Meta Report, 19 October: Pigs, Van Helsing and Robin Hood on top of patch 0.7 as the Crimson Cup starts

What the Meta Report is

From today, every Monday, we look at how the Origins TCG meta is moving: which Legendaries win, which archetypes and cards are rising, and what patches change. The numbers come from our Analytics page, built on the matches players record with OriginsMeta Tracker; the readings are ours, written with what we know about the game.

This is issue zero, the starting point: patch 0.7, with 2,478 matches recorded, normal and ranked together. Next Monday we will compare against these numbers.

Three Legendaries on top

Here both sides of each match count, so the average is 50%. Pigs, Van Helsing and Robin Hood stay above 50% even at the bottom of their probable range; Queen of Hearts is right on the line. At the bottom, the two cards Koin buffed on 21 September, Wicked Stepmother and Dorothy, are still not enough to make their decks work. Everything about each Legendary is in our Legendaries guide.

A triangle, not a king

The three at the top don't dominate each other, they beat each other in a circle:

• Van Helsing beats Pigs, 56% of the matches between them;
• Pigs beats Robin Hood, 54% (28–33 from Robin Hood's side over 61 matches);
• Robin Hood beats Van Helsing, 55%.

Robin Hood is also the deck with the most lopsided matchup of the patch: 26 wins out of 30 against Dracula. A reading of ours: there is no single best deck to copy, there is a circle to choose from, and that matters a lot in a three-deck format.

Dracula and Legion: two measures that don't agree

Dracula (43.3%) and Legion of the Dead (43.6%) are among the most played and, counting both sides, under 50%. But when we look only at the decks of those who record their matches, the same two Legendaries win far more: on 18 October Dracula was at 75.9% and Legion at 74.0% from that side. Until version 0.4.7 of 14 October the Tracker also recorded matches against bots, and Dracula is the boss of the demo missions: part of those "Dracula losses" were probably bots. Until we have cleaned the sample, neither measure can be read on its own, and we won't call these two decks weak.

Archetypes and cards

Archetypes and cards count only the decks of those who record, who win 66.0% of their matches: you read them against each other, not against 50%.

• Control is the most played archetype (38% of matches) and wins 66.7%, right in the average.
• Discard (75.7%, 210 matches) and Swarm (75.6%, 127) win the most; Midrange (63.1%, 33% of matches) and Combo (61.4%) are below.
• Baby Bear is in 53% of the decks recorded: the most played card of the patch.
• Obliterate, when it is played, wins 87.3% of the time, around round 8: it is the card that closes games.
• Wicked Stepsisters goes from 26.7% in the deck to 64.5% when it is played: a situational card that wins when it finds its moment, not a weak card.

Patches: nothing new before the Crimson Cup

Patch 0.7 of 29 September is the last balance patch before the tournament, and the demo 0.7.1 of 15 October brought ranked but no balance changes, so its matches count as 0.7. In its AMA of 2 October Koin said that cards won't be touched before the Crimson Cup: if something serious comes up, it gets banned. The meta we describe here is therefore the one of the tournament.

What it means for the Crimson Cup

Our reading for those bringing three decks to Conquest, where the opponent bans one:

• two of the triangle are a solid base, but whatever pair you bring, one of the three beats one of yours;
• the third deck covers that hole: against Pigs, Van Helsing; against Van Helsing, Robin Hood;
• the ban is the decision that weighs most: look for the deck of theirs that beats two of yours, not the strongest one in absolute terms.

The schedule of the qualifiers and where to watch them are in today's article.

How we read the numbers

• Source: matches recorded with OriginsMeta Tracker on patch 0.7, normal and ranked together; read on 19 October 2026.
• Legendaries and matchups count both players; decks, archetypes and cards only those who record.
• Rankings use the cautious win rate, the low edge of the probable range, so 300 matches count more than 30.
• Every number is on the Analytics page, updated every five minutes. If you play, record your matches: the more there are, the truer next Monday's report.