Monday was the relaunch of MagicFest Online Daily Qualifiers after the MTG Arena release of Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths, and that means one thing: new decks for a new Standard format.

With everyone's decklists available—including the 15+ match point lists that qualified players for the Weekly Championship—we took a quick look through the data to see how the first four days of Qualifiers shook out. If you want to see decklists, the daily decklist hub links out to all of the top decks and the complete set of decklists for each qualifier, plus more events such as the ELEAGUE Showdown: MTG Arena.

The Big Picture

First, let's look at the overall metagame of 15+ match point decks by each day, Monday through Thursday.

Rolling this up a bit more makes some trends easier to see.

• Over the week, Sacrifice (from Rakdos to white-black Lurrus of the Dream-Den to Jund flavors) started strong but began to trail off.
• Conversely, Fires decks began to perform better and better thanks to consolidation around the Four-Color Fires build with Keruga, the Macrosage.
• Fires of Invention decks put the squeeze on other archetypes, but every day revealed some novel decks capable of netting a Weekly Championship invitation—including Aggro, Flash, and Tempo decks.
• Alongside Fires decks rising, Temur Reclamation also picked up play. Shark Typhoon is the real deal.

Top Cards Played

While you can always expect basic and rare lands—such as the Ravnica duals and Ikoria's tri-lands with cycle—to be highly played, the counts for the nonland cards can tell us a little more about what's in decks. Here's a look at the top 50 played, without lands.

• Mystical Dispute is a potent card against any deck leaning on blue, but it almost always starts in the sideboard. Of course, being the most played cards is also somewhat self-fulfilling: An efficient answer for Mystical Dispute is one of your own!
• Many of the top cards reflect the most popular decks throughout the week: Sacrifice and Fires decks. With Fires of Invention and equal copies of Cauldron Familiar with matching Witch's Oven there's similar amounts of both decks seeing play.
• Teferi, Time Raveler continues to be one of the most pivotal cards in Standard, seeing maindeck play in Fires decks as well as the bevvy of Ramp and Control decks floating around.
• Shark Typhoon is the most-played nonland Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths card, thanks to Temur Reclamation and Control decks being rewarded the most for using it.
• Lurrus of the Dream-Den isn't the most popular companion as companion among 15+ point decks (which belongs to Keruga, the Macrosage thanks to Fires decks doing well), but it is the most popular of the companions as a card in general. Aggro decks, as well as many builds of Sacrifice decks, take advantage of recurring permanents as you can always just play Lurrus in a main deck to get its ability too.

What's Next?

The Weekly Championship that kicks off Saturday, April 25 will put everything top competitors have learned so far to the test—and the Top 32 to emerge on Sunday will show us which decks stand up to the crucible of a big tournament.

Don't miss any of the MagicFest Online action live 24/7 over at twitch.tv/channelfireball and watch the Weekly Championship unfold!