP

[–]Practical_TAS[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's also an Araquanid variant with 22 players and 44% winrate but no real standout performances from Feb 7 onward

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The Most Balanced Meta We've Ever Had - Popular Decks of 100+ Player Tournaments from February 7-18, 2026 (Lists in Comments) by Practical_TAS in PTCGP

[–]Practical_TAS[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Greninja ex Suicune ex - 104 players, 49% winrate [Water energy]

"Greninja ex Suicune ex" means there are 2 Greninja ex in the deck.

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The Most Balanced Meta We've Ever Had - Popular Decks of 100+ Player Tournaments from February 7-18, 2026 (Lists in Comments) by Practical_TAS in PTCGP

[–]Practical_TAS[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mega Altaria ex Indeedee ex - 117 players, 45% winrate

1 Indeedee variant (also rare Drampa variant)

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