Arstall's meta reviews, read back out of the transcripts

The creator-decks page stores each of these videos as a single deck row. Each one is a whole-format tier review. This is what the reviews actually say, pulled from the captions and validated against Scryfall. Built 2026-08-04.

The finding that matters more than the decks. Arstall's rubric vocabulary is a late-format habit, not a season-long one. The phrases that make a review machine-readable, “top three performing cards” and “safe craft”, appear only in Week 5. Weeks 1 and 2 use neither. So the back catalogue yields a fraction of what the latest review does, and the honest coverage table below is the first thing on the page rather than a footnote.

Coverage, per video

Counts are literal phrase occurrences in each transcript. The last column is how many decks came out carrying a real judgement. A record whose only field was “best of one/three” is excluded, because that phrase is said 6 to 21 times per video as ambient framing and says nothing about the deck beside it.

VideoCharstop three performing cardssafe / risky crafttier Nnumber N by popularitytop eight Decks out
Week 12026-06-3028,151000190
Week 22026-07-0637,977001052
Week 32026-07-1424,392002271
Week 42026-07-2022,197000351
Week 52026-07-2716,066253677
Early Accessundated23,774000000

11 deck records across 4 of 6 videos. Week 5 alone carries most of them.

What came out

Week 1 2026-06-30

Nothing extracted. The transcript was pulled and parsed, and it carries none of the rubric language the later reviews use. Listed as empty. watch ↗

Week 2 2026-07-06 watch ↗

mono red

▶ 00:08:32
fell out of top 8bo1
top 8“three of uh, Secrets of Stricks Haven, and it will eventually do uh, dip out of the top eight as well as more interaction is added into the meta to counteract this”
new to top 8
top 8“ople, it was it was struggling to perform, right? And so this week it made it into the top eight. We'll see if it's here to stay, right? But it's basically taking the”

Week 3 2026-07-14 watch ↗

Mono-White

▶ 00:08:55
tier 1bo3
tier“ight. There are much more. You can definitely check out untapped. I think there's like 20 tier one and tier two archetypes, which are all viable to take to my”

Week 4 2026-07-20 watch ↗

mono white

▶ 00:04:28
still top 8bo3
top 8“h you're coming up against that archetype. And then Jess Artifacts is still in the top eight. Um being good against the board ccentric strategies, struggling a li”

Week 5 2026-07-27 watch ↗

Selesnya

▶ 00:01:55
#1 popularitysafe craft
Source named on camera: standard challenge on July 21
craft“elesnya Orbroid has not seen any changes since week four. If I have If I say that, it means it's a relatively safe craft, um meaning it's been in the top eight for at least 2 weeks late into the format. Um this archetype, in case you are new, I'll go”
rank“Selesnya or a boroid was number one for the previous 30 days prior to that. Selesnya's or a bor”

Mono Green

▶ 00:02:21
new to top 8
top 8“Mono Green Squirrel Girl made it into the top eight this week. I will say though, be careful. The last time it was in the”

Grixis Fling

▶ 00:02:45
safe craftno changes
craft“Grixis Fling is also a safe craft. There's no changes from week four. Um there are some of these cards that are rotating like I'll talk about tomorrow, like the Sl”

Temur Cone

▶ 00:04:10
risky craft
Top performing cards
  • Foggy Swamp Visions
  • Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • Zombify
craft“y. And that dinosaur deck wasn't in the top eight since week one of Secrets of Strixhaven. So, it's kind of a risky craft, but it you know, it's been consistently in tier two. Uh”

Jeskai Artifacts

▶ 00:04:21
tier 2safe craftno changes
Top performing cards
  • United Battlefrontheard as “the United Battlefront”
  • Repurposing Bayheard as “the Repurposing Bay”
  • Clay-Fired Bricks // Cosmium Kilnheard as “the Clayfired Bricks”
craft“Artifacts uh is also in tier two and has no changes from week four of Marvel Super Heroes. It's a relatively safe craft until rotation where we are losing a lot of uh key pieces in this archetype um from Lost Caverns of Ixalan rotating out. And um b”
tier“Jeskai Revelation Jeskai Sorry. Too much best of three. Jeskai Artifacts uh is also in tier two and has no changes from week four of Marvel Super Heroes. I”

four-color Reanimator

▶ 00:05:51
safe craftnew to top 8bo1no changes
craft“one right now is the teamer Kona strategy. This one has no changes since week four either and is a relatively safe craft if you prefer to not be iced by graveyard hate and instead be iced by your opponent's interaction. This one you're looking to pla”
top 8“Four-Color Dinosaurs also made it into the top eight this week. Uh this one is a turn three combo win, uh more consistentl”

Jeskai Lessons

#2 popularity
Source named on camera: Sydney Standard Spectacular on July 10
rank“Jeskai lessons is number two by popularity. This one is the same list that we talked abo”

Early Access undated

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