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Aug 1 – Oct 29, 2026 · 6,531 decks · 698 events · updated Oct 29

tempo · GAT / Gat

Gro-A-Tog

2.0% of decks (#15)+0.5 pts130 decks, 28 winsmedian list €204

Blue-based tempo: cheap cantrips and Gush grow Quirion Dryad every turn, Psychatog backs it up, Counterspell and Swords to Plowshares protect the lead.

Key cards

  • Psychatog, art by Edward P. Beard, Jr.

    98% · 2.7×

  • Quirion Dryad, art by Don Hazeltine

    90% · 4.0×

  • Fire // Ice, art by David Martin & Franz Vohwinkel

    89% · 2.6×

  • Gush, art by Kev Walker

    98% · 3.6×

  • Portent, art by Liz Danforth

    95% · 4.0×

  • Sleight of Hand, art by Phil Foglio

    78% · 3.2×

Share of lists playing each card main deck, and copies when played. Card art by Edward P. Beard, Jr., Don Hazeltine, David Martin & Franz Vohwinkel, Kev Walker, Liz Danforth, Phil Foglio; images from Scryfall, ©Wizards of the Coast.

What changed

  • New techSeal of Cleansing

    0% of lists in Mar ’26 → 39% in Sep ’26.

  • Dip and returnMeddling Mage

    69% in Mar ’26, fell to 18% in May ’26, back to 61% in Sep ’26.

  • FadingFoil

    Peaked at 100% in May ’26, 43% in Sep ’26.

  • FadingAccumulated Knowledge

    Peaked at 82% in May ’26, 30% in Sep ’26.

The list over time

Share of Gro-A-Tog lists playing each card (main deck), by month (last 12 months). Cards that moved most are on top; basic lands are left out.

MainSideboard
MonthWeek
% of listsAvg copies
Gro-A-Tog main deck: % of lists playing each card, Nov 2025 – Oct 2026. Rows grouped Moving, Flex and Core; n = card lists per month.
20252026
CardNovn=14Decn=5Jan (ban-list change: Parallax Tide banned (2026-01-18))n=9Febn=10Marn=26Aprn=16Mayn=28Junn=20Juln=16Augn=22Sepn=23Octn=18Mar→Sep
Moving · inclusion swung ≥ 20 points
Seal of Cleansing0000004519273911+39
Daze10010078603844324050735778+18
Armageddon9310078705469467075867078+16
Mox Diamond10010089703819326044413056−8
Meddling Mage10010089706931184088776144−8
Accumulated Knowledge21200805869828069233067−27
Foil720224073941009031274356−30
Flex slots · 11 cards
Call of the Herd574033040750182217+18
Gemstone Mine02011508188898594919694+15
Sleight of Hand576056308188717581868756+6
Treva's Ruins8640221041311156590+5 (not significant)
Peek1401108011061896+1 (not significant)
Fire // Ice1008089909694828594869683−1 (not significant)
Undiscovered Paradise1460895019191415651317−6
Opt79100899096100898094918783−9
Disenchant001110156750540−11
Ray of Revelation7402220193114150006−19
Lightning Angel00001913450500−19

Core · in ≥ 84% of lists every month · 8 cards · show as rows

0%100% of listsn = card lists that month (dimmed under 50; months under 20 are faded and ignored for grouping). ⊘ = ban-list change. Select a cell to see those decks.

Share of the field

Nov 2025 – Oct 2026; the shaded band is the selected range, dashed lines are ban-list changes.

View as table
Gro-A-Tog share of the field by month
MonthShare
Nov 20251.5%
Dec 20250.8%
Jan 20260.8%
Feb 20260.9%
Mar 20261.8%
Apr 20261.3%
May 20261.7%
Jun 20261.4%
Jul 20261.4%
Aug 20261.7%
Sep 20262.5%
Oct 20261.6%

Cost to build

€204 median of 63 lists

80% of lists cost €175–€2,513 (range €150–€3,324). Cheapest printings, Cardmarket 2026-10-30.

Where the money goes

Mox Diamond is 78% of the cost. Lists without it →

Typical list (closest to the average): Nathaniel Becker, Midwest Championship Open @ CubeCon (Madison, WI) (opens MTGTop8) · €1,046

Results 130

Aug 2026 – Oct 2026

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Decks and events open on tcdecks.net or MTGTop8. Price: the list (main + sideboard) at each card's cheapest Cardmarket printing (2026-10-30); ≈ when a card has no price; – when the deck has no card list.

About this data: variant names, source labels, classification

Variant names

MTGTop8 deck names

  • GAT41
  • Gat8
  • Gro-a-tog5
  • Groatog3
  • Grow2
  • Sligh (RDW)1
  • G.a.t1
  • Ricardo Terra1
  • Psychatog1

Source labels

names the sources gave decks mapped here

  • Gro-A-Tog124
  • GAT2
  • Gat1
  • Groatog1
  • G.a.t1
  • Ricardo Terra1

How decks were classified

see Methodology

  • tcdecks label124
  • MTGTop8 label5
  • card-list classifier1