Metagame

Metagame is the way the game is currently played in a given area. Specifically, when players talk about the metagame (or 'meta', for short), they talk about which Deck styles and strategies are the most dominant in their area of play; for instance, a metagame, cards that are played the most often or used by the most people and top events such as regionals, YCS, nationals, etc. These decks are the ones that don't get hit by the Semi-Limited/Limited/Forbidden lists, or cards come out that make the decks good in between bannlists. Right now, Tour Guide Tengu Plants, Broken Billy Plants, or as Konami calls it: Synchrocentric, is considered to be the best deck by the majority of the competitive players. This is showed by 20 of the Top 32 ins YCS Columbus was Plants and all of Top 4 was Plants, and then again in YCS Kansas City where 16 out of the Top 32 was Plants. It has won YCS Toronto, Columbus, and got second in YCS Kansas City. YCS Toronto and Columbus were won by the player Billy Brake (hints the name "Billy Plants/Billy Synchro". This deck is almost certain to get hit in the March 2012 Semi-Limited/Limited/Forbidden lists. Typically, as metagame decks become more common, Anti-Meta decks appear in order to counter them. The current most common Anti-Meta deck is T.G., but these are not as good as the Meta decks usually.

The current meta include the decks: Tour Guide Tengu Plants, Rescue Rabbit, Agents, Karakuri, Dark World