Standard

Lifegain — Standard Deck Overview

An aggregated view of published Lifegain decklists from Standard Magic Online tournaments, including recent finishes and the cards that appear most consistently across lists.

Based on published results since Sep 19, 2026, updated through Oct 16, 2026.

Window reset: August Ban & Restricted Announcement

Decklists
57
Events
27
Meta Share
5.9%
Trophies
3
Top 8s
19

Published finishes produce a 5.3% trophy rate and a 33.3% Top 8 rate across 57 decklists. Metagame share is this archetype's portion of all published Standard lists in the same period.

Recent Decklists

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Standard Challenge 32

Oct 16, 2026

Standard Challenge 32

Oct 15, 2026

Standard Challenge 16

Oct 15, 2026

Standard Challenge 16

Oct 14, 2026

Standard Challenge 16

Oct 14, 2026

Standard Challenge 32

Oct 13, 2026

Standard Challenge 32

Oct 12, 2026

Standard Challenge 16

Oct 11, 2026

Core Main-Deck Cards

The nonland cards most consistently defining this archetype.

Uses rounded average quantitiesBuy core cards
  1. 100% · 4 avg.
  2. 100% · 4 avg.
  3. 100% · 4 avg.
  4. 100% · 3.4 avg.
  5. 100% · 3.3 avg.
  6. 96% · 3 avg.
  7. 96% · 2.6 avg.
  8. 89% · 2.1 avg.
  9. 77% · 2.2 avg.
  10. 72% · 3.3 avg.
  11. 65% · 2.6 avg.
  12. 65% · 2.1 avg.
  13. 53% · 1.5 avg.
  14. 51% · 2.4 avg.
  15. 33% · 1 avg.
Uses rounded average quantitiesBuy core cards

The lands most commonly used across published lists.

22.1 lands on average per deck

  1. 100% · 4 avg.
  2. 100% · 3.2 avg.
  3. 100% · 3.1 avg.
  4. 100% · 1.7 avg.
  5. 98% · 3.8 avg.
  6. 91% · 1.3 avg.
  7. 88% · 2.6 avg.
  8. 68% · 2.8 avg.
  9. 46% · 1 avg.
  10. 7% · 1 avg.
  11. 5% · 1 avg.

Sideboard Toolkit

The most common answers and matchup plans across published lists.

  1. 93% · 2.4 avg.
  2. 91% · 1.6 avg.
  3. 82% · 1 avg.
  4. 70% · 1.9 avg.
  5. 68% · 2.5 avg.
  6. 40% · 1.6 avg.
  7. 40% · 1 avg.
  8. 35% · 1.2 avg.
  9. 33% · 1.9 avg.
  10. 33% · 1.8 avg.
  11. 33% · 1 avg.
  12. 32% · 1.9 avg.
  13. 28% · 1.1 avg.
  14. 26% · 2.5 avg.
  15. 25% · 1.6 avg.