The largest competitive event of A Lawless Time happened this week, and it did not go to a top-ten deck. {{event:Regional Qualifier (LAW) — Prague, CZ}} drew {{prague_rq_player_count}} players — the biggest field of the era by a comfortable margin — and crowned {{deck:Ackbar DV}}, ranked #{{ackbar_dv_meta_rank}} in the cumulative meta with just {{ackbar_dv_meta_share_pct}}% of all era games. {{player:NXS_BigONotation}} went {{prague_rq_winner_record}} to take the trophy. The same week, {{deck:Yularen Red 30}} posted the largest single-week meta share gain in the current top ten, and {{deck:Boba (JTL) Lake}} — the era's bell cow — slid under 50% on real volume.

It's A Trap: Prague Goes to the 45th-Ranked Deck

Prague was a class apart. {{prague_rq_player_count}} players — bigger than the next-largest LAW-era event, {{next_largest_law_event_name}} on May 9 at {{next_largest_law_event_players}}. The room and the stakes both said: this was the weekend that mattered.

The trophy went to {{deck:Ackbar DV}}, an archetype that sits at #{{ackbar_dv_meta_rank}} by cumulative meta share with {{ackbar_dv_game_count}} matches logged across the entire era — {{ackbar_dv_meta_share_pct}}% of every game played this format. {{player:NXS_BigONotation}} went {{prague_rq_winner_record}} on a Cunning/Heroism leader over a Command base — the kind of off-axis engine that reads as a curio when you scan rankings and as a problem once you are inside a top-cut bracket against it. The top 8 around him split four ways on aspect: {{deck:Talzin Force Yellow}} took 2nd, an Aggression/Heroism Chewbacca build placed 3rd, and {{deck:Yularen Red 30}} converted into 8th. Wide open field, narrow winner.

Yularen Surges, Boba Slips

{{deck:Yularen Red 30}} added {{yularen_mshare_wow_delta_pp}}pp of meta share week-over-week, climbing from {{yularen_mshare_prior_pct}}% to {{yularen_mshare_current_pct}}%. That is the largest single-week share move in the current top ten — the next-closest, {{next_top10_mshare_gain_name}}, added just {{next_top10_mshare_gain_pp}}pp. Win rate followed: {{yularen_winrate_prior_pct}}% to {{yularen_winrate_current_pct}}% across {{yularen_matches_current}} games.

{{deck:Boba (JTL) Lake}} is the inverse. Volume still grew ({{boba_lake_mshare_prior_pct}}% → {{boba_lake_mshare_current_pct}}%), but the rate of return cracked: {{boba_lake_winrate_wow_delta_pp}}pp to {{boba_lake_winrate_current_pct}}% on {{boba_lake_matches_current}} games. The head-to-head explains it. {{deck:Boba (JTL) Lake}} versus {{deck:Yularen Red 30}} sits at {{boba_vs_yularen_winrate_pct}}% Boba over {{boba_vs_yularen_games}} cumulative games — well under a coin flip on a sample big enough to mean it. The Lake slot is increasingly the wrong call into a Yularen-tilted room; players are still picking it because it is familiar.

Power Rankings

{{deck:Lando (LAW) Lake}} sits #{{lando_law_lake_rank}} by this week — the skill-adjusted, meta-weighted win rate that drives our power rankings. The volume-and-rate top pick. Further down the table is where the story this week lives: {{deck:Yularen Red 30}} climbed to #{{yularen_red_30_rank}} on the back of its share-and-rate surge, while {{deck:Boba (JTL) Lake}} holds the volume crown at #{{boba_jtl_lake_rank}} despite the rate-of-return softening. Rankings reward staying power; for what comes next, the rate column is more revealing than the share column.

Leaderboard

Prague reshuffled the top of the ELO board. {{player:NXS_BigONotation}}'s run added a Regional trophy on top of a consistent finishing record, and several other Prague top-8 names move up alongside.

This Week's Results

Outside Prague, seven Planetary Qualifiers reported winning archetypes and no two were the same: {{deck:Lando (LAW) Lake}} in St. Johns, {{deck:Luke (JTL) DV}} in Portland, {{deck:Maul (LOF) Force Blue}} in Bethlehem, {{deck:Sabé DV}} in Cerritos, {{deck:Chewbacca (LAW) Yellow 30}} in Lisboa, {{deck:Vader (JTL) Yellow 30}} in Sacramento, and {{deck:Dedra Blue 30}} in Kingston. Four of those seven sit outside the cumulative top five — the diversity at the PQ level looked nothing like the share-weighted aggregate.

Matchup Clinic

The matchup that anchors this week's narrative shows up in the matrix at {{boba_vs_yularen_winrate_pct}}% — {{deck:Boba (JTL) Lake}} versus {{deck:Yularen Red 30}}, {{boba_vs_yularen_wins}} wins for Boba in {{boba_vs_yularen_games}} cumulative games. That is a deeper sample than most pairings supply in a single week and sits well outside the 50% noise floor. A Lake-mirror room with several Yularen pilots in it is a room where the Lake slot is paying for itself worse than the bracket suggests.

Matchup Spotlight

Decklist Spotlight

Featured builds this week capture both ends of the conversation: a Prague top-cut list from the format's least-expected winner, and the staple shells whose copies are still everywhere.

Card Spotlight

Card movement this week is concentrated in two camps — new A Lawless Time arrivals continuing to earn slots, and a few older role players seeing fresh adoption alongside the climbing decks. Sorted by week-over-week movement rather than raw volume.