Meta Watch — The Opening Season

The launch meta is unusually flat — every set is viable — but a few edges have surfaced. Win rates below are from the balance simulator across thousands of mirror-free matches.

Top of the curve

• Celtic (~57%) — relentless WRATH snowball; punishes slow openers.
• Hindu (~55%) — token flood plus Avatar generators that refuse to thin out.
• Japanese (~51%) — Surge scaling that out-grows the board by turn 6.

The strong middle

Aztec, Buddhist, Egyptian, and Norse all hover near 50% — each with a clean game plan and no glaring weakness.

Sharpening up

Greek (~49%) is the tempo deck — punish from turn 1, never let them recover — and Abrahamic (~47%) wants the late game, where WARD and big bodies take over.

The read

Nothing is unbeatable, so play what you enjoy. If you're climbing fast, Celtic and Hindu give the steadiest games; if you like outplaying on reveal order, Greek's targeted strikes reward it.