Seriously, I can’t think of more ASH puns this week for titles.
The good noew, though is that the first week of a healthier post Cad meta could have been noise but now we’ve got two weeks moving the same direction, which I think we can start to call a pattern.
A brief note: field share, APR, and Bounty Rating track from the fresh post-ban baseline that started last week, not folded into pre-ban cumulative totals. Avg Matchup WR, FWME, and HHI never reset, so those stay comparable across the whole season. Check the FAQ page for the full breakdown.
The Trend Holds
It looks likt the Field HHI is moving from 4.13 down to 3.95, while T8 HHI is down from 5.9 to 5.39. Again, this is a place where lower numbers are better as it indicates the meta is more “open” and has more variety. After a huge drop post Cad, we seem to still be seeing a modest drop this week, which is a great sign that people are experimenting and that even the current top dog isn’t quite so clear cut. Overall, neither band changed, from Open or Healthy respectively, but the motion is a good sign. A single week of this could’ve been standings settling into a new baseline. A second week moving the same way looks like the format is in a good place.
Krennic’s Lead, and the Gap Behind Him
Eleven archetypes clear the sample floor now, up from five. Here’s Week 7 by Bounty Rating:
| Rank | Archetype | Power | Freq | S1-APR | S2-APR | Rating |
| 1 | Director Krennic / Blue 30 | 95.8 | 100.0 | 94.5 | 56.9 | 86.8 |
| 2 | Ahsoka Tano / Blue 30 | 93.0 | 72.3 | 81.0 | 62.2 | 77.1 |
| 3 | Darth Maul / Blue Force | 67.2 | 50.2 | 73.4 | 100.0 | 72.7 |
| 4 | The Mandalorian / Colossus | 80.5 | 24.2 | 100.0 | 51.0 | 63.9 |
| 4 | Lando Calrissian / Blue 30 | 100.0 | 31.6 | 40.0 | 83.8 | 63.9 |
| 6 | Luke Skywalker (JTL) / Data Vault | 70.7 | 70.1 | 24.3 | 52.9 | 54.5 |
Sure, Krennic still leads, but his rating came down from last week’s 93.2 to 86.8, and here’s the number that matters: the gap to second is 9.7 points, against the 27.1 to 27.7 points Cad Bane carried every week he was legal all season. Zoom out to the top five and it holds: a 22.9 point spread from #1 to #5 this week, against 40.1 back in Week 5. Tighter at the top, tighter across the board, which is another sure indication that the meta is healthier without Cad and that we’re in a period of several viable decks.
The Middle of the Board Is Getting Interesting
Lando’s the one to watch closest. His overall Bounty Rating, 63.9, undersells what’s happening, since his field share is small, just 3.4%, with a negative entry APR of -5.9%. But his Power score is a perfect 100: with a raw win rate of 57.1%, the best of any qualified archetype, ahead of Krennic and Ahsoka. A deck comparatively few people are playing currently, winning at the best clip when it shows up. His matchup into Krennic flipped positive too (51% on 104 games). That’s his first positive number against the format’s top dog all season, pre-ban included.
It’s worth asking what’s dragging his composite down, since the entry number alone doesn’t explain it. Once you check his matchup spread against everyone with real field share, one name stands out: Darth Maul, (45.1% for Lando on 82 games) and Maul’s 5.4% share makes it his heaviest-volume bad matchup. Everything else with real presence is fine or better, Krennic 51%, Ahsoka 56.7%, Luke Skywalker (JTL) 66.7%, which is why his FWME still sits at a healthy 55.3%. One bad matchup against this week’s biggest riser is worth watching, not panicking about.
So, that said, Darth Maul is that clearest riser up to third this week after fifth last week. He posted the single best S2-APR in the pool (+67.0%} and led every archetype in new wins added, five of the week’s twenty-five new titles, ahead of Krennic’s three.
Dedra Meero’s worth a quick follow-up. She missed the sample floor entirely last week after being the clearest pre-ban challenger for two straight columns. This week she’s back, at 8th with a modest 50.5 and two new wins added. Not a triumphant return, but a real one, worth watching whether it keeps building.
The Mandalorian, the deck that won the Galactic Open before any of this started, is doing fine in the post-Cad world without anything dramatic. He didn’t clear the sample floor last week, so this is his first real appearance on the board. His field share sits at 2.6%, S1 a solid +29.3%, S2 flipped positive, +1.4%, up from -11.4% on last week’s smaller sample. Average matchup win rate is particularly strong at 66.8%. He lands tied for 4th on Bounty Rating, right alongside Lando, a real, sustainable niche this season if you can handle playing some long, grindy games.
Who’s Actually Winning
Across both post-ban weeks, 21 archetypes and builds have won at least one event. The single most successful, Krennic / Blue 30, accounts for 16.7% of all 48 recorded wins. Combine all three tracked Krennic builds and it’s still only about a quarter of the total. This week holds 25 wins, spread across 14 archetypes with Maul taking the lead rather than Krennic. One deck used to take 35 to 50 percent of a given week’s titles on its own. Right now, the best deck in the format is winning about a sixth of them.
There you have it. Two weeks of the same trend and I’m happy to say the top of the board has actually spread out for the first time all season.
